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How Robin van Persie May Have Saved the Club I Love
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NOTE: This piece was originally written to be posted on the main EPL Offside page as part of their “Player of the Year” nomination series, and it will hopefully run in that space in the near future. But I figured since I named Robin van Persie my “Player of the Year” for the club this [...]
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Arsenal Season in Review, Part IV
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Okay, the end of season wrap-up stuff today. And we’re giving out awards. Is this kind of stupid and pointless? Yes, of course. But it’s the only trophies these guys will have won this year, so we press on…
Category: Arsenal NewsArsenal Season in Review, Part III
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Today, the bad. And there was a lot of bad this year, which is why this season was so disappointing. The fact that most of the guys who were our best players last season (Cesc, Adebayor, Clichy, Sagna) are on this list really sums up why we were not as good as we had hoped [...]
Category: Arsenal NewsThierry Henry, Champion
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I know it’s bittersweet, seeing as how it came in another team’s shirt, but I can’t help but feel really happy at the moment for Thierry Henry as he celebrates on the pitch at Stadio Olimpico. He is an Arsenal legend, voted as the greatest player ever to play for the club by by fan [...]
Category: Arsenal NewsArsenal Season in Review, Part II
By: Martin | 5 Comments
Today, we deal with the “so-so.” In other words, the things that went about as well as expected for Arsenal this year. Without further ado, in no particular order:
Category: Arsenal NewsFront, Back, Side-to-Side: Arsenal Season in Review, Part I
By: Martin | 8 Comments
Okay, here’s the first part of my Arsenal “Season in Review.” I have made “Top 10 Lists” of good, bad, and indifferent things about Arsenal’s 2008-2009 season. Now, to explain, I defined these terms relative to expectation at the beginning of the year. So, for example, I would say our performance in the league this [...]
Category: Arsenal NewsFinishing on a High Note–What Does it Mean?
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Arsenal v Stoke
Well, we finished the season well yesterday, with a 4-1 beatdown of Stoke. The game wasn’t televised here in the States, and I couldn’t find a decent stream that didn’t keep freezing on me, so I can’t pretend to give any great insight into the game. Frankly, given that nothing was at stake, [...]
Stoke City Preview
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Stoke
Current Position: 11th, 12-9-16 (45 points, -14 goal differential)
Away Form: 2-4-12
Recent Form: WLLWW
Last Meeting: Stoke 2-Arsenal 1 (11/1/08)
Well, this is it. Tomorrow’s the last game of the season, and it’s anticlimactic to say the least. It’s a rematch with Stoke, and a chance to take revenge for the embarrassing loss we suffered to them in [...]
Category: Arsenal NewsFabregas Cleared of Spitting Charges
By: Martin | 3 Comments
Well, as I predicted, the FA announced today that Phil Brown and his Hull City goons were not able to present any firm evidence that Fabregas actually spat at anyone, or did anything wrong. So he will not be disciplined at all. I’m not surprised, but you can’t always rely on the FA to get [...]
Category: Arsenal NewsWilliam Gallas Is Just Like You and Me
By: Martin | 2 Comments
We sports fans, even those of us who are ostensibly grown men, have a tendency to make our favorite athletes out to be larger than life. Different, somehow, then the rest of us who show up to a job we may or may not like every day and feel underpaid and underappreciated. So it is [...]
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