Best wishes to all the Gooners out there. Hey, if you are in the New York City area, I’m planning on coming out of the secret ArseAm headquarters to make a rare public appearance.

I’m planning on hitting Nevada Smith’s on Sunday. It’s possible (fingers crossed) that I’ll have the ArseAm banner with me! Also, I’m planning on bringing some terrific 2004 Arsenal FC Calendars, courtesy of the awesome folks at Danilo. Go check them out.

Also, I have a copy of Arsenal Club Manager. Plus, a copy of ?Rebels For The Cause ? The Alternative History Of Arsenal Football Club?. , by Jon Spurling.

So, come on down and say hi, you could walk away with something cool.

It seems that during the summer a lot of people were pleading for us to get a new defender. I preached patience and said that a renewed TEAM effort would help and that Cygan would settle in. I think for the most part I have been proven right. However, I must say that even I did acknowledge that the defense would be a danger area.

At the halfway point however it has turned out to be a strong point. We have six clean sheets in our last nine games and have allowed the fewest goals in the Premiership.

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Just checking out some stats. We have 45 points at the halfway point. On pace for 90 points, the most in Arsenal history I believe. We had 87 in 01/02.

Here are are recent totals:
93/94 – 71
94/95 – 51 – ugh.
95/96 – 63
96/97 – 68 – heading in the right direction.
97/98 – 78 – Bonjour, Mssr. Wenger
98/99 – 78
99/00 – 73
00/01 – 70
01/02 – 87
02/03 – 78

Unbelievably, we may need all 90 to take the title, or more.