Morning all. It's still early in the day and it's already been terrible. This is of course compounded by what happened yesterday at the Emirates...which we shall discuss.

If you didn't get to see the match, in which feelings went from distress to glee to absolute disaster, then you missed one hell of a match, if you were a neutral supporter. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia believes Mexico's Carlos Vela can be the future of Arsenal's forward line, but also claims he is to be patient. He told Almunia told Mexican newspaper Esto: Carlos is a tremendous kid with innate technical qualities for football but it is difficult for youngsters at Arsenal. Click to continue reading...

Morning all. Just a few hours till match day 3 of the Champions League. Just a couple of things to run through this morning before the match.

First of all we do have some bad news regarding Kolo Toure, who will be out until November. He injured his shoulder against Everton and had to come off, and now he's going to miss at least two weeks. Click to continue reading...

Sunderland host Arsenal at the Stadium of Light in today's 3:00 kick-off looking to follow the example set by Hull City last weekend. The newly-promoted Tigers ripped up the formbook and made a mockery of the bookmakers who made them distant outsiders to take anything away from the Emirates Stadium as they left north London with [. Click to continue reading...

Sunderland host Arsenal at the Stadium of Light in today's 3:00 kick-off looking to follow the example set by Hull City last weekend. The newly-promoted Tigers ripped up the formbook and made a mockery of the bookmakers who made them distant outsiders to take anything away from the Emirates Stadium as they left north London with [. Click to continue reading...

Good morning everyone. Not a whole lot going on today so a quick news round-up I think? Yes, sounds good.

Remember yesterday when I said Almunia takes too much crap and he's actually a good keeper? Well today he came out and spoke about being the Arsenal number 1 and says he's growing into the role. Click to continue reading...

Not quite a manifesto, but a brief statement voicing support for Arsenal's central defense against a rising tide of unanimity that it's flawed:

I like the Arsenal defense as it is. They've shown some vulnerability on set pieces, and Arsenal have been conceding a lot of chances so far in the league, although between poor finishing and Almunia's keeping they haven't conceded many goals; but I rate the four defenders (Clichy, Gallas, Toure, and Sagna) as individuals and as a back four. Click to continue reading...

Yes, it's hardly something to get overly excited about (although I love this kind of enthusiasm). But good times call for celebration, even through just five games of the season, as Arsenal sits on top, one point ahead of Chelsea and Liverpool. The biggest point of triumph is the elimination of the dropped points at Fulham.

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An excellent three-points at the Reebok against a team that used to intimidate us, and who managed to put us on the back foot in the early stages of the game.

Despite opening brightly, and comprehensively out-passing Bolton, they took the lead through a goal which, again, asked questions of our ability to defend from set-pieces. Click to continue reading...

Having missed the midweek CL clash at Kiev, I was really looking forward to this match.

For the third away game in a week, the Arsenal team looked a little different from the one at Blackburn and Kiev. Robin van Persie was given a rest with Bendtner taking his place. Eboue started on the left of midfield. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal took on a tough Bolton side at the Reebok this afternoon looking to extend their points in the Premier League table. Arsene Wenger left Robin van Persie and England ace Theo Walcott on the bench for the trip to the Reebok Stadium. Nicklas Bendtner was handed a start to partner Emmanuel Adebayor up front and Emmanuel [. Click to continue reading...

Nicklas Bendtner and Emmanuel Eboue have been handed starts by Arsene Wenger as the Gunners' take on Bolton later this evening. Dutch forward Robin van Persie has been dropped to the bench, while Theo Walcott is also replaced despite putting in a energetic performance against Dynamo Kiev during midweek. Click to continue reading...

This post is moan.

The referee in the Dynamo Kiev - Arsenal match called a penalty on Bacary Sagna when the actual incident was a foul by the Dynamo Kiev foward; one worthy of a yellow card.

The call was a mistake. Mistakes happen, and it was a clever bit of cheating by the forward, reaching behind his back, grabbing Sagna's jersey, falling, and bringing Sagna down with him. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal, and especially Arsene Wenger, continue with their quest to win the UEFA Champions League and prove themselves as being one of the best teams in Europe. They qualified with ease against Twente, winning 6-0 on aggregate, and they will feel confident they can come out of this group and earn a place in the [. Click to continue reading...

It would be hard to have many complaints after such a convincing performance away to Blackburn yesterday. To be fair to Blackburn 4-0 does not tell the entire story, things could have been a little different if certain chances had been taken, however only a lunatic would claim that Arsenal didn't deserve the sound victory. Click to continue reading...

Well that was a nice way to get things going again, eh?

Blackburn away is never easy, it wasn't easy yesterday, but we spanked home 4 goals meaning in the last 3 games we've scored 10 and conceded none. It's good preparation for the midweek trip to the Ukraine and we didn't suffer any kind of Interlull hangover which we are prone to now and again.

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Another game, another easy win at the Emirates. It was at times a pleasure to watch, and at other times, agonizing (ok, to an extent) to see the opportunities missed. The final score should have been 6-0. At least. Undue pessimism aside, it was a very good result for Wenger's kids. Important to note that it was Cesc's 200th Arsenal appearance - rather amazing for a 21 year old.

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Arsenal's post-Fulham rehabilitation continued yesterday with a comfortable 3-0 win over Newcastle. Since that black day last week we've won two games, scored seven goals and kept two clean sheets. Not bad.

Of course you have to take the quality of the opposition into account, and both Twente and Newcastle are poor teams, but you can only beat what's in front of you.

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Arsenal strolled to a 4-0 win tonight at the Emirates Stadium thanks to goals from Samir Nasri, William Gallas, Theo Walcott, and Our featured player Nicklas Bendtner. Arsenal won 6-0 on aggregate after a 0-2 win in Holland. Arsenal lined up like this . . .                       -Almunia- -Sagna-   -Djourou- -Gallas- -Clichy- -Walcott-   -Fabregas- -Denilson- -Nasri-                -Bendtner-  -R. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal bounced back from last weekends Premier League defeat to Fulham with a superb win over Steve McClaren's FC Twente. Nicklas Bendtner started ahead of below-par Emmanuel Adebayor while Kolo Toure was dropped to the bench mainly thanks to Johan Djourou's previous performances in the side. Arsenal Starting XI Almunia Sagna - Djourou - Gallas - Clichy Walcott - [. Click to continue reading...

It's a big disappointment. But Fulham deserve full credit for this win. They had a plan and executed it perfectly: neutralize the Arsenal's weak central midfield and clamp down on the left flank.

Arsenal's team on the pitch were not fluid; their passes astray, their runs sluggish; they were often a step late to the ball. Click to continue reading...

This result could be seen coming from May this year, if not January.

Sell Diarra, don't give Flamini what he wants, let Gilberto go, throw in a rare injury to Cesc and a completely predictable one to Diaby and you have, da da dah! NO CENTRAL MIDFIELD!

Anyone who saw how we laboured last week with Eboue and Denilson as the CM partnership could tell they were only millimetres from disaster in that game. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes insists that he has never had any contact with North London rivals Arsenal; as he began to seek a transfer away from Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven. "I was told by the press about Arsenal, but they never made any official offer for me," Gomes told setantasports.com. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes insists that he has never had any contact with North London rivals Arsenal; as he began to seek a transfer away from Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven. "I was told by the press about Arsenal, but they never made any official offer for me," Gomes told setantasports.com. "I opted to join Tottenham because they [. Click to continue reading...

We spoke during the week about how an injury to either Cesc or Denilson would leave us very stretched in central midfield and sadly that's the situation we're faced with as the former has a hamstring strain that will rule him out for the next two weeks or so.

Not only that, going into tonight's game against FC Twente we're missing also missing Kolo Toure and Philippe Senderos as well as the other names we weren't expecting to play anyway.

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Everyone likes having defenders from the Big Four clubs, but picking the regular starters can be deceptive. Ranking defenders for minutes played last season, of the top 25 only 5 come from Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool or Arsenal. Many of the big fours' defenders get injured or rotated during the season - picking the few players who regularly start can be tough in the preseason. Click to continue reading...

  Arsenal went into the game needing a 4-0 win if they wanted to retain the Emirates Cup due to Hamburg earlier winning 3-0 against Juventus. Leaving Hamburg on 7 points, Arsenal started with a very strong side with Adebayor, Van Persie, Sagna, Gallas, Almunia, Nasri and Diaby all starting. Real Madrid named a strong side [. Click to continue reading...

  Arsenal welcomed back Adebayor, Van Persie, Eboue, Gallas, Djourou and gave a debut to Samir Nasri as Arsenal welcomed back the International that played in the European Championships. Arsenal lined up like this:         - Almunia- -Sagna-  - Gallas- -J. Djourou- - Clichy- - Walcott-  - Eboue- - Denilson-  -Nasri-           -Van Persie-                              -Adebayor-   The match was underway in the Mercedes Benz Arena as [. Click to continue reading...

Morning all. Not a lot of news following the demolition of Burgenland yesterday. Cesc Fabregas came out and killed off anyone saying that he was going to Real Madrid, in fact saying that he made no statement about Madrid at all. Good work from Cesc yet again. I think he does everything well, football, handling the press, his hair, etc. Click to continue reading...

  Arsenal lined up in the following:                 Almunia Sagna    G.Hoyte  J.Hoyte  Clichy Wilshere   Ramsey Denilson  Traore           Bendtner    Vela   Arsenal started off quickly and in the first few mins Traore whipped a cross in from the left the ball fell out to young prodigy Jack Wilshere he hit a shot from the edge of the area to give Arsenal the lead. Click to continue reading...

  Arsenal started their second pre season game on Tuesday evening against Hungarian opposition Szombathelyi Haladas infront of 13, 000 spectators, Arsenal gave  debuts to Carlos Vela and Gavin Hoyte in a mixture again of first team and reserve/ youth players. The line up was:                      Almunia Sagna    Gavin Hoyte  Justin Hoyte   Clichy Walcott      Ramsey     Denilson     Wilshere                    Bendtner  Vela  First Half Arsenal started the [. Click to continue reading...

Gillet's strike against Arsenal is one for the ages, dispatched violently into the top left. Almunia stood no chance. Click to continue reading...

The first pre-season game is in the bag. I caught the 10-minute highlights on Arsenal TV Online; recommended for all Gooners.

The first goal came form Jay Simpson, with the kind of finish you'd expect from a 20-goal striker. The Londoner Simpson then had the assist for the second goal to Nacer Barazite, whose finish was right off the top shelf. Click to continue reading...

  Arsenal's new season started today with a friendly against League 2 side Barnet. Arsenal played a mixture of youth and first team members in a hard fought victory at Underhill stadium. The Arsenal line up was: Arsenal:                       -1.Almunia - 3. Sagna   5. Nordtviet 6. Click to continue reading...

Finally some relief from transfer speculation that had driven me crazy to the extent of checking each and every website or blog for the slightest hint regarding a possible transfer news. Alas, The Great One, answered my request and arranged for the first pre-season friendly against Barnet at Underhill Stadium . Click to continue reading...