Arsenal 2013: the secret of the club’s success

GILDING THE LILY….by Don McMahon It has been a tumultous and inspiring few weeks since the opening day loss to the PGMOL Villa which had everyone predicting gloom and doom for the Arsenal. Now we are the adored super Club everyone is talking about and even the media have mollified their anti-Arsenal campaign just a …

Imagine if the Anti-Wengerians had won in the summer. What then?

By Tony Attwood In the equations that describe the world of quantum physics there are infinities.  So many of the buggers in fact that the only conclusion that can be reached is that all possible worlds exist. Thus in the great yonder there are numerous worlds in which at the end of last season, with …

Class on and off the field, and it’s only just begun.

By Walter Broeckx That we have bought a bit of class with Özil is saying that the sun comes up each morning in the East. That Özil is one of the best (if not the best) player for the Nr. 10 position in the world is like saying that the sun goes down in the …

Man of the match? There is only one…

By Walter Broeckx How do you highlight the best man on the pitch from a game like the one against Naples? Well in fact you can’t. I think the saying that it is a team sport never has been truer than on what must become known as “that famous Tuesday evening”. A team sport where …

Guernsey v Dover Athletic (played at Lancing)

Guernsey 2 Dover Athletic 3 Why do we go to watch games of other clubs?  Why travel 250 miles in a day to watch a game where the crowd is just a few hundred? Why, when two of us are Arsenal season ticket holders, and the third comes along to Arsenal when work and other …

Stunned, shocked, amazed… And that how it felt in just the first 15 minutes.

By Tony Attwood Yes it was unreal, as Walter said, the most staggering first half display of amazing football I have seen at Arsenal since Henry and Pires were in their pomp. Off the pitch it was unreal too.   Piebury Corner (it’s a pie shop that most of us who are regulars know, even if …

See Naples and die. Although preferably not today.

Dominic Sanchez-Cabello Until Gervinho masterminded a glorious Roma win yesterday evening, it was an intercontinental top of the table clash. I guess it still is. They have a point more than us in Serie A and we match them in the group of DEATH (hence the phrase “See Naples…” Again we come across a Champions …