Aston Villa, one of the teams tipped to take over a spot in the “big four” are the visitors to the Emirates tomorrow. Villa is a very good team but seems to have a real problem getting results against the “big four” clubs, bring only able to win once in 35 attempts. They will be hoping for a better result tomorrow, but I don’t think now is a good time for any team to visit the Emirates.

Smiles all around after a good week for Arsenal.

Ask the average fan who is the best player to come out of the youth system this season and the answer you’ll most likely get is Jack Wilshere, put the same question to someone who’ve watched reserve team football and you’ll be guaranteed a different answer, most likely Nacer Barazite.
After watching last night’s game I [...]

Continuing the season preview, I’ve decided to skip the leave the midfield for last. You can read the first part in this post . Mostly because we have so many options in the middle yet still look short. So what is the outlook on our defence?
Popular opinion seems to conclude that we need to sign [...]

Quotes from Adebayor today discussion later
Today I have to say it is clear to everyone and when I was on holidays, there was a lot of speculations and a lot of people were talking on behalf of Adebayor, which was never me, so yes I have never say I would leave the club and there [...]

Wenger on our strikers
“We are not as short of strikers as people thought,” said Wenger. “In all areas, we are still maybe one player short, but up front we don’t need anybody.”
If this statement was made two or three weeks earlier, most fans would not have agrees with the boss. It just goes [...]

Ok, so  I’m back after a couple weeks off. Just in time for the new season, I’m excited and ready to go. There is of course a few things that have irritated during the break.
There is a myth perpetuated by the media that with so many players leaving the Arsenal during the summer, Arsenal is [...]

So you wanna be a tabloid journo eh? It’s easy peasy man, just make up a catchy headline, take quotes rearrange them to your liking, add editorial comment around them to make your headline plausible and bada bing you have a column that will sell copies. That’s the job, to sell copies, the more bizarre [...]

Peter Hill-wood is adamant that Adebayor will be staying at Arsenal. He (Hill-Wood) was quoted in the daily Telegraph as saying
“We want him to stay, definitely. Adebayor still has a long time (three years) left on his contract, and we have absolutely no intention of releasing him from that contract. “You want to keep [...]

In my last post I made some cutting remarks about Adebayor. This seemed to me a tad harsh, maybe we need to cut the big man a little slack.
So, after sitting back for a few days to take in all that has transpired, I’ve come to the following conclusion.
Adebayor has no real intention to leave [...]