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The 200% Pre-Season Previews – Arsenal
Welcome to the first of our annual pre-season previews, this year starting with the Premier League and therefore, Arsenal. For those of you stopping by for the first time, there’ll...
Usmanov & Kroenkes Ongoing Stand-Off At Arsenal
With international football hogging the headlines at the moment, the Premier League has been rather quiet over the last couple of weeks. Sure enough, there was the emergence of Richard...
Match Of The Past: Arsenal
As regular readers of this site will probably be aware, we’re filling the gaps between the end of last season and the start of next season with some great football...
100 Owners: 98. Henry Norris (Arsenal)
The formative years of professional football in England were a turbulent time, a period in which the rules – both written and unwritten – which underpin our notions of how...
Match Of The Week: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham Hotspur
Ah, the local derby. That one time in the year when we are permitted to drop many of the vestiges of being civilised people and devolve back to our cave-dwelling,...
Football’s Winter Of Discontent Reaches Arsenal
There’s something in the air at The Emirates Stadium. Arsenal Football Club has had a difficult 2012 so far, and patience – for some, at least – is starting to...
Match Of The Week 2: Arsenal 1-0 Leeds United
There remains a sense of great expectations surrounding Leeds United. To get a feel for the root cause for this, we only need to spin back four decades, when Don...
A Brand-Conscious North London Derby
To be shocked at the crass commercialism in today’s money-soaked English Premiership is to be slightly naive. To develop a toothache upon hearing about how today’s top flight clubs sell...
Match Of The Week: Blackburn Rovers 4-3 Arsenal
For the second time this season, the heavens opened on a Saturday lunchtime for Arsenal in more senses than one today, and this time around they contrived to be more...
Arsene Wenger & The Complex Current Frailty Of Arsenal
Pathetic fallacy is the use, by a writer, of words that give human feelings or qualities to objects or in nature. It reached, perhaps, the zenith of its usage in...
The Twohundredpercent Premier League Previews: Arsenal
This season, we are trying yet another new angle with the Twohundredpercent pre-season previews. Constraints of time mean that we are starting our pre-season previews very early this year, and...
Video Special: Six Great FA Cup Finals
It may have escaped your attention, but it is the FA Cup final on Saturday. Manchester City and Stoke City will take the pitch at Wembley on Saturday afternoon, with...
Carroll, Wilshere And The England Under-21s
Stuart Pearce’s selection of Jack Wilshere and Andy Carroll in the England squad for the European Under-21 Championships in Denmark this summer and this has, predictably enough, reignited the club...
Match Of The Midweek: Tottenham Hotspur 3-3 Arsenal
It’s a warm evening in North London, halfway between the full bloom of spring and the cloying heat of the summer, and White Hart Lane is on edge. This evening’s...