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"I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art." A Wenger
By Bulldog Drummond In my youth, on hearing that “the season starts today” (as it does for the championship etc, and of course Scottish football) old timers would say “it gets earlier every year”. To my utter dismay, on realising that the we were now only one week away from the Manchester City match I …
by Sir Hardly Anyone. It is, of course, most important to eat only in the best restaurants where one meets the right people and so the dinner which involved Ousmane Dembele and his chums at Arsenal has produced the wagging of tongues and the moving of mouths. For there was our new superhero Mattéo Guendouzi …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone These are confusing times in the transfer market, and indeed as my old chum and informant Sir Jasper Fish III said just last night in the Toppled Bollard public house off the Old Kent Road, as I pointed out yet more confusing reports of the comings and goings, “It just shows …
By Billy “the dog” McGraw Our weird news correspondent. And Trends Editor. With all the bits and pieces about who Arsenal are and are not signing, it is easy to lose track of some of the other events around football at the moment. But they are still worth taking a look at because individually and …
Read More “Nine weird stories, rows, twists and turns as the transfer window closure get closer.”
By Tony Attwood Here is a line up for the coming season that in popular among journalists and bloggers… Bernd Leno; Hector Bellerin, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Shkordran Mustafi, Nacho Monreal; Lucas Torreira, Aaron Ramsey; Alex Iwobi, Mesut Ozil, Henrikh Mkhitaryan; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. And a variant Petr Cech; Hector Bellerin, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Shkordran Mustafi, Sead Kolasinac; …
Read More “How Arsenal will line up in the coming season, and being a trends editor.”
Aubameyang leads the line Ramsey, Guendouzi and Elneny start in midfield Sokratis partners Mustafi at the back Cech (c) Bellerin Papastathopoulos Mustafi Kolasinac Guendouzi Elneny Ramsey Ozil Mkhitaryan Aubameyang Substitutes Leno, Chambers, Mavropanos, Holding, Maitland-Niles, Iwobi, E. Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Nelson That’s the confirmed line up. Chelsea’s team W. Caballero, Azpilicueta (c), David Luiz, Rudiger, Marcos …
Read More “Arsenal v Chelsea in the ICC. The teams, the game, the commentary. ARSENAL WIN”
By Bulldog Drummond So here we are again in the next round of the ICC. We’ve drawn/lost one, and won one thus far, and here’s the league table. Chelsea’s previous game was a 1-1 draw with Inter which they won 5-4 on penalties. Pos Team P W WP LP L F A Pts 1. Tottenham …
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by Sir Hardly Anyone Maybe it is the change of arrangements, what with bringing the end of the window back to mid-August – a bit like having an extension done to your house by making the garden bigger and the living room smaller. (Sorry that doesn’t quite work but I am trying to play with …
Read More “Transfer Window creaking closed not with a bang but with tedium.”
By Tony Attwood In recent articles I have been looking at what next season’s Premier League table might look like. In the first article we showed there was a link between how much clubs spent in the transfer window and whether they would go up or down. Then in the second article considered how this …
Read More “We’re predicting Arsenal will finish third this season. So how can it be done?”
By Dr Billy “the Dog” McGraw It is always rather encouraging when one hears managers of other clubs moaning, whinging and whining. Of course much of the time, the moaning is all made up to cover what is happening, but even so, there seems to be a certain level of uncertainty in one or two …
Read More “Why are two PL managers feeling miffed about the change in transfer window rules?”
By Tony Attwood Yesterday we unveiled our new prediction process in the article How much does it cost in transfer fees to take a club up one place in the PL? It looked at purchases for last season and showed how they resulted to rises or declines in the position in the league table. In short, …
By Chayasai Unai Emery has not only brought a load of confidence back to the squad after their poor finish – by their own lofty standards – last season , he has also instilled in them a sense of pride in playing in Arsenal Shirts , a heightened sense of discipline and that you create …
by Tony Attwood Initially, as the transfer window approached this summer, the story was that Arsenal would have a summer spending limit of £50m. Then a little later that was raised to £70m. So the first question I asked was where did that extra £20,000,000 turn up from. Of course I’m not privy to the …
Read More “How much does it cost in transfer fees to take a club up one place in the PL?”
by Sir Hardly Anyone From the mountains of Rutland in Englandshire, home of the nation’s finances and wealth, I can now give you an indication that this is going to be a record year for rumours of Arsenal transfers. In the summer of 2016 we reached a grand total of 115 transfer rumours by the …
Read More “It looks like being a record year for Arsenal transfer rumours as we reach 115”
by Tony Attwood There is no doubt about it: Arsenal have a rare collection of extremely talented young players available for the coming season. While everyone last season would have known about Eddie and Maitland-Niles now we have a plethora of names to add to those giving us a list that looks like this… Konstantinos …
Here is the line up for the match, I hope. Different “outlets” are outletting all sorts of strange stories but I think this is the right one Starting XI: Leno; Bellerin, Sokratis, Mustafi, Kolasinac; Guendouzi, Elneny; Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi; Aubameyang That looks rather good fun. If it is right, great to seen Guendouzi again, …
By Bulldog Drummond Update: ESPN are showing 19 Bernd Leno 20 Shkodran Mustafi 5 Sokratis Papastathopoulos 31 Sead Kolasinac 2 Héctor Bellerín 10 Mesut Özil 4 Mohamed Elneny 29 Matteo Guendouzi 14 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 17 Alex Iwobi 7 Henrikh Mkhitaryan Foot Lond are saying that we “will get to see Mesut Ozil, Alex Iwobi and Mohamed Elneny for the first time in pre-season, while summer signing …
Gathered and preserved by Sir Hardly Anyone and the man behind the bar at the Rutland Pug. STORY ONE: Guess who? FootLon that website owned by the Daily Mirror that loves to put forth 40 tales a day has a new tactic with the headline “Arsenal news live: Star ‘shakes hands’ on deal, Gunners contact …
Read More “The Top 10 Arsenal stories of the day and no mistake!”
by Tony Attwood Finding out about players who Arsenal have signed and who are not already super starios can be difficult. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of websites with the same headline “Matteo Guendouzi: all you need to know about Arsenal’s new signing” and they don’t tell me anything like I need to know. Like …
Read More “Why was Matteo Guendouzi so inexpensive? Is this Gilles Grimandi up to his works again?”
by Tony Attwood There used to be a programme on TV in the UK called the Fast Show which featured Ron Manager the TV commentator on football. In case you never came across him here he is And amazingly Premier Sports 1, which is showing the current pre-season tournament in the UK brought him back …
Read More “Arsenal v Atletico Madrid; Ron Manager returns!!!”
By Bulldog Drummond Ahead of Arsenal’s game which kicks off shortly we now have the first league table to emerge out of the ICC tournament thus far and it reminds us of the special arrangements being made in this competition. Indeed it makes rather interesting, if occasionally bemusing, reading . For what it brings home …
By Sir Hardly Anyone So here we are again, with the top ten tales from the “outlets” as they call each other. And I’m back with Albert Blizzard of the The Buzzard who was bemoaning a complaint from his editor. “He told me,” Albert announced after tucking into his pint and whisky chaser, “that my last …
Read More “The 10 biggest Arsenal news stories in the last 12 hours, all on one page.”
By Don McMahon My heart is heavy and my mind in turmoil after having read Mesut Ozil’s scathing attack on racism in German football and in Germany itself. I lived in Germany for two years and really enjoyed being there, especially for the football. However, after reading his exposé about mistreatment and bigotry on the …
by Tony Attwood How could changes in tactic lead to each club’s tactics will affect their position in the top six? As always with analyses of tactics, we need to consider the effect of actions. For example goal kicks or throw ins being intercepted by the opposition are frustrating, and can be called “errors”, but …
Read More “Next season’s top six: how tactical changes will affect each club’s position for 2018/9”
By Tony Attwood Sports Keeda today say, “The Gunners start their campaign on August 12 against reigning champions Manchester City at the Emirates, before making a short trip to London rivals Chelsea a week later. If Wenger was still in charge, most supporters would have expected precisely no points from these two fixtures.” This is either realistic …
Read More “Which teams will make the top four next season, and how will we line up?”
