http://arsenal.theoffside.com Running the line for The Arsenal Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:00:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sunderland v Arsenalby prajiicman I opened up my preview for this match with the following paragraph: Back in action at the Stadium of Light tomorrow, for what I expect to be a very tricky match. Seriously–this match scares the hell out of me. For one thing, it’s a road match against a ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/team-news/sunderland-1-arsenal-0.html Lineups are in: Sunderland: Starters: Fulop, Bardsley, Mensah, da Silva, McCartney, Henderson, Reid, Cana, Richardson, Henderson, Bent. Subs: Nosworthy, Healy, Zenden, Murphy, Ferdinand, Campbell, Carson. Arsenal: Starters: Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen, Traore, Fabregas, Song, Ramsey, Rosicky, Eduardo, Nasri. Subs: Mannone, Silvestre, Arshavin, Eboue, Walcott, Denilson, Vela. Traore starts at left-back. It'll be interesting ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/team-news/sunderland-arsenal-thread.html Sunderland Position: 8th, 5-2-5 (17 points, +1 goal differential) Recent Form: DWLDL Home Form: 4-1-1 Last Meeting: Arsenal 0-Sunderland 0 (2/21/09) Back in action at the Stadium of Light tomorrow, for what I expect to be a very tricky match. Seriously--this match scares the hell out of me. For one thing, it's a road ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/team-news/sunderland-arsenal-preview.html Finishing up our "what did we miss out on?" series today: FELIPE MELO Arsenal were probably linked with Felipe Melo this summer more than any other player. The biggest difference between Arsenal's 2007-2008 season and our 2008-2009 season, which saw the club take a large step backwards, was the absence of ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/team-news/now-i-know-what-you-did-since-last-summer-part-iii.html If you haven't seen it already, Eboue scored a goal for Ivory Coast in an international friendly against Germany yesterday. The goal was brilliant--showing he may very well be the perfect striker: the strength of Drogba, the creativity of Henry, and the finishing of Owen. He's the complete package, folks. ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/arsenal-ladies/emmanuel-eboue-world-class-striker.html It's not strictly Arsenal-related, I know, but by now I'm sure you've all seen the controversial goal which put France into the 2010 World Cup. If you haven't: there was a cross into the box which fizzed past the far post, and looked like it was headed over the touchline ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/team-news/main-dun-dieu.html Okay, I know, 3 posts in one day is a bit excessive. But one was part of a planned thing, the other was new injury news, and there are several things here that I thought you find interesting. First, and most importantly, Kieran Gibbs did not break his foot, only ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/team-news/news-round-up.html Part II of our "What did we miss out on?" series continues today: EDIN DZEKO Arsenal were heavily linked with the 23 year-old Bosnian striker early in the transfer window. He was coming off of a wonderful season in the Bundesliga, in which he led Wolfsburg to a surprise championship and ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/team-news/now-i-know-what-you-did-since-last-summer-part-ii.html Well, it never ends. Apparently Aaron Ramsey has also picked up a knock on international duty, meaning we now have fully thirteen players injured. If you're curious, we have 29 players listed in our first-team. Which means we are only a few injuries away from having literally more than half ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/team-news/thirteen.html As you know, we complain about injuries, even though a lot of other clubs (Liverpool, Chelsea) have plenty of injury problems of their own. But we now have fully eleven (UPDATE: 12. See below.) players injured, and crying doesn't help, so why not have a little fun with it? Our 11 ... http://arsenal.theoffside.com/team-news/poll-where-would-arsenals-injury-list-finish.html