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Gooner born in 1982 from Harlow, Essex, now living in Uxbridge. I say what I see - frequently wrong, but hey, it's just an opinion piece, right? Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
15 06, 2025

Arsenal need to just pick one of the delicious cakes

By |2025-06-15T08:58:09+01:00June 15th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, History, midfield, premier league|1 Comment

That pointless tournament in America kicked off last night and did so with the kind of 'bang' I think most of us were hoping for: A boring 0-0 draw. I didn't watch it, but Sky Sports thrust it into my eye-line on their website this morning with a match review, whose highlights included "Messi hit [...]

14 06, 2025

The Williams situation is something Arsenal should just walk away from

By |2025-06-14T08:48:29+01:00June 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners|2 Comments

Is it me, or does it feel like we're in a bit of a transfer washing machine at the moment? Going round and round and round with little changing... All I keep seeing when I log in to sports sites is: Gyokeres' agent and Arsenal still talking or Sesko bid is imminent or Arsenal still [...]

12 06, 2025

The Great Arsenal Striker Hunt of 2025 takes new (predictable) twist

By |2025-06-12T08:30:25+01:00June 12th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Transfers|0 Comments

Now it feels like a summer transfer window, eh?!? Arsenal fans getting pulled from pillar-to-post over certain players and situations? And of course it's related to the The Great Striker Hunt of 2025. Which is an evolution of The Great Striker Hunt of 2024. It's a bit like Home Alone 2; they've essentially taken the [...]

10 06, 2025

Arsenal rumours of rumours being quashed

By |2025-06-10T09:29:23+01:00June 10th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, midfield, Transfers|0 Comments

What's good about the world we live in these days when it comes to football rumours, is that even the rumours of rumours get reported on. Like last night, where a chap on 'The other platform' called 'HandOfArsenal' took to the platform to tell us all that there would be an article coming out in Marca [...]

9 06, 2025

Football fatigue for other teams is fine by me – not for our lads though

By |2025-06-09T07:48:26+01:00June 9th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, Internationals, press conference, Rant|0 Comments

I actually switched on the Nations League final yesterday for 15 minutes, just so I could have a quick look at Zubimendi, although I didn't get a glimpse of his goal. I did unfortunately see Ronaldo get the equaliser to make it 2-2 and then prance around for a few minutes afterwards as if he [...]

7 06, 2025

Gabriel contract could be a statement of belief from the players in ‘the project’

By |2025-06-07T09:01:54+01:00June 7th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, contracts, Defence|0 Comments

Normally when I whack Sky Sports News on in the kitchen at this time of the year, there's a fair bit of rotation on what the presenters are talking about, in terms of the different teams. But yesterday when I flicked it on after a long day of work, Sky were going fairly heavy on [...]

6 06, 2025

Merino’s versatility, Kepa’s ‘cheapness’

By |2025-06-06T09:16:27+01:00June 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, internationals, midfield, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

First thigns first, how about that Mikel Merino bagging himself another goal in what sounds like an absolutely mental international game last night, eh? I saw the goal as it did the rounds on social media last night and it was a well worked piece and a very fine finish from our Spaniard. For somebody [...]

4 06, 2025

Stay ‘calma’ over Zubi, Gooners

By |2025-06-04T10:15:57+01:00June 4th, 2025|analogy, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, gooners, Gunners, midfield|0 Comments

Wednesday mornings, eh? Not quite the weekend, far enough away from last weekend to keep any lingering happy thoughts away, instead if you're a desk jockey like me you face a full day of work knowing that the weekend still lies a little too far beyond touching distance. I'm sure that's why they invented midweek [...]

3 06, 2025

Focus on your own garden

By |2025-06-03T07:21:42+01:00June 3rd, 2025|analogy, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Transfers|0 Comments

This time of the year is always a bit funny, I find, because people lose their minds over stuff that hasn't even happened yet. But what is worse is when people lose their minds over what others are doing. I get it to a point though. Until something concrete happens with your own team, you [...]

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