Many Arsenal fans were left frustrated after last Saturday's penalty kick awarded to Manchester United as they believe Wayne Rooney dived.

On the issue, the player said:

I think everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player who tries to be as honest as they can.

Jens Lehmann was dropped by Stuttgart after attending Oktoberfest, hours after his team's defeat against Cologne (2-0) in Bundesliga. Plus, Arsenal's former goalkeeper gifted his rivals the 2nd goal by losing the ball outside the area. As we can see up there in the picture, Jens is smiling (something suspicious in itself) next to his wife [.

It is strange to believe that Arsenal have already played 5 games this season. After contemplating over and over, I decided to do a 'player of the month' post. So making its way for the first time this season, its Arsenal HERO and VILLAIN of the month.
HERO: Thomas Vermalen
The first contender for this honour was skipper fantastic Fabregas, but he missed the game at Old Trafford.

Last week I was away for four days and the timing for my trip was spot on as of course the Arsenal were not in action because of World Cup Qualifiers and friendlies. But, I can't say I didn't miss anything as there was plenty going on and below I will try to provide my thoughts on all the news on our beloved Arsenal.

Well, that wasn't very much fun. I haven't found a good "highlights" video yet, but will post it when I do.

I guess my thought is this let's not overreact. Yes, this is a bad result for us. Yes, I thought the match was pretty evenly matched, so to come out of it with 0 points. Yes, it sucks to watch Adebayor stomp a player in the face, get away with it, then score a goal and celebrate in front of Arsenal's fans (stay classy, Ade.

Somewhere in amongst the furore that surrounded Emmanuel Adebayor's Saturday afternoon, a football match took place.

I know it's difficult to spot and you may have to search through a pile of seething Arsenal supporters and endless reams of video evidence to find it but I assure you, it did take place.

If you didn't like that pun I apologize. I thought it was pretty good. Then again, puns tend to annoy a lot of people. Why? I don't know. It's not like it is the lowest form of humour. That would be sarcasm. "Yeah, right!" (said Samuel Johnson)
Anyway, the title is in reference to tomorrow's Champions League opener game against Liege.

Having taken a few weeks off to study Arsenal‘s play, I am now back to discuss the latest game and clarify the recent fear that is tingling inside you.

Following the last two trips to Manchester, I have noticed that many of you have commented on Arsenal's failure but on the contrary; both games showed that we were very unfortunate.

Its hectic at TGB HQ this week so its another late update.

Tonight the Champions League group stages kick off with our first game away at Standard Liege and it looks like we may be kicking off with a weakened side. Robin van Persie is missing, as is Almunia, Nasri, Walcott and Denilson not making the trip.

Morning, it's Wigan on the menu today and a home game which seems like a bit of a novelty this season so far.

Only Robin van Persie is back from injury. Andrei Arshavin hasn't made it, neither has Almunia, Theo Walcott has had a setback apparently, and the others we know about already. The importance of this game should be in no doubt.

1. 4-2 flattered Manchester City. Statistics showed we had nearly twice as many attempts on goal. We had 12 corners to City's 3. And we shaded possession as well.
2. However, City were clinical at a time when Arsenal were at their creative best, but defensively most fragile.

Manchester City 4-2 Arsenal

Bit late in the day to add my tupp'orth about yesterday's match couldn't get anywhere near the pooter till now. Obviously, it's mostly about Adebayor, which is wrong, but there you go.

I only saw the stamp on Match of the Day last night.

Hello all. It's been a bloody month since I last posted, and I'm quite ashamed of it actually. Sometimes, when you write every day, you just get burnt out and feel like what you write isn't that interesting anymore and just don't really get in the mood to write very much. That's what happened to me, and I feel like I'm not doing my job as an Arsenal blogger when I go that long without writing.

Obviously in the wake of UEFA's ridiculous decision to suddenly clamp down on diving, ironically the season after the greatest prima donna of them all has upped and moved to Spain, it would be an easy option to write an article on it. However, I have a slightly different complaint, and it doesn't regard Eduardo's penalty against Celtic, but rather Rooney's in the United-Arsenal tie.

1-0 M.Almunia (Autogol) 20'1-1 R.van Persie 62'2-1 C.Bellamy 74'3-1 E.Adebayor 80'4-1 S.Wright-Phillips 84'4-2 T.Rosicky 88'DISCLAIMER: Calcioplus non hosta alcun video pubblicato su di esso. Tutti i video pubblicati sono caricati da amanti di calcio su siti di video hosting come Youtube e Dailymotion ed ubicati dunque su siti esterni a Calcioplus.

Tologolese striker puts in a master performance to prove a point to his former employees.

Emmanuel Adebayor inspired his new team to victory over Arsenal to keep their 100% start to the season.

The Manchester City striker scored past his former club, and celebrated wildly as he maintained his personal record of one goal in every game so far this season.

Gameweek 5 offered great matches and many, many goals. So no lessons for goalkeeping or defending but a huge frenzy for scorers from defenders, midfielders and forwards. There has been 36 goals scored in 10 games. That's almost 4 goals per match! Let's see how the matches turned out the way they did.

Gameweek 5 offered great matches and many, many goals. So no lessons for goalkeeping or defending but a huge frenzy for scorers from defenders, midfielders and forwards. There has been 36 goals scored in 10 games. That's almost 4 goals per match! Let's see how the matches turned out the way they did.

Eduardo scored the winner in Arsenal's victory.

Arsenal were under the gun early as Belgian side Standard Liege jumped to a 2-0 lead after only five minutes. It was a nightmare start for young Italian keeper Vito Mannone. Not that the goals were his fault but two goals conceded in five minutes is a horrible start for any keeper.

Hello all. It's been a bloody month since I last posted, and I'm quite ashamed of it actually. Sometimes, when you write every day, you just get burnt out and feel like what you write isn't that interesting anymore and just don't really get in the mood to write very much. That's what happened to me, and I feel like I'm not doing my job as an Arsenal blogger when I go that long without writing.

Hello all. It's been a bloody month since I last posted, and I'm quite ashamed of it actually. Sometimes, when you write every day, you just get burnt out and feel like what you write isn't that interesting anymore and just don't really get in the mood to write very much. That's what happened to me, and I feel like I'm not doing my job as an Arsenal blogger when I go that long without writing.

Hello all. It's been a bloody month since I last posted, and I'm quite ashamed of it actually. Sometimes, when you write every day, you just get burnt out and feel like what you write isn't that interesting anymore and just don't really get in the mood to write very much. That's what happened to me, and I feel like I'm not doing my job as an Arsenal blogger when I go that long without writing.

Hello all. It's been a bloody month since I last posted, and I'm quite ashamed of it actually. Sometimes, when you write every day, you just get burnt out and feel like what you write isn't that interesting anymore and just don't really get in the mood to write very much. That's what happened to me, and I feel like I'm not doing my job as an Arsenal blogger when I go that long without writing.

Hello all. It's been a bloody month since I last posted, and I'm quite ashamed of it actually. Sometimes, when you write every day, you just get burnt out and feel like what you write isn't that interesting anymore and just don't really get in the mood to write very much. That's what happened to me, and I feel like I'm not doing my job as an Arsenal blogger when I go that long without writing.

Hello all. It's been a bloody month since I last posted, and I'm quite ashamed of it actually. Sometimes, when you write every day, you just get burnt out and feel like what you write isn't that interesting anymore and just don't really get in the mood to write very much. That's what happened to me, and I feel like I'm not doing my job as an Arsenal blogger when I go that long without writing.

Welcome to another instalment of Thank Gooner it's Friday... where FTK gives his assessment of news and views that have impacted on Planet Gooner. This week appears less provocative than usual, but I'm sure that my ability to create controversy where none exists will change that. The week started with a 4 nil thrashing of Wigan with the prospect of extending our goal difference even more tomorrow with our trip to Fulham.

Morning, hope your weekend was a good one. An Arsenal win always helps. A birthday also helps. Helps you lie around all day Sunday going 'Bleurgh' after too much Havana Club the night before, but I'm not complaining.

Mostly because today is Monday. Tomorrow night sees the second Champions League group stage game with a home tie against Olymiacos.

Arsenal visited Fulham on Saturday at a floodlit Craven Cottage near the Thames. It was a thrilling evenly balanced match, as both sides had their chances, but in the end the Gunners made full use of their chances, as a Robin van Persie strike sealed a win against the Cottagers. This win takes Arsenal up to 5th in the table, behind 4 teams who have all played one match more than them.