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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Nicklas Bendtner broke Hull hearts (and left us all laughing as a result) as Arsenal waited until the grim end to keep us in the title race and send a despicable team closer to relegation.
The Tigers did well enough today to get a draw against the Arsenal, but as things are, the Gunners fought tooth and nail [...]

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With nothing better to do, I decided to peruse Arsenal’s old fixture lists from seasons past. The 2007-08 season was one of the first on my mind: a season we really could, and should, have won the title.
On that fateful day, February 23, a mentally battered Arsenal succumbed late-on to draw 2-2 away at Birmingham. [...]

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“Hi Lloyd. Been away. Now I’m back.”
So said Jack Torrence to Lloyd the Bartender in The Shining. And so say I to you, my awesome readers, after a long, long absence from writing on Arsenal. Today, I’ve drummed up a very long, but sectioned, biographical account of my watching Arsenal, in Australia (hence the early [...]

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After more emails received than I expected, I’ve finally found some time to re-awaken the blog and pummel it back into life.
In short, it’s been a time where I’ve been swamped by work and other commitments to leave me completely unable to find the time or summon up the energy to blog. It’s hard enough [...]

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If you were realistic before going into this game, you knew that there was pretty much only one likely result yesterday, and it wasn’t in favour of Arsenal.
Arsenal succumed to a physically imposing Stoke City who sensed a chance for an ‘upset’ and duly took it. Arsenal did not cover themselves in glory at all [...]

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A quick FA Cup preview before I totter off to bed – and miss the match as a result, dammit.
Given our well-documented Satan’s Run of Fixtures coming up, we all know the need to rotate the side going into our away match against Stoke.
No-one, of course, rotates a side quite like Arsenal do. We should [...]

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