Tim Stillman - Page 52
Bedroom blogger and professional Arsenal fan. Victory through sanctimony.
680 Posts
Here we go again
Another instantly forgettable international break is behind us. I’ve come to regard the interlull as akin to a Sunday morning beeriod after an evening of...
We could be Germans, just for one day
Assembling this week’s column has been a difficult undertaking. The transfer deadline arrives imminently and, at time of writing, there are still so many issues...
Bould’s influence apparent as the season starts
It’s back, baby. Whilst the rumblings of the transfer window continue to, errr, rumble, it is very good to have some on pitch action to...
Kubler caaaaaaant
Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. These are the five stages of loss as outlined in the Kubler-Ross model. We will be tourists in these destinations...
Drill a hole in your own head
Having been linked variously with Chris Samba, Scott Dann, Kevin Doyle and Kieran Richardson over the last twelve months, it is quite understandable that’s there...
Walk the line
The pre season tour of Asia is over. Desk calendars have been flipped to August. Money for Stoke away has left my account. Ivan Gazidis...
Dan! Dan! Dan! Dan! Daaaaan! Dan! Dan!
The pre season checklist is gradually becoming scattered with ticks. The season review DVD, the release of the fixture list, Sky’s subsequent desecration of the...
Theo Walcott ate my hamster
It’s summertime and the season of subterfuge is well and truly upon us. This week has provided a neat encapsulation as to why I always...
Is our chrilden learning?
Euro 2012 brought on a kind of pleasant footballing dialysis. We were largely starved of Arsenal related news but the tournament acted as a valve...
This is how it feels
You know, in my lunchbreak on Wednesday I actually penned my entire column for this week. It was a pleasant, if somewhat sprawling review of...
Handsome devil
The American satirist H.L. Mencken once wrote that “a cynic is somebody that smells flowers and immediately looks for a coffin.” It was a line...
Those old familiar faces
One by one, pre season checkpoints are being ticked off. The fixtures have been published. People have moaned about the fixtures. The new home shirt...
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