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The Garrison

The Garrison is our page for our sporadic columnists and feature pieces on the Gunners first team.

Contributors include:

Will Benn

William Benn is an attractive and well-built Arsenal fanatic living within pie-throwing distance of the Emirates. Supporter 1995-2013. Football-ignoring idiot 1998-2005, so managed to dramatically escape enjoying the greatest moments of our recent history. Made it back just in time for the CL final, thank goodness. Still an optimist, if a touch more cynical as the years go by. Will, will be writing about Arsenal as only Will can. Did we mention attractive?


Brian Fettner

Brian Fettner, known on Twitter as @GunnerFaithful.


Martijn Stolze

Martijn Stolze is an unwavering Gooner since 1998. All the staggering highs and shattering lows have taken a toll on his health.


Barnaby Merrill

Barnaby is a mere stripling in terms of life and footballing experience, but a lack of much resembling a social life has given him great insight into the world of football, from both a tactical and a fan's viewpoint. He's also fond of a nice soapbox, telling fans how best to get behind the team and respond to the mind-crushingly dull tide of transfer rumours that fill everyday Gooner life.


Lewis Rowland

This boyhood Arsenal fan enjoys writing about the beautiful game and Arsenal in particular. Lewis writes match previews, statistical analyses and opinion pieces.


Queen of Suburbia


Christopher Flanagan

Christopher is a man so obsessed with football he started writing academic papers about it. Christopher has been an attendee of the Arsenal for 20 years and it's safe to say he has enjoyed several minutes of it. Writing for Goonersphere about the business of football, the law around it, and anything else that piques his interest.


Andy Stern

Andy is an Arsenal fan who attends as many first team games as he can, as well as frequently going to youth games. He's a firm believer in Arsene Wenger, and despises people who have 'always loved watching Borussia Dortmund'! Achievements: Once nearly bought Marc Overmars' house...


This is What Ambition Looks Like - Get Used to It

Some Arsenal fans are a whinging, moaning, good-for-nothing, humourless bunch of hideous cockwombles. 

Perhaps that's unfair, but many of them are getting on my (firm, gentlemanly) tits at the moment. Why? Transfer rumours of course! Well, not transfer rumours as such, more transfer realities. The early storm of AMBITIOUS SIGNINGS has subsided somewhat, which annoyed many, but we were still left with the pursuit of Gonzalo Higuain, which was on the verge of being done as recently as last Thursday. However, negotiations appear to have hit a Fiorentino Perez-shaped snag, and the deal is on hold at the moment. Which of course, led to Arsenal fans complaining.

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Top 10 Arsenal Players 2012/13

Welcome to the first post in Andy's top 10. This week we look at Arsenal's top 10 players of the 2012/13 season.

10. Olivier Giroud

Giroud began life in the Premier League somewhat slowly, and his lacklustre finishing at times began to irritate us Gooners. Whilst his finishing only improved slightly, Arsenal fans began to see that he was more than just a 'target man', and that despite his size (and stunning looks), his ability to bring a ball down and control it instantly brought something new to the team.

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Gonzalo Higuain - Your Guide To The Arsenal Target

Career in focus

River Plate

Higuain began his career at Argentinia-giants River Plate, making his debut as the age of just 17. He failed to score in his first season, but his second season saw the arrival of his first goal - scoring his side's only goal in a 2-1 defeta at Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata (yeah, try saying that when you're drunk!), Higuain ended the 2005/06 campaign with 5 goals in 12 appearances, not a bad record for an 18 year old. After his sensational double in the Superclasico derby against Boca Juniors, his manager Daniel Passarella claimed Higuain was 'destined for superstardom'. 

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