Arsenal have announced a friendly on 29 July against Hannover 96. The game will take place in Hannover's AWD Arena. Hannover are a mid table Bundesliga team.

Arsenal will get back to pre-season training on 6 July with our traditional curtain raiser against Barnet on 18 July. Arsenal have not yet announced any other friendlies, but traditionally we go to Austria and have two games against minor opposition, before stepping up the process.

Another win and we extend our lead over Aston Villa, whilst also reducing Chelsea's lead to six points.   We have not had a good record at St James' Park, usually drawing games we should win. Today we started well, looking composed at the back and appearing to be able to create chances at will.  It was [.

Arsenal has announced all their pre-season friendly games.

The curtain raiser is the trip to Underhill to face Barnet on 18 July. The squad then flies off to Austria for our traditional summer training camp. This could be the last Austrian training camp as the club is moving into the 21st Century and is contemplating a Far East or American tour for future years.

Arsene Wenger has decided to take a different tact. He has sold Adebayor and Toure and Eboue is due to follow. That is three of Arsenal's four Africans. The move can be explained as a massive u-turn by Arsene.

A few years ago Arsenal set-up an agreement with Beveren in Belgium, whereby the Belgian club brought players over from the Ivory Coast and Arsenal were to be given first refusal once the players acquired a Belgian passport.

Too often in European away ties we play with an inbuilt fear, a fear of making a mistake and not being able to recover. Last night saw a very indifferent performance from Arsenal, a performance that the Sky TV team of Parry and Smith.

Within five minutes all Arsenal fans were wondering what had gone wrong.

The match started with anticipation that today was going to be the day we turned our season around, Wenger had chosen Nasri, Arshavin and Vela to play behind van Persie, whilst Diaby was fit to play.  Everton had just closed the gap on us to one point.  Surely we would put Fulham to the sword.   The [.

Following a great second half display in Spain in which we had Villarreal pinned in their own half and got the vital away goal, Arsenal turned in a great performance last night to progress to the semi-final of the Champions League where they will face Manchester United.

Arsenal are not the team of old where with Adams, Bould, Dixon and Winterburn we can hold out for 90 minutes without conceding, the new Arsenal only knows how to attack.

This morning the fixtures for the forthcoming season have been released. Arsenal have been given a real baptism of fire with an opening day fixture agaisnt Everton followed by the visit of Portsmouth on 22 August and then to test our mettle an away trip to Old Trafford on 29 August. We then enter a period of September, October and November where we have many winnable matches, with the first North London derby set for 31 October at the Emirates and Chelsea visit us on 28 November.

Arsenal get their pre-season friendlies underway tomorrow with the traditional curtain raiser at Underhill when they face Barnet.

Wenger will take a mixed squad of first team players and reserves. Saturday could see the return of Rosicky as well as a welcome return from injury for Eduardo and Gallas.

This is the third season the Emirates Cup will be held at Arsenal. The first was a novelty and sold out within weeks, last season had the big clubs, Real Madrid and Juventus to ensure it as a box office sell out. This season it is a different story.

There are plenty of tickets still available for this season's tournament despite the fact that Rangers have been given 9,000 tickets for each day.

Well we are still i n the cup.  It was never going to be an easy game at Ninian Park, Cardiff are a good team and Ninian Park a hostile ground to visit. Cardiff came at us in the first 10-15 minutes and we survived several scares where Cardiff could have taken the lead.  Ramsey had [...]

Arsenal visited bottom of the table WBA looking for goals and points. Wenger made four changes after the lacklustre performance against Fulham. Out went van Persie, Vela and Diaby and Gallas was ruled out with an injury.   Things started well when Bendtner, the player who could not control a ball never mind score, picked the ball [.

What drama at the Stadio Olimpico, Arsenal did not perform well, the attack was blunt but the team pulled through in dramatic fashion. Arsenal fell behind after 9 minutes.  Poor defending by Toure and Gallas and Bendtner failing to track back allowed Juan to give Roma the lead. They had to weather the storm in the [.

Sunday's game was frustrating to say the least. It was a perfect summary of our season, our strengths, weaknesses and failings.

Wenger insists for some unknown reason in persisting with a 4-2-3-1 formation. He then proceeds and plays our players out of position. Diaby on the wing and Nasri as a central midfielder.

The international break is over and we resume with the real football. I have stated before FIFA needs to address the international football calendar. We cannot have a stop start season, any rhythm that teams have is disrupted. I would prefer a break in October or 2-3 weeks and another in March, allowing all internationals to be crammed into these periods.

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. We have had some success over the years, reaching one final and three semi-finals, so the policy has its merits. 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.

Having seen all our rivals win in the last 10 minutes, it was no surprise that despite starting later and the pressure being on Arsenal took all three points at the KC Stadium.   Arsenal overcame the early Hull pressure and then started to dominate the game. Nasri was industrious, Diaby and Denilson commanded the midfield, and [.

It was a great weekend. We took Blackburn apart; with a bit of composure the score should have been 7-0 or 8-0. To cap it all Aston Villa lost at home to the enemy and now Champions League qualification is in our hands. The game started in mo0st unfashionable Arsenal style, with Arshavin getting on [.

Another great second half display in Spain has left Arsenal in a strong position to progress to the next stage of the Champions League.

Arsenal were on the back foot in the first half and fell behind when Matters started badly as Senna put Villarreal ahead early in the game after Song failed to close him down.

A disappointing result and a very disappointing performance saw Arsenal los to Chelsea in the semi-final of the F Cup semi-final.

Eyebrows were raised when Wenger opted to leave Nasri and Arshavin on the bench and replaced Song with Denilson. Song in recent games has been our rock in midfield and Denilson failed to match his work-rate.