An excerpt from Steven Goff's super-fine piece on D.C. 14 year-old Gedion Zelalem, who recently spent 10 days training with Arsenal's prospects.
"Zelalem is not the first high school soccer player from the area to seek a pro career. Most famously, Freddy Adu, a native of Ghana and a naturalized U.

Who would have thought that Swansea at home this Saturday would be such a pivotal game in the Arsenal's Premier League campaign? Not this subscriber, that's for sure. You see, I saw the season thus far panning out like this; Geordies away, three points, nae messin', man.

Bin-dippers at home?

Sometimes it's easy to forget heroes still exist. It's so easy to look at Arsenal's struggles this season and dwell on the mistakes and missed opportunities. Easy to put idols from the past on pedestals, ...

Oh God! What does one say after a game like that. Great fighting spirit and a gritty display for a well-earned away point at a difficult venue? Terrible performance that shows the Gunners just aren't good enough anymore? I guess it depends on one's mentality and the spin that suits it. As mentioned in the preview, I wasn't expecting a win but a more assured performance would have been encouraging for the future.

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Former Arsenal left-back Gael Clichy still thinks that Arsenal will be fighting for the title until the very end despite the slight setback from the start of the season, but he is happy that he now plays for Manchester City instead, who are challenging at the top of the table. Clichy deserted Arsenal this season [.

Former Arsenal left-back Gael Clichy still thinks that Arsenal will be fighting for the title until the very end despite the slight setback from the start of the season, but he is happy that he now plays for Manchester City instead, who are challenging at the top of the table. Clichy deserted Arsenal this season [.

Not a day has gone by since the closing of the transfer window without a transfer rumour concerning Arsenal hitting the press. Today is no different and the latest player to be connected with our great club is Ousmane Drame. There is a report on talkSPORT this morning saying that Arsenal are in direct competition [.

Per Mertesacker signed for Arsenal last Wednesday, but due to the current round of international matches he has yet to meet up with his new team mates, but he is due to meet them all at Colney today. Mertesacker, 26, has been speaking about his move to Arsenal and the challenges that lie ahead. He [.

Arsenal's new Number One is making quite a name for himself in the opening weeks of the season.

He made a string of fine saves in the cauldron of Udine, including a Seaman-esque penalty stop, to effectively win Arsenal £25m and guarantee their participation in this year's Champions League.

"It is terrible. It is just not good enough". I couldn't agree more with those words spoken by Arsene Wenger yesterday, but the question on many supporters lips this morning is where do we go from here? Speculation will of course continue about Arsene Wenger and his job, but then it does on any manager [.

Arsenal skipper Robin van Persie has claimed that his teammates outplayed Blackburn in Saturday's 4-3 defeat and he is still shocked that Steve Kean's struggling outfit was able to score four times.

Although the Dutchman acknowledged the need to stop conceding soft goals in order to rebound quickly from a third defeat in only five Premier League matches, he reminded the Rovers that they were fortunate to emerge as the winning side at Ewood Park.

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Dimitar Berbatov, Forlan, Crouch, Shearer and 10 of the worst football goal droughts

The footballers who just couldn't hit the target, including players from Man United, Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal

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How many teams can miss that many first choice players and eke out a fairly comfortable win in the Champions League? I think that is the big question and one that many might have missed when entangled in observations pertaining to Arsenal's defence, which undoubtedly needs a lot more work.

As expected, Wenger rested a number of key players.

Arsenal midfielder Andrey Arshavin believes the Gunners have to change their style of football after they sold Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri during the summer transfer window. Speaking to Russian newspaper Sport, the 30-year old was ...

4-1-4-1 accommodates Germany's attacking options and underlines Germany's defensive weaknesses. If Jogi Löw considers 4-1-4-1 his formation of choice for next year's Euros, then he has a lot of work to do, to get the balance between offense and defense right. It's perfect for high scoring friendlies and against smaller teams though.

Liverpool Striker Andy Carroll is getting it in the neck from all sides at the moment; whether it's fans getting frustrated with his performances; the media attacking his price tag, or Fabio Capello publicly criticising his lifestyle, the pressure is most definitely on the for £35m man. When it comes to his performances for Liverpool though, has Carroll really been as underwhelming as everyone seems to think?

Arsene Wenger wrapped up as many as five quality signings on the transfer deadline day but not all members of his squad are feeling confident about the future ahead.

Russian winger Andrei Arshavin, for one, believes that the Gunners' failure to sign a defensive midfielder such as Rennes' Yann M'Vila not only left the Arsenal midfield incomplete, but also prevented Wenger from compensating for the departures of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri.

The transfer window is firmly shut, but the rumours just keep on coming as far as Arsenal are concerned. Two new names that are being mentioned today are that of defender Neven Subotic and midfielder Riccardo Montolivo. Neven Subotic plays for Borussia Dortmund and according to some reports he was a target for Arsenal during [.

From Arsenal's new signings to Manchester United's best midfield pairing your questions answered in Twitter Q&A

Correspondent Greg Stobart answers your queries following a busy and surprising transfer window, as well as other interesting issues circling the Premier League

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Here we go, everyone. I'm going to say that every game is a must-win for us, starting with this game. 35 wins on the season, yah!

Check out Darren's preview, then get yer comment on. Kick-off is at 3pm UK, 10am Eastern, 7am Pacific. Shout out to our eastern seaboard Gooners! Hope you're coping well with the after-effects of the weather there.

Three points more than welcome but a great deal of work remains to be done.

Arsene picked the expected line-up, handing debuts to Mertesacker and Arteta. It was a strong looking side and almost everyone expected a win for the Gunners.

The Spaniard had an early chance to make his mark as he won a free-kick just outside the box in a central area.

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Arsenal are beginning to awake from their sleepy start. After the much-talked about 8-2 embarrassment at Old Trafford, the Gunners fought hard to gain two good results. Arsene Wenger has been forced to reconstruct the team. No club would be ...
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Cesc Fabregas has furiously denied bad-mouthing the Arsenal and insisting he didn't leave, as claimed in an interview, because the Gunners couldn't win silverware in the next few years.

Cesc-gate erupted yesterday with a supposed interview in which the Barcelona midfielder set out his reasons for quitting the Emirates, chief amongst them was the percieved inability for Arsene Wenger to steer the club to some trophies any time soon.

Don't mention the dreaded word injuries around the Emirates, as it seems Arsenal get more than far share. It looked as though we had a clean bill of health after Tuesdays game against Dortmund, so here is the latest news on who is available and who is not for the game at Blackburn tomorrow. Aaron [..

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More transfer rumours to bring you and after Saturday you would have thought that the list would be full of defenders. It isn't I'm afraid, and the worrying news is it is another teenager that is being targeted! The latest name to be linked with Arsenal is Andy Polo. Who I hear some of you [...]

In theory when you're a journalist you don't root for teams and therefore all you're looking for is an angle, something interesting to write about that will get people to buy your newspaper, click on your link, or head to the Facebook page to make some pithy comments about your genius idiocy. As much as we'd all like to believe that our journalists stick to this standard (because they tell us

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After surviving the shock of falling a goal behind to their League Two opponents, struggling Arsenalcame back to beat Shrewsbury Town 3-1 and comfortably progress into the fourth round of the Carling Cup at the Emirates Stadium.

The visitors stunned the Emirates crowd after 16 minutes when James Collins's bullet header beat Lukasz Fabianski, and a major upset looked to be possible.

Well we got back on track a little bit today, battling back from a one goal deficit to defeat Shrewsbury Town 3-1. Some of the same worries are still there, of course, but at least we can enjoy ourselves for now. Before getting into the recap, I want to apologize to the readers for a couple of things.

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Strong start. Eased off. Conceded a sloppy goal and some chances. Regrouped. Equalized. Pushed on and closed the game out by adding a couple more. Entertaining. Encouraging. Much needed.

It was a youthful line-up and an even younger bench. Le Boss also started with a fluid 4-4-2 giving Park and Chamakh having a great deal of freedom to move.

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