Tim Stillman - Page 4
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
678 Posts
Pre-season observations
Pre-season is drawing to a close with only Sunday’s traditional curtain raiser / first trophy of the season / glorified friendly against Manchester City to...
Connection
Hello from Los Angeles! I had never been to any of Arsenal’s pre-season tours before. It’s not a fact I have ever particularly lamented because,...
Questions for pre-season
Pre-season is getting into full swing and, on balance, I think the majority of Arsenal’s incoming transfer business is done for the summer. As I...
The Ghost at the Feast
One of my favourite things about Mikel Arteta’s tenure as Arsenal coach has been the sense that, every season, something about the team is probably...
Forward
With the arrivals of Kai Havertz, Declan Rice and Jurien Timber, I would consider the heft of Arsenal’s incoming business for the summer to be...
River Deep, Mountain Kai
This time last summer, nobody anticipated that Oleksandr Zinchenko would come into the Arsenal squad and transform the midfield. But that’s what he did. The...
Full Nelson
Just over half of my Arsenal supporting life ago, the club moved to a new stadium. That move has provided a very definitive bookmark for...
Improvements
While many Arsenal fans will have some warm and fuzzy feelings about the season just passed, there were plenty of regrets too. I think most...
Xhaka’s Redemption Song
Football fans love nothing more than a redemption story. Arsenal fans of a certain vintage will remember Emmanuel Eboue, Perry Groves, those of you older...
Trust
Arsenal played a total of 4,410 competitive minutes in 2022-23. Below is a table demonstrating the percentage of total minutes from the season played by...
Thank you for the good times (before the good times fly away)
My stepdad’s father, Ken, was like a grandfather to me from the point that he entered my life in my teens. We sat together at...
Emile Smith Go?
It’s difficult to explain fully but, sometimes, you just get a feeling that a manager is, to indulge football parlance, ‘not having’ or ‘doesn’t fancy’...
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