http://www.third-gen.com Following the Third Generation of Wenger's Arsenal Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:05:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/a-month-is-a-long-time-in-blogging-third-gen-squints-in-the-sunlight/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/were-out-of-the-cup-time-to-get-over-it/ 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 ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/a-draw-would-be-worse-than-a-loss-for-arsenal/ Another fantastic guest article by regular reader and 3Gentleman (commentor), TheSKAGooner, who this week puts an American twist on Arsenal's new-found work-ethic. You can follow TheSKAGooner on his twitter feed, @TheSKAGooner, as well as catch his comments on a number of Arsenal blogs. In the meantime, why not subscribe to the following Third-Gen ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/guest-post-theskagooner-in-arsenal-the-lunch-pail-team/ Feeling satisfied by my Bolton-bashing, I'll start the day with a little transfer rumour goodness. Many have noted, including Le Grove and Myles Palmer, that Arsene Wenger missed training (imagine Tom Cruise missing a Scientology awards evening) the day before the Bolton match and conducted an earlier-than-usual press conference. It coincides tastily ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/dzeko-smalling-rumours-campbell-and-jet-in-mystery-line-up/ Arsenal showed a thrilling fillip of character to stage a mighty comeback and deny Bolton a shock win at the Emirates. After going down criminally by two goals in 30 minutes, the Gunners fought back with a vengeance, laying waste to Bolton and ending top of the table. Poor defending from Diaby, ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/arsenal-4-whinging-nannies-2-top-of-the-league-nuff-said/ The prospect of going top of the league hasn't presented itself too often to Arsenal over the last few years. While not nearly as bad as Liverpool or Spurs - with more false dawns than I have fingers and toes - we've had our hopes cruelly twisted before, and while ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/arsenal-need-to-be-like-a-dominant-woman-tonight/ At last, a game! At least, that is unless the snow knocks on the terraces' door once more. Fingers crossed. But first, to a little transfer speculation - also, if you haven't read it already, there was some serious news in Angola involving Emmanuel Adebayor. Read the reaction to it here. We've ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/sol-campbell-has-me-shaking-in-my-boots-everton-preview/ I thought I'd jump in immediately with an opinion on the Togo bus tragedy that has sent shockwaves through the African Nations Cup and confirmed my fears for the 2010 World Cup, which will do well not to have at least one incident of this type. An armed gang in Angola ... http://www.third-gen.com/blogging/thoughts-are-with-adebayor-amid-togo-bus-tragedy/ DISCLAIMER: This is all said assuming the game is not in fact snowed out. A distinct possibility. This is it. This is that mythical game in hand we've had since the second game of the season. That game where we simply assume we have 3 points in the bank over our ... http://www.third-gen.com/arsenal/the-game-in-hand-expect-lightning-bolts-dinosaurs-and-men-in-capes/