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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 Usama & Walter BAYERN MUNICH vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: UEFA Champions League MATCH NO. 4 DATE: 4th November 2015 VENUE: Allianz-Arena (Munich, Germany) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy) 1st LINESMAN: Elenito Di Liberatore (Italy) 2nd LINESMAN: Mauro Tonolini (Italy) 4th OFFICIAL: Andrea Padovan (Italy) First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by …
by Tony Attwood Why is it that football clubs make such easy pickings for criminals? We’ve often noted clubs from Portsmouth to Rangers and the way they have been destroyed from within and you might wonder if the Football League and Scottish League shouldn’t by now be alert to the tricks that crooks play within …
By Tony Attwood Following my occasional jaunts around statistics in terms of how well expensive players do when they are brought into a team, and how many players are injured, I thought it might be interesting to look at the team committing the most fouls in the Premier League. I’m interested in this because my …
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By Usama & Walter WEST BROMWICH ALBION vs. ARSENAL COMPETITION: English Premier League MATCH NO. 13 DATE: 21st November 2015 VENUE: The Hawthorns (West Bromwich, England) MATCH OFFICIALS: REFEREE: Mark Clattenburg 1st LINESMAN: Simon Beck 2nd LINESMAN: Jake Collin 4th OFFICIAL: Stuart Attwell First Half Fouls, Advantages, Cards, and Penalties Time Foul by Foul For …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. This is a story from the Daily Football Blog, which is identical in style, design, format and attitude, to the Football Columnist blog which is identical in style, design, format and attitude to Gooners Den, which is … (ok you get the idea) The headline as they present the story is… …
By Walter Broeckx When looking back at the Zagreb match the only thing I can say is that it sure had a few moments of utter brilliance in it. And even a few of those moments not even resulted in a goal in fact. And we had a few top class performers all over the …
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Tim Charlesworth In the last few weeks, I have been desperately trying to persuade myself that we are not in an injury crisis. A genuine injury crisis is the sort of thing that destroys title challenges. A few minor muscular injuries are not a disaster. Over a season, you are bound to get a …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal have a mega injury crisis. We know that because it is in all the papers. But the Daily Mail today publishes a piece bemoaning the fate of poor Joel Campbell who, Adam Shergold writes, “produced one of his best performances in the red shirt as the Gunners won handsomely by …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal has made a few changes for this match. In the place of the injured Coquelin came Flamini. And Joel Campbell started in the place of Gibbs. On the bench for the first time in a month we find Aaron Ramsey who was back in full training since this week. Also on …
By Tony Attwood Arsène Wenger has revealed that the response of Uefa to his criticism of the way they handle doping has been to send 10 anti-doping officers to Arsenal’s training ground last Friday to carry out random checks on his players. And who would expect otherwise? Target Zagreb? Ask why Olympiacos F.C. are still …
Read More “Arsenal play a team whose player failed a drug test. So what is Uefa’s reaction?”
This preview is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Adam Brogden by Joe Let’s start with a rather bizarre story about continuity. Or lack of it. You see, nobody knows for sure how old GNK (“GNK” stands for “Građanski nogometni klub” or “Bourgeois football club“) Dinamo Zagreb actually is. If you take the current official story …
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By Danny Karbassiyoon Danny Karbassiyoon is an ex-Arsenal player who went on to become Arsenal’s scout in North and Central America. Danny’s autobiography, Danny Karbassiyoon – what’s it like? will be published by Untold Arsenal in the next couple of months. Before receiving a phone call from Arsenal’s Chief Scout with an offer to join …
By Walter Broeckx On the moment I am writing this we still don’t know how serious the injury from Francis Coquelin is. But that it would be a big blow for Arsenal if the rumours of him being out for 3 to 6 months would be correct is something I will not deny. As usual …
Predictions By Mashwar Well, for the last six months I have been reading all about predictions on who is coming in at Arsenal and who is going out and what do we require most as if all the writers of these sizzling articles are phenomenal mind readers and can read all Arsene Wenger thoughts (may …
By Tony Attwood Of course defeats get me down. They always have, ever since I was a child supporting a very weak Arsenal team indeed. But I learned, as I moved out of childhood, that you can’t let these things get at you. I can’t do anything about Arsenal’s performance; indeed I’m not sure …
Read More “There has to be some good news somewhere. Ah, here it is”
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal made a few changes both in personal and in line up for this match. Bellerin came back in at right back in the place of Debuchy and also Kieran Gibbs came in but not in the place of Monreal but in the place of Campbell. Gibbs played at the left flank …
By Bulldog Drummond. . So we go into this game with quite a record. Top of the ratings according to WhoScored.com R Team Shots pg Discipline Possession% PassSuccess% Rating 1 Arsenal 16.1 682 55.7 83.8 7.15 2 Manchester City 17.6 772 57.0 84.6 7.07 3 Chelsea 14.8 734 54.1 83.2 7.06 4 Manchester United …
Read More “Oh no, it’s Pulis away. Push-knock-kick-shove-foul-push-kick-shove.”
West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal Saturday 21 November 2015 – The Match Officials by Andrew Crawshaw First here is the updated Table of Shame following the referee reviews of the Everton and Swansea games Referee Review: Arsenal – Everton : the dead sparrow review Lee Mason in charge for this one. 58% overall weighted …
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Watch Arsenal for Free! Arsenal U21 v Stoke U21 Meadow Park Borehamwood Friday 20 November 19:00 by Andrew Crawshaw The U21s get their league campaign going again on Friday evening with a match against Stoke at the Borehamwood ground. Kick-off is 19:00 and entry to the ground is free. OK you aren’t going to see …
By Walter Broeckx After the boring interlul matches we finally can have something to look forward too. Arsenal players have flown in from all over the world and we have a match to play on Saturday. Alas, what I had hoped for hasn’t materialised. I had hoped for a return of Ramsey and The Ox …
Read More “Ah finally back to football: not everyone is back but there is some good news.”
by Tony Attwood Remember Portsmouth FC? Won the FA Cup in 2008, and were runners up in 2010. Went through a lot of owners with their own unique brand of governance. Now playing in the fourth division, after a seemingly endless series of owners did the dirty on the club. Oh and there was …
. ByDon McMahon Unless you have actually seen terrorism and the extremist mentality that fostered it, it is hard to comprehend. Having lived and worked in the Middle East and seen the everyday Muslim, versus the tiny minority of fanatics, it comes as no surprise that one of the terrorists’ aims was to generate and …
Read More “Football: a powerful force for good in the world”
By Vintage Gooner Who owns Arsenal and how is it governed? Although many fans would answer that Arsenal belongs to us, the truth is that we fans are just consumers of goods and services from the club we love. We are very important to the club but this gives us no element of ownership. Good …
By Tony Attwood What is the difference between being ruled by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and being ruled by Fifa? Well Fifa don’t arrange or allow the execution of many people, nor do they send them off to Siberia. But they do steal other people’s money, are utterly corrupt and have …
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By Tony Attwood The emergence of Iceland as a footballing nation capable of getting to the European Championship finals made me wonder how they had done it. Or rather, I wondered if the notion I put forward in 2010 (and which has now regularly been copied by others) as to why England do so badly …
Read More “How come tiny and modest sized nations achieve so much more in football than England?”
