I don't normally post about France on this site, although I do follow them closely and contribute to the France World Cup Blog, but I enjoyed the first paragraph of this story so well that I'm posting a link to it: The Guardian's David Hytner on France-Ireland.
Now, to read the rest of the article. Click to continue reading...

Four more from the Arsenal. The first half ended 3-0.
Arsenal Captain Francesc Fabregas is in a rich vein of form, and he rounded out the first-half scoring.
Here are the Goals:
28' Eduardo/Wolves Own Goal
35' Eduardo/Wolves Own Goal
45' Cesc
66' Arshavin
Craddock scored a header from a corner to get an 88' consolation. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal scored 4 in midweek in the Champions League, and are 4 points clear at the top of their group table.
Since losing away to Man City 4-2, Arsenal are unbeaten in 12 matches (League, League Cup, and CL). That includes 10 wins, three matches in which Arsenal have scored 3 goals, two with 4 goals, and one with 6 goals. Click to continue reading...

Taken from PremierLeague.com.
That's your Arsenal in 3rd.
Could be better, but look at Liverpool!
A couple right bastards in front of us. Typical lot.
This is what Arsene Wenger calls "the first trend."
Got to do better to win the league. Click to continue reading...

Good from the Arsenal. I'm popping online about 5 hours after the match, and none of the blogs I read have updated.
Van Persie scored the opener. This match was available stateside in HD. ESPN is doing a good job with their EPL coverage - much better than they had done with their CL coverage. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal won midweek in the Carling Cup 2-1 over Liverpool, so Liverpool are out, and Arsenal advance.
Tomorrow morning is the North London Derby, and it's on ESPN 2 (8:30 a.m. Eastern, I believe).
The consecutive draws, in the two matches before the Carling Cup victory, were a pain, especially the loss of the 0-2 lead against West Ham in the league. Click to continue reading...

Well, last Sunday's match was forgettable - for supporters only; I'd have the players never to forget it - so I've decided to forget about it. In fact, I haven't even watched it. It's still a pile of 1's and 0's in the DVR. Maybe someday when I feel really hyper-happy, then I'll use it to calm me down a bit. Click to continue reading...

That was disappointing! Letting an inferior team equalize to force a draw at the dead brings back painful memory for a lot of Arsenal supporters.
Ronald Koeman did what he said to the press: his team maintained ball possession against Arsenal and actually had slightly more possession overall in the match. Click to continue reading...

That was an oddly hard game to find. I had to watch it on tape delay on Arsenal.com.
Two quick goals in the first half from Van Persie and Diaby were enough for the points.
Walcott started ahead of Arshavin, but Walcott went off injured in the first half, and Arshavin played the last hour, scoring the third in the 85th minute, I think it was. Click to continue reading...

Wenger said:
"Carlos Vela has not landed, so he will not be involved. We lost Nicklas Bendtner today in training from a recurrence of his groin. Eduardo is not back yet, because he still has a thigh injury."
"Lukasz Fabianski is not completely back. We hope he will be very soon, because he has trained normally. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal are hosting Birmingham City on Saturday. Club football is back after a two-week international break. Not all of Arsenal's Internations are back yet but here's what we know so far:
Gael Clichy - doubtful because of ankle injury
Abou Diaby - has minor ankle knack but looks to be able to play
Eduardo - Not available
Cesc Fabregas - missed Spain's match midweek but will be available
The status of Robin van Persie, Andrei Arshavin, William Gallas (I heard he had two teeth knocked out in a match? Click to continue reading...

I caught the match on tape delay, and it's quite late Sunday evening, but I'm buzzing from that Arsenal performance. It was wonderful.
Blackburn opened the scoring in the first five minutes. Their goalkeeper, former England starter Robinson, played a really nice long ball from a freekick, and a Blackburn player had a perfect looping header to score. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal now have 6 points from two Champions League group-phase matches.
I quite enjoyed the match.
They lined up like this:
Arshavin Van Persie Rosicky
Diaby Song Cesc
Clichy Vermaelen Gallas Eboue
Mannone
There's a lot of good players in that line-up, and Olympiacos were on the ropes for the full 90 minutes. Click to continue reading...

At the start of today's match, Vito Mannone was Arsenal's third-choice goalkeeper, and speculation was rife that he might soon be relegated to fourth choice. His man-of-the-match performance against Fulham might have changed that.
I wouldn't be at all surprised now to see Mannone have a run in the side as first-choice keeper. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal have done it again in the League Cup.
It wasn't the 6-0 that they had at this point last season, but a couple great late goals, both involving Ramsey and substitute Carlos Vela, have Arsenal through to the next round. The 56,000 supporters in attendance and the rest of us watching on Arsenal TV Online (ATVO) enjoyed it tremendously. Click to continue reading...