Stone Cold Friday Series

Every Friday, I write an article at A Cultured Left Foot, one of the most popular Arsenal blogs out there. In this article series, you can find the specific Stone Cold Friday Articles as published on ACLF. They are in chronological order.

1. The Establishment’s Anti-Arsenal Bias is a Blessing in Disguise

Published 04/09/2009

Inspired by the drama of the 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford, the article examines how Arsenal can overcome the innate bias from the English footballing establishment.

2. Examining The State Of The Arsenal

Published 11/11/2009

Let’s face it, nobody likes international breaks when we’re starved of proper football. What better to do than to examine the State of the Arsenal quarter way through the season.

3. Exposing The Myth of Arsenal’s Soft Underbelly

Published 20/11/2009

It’s in Chapter 2, section 4 on the manual of how to be a successful sports journalist or pundit. “Arsenal has a soft underbelly and that’s the story we’re sticking to”. We expose this myth in this article.

4. Examining The Gap Between Arsenal And Chelsea

Published 27/11/2009

Believe it or not, you could drive a Eurostar train through the gap. And no, it’s not because Chelsea are the world beaters that we’re told they are. Take a peak and find out why Arsenal is light years ahead of Chelsea.

5. Unite And Win, Divide And Fail

Published 04/12/2009

There’s no getting rid of the doom and gloom brigade. Unless Arsenal wins with a cricket score without conceding a single goal and with the opponent rolling over and dying in embarrassment, there really is no pleasing some fans. See my take on all this dooming and glooming nonsense.

6. Between The Sticks

Published 11/12/2009

You wonder why they do it. The most thankless job on the football pitch where the whole world and their dog scrutinizes every aspect of your game….sorry, your mistakes. Because the mistakes of a goal keeper of course leads to goals. This article debates Arsenal’s goal keeping situation.

7. Dear Santa…

Published 18/12/2009

Dear Santa, what will you bring for Arsenal this Christmas?

8. Arsenal AT Crossroads With Start of New Decade

Published 02/01/2010

It’s a new year, it’s a new decade, and it begins with promise. An Article reflecting over the last period and looking forward to what’s in store.

9. 8 Reasons Why Arsenal Can Win The Title

Published 08/01/2010

If I were a book maker, these are the 8 reasons why I would make the Arsenal favourites to win the league in 2010. It’s a good thing then that I’m not a book maker and no one is noticing Arsenal go about it’s business quietly – and this kind of suits us. The less notice is taken about us, the more folks will be shocked at the end result.

10. 6 Ways For Arsenal Fans To Survive The Season

Published 15/01/2010

A light hearted view about how to get through the long and arduous season as an addict of Arsenal’s brand of scintilating and sexy football. Contains 6 steps to managing your life as an addict.

11. Time For The Arsenal Boys To Become Men

Published 22/01/2010

How many times have we heard the nonsense about Boys and Men when it comes to describing Arsenal’s inexperience. I suppose sensationalism can be explained by the fact that newspaper columns have to be filled to sell papers and news cycles have to run 24 hours a day to sell advertising – but in this article, we examine the varacity of the claim that Arsenal has boys and other teams have men.

12. Why Arsenal Can Do Without Another Striker

Published 29/01/2010

It’s funny how the solution to every footballing problem is seen as “you have to buy new players”. Whatever happened to going back to the training ground and sorting yourself out. I don’t believe in the notion that players become useless overnight. Indulge in our debate as to why Arsenal can do without another striker, if they can’t find a suitable person in the January 2010 transfer window.

13. Time For Arsenal Supporters To Move On

Published 05/02/2010

A section of the Arsenal supporter base have a propensity to press the self destruct button every time Arsenal don’t win playing champagne football. To tell you the truth, this fragility and inability to withstand adversity is anoying and pathetic for most part. If only it were possible to actually get rid of such fans and get a different lot in who can actually figure out the meaning of the terms supporter or fanatic.