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Match Report: HERE This was never going to be a walk in the park. Everton are one of the hardest working and most improved teams in the top flight, who have only lost five times this year. Most pre-match predictions had an Arsenal win, but only by the odd goal. In the end a fixture [...]

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My overall feeling after last night’s game was far from positive. Those who know my work from various Arsenal blogs down the years will know I rather lost patience with Arsene Wenger’s approach to this team a few years ago now. However, there’s no point in repeating oneself and the fact is, whether we like [...]

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If you wanted to give a summary of Arsenal’s 2012/13 campaign to this point, you could simply play the video of last night’s game. It was like an inventory of all the things we love and hate about this team. Full Stadium with away fans protesting about ticket prices – CHECK Comedy defending combined with [...]

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At last, the long-running transfer saga has come to an end – Theo Walcott has officially put pen to paper on a new contract with the club. A very happy ending for everyone involved with Arsenal. Of course, with football fans being as they are, the immediate thought is one of crisis – is he [...]

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2012′s been a funny old year, hasn’t it? Arsène Wenger appeared close to the edge in February and then Spurs rocked up to the Emirates, their fans full of exhortations for us to “Mind the Gap”. 90 minutes and 7 goals later, they crawled back to their holes, tails between their legs having been dealt [...]

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First off, how incredible were Arsenal on Monday? This is undoubtedly hyperbolic, but some of our play was reminiscent of the Invincibles; rapid attacking moves, shifting the ball from right to left and back again and with a clinical finish at the end. That is how Wenger made his name and achieved his successes during [...]

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The days after an Arsenal win are lovely aren’t they? You don’t have to worry about avoiding TV, radio, newspapers or people. You know you can interact without fear of ridicule or having to try and find a way to defend the indefensible.  We should try it more often, it’s definitely the way forward in [...]

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Yayyyyy! We won! It’s all brilliant again! Yeah, okay, so it was only Reading. Reading are, unfortunately for them, not only one of the worst teams, or- by definition- the worst team in the division, but also play in a way that makes it easy for a team like Arsenal to cut them to shreds. [...]

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In a totally dominant display by Arsenal, they duly notched a big win in this fixture vs Reading. Arsenal were able to recover their confidence with the team being up 4-0 inside 60 minutes, and making Reading look like an undeserving English Premier League team. Line-Up’s Reading set up in their usual 4-4-2 formation, with [...]

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The immediate post match reaction yesterday afternoon centred on the 17th minute dismissal of Emmanuel Adebayor. Rightly expelled for a, frankly, ridiculous tackle on Santi Cazorla, the Togolese was probably out of the shower just in time to hear Arsenal wrest control of the match from the visitors. Common wisdom holds that had Adebayor not [...]

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I reckon it’s fair to say your analysis of last night’s game very much depends on whether you’re a glass half full/ half empty kind of person. The half empty posse will, not unnaturally, point to a concession of a two goal lead and a second half in which Arsenal appeared not to show up. The [...]

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The game we played out (it wasn’t a match, not really) at Old Trafford last season has gone done as one of the most infamous episodes in Arsenal’s history. It was a match as memorable as our four visits there between 2001-04. Obviously it was memorable, from our perspective at least, for all the wrong reasons. [...]

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Famous last words. Words uttered as I headed into the kitchen to scrape the remains of my Papa Johns pizza into the bin. The very same bin that, at about 8.30 last night, Arsenal’s Capital One Cup ambitions had apparently been consigned to. I then went upstairs with Jo and continued to reacquaint myself with [...]

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One of the creepiest films of recent(ish) times ends on a joke. Having ratcheted the tension up to thigh clenching levels, Silence of the Lambs concludes with the escaped Hannibal Lecter telling Clarice Starling that he’s having an old friend for dinner. The “old friend” in question is the director of the asylum Lecter escaped from and [...]

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Although last night’s Capital One Cup match between Arsenal and Coventry City took place amidst a total lack of live coverage from, er… anyone, it provided the 58,000+ who attended with a veritable feast of goals. As I wasn’t at the match, it would be unwise to draw too many conclusions from the 6-1 hammering [...]

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If you ever get the chance, I implore you to watch one of Arsene Wenger’s press conferences.  The way he answers questions intelligently Arsene Wenger was asked questions on a variety of subjects during his press conference yesterday ranging from his opinion on vile and abusive chanting, Jack Wilshere and even the Ryder Cup.  One thing that really [...]

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