We're a little behind the times here at the Arsenal Offside, as we navigate the choppy transitional waters from The Martin/Sairax era to The Largely Unknown Jackasses era.

But finally, nine days after the fact, we have a post about the new Arsenal kit/shirts/jerseys/unis/whatever you prefer to call them.

Here lies a countdown of the ten worst Premiership football Shirts From 1992 till 2010....

Every weekend men and women flock to stadiums in their drones, wearing brightly coloured uniforms as they march the street, singing their war songs before there side battles against an opposing army.

Three points tonight will secure Arsenal's progression from the group stage of the Champions League, with their opponents Marseille similarly looking for a way into the next round. Following Aaron Ramsey's late, late winner at the Velodrome, it will undoubtedly be yet another tight contest. The Gunners may have only lost once at home so [.

On Saturday night the Union suffered its second disturbing result in a row with a 1-0 loss to the Vancouver Whitecaps at Empire Field. This loss follows on the heels of a disappointing 1-1 tie at home to Real Salt Lake.

I have to say my reaction when I saw the lineup graphic on Saturday night was "Oh – My – God.

It's finally arrived, everyone. The day we've all been slogging through summer for. The start of a dreamy ten-month long season of bliss. The Arsenal are playing again. *add triumphant horn music when technology allows*

The game kicks off tomorrow, Saturday the 13th, at 5:30pm UK time, 12:30pm Eastern, 9:30am Pacific.

Uh huh, you know what it is. The Trotters are back in black for the first time since the Anelka days. A photo of our away shirt leaked ages ago but this morning, we have got a photo of Gretar Steinsson wearing the full kit and in my opinion... It's fantastic.
As you can see, the kit is all black save for yellow badges, yellow Reebok logos, a white 188Bet sponsor logo, and some yellow accents.

No, but seriously folks:

It's late, so I can't write much, but here are a few thoughts after watching us relinquish yet another lead in a pre-season friendly, as we went up 1-0 on a nicely worked goal by RvP then conceded two after the break and couldn't get one back.

1) It was a pre-season friendly.

We really should win.

Squillaci cost us two points last season in this fixture with an own goal in the 81st minute.

There are are must-win games because a team needs points late in the season or to progress in a tournament, and then there are these kind of games (of which Fulham at home was one).

The Philadelphia Union played its first pre-season game in a rainy Orlando this afternoon against the U-17 U.S. Men's National Team. The Union managed a 1-1 draw against the teenagers. As there was no video of the match available, this synopsis comes from written sources.

The Union fielded two completely different teams in each half.

Five games without a win, only 4 points from the first 6 games. Not the type of start to the season that most fans were expecting heading into this season. Yes, most people thought that KC would struggle to pick up points at time, but I think the first half of the road trip is where fans saw the team picking up the majority of their points on this 10 game road trip.

My fellow bloggers over at http://unholyunion.wordpress.com recently posted some interesting information about a closed Septa train station at Lamokin, about a fifteen minute walk from PPL Park.

It found it interesting in that it was posted on the same day that I had my own first experience, albeit indirectly, with public transportation to PPL Park.

Clichés are grating enough, but even more so when your team is embodying one. It is often said that the hardest thing in soccer is to score a goal. Philadelphia Union fans got another painful reminder of that in Saturday night's game against F.C. Dallas. On top of the ongoing offensive struggles, the Union conceded two goals for the first time this year.

Since our last scheduled programming, the Philadelphia Union have managed to score more than one goal in a game and to do so in two consecutive games. The Union defeated the Chicago Fire on May 22 at PPL Park by a score of 2-1. Michael Farfan scored his first professional goal, and Carlos Ruiz supplied the game winner a spectacular, long shot off a bouncing ball that just tucked in under the crossbar.

Right? Am I right or am I right? Or am I right.

Samba causes us problems

I'm actually not going to write much about Samba. I'm glad we didn't get him in the summer, as I think he's wildly overrated. Mertesacker is a far better pick-up for us.

Tomorrow (early morning for some of us), Arsenal are away to Blackburn in yet another match in which every tiny move will be assessed as an indication of how our season is going, how our new players are gelling, what our chances for making that last Champions League spot, and how likely it is that Wenger will be with us next summer.

The January transfer window of 2010, and the ones since then, have all been a case of who is supposedly joining Arsenal, but unsurprisingly they always seem to end up somewhere else. Well the Janaury transfer window of 2010 saw Chris Smalling join Manchester United, but it could have been oh so different.

Another sending off adds to BWFC's misery

• Saturday, September 24, 2011
• Venue: The Emirates Stadium
• Attendance: 59,727
• Referee: Mark Clattenburg

• Robin van Persie [46]
• David Wheater [54]
• Gretar Steinsson [58]
• Robin van Persie [71]
• Alex Song [89]

Bolton Wanderers fail to make a good impression at The Emirates.

Bolton Wanderers overpowered by Liverpool

• Saturday, August 27, 2011
• Venue: Anfield
• Attendance: 44,725
• Referee: Lee Probert

• Jordan Henderson[15]
• Gretar Steinsson [44]
• Ivan Klasnic [49]
• Martin Skrtel[52]
• Charlie Adam [53]
• Ivan Klasnic [90+2]

Bolton Wanderers fail to impress their travelling fans.

Revitalised Wanderers break loosing streak

• Saturday, October 15, 2011
• Venue: The DW Stadium
• Attendance: 17,261
• Referee: Mike Dean

• Nigel Reo-Coker [4]
• Darren Pratley [23]
• Mohamed Diame [40]
• Franco Di Santo [45+1]
• David Ngog [45+3]
• Paul Robinson [63]
• Dedryck Boyata [67]
• Maynor Figueroa [71]
• Gary Caldwell [73]
• Kevin Davies (penalty miss) [73]
• Antolin Alcaraz [79]
• Martin Petrov [82]
• Chris Eagles [90+2]

Bolton Wanderers lifted themselves off the bottom with a deserved win away to Wigan.

Ahead of the fascinating clash between Chelsea and Arsenal early this afternoon, the latter are looking to make amends for what has been described as a poor away form against a Blues side that are unbeaten at Stamford Bridge. Whilst some have already written-off the Gunners for the European places, let alone a possible chance [.

Lots of good stats from the game last night, including a landmark goal by Teal Bunbury.
In 6 games at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, this is KC's first win there. It was KC's first win in Colorado since 6/9/2004 when Josh Wolff scored a 90th minute penalty kick.
Teal Bunbury's two goals were only the 3rd time in team history a KC player has scored multiple goals in the playoffs, the other two times, Miklos Molnar in 2000 and Davy Arnaud in 2004.

While Abou Diaby and Tomas Rosicky look to have been confirmed as available for the Gunners, Fulham Arsenal's opponents on Saturday evening have far more significant injury concerns. Republic of Ireland international Damien Duff is out of the clash at the Emirates with a calf problem and countryman Stephen Kelly's groin injury keeps [.

Yes, McLeish has worked his magic in Birmingham for a second time. JG previewed this match well, pointing out the dreariness of Villa's season.

Kick-off is 7:45pm UK, 2:45pm Eastern, 11:45am Pacific, and has probably already started in Fiji.

We'll be here an hour or so beforehand, though the last time I promised that I showed up a minute before kick-off.