Lacklustre home performance. Heading for a draw. Enter a half fit Cesc to win the game almost by himself with a jaw-dropping 20-odd minute second half cameo
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Farewell Cesc, Forward Arsenal – heroes come and go but our passion is forever
The King is Dead. Long live the King
Columns, bulletins, reports, previews, analysis, questions, answers. News rooms and television studios are haunted by the presence of their absence. Upstairs in the stadium ex-players and ‘experts’ survey the arena, discussing what they cannot and will not see. The two who are not there. But down below, way beneath their feet, eleven far more important individuals lay waiting. Eleven chosen men who know in their hearts that after all the explaining, talking, fighting and negotiating the dreams and ambitions of the thousands upon thousands now rest in their hands. Who they are not and where they have been makes
Your Vision – My Take On The Fabregas Saga
I am disappointed in his lack of ambition to succeed at Arsenal, who are also the club that offered him regular first team football at such a young age and nurtured him and educated him a lot over the last 8 years. Not to mention one that bumped up his wages a few times too and handed him the captaincy. That only adds to his responsibility and commitment levels at the club, which stregthens
Defensive Crisis or Not
Another huge problem we have is our defensive high line, one ball over the top and our defenders can't cope. I'm still trying to understand why Wenger persists in playing the high line when season after season we suffer from it. A new CB in the mould of Cahill or Samba would suffer greatly from our defensive set up. Mobility isn't their best attribute and that's what we crave for in a new CB apart from
Chamberlain adds to Arsene’s new British core / Miyaichi / Dann
Unlike so-called “popular” opinion, AOC is A-OK with me
Nostalgia Corner: Hat's The Way to do it
Trying to pick out one Thierry Henry hat trick is like going to the Playboy mansion and only trying to pull one model or buying pic 'n' mix but only getting fizzy cola bottles. This one always stands out for me simply because in my mind, it showed that Arsenal had finally 'arrived' in Europe. Winning like that in a potentially difficult away game at the Stadio Olympico convinced me that Arsenal could be considered
What is the word from the Arsenal fans on the street?
Ze position is simple. spend da dough and match ze numba of players goin out wiv ze numba of players comin in. at da moment, ze numbers no match. we ship clichy to shitty and it checks dig eboue to turkey. almunia iz gone back to da circus. now, me no wicked at arithmetic but dat means we need 3 players already. jenkinson dont count cos he scored an own goal from outside da area. gervinho needs a air cut. so we iz of da opinion dat we still need 5 players. now, we all knowz dat brazil is da wickedest
Benfica Thoughts – Perspective needed as young Gunners lose 2nd half
Once again we started the game without captain Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri. Laurent Koscielny, Jack Wilshere and Theo Walcott also missed the game through injury so we started the game quite thin on the ground to begin with. We still managed to put together a pretty strong team which