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?

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Brian Fettner

Brian Fettner, known on Twitter as @GunnerFaithful.

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Martijn Stolze

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Arsenal's New Winning Spirit

Written by Albrecht Schulz on 24 December 2015. Posted in The Garrison

I've been absent from the pages of Goonersphere for some months now and not putting my thoughts in print was not the best of feelings. I wanted to write, I like writing, but every week I had so many other things in my life that it came short. And then there are all the topics surrounding Arsenal, but with time cut short the choice of topics gets very small and often there's nothing left as it seems 10 minutes before you turned on your computer all the things you wanted to talk about had already been written about.

Oxstracised: Why Chamberlain Is On The Outside Looking In

Written by Daniel Zeqiri on 17 December 2015. Posted in The Garrison

The primacy of squad depth and ‘having options’ is drummed into the modern football fan on a weekly basis. Despite this orthodoxy, teams who win the game’s major prizes typically base their success around a core of six or seven key players within the first XI who are considered immovable when fit. True, they have big enough squads to rotate when necessary and possess a layer of fringe players who can fill in without having too adversarial an effect on the team.

Where Does Wilshere Fit In The Arsenal XI?

Written by Daniel Zeqiri on 24 November 2015. Posted in The Garrison

It is often claimed that the stock of a player is never higher than when he is out injured, with salvation expected to follow his return as a matter of course. This a process with which Jack Wilshere is all too familiar; fevered expectation followed by lengthy spells of inertia caused by injury. He is a player who exists largely in-potentia; the promise of what he might produce in future greater than the memories he has provided so far. Wilshere gave an interview earlier this week outlining his desire to return for Arsenal’s festive fixtures, but keen to stress that he will not rush back and put his body at risk.