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After the nailbiting and ultimately euphoric win over Udinese earlier this evening, there are many things Arsenal fans and detractors alike could focus on. I want to focus on just one of them, the continued emergence of Wojciech Sczcesny. It's been clear ever since the hype over Sczcesny in the youth team and his time at Brentford that he was always likely to be something special, and he acquitted himself very well in his first spell in the first team last season. He made the odd mistake but ....

Like many Arsenal fans at the moment, I feel I need to get something off my chest. I will apologise now if this is walking on frequently trodden ground, I haven't had any time to read some of the numerous Arsenal related blogs and sites over the last few days. This is not 100% directly related to the Villa game, though for me that game is both a nutshell of Arsenal's season and the straw that broke the camels back. Before I go any further though, having been sat next to them I'd just like to ....

Like many other gooner blogs and news websites out there, I'd like to reflect on what was ultimately a successful night and the end result being Arsenal's first major final for four years. But I also want to talk a bit about the before match happenings. Myself and my wife got the tube from Liverpool St around 6 O'Clock after I finished work and travelled to Holborn. As it happens, when we got off the central line, we were following behind a group of Ipswich fans. The Tractor Boys supporters t....

As an Arsenal fan its not always easy to have a sense of perspective, but, as we move into 2011, lets be realistic, if before the Christmas and New Year fixtures someone had said to you, "You will go unbeaten over the whole holiday period and beat Chelsea (regardless of how poor they are playing) 3-1", I don't know about some Gooners out there I would have bitten their hand off. Yes, the draw with "boring, boring City" may have meant we fell 2 points further behind the lot from Old Trafford, but....

As everyone knows, Fulham lost the UEFA Cup final last night in the cruelest of fashions, a deflected goal four minutes from the end of extra time. I was not able to see the game, but I (like many Arsenal fans) was gutted for them, and for Roy Hodgson in particular. At the Emirates 4 days earlier, Arsenal comfortably swept aside a less than full strength Fulham team who clearly had their eyes on their last and biggest European adventure of the season. But what really struck me was the mutual....

I wrote this post the day after the 2nd leg of the champions league semi final at the Emirates, but haven't been able to get it online until now. The date today is the 6th of May 2009. Would anyone like to guess where I was 11 years ago?It was a wonderful sunny afternoon, and Arsenal were playing Everton at Highbury. It was arguably the most memorable moment of the Wenger era, even if the Invincibles would go onto greater things 6 years later. I was just 13 at the time, and had never seen the cl....

Being an Arsenal fan has never been particularly good for a person's health, never more so than last night. The 2nd leg of the last 16 of the champions league against Roma in Italy was one of the most nerve wracking experiences in my 14 years as an Arsenal fan. When the game went to extra time, neither side seemed capable of stringing more than 3 passes together at a time. When it got to penalties (finally), as Eduardo was stepping up to take the first penalty, the guy next to me in the pub s....