Tim Stillman - Page 3
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
660 Posts
Full Nelson
Just over half of my Arsenal supporting life ago, the club moved to a new stadium. That move has provided a very definitive bookmark for...
Improvements
While many Arsenal fans will have some warm and fuzzy feelings about the season just passed, there were plenty of regrets too. I think most...
Xhaka’s Redemption Song
Football fans love nothing more than a redemption story. Arsenal fans of a certain vintage will remember Emmanuel Eboue, Perry Groves, those of you older...
Trust
Arsenal played a total of 4,410 competitive minutes in 2022-23. Below is a table demonstrating the percentage of total minutes from the season played by...
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...