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Tim Stillman - Page 42

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

Let Me Hear Both Sides, Let Me Hear Both Sides

I was, and still am, a very big fan of Radiohead, but especially so when I was a teenager and they were in their pomp....

No Sleep Till Bayern

I promised myself I wouldn’t do this. Munich away. I have been three times before, twice very recently, and spiralling ticket prices mean I have...

All I Desire- Rotation

Over the last 6-7 seasons, a distinct pattern has emerged in Arsenal’s domestic campaigns. One of a pair of alternate realities almost always emerges; either...

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...

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