11 04, 2025

Quick look at Brentford – long ball and high press from the Bees?

By |2025-04-11T07:23:03+01:00April 11th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

It looks like it's shaping up to be a glorious few days of weather here in London over the next couple of days, but will the football tomorrow evening match that, given what we saw on Tuesday and the fact we have our second leg of the Quarter Final of the Champions League against Real [...]

1 04, 2025

Saka’s return brings the boost we need for Fulham

By |2025-04-01T09:28:41+01:00April 1st, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Arteta's words yesterday that Bukayo Saka is "ready to go" were like a perfectly harmonious symphony orchestra delivering their first sweet notes to your years of a summer concert. We've missed the Starboy, we've cried out for his ability to change games, we've longed to see him cut inside and deliver end product for us for [...]

3 03, 2025

How does Arteta solve the current profligacy problem?

By |2025-03-03T07:40:52+00:00March 3rd, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

Morning Gooners and welcome to a new week. After the disappointment of the Forest game I said I'd take some time away from engaging with Arsenal content and that's just what I did. It was refreshing. Staying away from social media, not engaging with any football content whatsoever, not listening to Arsenal podcasts, or watching [...]

12 02, 2025

Arsenal wouldn’t be very good in a casino…

By |2025-02-12T08:32:24+00:00February 12th, 2025|analogy, analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, Ownership and the board, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

If Arsenal needed to bet it's house on something, you'd probably bet the exact opposite of whatever they do, right? "All on red for us" "Erm....yeah, i'll take black please..." I am, of course, referring to the news that Sami Mokbel broke yesterday about Kai Havertz, who is rumoured to have suffered a hamstring injury [...]

27 01, 2025

PGMOL double down on their approach

By |2025-01-27T08:19:26+00:00January 27th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, premier league, referees|3 Comments

Let's start off this Monday's blog thoughts by saying that if you are a person who is reaching out directly to anybody in the public eye and threatening them, their families, sending abuse from behind a keyboard, you probably need to take a long, hard, look at yourself. Online abuse is not ok, it's not [...]

19 01, 2025

It probably ain’t our season – the Villa draw might show it

By |2025-01-19T09:05:47+00:00January 19th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|3 Comments

Feel a bit down this morning. After the highs of the midweek win against The Scum, yesterday we were brought back down to earth and sadly, I think our title chances are probably all but gone now. We have 16 games left to play, Liverpool will beat Everton with their game in hand and that [...]

23 12, 2024

Arsenal need a repeatable game blueprint

By |2024-12-23T06:22:39+00:00December 23rd, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

I watched the mentalness that was The Scum against the Scousers last night in a Durban airport and although I wanted to see Liverpool drop points, it’s hard not to have a wry smile about how terrible Tottenham are at the back. Yes, I know they have injuries, but playing your back line on the [...]

17 12, 2024

Can history repeat itself from last Christmas for The Arsenal?

By |2024-12-17T08:17:11+00:00December 17th, 2024|analogy, analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, History, League Cup, Mikel Arteta, Transfers|0 Comments

I was driving back from the parents' place yesterday morning, before getting on with a day of work, so didn't have time to pen some post thoughts two days after the 0-0 against Everton. What I would have said yesterday, however, was that I was still grumpy about that game. It's games like that when [...]

13 12, 2024

Did Martinelli already hit his ceiling? Does he need to re-invent himself?

By |2024-12-13T08:15:25+00:00December 13th, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

That Fylham game still rankles me, you know, because it feels like even if we'd have sneaked by with a 2-1 and that goal at the end of the game that was chalked off for VAR would have stood, we'd be in a pretty decent position right now. We'd be on a winning streak in [...]

12 12, 2024

Momentum maintained with Monaco mauling

By |2024-12-11T22:44:55+00:00December 12th, 2024|analysis, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

That, eventually, was a jolly nice evening in the end. Don’t get me wrong, we had some perceived wobbles at times and particularly in the first half of yesterday’s ‘scoreline’ hammering of Monaco, we looked like that might be one of those “we’re going to regret missing our chances aren’t we?” kind of games. But [...]

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