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Nonplussed about Nasri, worried about Wilshere, tense about tomorrow

There was a particularly poignant moment when he instigated a passage of play, trotted over to take the subsequent corner, received a round of applause from the North Bank and applauded them back. Heck, his song even got an airing too. I was mighty proud of the Emirates faithful on Saturday for a number of reasons – including a defiant chant of “We love you Arsenal”

Let’s do the Ramsey wide thing (again)

Liverpool (h) Post Match Thoughts: The need for transfers deflects injury nightmare

Emmanuel Frimpong has quite frightening potential. A fighter, fully of commitment and a physical freak of nature. As Arsene said, he needs to control his enthusiasm. His second yellow card was fully justified. Mistimed and reckless. His first yellow card was laughable. A Liverpool player played a pass and Sagna slid in attempting to cut the pass out. The ball went out of play and it was not clear if a touch was

Everton (a) – Ignore The Bigger Picture, Just Enjoy The 90 Minutes

Critical Analysis Into Our Failed Attempt Against Liverpool

The positives from the game was our back 4 and Frimpong. Vermaelen was gold on the day, Caroll didn't get a sniff. Vermaelen won everything on ground and in the air, its a real shame we didn't get to keep a clean sheet on that kind of performance.  Miquel was very impressive and he was very unlucky that his clearance hit Ramsey and went in to give Liverpool the lead. Jenkinson was impressive too

The Void In The Middle

Liverpool (h) Thoughts & Line Up: Depleted Gunners still have enough for victory

Carl Jenkinson will be playing out of position at left back which is some introduction into the first team. With Arshavin playing ahead of the youngster, it would be no surprise to see Liverpool attempt to exploit that area. Luis Suarez most probably being the player to drift onto that side and try and make

West Brom (a) – Thoughts & Predicted Line Up: Rotation, Youthful Defenders & Away Form

Making good use of what we have and My Transfer fears

In defence, we definitely have Gibbs out of proceedings tomorrow, Djourou is rated 50-50. We saw Jenkinson make his debut for us in the Champions League the other night and to be honest I wasn't convinced with his performance at left back. Yeah, I agree he isn't a left back and he would suffer against a Liverpool side who are likely to play Downing on the right of their attack to trouble the inexperienced Jenkinson. Jenkinson on the right is his preferred position, while Sagna on the left who

The Void In The Middle

Short term fright but postpone long term judgement until September

Alex Song you silly, silly boy. We really could have done with you right about now. Alex Song and Emmanuel Frimpong love it up em in a cold, windy, rainy, slightly cloudy, mildly frosty night in Stoke and they would have given our team a nice strong defensive platform to build on, instead we are clearly a man down. I dread to think what will happen if we suffer any midfield injuries tomorrow. Manuel

Let’s do the Ramsey wide thing (again)

It’s not necessarily Cahill, Samba or Jagielka we want – it’s leaving no stone unturned

I remember the hoo-hah surrounding Phil Jones when it broke that we had missed out on him. The abuse Arsene got was terrible – and I’d venture to say that this was from folk who had hardly seen Jones play. Then it appeared we had been mighty unlucky not to secure his services, having matched Man Utd’s offer for him and apparently offered a higher wage. In his case, the lad simply wanted to stay in the north-west of the country, and there was little we could do about that. The reason we

Let’s do the Ramsey wide thing (again)