So we lost two valuable home-points today against lowly placed Wolves, and now we are all
feeling down?
Man City drew against West Brom and Liverpool could not kill off Blackburn yesterday, and
neither could Chelsea see-off Fulham. I am as disappointed as anybody for dropping two points
against Wolves at home.
That little table on the right shows we are still one point behind last seasons cumulative
total, one problem with that table (other than the lack of progression in 2010/11 from game 27
onwards) is that it does not take into account the opponents played. On Saturday we made a big step
forward, like for like games compared to last season we are now 3 points up.
January 20, 2006.
This is the day a fresh-faced (and he remains fresh-faced, and lovely, and the kind of guy my
Mammy would love to see me bring home for dinner) Theo Walcott signed for Arsenal from Southampton
for a then British record fee for a teenager. SIX YEARS ago, can you believe it's six years
ago?
Arsenal – Marseille: 0 – 0
Match Report
After THAT win against the Chavs, the big question for this match was: should we start with an
unchanged team, or make a number of changes in order to keep our great momentum going?
This was a difficult call for Wenger: although a win would be great, it was not a necessity –
after all, a draw would keep us top of the group tonight and then there was to be considered the
risk of fatigue/injury, as a result of potentially overplaying those players who pushed themselves
to the very limit only 80 hours ago.
No, I haven't been taking the Kool-Aid.
If you look at the fixture list between now and the New Year (well, January 2nd to be precise)
you can see that we have every reason to be optimistic.
We have 11 games between now and then, taking us conveniently to the half way stage of our
campaign.
Such is the vacuum in good news about Arsenal at the moment that our site which is graced by a
plethora of great writers (and many not shy of giving their opinion) cannot generate a post for
today ..... accept this modest offering.
Everything is currently just speculation in the transfer market, but the pattern of hierarchy in
the movement in players is much as most of us would have suspected.
You would need to be serious numbskulls to not believe Wenger has excelled himself by creating a
squad based primarily on players who have been promoted through the Academy and brought into the
club at a very young age.. at a fraction of the price we would have paid had we signed them a few
years later.
