The results are in and Arsenal fans have unsurprisingly chosen skipper Robin van Persie as the club's Player of the Season in a poll sponsored by EA Sports. Alex Song, Tomas Rosicky, Laurent Koscienly, and Mikel Arteta round off the list of top five players chosen by the Gunners' faithful.

There would be little value in doing an opinion poll on who has been our best player of the season. No doubt, a vast majority would opt for our captain, top goal scorer, and the PL's Player of the Season, Robin van Persie. But it all becomes a lot more difficult when we have to choose our second best player of the season.

There would be little value in doing an opinion poll on who has been our best player of the season. No doubt, a vast majority would opt for our captain, top goal scorer, and the PL's Player of the Season, Robin van Persie. But it all becomes a lot more difficult when we have to choose our second best player of the season.

Kos gets a new French speaking mate, hopefully

The biggest news of the day is of course the one that surrounds Yann M'Vila and his proposed move to Arsenal. First sighting of that piece of news on my timeline was yesterday from @YouAreMyArsenal and seemed to have been confirmed by respected French journalist Julien Laurens today.

Kos gets a new French speaking mate, hopefully

The biggest news of the day is of course the one that surrounds Yann M'Vila and his proposed move to Arsenal. First sighting of that piece of news on my timeline was yesterday from @YouAreMyArsenal and seemed to have been confirmed by respected French journalist Julien Laurens today.

It's often cast as the sporting equivalent of the descent to Hades where brutality reigns for what seems an eternity and only heroes emerge unscathed and Arsenal prepared as if they were entering the Britannia Stadium as such. But just as Stoke City had a gameplan to stop Arsenal based on exaggerated muscularity, so did The Gunners to show their technical superiority.

Rosicky Claims His Footballing Age Is 29

Arsenal FC midfielder Tomas Rosicky has said that there is plenty of football left in him even though he is now in his thirties. The 31-year-old playmaker has missed a large chunk of his Arsenal career due to a series of injuries and therefore, he claims that his hunger and desire to play at the highest level is more than his age suggests.

Yes, it's true, the mighty Arsenal and Citroën have combined to promote the new Citroën DS5 through a video shot with the English National Ballet. No doubt the players involved in the video have been subject to more than one or two dressing-room comments on their newly-found artistic skills, but ballet dancers also need to be fit, supple and train hard to perform.

Three games to go in this extraordinary season.

Three games to secure third place and a guarantee of Champions League football next year (not to mention the increased likelihood of retaining the services of a certain Dutchman who finds the net at moments of his own choosing).

Or three games to slip to fourth, maybe even fifth and re-ignite the poisonous debate about the future of our club and its most successful modern manager.

Three games to go in this extraordinary season.

Three games to secure third place and a guarantee of Champions League football next year (not to mention the increased likelihood of retaining the services of a certain Dutchman who finds the net at moments of his own choosing).

Or three games to slip to fourth, maybe even fifth and re-ignite the poisonous debate about the future of our club and its most successful modern manager.

It's been a week to get the pulses racing. If the deserved late win against Mercenary City was a night out at a strip club with John Bonham and Shane McGowan, Wednesday's win against Wolves had the air of soothing satisfaction of a night in with a bottle of Blue Nun, pizza, ice cream and a rom-com.

Sunday's antics at Emirates Stadium threw perennial trouble maker Mario Balotelli back into the headlines after a red card against Arsenal. Donning a t-shirt reading "YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE" to reveal if he found the net, Balotelli's intentions are clear. He feels it is all about him. Who else would expose the message "WHY ALWAYS ME?

DLLLLLL

No, I haven't just mashed my forehead onto my keyboard, the above letters are the recent record of tonight's opponents Wolves since they sacked Mick McCarthy. Drew one, lost six, a run of matches that sees them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League with a measly 22 points, six away from nearest relegation battlers Wigan.

DLLLLLL

No, I haven't just mashed my forehead onto my keyboard, the above letters are the recent record of tonight's opponents Wolves since they sacked Mick McCarthy. Drew one, lost six, a run of matches that sees them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League with a measly 22 points, six away from nearest relegation battlers Wigan.

Morning all, a blog in two parts this morning, starting with:

WOLVES

In terms of team news there will be changes at the back. Kieran Gibbs groin is feeling the strain of 9 consecutive games and will be replaced by Andre Santos. Laurent Koscielny's suspension means Johan Djourou comes back into the centre of the defence, while there are some doubts over Bacary Sagna, whose virtues the manager is keen to extol.

Mind The Gap

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The Spuds seem to be choking which is what they are most famous for. It was expected, I love how harry twitcher and the rest of those media hyped spud monkeys have been brought back to earth.

Arsenal have the opportunity to tighten the grip on third place, A win tomorrow will see us go five points clear of Spurs and Newcastle, and 7 clear of Chelsea.

Balotelli gets away with it! by KJ Some shocking news has filtered its way onto twitter. Mario Balotelli will not receive any retrospective action after his horrific tackle on Alex Song during the 1-0 win against Man City at the Emirates. According to the FA, an official saw the incident and decided it was not [.

This doesn't appear to be new, but it's too excellent to be missed out on.

Actually, it might be a bit late. While Citroen has a wonderful idea of mixing football with ballet to sell a car isn't that the ideal? this is probably several years too late. This commercial needed to happen six or seven years ago, with Patrick Vieira, Jens Lehmann, Freddie Ljunberg (this one, not CKFreddie) and of course, Pascal Cygan in the role of trainees.

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Today, Arsenal had a chance to make a statement of where it stands in the current hierarchy of English football. This was not just a game we needed to win to keep us in contention for a top-four finish – no, this was also a game in which we needed to demonstrate to ourselves again how good we really are.

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Today, Arsenal had a chance to make a statement of where it stands in the current hierarchy of English football. This was not just a game we needed to win to keep us in contention for a top-four finish – no, this was also a game in which we needed to demonstrate to ourselves again how good we really are.

We're very much in the home straight now. The yellow tape is well in sight on the horizon and we know exactly what we have to do. Pretty much the opposite of what we did at Loftus Road on Saturday to be precise. I sensed we wouldn't win, largely owing to the law of averages. We'd juiced lady luck's teat ever so slightly during the winning run and life being what it is, all sparks burn out in the end.

Much has been made of Thomas Vermaelen's performance against QPR on Saturday and I'm quite sure he'd be the first to admit it was not his finest hour. Not for the first time this season he's slipped at a crucial moment, resulting in an opposition goal, so perhaps he ought to be considering a change of footwear (blades v traditional studs, for example).

Few people have wanted to write about our losses this season there have been too many sadly and yesterday was no exception. Watching the game on a good stream it was difficult to draw any positives from a lacklustre performance that was more reminiscent of the dark days in January than the recent exciting football we have witnessed.

Few people have wanted to write about our losses this season there have been too many sadly and yesterday was no exception. Watching the game on a good stream it was difficult to draw any positives from a lacklustre performance that was more reminiscent of the dark days in January than the recent exciting football we have witnessed.

Tough assignment writing about QPR. Why? Because I have a real soft spot for Rangers, but and this is such a huge but, there is hardly a bigger but in the Western World - not even J-Lo has a but this big. You know what I am referring to .... yes ..... two of the most unpleasant men ever to grace a football field, Mark Hughes and Joey Barton.

Tough assignment writing about QPR. Why? Because I have a real soft spot for Rangers, but and this is such a huge but, there is hardly a bigger but in the Western World - not even J-Lo has a but this big. You know what I am referring to .... yes ..... two of the most unpleasant men ever to grace a football field, Mark Hughes and Joey Barton.

Ahead of their clash against Queens Park Rangers tonight, Arsenal's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has been practising his crucial Charlie Chaplin side-jumps. And it seems that the 'Alexes' have been the life of the party for the Gunners lately you may remember that Alex Song was the clown of last week's training session!

Mar 26, 2012

Today, Arsenal won 3-0 against Aston Villa at the Emirates. It was our seventh Premier League win in a row and that gives us a three-point advantage over the Spuds, who could only draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge earlier in the day. It was also the first time since 1997 that the Gunners had two English goal scorers in the same game.

If, as the orange and black banner draped against the North Stand is correct, and Robin van Persie does score "when he wants", it was evidently his day off as he left it to the others to get the goals. On the face of it, perhaps it was a good thing as it showed Arsenal are not so reliant on Robin van Persie and Arsène Wenger indicated as much, although he would have wanted van Persie to continue his goalscoring form and thus kept him on until the end.

Having endured the first 60 minutes of the Chavs' vs. Spuds' collective attempt to discover the best cure for insomnia, I was extremely pleased to find a half-decent stream to watch the mighty Red & White take on the Villains. I expected AV to put in a performance, partly based on their half decent effort during our last encounter with them in January (FA-cup), and partly on the fact that they have nothing really to play for anymore, which makes these sorts of games a bit of a bonus for them.

Having endured the first 60 minutes of the Chavs' vs. Spuds' collective attempt to discover the best cure for insomnia, I was extremely pleased to find a half-decent stream to watch the mighty Red & White take on the Villains. I expected AV to put in a performance, partly based on their half decent effort during our last encounter with them in January (FA-cup), and partly on the fact that they have nothing really to play for anymore, which makes these sorts of games a bit of a bonus for them.

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger declared himself very satisfied about the fact that the Gunners finally managed to put some points between themselves and Tottenham as they now find themselves 3 points in front of their biggest rivals Tottenham and 8 points ahead of Chelsea. "I felt it was a very dynamic, fluent performance in [.

The one thing you must know about Alex Song is that he loves acting out "If Incredible Hulk Were Drunk..." scenarios in front of the camera. Rolling on the grass and breakdancing is all part of Song's training routine, as evident during Arsenal's session yesterday.

One of my favourite things about football is the extent to which it constantly confounds finite conclusions. We're all guilty of it to varying degrees. Just four weeks ago I used this space to contemplate the upsides of Europa League participation. 6 consecutive league wins later and we find ourselves favourites for third and ahead of Sp*rs – who were effectively 13 points ahead with a 2-0 lead over us just over three weeks ago.

Firstly, *boilk*

Secondly, there was a bloke in the bar we were in last night who looked exactly like the villain from every film ever but most especially like the other bloke from the Karate Kid who kicked his legs that time. He was tall and overly blond with his shirt open too much and he laughed exaggeratedly.

Smash and grab, against the run of play, undeserved, call it what you want, Robin van Persie's two superbly taken goals gave us a very important win at Anfield and with it three extremely precious points.

Buoyed by the glorious fight back last week against spuds I sat myself in front of the telly ready for the match with a greater confidence in my heart than had been the case in more recent weeks.

Smash and grab, against the run of play, undeserved, call it what you want, Robin van Persie's two superbly taken goals gave us a very important win at Anfield and with it three extremely precious points.

Buoyed by the glorious fight back last week against spuds I sat myself in front of the telly ready for the match with a greater confidence in my heart than had been the case in more recent weeks.

He scores when he wants

It was reminiscent of our last win at Anfield. We played poorly and we still come out on top. It's the kind of performance that pundits drool over when Manchester United wins this type of matches. The ability to beat the odds and find that winner despite not being on top of their game.

Robin van Persie scored either side of the interval to help Arsenal come from behind and win 2-1 at Anfield to bring an end to Liverpool's unbeaten record at home this season.

On a day when injured captain Steven Gerrard started things off brightly for the home side by lifting the recently won Carling Cup trophy, an inspired Reds side brilliantly rode the momentum in the opening stages.

Come on!!!

First game after the massive thrashing we gave our version of the"noisy neighbours". I should think that some of the euphoria and boost should still be there with the squad going into the trip to Anfield. A part of it will no doubt be diluted by half the squad going away for what can only be deemed as a silly time to have international matches.