Helen Trantum
Helen is a season ticket holder with a desperate addiction to both chocolate and the Arsenal. It's really just a question of which kills her first! Since making the (near) fatal mistake of setting up home with a Tottenham season ticket holder, life has become much more complicated. She finds solace by writing for Daily Cannon and cleansing herself of all traces of Spurs on Twitter @nellypop13.
Debate: Should Gibbs start the season ahead of Monreal?
by Helen Trantum
Arsenal’s academy specialises in left backs.
In the Wenger years we have seen the likes of Ashley Cole, Gael Clichy and most recently...
This Girl Can campaign and Lionesses show prejudice the door
by Helen Trantum
This Girl Can.
Waiting for the tube this morning, that was the message emblazoned across an image of a girl juggling a football.
The...
Is Mesut Özil Arsenal’s most undervalued player?
by Helen Trantum
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
So goes the proverb, and never was it more true in football – as Google...
Arsene’s type is better than Mourinho’s
by Helen Trantum
To buy or not to buy – that is the question.
Even following the January acquisition of Gabriel, there is still some clamour...
Do you know Arsene Wenger's 'type'?
by Helen Trantum
Arsene Wenger has a type.
Just like mine is tall, dark and handsome, Arsene favours some defenders over others. It has particularly become...
Loving a Lilywhite
by Helen Trantum
March 2016.
That’s when I sign my life away marry my best friend, the love of my life, my soulmate. There’s just one...
Can Alexis be our saviour?
by Helen Trantum
International football bores me.
It's a sad indictment of the state of football, but that's the way I feel. The trouble is, I...
Can the league's best goalkeeper overhaul Chelsea?
by Helen Trantum
A good goalkeeper can save you 15 points a season.
So the legend goes, anyway.
This season Arsenal finished 12 points behind Champions Chelsea,...
Szczesny's smoking highlights a bigger problem
by Helen Trantum
Are you stupid?
That must be a question Arsene Wenger is dying to ask his FA Cup winning goalkeeper after the Pole was...
Jack Wilshere – Mountain or molehill?
by Helen Trantum
Do you need glasses?
How you view Jack Wilshere’s latest misdemeanour seems to rather depend on which side of the Emirates fence you...
Arsenal School Reports 2014-15: The Manager
As the season wraps up with a 12th FA Cup win and third-place league finish, we look at how the players did over the...
Arsenal 14/15 School Report: The Forwards
As the season wraps up with a 12th FA Cup win and third-place league finish, we look at how the players did over the...
Arsenal 14/15 School Report: The Midfielders
As the season wraps up with a 12th FA Cup win and third-place league finish, we look at how the players did over the...
Arsenal 14/15 School Report: The Defenders
As the season wraps up with a 12th FA Cup win and third-place league finish, we look at how the players did over the...
Arsenal 14/15 School Report: The Goalkeepers
As the season wraps up with a 12th FA Cup win and third-place league finish, we look at how the players did over the...
In Focus: Francis Coquelin at Wembley
by Helen Trantum
That winning feeling.
It’s a pure adrenaline rush that is simply unequalled in football.
For one of our boys in particular, ending the season...
Winning is not enough – especially for Mesut Ozil
Nine years.
It’s a long time in a lifetime, let alone in football.
For those of us of a Gooner persuasion, it’s a length of time...
Road to Wembley: This time last year Arsenal win the Cup!
Well, this series has proven a lucky charm!
For the second year in a row, we find ourselves finishing the League season with another game...
Opposition preview: FA Cup final v Aston Villa
It's FA Cup final time and Arsenal are looking to win a record 12th trophy in their record-breaking 19th final.
Here's all they need to...
Winning with Walcott as Ramsey teaches Ozil a lesson
Victory through harmony.
It may be the club's motto, but it also applies to two of our most exciting yet divisive players.
Mesut Ozil and Theo...
Opposition preview: Manchester United
Arsenal travel to Old Trafford on Sunday looking to reproduce their FA Cup result there earlier this year.
With both teams fighting it out for...
Are Arsenal's players as intelligent as Wenger thinks?
Horses for courses.
It's an oft heard British idiom to explain how you should select the best person for the particular job, and it's exactly...
Opposition preview: Swansea
Arsenal welcome Swansea to the Emirates on Monday night knowing that a win will move them ever closer to their highest league finish in...
Why it's time for Jack Wilshere to make a decision
The worries of the Arsenal world weigh heavy.
That's what Jack Wilshere found out back in the autumn of 2011, at any rate. With the...
Could Bellerin be haunted by the ghost of Fabregas?
It's karaoke time!
"I wanna tell you,
I might as well do,
About a boy who can do anything.
He comes from Barca,
His name is Hector,
Bellerin, Bellerin, Bellerin."
You've...
John Terry: Captain, Leader, Idiot
Why Chelsea skipper's jibes about "tippy tappy football" and its failings are wide of the mark.
Finesse.
It's not a word one commonly associated with Chelsea's...
A lesson in refereeing: Why Oliver was right
Imagine the scene:
Two players are running towards each other, fully focussed on the ball between them.
At the last minute, as they prepare to make...
Ozil and Bellerin standout: Arsenal player ratings v Chelsea
Arsenal were unable to break down Chelsea's bus and they both left with a point.
Still, it's another game that saw the 'special one' fail...
Opposition preview: Chelsea
Normally we start this post every week before a game by welcoming the opposition to the Emirates.
There's not of that this week, it's Chelsea....
Respecting Wenger will be Jose Mourinho's downfall
If Zouma plays on Sunday, Arsenal will win.
Respect
It's a concept apparently lost on Jose Mourinho when it comes to talking about Arsene Wenger.
The man...
Arsene Wenger and the eleven lords
After putting Chelsea to the sword, it only felt fair to do an equivalent version of the cast from Snow White and the Seven...
Why Chelsea's manager cannot compete with Arsene Wenger
Ahead of this weekend's fixture against the team that ruined Wenger's 1,000th game,, we look at why the manager deserves to remain at the club.
Jose Mourinho and the seven Chelsea bores
We look at the insufferable Chelsea squad and their dwarvish nicknames
Have Arsenal really fixed their big game hoodoo?
In the run up to Sunday's fixture against league leaders Chelsea, we look at whether recent victories over Man City, Man United and Liverpool...
When does an Arsenal legend actually become an Arsenal legend?
With most of the build up to Sunday's game about one man and one man only, we examine his impact on the club and ask whether *that* banner should ever have been erected outside the Emirates.
Marble pillars of Arsenal tower over plastic patheticness of Chelsea
Is there anything worse than a small time club?
For years Arsenal fans have had to put up with Tottenham trying to keep up with...
The Impossible Dream?
Ahead of a weekend with two season-defining games for Arsenal kicking off at roughly the same time, we look at how results in each of the games could affect us, despite only playing in one!
Road to Wembley: Arsenal go the distance against Wigan Athletic
Ahead of our semi-final tie against Reading, we run the rule over our corresponding 2014 victory over Wigan Athletic.
Opposition preview: Reading
Arsenal face Reading at Wembley knowing that, should they win, they will be just 90 minutes away from becoming the greatest team the FA...
Is it nearly May yet?
We look at why fighting for second – although not our goal for next season – is something we should welcome.