Like you, I am hoping that Arsenal can feel in Shokran Mustafi from Valencia, but unlike many I feel like I'm one of the few people that has realised that if it actually happens we've still got a selection dilemma come the first game of the season. Mustafi played in the same squad as Özil. [...]
What I'd love to be able to talk about this morning, is some kind of exciting, new, shiny and completely left of field type of player that Arsenal announced yesterday. Do you remember when that used to happen? Like the time we got Eduardo. I was at work in the office, then a work colleague [...]
Yesterday's pre-US game presser by Arsène had the expected confirmation that Big Per will be out for 'months', in which the manager also confirmed that more experience would need to be brought in. I'm sure there are those out there that feel like this is a fantastic thing, because it means we might go out [...]
Well it wouldn't be a pre season with Arsenal if there wasn't already some sort of rumoured injury crisis, would it? Yesterday the news emerged that Mertesacker may - or may not - be out for five months after the injury he sustained against Lens last week (which ruled him out of the US tour), [...]
It's amazing what little actually goes on, football-wise, in the summer months and. Now that the number of games in the Euros is reduced to four to be played tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday was almost completely wiped out for me through illness, as I slept for most of the day, but it was [...]
Has there ever been a more obvious potential 'Axis of Evil' than Jose Mourinho and Man United? A team who have had success for decades, who have also built up a cynical side and who's corporate juggernaut status and commercial emphasis, with the Jack the Ripper of modern day football? So it seems that may [...]
With the domestic football season now winding down to its conclusion, we're left with just the scraps of international friendlies to spend our time talking about, which is never ideal. On Saturday I went for a nine mile hike across Box Hill in Surrey and I spent a bit of time with a Chelski fan [...]
Poor old Danny Welbeck. From regularly available, fully fit Man United player, to crocked and barely on the pitch Arsenal player. It seems the injury curse of wearing the cannon on your shirt has struck again. Nine months. Jeez. I'm sure you're feeling as deflated as I am, but that will be nowhere near as [...]
The two bits of big news coming out from tomorrow appear to be at right ends of the rumour spectrum. On one side we have a rumour which is related to transfer gossip and therefore probably more spurious than Dr Spurious of Spurious Town, with a PhD in Spuriology, whilst on the other side we [...]
Yesterday Arsene gave an update on the players available at the weekend and wouldn't you know it, for the first time since the end of last season, everyone suddenly seems fully fit. Isn't that just the most Arsenal news of all time? Three matches before the end of the season, when everything is done and [...]