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Erik Ian Larsen: Why Arsene Wenger’s Carling Cup Approach Is Correct
September 2, 2010 – 20:25 | 11 Comments
Erik Ian Larsen: Why Arsene Wenger’s Carling Cup Approach Is Correct

I’m an ideas man. I came up with the plug-in air freshener when I was 11 years old, only to be thwarted by Glade a few years later (scorn and vengeance). I wondered why engineers …

One can be disappointed but still full of support, you know
September 1, 2010 – 21:25 | 47 Comments
One can be disappointed but still full of support, you know

As maybe some of you know, the summer transfer window ended yesterday and contrary to what many were hoping for, we didn’t sign a goalkeeper.
Let’s start by analysing how our readers reacted to all this. …

Erik Ian Larsen: How Arsenal Destroyed Anti-Football
August 30, 2010 – 19:45 | 56 Comments
Erik Ian Larsen: How Arsenal Destroyed Anti-Football

Blackburn Rovers are a team designed to beat Arsenal. Despite their lack of results against the Gunners in recent years, I’ve always considered Blackburn away as one of the toughest fixtures on our schedule. We …

Should Arsenal Switch Back To The Good’ol 4-4-2?
August 30, 2010 – 4:00 | 46 Comments
Should Arsenal Switch Back To The Good’ol 4-4-2?

With reports confirming that RvP should be back in training in 8 to 10 days time, its quite obvious that he should be in reckoning for the game against Bolton post the International break. That’s …

Blackburn vs Arsenal, 1-2: Full time analysis and player ratings
August 28, 2010 – 21:00 | 115 Comments
Blackburn vs Arsenal, 1-2: Full time analysis and player ratings

The Game
In my preview I said how Ewood Park was going to provide some answers and in a way, it did. Brilliant win which saw the beautiful game prevail on the ugly one.
Even if I …

Blackburn vs Arsenal: Team line-ups, half-time thoughts and match chat
August 28, 2010 – 13:00 | 2 Comments
Blackburn vs Arsenal: Team line-ups, half-time thoughts and match chat

The Game
Contrary to last week, few of us have this feeling that it will be an easy game for the Gunners as we travel to Ewood Park to face Sam Allardyce’s Blackburn.
After easing past Blackpool …

Blackburn vs Arsenal preview: Ewood Park to answer questions? Plus favourite line-up
August 27, 2010 – 21:30 | 93 Comments
Blackburn vs Arsenal preview: Ewood Park to answer questions? Plus favourite line-up

Without fooling ourselves, we all know last week’s game was more like a training session than a Premiership game but we also know tomorrow’s early kick-off will be much, much tougher.
Blackpool provided some positive signs, …

The Arsenal Q&A #1: Barca’s tap, Denilson & Alan Hansen
August 26, 2010 – 21:35 | 30 Comments
The Arsenal Q&A #1: Barca’s tap, Denilson & Alan Hansen

I can’t express to you how excited I am to do this. When I first started writing for The Gunning Hawk, one of the ways that I hoped to connect with Arsenal fans (and also …

Erik Ian Larsen: Arsenal fans, are you ready for a war?
August 23, 2010 – 19:00 | 38 Comments
Erik Ian Larsen: Arsenal fans, are you ready for a war?

I have a bit of football schizophrenia today. I’ve been trying to focus on one thing, the brutal 6-0 thrashing Arsenal handed down Saturday morning to lowly Blackpool, but there’s just too much going on …

Arsenal vs Blackpool, 6-0: Full time analysis and player ratings
August 21, 2010 – 23:00 | 86 Comments
Arsenal vs Blackpool, 6-0: Full time analysis and player ratings

The Game
That was fantastic. According to one of our readers if Arsenal wanted to show they can be title contenders they were supposed to win by at least a three goal margin today. And they …

Arsenal vs Blackpool: Team line-ups, half-time thoughts and match chat
August 21, 2010 – 15:20 | 2 Comments
Arsenal vs Blackpool: Team line-ups, half-time thoughts and match chat

The Game
It seems many believing it will be a very easy game for us this afternoon but with Arsenal, as they say, you never know.
It’s the first Premier League game at the Emirates and the …

Arsenal vs Blackpool preview: Easy or tricky? Plus favourite line-up
August 20, 2010 – 22:00 | 47 Comments
Arsenal vs Blackpool preview: Easy or tricky? Plus favourite line-up

Wow, that was a long week. The post-Liverpool reaction, transfer rumours, William Gallas leaving to join Tottenham, aliens needing a goalkeeper but failing in their attempt to abduct Lukasz Fabianski, players suffering injuries, some coming …

Midfielder Samir Nasri out for a month: Big miss or we can cope?
August 19, 2010 – 4:30 | 53 Comments
Midfielder Samir Nasri out for a month: Big miss or we can cope?

It didn’t take long for our best player of the summer to suffer an injury. Samir Nasri – impressive in pre-season – will be out for one month, an injury which in my opinion can …

Erik Ian Larsen: One nation, under Arsenal
August 18, 2010 – 19:15 | 86 Comments
Erik Ian Larsen: One nation, under Arsenal

A lot of people have started questioning my love of Arsenal because of my nationality. I’m American, I’m proud of my nationality and I distinctly chose not to hide it on The Gunning Hawk. But …

Why Arsenal fans should lay off Almunia
August 18, 2010 – 0:45 | 80 Comments
Why Arsenal fans should lay off Almunia

The Premier League kicked off last weekend and already Arsenal fans are pessimistic about the team’s display following the 1-1 draw against Liverpool.
Arsenal did not play terribly bad, we had lots of possession and control …

Liverpool’s match-after thoughts: And It’s Only The 1st Game!
August 17, 2010 – 14:55 | 59 Comments
Liverpool’s match-after thoughts: And It’s Only The 1st Game!

You could easily feel the fire coming out of our servers yesterday after Erik described our first game of the season as embarrassing and pathetic. Luckily, I put it out with the help of Fireman …

Erik Ian Larsen: Arsenal’s embarrassing opener
August 16, 2010 – 19:00 | 195 Comments
Erik Ian Larsen: Arsenal’s embarrassing opener

A point. We got a point. If you’d told me, when Arsenal’s schedule was first released, that we’d walk away from Anfield with a point on opening day, I would’ve kissed your forehead and baptized …

Liverpool vs Arsenal, 1-1: Full time analysis and player ratings
August 15, 2010 – 23:15 | 141 Comments
Liverpool vs Arsenal, 1-1: Full time analysis and player ratings

The Game
Some would say new season, same old Arsenal. We knew playing Liverpool on the first day of the new season was not easy but I believe we should have taken the advantage of the …

Liverpool vs Arsenal: Team line-ups, half-time thoughts and match chat
August 15, 2010 – 16:15 | 2 Comments
Liverpool vs Arsenal: Team line-ups, half-time thoughts and match chat

The Game
For a good number of reasons, it is almost impossible to predict the outcome of today’s game which we all hope to see end with Arsenal as winners.
With Arsene Wenger extending his contract yesterday, …

Liverpool vs Arsenal preview: So, so tough plus favourite line-up
August 14, 2010 – 21:15 | 66 Comments
Liverpool vs Arsenal preview: So, so tough plus favourite line-up

It’s the day of Arsene Wenger’s new deal with Arsenal, the day which kicked-off this season’s Premier League and of course the day I return with my previews.
I wish I could say I’m back after …

The wait is over, Arsenal fans have a new home on Match Day: Arsenal Interactive
August 12, 2010 – 21:30 | 93 Comments
The wait is over, Arsenal fans have a new home on Match Day: Arsenal Interactive

Arsenal Interactive
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The lovely people of The Gunning Hawk have worked a lot of hard hours, skipping vacations, picking up alcoholism, dropping alcoholism, picking it back up again because it just tastes so good, to bring …

Erik Ian Larsen: Barcelona, Your Tears Taste So Good
August 9, 2010 – 19:30 | 93 Comments
Erik Ian Larsen: Barcelona, Your Tears Taste So Good

Mmm, Barcelona, your tears taste so good.
The Cesc saga is FINALLY over (until January), with the Arsenal captain releasing a definitive statement through the official Web site about staying with the club, despite his …

Legia Warsaw vs Arsenal, 5-6: Full time analysis and player ratings
August 7, 2010 – 23:00 | 87 Comments
Legia Warsaw vs Arsenal, 5-6: Full time analysis and player ratings

The Game
No, Legia Warsaw will not serve after the change of ends to take us into a tie-break, it was football which we watched this afternoon, not tennis, and the score is a ridiculous one.
With …

Legia Warsaw vs Arsenal: Team line-ups, half-time thoughts and match chat
August 7, 2010 – 16:15 | 2 Comments
Legia Warsaw vs Arsenal: Team line-ups, half-time thoughts and match chat

The Game
It is Arsenal’s last pre-season friendly of the summer and what is supposed to be Arsene Wenger’s last opportunity to understand who will start against Liverpool next week.
It is a tricky game as it …

Erik Ian Larsen: Coming To a Theatre Near You
August 6, 2010 – 19:30 | 5 Comments
Erik Ian Larsen: Coming To a Theatre Near You

Morning Arsenal fans.
I suppose it’s not morning for you, what with the 8 hour time difference (does that mean if I’m writing about English things I get to start drinking?), but I have a …

Past versus present: Is our midfield as good as the Invincibles’?
August 5, 2010 – 19:00 | 57 Comments
Past versus present: Is our midfield as good as the Invincibles’?

Arsene Wenger, in his reign as an Arsenal manager, has challenged and successfully managed to overturn quiet a few stereotypes. Most notable being turning Arsenal from a ‘boring boring Arsenal..’, from a ‘one nil to …

Erik Ian Larsen: The best and worst of the Arsenal preseason
August 4, 2010 – 19:00 | 67 Comments
Erik Ian Larsen: The best and worst of the Arsenal preseason

I made myself an Arsenal schedule this year in Microsoft Excel. I used to print one right off the Arsenal Web site, scribbling tiny results next to the matches in multi-colored highlighters, but after learning …

Arsenal vs Celtic, 3-2: Full time analysis and player ratings
August 1, 2010 – 23:00 | 168 Comments
Arsenal vs Celtic, 3-2: Full time analysis and player ratings

The Game
Just like against A.C. Milan yesterday, Arsenal were in dominating form for good parts of the game this afternoon but shocking defending in the end almost spoiled the party at the Emirates.
In the middle …

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