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Let’s face it, there won’t be much in the way of change to the team for the visit of Crystal Palace after Thursday. Bernd Leno likely starts behind Calum Chambers, Sokratis Papasthopoulos, David Luiz, and Sead Kolasinac. Granit Xhaka to patrner Matteo Guendouzi behind Mesut, just kidding, Dani Ceballos. Bukayo Saka will surely join Pierre-Emerick […]

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Last season’s final weeks dispelled the majority of the positive Arsenal feelings I’d squirreled away. The prospect of this coming season left me underwhelmed. And then there were droplets of good news. Celtic had agreed to our offer for Kieran Tierney. William Saliba was coming (and then going, of-course, it wouldn’t be Arsenal otherwise), a […]

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I understand when Ive been  around for the last twelve years I have never missed a preview and it’s been something that’s been planned I have got a drinker to step into the breach. Here we are at 9.30 for whatever, and now, hopefully just this once I am not in a position to do […]

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It’s been a full day, one way or another, and a preview post awaits. Let’s see what we can do at this hour of the night. Positives to take into Monday night? Middlesex, Yanited, and ‘Pool have all dropped points this weekend. Tougher is that we need to win at Bramall Lane to reclaim our […]

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A 2pm non-televised kick-off on a Sunday. It’s a result of only qualifying for the Europa League and why we need to win to leapfrog Leicester City and secure third place to defend as the season progresses. Forget our struggles against Watford, Villa, and United. Bournemouth’s record at The Arsenal is indicative of why we […]

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If you are something of a fossil you will recall with clarity and pleasure our first coming together with Standard Liege in our successful 1993/4 Cup-Winners Cup campaign. We brushed them aside 3-0 at home and 0-7 away. Imagine an English club scoring 7 away from home. Surely no shambles of a club could concede […]

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There’s no point in pining for those halcyon days of 1997-2006 when Manchester United versus The Arsenal encounters were battles in a war-like atmosphere. It was probably the last decade where blood and thunder battles between the giants of the day were allowed to push the spirit of the laws to breaking point. Today the […]

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A quick look at the Villa match before turning my head to the Forest preview. Once again we allowed a struggling side two sloppy goals. After McGinn had run beyond a static defence to flick the opener home Ainsley Maitland-Niles was given a second yellow card in a fifty challenge which has provoked opposing views. […]

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Villa Up Next

A long and exhausting day necessitates the briefest of late previews of the Villa home match. The starting eleven? I stress I am guessing at who Unai Emery will pick, not who I would.  Bernd Leno behind Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, David Luiz, and Sead Kolasinac. Granit Xhaka and Matteo Guendouzi behind Nicolas Pepe, Mesut […]

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My least favourite preview post of the season. Why? I haven’t a clue who Emery will pick, and that obviously informs the pound. Frankfurt could be our toughest away game in the group stage but the players left at home tell a story. Let me hazard a guess at the starting eleven. Emiliano Martinez to […]

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