Might The Fab Four Become The Super Seven?
As the Premier League reaches the half-way point in its season, Mark Siglioccolo takes a look into his crystal ball and wonders whether the days of Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool...
Posts Tagged: "Arsenal"
Match Of The Week: Manchester City 3-0 Arsenal
Arsenal were brushed aside by Chelsea at the weekend, and this evening they were similarly dismissed by Manchester City. With the Premier League drifting away towards the horizon, is patience...
Emmanuel’s Mixed Day At The Office
Arsenal’s trip to Manchester City on Saturday was always likely to be a potential tinderbox. City are the arrivistes, the newly-minted money and Arsenal are the team whose Champions League...
Arsene Wenger’s Super League Odyssey
The Champions League reaches the final knock-out stage this evening, with an all-British match between Arsenal and Celtic taking centre stage as twenty clubs play off against each other for...
John Hartson
That retirement comes at such a young age is one of the curious contradictions of football. No sooner has a professional player reached his prime than he is sliding down...
10 Footballing Cricketers (And Vice Versa)
Seeing as how the Ashes have started and England aren’t – at the time of writing – being thrashed seven shades of black and blue by Australia (though there is...
Match Of The Week Live: Arsenal vs Manchester United
Well, we haven’t done this for a while, so I thought it would make a change to do it this evening. It’s the second leg of the semi-final of the...
Down With The Champions League!
He puts in a heroic performance every week on this site, drawing “Shit Shot Mungo”, but Twohundredpercent’s artist in residence, Ted “The Neck” Carter, has worked himself up into an...
In Praise Of… “Fever Pitch”
It’s difficult to think of a football book that has been more unfairly maligned than Nick Hornby’s “Fever Pitch”. At varying points, this book has been variously criticised for the...
Match Of The Midweek – Everton 1-1 Arsenal
Is there a more quintessentially English fixture in the football calendar than Everton against Arsenal on a Wednesday night at the end of January at Goodison Park? These are the...
In Praise Of… “The Beautiful Game? Searching For The Soul Of Football”, by David Conn
In November 2001, I (as was my wont at the time) made the short journey from my flat in the centre of St Albans to Clarence Park to watch The...
The Wenger Bus Is Coming?
Arsenal’s season has thus far been characterised by what would appear be a split personality that would leave even Henry Jekyll nodding his head in silent admiration. There have been...
Match Of The (Mid)Week: Arsenal 4-4 Tottenham Hotspur
What a difference a week makes. This time last week, Tottenham Hotspur looked down and out in the Premier League – slipping adrift at the foot of the Premier League...
Team works
A quick note to all the journalists who have spent the last week and a half expounding just how far Emile Heskey has come on as a player in the...
The Cure To All Woes
After the excitement comes the inquest, and the subject that has been one of the most hotly debated over the last couple of days has been this: what to do...
Liverpool vs Arsenal
This is serious. This is BIG. A clash of the titans. The greatest show on earth. Star wars. The Battle Of Britain. The Day Of The Triffids. It’s the quarter...
Milan vs Arsenal
Well, good evening, everyone. Here’s something strange. I switched on the television at 7.30, and (lo and behold) ITV1 is showing Manchester United vs Lyon – a match which is...
The Worst Tackle Of The Season?
Saturday lunchtime’s match looked, on paper, like a run of the mill Arsenal vs The Rest Premier League fixture. With Birmingham sitting just above the relegation places, it looked like...
Alisher Usmanov: A Brief Update
I went on holiday a couple of weeks ago, half-expecting this little blog to not be up here when I got back. Not only had I left it in the...
Freedom Of Speech?
Now, I know that the picture to the left of this might not be the sort of thing that you want to see first thing on a Monday morning (it’s...