Tim Stillman - Page 2
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
660 Posts
Rediscovery
During Arsenal’s Europa League years, the squad took on a bifurcate look. Generally speaking, there was a Premier League team and a Europa League team...
Are Arsenal bad at selling?
Arsenal’s transfer window consisted of two main stanzas, perhaps slightly fractured by the injury to Jurrien Timber which leaves the squad light a defender....
Where were you while we were getting Kai?
A fortnight ago, I wrote about Kai Havertz and the hybrid role he adopted in the season opener against Nottingham Forest. At the outset of...
Nketiah’s Back in the Room
Eddie Nketiah played 243 of the 360 minutes available in pre-season, not counting the Community Shield. He started games against Nurnberg, Manchester United and Monaco,...
6 feet Kai and rising
Arsenal have a fine recent tradition of players who polarise supporters. Theo Walcott, Olivier Giroud, Mesut Özil, Aaron Ramsey, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain. As the Gunners...
Legacy
Last week, Arsenal unveiled a statue in honour of Arsene Wenger. It is the culmination of Wenger’s gradual reintegration into the fabric of the club...
Pre-season observations
Pre-season is drawing to a close with only Sunday’s traditional curtain raiser / first trophy of the season / glorified friendly against Manchester City to...
Connection
Hello from Los Angeles! I had never been to any of Arsenal’s pre-season tours before. It’s not a fact I have ever particularly lamented because,...
Questions for pre-season
Pre-season is getting into full swing and, on balance, I think the majority of Arsenal’s incoming transfer business is done for the summer. As I...
The Ghost at the Feast
One of my favourite things about Mikel Arteta’s tenure as Arsenal coach has been the sense that, every season, something about the team is probably...
Forward
With the arrivals of Kai Havertz, Declan Rice and Jurien Timber, I would consider the heft of Arsenal’s incoming business for the summer to be...
River Deep, Mountain Kai
This time last summer, nobody anticipated that Oleksandr Zinchenko would come into the Arsenal squad and transform the midfield. But that’s what he did. The...