The Stand Archives: 09/2016

At Arsenal’s last gasp win at home to Southampton I indulged in a bit of time travelling.

Robert Pires has been speaking to the French media again about Arsene Wenger, a man whom he has always defended.

Saturday’s frustration-fest ended well, but will opposition with more ambition be better or worse for Arsenal?

Going to Paris on your own or with just a couple of you? Don’t fancy getting bevvied up with the away fans? Having just been to Paris a month or so ago, I thought of some things to check out that might not make it to a tour guide or on a fan’s itinerary.

As Arsenal travel to Paris this week to face PSG in the Champions League group opener, here is a short guide on Paris from a local.

Arsenal fans are claiming the penalty they won on Saturday against Southampton when Nacho Monreal had clearly fouled Shane Long just moments earlier was justice for what happened last season.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has told the Arsenal matchday programme that he wants to show Arsene Wenger why he ‘needs to be playing’ after his form plonked him on the bench.

Chelsea Ladies organised a Q&A with manager Emma Hayes and four players Aluko, Chapman, Kirby and Rafferty on Thursday in which the former Arsenal assistant spent a lot of time digging at Arsenal

Now the transfer window is closed and the international break is at an end, Arsenal can get on with the business at hand.

So I’ve been off the grid for two weeks, swallowed by acting work, and have emerged to a rather different Goonersphere.

Is the term ‘legend’ too readily used in modern football?

Granit Xhaka has been speaking to the press in Switzerland while on international duty and has revealed that he hasn’t spoken much to Arsene Wenger since he signed for the club earlier in the summer but seems blown away by everything.

Arsenal have, finally, addressed the two major shortcomings within the first team squad, but how was the window really?