20 11, 2024

Arsenal need to ‘bang’ – and ‘bang’ now

By |2024-11-20T08:04:05+00:00November 20th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

It's interesting how much introspection the international break brings out in us, isn't it, eh? Actually, not just us, but the media too. I've seen a Football365 article ranking Arteta in as 13th in terms of a manager 'power rankings' style approach to the season so far. I guess when you take a helicopter view [...]

19 11, 2024

Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus are at an Arsenal crossroads

By |2024-11-19T08:29:03+00:00November 19th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Internationals, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

In a clear act of mercy for our current injury plight, the footballing gods (and Spain manager Luis De La Fuente) saw fit to rest both Raya and Merino last night, as Spain beat Switzerland in what sounds like quite a compelling match. I wouldn't know; international football and all that... Tonight the gauntlet is [...]

18 11, 2024

Arsenal’s injury woes feel never-ending right now…

By |2024-11-18T08:15:39+00:00November 18th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

This season has absolutely battered Arsenal with injuries from day one, so perhaps it is no surprise that I've woken up this morning to jot down some thoughts, only to find that Leandro Trossard limped off after 37 minutes in Belgium's 1-0 defeat to Israel in Budapest yesterday. I haven't read any comments that talk [...]

14 11, 2024

White’s injury blow shows this season might be a cursed one for The Arsenal

By |2024-11-14T07:36:21+00:00November 14th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, premier league|0 Comments

The last few words I said on my blog post from yesterday: As Arteta said in the wake of the Chelsea game, it’s been eight weeks of consistent players going down with niggles, so we need to just get through this final international window and then get some flipping players back! Famous last words, eh? [...]

13 11, 2024

Odegaard’s return important and sensible

By |2024-11-13T09:21:55+00:00November 13th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, injuries, Internationals, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

When Norway boss Solbakken called up Odegaard, I naturally feared the worst, as I'm sure you did too. Footballers are a little different from you and I, you see, because where I personally would happily tell England to 'do one', they want to play for their national teams in these pointless glorified friendlies. So I [...]

12 11, 2024

Can we FINALLY get some real change at PGMOL now please?

By |2024-11-12T08:03:15+00:00November 12th, 2024|History, premier league, Rant, referees|0 Comments

There's only really one place to start today, eh? David Coote. Winning of the "I'm going to send Tomiyasu off for breathing on Jordan Ayew" award for farcical refereeing, was yesterday suspended from duties by the PGMOL, pending an investigation into his conduct. The video that leaked - a pretty clear-cut case of two blokes having [...]

11 11, 2024

Frustration at the Bridge for The Arsenal, but positive signs are there

By |2024-11-11T07:48:30+00:00November 11th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Before the game yesterday I would have taken the point. Sod the context of Liverpool being nine clear of us and screw the fact that you don't get many chances to overtake City and make ground on them, this was an away game against a tough opponent who had been in decent form. Yet after [...]

10 11, 2024

Rice’s availability could be the difference at Stamford Bridge for today’s game

By |2024-11-10T10:21:55+00:00November 10th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Yesterday's City defeat has cast today's game in a slightly different light I think. I still believe that if Arsenal lose, we're probably out of the title race, but a draw puts us one point closer to them and although Liverpool will be nine points clear of us, that isn't unsurmountable. Liverpool won against Villa [...]

9 11, 2024

Does Arteta have something up his sleeve for Chelsea?

By |2024-11-09T08:43:53+00:00November 9th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Mikel Arteta had his say ahead of tomorrow's tough encounter with Chelsea yesterday and, as usual, he was relatively tight-lipped on who was available. He confirmed that Declan Rice hadn't trained as of yesterday and I guess we all have to hope that his admission that he 'has to be vague' is just his way [...]

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