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Tim Stillman - Page 1

Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
721 Posts

Healing

The loss of Bukayo Saka to a hamstring tear in December struck a note of tragedy on Arsenal’s season. I just can’t think of (m)any...

Human Behaviour

In May 2023, I wrote a blog called ‘Thank You For The Good Times’ about the burgeoning atmosphere we had experienced at the Emirates in...

A Rock and a Hard Place

Since August 1st, 10 of my weekly columns on this site have been about Arsenal’s attack. That doesn’t include a couple of ‘round-up’ type columns...

Moulding

When nurturing talent from the academy, coaches are caught in a sort of paradox where opportunities have to be earned and not given. At the...

Personal Jesus

Some years ago, I used to write about Brazilian football and the Brazilian National Team. During that period, Gabriel Jesus was breaking through as a...

Could Arsenal have done more in the summer?

Last week I wrote about Arsenal’s attack and my belief, which I believe to be widely shared, that the team needs another reliable game breaker...

Game Breakers

In recent weeks, Arsenal have won 5-1 away at Sporting, 5-2 away at West Ham and on Wednesday they beat Monaco 3-0, producing an XG...

Absolute Cinema

‘When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.’ This is a section from Sun Tzu’s legendary...

Bringing Rice to the Boil

In the 2021-22 season at West Ham, Declan Rice played in a midfield double pivot with Tomas Soucek. During that season, Rice was the deeper...

The Yellow Bib

There is an old adage that the star that burns twice as bright burns for half as long. This is an analogy often used for...

The Sharp End

The first thing that Arsenal tried to do in the transfer market this summer was to buy a centre-forward. The club were heavily linked with...

After Eight

Since Mikel Arteta moved to the current midfield structure (a six and two eights, essentially) in 2021-22, the ‘left eight’ role has been one of...

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