Deprived of internet at home thanks to a debacle with the ISP, means no blog, no thoughts on Birmingham, no nothing for a few days. Long have the internet gods looked distastefully towards Third-Gen, and that shows no signs of abating just yet.
A lot of analysis has been flung around in the leadup for the [...]

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Up front, I think all the perceived injustices spurring Arsenal on have worked a swell trick in keeping our season chugging along.
But am I the only one who thinks that talk of ‘revenge’ going to Birmingham is just silly?
What happened to Eduardo two years ago was sickening, the beginning of the end for the season. [...]

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Apologies for the lack of a West Ham match report – those who follow Third-Gen on Facebook will know I was suffering from a pretty bad fever over the course of Sunday and Monday, so the energy required to write a magnum opus was never there.
In short, a lot of players stepped up to the [...]

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And the draw for the Quarter Finals is out:
Lyon vs Bordeaux
Bayern vs Man United
Arsenal vs Barcelona
Inter vs CSKA Moscow
Which means, should we do the unthinkable and beat Barcelona over two legs, we’ll have a semifinal against Inter Milan, with the second leg at the Emirates.
If this doesn’t make our season all the more OMG-Friggin-Awesome, I [...]

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It’s quarter final draw time – when you look at the likes of Chelsea, Real Madrid and Liverpool, you always have to be appreciative of being in the running at this point in the season.

As the headline suggests, I have a gut feeling we will draw Bayern Munich tonight, though I’m not saying they’re our [...]

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Above is the well-publicised leak (thank you Arseblog) of either a commemorative shirt being released next season, or our actual kit for next season. As feedback goes, people will be clamouring for it if it is the real thing (there are many pages linking to how this is actually a fake), and I for one [...]

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If there’s one story that will some up Arsenal’s season so far, it comes in the form of a most magnificent creature.
Perhaps I’m getting all Colonel SS Hans Landa on you, here, but allow me this simple analogy. Arsenal’s season seems to have been directed by the all powerful God of Cockroaches. You can lob [...]

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