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Wenger’s Half-Time Speech, Suing Holland, Ignoring Cruyff

Dec 14th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

First off, I want to talk about Arsene Wenger’s half-time speech, which apparently had quite a bit to do with Arsenal’s second-half resurgence. Wenger reportedly came in at the break and told the squad that they didn’t deserve to wear



Liverpool 1-Arsenal 2

Dec 13th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

Coming into this weekend, looking at the fixture list, this was poised to be the end of Arsenal’s title hopes. Chelsea was at home against Everton, who have been very poor this season, and Manchester United was at home against Aston Villa. Spurs



Liverpool-Arsenal Preview

Dec 12th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

Liverpool
Position: 7th, 7-3-5 (24 points, +11 goal differential)
Recent Form: WLDDW
Home Form: 4-2-1
Last Meeting: Liverpool 4-Arsenal 4 (4/21/09)
Well, tomorrow is the big day. A important top 4 match-up, where both teams have a lot to play for, and a



Injury Update (Summary: Everyone is Injured)

Dec 11th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

Injury news ahead of Sunday’s clash at Anfield. Emmanuel Eboue is out for the match with a hamstring problem. It doesn’t sound too serious, so hopefully he’ll be back for the midweek trip to Burnley, or at least next weekend’s



Jens Lehmann: Still Crazy After All These Years

Dec 10th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

While looking for stories about last night’s Champions League action, I came across a story about Jens Lehmann. Apparently after last night’s Champions League victory which put them into knockout stages, former Gunner keeper “Mad”



Olympiakos-Arsenal Thread

Dec 9th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

Lineups are in, and pretty much everyone else in the lineup is almost young enough to be Mikael Silvestre’s illegitimate love child:
Olympiakos: Starters: Nikopolidis, Galitsios, Avraam Papadopoulos, Mellberg, Raul Bravo, Galletti, Dudu, Maresca,



Olympiakos-Arsenal Preview

Dec 8th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

I know, it’s not a Carling Cup match. But we appear to be treating it like a Carling Cup match, so I’m using the “Carling Cup Kids” picture.
Anyway, we travel to Olympiakos tomorrow for the final group stage match. The match is



Arsenal in for . . . Pavlyuchenko?!

Dec 8th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

That’s the rumor, anyway. According to Pavlyuchenko’s agent, Arsenal are among the teams bidding for the lanky Russian striker, who has thus far been a massive disappointment since arriving at Spurs from Spartak Moscow.
It seems pretty



Injury Update

Dec 6th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

According to le boss:
We had Eboue with a muscular problem, Rosicky with a groin problem, Traore a hamstring problem and Gallas a hamstring problem. We are hopeful that Eboue, Traore and Gallas are not too serious but Tomas Rosicky is out for a while.



Arsenal 2-Stoke 0

Dec 5th, 2009 | Source: Arsenal Offside | Category: Latest Arsenal blogs

We won. We controlled the match. We scored. We kept a clean sheet. Did I mention that we won?
I know, I know-we’re Arsenal, we should always expect to thoroughly beat teams like Stoke at home. But given Stoke’s recent history of taking