The Podolski & Benayoun contradiction / Vertonghen / Squad Continuity
Stoke City (a) Thoughts & Line Up: Avoid the unnecessary and take care of business
Robin van Persie is more than due a goal from open play as he hits his first rut of the season and it will be interesting to see how he combines with Gervinho. When Gervinho replaced the hamstrung Walcott last weekend, he looked sharp and immediately gave us a link from the right of the pitch, something that Theo was struggling to do in that game.
Double award winner van Persie gives Gunners hope
Your Vision – Importance of Signing League Winners
Another person who has not yet been linked to Arsenal but whom I feel we should seriously look at is Mathieu Flamini . The combative central midfielder is a free agent come this summer and we will definitely need another midfielder because there is the African Cup of Nations. There is a chance we may lose both Alex Song and Emmanuel Frimpong during this period and even though we have Fracis Coquelin whom almost every Gooner rates highly he is still relatively young and therefore prone to occasional lapse in concentration . That role is too important in our team to rely on only the youngster to do the
Arsenal must stand up and kick gum chewers into history + Arshavin an old or new signing?
Yanga-Mbiwa to Arsenal? ‘Good chance of transfer happening’ / Ramsey & Rosicky switch
Wigan (h) – Frustration at the Emirates as disjointed Arsenal lose sparkle
The game was pretty much Tomas Rosicky vs Wigan and Rosicky had lost. He was the only player who was making things happen but he couldn't play on his own. He might have had Mikel Arteta to play with but Arteta got badly injured in the first minutes of the game. Gary Neville pointed out that Wigan caught us on the break when Arteta could not walk, Yossi Benayoun was signaling to the bench, assuming that we had maintained possession but instead Sagna's header was cut out by a Wigan player and they swiftly broke on us bypassing
Wigan (h) Thoughts & Line Up: Gibbs, Gervinho and the Ox push for starting spots
Tomas Rosicky should return to the side tonight after having been fully rested at Wolves in midweek. Gervinho returns to the squad and so could Kieran Gibbs if he comes through late fitness checks. I am interested to know who will get the nod at left back. Gibbs has done very well since his return to the side and Santos is not quite up to speed since his long term
Madness, madness, madness! The FA and Alan Davies
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