Stoke City
Position: 12th, 6-3-8 (21 points, -1 goal differential)
Away Form: 2-1-5 (-3 goal differential)
Recent Form: WWDDL
Last Meeting: Arsenal 3 - Stoke City 1 (February 27, 2010)
Back in league action tomorrow against Stoke City, in a game

Well, after several years of getting lucky in Champions League draw, it seems like our gambler’s luck has caught up to us. It always does. For the second consecutive draw, we draw FC Barcelona.
Let me just honestly say I’m not too upset

So Arsenal have drawn Ipswich for the Carling Cup semifinals. You know, their manager looks awfully familiar to me…..

Oh that’s right, it’s our old friend Roy Keane! Perhaps Paddy could drive over from Manchester for a friendly

Lineups are in:
Sunderland: Starters: Mignolet, Ferdinand, Bramble, Richardson, Onuoha, Riveros, Henderson, Malbranque, Al Muhammadi, Welbeck, BentBench: Reid, Zenden, Gyan, Bardsley, Carson, Colback, da Silva
Arsenal: Starters: Almunia, Sagna,

Well, it’s official, let’s breakdown our opponents in Group H:
(NOTE: Some of this info is complete, but I figured it would be better to just get it up so we can start talking about it, and fill in the blanks later)
Shakhtar Donetsk
Match

Well, although the official website hasn’t confirmed it yet, Wenger stated at a press conference today that it was a done deal, and given how cautious he generally is about speaking out about transfer targets, I think we take him at his word

The Champions League draw takes place tomorrow morning. I’ll post an update with my thoughts when it happens. I meant to post this earlier, but I had a friend in town from back home who’s doing stand up comedy in the city this week, and we

Well, the polls on the goalkeeper position are closed, and our winner, in a very, very tight vote, was Jens Lehmann, taking 63 (52%) votes to David Seaman’s 58 (48%). Manuel Almunia picked up a solitary pity vote. Next up: right-back.
Not too many

Lineups are in:
Burnley: Jensen, Mears, Caldwell, Carlisle, Jordan, Eagles, Elliot, Alexander, Bikey, McDonald, Fletcher. Subs: Penny, Kalvenes, Gudjonsson, Blake, Nugent, Thompson, Guerrero.
Arsenal: Starters: Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen,

Just a quick news round-up before my formal preview of the Burnley match coming later this afternoon. First, the bad news is that Denilson is out of the Burnley match with a back injury. You’ll recall that he just returned from being out for 10