By Paul Williams The season is beginning to take shape now, everyone has played enough games for the hopes and worries to be well set. So far the season for Arsenal has been generally good. However, we are entering November – a month all Arsenal fans have learnt to worry over.

Today we take on Wolves and all sensible comment would suggest another three points, after all we have only lost 2 games all season and the Manure defeat was, to say the least, undeserved.

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From the management team of ABSC, we like to say a big thank you to all ABSC members and Arsenal fans for making this live match gathering a blast and we do really enjoy the night out.Congrats to Arsenal for winning a sensational game against our bitter rival, Spurs with a convincing score line of 3-0. Click to continue reading...

In what has been a fantastic week for Arsenal fans, there isn't much more we could have hoped for. Well maybe one thing, how about serial c**ts Ashley Cole and David Bentley finally being told what we all think about them by people who see them day-in-day-out. Well in these two superb videos taken from talkSPORTS [. Click to continue reading...

Without a doubt, Sunday's game between Chelsea and Manchester United is the biggest of the season between the two clubs who have the best chance to win the Premier League title this season (sorry Arsenal fans). So, it's no wonder that so much importance is being placed on this game. Not that who wins will decide anything, but it will be a massive psychological boost for the winning team and will show which club has what it takes to win the title.

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Happy Friday to you all,

we should probably start with the news that Stan Kroenke is on threshold of the 30% which would require him to make an offer for all the shares in Arsenal. We've watched him draw ever closer in the last few months, his intentions remain very much a mystery. What you can say though is that with the 100 shares he bought from Peter Hill-Wood what is happening is being done with the full knowledge of the board.

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It's now or never for Arsenal Football Club.  Stan Kroenke has been mopping up small shareholdings over the last couple of weeks to raise his share in the club to 29.8%. He is a fraction below the mandatory bid figure of 29.9%.

It was rumoured that he bought 100 shares from Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood; this is the same man who famously said, "We do not need his sort at this club.

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Our Thursday programme series last week went back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart lane. Today, we hop across North London to Highbury, and Arsenal's first major floodlit fixture against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Programme cover courtesy of the highly-recommended Footysphere.

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UPDATE We place 6th overall from 8 teams competing where we won two (2), draw one (1) and lost four (4) games. Congrats to players involve for a good, clean and spirited game throughout the tournament, and also to the ABSC members that come and support our team, thank you.Thanks also to ABSC members that could not make it, we appreciate your support. Click to continue reading...

"With and without the ball at the moment we're very on the ball."
Frank Lampard has a ball after Chelsea's thumping of Bolton.

"Jermaine is really generous - he bought me some Christian Louboutin shoes for Christmas which I love. But the best present he ever got is priceless - a tattoo of my face on his forearm. Click to continue reading...

by CARL ELDRIDGE Arsenal fans are fearful for the future of the club after Stan Kroenke increased his stakeholding to 29.6 per cent — just short of the threshold for an obligatory takeover of 29.9 per cent, reports the Times.

Kroenke yesterday purchased another 427 shares in the parent company of the North London club from the estate of Ernest Harrison, a British industrialist, at a cost of £3.

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Catalan giants try to annoy Gunners in a whole new way.

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Barcelona's copycat chase of two of Arsenal's Under 18 starlets has been stepped up with Barça represenatives making formal offers for both Benik Afobe and Chukwuemeka Aneke to visit their Catalan base for talks.

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We here at COS Towers saw this and found it very amusing, and we are not even all Arsenal fans. To be fair Tottenham were without two of their most crucial attacking influences in Jermain Defoe and Aaron Lennon, not sure that will act too much as a comfort to the White Hart Lane outfit, who are after all having a damn fine season whichever way you look at it.

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by CARL ELDRIDGE Allow me to get a few things off my chest as we reflect on the total destruction of the Haringey Pretenders with a highly convincing, highly enjoyable and ultimately an easy-peasy 3-0 win at the home of football yesterday.

First, a quick memo to Robbie Keane who claimed that Harold 'Steptoe' Redknapp's bunch of over-hyped, over-paid under-achievers were an altogether better squad than that of the glorious Gunners.

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That could have gone better. But I'll stand by my previous comments; Arsenal fans are generally morons.
Essentially, we did badly. We did very badly indeed. But up until about 40 minutes in, it was looking like a very close gig. We were defending both in numbers and extremely competently. Apart from one or two hairy moments, Ledley King and Seb Bassong were doing a more than adequate job. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham Hotspur

Position: 4th, 6-1-3 (19 points, +7 goal differential)

Recent Form: LWDWL

Away Form: 3-1-1

Last Meeting: Tottenham 0-Arsenal 0 (2/8/09)

It's here. The North London derby.

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Enough Liverpool bashing has been done to keep me sated for a month now. There are only so many Voronin jokes and beach ball jokes you can make before it gets a bit stale. Fortunately for us Arsenal fans, fresh meat has arrived in the form of the scum. North London derbies are always a special occasion (if you're an Arsenal fan all the more so, barring the one obvious time).

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Over the last few weeks I've been picking out the biggest derby fixtures from around the Premier League and elsewhere for my soccerondish articles. This weekend two of London's biggest clubs, and indeed historically London's biggest clubs before Roman Abramovic started the Chelsea revolution, meet in what is always massive fixture.

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To celebrate the launch of our brand new members' area Arsenalinsider, in association with Icons, are giving one lucky reader the chance to win a signed Fabregas shirt.

To be in with a chance, all you need to do is sign up for a free account.

Each members' account will enable you to communicate with other Arsenal fans, just like on Facebook.

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All week I've been running a fantastic competition - 3 pairs of Club Level tickets for Arsenal v Sp*rs with thanks to Emirates Airline.

I asked you: Who scored Arsenal's winner at White Hart Lane in 1971 to clinch the league title?

Was it: a) Charlie George b) Ray Kennedy c) George Armstrong

The answer was, of course, b) Ray Kennedy.

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Arsenal face Liverpool tonight in the Carling Cup, a competition that Wenger has religiously used to give reserves, youth players and first team squad players a run-out. Â We have had some success over the years, reaching one final and three semi-finals, so the policy has its merits. Â I would like Wenger to take the competition a little more seriously and start to use more experienced players the closer got to the final.

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This season is bringing back memories of some of the more undesirable aspects of the 70s and 80s.

The Barnsley and Man Utd Carling Cup fixture is now better known for its hooliganism (with more pictures). Catering staff were trapped for almost half an hour inside a food kiosk as Man Utd fans stole food and cash.

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by JAMES CURTIS Imagine breakfast in the Wenger household and you might hear Mrs Arsene snapping at her husband's indecision whether or not to play his Young Guns against Liverpool tonight: "Oh for heavens sake, let the kids play why wont you," she trumps.

It's a point well made, as for Arsenal fans the more exciting prospect of Carling Cup football is the chance of seeing the talented youth in a real pressure setting.

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The first North London derby of the season takes place this Saturday and Arsenal fans and players will be desperate to put the agony of last year's 4-4 draw behind them.

Tickets, as you would expect, are like gold dust but Arseblog, in association with Emirates Airline, has not one, not two, but three pairs of Club Level tickets up for grabs exclusively to Arseblog readers.

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by JAMES CURTIS Arsenal make the short trip across London to West Ham this afternoon not just as a team in fine league form but as title contenders, after Arsene Wenger's comments in midweek officially entered Arsenal into the race for silverware.

"I know that we haven't won a trophy for four years, but we have been very close and I believe that this year the team will do it," Wenger said at Arsenal's Annual General Meeting on Thursday.

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by CARL ELDRIDGEÂ Another day, another supposed target for the rip-roaring Gunners. Today it's Spartak Moscow wonderkid Zhano Ananidze who is said to be on Arsene Wenger's radar.

The News of the World claims the 17-year-old Georgian midfielder is already being talked about as one of Europe's biggest talents.

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It was quite the week for French teams in European football where Lyon showed incredible poise and Hugo Lloris certainly scored some points as the # 1 goalkeeper for France for the World Cup...it was also somewhat poetic justice to see a team Houllier successfully coached for 2 years beat Benitez's Liverpool at Anfield. Click to continue reading...

No TGIF this week as I do not want to distract you all from the blogs that detail the AGM and the subsequent discussions. Certainly the only issue in town is the sixtieth birthday of Arsene Wenger, but apart from the many plaudits that have been rightfully laid at his door, the most significant one to my mind is the fact that he reminded us in the speech before the AGM, that Arsenal Football Club rank alongside Real Madrid and Manchester United as the only clubs that have been in the Champions League for 12 years running.

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Tuesday night was a special night for Arsenal, not only because we took one more step towards the knock-out stage of the Champions League, but Samir Nasri played for Arsenal reserves away to Wolves.

Samir suffered a broken leg in pre-season before he was able to kick a ball, with Rosicky fitness unsure and Walcott suffering an injury; it was a severe blow to Arsenal fans.

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Arsenal fans love scapegoats, rightly or wrongly.  Invariably these have been players on the fringe who the fans can't wait to have a go at, from Perry Groves, Ray Parlour and last season Emanuel Eboue.  Towards the end of last season and for this season the bête noire of the fans has been Abou Diaby.

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During the summer Arsenal made one purchase, Thomas Vermaelen. Â A relatively unknown defender from Ajax, who according to most "experts", was too short to make it in the Premier League. Â Many Arsenal fans were rightly concerned that instead of a burly centre half in the mould of Hangeland, instead of a speedy defender we acquired someone who is as fast as Senderos and we let Toure leave.

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An unpredictable season took another twist this weekend as two challengers lost and another could only draw as the season really starts to take shape.

I suppose we should be thankful for the Liverpool fan who threw the inflatable ball onto the pitch for ensuring they lost at Sunderland, but from what I saw on Match of the Day on Saturday night they really don't look that threatening without Gerrard and Torres in the side.

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Arsenal has launched an App for the iPhone. The App costs £2.99 and provides the Arsenal fans with the latest news from the club, a match report appeared within 45 minutes of the end of the Birmingham City game. You will also find the usual fixtures, tables, player information, but also included are match highlights.

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I am sleepy this morning. And possibly a bit grumpy. I share no other traits with the rest of the seven dwarves though. No, not even dopey.

Speaking of dopey how about those Birmingham fans? During the game on Saturday they sang 'There's only one Martin Taylor', to laud the man who broke Eduardo's leg.

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Ted Harwood is a regular guest contributor to Arsenal Station. He lives in Chicago, IL, and has been an Arsenal supporter for the better part of a decade. Here, he takes a look at the new USA Arsenal site and I follow-up with my own thoughts on it below. Ted also writes about movies, music, and other cultural artifacts on his blog, Running Downhill.

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Lets face it. Coaches and referees do not get along. No matter what.

The pair is similar to dogs and cats, cowboys and Indians, rain puddles and dry clothes, train tracks and aimless walkers, and Emmanuel Adebayor and Arsenal fans. In other words, they just don't go together no matter what you try to do.

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