Feed on
Posts
Comments

Archive for November, 2008

‘You know I always tell you to wait until the morning before writing up a bad defeat?’ The management is far too calm in the immediate aftermath of football. ‘Well perhaps it’s a good idea tonight as well.’ I promise her I’ll think about it, and ask for another piece of cheese to go with […]

Read Full Post »

Is it really only three weeks since we beat Manchester United? I have to say defeats to Villa and Manchester City have completely taken the edge off that particular performance, but on Sunday we have the opportunity to regain that special feeling of beating a major rival. I suppose if we are being honest this […]

Read Full Post »

The opening half set the scene. Arsene surprised, nay delighted, many by picking Carlos Vela and opted for a diamond behind him with Robin van Persie as the attacking point, and Alexandre Song as the ‘sitter’. The visitors opted for two strikers and were extremely well organised, ensuring they defended in numbers but closing down […]

Read Full Post »

You couldn’t escape the wave of excitement that surged across Arsenal sites as the news of Cesc Fabregas’ elevation to the captaincy was confirmed. Arsene Wenger made the brief announcement that greeted a new era for Arsenal Football Club. “This is a permanent thing. But I don’t think I especially have to explain why. I […]

Read Full Post »

Ok any City fans. This bit is for you. You thoroughly deserved the victory. You made the most of your chances and showed a touch of ruthlessness in front of goal. Now, forgive us, but this is an Arsenal blog, and the rest will be about us. No excuses here, we were well beaten, and […]

Read Full Post »

Unconfirmed reports are circulating that the inevitable has happened, and William Gallas is no longer captain of Arsenal. It remains to be seen if he has any sort of playing future at the club, but that is best left for another article and another day. A cooling-off period needs to be observed while all involved […]

Read Full Post »

In the summer of 2003 Arsene Wenger was looking for a replacement for the retiring Martin Keown. Popular rumour at the time would suggest that Arsenal were close to a deal to sign Chelsea defender William Gallas when a certain Roman Abramovich bought the West London club and vetoed the deal. For a while I […]

Read Full Post »

‘Not another book?’ The management thinks I have too many already. ‘Why do you need another book about Arsenal history? You’ve got a bookcase full already. You write about their history!’ She has a point. A book that looks back at Arsenal’s rich and colourful, but well-documented past needs to be different to hold my […]

Read Full Post »

Time To Send Cesc Home

Saturday, December 13th. 1997. Arsenal suffer an embarrassing home defeat to Blackburn Rovers, their fourth defeat of the Premiership season, and two of the other defeats came against unfancied Sheffield Wednesday, and Derby County. It is arguable that a worse start was made to that campaign than this current one, as European football was surrendered […]

Read Full Post »

Villa Get The Breaks

When I was young, and that was a long time ago thank you, the family had a pub. Sounds terrific doesn’t it? Anyway, the doorway in the bar was often open, although the worktop was down, and many a time I would try to walk or run through from one side to the other and […]

Read Full Post »

Next »