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Time to maximise our resources
Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:22
The former can be solved in a somewhat straightforward manner. Prune the squad of underperforming and overpaid members (you know who they are) and replace them with genuine quality that can be relied upon to step up. Oh, and keep RvP. I personally have taken great heart in the acquisition of Lukas Podolski and am equally excited by the rumours surrounding Yann M'Vila. I sense a shift in the Club's recruitment policy over the past twelve-months and I hope my instinct doesn't prove to be a mirage. Signings of the calibre and experience of Arteta, Mertesacker and Podolski give me optimism that change is afoot. A couple more arrivals in this bracket plus
Headed your way this summer: Interminable speculation and bewildering misinformation
Saturday, 19 May 2012 08:46
Arsenal are headed into the off-season of 2012 facing a very similar situation. The future of our captain and star player remains very much up in the air., and a lengthy, drawn-out conclusion looms ominously on the horizon. Will he stay? I’ve got no idea. Whatever his choice may be, this time around we need to employ swift and decisive action. If he signs on the dotted line, then lets go out there and recruit some new faces. Podolski is an excellent start, and Yann M’Vila would be a brilliant acquisition - assuming the maelstrom of tales
Arsenal Vision Writers End of Season Awards 2011/12
Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:40
if it’s a youngster breaking into the team then it has to be Oxlade-Chamberlain (which I’ve taken to pronouncing purely in a French accent: ox-lard sham-blon) and if it’s a first teamer developing it has to be Koz-chel-knee. I’m going to go with the former since I actually thought Kosasaurus was a beast last year and I want to award it to a younger player because I miss my childhood and deserve
West Brom (a) - 3rd, Gibbs tackle & Foundations for improvements
Monday, 14 May 2012 12:36
Benayoun's early goal was not going to be the only similarity to the Norwich game. Andre Santos had dashed inside to close down a passing option, Vermaelen was goal side of Shane Long but decided to push out and catch the forward in an offside position which to be fair, he was exactly that. The assistant referee did not give the call and Long raced clear to side foot past Szczesny. At that stage of the game with the Norwich errors in mind, the sensible option may have been to
Your Vision - Transfers & Musings
Monday, 14 May 2012 01:13
I'll talk about the players we WON'T sign this summer, the players I think we should and could buy, and finally what I think will actually happen. So to get one thing straight, we will not buy any player that other clubs of similar or bigger stature to us are interested in buying, we won't go into a bidding war with the likes of City, Utd, chelsea ...etc. so Hazard won't be coming, the likes of Falcao, Cavani, Gotze won't be coming and I don't think Yan M'villa will be as well. I know there has
Happy St Totteringham's Day - Season Articles & Photo Special
Sunday, 13 May 2012 18:41
The North London derby is the name of the football local derby between two North London based teams – Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur. Both Arsenal and Tottenham (often referred to by their nickname, Spurs) fans have recognized each other as rivals despite the fact that, until recently, they rarely competed in the same area on the table. Arsenal traditionally has been a top 4 team while Spurs had been competing for mid table. With Spurs' recent success, they have vaulted themselves to the top 6 and, in 2010, they qualified for the UEFA Champions League by placing within the top 4. Since, they have competed with Arsenal for Champions League places.
My mate is in the Arsenal PR department and gives me all the insider knowledge...
Wednesday, 09 May 2012 18:15
The Norwich game wasn’t pleasant viewing, was it? No.. It was bordering on farcical; almost pantomime-like defending and a bewildering lack of concentration when there was much at stake. Fortunately, the footballing gods saw fit to grant us yet another chance to end the season on a good note. Proceedings should really have been finished and secured a long time ago, but the concept is simple enough
M'Vila & Podolski learning from lessons or late arrivals? + A Bould move
Tuesday, 08 May 2012 15:20
Your Vision - Problems in midfield
Monday, 07 May 2012 22:21
Watching the game on Saturday reminded me of our game against QPR away, particularly Dikhate’s goal, in other words, the absence of our midfield. In football, defending isn’t only carried out by the defenders, rather it should be done by every man on the field, from the strikers pressuring the opposition’s defenders to the goalkeeper sweeping up any balls that drop behind the defence. Saturday’s game highlighted how important it is for the midfielders in particular to carry out their defensive duties, many a time in Saturday’s game the middle of the park was vacant only for the opposition to attack, which they did, leaving us embarrassingly exposed. For the first goal, Benayoun allowed Norwich’s full back to make that
One Last Lap and Midfield Combinations
Monday, 07 May 2012 09:52
Truthfully, Song-Ramsey-Rosicky won't be my preferred choice largely because I don't see Song and Ramsey doing the simplest of things. My preferred midfield 3 for WBA would be Coquelin sitting deep, Song doing the box to box duty and Rosicky playing as our attacking midfielder. There we have good protection at the back in Coquelin and Song helping out when on the back foot and Rosicky pressing at the heels of the opposition players + when attacking Rosicky and Song adding fluidity and creativity in the final 3rd
Norwich City (h) - Midfield meltdown but lifeline handed by rivals
Monday, 07 May 2012 00:41
Jack Wilshere came into the team the following year and played a duel role with Alex Song. Both players having the licensee to join Cesc Fabregas in a bid to create chances, especially against more defensively minded opposition. This season Mikel Arteta has made the Wilshere position his own albeit in a different way. Arteta who has played as a defensive
Norwich City (h) Thoughts & Line Up: 1st or two victories needed. Nothing more, nothing less
Saturday, 05 May 2012 07:40
We have not played two direct attacking wide forwards in the same game since we beat Aston Villa at home in early March, that day Gervinho and Walcott terrorised Villa. I would love for us to be that direct today and really go at Norwich from the start. That would mean Oxlade-Chamberlain starting on the right and Gervinho on the left of Robin van Persie. I suspect Yossi Benayoun will retain his
What we do in life, echoes in eternity
Friday, 04 May 2012 09:07
SONG!! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?? YOU'RE NOT MESSI!!
Thursday, 03 May 2012 19:23
The final fixtures require a team effort. Everyone has a position and a job, and they’ll be needing to adopt a professional approach. Take things lightly, be blasé and there could be more reason for us to wish humiliating defeat on Chelsea when they play Bayern - if we needed any more. I don’t want to be watching the games and screaming at the television, ‘SONG!! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?? YOU’RE NOT MESSI!
Walcott needs some zig in his zag, Bad day for Arsenal & A Legend calls it a day
Thursday, 03 May 2012 13:52
Stoke City away needs to be our Sunderland FA Cup game or our Tottenham away match. Basically we need to show some backbone and produce our best under pressure because make no mistake about it, we are under pressure and the only way to relieve that pressure is to win against Norwich at lunchtime on Saturday. I am already cacking myself about that game so I don't know how I am going to survive on Saturday. Theo Walcott has spoken about the need to vary his game and not
We want Vertonghen but why would he want us? & Good luck Bolton
Wednesday, 02 May 2012 11:57
The Podolski & Benayoun contradiction / Vertonghen / Squad Continuity
Tuesday, 01 May 2012 11:56
Look at the teams that have improved from last season. Tottenham for example did not lose any players, brought in good players for their standard and improved. The difference between them and us in August and September was huge, not because of the quality of player as we see today but for the continuity and momentum that they had and we had completely lost after having to rebuild the squad. Fans often say that transition is an excuse but you can see the difference an
Lukas Podolski: A Heads Up From A FC Koln Supporter
Monday, 30 April 2012 00:00
Lukas was only 21 when he transferred to Bayern. He was very young, and his attitude did not seem right to me. Also, he was often injured and had to face a strong competition with Miroslav Klose. Bayern Munich is a top club in Europe and the world. There is hardly a unique position for a single player. You have to prove yourself in every practice. In my opinion, the change to Munich was too early
Your Vision - In Arsene We Trust
Friday, 27 April 2012 15:51
My message to the haters is this: I cannot urge you enough to continue to follow the mantra 'In Arsene we trust', to follow the man with the sleeping bag looking coat, the man with that symbolic red tie, and to ignore the likes of Piers Morgan championing the term 'In Arsene we rust'. You must must must must MUST have faith, he is the man and we will return soon enough. With the announcement today that Pep Guardiola will be stepping down from Barcelona at the end of the season to take a few years out, much talk has emerged
Stoke City (a) Thoughts & Line Up: Avoid the unnecessary and take care of business
Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:43
Robin van Persie is more than due a goal from open play as he hits his first rut of the season and it will be interesting to see how he combines with Gervinho. When Gervinho replaced the hamstrung Walcott last weekend, he looked sharp and immediately gave us a link from the right of the pitch, something that Theo was struggling to do in that game.
