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Tim Stillman - Page 15

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

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,...

Faith of convenience

When Carlo Ancelotti left Everton to return to Real Madrid this summer, Everton took four weeks to replace him, their exhaustive search leading them reluctantly...

Back in the game

In the immediate years after the Second World War, attendances for football matches in the UK increased significantly. By 1948-49, attendances reached 41 million, the...

Centrality

Among the reasons / excuses / mitigating factors of a miserable first three games of the season for Arsenal were, not just the number of...

Talent

Over the summer there has been plenty of discussion around Arsenal’s transfer strategy. With Ben White (23), Martin Odegaard (22), Takehiro Tomiyasu (22), Nuno Tavares...

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