Yes, Henry misses England

There were several clues that this was not an ordinary football interview. Sitting opposite Thierry Henry was one of them — but the most obvious was the instruction not to mention football.

Henry flew into London after Barcelona’s Champions League victory away to VfB Stuttgart on Tuesday to promote a collection of clothes by Tommy Hilfiger, [...]

Patience finally paying off for in-form Almunia

They say patience is a virtue and Manuel Almunia would surely agree. The Spanish goalkeeper has been understudy to Jens Lehmann since he joined Arsenal three years ago but an injury to the Germany No 1 has given the Spaniard his chance. He has taken it with aplomb.
Almunia played in six successive first-team games before [...]

Liverpool, Arsenal win convincingly to reach fourth round of League Cup

LONDON – Fernando Torres scored three goals Tuesday to lead Liverpool to a 4-2 English League Cup win at Reading, while Arsenal also reached the fourth round with a 2-0 win over Newcastle.
Manchester City, Portsmouth, Sheffield United, Cardiff, Luton and Blackpool were the other teams to advance in England’s second-tier cup competition.
Six-time winner Liverpool had [...]

Why Wenger fears his dark side

In an exclusive extract from the Arsenal Opus, an 850-page history of one of England’s proudest clubs, Arsène Wenger talks about his ongoing battle against a lifelong fiery temper
Arsène Wenger exudes intelligence and a sense of calm. Dignified and unruffled, he is used to living with pressure, but he admits it has taken years [...]

Mark Clattenburg, you da man!

Phew! What a weekend of EPL action! The pick of the bunch was the London derby, Tottenham vs Arsenal. It was an interesting battle, from every which way and angle you look at it. On one side, you had Martin Jol, his days at Spurs apparently numbered, and would a relieved man if he could [...]

Its official, Robin van Persie is a big whiny baby!

Thats right folks, its unanimous. Its indisputable. The readers have voted, and i have no reason to believe that they are all anti-Arsenal fans. They might be Blackburn fans though.
In my previous post, i questioned van Persie’s maturity and whiny-ness, and 83% of you have agreed, van Persie is a BIG WHINY BABY. All hail [...]

Arsene’s Arse-anal statistics

P
W
D
L
F
A

Total*
621
361
145
115
1115
563

Percentage
100
58.13
23.35
18.52
1.8
0.91

The table above makes tough reading, but simply put, in Arsene’s 621 games with Arsenal, he has won 361 games, drawn 145 and lost 115. All in all his Arsenal side have scored 1115 goals while conceding 563. It gets even more interesting when we convert these stats to percentages, as you [...]

The seem to play better with 10 men, eh?

I remember the commentator mentioning that since the time Arsene Wenger took over until now, 69 Arsenal players have been sent off. However, they are the only team i’ve seen that play better with 10 men than with 11.
Arsene’s studiously plotting and scheming
In a peculiar way, i wonder if this has made them better at [...]

Savage: Arsenal are hypocrites

Gunners striker Robin van Persie attacked Mark Hughes’ side after the Premier League clash at Ewood Park in August, claiming that a Rovers player had trodden on Cesc Fabregas’ neck, and that Blackburn players had ‘crossed the border’ of acceptability in their play.
Arsene Wenger went on to claim after the match that Rovers had [...]

Wenger – Why Fabregas reminds me of Paul Scholes

“I made a tape of him last year and you wouldn’t believe how many chances he had, in some games he had three! When he was a young boy he scored goals and that’s a nice disease to have, sometimes it disappears but it always comes back when you are mature. He has a lot [...]