Against Chelsea, there's no way Arsenal can lose…
I mean it. There’s no way Arsenal will lose on Sunday. Set aside the 12 previous times Arsène has failed to beat Mourinho. Set aside the vaunted bus-parking that Mourinho adopts against his rivals—or the ominous dove-tailing of Chelsea’s ability to hit hard on the counter-attack and Arsenal’s propensity to concede on those counters—Chelsea can’t win, and […]
Open Letter to those oatcake eatin' Potters
Dear Stoke:Well, we’re at it again, aren’t we? Another chapter in the seemingly endless psychodrama that is the Stoke-Arsenal hate-fest. In this corner, we apparently have the knuckle-dragging Orcs of Stoke, making up in stitches and scars what they lack in teeth or manners; in the other, we have the ostensibly effete Gunners, sipping chardonnay […]
The returns of Nasri and van Persie: prodigal or pathetic?
They were to be the core of Arsenal’s renaissance, technically gifted players capable of turning a game on its head through individal flourishes or team chemistry. Samir Nasri and Robin van Persie, along with Cesc Fàbregas, comprised one of the most potent attacking trios in the Prem…until each of them bolted in acrimonious, avaricious ways. Last […]
Down comes Fàbregas’s banner, down goes his legacy as well.
We have long since left behind an era in which players will remain with one club for the entirety of their careers. We know now that it is myopic and misguided to pin our hopes on any one player committing himself, pledging himself, to one club. Football stop operating on such sentimental principles a long […]
Down comes Fàbregas's banner, down goes his legacy as well.
We have long since left behind an era in which players will remain with one club for the entirety of their careers. We know now that it is myopic and misguided to pin our hopes on any one player committing himself, pledging himself, to one club. Football stop operating on such sentimental principles a long […]
Open letter to Everton fans
Greetings, Toffees. It looks like we have begun a beautiful. tumultuous relationship, having exchanged pleasantries via a win, a loss, and a draw each. I’ve always admired you from afar, hoping you might someday overtake our own noisome neighbors. However, I never imagined you’d do so in such fine fashion—nor did I think you’d overstep […]
Open letter to Everton fans
Greetings, Toffees. It looks like we have begun a beautiful. tumultuous relationship, having exchanged pleasantries via a win, a loss, and a draw each. I’ve always admired you from afar, hoping you might someday overtake our own noisome neighbors. However, I never imagined you’d do so in such fine fashion—nor did I think you’d overstep […]
Ramsey at 23 > Fàbregas at 23 (and other heresies)
Amidst the heartache and recrimination of Cesc’s move to Chelsea, one source of solace has been the idea that we didn’t bring Cesc back in part because our midfield is already a bit crowded and, just as vitally, full of young, on-the-verge-of-breakthrough players. Chief among them, of course, has been Aaron Ramsey, whose emergence this […]
Ramsey at 23 > Fàbregas at 23 (and other heresies)
Amidst the heartache and recrimination of Cesc’s move to Chelsea, one source of solace has been the idea that we didn’t bring Cesc back in part because our midfield is already a bit crowded and, just as vitally, full of young, on-the-verge-of-breakthrough players. Chief among them, of course, has been Aaron Ramsey, whose emergence this […]
Mesut Özil unveiling, circa 2031
Mesut Özil has gone down in history as one of the Club’s greatest players of all time, having delivered a club-record 129 assists from 417 appearances over ten trophy-laden seasons with Arsenal. After joining from Real Madrid in September 2013, Özil, then 25, made his Gunners debut in the fourth match of the 2013-14 season—a […]
