Welcome to Arsenal FC 2011 home of the £9.90 burger. That's what is cost me to fill my face at half-time yesterday as the glorious Gunners crusied to a 3-0 win over West Brom. Admittedly, I was in Club Level. Admittedly, it was a gourmet version with a few chips and a smattering of salad and relish.

Welcome to another TGIF, which because of my work commitments is now written between Friday evening and Saturday morning. I still feel that this feature is worth producing. It gives me a chance to round up the issues of the week and comment about anything which is exercising Gooners over their pints of beer.

On Arsenal's official website, there is a Robin van Persie fest. Accolades are pouring in to acknowledge his great run of form and as usual Arsene Wenger is taking the credit for this performance. here are his comments to the media

"Robin has scored 28 in 27 games and still people tell me he is not a centre forward," Wenger said.

If you haven't heard of Stjarnan FC,a team from Iceland who created an absolute ruckus with their goal-scoring celebrations, then you're really missing out! From the 'Rambo' to 'Gone Fishing' moves, these guys are close to becoming legends of their own!

Aaron Ramsey is good enough to fill the huge midfield gap at Arsenal left by the departures of Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri.

That's the caoim in this morning's Mirror from Swansea defender and Wales team-mate Neil Taylor, 22, ahead of our Premier League home game against the top flight new boys.

Arsenal new boy Mikel Arteta is a quality signing judging by the impression he made on the young Gunners he trained with this morning. Arsene Wenger splashed out £10million for the Spanish midfielder from Everton as the transfer window closed on deadline day on a four-year deal. The purchase of the player was seen as a direct replacement for Cesc Farbregas.

They say that ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder', and after a small eternity of not seeing the mighty Arse play, I cannot wait for the new season to start. Simply seeing our players on a green pitch again during recent friendly games, made me realise how much I've really missed our team over the last few months.

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The tabloids are full of gossip about Cesc as well as Nasri leaving. Most of us know better than to trust any of the red tops, but say it would actually happen. We would get between £50- 60m in the bank, and then what?

Well, how many central midfielders do we need?

Written by Gooner in Exile

Some time ago I wrote an article slightly jokingly about the vines that Arsene had planted and how we were now seeing them produce some wonderful fruits. A few months on and with another trophyless season under the belt there is a serious question to be asked.

In the 2010/11 season, Arsenal scored 72 goals in the Premier League, 21 goals in the Champions League, 12 goals in the FA Cup and 14 goals in the Carling Cup. That is a lot to choose from for a terribly indecisive person as myself. The list I came up with is subjective, but in general I kept in mind quality of the goal and its significance.

Fussballer sollten eigentlich gute Vorbilder sein. Oft genug aber sind sie genau das nicht und machen irgendwelche Dummheiten auf dem Spielfeld oder Beleidigen Schiedsrichter, Fans und Mitspieler. Die Fernsehkamera ist dank der heutigen Technik auch immer ganz nah mit dabei und so entgeht und zu Hause auf der Couch kein Fluch mehr.

Quando Pep Guardiola veniva catechizzato da Rambo Koeman,storico olandese blaugrana, agli inizi del 1990, sul Barcellona e sulle sue storie, Alex Ferguson sedeva da quattro anni sulla panchina dello United. Guardiola era un fine centrocampista, Ferguson un allenatore abile. Guardiola non ha mai smesso di amare il calcio.

This game wasn't that critical from a result point of view so it was good to see Wenger trying something different.

Chamakh started up front with Van Persie in a free role behind him. Nasri was deployed on the left and Ramsey on the right. It was surprising to see Theo on the bench. My guess is that Arsene wanted a good balance between players who could retain possession and move the ball around, and those who are more focussed on creating and scoring.

Lineups are in:

Arsenal: Lineup: Wojo, Sagna, Vermaelen, Squillaci, Gibbs, Song, Wilshere, Walcott, Ramsey, Arshavin, RvP Bench: Lehmann, Denilson, Eboue, Chamakh, Bendtner, Henderson, Miquel

Aston Villa: Lineup: Friedel, Walker, Collins, Dunne, Luke Young, Petrov, Reo-Coker, Delph, Downing, Bent, Ashley Young Bench: Marshall, Pires, Agbonlahor, Albrighton, Bradley, Heskey, Cuellar

The big news is Vermaelen's return to action.

Well, that was suitably awful, wasn't it?

We lost. We deserved to lose. Now we're mathematically eliminated from winning the league, and find ourselves in a real battle to finish as high as 3rd.

Arsenal started pretty brightly, and had a couple of really good chances early on.

Stoke City

Position: 10th, 12-7-16 (43 points, even goal differential)

Home Form: 9-4-4 (31 points, +12 goal differential)

Recent Form: DLDWD

Last Meeting: Arsenal 1 Stoke City 0 (February 23, 2011)

Back in action tomorrow as we travel to the Brittania to take on Stoke.

Ahead of this weekend's game at the Britannia, Wenger brings us some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that Cesc, Nasri, and Diaby will all be out for the Stoke match. Wenger mentioned that Cesc and Nasri have a small chance to be fit for the Villa game, but who knows what that really means in Wenger-speak.

Here's a quick round-up of yesterday's international matches, featuring 2 Gunner captains:

*All matches below were part of UEFA Euro 2012 Qualifying

Hungary 0 Netherlands 4: Pretty routine win for the Oranje. RvP played a full 90 minutes and got himself a goal and an assist on Kuyt's goal.

Thought I'd give everyone some general updates during this interlull that we are all currently enjoying. I'm sure Martin would give some more updates, but he is preparing himself for a weekend boozefest, so you'll be seeing a lot of me around.

First of all, Bendtner is injured. Yay!

Lineups are in:

West Brom: Starters: Carson, Reid, Meite, Olsson, Shorey, Scharner Mulumbu, Brunt, Morrison, Thomas, Odemwingie Bench: Myhill, Cech, Tchoyi, Fortune, Tamas, Cox, Jara

Arsenal: Starters: Almunia, Sagna, Koscielny, Squillaci, Clichy, Wilshere, Denilson, Nasri, Ramsey, Arshavin, Van Persie Bench: Lehmann, Rosicky, Eboue, Gibbs, Chamakh, Miquel, Bendtner

Rambo starts.

Championship side Cardiff City have signed Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey on a one month loan deal, the Bluebirds have confirmed.

Ramsey, who rose through the Cardiff City academy from the age of eight, moved to the Emirates after starring in his first full season as a professional in 2008.

This won't mean much to many of the younger generation of Gooners amongst you, but let me assure you to this day I have yet to see a team as violent and completely underhand as the Leeds United of the 1970s. They were a class apart when it came to causing havoc with nasty tactics, leg breaking challenges, and overall the venom that poured out of their veins was something else.