Arsenal at St James' Park. I didn't see the highlights but I am guessing that Per Mertesacker didn't have his best game defensively along with his team mates. It just goes to show that even the best of teams can suffer the type of shame that we witnessed on that eventful afternoon in Newcastle a few
Arsenal win and the only thing you can find within you to talk about is the salary that Ivan Gazidis earns or how much 17 year old reserve defender takes home. Fair play if that wets your appetite but when it comes to maths. But when Arsenal win and the only thing you can find within you to talk about
Bacary Sagna's comments to French press may not be as accidental as we imagine. Inter Milan are now being linked with him and it wouldn't surprise me or indeed be anything new if Arsene decided that it was time to cash in on a player who had suffered two leg breaks in a short space of time at his age. This is not to say that I would like Sagna sold, it just wouldn't
Arsene felt it necessary to turn straight to Sagna then we could be in the position where we change 50% of our back four in one fell swoop. I am not sure how good that would be for the understanding that has developed since pre season, but funnily enough if I asked at the end of last season as to what I expected our back four to be then I probably would have gone
Jack Wilshere played his first competitive game since pre season last year. I was at the game and watched him hobble off the pitch but I thought to myself that he doesn't look too discomforted so he should be ok. How wrong I was. A couple of operations and setbacks later, he has started his recovery and of course we should urge caution. We have seen what a long injury can do to a young player like Aaron Ramsey and god forbid Abou Diaby who was only 19 when the despicable Dan Smith decided it would be a clever thing to crash into his ankle for no reason. So we have to play the waiting game, look at what his
As the league season approaches, players and clubs would like their business sorted out as soon as possible. Robin van Persie continues to edge closer to his move to Manchester United if the papers are to be believed. While I usually pay no attention to them, it looks increasingly likely that he will be
Robin van Persie is unlikely to get better as a player, surely the most his next club can expect is a repeat of last season and that would be at a push. Hopefully we have the best to come from our new attacking players. Podolski and Cazorla coming towards their peak years, Giroud has years in front of him and his physical style will hopefully add to our repertoire. We can also spread the goals around
Ivan Gazidis' comments about 'keeping some powder dry' makes much more sense now. Arsene wanted the likes of Cazorla, Mata. M'Vila, Hazard and others but as I say, his targets had already gone or the selling club did not want to sell at such late notice. The assumption that a man of Arsene Wenger's experience in management was not aware that buying early helped with preparation for the new season does not sit well with me at all. A man who lives by his stop watch,
Arsenal made me tense, the fake, fake Ronaldo. You know the guy, Quaresma. He hit the woodwork at least once, perhaps twice and I had my head in my hands. A draw would have seen us advance to the next round but we were fully under the cosh. I was a wreck but Rob didn't behave in the way that I was. He was doing things such as going to the toilet in the middle of an attack or pop off to get a drink in the middle of a goalmouth scramble. I thought it was a little unusual at the time but I refrained from asking any questions at full