Pre-season Straining Begins

As London Colney reverberates to the pounding of limbs and straining scales, pre-season training begins for the majority of the squad. The manager has had much to mull over and I am sure Steve Bould is chomping at the bit to get to work on organising a capable defence which was breached too often last season, even excluding the eight goals ceded at Old Trafford.
Whilst the focus has been on Arsenal’s strikeforce, the defence has probably been equally taxing Arsène’s mind. He knows he has some outstanding defenders who are more than capable of dealing with Premier League strikers. However, last season’s fourteen clean sheets in all competitions signalled a problem. As much as this, that the team conceded two or more goals o...