http://www.third-gen.com Following the Third Generation of Wenger's Arsenal Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:53:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/a-rallying-call-to-arsenals-heroes/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/do-gooners-actually-care-about-eduardos-revenge/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/time-to-become-a-hero-jack-wilshere/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/hooboy-we-got-barca-baby/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/a-voice-in-my-head-says-well-get-bayern/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/arsenal-must-publicly-tap-up-felipe-melo-even-if-we-dont-need-him/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/arsenals-inglourious-basterds-are-a-bunch-of-cockroaches/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/arshavin-does-a-bergkamp-and-denilson-deserves-some-credit/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/history-suggests-we-could-cock-this-right-up-lets-put-hull-to-the-sword/ "Hi Lloyd. Been away. Now I'm back." [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBGdwdW-2BE&feature=related[/youtube] 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, ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/workaholic-sexy-times-screaming-and-prozac-a-biographical-look-at-watching-arsenal/