Arsenal Review USA

The sight of a suddenly depthless Arsenal putting Liverpool to the sword -- all the while retaining a third consecutive clean sheet -- is almost too much for our van Persie-tormented hearts to bear as we pour on the plaudits for that player we love to malign, Abou Diaby, and ask a few questions about the club's all-too-familiar transfer policy. Joining us to pick over the many positives of Liverpool's latest feel-good reality TV show episode will be Garry Bowman of the Twin Cities Gooners, followed by FreshFootball.co.uk editor Oli Price-Bates for a discussion on the ramifications a transferless late transfer window could have on squad depth. We'll also indifferently cast a new Arsenal home kit into the stands, forget the Wanker of the Week (finally!) and do a weekly check up on American Gooner feedback...

Arsenal's offense goes impotent while the defense stiffens (…their defenses. Sorry.) for the second consecutive week, leading to over 3 hours of scoreless footy and countless Gooners restless for more signings. The podcast enlists Omar Shamout of the LA Gooners for some post-game review and Tim Clarke of Arse2Mouse.com for some in-depth discussion of the folklorish "holding midfielder." Also on the pod, the advent of new technology and a free Arsenal home kit turn the "Soundbite Contest" into reality and we nitpick of another inanimate object for Wanker of the Week……and that's about it. You DO realize we just drew Stoke 0-0, yes

The Arsenal attacking machine creaks to a start against Sunderland as the first game of the Premiership campaign yields a rather uneventful 0-0 draw at the Emirates. Returning to the podcast to pick out the positives from the draw is Elliot Smith aka Yankee Gunner, followed by The Independent's Jamie Sanderson to help us make sense of Arsenal's recent outgoing transfers...

Arsenal's annual soap opera programming jumps the gun as Robin van Persie suddenly makes his (true?) intentions known through a passive aggressive post on his personal website, followed by an opportunistic open letter written by salivating minority shareholders Red & White Holdings only a day later. What's it all mean for Robin's legacy? Who will now fill Arsenal's goalscoring void? Is it true the original draft of the letter got lost in one of Alisher Usmanov's chins? We'll attempt to answer these serious questions and pose a few more ridiculous ones first with Tom Barac from Gingers4Limpar.com and then with WeAretheNorthBank.com's Ben Smith, as well as provide a layup of a Wanker of the Week and the usual American Gooner guff...

Arsenal's benchwarmers make us taste the back of their crystal fists (sponsored by Arsenal Football Club) as they pull out all the stops in Euro 2012, something Gooners the world over will be loathe to see appearing 2 months late. Somewhere in the midst of the summer action are some actual Arsenal stars, so with the help of returning guest, ESPN Soccernet's Arsenal Blogging Correspondent Sam Limbert, as well as Euro2012 mole and Boston Gooner Jake Schuster, we'll set about picking over the temporary Arsenal diaspora and rate how well the boys are doing. Also our no-boundaries Wanker of the Summer Part 1, plus a quick report card on some mostly disastrous Euro 2012 predictions...

Arsenal stay true to their season-long form by vaulting, straddling, then ultimately crawling over their final hurdle of West Brom at the Hawthorns as they soldier past an early 2-1 deficit to clinch a vital win. The result is assured Champions League qualification, (continued) Tottenham subjugation, and some much-deserved credit for turning what initially looked like an unprecedented disaster of a season into a move up the table from last campaign. On the pod we'll finally roll out those End of Season Awards you've all been (not) talking about, plus analyzing the last game, the season as a whole, and expectations for next season we'll have returning guest Mike Kavanaugh of the Charm City Gooners, followed by transfer and loanee specialist William Benn from Arsenal Vision to discuss squad restructuring. Then to top the season off with some much-needed perspective, we'll be joined by Arsenal club historian Iain Cook, who will frame for us the reign of Arsene Wenger in the context of Arsenal's overall history, as well as fill us in on some of the club's current projects in preparation for next season.

Not satisfied to merely shoot themselves in the foot, the Arsenal squad turns to bipedal amputation in an attempt to drag out their 3rd place drama as much as humanly possible with an agonizing 3-3 draw at home to Norwich. No ant escapes the magnifying glass as we closely examine the result and look ahead to the team's now gargantuan finale against West Brom with returning guest Martin Tomlinson. Also thrown into the mix is some surviving loanee discussion, the last call for your End of Season Award nominees and well, just a whole lot of hope, really...

Arsenal continue their slow but just steady enough pace with a determined draw against the Morlocks of the Premier League, Stoke City, leaving the rest of us to wonder if we've already seen the best that Arsene Wenger's side has to offer this season. To help us pinpoint what a late season slump really consists of then will be USA.Arsenal.com editor Kevin Mooney, followed by an end of season report card with Elliot Smith aka Yankee Gunner and a Wanker of the Week deathmatch between (just another) sorry Tottenham alumnus and the most massive throng of despicable human beings the Premier League has ever known. Brilliant.