tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83298256508044825722011-11-28T00:48:02.091ZWhere Gooners Worldwide Turn for News About the Best Club in the WorldJoelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-23245828075445679862009-09-28T03:31:00.002Z2009-09-28T03:50:44.901Z

Don Vito Mannone, Arsenal's 19-year old reserve goalkeeper was brilliant Saturday evening and Arsenal got a 1-nil result. Mannone put in a number of world class saves keeping his clean sheet and earned his place in the side, when many were calling for him to get whacked in favor of some young Polish keeper who's name is too difficult to type. Mannone, who had been noticeably shaky, and that's an

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-53595987088125328682009-09-22T20:56:00.006Z2009-09-22T22:12:22.920Z

Sunday's Manchester Derby was thrilling.United capitalized on the unorganized, poor defending Arsenal fans are used to seeing thanks to Kolo Toure to score three goals. The first came on a quick throw-in while the City back line tried to organzie their marks in the second minute of the game. The next two came on set pieces and two connections from Ryan Giggs to Darren Fletcher. Fletcher did

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The Arsenal youngsters started this year's Carling Cup campaign on the right foot with a victory against a spirited West Brom side that is currently in first place of the Championship. Former Gunner Jerome Thomas was sent off in the first half for a violent push on Jack Wilshere, but it took the substitution of Carlos Vela in the second half to give the youngsters a win.Ramsey and Vela played a

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On Wednesday, Eduardo dives to earn a penalty and he is branded a cheater and a disgrace.On Saturday, Rooney dives to earn a penalty and he is deemed a clever footballer.Eduardo's dive against Celtic, as well as Eboue's many dives for Arsenal over the years, are not defendable and the appropriate punishment, a yellow card is deserved for anyone who tries to trick the referee is deserved of that

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-57069737992063240562009-08-30T06:37:00.001Z2009-08-30T06:38:48.903Z

Its Wayne Rooney!!

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- forgot to include that in the last post. It needed to be said though.I hope Martin Taylor breaks his leg too

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Manchester United 2 - Arsenal 1.The better team lost today.Arsenal dominated the game, even without Cesc Fabregas, and took the game to the champions at Old Trafford only to see their efforts all crumble away in five minutes. Mike Dean was a joke.After failing to award a clear penalty where Arshavin nicked the ball past the clumsy and overrated Fletcher, Dean decided to grant a penalty when

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Arsenal has its first home game tomorrow after winning their first two on the road in impressive fashion. In Portsmouth, however, the Gunners will face a different test.Finishing fourth from bottom will be a great accomplishment for this year's Pompey side. They have lost Glen Johnson and Peter Crouch and still haven't had the funds to replace them, let alone add to a squad that fell

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Although the season is not even a week old, confidence is sky-high at the Emirates Stadium. Two impressive road victories have quickly made people forget about the losses of Adebayor and Kolo Toure and have established Arsenal as a team not to be taken lightly, unlike many of the preseason pundits would have suggested. New center back Thomas Vermaelen has been fantastic, whether scoring goals at

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-68583068447473748402007-09-02T18:36:00.000Z2007-09-02T18:38:39.262Z

By Joel Martin Arsenal looked strong today, trampling Portsmouth 3-1 with ten men for most of the second half. The Gunners controlled the game from the start, pouncing on a mistake by Glen Johnson to earn a penalty. Arsenal were 1-0 up after seven minutes. Twenty-five minutes later, Arsenal had scored again, Fabregas scoring a scrappy goal off a corner kick. That makes four goals already

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By Joel Martin Theo Walcott had a very good game midweek against Sparta Prague, creating the first goal for Tomas Rosicky in the first ten minutes. His pace is unquestionable, but sometimes he seems to lack in toughness and doesn’t always make the right decision. It looks like he’ll have a chance to prove his critics wrong, however, on Sunday. Hleb has picked up an illness and is now

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-57113942401544017412007-08-25T00:58:00.001Z2007-08-25T00:59:13.208Z

by Joel Martin When Sven Goran-Eriksson came back to England, he brought in several additions in the squad in his first week, admitting that he had only watched some of them on videotape. Not one of them was English. Since then, Sven’s Manchester City has been the major surprise of the season, not conceding a single goal and securing maximum points in their first three games. Eriksson’s

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-24104576023021540912007-08-19T21:24:00.001Z2007-08-19T21:24:53.537Z

By Joel Martin The never-ending head-case that is Jens Lehmann showed up yet again today. A week ago, against Fulham, Lehmann badly miskicked a backpass and set up a goal for David Healy in the first minute of the game. On Sunday, at Ewood Park, Lehmann had seemed to put his mental problems behind him, only to concede a late equalizer to David Dunn off his own hands. It was an absolute

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By Joel Martin On Sunday, Arsenal head north to Blackburn, still trying to erase the memory of Benny McCarthy’s goal that knocked the Gunners out of the FA Cup last February. McCarthy himself may not be fit for the match after suffering from a concussion last weekend, but Mark Hughes has added talent to his frontline in former Bayern man Roque Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is a big player who excels

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By Joel Martin With Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Tottenham all making several big additions to their squad this summer, many Arsenal supporters have been wondering when their club will get in on the action. Arsenal have bought in Eduardo, Sagna, Fabianski, and Nordtveit, but they have brought in much more money than they have spent with the sales of Henry, Ljungberg, Aliadiere,

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-37098175684078750642007-08-05T23:50:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:53:33.744Z

By Joel Martin Both Manchester United and Chelsea looked very beatable today. Cheslea, who started Joe Cole as a lone striker, were without Terry, Drogba, Shevchenko, Kalou, Robben, Ballack, Bridge, and Makelele. Hargreaves, Scholes, Anderson, and of course Tevez were the only notable absentees from Manchester United’s side. Missing so many key components, Chelsea surprisingly dominated the

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-24996871163423649942007-03-07T06:54:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:53:43.569Z

by Joel Martin This could be the only meaningful game remaining in the season. If we lose, and with 3rd or 4th essentially wrapped up already, the season will be over for all intensive purposes. Our fate rests in the hands of our captain, Thierry Henry. We could need multiple goals, hopefully just one or two, but we need to be prepared to score 3 if PSV pulls a goal out of nowhere. Henry

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-83138828697146791252007-03-05T06:45:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:53:49.632Z

by Joel Martin We needed a win and we got a win, it was as simple as that. The first half looked like more of the same. We played extremely well, dominated play and created chances but could not finish. Both Baptista and Fabregas could have scored more than once before the whistle, but we still went in to the break 0-0. It took a moment of absolute brilliance from Gael Clichy, of all people,

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by Joel Martin We have not won in our last 4 games. This is the last chance to gain some confidence before Wednesday, when PSV visits for the biggest game ever at the Emirates yet. We are still missing many key players, and Reading is in great form lately. This is a dangerous, dangerous game. If we lose to Reading, we’ll be going into the most important game of the year in our worst form

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-55666127684048387232007-03-01T21:29:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:53:59.860Z

by Joel Martin Today Blackburn did exactly what we couldn’t do two weeks ago; they took advantage of their home-field advantage and their opponent’s lack of fitness and won the game. We had a chance two weeks ago against a far-from full-strength Blackburn side, with the goal-scorer McCarthy shifty winger Morten Gamst Pedersen both missing when the Rovers visited Emirates in the first place.

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-5606153421458706532007-02-28T07:22:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:54:05.861Z

by Joel Martin Today we travel to Ewood Park without as many as 10 first team players today in our replay with Blackburn. The Rovers, on the other hand, are much healthier than they were when we played them only two weeks ago. Morten Gamst Pedersen, who is easily one of their best players, and Benni McCarthy should return to a side who showed us how exactly to play the most negative of

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-39868781142134162142007-02-27T01:35:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:54:11.950Z

by Joel Martin According to Sky Sports, Villareal is apparently looking at buying our own reserve goalkeeper Manuel Almunia in the summer. Almunia, who has never really impressed since joining from Celta Vigo in 2004, apparently wishes to become our number one in the near future. The Yellow Submarines would be doing us yet another favor if they brought Almunia off our hands this summer. They’

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-67350401472919527362007-02-26T03:25:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:54:19.462Z

by Joel Martin The Cup Final was refreshing and unique, one of the strangest games of the season in fact. Our young reserves, the future of the club, matched up against Chelsea’s first team and gave them a hell of a fight. Our boys’ effort was something to be proud of. Although the wheels came off in the end, I am still very pleased with the exertion we put forth today. The first goal was

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by Joel Martin Our first step will be not to concede early. If Drogba, who normally terrorizes our back line, gets going early he could score three or four goals before the game ends. Our midfield will have to be decisive and strong to hold their own against any combination of Ballack, Lampard, Makelele, Essien, Robben, and Obi Mikel. Walcott needs a good game; he has been lacking

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by Joel Martin The next few weeks will be Arsenal’s most crucial and most difficult stretch of games they’ve had this year. Starting with the Carling Cup Final on Sunday, we will possibly play five games in two weeks. The cup final is the least of our worries, and Wenger knows it. Hopefully our young boys can play with the same amount of vigor and enthusiasm they’ve showed this entire cup run

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-11499145336299822722007-02-22T06:46:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:54:39.013Z

By Joel Martin Every English team in the Champions League went on the road this week, and every team other than Arsenal is heading home with a good result. Manchester United and Liverpool needed a degree of luck to get the results they needed, but sometimes that is what these games are about more than anything. The goal taken away from Lille in the Manchester United game was blown completely.

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By Joel Martin Today’s game was so bad, I still can’t get the awful taste out of my mouth. We had everything going in our favor at the beginning of the game. Jefferson Farfan, their leading scorer, was out injured, and we created all of the good first half chances. Rosicky should have scored after a brilliant (and lucky) one-two with Henry in the 12th minute. Henry tried to curl the ball

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-11637757850701000422007-02-19T16:52:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:55:07.599Z

by Joel Martin Champions League football resumes tomorrow, with Arsenal traveling to Eindhoven to play a very good PSV side. PSV may be the champions of the Dutch League, but they are not a “Dutch” team. They field a very international side, just like us. Alex, their Brazilian center-half, is one of the strongest, most menacing players our strikers will go up against all year. He is a beast.

Joelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205158999089731418noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329825650804482572.post-21662010281352044982007-02-18T22:06:00.000Z2007-08-18T18:56:45.232Z

By Joel Martin Arsenal’s ineptitude against a half-strength Blackburn made me ask one question: WHY? Why can’t we beat the teams we are supposed to beat? We are 17 points behind ManUre after taking six points from them. Why are we not ahead of them? Why do we find ourselves behind the rest of the top four, even though we haven’t lost to any of them (we’re the only team in the league who can

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By Joel Martin Arsenal – 0 Blackburn – 0. The last thing we needed was another replay. From the opening whistle, it was clear Arsenal would have to be the aggressor today, and we failed to step up to the challenge. Blackburn’s 8 defenders never even tried to score. Nothing really happened in the first half. Walcott had a tough time beating Warnock and didn’t look very good. Ljunberg had

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