Debunking the “Özil can’t play on the wing” myth
What do the following have in common: Paul Scholes Clarence Seedorf Bastian Schweinsteiger They’re all World Cup winners? No, there’s an Englishman and Dutchman in…
Leutrim Rexhaj
Born and raised New Yorker with a passion for the beautiful game and writing about it. In love with the Arsenal, for better or worse. "And then I saw Highbury for the first time … wow! This was football!"
Articles by Leutrim Rexhaj
Five takeaways from Arsenal’s 2-1 loss to West Bromwich Albion
After a difficult week in which Arsenal’s French contingent were mentally assaulted by the atrocities committed in Paris, fans were looking forward to a conceivably…
Mesut Ozil is assisting at a historic rate – Can he keep it up?
Magnificent. Brilliant. Magical. Genius. The closest thing we have to Zinedine Zidane. The best No. 10 in the world. These are just some of the…
Mourinho, Wenger, and what it means to defeat a villain
Thanks to a smart Olivier Giroud header, a #throwback bit of goalkeeping from Lukasz Fabianski and a pinpoint finish from Joel ‘Get out while you…
Player ratings v Watford: Özil, Cazorla and Ramsey kick the Hornets nest
Did you watch the game against Manchester United? It was basically the opposite, as Arsenal and Watford played out a fun, but mostly uneventful first-half,…
Santi Cazorla: Arsenal’s unsung talisman
Go to the middle of North London and ask a thousand random strangers who Arsenal’s best player is. Most will say Alexis Sanchez, a good two-hundred…
Lassana Diarra, the DM that got away
As they prepare to host the European Championship next Summer, France continued their winning ways with a simple 4-0 victory over Armenia. Didier Deschamps has…
Have we all judged Ospina too harshly? Stats suggest so
Arsenal’s 3-2 loss to Olympiacos marked a low-point in an indifferent start to the season for the Gunners. Having already been upset by Dinamo Zagreb…
Alexis Sanchez isn’t back because he never left
Five goals scored, five conceded and only ten points from the opening six games of the season, it goes without saying that fans were uneasy…
Is Gibbs fit to replace Monreal when he leaves?
Boy, time sure does fly, huh? Did you know that Kieran Gibbs is turning 26 this week? 26! It seems like yesterday when Arsenal fans…
One-Two Punch: How Wenger can use Giroud and Walcott together
Tell me if this sounds familiar: Arsenal play at home to a side with a relatively unheralded keeper, go on to create an absurd number…
Explaining what Arsenal’s transfer (in)activity means for next year
With the transfer window officially shut and the interlull of non-club football officially upon us, we finally have some time to truly drink-in the impact…
The reality of Arsenal’s transfer market shortcomings
Being an Arsenal fan is a charmed existence, isn’t it? One minute your club’s in the midst of an injury crisis, a managerial crisis, a…
The mismanagement of Liverpool Football Club
The season is young, the weather is still warm and the transfer window hangs like a stormy cloud over most clubs’ affairs, but Arsenal are…
Why Arsenal don’t have an automatic starting XI
“And here comes Alexis,” my father bellowed as we observed Arsenal’s acrimonious defeat at home to West Ham with equal parts dread and hangover. The…
Wilshere, Ox and the Folly of Blindly Loving Youth
Football fandom is a peculiar phenomenon. To an outsider, the idea of choosing a club and supporting it through thick and thin is a strange…
The forgotten Mikel Arteta
by Leutrim Rexhaj August 8th is right there, people. The start of the Premier League season has many a fan salivating after what feels like…