We all want to go into the new season forgetting about the past and looking forward to winning something: most supporters do. We read and listen to rumour and speculation and often overlook cold hard facts. Wigan, Birmingham City, Portsmouth and Swansea: all trophy winners during the Arsenal’s trophy hiatus ™, that’s a fact. Thirty-three consecutive attempts at a trophy have ended in failure, that’s a fact. Everything else is opinion and without facts all we can do is draw conclusions, make guesses: educated and otherwise, and engage in debate: heated and otherwise. With a week until the start of the new season it appears (I have carefully chosen the word ‘appears’) that our squad is somewhat thin. It appears that we will not be adding a marquee signing, and it appears that we are looking at a season of disappointment. It is absolutely conjecture because what we the supporters, the Bloggers, the Tweeters and all other interested parties lack is information. This lack of inform...
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