I mean, come on, it's a valid explanation. Did he?

Apologies for the lateness of this post. I have a tight schedule on weekdays, so writing and posting stuff is harder for me now. We'll get back to regular programming this weekend for the Swansea game.

Injuries, well.... injuries SUCK.

Way back in march i posted an article on here defending Wenger and questioning what was really going on behind closed doors, i wrote this article after having stumbled across and interesting bit of reading which made it clear all was not what it seemed at the Emirates and that Wenger was working under tight [.

Season Preview: Genoa Opening/Recap Genoa's tenth place finish last season could be viewed as a disappointment from a number of angles. Most strikingly, the side had finished a place higher the season prior and could have hoped to fight for a European spot last campaign. Out went Marco Amelia and in came Eduardo to fill in between the sticks a move that should have turned out to be much.

As many of you have already read, club executive Ivan Gazidis recently made quite a few statements about our financial position and transfer activity. In particular, he made some statements that most Gunner fans would like to see as a great sign of hope. While he had a lot to say, let me quote the most important stuff right here:

"We still will be active in this window.

We are cheating a bit this week by breaking our top 10 into two parts. The reason for this is because injuries fall into three different categories. 1) Boring. They pulled their hammy, waaa, 2) Stupid footballer's getting injured in unorthodox ways (our personal favourite) and 3) horrible leg breaks that turn your stomach (The two later make this list.

The Croatian/Brazilian has scored in 1/2 his UCL games this season

The second day of Champions League knockout action is about to start, with the Ukrainian side sitting tops of their league (having won it last season) while Roma have been smacked around of late, dropping to 8th position a full thirteen points off the lead in the Serie A.

With Argentina taking on Portugal in Geneva on Wednesday afternoon/evening, and the world's press (and especially, it would seem, the Argentina, Portuguese and Spanish media) pushing the fixture as a battle between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, I thought it ... Continue reading →

Two semifinals gone (one actually exciting, sorry Hammers fans for that tough extra time loss) and we're on to Wembley at the end of February with Birmingham City and Arsenal for the league cup. This one's been traditionally contested by mid-table teams since its seen as a mostly meaningless achievement, that is until they changed the format to reward the victor with a Europa League berth (previously winners would gain entry to the UEFA Cup tourney).

Wigan 2 Arsenal 2
Birmingham 0 Arsenal 3
Work, a busy life, and actually having to travel too and from two away games prevented me from having a chance to write about either of these games in any depth until now.
A couple of points I would make nonetheless about the Wigan match:
- In a sense, we were lucky to play Wigan before Birmingham.