Arsenal is one of the most popular teams in the English Premier League. The best websites and online resources for Arsenal fans are described in this article.
Arsenal Background
Arsenal Football Club, also known to fans as The Gunners, are one of the most successful clubs in English football. They have won many trophies in their long history, hold the record for the longest unbroken spell in the top division, and are the only team to have gone unbeaten for an entire Premier League season. They have also qualified for knock-out stages of the UEFA Champions League ten times, a record held jointly with Real Madrid.
Official Arsenal Sites
Arsenal.com
The official Arsenal site at www.arsenal.com is an invaluable source of information for all Gooners, as Arsenal supporters like to call themselves.
Here you can learn about club history, check out information on the current squad, buy tickets for upcoming fixtures and much more.
Arsenal TV Online
Access to the main Arsenal site is free, but there is also a paid service Arsenal TV Online which provides audio and video coverage of games. Currently subscription costs either £3.99 a month or £45 a year. There are also some free features here, including Facebook chat, live texting and phone-ins after matches.
Live audio commentary is provided for all games, and video highlights of games become available at midnight following a match day. Full match replays are available, but only appear a few days after the game.
Apart from coverage of games, there are interviews with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, profiles of individual players and various special features.
Note that Arsenal TV Online is only supported for Windows machines, as it uses Windows Media Player and Microsoft copy prevention technology for video streaming.
Live Coverage of Arsenal Matches
Arsenal on TV
Arsenal games are shown live on mainstream channels fairly regularly, but the channels can vary depending on the competition. The fixture list on Arsenal’s website also shows which TV channels will be covering any given game.
Usually the channels to look out for are Sky Sports 1, ITV 1, the BBC or ESPN. Most of these stream their coverage online as well as broadcasting on regular TV.
The next live Arsenal games to be shown will be the matches at home against Wolves on Sat 12th Feb, which will be on ESPN3, and the home Champions League game against Barcelona on Wed 16th Feb, which will be on ITV1.
Premier League TV Schedules
ATDHE Arsenal Streams
ATDHE usually has video streams for most Arsenal games, compiled from wherever they are available on the net.
ATDHE only provides links on the actual match day itself. See the main articles on ATDHE and How to Use ATDHE if you need any more information.
Arsenal Players
The most interesting Twitter streams from Arsenal players:
Arsenal Supporter Blogs
There are many Arsenal blogs, but two are highly recommended.
Arsenal FC Blog bills itself as “providing thoughtful, analytical and entertaining opinion” on Arsenal, and with justification. The blog contains intelligent post-match reviews, well-informed discussion of Arsenal issues, and interesting views on topics such as transfer news and rumors.
A Cultured Left Foot is likewise a well-written, balanced and intelligent blog covering the world of Arsenal.
Both blogs have active reader communities, and you can get a sense of what Arsenal supporters are thinking from the extensive discussions that take place in the comments on blog entries.
These comments threads are usually very active while a game is in progress, so if you are not able to watch with other fans in person, you can at least share in the fan community online.
Arsenal on YouTube
There is a lot of Arsenal content on YouTube. You can find goals and highlights from recent games, watch classic moments in Arsenal history, and see tributes to past and present players.
Some examples of the best of Arsenal on YouTube follow.
Arsenal 3-1 Chelsea, Dec 2010 (Extended Highlights)
Good quality highlights of Arsenal’s vital game against Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on 27th December 2010. An important match won in glorious style by Arsenal.
Arsenal – 125 Years
An affectionate look at Arsenal’s history through video clips, photo slideshows and music. It does focus much more on clips of recent teams than the title might suggest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bRylghzdvI
Thierry Henry’s Greatest Goals
A very enjoyable, extended tribute to Henry’s Arsenal career featuring a ten minute selection of TH14′s greatest goals in chronological order with a running count of his total goals scored.
A little searching on YouTube will usually find interesting videos on any Arsenal topic that you are interested in.
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