The Russian midfielder Andrei Arshavin has been giving his usual forthright answers to the press when asked about his life at Arsenal, but this time he hasn't said anything that will upset Arsene Wenger! In fact he gives him great praise, and also had something nice to say about the fans. He said: "Arsene gave me freedom, [.

Arsene Wenger is set to have his first falling-out with Stan Kroenke, and the Quiet Man hasn't even taken over yet! The biggest Arsenal shareholder is keen to arrange a pre-season tour of America for the Gunners, probably to show off his new acquisition by then, but also as a certain big money-spinner.

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is stretching his imagination to the limit today, as he says that his team's defeat to Chelsea was very similar to the Man Utd loss, and Chelsea only won because of Arsenal own goals! "I was not disappointed by our performance against Chelsea," Wenger said. "I do feel they stood up.

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has picked a very young squad to face Olympiakos this evening, but there are still quite a few with quite wide-ranging experience. Alex Song, Mikael Silvestre and Theo Walcott all have played at the top level for some time, but Wenger specifically picked out the 18 year-old Aaron Ramsey as a [.

Now that the Champions League Group Stages are finally over we can all look forward to a feast of football in the New Year when the knockout stages come around. So who are Arsenal's best and worst possible scenarios for the next round in February? There are no easy games at this stage of the competition, but [.

The Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood has had enough of Barcelona continually tapping up Cesc Fabregas, and thinks that there should be some way of stopping the Spanish giants from making their weekly claims that want to bring the Arsenal captain back to Spain. The last time Laporta announced he would be making a massive bid for [.

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has already voiced his displeasure at his players playing meaningless friendlies for their countries, especially after the recent problems with Robin Van Persie and Abou Diaby, and now it looks like he will be heading for another showdown with Catalonia. Cesc Fabregas has been named in a Catalonia team to play [.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger told reporters that he's "free to shake hands with who he wants", after he walked straight down the tunnel in frustration without shaking Mark Hughes' hand as his young guns lost 3-0 to Manchester City in the Carling Cup.

There's not a lot of news about at the moment so i thought i'd have a look for some good anti-Chelsea jokes. I found this lot at JustJokesOnline.com......... Some of them are old, but then the old'uns are always the good'uns! Enjoy! How do you define 144 Chelsea fans A: Gross Stupidity Q: Why did Chelsea go on the stock exchange?

I can already see tomorrow's headlines. If our kids get beaten tonight in Greece (which, frankly, they should Olympiakos are a very decent outfit who will surely progress from the group), the fact that we're missing an entire team through injury, and resting the remainder for the weekend, will be entirely forgotten, and the youngsters will get panned.

Am I the only one despairing at the notion that Samir Nasri was ever likely to pick up a three match ban for stepping on Richard Garcia's foot on Saturday? The suggestion that it constituted violent conduct in any way would have been laughable were it not for the fact that the media backlash could have made a ridiculous situation a reality.

The Arsenal fans have chose Dennis Bergkamp's goal against Newcastle in 2002 as the best goal of the DECADE. I just had to put that in capitals because to be awarded an accolade like that is a tribute indeed. His first place won an amazing 34% of the vote, ahead of Thierry Henry's brilliant effotf against [.

The Arsenal midfielder is angry that people were saying it was "Men against Boys" when Chelsea destroyed Arsenal at the Emirates, and says that Chelsea's men were simply a far better team than Arsenal's men. Denilson, 21, said: "Chelsea played well and I give credit to them. But I don't believe that it was a football [.

Fabianski Eboue Song Silvestre Traore Ramsey Eastmond - Merida Rosicky Vela Wilshere Man City v Arsenal LIVE stream will be at Football-Live.org at 19:45

Lineups are in:

Manchester City: Starters: Given, Richards, Toure, Lescott, Bridge, Wright-Phillips, Barry, Ireland, Bellamy, Tevez, Adebayor. Subs: Taylor, Kompany, Onuoha, Weiss, Johnson, Santa Cruz, Robinho.

Arsenal: Starters: Fabianski, Eboue, Song, Silvestre, Traore, Ramsey, Eastmond, Rosicky, Wilshere, Merida, Vela.

Well, honestly, that was about what we expected. Not that it's not still disappointing, especially with us managing to get to halftime all tied up. But as I said in the preview, our first team has lost the last two years at Eastlands, and City definitely fielded their first-choice XI, so it would have been asking a lot of our youngsters and back-ups to go up there and win.

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger refused to shake Mark Hughes hand at the end of Arsenal's third defeat in a row, and then went on to deride the worth of the Carling Cup, saying it was just a competition for kids and wouldn't be worth celebrating if Arsenal did win it! Mark Hughes was not happy [...

The Arsenal and Holland legend Dennis Bergkamp has turned down an offer from Arsene Wenger to return to Arsenal. Bergkamp is currently working at Ajax training the youth teams, but he says he is not looking for the high pressure work that he would be expected to do as head coach at the Emirates. "They want [.

There is yet another Arsenal youngster coming through the ranks with great promise, and he must suely be guaranteed stardom with a name like Tom Cruise. But when Arsene Wenger was asked if he had "star quality", like the famous actor, Wenger said he only knew of one Tom Cruise, his one! "You're used to it," he [.

Mexico forward Carlos Vela has signed a new long-term deal at Arsenal — making him the 11th player to tie his future to the Emirates Stadium this year. The 20-year-old frontman joins Eduardo, Sanchez Watt, Alex Song, Nicklas Bendtner, Denilson, Robin Van Persie, Theo Walcott, Lukasz Fabianski, Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshere, who have all recently [.

The Arsenal and Mexico striker Carlos Vela has signed a new contract at the Emirates and becomes the eleventh player to re-sign since the end of last season. The youngster has been on the fringes of the first team this season, and will get even more chances now that injuries have ravaged Arsene Wengers attacking force.

The Arsenal winger Theo Walcott has come back into the Arsenal squad just in time to face Liverpool this weekend, but he is backing Andrei Arshavin to take the attacking role again in the absence of Robin Van Persie and Nicklas Bendtner. Walcott was asked if he thought that Arsene Wenger would give him an attacking [.

Liverpool. Arsenal. Anfield. Join Ed from Liverpool Offside and I for my first-ever liveblog on the site.

Liverpool-Arsenal Liveblog

Match report to follow.

Liverpool and Arsenal fans haven't had a lot to cheer about recently. After a great start to the campaign, we've fallen away with losses at Sunderland and, most painfully, at home to Chelsea, while Liverpool are out of the Champions League and struggling to ensure they appear at Europe's top table again next season.

The Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger feels that Liverpool outplayed his team in the first half, but after failing to kill the game off, some "fear" crept int their game, while Arsenal had nothing to lose! "I believe first of all Liverpool played very well in that period and we played with a handbrake because of our [.

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger feels that Arsenal are right back in the race for the Premiership title alongside Chelsea and Man Utd, but thinks that there are three other teams that could put in a challenge, but he doesn't mention Liverpool as possible contenders. After yesterday's win at Anfield, Wenger said: "For us, it gets [.

It has been reported in Africa today that Arsenal are considering an official complaint about Michael Essien playing for Chelsea when he should have been on international duty with Ghana. Essien played against Wolves (and scored twice in the 4-0 win) on November 21st, but under FIFA rules he was ineligible to play for them as [.

Arsenal are throwing open the doors of Emirates Stadium again on Tuesday 22nd December to host a festive Member's Day for supporters signed up to The Arsenal memberships scheme. Up to 10,000 members will have the chance to watch the first team put through their paces training with Arsene Wenger before heading off to participate in [.

With the end of the decade upon us and lists popping up everywhere, I thought it might be fun to have a series of polls for us to determine Arsenal's all-decade team.

Today, we start with goalkeepers. Arsenal really haven't had that many # 1 keepers this decade, so our options are limited.

The Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen, who has built up a special relationship with William Gallas since his arrival from Ajax, believes that Arsene Wenger is building a "new Barcelona" with his gifted youngsters. The fans have given him the nickname "The Verminator" for his no-nonsense style, and he is more than happy with the new monniker.

Just a quick news round-up before my formal preview of the Burnley match coming later this afternoon. First, the bad news is that Denilson is out of the Burnley match with a back injury. You'll recall that he just returned from being out for 10 weeks with a back injury. Hopefully this isn't a serious recurrence Wenger seems not to think so, indicating that he'll probably be back for Hull on Saturday.

Well, crap. Two points dropped, and frankly, it very easily could have been 3. Aside from one stretch in the first-half, we really looked bad all night. Which is not to take anything away from Burnley. The fact is that the difference in motivation and desire between the two sides was so clearly apparent, and Burnley went out played their butts off for their point.

Well, the polls on the goalkeeper position are closed, and our winner, in a very, very tight vote, was Jens Lehmann, taking 63 (52%) votes to David Seaman's 58 (48%). Manuel Almunia picked up a solitary pity vote. Next up: right-back.

Not too many options here, either, although I think it does present an interesting dilemma about what your criteria is in selecting who should be on the "All-Decade" team.

The Arsenal winger Theo Walcott has been reminiscing about his incredible experience of being picked for the England squad for the 2006 World Cup.He says that he didn't really expect to play, but as time went on he felt more and more frustrated: "Looking back to 2006, things did come around very quickly for me.

Just over a week ago, we were eleven points behind Chelsea, six behind United, and with a tough trip to Anfield looming, some were predicting that Villa, City and even Spurs would rise above us while our injury situation careered from bad to worse.

Fast forward three games in nine days. Chelsea have picked up five points from a week containing two home bankers and a trip to struggling West Ham, United have lost twice, City were humiliated by Spurs and have sacked Mark Hughes, and Spurs themselves managed the comedy moment that is losing at home to Wolves.

Dutch midfielder Rafael Van der Vaart looks to be staying at Real Madrid, despite reports in his homeland claiming that Arsenal have made a £6 million offer for him. The Madrid star, who scored twice against Real Zarogoza on Saturday, has revealed that he's happy at the Bernabeu after battling personal issues off the field in [.

Arsene Wenger welcomes back Cesc Fabregas from a hamstring injury for this afternoons crunch Premier League clash with Aston Villa, but the Arsenal captain is only fit enough for a place among the substitutes. Armand Traore also makes his return after completing a weeks training, while Andrey Arshavin and Eduardo will lead the line, assisted by [.

A Cesc Fabregas inspired Arsenal side deservedly beat Aston Villa at the Emirates

The Man City boss Mark Hughes is set to name a strong team to play the Arsenal youngsters in this weeks Carling Cup quarter-final match, and insists he will have no problem picking Emanuel Adebayor to face his old club again on Wednesday. Arsene Wenger has already said that he will be making changes for this [.

Thought I'd get out ahead of this before we read too many headlines misinterpreting what Arsene Wenger said today about what he had in mind for the upcoming transfer window, and it related (in my mind, at least) to an ongoing dialogue I've been having with Jack over at the Chelsea Offside about Wenger's comments about Drogba, so I thought I'd just turn this into a complete rant.