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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Mixed emotions, Webb the new Poll, scapegoats and title hopes decrease

Football is a team game, we win and lose together, so whether or not we win anything this season I think we should keep well away from blaming individual players. The league is won over a season and every team at the top could point to the odd incident that could have gone the other way, generally if we do not win the title this year we will not have deserved to win it, unlike some other years

Friday, March 26, 2010

Barca Dreams must come after Birmingham !

It has been a shock to realise this week that Arsenal have not held the top spot in the Premier League in March since 2004 when the Invincibles blasted all before them. The 18 hours or so between the win against West Ham on Saturday and Manure winning on Sunday was therefore very precious indeed.It also begs the questions of whether last Saturday's results can be repeated, or whether Arsenal can

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Defiant excellence overcomes rank incompetence

In the end justice was done but the officials made this one hell of a lot harder than it should have been. We were cruising a goal up and a second appeared almost an inevitability. Then the key moment came, a hopeful punt through saw Vermaelen ahead in a chase with Franco, the two players were shoulder to shoulder. Of note the linesman was in no position to call it as he was perpendicular to

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Phil Brown: eat my shorts you cretinous halfwit

This game demonstrated what a lot of us have been talking about in recent weeks, Arsenal were routinely intimidated by an inferior side and given only minimal protection by an incompetent referee, this led to the end result being far closer that it should have been. If we had dropped points yesterday then only one man would have been to blame, and that would have been the hapless Andre Marriner

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Let's keep our feet on the ground

What an exhilarating performance against Porto, from the off we started with the zip and tempo that we needed, Porto couldn't live with us, it was as simple as that. It was a decent Porto side but no more, they have lost key players since last season and are not the force they once were. I was thinking to myself during the game, if we could put out something resembling that eleven every week then

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Porto Smashed

Before I get too carried away on Arsenal's thumping of Porto last night, I will begin with my usual caveat, namely that I don't think I have seen Arsenal play a team as bad as Porto in the last 16 of the Champions League for some time. Possibly ever. Its well known that Porto struggle away from home, but if it was not for some comical goalkeeping in the first leg by Fabianski, this tie could have

Monday, March 8, 2010

FIFA: standing in the way of progress

Some of you may have heard that the International FA board has voted against using goal line technology to help referees out with these tricky decisions. FIFA make out that this is some kind of democratic system but the reality couldn't be any further from their spin, in fact FIFA's majority of votes means that they can block any progress that our domestic FA's want to back, such as goal line or

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Fate and fortune

This weekend I was just briefly pondering just what the best outcome in the Champions League and FA Cup was for us as Arsenal fans. On balance with the title being so wide open, the best thing is that Chelsea and Manu have as many games as possible to play between now and the end of the season. We have nine league games left in nine weeks, Manu the same, and Chelsea ten. Potentially the most

Important points and Ramsey rubbish

I don't think many of us who attended yesterday's match would have felt particularly safe until Andrei Arshavin banged in the third with barely seconds remaining, we never looked particularly solid at the back but always threatened at the over end, with some better more clinical finishing it would have been all over much earlier, still this all contrived to make it an exciting seat of one's pants

Friday, March 5, 2010

Burnley Conundrums

Right then. With Chelsea playing Stoke in the FA Cup on Sunday, its a fascinating weekend ahead for Arsenal with bags of potential for a tub-thumbing show of support for Rambo at the Emirates on Saturday afternoon. I expect Block 6 to be rocking.Beating Burnley would put us level on points with Chelsea and depending on what Manure do at Wolves late on Saturday afternoon, we should be in the thick

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Roughing it up, just what is Utopia?

Well, it feels as if the dust is settling somewhat after the weekend's controversy, it's a great shame that the devastating injury to Aaron Ramsey has detracted so much from a very decent team performance. While some people have disagreed with my opinion on the Shawcross tackle I tried to be as objective as possible at a time when I just wanted to take a sledgehammer to Ryan Shawcross' shins.For

Monday, March 1, 2010

A touch of balance

Its been an emotional 36 hours since poor Aaron Ramsey broke his leg. And in the midst of that furore its been somewhat forgotten that we overall played quite well at Stoke and got a vital 3 points. Out of nowhere we are now suddenly in touching distance of the top of the table. Its a remarkable game.A lot has been said about Rambo's injury and there has been a lot of heat in the argument. I hope