By Myles Palmer It has to be said that Arsenal have handled the Vieira Wants To Go saga rather well.Yes, Wenger was very, very depressed about it. But Dein stuck to his immediate statement that PV was not for sale…
By Myles Palmer Roma 1 Arsenal 0 _________________ Excellent first half with Montella scoring just on halftime.But C5 were showing a replay of a Ljungberg shot,so we did not see how the goal came about. All we saw was Batistuta…
By Myles Palmer Roma 1 Arsenal o __________________ Roma were almost on home turf, having been at their favourite training complex in Austria for the past 15 days. They have trained there pre-season for the past six years…
By Myles Palmer A year ago the whisper was that Arsene Wenger fancied playing Lauren at right back, taking over from Lee Dixon.Clearly, that did not work out during 2000/2001.Now, a year down the line, Wenger played him at right…
By Myles Palmer Real Mallorca 0 Arsenal 2_________________________ I wanted to see Bergkamp play with Jeffers, but Arsene Wenger fielded a completely different team after half time. Both Arsenals beat Mallorca 1-0. They might meet again in the Champions League…
By Myles Palmer Dein and Wenger really did play hardball, as I always hoped they would ! I was told this morning, via a very highly placed source, that when Patrick Vieira reported for training they simply sat him down…
By Myles Palmer There are 22 days till the Middlesbrough-Arsenal match and that is a long time in football. Gooners can see Arsenal v Real Mallorca on Eurosport on Monday night and the Roma game is on C5 on Wednesday…
By Myles Palmer The appallingly greedy Real Madrid, led by their megalomaniac president Florentine Perez, will be quite happy today if they think they are getting Patrick Vieira in a year’s time.Spanish papers were quoting the loathsome Marc Roger last…
By Myles Palmer None of the Confederation Cup trio will play against Rushden & Diamonds in Northants tomorrow. No Pires, no Wiltord, no Vieira.Interest will therefore centre round Jeffers and van Bronckhorst. It was typical of Wenger’s approach that he…
By Myles Palmer My pal Philippe Auclair had an hour with Arsene last week, but asked me to keep quiet about what the manager said until his interview appeared in France Football yesterday.Wenger talked about the key issue in similar…