Young Guns is three years old today. We’ve been bringing you updates and analysis on Arsenal’s Reserves and Youth teams and players since the 13th of January 2008.
The concept itself has been around for even longer, closer to five years, but under the name Young Guns, we celebrate our third anniversary today. The development and input from Gooners worldwide has been exceptional, and 2011 promises to be another fantastic year.
You’ll be able to catch regular Young Guns features in The Gooner fanzine, available outside the Emirates on match days, along with regular articles in the Arsenal Norway publication The Gunners Post. We’ve also launched a brand new iPhone/iPod application, with an Android one in production, due to popular demand.
With over 10 million unique hits, over 7000 Twitter followers and over 1800 Facebook ‘Likes’, the following from Arsenal and football fans has been fantastic, and we’d like to take this opportunity to offer a huge ‘thank you’ to everybody who has read, commented or followed us off site in the past three years, and we look forward to your contribution in the coming years.
One new regular feature will be a monthly web-chat with editor Jamie Sanderson. It will start from 7pm UK time. The first edition starts this evening, and is your chance to have all your questions answered by Jamie right here on Young Guns. Stay tuned to our social networking profiles for more information.
Elsewhere, Arsenal will play Chelsea in the Fourth Round of the FA Youth Cup after beating Sunderland 2-0 today. The fixture, due to be played on the 19th of January, is at Stamford Bridge, with a 7pm kick off time.
Arsenal go into the London derby as the favourites, but know they’ll face a massive challenge against Chelsea, who are the current holders.
Further a field, Wellington Silva was greeted at Valencia airport by a media scrum as he prepares to begin his loan spell with La Liga outfit Levante. You can watch a video of him arriving here.
In transfer news, Millwall have confirmed Arsenal rejected their attempts to take Craig Eastmond on loan until the end of the season. Manager Kenny Jackett admitted he was willing to give Eastmond regular playing time, but the Gunners have refused to let him leave.