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Archive for December, 2015

After Arsenal successfully progressed past the first group stage of the Champions League for a sixteenth consecutive season with a 3-0 thrashing of Olympiacos, we have prizes to give away this weekend courtesy of Paddy Power Bingo. The Gunners start the weekend two points behind surprise leaders Leicester City but only one point ahead of Manchester […]

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Arsene Wenger admitted that starting Theo Walcott was something of a risk. The England international replaced Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with his manager confessing he didn’t think he would last ninety minutes. News that Mesut Ozil had worked off a tight calf in the warm up didn’t help the nerves. We had wondered long and hard before […]

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“Let’s be nice and patient. I will be quite happy see it at 0-0 at half-time because that will put added pressure on them for the second-half. I stress again that more important than scoring in the first-half, we must do our best not to let in a goal.” The Arsenal manager making his point […]

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A strange day. Arsenal, as expected, had Aaron Ramsey and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in for Santi Cazorla and Alexis. The points haul for November was exceeded in the first match of December, but it didn’t all go according to plan. Arsenal were a little disjointed in the opening half. A mixture of eye-pleasing football and misplaced […]

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A Saturday 3pm kick-off. Fourth from the top Arsenal are at home to fourth from the bottom Sunderland. Could it get any better? Frankly, yes. Arsenal go into the match looking to better last month’s tally of two points from three Premier League fixtures, but with a well-documented injury situation. They will be up against […]

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When you have nine players from a squad of twenty-four unavailable you had better have some good young players ready to step up to the first team bench, and possibly a step further. The one time selected youngsters were used this season saw us knocked out of the COCup at Sheffield. In the wake of that […]

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