Tim Stillman - Page 39
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
676 Posts
Arsenal’s Big Game Breakdown
In 2015, Arsenal have won away at Manchester City, home and away against Manchester United, and have comprehensively beaten Liverpool at home. This week, Bayern...
Gabriel’s Dreams Coming True
This week, Arsenal media released a pair of videos profiling the life and career of Brazilian centre half Gabriel. What is so unusual about Gabriel...
Theo-logy
Arsene Wenger regards a player’s best position as a totally malleable concept, dependent entirely on how the team is balanced. His conversions of Thierry Henry...
Send in the clowns
Watching Arsenal in the Champions League is a maddening, almost hallucinogenic experience. When you wrench your knuckles free from your teeth and remove the caps...
Spurs Away
I began attending live football in 1992, at the outset of football’s gradual chrysalis into gentrification. I only visited Highbury once before it became an...
The Music of the Spheres
Arsenal’s striker situation has generated many column inches over recent weeks. The failure to find that centre forward dog in the window, multiplied by the Gunners’...
Stone Cold Dead in the Market
Arsenal and the transfer market is a thorny, but absorbing subject. The manager has a reputation not so much for pinching pennies as clutching them...
Coq-less Crew
The modern obsession with transfers and the publications produce streams of transfer pornography mean that new signings are a topic never entirely removed from the...
New Balance
“ Zidane went to Real Madrid, he played on the left. There was never a debate and he had to play there. It is a...
Left-Back: Kieran Gibbs
During Kieran Gibbs’ nascent seasons in the first team, popular opinion suggested that the barriers his barriers to stardom were purely physical. He turns 25...
Community Spirit
Whereas it once was an eagerly awaited showpiece, it resembles in the modern age little more than another public training exercise for sides who are...
Here’s To You Mathieu Flamini
Over the years Arsenal have and have had plenty of players that have divided opinion, many that have been universally adored and a few that...