::: FistedAway welcomes a guest post from Elliott, editor of the rather lovely Futfanatico ::: If the summer was bad for the Gunners, the start to the season was even worse. No Nasri. No Fabregas. Fine. But the loss to injury of Jack Wilshere was devastating, and Arsenal touched bottom in a humiliating loss to rivals Manchester [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Arsenal’
Defiant Wenger silences critics and boldly predicts title run
Posted in News, tagged Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Cesc Fabregas, Futfanatico, Manchester City, Manchester United, Robin van Persie, Samir Nasri, Sunderland on October 19, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Futfanatico: Flying Dutchmen? The Startling Story of Arjen Robbin Van Persie
Posted in Guestpostery, tagged Arjen Robben, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Bert van Marwijk, Champions League, Holland, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Michael Owen, Owen Hargreaves, Robin van Persie, Spain, WC2010, World Cup on November 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
::: FistedAway today welcomes a guest post from Elliott, editor of the rather lovely Futfanatico ::: Not since the Frankenstein-themed tale of Michael Owen Hargreaves has such a sad injury story buzzed to our attention. But during this last World Cup, we noticed two very odd occurrences. First, Robin Van Persie was playing soccer. Second, Arjen [...]
Arsenal apparently don’t like it up, across, through, or lunging recklessly into them
Posted in News, tagged Aaron Ramsey, alan hansen, alan shearer, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Chris Kamara, Ian Payne, Mark Lawrenson, MOTD, Robbo Robson, Ryan Shawcross, Stoke on March 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Following painstaking research from the nation’s leading football pundits, and Robbo Robson, it has been discovered that many Arsenal players – amazingly – do not take kindly to being maimed every other year. As well as not relishing the time-honoured British traditions of seeing their stricken teammates’ limbs hanging off by a spindly thread and [...]
A Portrait of the Arsenalist as a Young Man – guestpost at Run of Play
Posted in Guestpostery, tagged Arsenal, Robin van Persie, Run of Play on November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Head on over to the incomparable The Run of Play to read our guestpost featuring some exclusive extracts from the diary of van Persie’s father from when young Robin was an aspiring artist. ::: A Portrait of the Arsenalist as a Young Man ::: WARNING: This post was produced in an environment where History of [...]
Arsene Wenger disgusted by Birmingham City fans for ‘sick’ Jasper Carrott chants
Posted in News, tagged Alan Davies, Alex McLeish, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Birmingham City, Carson Yeung, Franck Queudrue, Jasper Carrott, Lee Bowyer, Liam Ridgewell, Stewart Lee on October 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Bad blood rose to the surface of old wounds at the Emirates on Saturday. Following a deeply unfunny quip from the stadium announcer, the Birmingham City fans in the away end launched into a lusty appreciation of the ‘funny’ man and City fan Jasper Carrott, disgusting Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. “Frankly, that is atrocious” spat [...]
Adebayor’s medical reveals heart defect : He doesn’t have one
Posted in News, tagged Adebayor, Arsenal, Eto'o, Garry Cook, Kaka, Manchester City on July 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Emmanuel Adebayor’s £25m move to Manchester City was almost jeopardised last night with the discovery of a curious heart defect. According to club doctor Marc Whitaker, Adebayor has somehow been playing football for a whole year without a heart.
Emmanuel Eboué tragically forgets that he is Emmanuel Eboué
Posted in News, tagged Arsenal, Bacary Sagna, Emirates, Emmanuel Eboue, Henry Winter, Martin Samuel, theo walcott on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Following his agent’s announcement that Emmanuel Eboué will only leave Arsenal for one of the big Italian clubs, the Ivorian’s friends have expressed concern that he has failed to realise that he is actually Emmanuel Eboué reports Nigel Spickanspan.
Arsenal finally achieve long-term ambition: passing the ball into the net
Posted in Lazy video post, tagged Arsenal, cesc, fabregas, wenger on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WENGER: “Let’s go home, kids” KIDS: “We are home” WENGER: “That was fast…”
Premier League Predictions from Lawstrodamus
Posted in News, tagged Arsenal, Chelsea, EPL, Kevin Fucking Davies, Liverpool, Man Utd, Mark Lawrenson, Premier League, Robbie Keane, Tottenham on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SATURDAY Arsenal v Bolton “Stained with murder and enormous adulteries, Great enemy of the entire human race: One who will be worse than his grandfathers, uncles or fathers, Kevin Davies is just letting him know he’s there Gary“ Aston Villa v West Brom “The great empire will be for England, The all-powerful one for more [...]