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Arsenal fans commemorate the move from South to North London

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It’s not often that you live to see your beloved club celebrate such a prestigious event such as 100 years in the manor which brought all their successes. On Friday September 6th, Arsenal fans will be brought together to commemorate the club’s move from Plumstead to Highbury, (or more broadly ‘South to North London’).

This unique day will begin at 3pm when Gooners will congregate at the Dial Arch restaurant & bar. The Dial Arch is located where the 1st Woolwich Arsenal team met, in Dial Square, whilst working in the Royal Gun Factory. They were very highly skilled in their job. Arsenal fans will get to see where it all began as well as enjoy a delightful lunch and talk about their own memories of The Arsenal.

The Gunners faithful will then move on to travel and emulate the journey which took place 100 years ago, from South London, to Highbury. At 7pm a brief visit to the former Highbury stadium, now Highbury Square, will be followed by a private event at The Gunners Pub on Blackstock Road, where all proceeds will be donated to a chosen charity. Celebrations will go long into the evening, also containing a guest DJ, Kiss FM frequenter Mike Delinquent of The Arsenal Horse, who organised these September 6th celebrations with Una & Andy from The Gunners Pub.

“I think it’s important for fans to remember where we started and what we have become. This club is special and has a wonderful history. What better way to celebrate the 100 years in Islington by making the exact journey our previous team did, all those years ago.” Mike said.

Mike, real name Michael Panteli, is a a lifelong Gooner and also contributes to new blog The Arsenal Horse (@TheArsenalHorse) with Gunners buddy Paul Hewett, who have both been to memorable Highbury matches over the years.

It promises to be quite a day for die hard Gooners, it’s expected to be a fun day! Make sure you’re there!

Special thanks to Andy Kelly & Mark Andrews.

Not buying a back up for Giroud could cost The Arsenal….

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Firstly congratulations to everyone at The Arsenal who somehow managed to persuade Ozil to join us, what a great great player and one that’s already getting tipped to be the biggest signing since Bergkamp. If he’s half as good as everyones hype we have got one hell of a player on our books now. But my problem is who he’s going to pass to ahead of him to bang in the goals.

It seems very odd that at the start of the transfer window Wenger started off by bidding and in Suarez’s case openly tapping up every available front man in world football, sadly he managed not to net any of them. This has led us to the position where all our eggs are firmly in Giroud’s basket, he is the only proper out and out front man at the club right now.

Giroud has started off the season in great form, banging in the goals, looking fit and covering a lot of ground. His recent work rate is only second to Ramsey and maybe that’s down to him feeling secure that he is the number one forward at the club, but in reality he is the only one. I fear for the worst if anything would happen to him as the back up is non existent.

Wenger has a few choices if anything were to happen to Giroud…

Podolski – Out injured for 12 weeks
Oxlade-Chamberlain – Out injured for 12 weeks
Sanogo – no-where near ready for 1st team action
Bendtner – Unfit to wear an Arsenal shirt
Park – WHO ?

So basically that leaves us Theo Walcott, who I have no problems in seeing him in a more central role. With his pace and ever increasing confidence in front of goal I have no worries that given some chances he can deliver the goods. But with our current injury situation who does that leave to play on the right side of attack? Ramsey, our stand out central midfielder who so far this season and let’s not forget when Wenger played Ramsey down the right he had a few stinkers and was subject to a few stupid boo boys. Not Ramsey’s fault, he is not a wide player, he is a central player.

We are basically screwed if anything happens to Giroud, for the next 12 weeks there is no plan B. Wenger has messed up in not landing an out and out forward and there is no way I can see Giroud playing 2 games a week and keeping up the sharpness and work rate he has so far this season.

So thanks for Ozil but he is just really papering over the cracks of a weak squad and the sad thing is there was still plenty of money left unspent

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10 Reasons why we will beat Tottenham + Likely starting 11

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1..We have a nice core players who know what it means to win and lose this fixture and a free transfer in Flamini who loves kicking them up in the air

2..We have Kos back after his unfortunate red card vs Villa

3..Sagna can go back to right back and has been one of our stand out players this season so far

4..Ramsey, he deserves the praise heaped on him at the moment, he will be key to beating them

5..They have lost Bale, none of the players they have left are even close to him as a match winner

6..The new signings they have made will not have had time to settle in and defiantly will have no idea how to handle the hot bed that is one of the fiercest Derby’s in British football

7..They have struggled to score goals from open play this season (the mikey mouse Thursday games clearly don’t count), we have scored 11 in the last 3 games.

8..Our Record Vs them…won 74 drawn 47 lost 54

9..The more hype and bravado tottenham fans come out with normally means the more egg on their faces

10..Wenger knows, lose this one and he’s going to lose what little faith some Arsenal fans have left in him, win and then spend big Monday and he might not be job hunting so soon.

Likely Starting 11 – Chesney, Sagna, Merts, Kos, Gibbs, Ramsey, Jack, Flamini, Santi, Theooo, Oliver

Prediction 4-0

COME ON THE ARSENAL !!!

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