Tim Stillman - Page 1
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
623 Posts
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...
Rollercoaster
On Saturday, Arsenal came from two goals behind to beat Bournemouth with a last ditch strike from Reiss Nelson. It produced some of the most...
Fluidity
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on Gabriel Martinelli and how the absence of Gabriel Jesus had impacted his game. Eddie Nketiah is...
Protection
“He’s fine, he got kicked quite a lot today again, but he’s going to have to deal with that, not every week, but every three...
Tweaks
Arsenal’s pace of 50 points from their first 19 games was unlikely to be totally sustainable for the second half of the season. The question...
Gabriel Martinelli’s Come to Jesus Moment
I think one of the things I have learned from watching football across the years is that player productivity never drops for no reason. There...
The second layer
Leno, Lacazette, Cedric, Pepe, Sambi Lokonga, Martinelli, Oulad M’Hand, Swanson, Patino. That was Arsenal’s substitutes bench when they lost 2-0 at Newcastle in May and...
Your defence is in trouble
When news broke that Gabriel Jesus required surgery on a knee injury picked up during the World Cup, there was a feeling of panic across...
Zinchenko- Arsenal’s silent partner
Most Arsenal fans would have been au fait with the concept of inverted full-backs prior to the arrival of Oleksandr Zinchenko. Under Arsene Wenger, Arsenal...
Gift of Gabriel
Gabriel Magalhães, Martin Odegaard, Nuno Tavares, Fabio Vieira, Pablo Mari and Oleksandr Zinchenko. All Arsenal signings under Mikel Arteta and all left-footed. Six of Mikel...
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