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Tim Stillman - Page 9

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

Good morning, Tim Stillman here filling in while blogs makes his way back from the Big Apple (normal service will be resumed on the blog...

Gabriel Jesus has brought Arsenal’s sense of chaos back

“You can pass the ball, of course and try combination play but when you can dribble as well, that means that teams have to cover...

What next for Fabio Vieira?

When Arsenal paid £34m for Fabio Vieira last summer, it was, by modern standards, a shock signing (in that, we only knew it was happening...

Organs of Leadership

In England, we have a tendency to lionise captaincy. Most cultures are informed by the mythology that surrounds them, literal myths, in the storied sense,...

Peeling the onion

During Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal reign, I, like many other Arsenal fans, have found myself referring to Liverpool as a kind of template for the rebuild...

Leandro Trossard- an ‘Arteta player’

During approximately the middle of Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal reign, Arsenal fans and the wider football landscape developed a shared sense of what “an Arsene Wenger...

Rollercoaster

On Saturday, Arsenal came from two goals behind to beat Bournemouth with a last ditch strike from Reiss Nelson. It produced some of the most...

Fluidity

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on Gabriel Martinelli and how the absence of Gabriel Jesus had impacted his game. Eddie Nketiah is...

Protection

“He’s fine, he got kicked quite a lot today again, but he’s going to have to deal with that, not every week, but every three...

Tweaks

Arsenal’s pace of 50 points from their first 19 games was unlikely to be totally sustainable for the second half of the season. The question...

Gabriel Martinelli’s Come to Jesus Moment

I think one of the things I have learned from watching football across the years is that player productivity never drops for no reason. There...

The second layer

Leno, Lacazette, Cedric, Pepe, Sambi Lokonga, Martinelli, Oulad M’Hand, Swanson, Patino. That was Arsenal’s substitutes bench when they lost 2-0 at Newcastle in May and...

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