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Madness, madness, madness! The FA and Alan Davies

12th April 2012 James 'Raul' Stokes

How can a governing body wielding that much power, allow decisions to be made by people who quite obviously have no experience or understanding of the game? It must be time to have representation on these panels from someone -anyone - who has some level of experience in football. If not, stupidity, violence and cheating will continue to go unpunished because of appalling incompetence and ridiculous loopholes put in place to enable fat, corrupt bureaucrats to have no means of overruling the dubious Nazis they allow to

Wolves (a) – Three Points As Cheap As Chips

12th April 2012 admin

I spoke Arsenal pre match about Theo Walcott making a difference to this game and in the 11 minute match, he was the player that made the difference. Our first real attack of the game saw van Persie clip a pass into the stride of Theo Walcott who raced through ahead of former Tottenham defender Sébastien Bassong, Bassong rather clumsily bundled Walcott over in the box and the referee made the correct decision by awarding the penalty. As Bassong prevented a goalscoring

EXCLUSIVE: Q&A With Piers Morgan

11th April 2012 Administrator

the worst violence I’ve ever seen at first hand. At one stage I had to run to avoid being caught up in it, as glass was smashing everywhere - a very scary experience. The Mirror did exactly the same with the story as ever other paper – and, as with the sports stories, I didn’t let my Arsenal allegiance get in the way. All the papers, not just the Mirror, slammed many Arsenal fans for behaving like hooligans and causing trouble, and it certainly seemed that way at the time. That was

Wolves (a) Thoughts & Line Up: Defensive Understandings, The Santos Dynamic & QPR Lessons

11th April 2012 admin

Manchester City were pushed into a box in their own half and were not allowed to get out. The likes of Yossi Benayoun, Tomas Rosicky, Alex Song and company forced them to turn over possession time and time again. Manchester City only managed one shot on target in the whole game. As good as our defence were on the day, they did not have to perform heroic clearances off the lines or last ditch

Your Vision – Media and Ramsey

9th April 2012 admin

Arsenal team”, the same people also called for Wenger’s head and called for a new manager at Arsenal, it’s worth pointing out that even before our recent form, we had a run from Oct 21 till the end of December where we only lost 1 game in the league and that was a narrow loss to Man city away. It bothers me that paid journalists failed to spot the correlation between our injuries and our form that was so glaringly obvious for all to see, yet still, most journalists and pundits alike don’t point this out and still call this Arsenal side “The worst ever” While reading the match reports this morning, little

Manchester City (h) – Nasri And Company Battered 1-0 By Arsenal

9th April 2012 admin

Moments earlier Arsenal should have scored, Robin van Persie's header from a Laurent Koscielny near post glance on (I swear I've seen that routine in my younger years) was sailing into an unguarded net but Thomas Vermaelen tried to duck out of the way and the ball hit him and rebounded off the crossbar. Incredible bad luck, you won't see that happen again for many years. Changes are happening on the pitch. Our closing of the opposition has increased considerably in recent weeks. At Everton a few weeks ago we witnessed a huge

Manchester City (h) Thoughts & Line Up: Get Straight Back On Our Bike & Knock Them Off

8th April 2012 admin

Tomas Rosicky and David Silva could be important to either side and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the one that contributed more to their team were the team that went on to win the game. David Silva started the season flying and has tailed off towards the end of the season whilst our Czech play maker has found his stride in the second half of the season. Both players have different roles for their team, Silva starts from wider positions while Rosicky starts from a central position. In a game of possession, both teams will be looking

Chamakh / Midfield / Will PL Follow Newcastle Utd Lead?

6th April 2012 admin

You would imagine that Lukas Podolski would be the final nail in Chamakh's coffin but let us wait and see what happens. Who knows, Chamakh might spring from the bench and score a five minute hat trick on Sunday and then continue to fire us to second place and sign a new 5 year contract extension in the summer. Unlikely story ey? Almost as unlikely as Tottenham's best team since the Premier League began being 13 points clear of Arsenal at one point only to have that lead slashed to zero. (At present) I need to add the at present so I don't either jinx the team or come across as complacent. All this superstitious lark is the real deal you know. Abou Diaby wants to repay the faith shown in him by Arsene Wenger. Many a manager around the world would have turned their back on the leggy French midfielder but Arsene has stuck with his midfielder and one can only hope that he can come through the bad times and start his Arsenal

Your Vision – Forgive me, but next season seems covered!!

5th April 2012 admin

Prior to that infamous hiding, AW wasn't particularly known for signing players below 25 years of age, save for the likes of err... ahem, Mikael Silvester (lol) and free transfers like Chamack (I swear that boy just needs a run of games, but is good). After the drubbing, AW quickly pulled out his cheque book & gave us among others, Mikel Arteta & Youssi Benayoun, two players who i must say have been of much needed help. It also seems like a policy that is set to continue into the new season. Lukas Podolski is just awaiting a shirt number i suppose, while am sure Sunderland wouldn't mind mailing Sessegnon over if we racked up a figure close to what they want (but 8mil should do the job). Both are exciting transfers, & if u add the rumor that Rennes' much fancied Yann M'vila is

Uefa – will common sense ever prevail?

5th April 2012 Administrator

There is a big difference between a personal insult and a perfectly valid criticism. The latter is what Arsene is being punished for. If you ask me, this is hypocrisy to the highest level; Uefa can say what they please, yet Arsene Wenger - not your average man on the street - is punished for expressing his views. Now surely, if anybody, one of the world's most respected managers should be allowed to voice his opinions without being at risk of reprisal. It reminds me of when I was 11 years old playing for a local Sunday League team, and my

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