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Ian Wright's greatest Arsenal moments By Jack Lacey-Hatton Few players are held in higher regard with Arsenal fans than Ian Wright. The legendary striker recently became the fourth Arsenal alumni, after Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp, to enter the Premier League Hall of Fame. A forward who had everything, pace, trickery, athleticism and deadly finishing ability, Wright wasn’t just loved because he put the ball in the net. It was the way he played, a street footballer with attitude, who could outwork and out-battle the best defences in the country. Wrighty’s relationship with the North Bank faithful was a joy to watch, as he hit 185 goals in all competitions during a seven-year stay at Highbury. It’s hard to boil such an amazing career down to just a handful of highlights but we’ve tried. Here are four of his greatest moments in a Gunners’ shirt.   A Dream Debut v Leicester City It would be wrong not to highlight the one moment Wright pinpointed himself as the bes...

Arsenal's best ever Boxing Day fixtures By Tom Harle Boxing Day football hasn’t been good to Arsenal over the years. We have played 85 games on 26 December and won 36 of them, a win rate that means fans would be better off troubling the leftover turkey. But watching the Gunners is still the best way to shake off the festive torpor and our trip to Carrow Road to face struggling Norwich has escaped the clutches of Omicron. Let’s take a look back to better times and six of Arsenal’s best Boxing Day triumphs. 2000 - Arsenal 6-1 Leicester City You couldn’t have scripted this one better - the Foxes came to Highbury joint-second and left with their tails between their legs. Thierry Henry scored his first of eight Arsenal hat-tricks on his 50th appearance, the Frenchman leading one of those irresistible attacking displays we were spoiled with. Patrick Vieira, Freddie Ljungberg and even Tony Adams got in on the act as Arsenal completed a rout and sent the fans home happy. The Gu...

If Arsenal join the European Super League we can wave goodbye to football as we know it By Adam Le Roux Well, that’s the end of football then. Goodbye, see ya, adios. The end of Saturdays in the sun, rain or snow thumbing through a programme and munching on a lukewarm pie, that sense of excitement as you hear the teams for the first time, and that sense of disappointment when no one within earshot wants to hear you views on why we were better with Abou Diaby in the midfield. The end of the nerve-racking final five minutes as you cling on to a hard-fought away win at Burnley, or the ecstasy after fighting back to claim a point against West Ham after being three goals down. The end of all those emotions, bottled up and released throughout the 90 minutes; the ups, the downs, the joy, the despair, and the end of thinking football really mattered.   What is football? We are nothing to football clubs, and the quicker we accept that the better. We like to think we are, because we would ha...