Friday, January 3, 2025

Tim Stillman - Page 53

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

Back in action, back to basics

The last crumbs of the international break are being vacuumed up and the finish line is now in site. As international breaks go, I have...

Readers aghast at the incredible shocking truth!

International breaks are always rather light on actual news. Given the paucity of Arsenal stories, I’ve decided to do what the professional journalists do in...

Singing for your supper

Having accepted that advancement to the quarter finals of the Champions League was an impossibility, I got what I wanted out of the trip to...

Prepare thy pants

It’s difficult to imagine that there’s been a more keenly awaited North London derby since April 2004. From the neutral perspective, the ingredients for a...

Cereal offender

As weeks go, this one has been a bit like finding out that you’re related to John Terry. Two distinctly different, yet equally disappointing cup...

The week that was, so it was

Stoke City are a cynical and rather brutal side managed by a perma-tracksuited hoof merchant. In that respect, Stoke were the perfect preparation for the...

A bit of grit

The 8-0 demolition of Stoke that I envisaged did not quite materialise. Then again, neither did my frequent daydream of Arsene Wenger dancing the watusi...

Slightly damp powder

You’ll recall that in last week’s column, that I gently suggested Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott ought to be scoring crucial goals more often. Especially...

Elegantly wasteful

If ever a week neatly summarised Arsenal’s season so far it has been this one. Listless, insipid and gripped with fear in the first half...

Wilshere changes the game and changes the game

As with most Champions League dwelling clubs, we Arsenal fans have been spoiled over the years by the quality of player we have borne witness...

Snarling short and curlies

In footballing circles, the Christmas period is always talked about as being unusually hectic. In reality, when one glimpses the eight games Arsenal (potentially) stand...

Slow, slow, [something something] slow

From feast to famine as the old adage has it. After a delightfully excessive and fattening 7-3 win over Newcastle, Arsenal promptly swore off the...

SUPPORT ARSEBLOG

LATEST ARSECAST

Latest articles