6/10 – Most of his evening though was spent struggling to contain the opposition. [London Evening Standard]
5/10 – Wasteful and occasionally timid. [Huffington Post]
6.5/10 – Almost scored with fizzing left footer, beyond that unspectacular. [Arseblog]
The above player ratings come from September 2013 as Arsenal were dumped out of the Capital One Cup by Chelsea.
They are all for the same player; Nacho Monreal.
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Jason (@jasondavies71) is back again to host but is sitting on a rubber ring after last nights whooping from Bayern and is joined by :
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Does anyone know how to count to 5 in German?.
New ABW Blogger Luke (@LukeisPremium) gives us the breakdown on the emerging on field relationship between Theo and Alexis.
When Arsenal signed Alexis Sánchez in July 2014 it’s fair to say a lot of people were excited, players and fans alike took to social media to express that. One of the most excited was Theo Walcott (looking pretty smug in the below picture with the Alexis printed shirt). Theo gave an interview to Arsenal player a few days after the signing saying this:
“Sánchez is a world-class player and I enjoyed watching him play for Barcelona and for Chile at the World Cup.”
“He’s still very young as well and he is going to show so much pace and power, which we lacked a bit last year.”
“With me and him on the flanks, a lot of teams won’t be looking forward to playing Arsenal this year.”
Rewind back to the 16th of September last season – Arsenal are set to take on Jürgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund at Signal Iduna Park and a young and untested Héctor Bellerín was given the nod at right-back. A recent injury to France international Mathieu Debuchy thrusts the young Spaniard into the fray against one of the best counter-attacking teams in Europe. Come the end of ninety minutes, Arsenal run out 2-0 losers and Bellerín put in a display that did him no favors when it came to proving to Arsène Wenger and the supporters that he was ready for first-team football. But if you fast-forward to the present, you would be hard pressed to find a single Gooner, anywhere, that would not tell you with absolute confidence that Bellerín is the best at his position in the Premier League. One match does not make a career the same way that one page does not make the entire book…it is how you build and progress that counts.
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Dom (@ozgooner49) has put Gimli & Jason in a boston back crab to get his bum in the hot seat and is joined by :
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Ozzy Dom, Ozzy Dom, Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Dom.
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Jason (@jasondavies71) has put on his best pair of underpants, cracked open a bottle of babysham and is sat in the hot seat and is joined by :
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Happy Birthday Mr Wenger.
Since the day the wayward shooting Gervinho left for Roma, Arsenal’s starting eleven has not had an African born representative playing in any position. Now I know that the club has some coming through the academy, and if you wanted to be truly technical, there are a few in the team of African descent, but I’m focusing on the starting eleven of our current squad.
Gone are the days where we fielded the likes of Kanu, the ill mentioned Adebayor, cult hero Emmanuel Eboue, Alex Song, Christopher Wreh, Lauren, Kolo Toure, Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Kaba Diawara, Kwame Ampadu and even Marouane Chamakh. Yet deeper questions remain, but who or where will the next African star come from to play for our great club who, over the years has had a brilliant history of cultural diversity and being one of the first English clubs to give players of different backgrounds a chance to showcase their talents.
ALEXIS SANCHEZ CAN’T KEEP BEING ARSENAL’S SUPERMAN
I don’t know if Alexis Sanchez watches the television show Scrubs. In fact I highly doubt it. Instead I imagine the Chilean spends his spare time doing laps of the garden followed by a thousand perfectly executed sit-ups ahead of a good night’s sleep.
But if Sanchez did happen to watch the American sitcom then he would perhaps resonate strongly with the show’s theme tune.
“No I can’t do this all on my own because I am no superman…”
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Gimli (@GoonerGimli) has pulled some strings to get three of the ladies favorites so he is joined by these hunks :
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We spanked the dirty mancs, things have never been so good.
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Gimli (@GoonerGimli) is as happy as a piglet in poop as his personal favourite guest and general Swedish legend Rami has come back to dish out some wise words and he is joined by :
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The end music is by my mate Carl Avory who has been with me to Highbury a few times, he is singing a cover of The Jam’s “English Rose”, Carl has given us his permission to use his music.
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Something funny yet inciteful.
