Arsenal Blog

The English Premier League is the most fickle of businesses, where a matter of inches either side of a post can determine whether you are loved or loathed by your teams own fans. Just ask Nicklas Bendtner.
After troubling fans seated behind the goal rather than Burnley goalkeeper Brian Jensen last Saturday, the young Dane has put [...]

William Gallas is a graduate of the French Football academy at Clairefontaine. He started his professional career at second division SM Caen helping them to promotion as champions in 1996
Then Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri bought Gallas from Marseille in May 2001 for £6.2 million. He chose the number 13 shirt because it was his postcode [...]

Vermaelen started his career in his home country at Germinal Ekeren, which later changed its name to Germinal Beerschot after a merge.
In 2000 he joined the academy of Dutch club Ajax. He made his professional debut on 15 February 2004 in a 2–0 away win over Volendam
His breakthrough came when he returned to Ajax and [...]

Sagna started his career at FC Sens. Sagna made 87 Ligue 1 appearances for Auxerre and was part of the squad that won the French Cup in 2005. He also played in the UEFA Cup in each of his three seasons with the club’s first team.

On 12 July 2007, Sagna completed a move to Arsenal [...]

Arsenal will be looking to overturn a first leg deficit against FC Porto tomorrow night – a feat that the club haven’t achieved in over 30 years.
Many of the current Gunners squad hadn’t even been born when Willie Young secured a narrow 1-0 victory against Hadjuk Split at Highbury back in 1978, which secured progress via [...]

It would be easy, almost too easy in fact, to focus on the abysmal finishing of Nicklas Bendtner. The Danish striker has been in a decent run of form lately, finding the net in all three of his previous games for club and country. However, during Saturday afternoons contest against the Premier League’s perennialy poor travellers [...]

Almost two years ago to the day, Arsenal’s title dream was shattered on a day remembered for all the wrong reasons at St Andrew’s.
The Gunners’ slipped to a 2-2 draw against Birmingham City after holding a commanding two-goal advantage, and the image of William Gallas’ sulking in the centre circle was forever etched into the memory [...]

What a difference a year makes. Twelve months on from being booed off the park by his own fans, Emmanuel Eboue, the Arsenal full back, produced an eye-catching display as his side once again crept back into the Premier League title race with a 2-0 victory over Sunderland at the Emirates Stadium.
After a jaded looking Manchester United slipped to [...]

On arrival in the cultural city of Porto, Arsene Wenger would doubtless have been sketching the rough outlines of a footballing masterpiece as he seeks to create Arsenal history by becoming the first Gunners’ manager to win the UEFA Champions League. But Lukasz Fabianski, the young goalkeeper, left the Frenchman holding a blemished portrait on his return to London last [...]

Even the trepidation of 60,000 Arsenal fans at half time could not match the sense of injustice undoubtedly felt by Bolton manager Owen Coyle after the final whistle of a turbulent encounter at the Emirates Stadium last night.
The recently installed tactician saw his side take a shock 2-0 lead within the first half an hour [...]