Tim Stillman - Page 38
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
679 Posts
Keep on Roquelin in the free world
Partnerships are a crucial part of the nucleus of a successful football team. There is good reason that Petit and Vieira, or Bergkamp and Henry...
Celebrate Good Times
Generally speaking, a society’s attitudes to any given phenomenon liberalises over time. People begin to dip their toes into hitherto unchartered waters, creating a frisson...
The Why of Walcott
Theo Walcott reached the ten year milestone at Arsenal this week, to great fanfare. In the 21st century, it’s a pretty big deal for an...
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes for Ch-Ch-Ch-Chamberlain
Few Arsenal players have sparked more conversation, more strange fascination and, it’s fair to say, more frustration than Alex Oxlade Chamberlain this season. The Ox...
It’s A Knockout
In the Gregorian regularity of the English football fixture list, cup football begins to take hold of the schedule in January. The FA Cup 3rd...
Themes Can Come True
I spent the formative years of my professional career working in fraud investigation, particularly, training for investigators of financial fraud. Investigators are constantly coached in...
Two Hearts Living In Just One Mind…
The relationship between football supporters and football players is multi-faceted and complicated. Once a player joins a club, the objectives of player and fan are...
Alan Smith – a super strike for the Gunners
Arsenal’s entry into the 1993-94 Cup Winners Cup began the disrobing of my footballing innocence. I was in a state of tabula rasa where European...
Balance at Ground Zero
Arsenal’s current injury crisis presents Arsene Wenger with issues of balance, as well as personnel. As I wrote last week, being deprived of your first...
And broke my spleen and broke my knee and then he really laid into me
As any discerning Simpsons’ viewer knows, the Chinese use the same word for crisis as they do opportunity. Spoilsport linguists will tell you that this...
Post A-Coq-alyptic Fallout
Had I told you 12 months ago that the site of a grimacing Francis Coquelin signalling to the bench would invite hastily penned obituaries for...
Alexis Development
Back in September, I had planned to write a column about Alexis Sanchez and my overriding impression that Arsenal had mishandled his return to action...
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