By Walter Broeckx Arsenal standing in front a this match that could define the first season under Emery as a success or as more of the same as the season before. Team at the start: Cech, Koscielny, Sokratis, Monreal, Maitland-Niles, Xhaka, Torreira, Kolasinac, Ozil, Aubameyang, Lacazette. On the beach : Leno, Mustafi, Elneny, Guendouzi, Mkhitaryan, …
By Bulldog Drummond The question is simple: do the recent reversals and upsets in the league make the players more determined in the Europa semi-final, or do those reversals leave them worried about making a mistake, tentative for fear of being the one to let in a goal? We know the season is gone and …
By Lindo Shabangu Why maybe it’s not all so bad over there at the Arsenal! Ok, here we go, my attempt to write a coherent expression of my thoughts and conderluded feelings towards my team, the gooners. I read an article the other evening in the Sun whilst on my Lithuanian family holiday – …
By Tony Attwood It is of course not just the media that constantly attack Arsenal players and seek to undermine them by suggesting that the current crop of players are no good, will soon be sold and that new players will be brought in. For there are some people who sit near me in Arsenal …
By Sir Hardly Anyone. Football journalists love what in the olden days was called “browsing and sluicing” and is now called something somewhat more basic. Now many of them look like the warrior Tetraites, 30 years after retiring and having had several late nights out on the town. That is to say, rather gone to …
By Tony Attwood Just Arsenal News recently published an article titled “It’s Arsenal’s fault for appointing a clown as the manager” and it immediately became one of the most read articles among the Arsenal blogs and online newspaper columns. And I think it is quite wrong. The essence of the article is that Emery should …
By Tony Attwood If you went for a stroll around Arsenal Stadium during the close season last summer you might well have been surprised by the amount of scaffolding against the walls of the ground. It went all the way round and as a result passers by found their from Arsenal station aross to Holloway …
By Walter Broeckx Arsenal starting their last home match with a few changes. Maitland-Niles is suspended after his amazing double yellow card at Leicester so we see Lichtsteiner for the first time in a long time and probably a last time. Arsenal team: Leno, Lichtsteiner, Sokratis, Mustafi, Monreal, Torreira, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Özil, Aubameyang, Lacazette On …
By Bulldog Drummond Before the matches this weekend the story was that “If Tottenham and Chelsea both win and Arsenal don’t beat Brighton, they won’t be able to qualify for the Champions League via the league.” As it was even the traditionally pro-Tottenham media had to back off their latest display, the Guardian noting “they …
By Sir Hardly Anyone Roll up roll up roll up. Take a deep breath, pause, prepare a tumbler full of your favourite tipple, swallow hard and settle yourself down for another cart load of gibberish, fresh (well freshish) from the keyboards of those not yet disinfected. For it is 9am in the Toppled Bollard, drinking …
By Tony Attwood and Andrew Crawshaw You will, I am sure , have heard that Arsenal Women won the League with a game to spare. It is our first league win in seven years. My apologies for being remiss not posting about this earlier. Here’s the table as they won the title. Pos Team P …
By Bulldog Drummond Of course you can’t directly compare the Champions League with the Europa League because of the quality of the opposition, but even so it is interesting to see how have Arsenal have done in Europe since we were runners up in the Champions League in 2006 – and compare with the opposition …
By Tony Attwood I was moved to ask that question on seeing these headlines turn up during a three and a half hour period yesterday following the Leicester defeat. Emery exposed as Arsenal embarrassed again & five tactical lessons from the Premier League…: Goal.com Arsenal would get embarrassed in the Champions League – Wright: Goal.comLeicester: …
