From Darryl :Theo
I told you a while back, Theo Walcott has the best off-the-ball movement of any player in England.
In fact its not even close. Now he should call Ian Wright and hire him to be his personal finishing consultant. One hour a day 5 days a week.
Once he starts gambling on defenders mistakes and hits cleaner shots with his left foot, he will become a serious menace to any defence.
Matt Doyle : Arsenal first eleven
Wasn’t that Wengerball for the first thirty minutes, pure and simple?
Can any team live with it? Man City with Kompany might be better, without… definitely not.
The Arsenal first eleven and any two of three centre backs, is as good, if not better than any other team in the Premiership.
From Steve Gorac : Speed Kings of the 21st Century
It was your finest headline. We used that for weeks and months afterwards when describing the Arsenal back in those glory days.
Your greatest line remains the one about the Fiery Freddie cocktail – never got my hands on one but I live in hope…
Would love to see Walcott defy the critics (of which I am one) but doubt it can happen week in week out.
Myles says:
Darryl’s getting a bit carried away on Walcott’s movement.
But his enthusiam is commendable.
If you post over 5,000 pieces, Steve, you will have typed 5,000+ headlines, often very quickly and sometimes at 8 a.m. when you’re half-asleep.
I can’t guess which period or match Speed Kings was describing.
To Matt, I’d agree that if Arsenal keep playing like that they could compete with Man City.
What I now see at Citeh, mainly there is two gifted playmakers supplying Aguero.
David Silva found Kevin De Bruyne with a pass so sublime than the gliding Belgian was able to smoothly reverse his pass to the far post to give Aguero a tap-in that 6-1 victory over Newcastle.
Any striker would love to have that perceptive pair giving him assist after assist.
One headline I do recall, because the piece got such a strong response, was The Bermuda Triangle.
That was about Arsenal being such a left-sided team that, whenever the ball went down the right flank, nothing came from it.
Something a lot of Gooners had been feeling for a long time.