Final score and live match report EL Valencia – Arsenal : 2-4 (agg 3-7)

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, …

Valencia v Arsenal. Media predicts Arsenal will play with only 10 men.

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 …

Why maybe it’s not all so  bad over there at the Arsenal!

  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 – …

Ceaselessly abusing Arsenal players while winning 3-1 can’t be good for any of us.

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 …

The negative effect that transfer rumours can have on the brain.

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 …

Mr Emery is not a clown, and Arsenal’s failure is not his fault

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 …

Emirates Cup returns: but what does that mean for the stadium development?

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 …

Final score and live match report Arsenal – Brighton & Hove Albion : 1-1

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 …

Arsenal v Brighton: the line ups and the media comments

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 …

12 transfers that Arsenal will make this summer

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 …

How Arsenal women won the league and re-wrote goalscoring history.

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 …

Arsenal in the Europa semis: how the teams have built up to the match.

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 …

What effect is all the negative criticism having on Arsenal?

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: …