Tim Stillman - Page 46
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
678 Posts
The search to fill a dreamy gap
For the last few years, I have felt unable to speak too much about the ‘Invincibles’ side online with other Arsenal fans. This is because...
We’re on the run, no time for sleep
A few years ago, I had a colleague who was a Brentford fan. He’d temporarily relocated to Blackpool in the mid 1990s and also had...
On Arsene at 1000
'The biggest struggle in life is seeing what is on the end of your nose.’ So said George Orwell. Taking a step back from a...
Opinion, reaction, clicks and trolls
There’s a challenge I like to set to anybody I find myself discussing the issue of perceived ‘media bias’ against their team. I always ask...
Go away, Ned Ryerson
“If fatalism has a scent, Arsenal supporters wear it like eau de toilette.” So said Sean Ingle in the Guardian this week and he has...
Respect. Celebrate. Respecebrate. Celebrect.
Recently, during the London underground industrial action, I was door stopped by a wandering reporter at Victoria station. He asked me how my journey to...
Munich, Ox and a Wreh of light?
There isn’t a team in Europe at the moment that can live with Bayern Munich with eleven men, so Alaba’s penalty miss on Wednesday night...
Post-mortem the post-mortem
One of the more frustrating ‘cerebral’ aspects of a performance like the one at Anfield is the post mortem. It’s never particularly fun to ruminate...
Shake it up, baby
It’s notoriously difficult to explain to people that aren’t interested in football precisely what it is that is so addictive about the experience of a...
On the ladies
It may not have escaped your notice that Arsenal Ladies have undergone quite a churn of players recently. Steph Houghton, Gilly Flaherty, Ellen White, Gemma...
Finding a new balance
It would have been difficult to believe, back in the summer of 2006, that 17 year old Theo Walcott would still be awaiting his World...
Derby days
Generally speaking, I try to take Arsenal defeats with a measure of perspective and even humour. That’s not to say I don’t feel the gut...
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