There will be many people frustrated to hear the news that Theo Walcott will be out of action for a month or so after dislocating his right shoulder during training with England, but Arsene Wenger will be more than just that, he'll be furious. He said earlier this week: We have some players that will not [. Click to continue reading...

Don't you love Internet points? I was lucky to find one and hence be able to comment on the match. Unfortunately, I found no places showing it yesterday night as every bar and restaurant in the area was showing the Real Madrid-Juventus but I did read newspapers and websites this morning and I was glad [. Click to continue reading...

Don't you love Internet points? I was lucky to find one and hence be able to comment on the match. Unfortunately, I found no places showing it yesterday night as every bar and restaurant in the area was showing the Real Madrid-Juventus but I did read newspapers and websites this morning and I was glad [. Click to continue reading...

A lot has been said during the past week on Arsenal, Wenger, the players and the title race. Sometimes, you just have to forget all that happened in the past and focus on the present, the future, where our present is Fenerbahce and our future is Manchester United. Emmanuel Adebayor, Bacari Sagna and Theo Walcott all [. Click to continue reading...

A lot has been said during the past week on Arsenal, Wenger, the players and the title race. Sometimes, you just have to forget all that happened in the past and focus on the present, the future, where our present is Fenerbahce and our future is Manchester United. Emmanuel Adebayor, Bacari Sagna and Theo Walcott all [. Click to continue reading...

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As announced yesterday, Kolo Toure will be out of action for four matches and from what we saw yesterday, this may be very bad news. The Ivorian told Sky Sports: I hurt my shoulder badly, it was very painful but it is a job of a defender to take pain. And we won the game after [...] Click to continue reading...

Morning all. It appears Arsene Wenger is quite happy with Samir Nasri's start to his Arsenal career. While it sometimes takes time to settle in for foreign players in a new league, especially younger players, Nasri has caught on to the system quite quickly.

"I didn't count Nasri in here for the first six months of the season, like I do for everybody we buy at such a young age.

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Another week goes by and after so much sorrow in the English Premiership, something to smile about. We've been there already, gainst Hull, Sunderland and Fulham, a goal down and the all-out-attack policy adopted to secure something from the match. When we went into half-time trailing Everton 0-1, I honestly thought it was going to be [. Click to continue reading...

Another week goes by and after so much sorrow in the English Premiership, something to smile about. We've been there already, gainst Hull, Sunderland and Fulham, a goal down and the all-out-attack policy adopted to secure something from the match. When we went into half-time trailing Everton 0-1, I honestly thought it was going to be [. Click to continue reading...

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In less than 30 minutes, England will be in action against Kazakhstan for their World Cup qualifying match. Needless to say, the media has been writing about Walcott following his hat-trick away at Croatia and in these last couple of days I've read a lot, maybe too much for a young 19-year old lad. Even [. 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...

Van Persie - Opened the scoring, set up nicely by Adebayor who broke the offside trap, collecting a pass from Cesc. Van Persie added a 2nd (Arsenal's 3rd) early in the 2nd half. Great finishing (8).

Adebayor - Had the assist for the winner. Scored a header from a corner, heading it into the ground, the ball bouncing off the underside of the crossbar and in. Click to continue reading...

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Monday 29 September

7.30pm Rushden & Diamonds v Altrincham, Blue Square Premier, Setanta Sports 1
The Diamonds will be going hell for leather tonight as a win will see them jump from tenth to third in the Blue Square Conference table. On current form that seems quite likely, so our money's going on Garry Hill's mob. Click to continue reading...

After Saturday's disappointment, the plus points are that Wenger has promised changes and we do not have to wait long to see what the team's reaction will be.   Samir Nasri is back in the squad and hopefully he will start on the left.  It will be great to see Nasri and Walcott tearing defences apart. Click to continue reading...

England skipper John Terry believes the future is very bright for the national team and claimed Arsenal are not the only club with talented young English players. Only weeks ago there seemed to be very little to get excited about as far as the Three Lions set-up was concerned. But, following Theo Walcott's stunning hat-trick performance in [. Click to continue reading...

Under the heated spotlight of the Premier League it's difficult to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs. It takes the stubborn resolve, perhaps even the arrogance, of a manager sure of his principals with unbreakable trust in his players.

Arsene Wenger spent little this summer, and has never had the financial power of Chelsea or Manchester United, yet is charged with the task of competing with such clubs for domestic and European honours every season. Click to continue reading...

One has to wonder what goes on at shooting practice behind the sacred doors at London Colney.  Despite racking up a more than healthy number of goals in the club's last handful of games, I have become more and more frustrated at the amount of simple chances that appear to evade the team all too [. Click to continue reading...

One has to wonder what goes on at shooting practice behind the sacred doors at London Colney.  Despite racking up a more than healthy number of goals in the club's last handful of games, I have become more and more frustrated at the amount of simple chances that appear to evade the team all too [. Click to continue reading...

Wing sensation Theo Walcott says he is enjoying becoming the hatchet men's top target. Arsenal star Walcott was on the end of some brutal treatment in the Ukraine on Wednesday. Dynamo Kiev's Andriy Nesmachniy battered Walcott so much and so often Arsene Wenger claimed the defender deserved three red cards. Click to continue reading...

Almunia – 8. He had a busy day, and he was in good form. It could have been an Arsenal loss if the keeper was shaky.

Adebayor – 8. The playmaking center forward had a great assist for the third, was involved in the first two, and involved in creating some other chances as well.

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has urged referees not to allow his wonder-kid Theo Walcott get kicked out of football by the games bully-boys. The normal mild-mannered Frenchman reacted angrily after the 19-year-old was kicked constantly during the Gunners opening Champions League Group G fixture on Wednesday byDynamo Kiev's left-back and captain Andriy Nesmachniy. 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...

Happy Friday to you and we'll start with the early team news ahead of tomorrow's game against Bolton.

We've got no new injuries from the Kiev game, despite the Ukrainians trying to obliterate Theo Walcott. I suspect Bolton too will attempt to terminate him but Theo's strong enough to cope. In fact, displaying heretofore unknown masochistic tendencies, he says:

It's a nice feeling when a defender is scared of you straight away.

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Goal-shy Manchester United kicked off their Champions League title defence with a tepid 0-0 home draw against Villarreal in their opening Group E match on Wednesday. Former champions Juventus celebrated their return to Europe's top flight with a 1-0 win over Zenit St Petersburg while Real Madrid strolled to a 2-0 home win over Belarus first-timers BATE Borisov. 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...

Good day folks. Thanks to my current unemployed status, I'll be following the match online (In Spanish) and bringing a blow by blow account of the action. Not sure how this will go, but feel free to leave thoughts in the comment section. Back soon with starting lineups.

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Starting Lineups courtesy of BBC Sport:

Dynamo Kiev: Bogush, Betao, Diakhate, Mykhalyk, Nesmachniy, Vukojevic, Yussuf, Yeremenko, Aliev, Ninkovic, Bangoura.

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Morning all. It's a fine day for football. My Under 8's are 2-0 to start the season with a +14 goal difference so far, so that's going well. And on top of that, since the disaster at Fulham, Arsenal have looked good too. We need that to continue tonight in Ukraine against Dynamo Kiev.

Injury news for Arsenal is as follows: Mikael Silvestre is out, along with Samir Nasri. Click to continue reading...

Another weekend saw another good result. Hard to find a lot of things to complain about after taking down Blackburn, thanks to Theo, Adebayor, and RvP - among others. Nice to see Walcott remain fairly grounded after his hat trick against Croatia. His mazy run set up van Persie's goal, while Adebayor netted a treble.

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After a bit of a blog break, I thought it time to reflect on the past couple of weeks, and talk about the one thing that really struck me amongst the furore around Theo's international hattrick. And that was David Bentley's reaction. If you get another chance to see the highlights, take a look as Walcott [. Click to continue reading...

Morning all, I'm finally back. I'd like to say I have a great excuse for not writing for almost a week, but my excuses aren't that good. Friday I just didn't get a chance to do my match preview, Saturday I woke up to watch the match and then coach my Under 8's to an 11-2 win, and yesterday I went to the Jaguar game. Click to continue reading...

Walcott Continues Rapid Progress

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Liverpool 2-1 Manchester Utd
Hey look, the perennial also-rans in the Premiership scored a nice early-season win. Carlos Tevez had an early goal equalized by an own goal, before Ryan Babel netted the game-winner with a powerful strike in front of the net. Would you believe it was Rafa's first win over United? Click to continue reading...