Paul Williams

Arsenal’s title race heats up with a crucial match at Anfield; can they overcome the challenge and send a strong message to Guardiola?

Arsenal’s dream of winning the Premier League title is within reach, and writer Paul Williams lays out his case for why they might just ride the train to the top.

Arsenal continued their impressive run towards a league title win with a convincing win over Fulham, extending their lead at the top of the table and this weekend they can stretch it further.

I don’t suppose we Arsenal fans are, by any means, the only set of fans who feel like our team have been put on this planet for the sole purpose of being extremely hazardous for our health. However, it is our team, our beloved, brilliant team who have scored three last minute winners in the last six weeks.

I don’t know how many people have been left surprised by Arsenal’s excellent form since the resumption of the Premier League season. Nonetheless, I’m certainly not going pretend I expected Arsenal to come through a very challenging run of fixtures, including 4 of this season’s top 6, not just unbeaten, but having taken 10 points out of 12 from those games. We also played, and beat, West Ham.

The repeated weekends spent round my Grandfather’s house listening to both him and my uncle crow about Arsenal’s latest win and QPR’s latest defeat got to me. Back then it seemed like Arsenal must have been winning every week and QPR losing, something that’s eminently possible, because it was towards the end of 1988 that I cracked.

After an excellent October for Arsenal, Paul Williams lets himself get a little excited…

After Arsenal’s 3-1 win over Tottenham to remain top of the Premier League table, Paul Williams is here with his thoughts.

Over the course of three hours football at the Emirates in the last week, the Arsenal have showed an impressive resilience to go with an increased level of control in their game with five wins out of five, but can they make it six against Manchester United?.

Arsenal’s record of winning in Europe is far from great, so why do fans get so excited when it always leads to disappointment ponders Paul Williams…

What a difference Eddie Nketiah makes…

If you didn’t know it already, following last Monday’s rather painful experience at Selhurst Park, Saturday’s home defeat to Brighton, told us rather emphatically, that nothing can be taken for granted as we head towards the end of this Premier League season.

So, the last time we spoke, some idiot was saying something about not casting envious eyes in the direction of the Crystal Palace bench and our former captain, Patrick Vieira.

Thursday, 31 March saw the 21st anniversary of the passing of one the Arsenal’s favourite sons, David Rocastle. It seems incomprehensible to me now that…

At the weekend, Arsenal made their way into the final international break of the season by taking three points at Villa Park.

I’m not sure if it’s a sense of my own, or indeed Arsenal’s new found, hard won maturity, but I went to bed following our 2-0 reverse at home to Liverpool feeling fairly philosophical.

Football is a game of emotions more than anything else, as Paul Williams ponders this week.

In a long-overdue return to writing, Paul Williams ponders the difference between Arsenal fans in the stadium and those online who seem to have very different views on what Mikel Arteta is doing at Arsenal.

Darren Berry, author of Clickbait: Life As a Modern Football Fan – a mildly painful chronicle of Unai Emery’s one full season in charge of the mighty Arsenal, has written another book.

Thinking about something to write this weekend… well, I didn’t have to think too hard. I thought a look back at the career of Arsenal legend, Ian Wright, may be in order.