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For once a game has produced the result that gives Arsenal the advantage in the race for the Top Four, and may even give us the chance of nicking Third Place back from Chelsea as well.

Chelsea totally dominated Bale FC in the first half and Oscar’s opening goal seemed inevitable, but the Blues missed an amazing amount of chances to put the game beyond Spurs reach. When Adebayor pulled an equalizer out of nowhere it looked like it could be Tottenham’s lucky night. .......Read the full article here

So who could make us better by BN

I have said recently that I feel we need up to five more players to enable this Arsenal team to compete strongly with Manchester United and City, so what should we looking for? Players with a realistic chance that we could sign, so forgetting Messi and Ronaldo these are the players I would like.

A keeper, maybe not to replace Szczesny but to give him competition. Either experienced like Shay Given, or I do like Vorm at Swansea. Staying at Swansea, Ashley Williams has had an amazing season and I feel he would jump at the chance to play at a big club. I would also love to see Leighton Baines in our team and wanted us to sign him from Wigan, but we did have Clichy at the time so a left back wasn’t on Wenger’s list. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal follow the rule that if it isn’t broke it doesn’t need to be fixed, by starting with the same eleven players that gave Swansea such a torrid time in the FA cup replay on Wednesday. That means that Coquelin and Diaby will be the deepest lying midfield players and Wilshere will play further forward behind the strikers. Cazorla and Walcott will be on either side of the central striker Olivier Giroud. Koscielny is available but will start on the bench. Podolski and Oxlade-Chamberlain are out of the squad with injury, so the starting eleven need to do the business for us. .......Read the full article here

Why Arsene is right not to splash the cash! by DW

It is now January 8th 2013 and the transfer window has officially got underway. The gates to the overpriced and usually disruptive time of the season are open. An often overworked set of players in each team, reeling from the rigors of the Christmas and new year fixtures, are subjected to the media’s speculation of grandeur and the chance for them to apparently play for the potential top four teams, causing managers to squeeze their eyes shut in prayer that their star players show some loyalty over the stupidly high wages that are presented to them at the likes of Man City and Chelski. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal fans should give a great big thankyou to Roman Abramovich. Nothing that happens this year will do the Gunners as many favours as the crazy billionaire Russian has done us this week. It is common knowledge that Abramovich was desperate to get his hands on the Champions league trophy, and the man who finally did what a host of other very well paid and expensive managers failed to do has been rewarded with the sack. .......Read the full article here

Arsene Wenger has been getting alot of stick recently, with an increasing amount of Arsenal fans becoming disillusioned with Le Prof and suggesting that his time is up. It is understandable, I suppose, when Arsenal lose to Norwich and throw away two goal leads in consecutive games. He has been criticised for his summer signings as well, but that is one thing I cannot agree on.

Whether it was Wenger, Silent Stan or the whole board who were responsible for the sale of Van Persie and Song in the summer, it was Wenger who sealed the deal on Podolski, Cazorla and Giroud. The little Spaniard settled in straight away and is being compared to Fabregas and Silva and now looks an absolute steal at around £16 million. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal fans and Arsene Wenger will spend today fretting about whether any of the Gunners will return to the Emirates with an injury, long term or not, after another round of pointless international games. The managers and governing bodies will say that they are vital for team building and for managers and players to get used to each other, but England do not play another competitive game until March 22nd next year.

In 125 days, Roy Hodgson and the players, who will be mostly different, will remember nothing about tonight, so why do they do it? Arsene Wenger blames it on the national football associations wanting to boost their income. .......Read the full article here

The Arsenal fans were accused of having no class by Rio Ferdinand after the match against Manchester United on Saturday. In doing so, Ferdinand reinforced one of the reasons that Arsenal fans, along with most others, don’t like United. Hypocrisy.

Ferdinand’s ill chosen words were because of the away fans giving Robin van Persie some abuse. Has he never heard Tevez getting stick? It is part of football. Everybody knew that van Persie would get stick from the Arsenal fans after he chose to abandon us for our hated rivals. .......Read the full article here

With new financial regulations coming into play next season, quite a few clubs in the Premier league and around Europe will have a lot of work to do to change and get ready for the new rules, but Arsenal are already in the perfect position and are a role model to other clubs, according to our chief executive Ivan Gazidis.

“Arsenal were operating like this a long time before football looked at it and decided that it would be a good path for football to move in to.

“Unsustainable spending and unsustainable environments don’t last forever.

“The revenues the game generates, particularly the Premier league’s position, is fantastic.” .......Read the full article here

I just heard that there has been a fire at the home of Arsenal striker Robin van Persie. Police suspect Arsene.

Sorry about that but I have just read something really funny. Jan Vertonghen expects Tottenham to be challenging for the title next season. He is so impressed with his team mates in training that he is confident that Spurs will be up there at the end. He is in for a rude awakening, but he is entitled to his opinion. .......Read the full article here