The build up to an exciting Friday

Yes Arsene we have enough forwards but don’t let Amaury Bischoff be the end of the summer signings. Amaury was free for a start so that’s cheating, having only made one professional appearance at 21 for Weder Bremen, nobody can claim to know anything about the new young gun. I hope he turns out to [...]

Stuttgart 1 v 3 Arsenal

What has gone before in the pre-season was surpassed tonight. It was a really exciting match up and personally I didn’t think we’d get much out of tonight. Stuttgart are a top six German side aiming for at least a Champions League finish this season, they are two weeks ahead of us preparation wise, and [...]

Goal Crazy / Crazy Jens / Crazy Fees

Not much to learn from last nights friendly, except that Burger Land (or whoever) are really, really shit. I’m sure Bendtner thinks he is now the dogs bollocks, but I think I could have scored at least a hat trick while wearing flip flops. Lots of Arsenal fans at the game, most of which were [...]

Burgenland XI 2 – 10 Arsenal

Where to start, first thing I suppose is with the negative, we played a bunch on monkeys today, but then again I thought Szombathelyi were too. The positive is that Arsenal truly hammered what was in front of them and that can only stand these players in good stead. It all started within 43 seconds [...]

Ade in Austria/karma for Villa fans/Gibbs nets goal

The club have given us another ‘picture special’ from the Austria camp, and at the bottom they’ve sneaked in a picture of Ade there training.  I’m not sure you can read anything into that, but I suppose it’s better than it not being there.  It’ll be interesting to see the fans’ reactions when he next [...]

Champions League we’re waiting already!!

Morning Gooners. I thought I’d take this lull in Gooner news to report on the Champions League so far. The draw for our qualifier happens on Friday. The second legs of the second round won’t have taken place so we will still be able to take on any of the unseeded teams. The possible opponents [...]

It’s all gone quiet

Here I am on a Friday, covering for REDaction as he goes on his gay cruise. Very quiet on the Arsenal front , so no point waiting until Monday to post. Not really much going on this week – One friendly on Tuesday, but nothing to be learned from that : It’s all about the [...]

It’s my birthday so you get ‘Jack all’ today

Sorry, it’s too hot, I need to be in a bar and not staring at a PC. Give it a few hours and I’ll be ready to sing a few GOONER songs, you never know I may come up with some new Gem.

Toure & Gilberto – The Unbeatables

Today was the darkest day of the summer, news hit that Kolo Toure is suffering from malaria, he’s said to be in good spirits but this is not good news. Malaria is a serious illness and he is going to be out of training for at least a month. It’s gutting for one of our [...]

Szombathelyi 1 – 1 Arsenal

The lads got held to a 1-1 draw this evening in Hungary, in a largely forgettable match.  There were some decent moments in the first half, and Theo scored a good goal in his new #14 shirt.  However it was fairly clear that this wasn’t a huge match in Arsene’s (or the team’s) eyes, but [...]

Plenty of room in midfield

Good riddance to Alexander Hleb, the non goalscoring winger : I hope living in Barcelona is not too hectic for you. Arséne says ‘We are comfortable with our decision to let him go’. No shit, Sherlock. So am I, Arséne, so am I. On a different note, a real shame to see Gilberto Silva leave [...]

Sunday ramblings

2008/2009 starts with a Gooner win – hopefully it finishes in Rome with another 2-1 win, yes it’s Barnet, yes it means fuck all, but it’s Arsenal and we want to win every game we play. I was stuck at a wedding so my opinion of the games comes really from Tim. It sounds like [...]

Barnet 1 Arsenal 2

Today was a welcome break from the summer sporting scene, with the Arsenal playing Barnet at the Underhill Stadium.  Definitely a game of 2 halves as the whole Arsenal team was substituted at half time! The first half team included Almunia, Clichy, Sagna, Justin Hoyte, Traore, Ramsey, Denilson, Walcott and Bendtner. Gael Clichy was captain [...]

At last; something to talk about – & then I go on holiday…

So, at long last, something has happened that we can really start to talk about. Pleb has gone – Thank god for that, nearly £12M for a bloke that has scored so few goals in 3 seasons, I’ll take that no problem, Pleb had great feet & could get out of a tight corner, but [...]

Gilberto: Arsenal 2002-2008

So Gilberto has officially left, as announced by the club today. Lehmann, Flamini and Hleb have all already left, but this is the one which saddens me the most, by far. Gils was a model professional, and one of the invincibles. It was sad to see his Arsenal career end on the bench playing second fiddle [...]

Hleb finally lands in Barcelona

Jacks down at Bristol checking out how many fit woman are at the Uni there so you’ve got me again tonight. Finally it looks like we’ve shifted Hleb. It’s great news, finally we can have someone out wide who will score goals, whether that’s Nasri, Walcott, Vela, Ven Persie, Eduardo, or someone else I don’t [...]

Don’t use the ClockEnders to give stick to the Arsenal

Summer has returned to the South East of England, shock, typical when I’m out working on my new lorry. All it wanted to do was Block!! Fun!! So my eye of the Arsenal ball has slipped today but looking around the net Gooner news is pretty low on the ground today. The best the papers [...]

Taxi for two to the airport : A bashed up Nissan Sunny will be fine.

So, welcome to Samir Nasri after our most drawn out ‘incoming’ transfers in years was finally confirmed on Friday ; Let’s hope he is more Robert Pires than Jose Antonio Reyes. I was amused by Arsene’s comments on the signing : “We are delighted to be signing Samir Nasri. He is young, quick and technically [...]

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