Tim Stillman - Page 1
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
632 Posts
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’...
Crystal
There are few phenomena football fans enjoy more than a stellar player emerging from the youth academy to become a first-team player. When a player...
Control
Mikel Arteta’s decision to introduce Jakub Kiwior, Leandro Trossard and Jorginho into the starting line-up for Tuesday’s 3-1 win over Chelsea was viewed as an...
The next step
At the Etihad on Wednesday evening, Arsenal were ruthlessly taken apart by the team that, at the time of writing, they still lead in the...
Turning the cannons outwards
Most Arsenal fans will be aware of the success the club enjoyed in the 1930s. When he was hired from Huddersfield in 1925, Herbert Chapman...
Bottle
Good morning, Tim Stillman here filling in while blogs makes his way back from the Big Apple (normal service will be resumed on the blog...
Gabriel Jesus has brought Arsenal’s sense of chaos back
“You can pass the ball, of course and try combination play but when you can dribble as well, that means that teams have to cover...
What next for Fabio Vieira?
When Arsenal paid £34m for Fabio Vieira last summer, it was, by modern standards, a shock signing (in that, we only knew it was happening...
Organs of Leadership
In England, we have a tendency to lionise captaincy. Most cultures are informed by the mythology that surrounds them, literal myths, in the storied sense,...
Peeling the onion
During Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal reign, I, like many other Arsenal fans, have found myself referring to Liverpool as a kind of template for the rebuild...
Leandro Trossard- an ‘Arteta player’
During approximately the middle of Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal reign, Arsenal fans and the wider football landscape developed a shared sense of what “an Arsene Wenger...
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