Morning all and it's Friday, at last.

News is somewhat scarce but we'll muddle on and find something to talk about. We could start with the fact the club gave some futher insight into the appointments of Steve Bould and Neil Banfield. We know that the former is going to be Arsene's assistant but Banfield thought he was just going to have a chat about the reserves when the boss called him into his office:

The manager invited me into his office, and with Steve Bould going up to be assistant manager I thought that he may have pulled me in to explain his decision.

Morning all,

another week comes to an end as we push further forward into the "summer" and there are a few bits and pieces going on this morning.

Firstly, Jack Wilshere is off to Sweden to have a 'minor procedure' on his knee which the club say shouldn't significantly delay his comeback next season.

Morning all, last night I dreamed that Google launched a thing called Google Cake, where you could download ready made sponge cakes but you had to do all the icing and filling and stuff yourself. It got messy.

Anyway, plenty to be going on with this morning as the club yesterday confirmed that Pat Rice would be leaving after 44 years.

Morning all, a busy Friday ahead with our last home game of the season coming up tomorrow against Norwich and after a quiet week there's a glut of stuff to get through this morning.

We've been talking all week about how important third place is and the manager is quite well aware of that, especially in light of results in midweek.

Morning all, welcome to the end of another week which has just flown by. Of course you could have had an interminably long week in which case I sympathise, but the end is nigh and Beer O'Clock beckons.

Early team news ahead of tomorrow's game against Stoke sees Tomas Rosicky recover from illness to take his place in the midfield.

Morning all, welcome to Friday. Last night I dreamt that I won a contract to paint the stadium but the club's insistence that it be painted with Tippex made it a very fiddly and time-consuming job indeed. It was taking ages, and I wasn't allowed to hire anyone to help me.

Anyway, on with early team news ahead of tomorrow's crunch game against John Terry's Philandering Flock, and the manager has confirmed Mikel Arteta's absence but says the injury is just a 'bad sprain' and nothing more serious than that.

So, an Arse free weekend looms as we have to wait until Monday night before we take on Wigan. Under normal circumstances, it's frustrating, but because the two Merseyside club are set to kick lumps out of each other due to the fact Martin Atkinson is refereeing their FA Cup semi-final, we've got something to entertain us while we rest those slightly weary legs.

Morning all, today starts with a mild *boilk* but it's not my fault. It's all the fault of The Man from East Lower who has left his comfortable surrounds and is in Dublin instead and insisted that I drink beer with him.

"No," I said, "I am an abstemious man who rarely partakes of the demon drink, especially around this most holy of times.

Morning all. It's still pretty quiet despite the fact that we play QPR tomorrow. That should all change when Arsene meets the press later on in his usual pre-game press conference.

As yet there's no team news but I'm hoping no news is good news as far as that goes. The only player we have any real concern about is Laurent Koscielny who has spent the week having his knee knack looked at.

Morning all.

after waiting 9 days for our game against Everton, there's no such delay before our next one, tomorrow against Aston Villa. The early news from the boss regarding injuries is encouraging. He says there's nothing serious, just a couple of 'bumps and bruises' since the win at Goodison, which is as good as it gets, I suppose.

Happy Friday to you all. Normally today we'd be all giddy and excited with the football about to be thrust upon us at the weekend, but we have a Saturday and Sunday free of Arsenal.

And as I said yesterday, as much as Monday night football irritates me I'm kinda glad we've got a bit of extra rest after Tuesday night.

Morning all,

there'll be an early press conference today, I'd imagine, before we make the trip northwards to Liverpool for tomorrow's game. We do have some early team news from the manager, and the good part is there doesn't seem to be anybody banjaxed by the midweek internationals.

There's nothing sinister about van Persie only playing 45 minutes for Holland, according to Arsene:

It was planned by his manager because he knows we have a tough schedule.

Good morning, Sunday draws ever closer yet we wait for team news. This morning's Mirror says Koscielny and Gibbs should both be fit but also says that Koscielny has been called up to the France squad when he hasn't.

Arsene will meet the members of the press today ahead of what is being called the most important North London derby in his 16 year reign.

So, according to pretty much all the media reports this morning, Arsene Wenger went 'crazy' at the players during a training ground meeting yesterday.

Having stewed overnight on what he'd seen against Milan, he gave them bollocking/rollocking/dressingdown type thing and, frankly, who can blame him?

Right then, after a week which has been dominated by two craggy faced managers (so much so that Fabio Capello was in my post-apocalyptic dream last night wearing a gigantic gold hooped earring), it's time to turn our attention to the stuff that really matters.

Arsenal play Sunderland tomorrow and under Martin O'Neill they've been about 61 times better than they were under Mrs Doubtfire.

"Not good enough."

Three words used often by football fans to describe aspects of the club they support. They're used in relation to certain players, performances, the manager, the board, the price of a pint and a pie, how their club handles various communications, pretty much anything they've got the hump with for one reason or another.

Later this morning Arsene will meet the press for his pre-Aston Villa press conference. And beyond the normal information we get from one of these gatherings, I have to say I'm really curious as to how it will go down.

It'll be the first time he's faced the media since Sunday's defeat to United and that reaction to his decision to take off Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Morning all,

let's start with early team news ahead of Sunday's game against United and there's nothing good regarding Mikel Arteta. The Spaniard will miss the game, Arsene says he has 'no chance' of playing and the earliest we'll be seeing him is against Aston Villa in the FA Cup.

Clearly that's a big blow.

Happy Friday the 13th to you.

Of course it's only unlucky if you're in certain parts of the world and if you believe in superstition. And the only superstition I believe in these days is the one Stevie Wonder belts out. Still, I hope your evening is filled with all the beautiful things this day brings: escaped lunatics wearing hockey masks and eviscerating people with a chainsaw.

Isn't it funny how different people see different things? I know opposing managers will see one incident in very different ways. For one it was a penalty, for the other his defender just got a touch of the ball.

But I'm genuinely curious as to how Alex McLeish thinks Arsenal players 'conned' Alan Hutton into getting sent off the other night.

Morning to you from the vaguely more familiar surroundings of Arseblog Towers. A reasonable night's sleep is a nice thing. And it just goes to show what an undemanding person I am. A great night's sleep is not necessary, I don't want a spectacular night's sleep, just a middle of the road, perfectly all right one.

Morning all,

let's start with early team news ahead of tomorrow's trip to Wigan and nobody who played on Tuesday is added to the sicklist, but Tomas Rosicky remains out with a thigh knack while Abou Diaby will miss 10 days with 'a slight muscular problem'.

Obviously I don't think anybody is surprised by that but Diaby now seems to be caught in an infinite loop of injury.

Morning all,

with the job well and truly done in Europe the attention can now turn back to the Premier League and tomorrow's game against Fulham. The early team news is that we don't appear to have lost anyone after the game against Dortmund. Koscielny's withdrawal was due to 'fatigue' and beyond the short and long-termers there's nothing new to report on that front, which is good to hear.

Ok, here we go again!

We'll start this morning with some team news ahead of the Norwich game and there's bad news for two young full backs. Kieran Gibbs has a hernia and Arsene explains:

He looks like he will be out for between four and five weeks. At first he had an abdominal strain, certainly caused by the fact that he had a hernia already.

Friday again? How does this keep happening with such regularity? I don't quite know where this last year has gone. I just remembered this morning that it's just over a year since Arseblog came back under my total control, my despotic regime is progressing nicely with Commander Tom readying the technological weapons of war and .

So, Silent Stan is silent no more. We awake this morning to an exclusive interview in the Telegraph and fair play to them for getting it.

I suspect it's something every newspaper in the land was trying to set up but they've managed it. You might ask why it was that it didn't go out via the official site but I can see why it didn't.

Time zones, eh? It was a perfectly acceptable time where Mrs Blogs is to send a text telling someone you've found a bar with Goose Island on tap. Provided, of course, that you're sending to someone also in that time zone. At 4.17am it's a little hard to get enthused by that news, nice and all as Goose Island is.

The build up to tomorrow's game against Blackburn is as low-key as I can remember for Arsenal in recent times.

Usually, in the immediate aftermath of a press conference, from which many Tweets are sent by those in attendance, there are a host of stories scrambling to the top of the various news feeds.

I think I've got post-traumatic stress disorder. I keep getting these weird flashbacks. Like, I'm going along normally, minding my own business and then it's:

MUST BUY LEFT BACK!

Not so good when you're in the supermarket, frantically searching the vegetable section for a suitable candidate.

Morning chums!

We'll start this morning with the Champions League draw and this season, like we have for the last 15 seasons and not just once by fluke like that lot who are sponsored by Sky Sports News, we'll be at Europe's top table playing Borussia Dortmund, Marseille and Olympiacos. I think that's pretty ok, to be honest.

Hello and welcome to Friday.

As you'd expect this morning's blog is jam-packed full of information about the players we're going to sign and ... damn, sorry. That's my other blog in opposite world. Oh well.

Arsene will have a press conference today ahead of tomorrow's game against the Mugsmashers and we might get a bit of clarity about what the plans are.

Morning all, the new season is just a day away and this morning Arsene will meet the press in what is sure to be a fun-filled romp full of japery and good cheer.

Last night, we got a glimpse of the interview Arsene does with the official site before every game. He confirmed that it was true we had to sort out the Cesc issue and called the Nasri situation 'stable', before adding:

It is very difficult to speak about possible transfers but we are in a situation where we have to make decisions one way or the other.

Morning all,

some interesting quotes from Arsene have emerged from a radio interview he did in France. They've been carried via the Twitter account of the President of the Arsenal supporters club France. And if yesterday's performance by Mr Blatter has taught us anything it's that Presidents are men of honour and quiet dignity who are to be trusted implicitly.

Good Friday to you all. Rather grey and miserable here which, I suppose, is as good a sign as any that summer has arrived. Hurrah!

Arsene's press conference took place yesterday and, really, there was nothing out of the ordinary going on. Anyone looking for a revitalised, markedly different Arsene Wenger will have been disappointed.

Happy Friday the 13th to you superstitious types, or to those of you averse to hockey masks and chainsaws.

We'll wait for Arsene's presser this morning to get proper confirmation but the word on the street is that it could be a comebacktactular Sunday with returns mooted for Cesc, Samir Nasri and Thomas Vermaelen.

If I told you I'd spent last night with Mary, a number of Geese and a very tasty knob I fear you might get the wrong impression. It is true however. Mary was tomato and vodka based, the Geese came from Chicago, while if you're looking for something to sip on late at night you can't really look beyond the Knob (cheers, BG!

After a week of nothing we've got a whole pile of something this morning. Arsene's pre-United press conference took place yesterday but was only available for viewing late last night so I haven't had time to watch it yet.

Obviously the agenda revolved around the end of season slump which has put paid to our title chances for another year.

Good Friday to you all. If you're a short, preachy man with a beard and a gang of eager vagabonds, may I suggest that today you stay away from any Romans that might be in your neighbourhood? You'll thank me later.

Regular readers will know that I try and err on the side of glass-half-fullism.

Good morning to you from sunny Edinburgh. Actually, that's a lie. It's not sunny. But I am in Edinburgh.

In football the names of great players live on. Passed down from father to son, grandparent to grandchild, their on pitch exploits capture the imagination and memory. The goals, tackles, moments of skill, the fights, the night they did something extra special for the Arsenal.

Today Arsene will hold his pre-Blackpool press conference after a week in which the club has essentially gone into media lockdown.

Practically nothing has emerged. There's been no 'Dropping 2 points against Blackburn showed our mental strength' or 'We have belief in our belief that we believe in our belief'.