Tim Stillman - Page 1
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
558 Posts
The undercoat
Following Arsenal’s limp 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest on Sunday, a lot has been said and written about the quality (or lack thereof) of Arsenal’s...
When a door closes…a window opens
I don’t have much of a view on the recent punishment meted out to Pierre Emerick Aubameyang by Mikel Arteta. I mean, I think a...
How soon is now?
Back in May 2018, I wrote a column called ‘The Mystery Box’. It came at a time when it looked very likely that Mikel Arteta...
Changing of the Odegaard
Since his £35m arrival from Real Madrid, it is fair to say that Martin Odegaard’s Arsenal career hasn’t quite got going yet. It’s too early...
Is Auba under-performing?
Last weekend’s 4-0 defeat at Anfield had plenty of familiar themes, even if this is a relatively new-look Arsenal outfit. One area of the team...
The next phase
Since a drab 5-0 defeat to Manchester City at the end of August, Arsenal are unbeaten. With a trip to Anfield on the horizon on...
Striking Out
It’s widely renowned that this season has represented a line in the sand for Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal ‘project’. With Benjamin White, Aaron Ramsdale, Takehiro Tomiyasu,...
When the cult becomes the cure
It’s always difficult to write about ‘soft factors’ in football because you can’t opine on them with any great certitude. They are difficult to measure...
Here we are and here we are and here we go
One of the greatest pleasures of fandom is watching a young player come through from the club academy to be a star player in the...
Identity
“We are asking them to do something different, to play at a different pace, much more aggressive and at the moment they suffered.” So said...
Recalibration
When Roman Abramovic bought Chelsea in 2003, I was one of those people that reacted with a mixture of mirth and disdain. I thought he...
You say you want a revolution? Well…
Since the summer of 2020, Arsenal’s first summer transfer window under Mikel Arteta, the club has reconstructed its starting eleven. Ben White, Thomas Partey, Gabriel,...
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