26 04, 2023

Riding on ‘hope’ rather than ‘expectation’ for The Arsenal at City tonight

By |2023-04-25T21:44:38+01:00April 26th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

And so it comes down to this. This collective of Arsenal players have worked hard so much this season, they have led the table for so long, but unless the result goes in our favour on a ground in which we haven't won on in over eight years and have conceded 20 goals in that [...]

25 04, 2023

Does the Saliba situation and the ‘Holding System’ mean a ‘Hail Mary’ is needed?

By |2023-04-25T08:27:15+01:00April 25th, 2023|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

The all but official confirmation yesterday that Saliba would certainly miss tomorrow's game at the Etihad yesterday, sent a wave of Arsenal fans - your humble narrator included - into a wave of 'formation and play permutation bingo' and, I'll be honest, none of it was particularly palatable. We all know the issues of late; [...]

22 04, 2023

Late drama doesn’t change the fact: title challenge done?

By |2023-04-22T08:05:20+01:00April 22nd, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|3 Comments

Well, that’s that then, title done and the little hope we had of maybe ending our 19 year wait for a title has evaporated right in front of my very eyes at the Emirates on an utterly atrocious night - from a defensive point of view - for The Arsenal. Southampton had scored 24 goals [...]

18 04, 2023

Saliba injury forcing us to think ahead to that City game

By |2023-04-18T18:09:01+01:00April 18th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|1 Comment

Morning folks. Yesterday I put a tweet out about how I'd almost forgotten how rubbish Monday's are after a disappointing performance from Arsenal. We've been that good all season that out of the 28 or 29 match weeks (I know we are on game 31 but there have been midweek Premier League matches so sometimes [...]

16 04, 2023

Start fast and hopefully quieten West Ham down

By |2023-04-16T10:27:20+01:00April 16th, 2023|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Ahh man am I hungover. Started off with a stein at lunchtime and it slowly descended from there. So I’m feeling a bit fragile this morning. Don’t make my day worse Arsenal, please, I’m begging you. City made light work of Leicester City as we thought and so it means that if we want to [...]

9 04, 2023

Arsenal must stop the long Liverpool diagonals

By |2023-04-09T08:12:28+01:00April 9th, 2023|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

When I woke up yesterday morning I thought to myself: “don’t bother about City; they smash Southampton (who are terrible), it’ll be all on us for tomorrow, the media narrative will be set, just prepare for it”. But as much as you can tell yourself that, as much as you know what will happen, there [...]

8 04, 2023

Arteta plays a straight bat pre Liverpool

By |2023-04-08T08:20:36+01:00April 8th, 2023|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, History, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Tricky Micky Arteta had his press conference yesterday and, as expected, didn’t really give away much in terms of team news. I suppose the best news is that we have no fresh injuries from last weekend. That is good enough for me because at this stage of the season the last thing we want to [...]

5 04, 2023

Making a case for the increasingly likely start of Rob Holding

By |2023-04-05T08:05:33+01:00April 5th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

I didn't bother to watch the Chelsea versus Liverpool game. I already knew how the script would play out; Liverpool looking ropey, Chelsea not able to finish their dinner, a game in which Football365 has already labelled 'El Sh*tico' would be a waste of an evening. Of course I still wanted to know how the game [...]

31 03, 2023

Saliba’s injury and why we should all be worried about Holding long term

By |2023-03-31T07:55:08+01:00March 31st, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|2 Comments

I'm probably going to spend the vast bulk of today's ramblings talking about how worried I am with regards to William Saliba's fitness concerns, so before I do that, I'm taking a moment to remember the wonderful player that was David Rocastle. He sadly died 22 years ago today and whilst he didn't end his [...]

22 03, 2023

Time to ask some Tomiyasu questions?

By |2023-03-22T08:45:07+00:00March 22nd, 2023|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, History, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

Happy Wednesday folks. How we all doing? A bit better than poor ol' Tomiyasu, who the club confirmed yesterday had undergone surgery on his knee and he will be out for the season. Such a shame. Such a big blow to such a good player, but sadly we're now in to the territory where we [...]

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