Arsenal said goodbye to Highbury, its home for 93 years, on Sunday, 7 May 2006. Everything seemed to fall into place. Wigan made a fight of the match but Arsenal eventually prevailed 4-2 with Thierry Henry scoring a hattrick. After his third goal whcih was scored from a penalty, Thierry Henry kissed the ground goodbye.

Meanwhile, the Scum (i.e. ( Read more... )

Arsenal are through to the finals of the UEFA Champions League competition. However, it was a very nervy match by Arsenal who played terrible due to the fear of coming so far and stumbling. The goal that Kolo Toure scored a week back in the first leg of the semi-final secured the one goal aggregate win over Villarreal.

I just want to forget ( Read more... )

Well, the Gooner nickname for Tottenham Hotspur fits them perfectly: SCUM. They truly are SCUM. They are so desperate to win that all sense of sportsmanship is thrown away. An Arsenal player was down injured and instead of stopping the game to let the player get attention, they decided to take advantage of the pause in the game to score a goal ( Read more... )

A more controlled performance compared to the previous game. Arsenal was lucky to get away from a penalty call against Emmanuel Eboue when his legs tangled with West Bromwich Albion's Curtis Davies in the box but let's not get too far ahead.

Yesterday's match day at Highbury was designated Dennis Bergkamp Day as part of the festivities of the year ( Read more... )

Two words to describe Arsenal of their numerous scoring chances:

CRIMINALLY WASTEFUL.

As usual. They just NEVER learn. *Extremely livid*

This time, it was not Thierry Henry that was wasteful. He scored Arsenal's goal with the one great chance he had. The main culprit being Emmanuel Adebayor who spurned a few great chances to score - put free ( Read more... )

Bah! Arsenal lost. It was a fascinating match to watch though with good football played by both sides. However, all credit to Manchester United for being the better side on the day. Their team were better both defensively and offensively. The 2 Manchester United goals were scored by Wayne Rooney and Park Ji Sung.

Arsenal started brightly in the ( Read more... )

Arsenal played calmly and smartly. By doing so, they contained whatever Juventus threw at them. Admittedly, Juventus was generally short of ideas, even with Pavel Nedved playing and who was expected to provide variety. Arsenal could have scored a couple if not for some poor decisions by certain players. I'm not going to quibble too much as the ( Read more... )

A very good result by an Arsenal team whose confidence is sky-high after totally outplaying Juventus earlier in mid-week. No TV telecast of the match in Malaysia, so I listened to the match on Internet radio. Goals were scored by Emmanuel Adebayor (19th minute), Thierry Henry (25th and 46th minute), Robin van Persie (70th minute) and Abou Diaby ( ( Read more... )

I'M TOTALLY ESCTATIC!!!!!

Arsenal completely outclassed Juventus. This 2-0 win over Juventus at Highbury really outshines the matches played against Real Madrid recently. The way Arsenal played against Juventus blew away any concerns I had over Juventus. I'm very heartened by the way the team is playing and the results that they are getting by ( Read more... )

Quickie summary: Charlton imploded early on and Arsenal took advantage but was still wasteful. Thereafter, Charlton were camped in their own half doing damage limitation.

Robert Pires scored the first goal for Arsenal and Emmanuel Adebayor nicked the second (and his first home goal) in the first half with the third goal coming early in the second ( Read more... )