Pre-Season
The Day of Exes
By: Abby |
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It’s been a day of ex-players, as Arsenal traveled up to Germany to help VfB Stuttgart celebrate the renaming of their stadium (to the Mercedes-Benz Arena- Stuttgart is the home of the company, after all). Stuttgart, of course, is the new home of former Arsenal goalkeeper/entertaining character Jens Lehmann. Now, I love Jens, and I [...]
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Burgenland: It’s A Place
By: Abby | 3 Comments
Burgenland- the easternmost and least populous of all of Austria’s states. It’s right up against the border with Hungary and was the subject of only mildly interesting territorial debates in the 13th century, and not so much since. It was also the provider of Arsenal’s most recent friendly opponents.
The Austrian training camp is an Arsenal [...]
Open to Interpretation
By: Abby | 1 Comment
What can you say about pre-season friendlies? Other than nothing, really. It’s hard to interpret them as anything. I remember reading someone’s opinion on the German team’s friendlies before the Euro- if they’d won their game easily, that would be a cause for worry because it means they’re not working hard enough in training. (I [...]
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