By Tony Attwood Here is the story published by the Telegraph on 3 August 10.30pm UK time. It was written by Jeremy Wilson Deputy Football Correspondent of that august newspaper. Alexis Sanchez and Aaron Ramsey rushed back by Arsene Wenger in bid to make Arsenal’s opener v Liverpool The story below reads… “Arsene Wenger is preparing …
By Jacko Jones The transfer market is getting into full swing as the Premier League advances towards opening day. As seems to be an annual theme, Arsenal are staring down the barrel of a new season with a number of squad requirements unfulfilled. Speaking after the match against the MLS All-Stars Wenger confirmed he is …
. Surely it can’t be hard for Xhaka to top Shaqiri? Ok, so we all know about our huge summer signing and his potential to be the best thing to happen to the Gunners’ midfield since Patrick Vieira. It was frankly about time for Arsene Wenger to splash the cash on a recognised world-class …
By Florian This article concludes the series covering Arsenal’s visit to the U.S. Due to reasons that would take more than one article to explain, I was only able to attend Arsenal’s match vs. Chivas de Guadalajara. Here is the trip’s story. After posting in the match preview (Arsenal vs the Goats) a beauty sleep …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Welcome to the all new approach for the last month of the jolly old fenêtre de transfert. Today we introduce the amazingly new and unprecedented episodic approach as the event horizon draws ever closer. For what we now have is the The ever dependable rumour list The not getting him, not a chance …
By Tony Attwood Head on over to Free Betting Online if you want to put money on any of these transfer rumours.” When you think about it, it is utterly bonkers. 92 players have been put forward as either having been transferred, or are about to be transferred to Arsenal, and the club has actually …
. By Andrew Crawshaw The Durban Cup is turning out to be a tournament that it is really difficult to keep in touch with. The main mention of it so far on arsenal.com has been of a social visit the players made to a local school. There is the shortest of reports on the game …
By Ima Counter, Professor of Numerological Sciences, University of UnCertain Things, Penzance. Hi and welcome to the totally reformed Arsenal Transfer Index. Two big changes you will see now I’ve taken over: Last time around we had a competition in which the idea was to use the letter S P U R S in …
Alexandre Lacazette: the title-winning, world-class striker that Arsenal are missing Without a shadow of a doubt, Arsenal have one of the strongest and most complete squads in the Premier League. From reliable veteran goalkeeper Petr Cech to assist king Mesut Ozil, the Gunners have talented players in more or less every position and many believe …
By Bulldog Drummond I know that in the past, previews have been written either on the day of the match, or at earliest the night before, but now it seems they have to be written weeks ahead of the game. So as that is what the media are playing at, that’s what we will do …
Best Sites to Place a bet on Arsenal By Dave Jackson With the season so close at hand, it’s hard to think about anything else than watching football and placing some bets, especially now when it’s so easy to do it with all the mobile bookmakers around. With so many betting choices, it finally feels …
By Tony Attwood In recent weeks I have been trying to point out that the commonly accepted truths of football are not truths at all. To take one simple example of this from this past weekend when Stewart Robson held forth on Talk Sport about how Arsene Wenger had presided over a continuing injury crisis …
By Walter Broeckx Hi Florian, hope you are enjoying yourself in The StubHub Center in California. The starting eleven for Arsenal in this match against Chivas were Ospina, Bellerin, Chambers, Holding, Monreal, Xhaka, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Iwobi, Walcott. Santi and Xhaka making their first start for Arsenal. The match started at high pace from both …
. By Florian, with special thanks to Francisco Chimal, Chivas fan. After the victory registered against the MLS finest, it was natural that Arsenal would take their chances against one of Mexico’s most popular clubs. C.D. Guadalajara is our opponent, today or tomorrow, depending on which side of the world you live on. At the …
By Sir Hardly Anyone In the new world of Superstition (see the previous article and do try to keep up) once the idea is set then it gets bound into the mind, and no end of logic can ever dislodge it. So the superstition that buying expensive players before the new season brings success is one …
By Tony Attwood As you may have noticed we’ve been running a little series on whether, and then why, the media is so critical of Arsenal. That link takes you to the last in the series, and it has a list of all the other articles in it, at the start. The discussion encompassed not …
What Does Arsenal Have To Change In 2017? By Bobby Davidson Last year was good, although inevitably not at as good as some Arsenal fans wanted. Not just because we were top of the league for a while, only to be overtaken by Leicester, but also because the opportunity of a third cup win – …
By Tony Attwood In the past week or so we’ve been investigating the way in which the media treat Arsenal. Why the media is so critical of Arsenal: it all goes back to the two Arsenal men who were banned from football for life Do other clubs get the same level of constant sniping and …
By Walter Broeckx When we look outside then we see a dark world. War everywhere. Killing of people going on everywhere. Terrorists using and misusing every word in any book to justify their evil acts. Pointing at they began to make sure that it will never stop. I know that as we grow up we …
By Tony Attwood We have been running a series of articles asking first if, and then if so why, Arsenal are treated differently in the media from other teams. Here are the pieces so far. Why the media is so critical of Arsenal: it all goes back to the two Arsenal men who were banned …
by Andrew Crawshaw It’s not just the senior team that are on a pre-season tour. A group of our U19 players are in Durban, South Africa trying to retain the Durban International Tournament Cup that the club won last year. The main web site for the tournament seems to be http://durbanu19.co.za/league/durbanu19-2016/ The Arsenal group comprises …
By Tom Davies With the new Premier League season nearly started, we can barely suppress our anticipation and excitement for the year up ahead. After a solid year, the Gunners are heading for the next season with a reinforced midfield and possibly even a new striker, giving us much more to hope for than …
By Richard Morgan With plenty of reasons to suggest that maybe, somehow, Arsenal are treated differently or singled out for special negative treatment by bloggettas and by the national media I volunteered to check whether this is the case. So, I undertook a two day search of news now and media online stories. I also …
By Walter Broeckx The Arsenal team that started this match was Cech, Debuchy, Holding, Bielik, Gibbs, Elneny, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wilshere, Campbell, Walcott. A first start for our new signing Holding and pairing him with Bielik was a bit surprising to me to be honest. Wilshere starting for the first time this season. Campbell and …
. By our north American correspondent: Florian Those who expected America to be the country of all the possibilities will be sadly disappointed. That’s because when you have a job you must go to work. If you don’t do that, the employer says you stop going there for good, and that’s a real bad thing because …
