Arsenal Opinion Archives: 05/2017

This season was mostly a forgettable one for the first-team, but how did the players across the club’s various levels out on loan fare?

In order to understand Stan Kroenke as Arsenal owner, you need to understand how he’s operated in his other sports ventures, Stateside. Thankfully, Stephen Bradley is an NFL nut and he’s taken the time to put together this pod to help to explain Silent Stan to the Arsenal fans Kroenke prefers to ignore. He also examines Alisher Usmanov’s offer for the club and what he could be up to.

In this latest edition of the Daily Cannon podcast, Matthew and Anita try to make sense of the Everton game, reluctantly embrace the Europa League,…

There has been much debate around the structure of Arsenal’s hierarchy but what is a director of football and how could it help Arsene Wenger return to his glory days

Arsenal winger Theo Walcott was an unused substitute in Sunday’s 3-1 win against Everton, amassing just over 300 minutes of football in the last two months, which suggests his future is up at the Emirates Stadium.

It has been an eventful year for Arsenal at youth level, one that will give them renewed optimism for future seasons.

Arsenal are struggling to sell their allocation of FA Cup final tickets, but why?

Despite Arsenal’s terrible Premier League season, they’ve still managed to score some worldies.

That’s that then, another season’s over, but what have we learned from Arsenal’s shambolic 2016/17 campaign?

This hellish Premier League season has come to a close, and Arsenal finished just outside the top four for the first time in some fans’ lifetime.

Well it had to happen sometime, didn’t it? You win the lottery 20 years in a row, there’s going to come a time when your…

Going into the final round of matches relying on favours from other teams is never a good place to be. For all our flirtations with Europa League football over the years, we’ve very rarely left our destiny in the hands of others.

If I were to tell you at the start of this season, that Arsenal wouldn’t win the league BUT would give the league champions their biggest drubbing of the season, take four points off Manchester United, finish top of their Champions League group, thrash Stoke 4–1 away and beat Manchester City in a neutral venue in May, where would you assume Arsenal would finish in the table with a resumé like that?

The race for Champions League football next season is going down to the wire with Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City all set to battle it out against their respective opponents on Sunday at 3pm in a bid to finish in the top four.

Was referee Roger East right to award an indirect free-kick to Sunderland for Nacho Monreal’s ‘backpass’ on Tuesday night? Petr Cech isn’t so sure… and he’s not the only one.

Since taking over the reigns at VfL Wolfsburg, the partnership between Freddie Ljungberg and Andries Jonker has been a significant one in helping the team recover from a horrid start to the Bundesliga campaign.

After recent reports regarding the transfer of Paul Pogba from Juventus to Manchester United and the role of Mino Raiola, both the English FA and FIFA have issued a response.

When I heard the Tottenham fans singing about Sol Campbell on Sunday at White Hart Lane, my ears picked up.

Arsenal moved to a new stadium over 10 years ago. In that time, the football landscape changed dramatically and the Gunners struggled to keep up with both their debt repayments and the new requirements of modern football. As Tottenham bid farewell to White Hart Lane, the noises they are making indicate they haven’t been paying attention to their neighbours as closely as they should.

Tottenham fans shamed themselves at White Hart Lane as they sang the most disgusting song about Sol Campbell, and the media chose to ignore it lest it go against the ‘great Spurs day’ narrative.