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After much wailing and gnashing of teeth about inconsistency, starting poorly and lack of intestinal fortitude, Arsenal answered some questions yesterday against at the Stadium of Light. This was not an Arsenal performance identifiable with any particular vintage, but was a hybrid of several. At different points we saw the passing and movement of the [...]

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This match had a Man City win written all over it beforehand. – Their title rivals had won, meaning the visitors would be fighting from the kick off against this notoriously slow starting Arsenal side. – Arteta, last season’s matchwinner, and the team’s tactically most important player picked up a last minute calf strain, resulting [...]

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After a good run of recent results only punctured by the Bradford debacle (perhaps appointing the Dalai Lama as club president has contributed to the Bantams extraordinary run in shoot-outs), the Arsenal switch flicks off as quickly as it did on. After today’s visit to the south coast, the extraordinary goal-scoring displays against Reading and Newcastle [...]

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In one of the best displays which has been seen in this years English Premier League competition, Theo Walcott was able to score 3 goals and assist 2 further goals in Arsenal’s 7-3 win. In Arsenal’s display, Walcott’s dominant display was a large factor in Arsenal’s win. This piece will analyse Walcott’s performance with his [...]

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After last night’s game, I lacked the enthusiasm to write a match report. There wasn’t much inspiration to be drawn from a match high on intensity but low on quality, and my Thursday dental appointment didn’t do anything to improve matters. However, there is nothing like insomnia and a tube journey across town to get [...]

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    It seems trivial to be pre-occupied with an unglamorous Champion’s League match in the middle of the seemingly interminable group stages, when tonight we wait to see who has become the most powerful democratically elected person on the planet. Wags might suggest the fortunes of Wenger and Obama have been on a similar [...]

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Bleh. After my vaguely optimistic preview the natural order of things returned. Good strikers always score against their old clubs, Arsenal can only beat Man U if all the best players are fit and firing, and Ferguson always manages to get his selection of players and officials spot on against us. I’m not particularly keen [...]

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I’ve been wanting to write about our much maligned no14 for  a while, and in the light of his match winning role in the Mad Stad goal-fest last night, now seems like a good time. I’ve long been a defender of Theo, feeling that his late start in football, combined with his early first team [...]

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Tonight the long, wet summer gets a little bit brighter as Arsenal finally take to the field to kick off their pre-season programme taking part in the Markus Lieherr Memorial Cup at St. Mary’s, Southampton’s home ground. The mini-tournament, which will feature three games lasting 45 minutes each, will see Arsenal play Anderlecht kicking off [...]

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Football is a hard sport to follow sometimes, not because it’s complicated or anything like that but because of the range of emotions it can cycle you through in the shortest period of time.  Last night, as Newcastle travelled to Chelsea and Sp*rs faced Bolton, Arsenal fans, for the majority, were left feeling incredibly nervous [...]

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Yesterday saw RvP complete the personal honours set by being named Football Writer’s Player of the Year.  I know many people think that in a team game individual honours mean nothing but in a season where we won’t be winning anything it’s nice to see his tremendous year rewarded somehow.  Of course, the same people [...]

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By the time kick off arrived yesterday I was rather excited, I’d seen their line-up, noted ours and thought that we were in for a display akin to what we saw against Man City.  Unfortunately it seemed as if the handbrake was on and no amount of shifting it would get it off.  I know [...]

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Well, that’s another week out of the way and we head towards another Arsenal-less Saturday. I’m not really complaining, gives our lot a chance to rest up and while I know we didn’t exactly exert ourselves overly against Wolves, at this stage of the season, every extra rest day is a bonus. Football-wise and it’s [...]

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Professional job There was the temptation, which I took for a while, to bemoan our lack of going for a mental scoreline last night, but as the final whistle went and we’d grabbed all three points, moved five clear in third and added three goals to our goal difference I was left thinking ‘what a [...]

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I don’t know about you, but I hate Saturdays without football, by which I really mean Saturdays without Arsenal. You can watch/listen to the Sp*rs of this world, and either secretly or blatantly hope for certain results, but at the same time, you can’t help but feel left out, like the kid at school who [...]

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I’d asked in yesterday’s blog if we could quite possibly have a professional, comfortable win against Villa to give our blood pressure a rest. I’d went online and bet on a 3-0 win with Theo scoring. Perhaps I should have asked for a few other things while I was at it. It was a rare [...]

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