26 01, 2025

Congratulations

By |2025-01-26T08:48:25+00:00January 26th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, History, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant, referees|1 Comment

Congratulations to Michael Oliver. You made it all about you yesterday. You proved once again that your biases are clear when it comes to Arsenal and not even for the first time this season, you decided to change a game based on a decision that for 19 other clubs you would never give. Myles Lewis-Skelly's [...]

23 01, 2025

A routine Arsenal win (and about time!)

By |2025-01-22T22:38:09+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Match Review|0 Comments

Sometimes I write the headlines before I own a single thought on here. But coming out of the ground last night with Arsenal all but secured an automatic spot in the last 16 of the Champions League, that’s exactly what I felt, because we were never really troubled at all against a Zagreb team who [...]

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 [...]

16 01, 2025

Edgy, nervy, but a confidence-boosting NLD win

By |2025-01-16T07:29:46+00:00January 16th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, premier league|0 Comments

Football, eh? Most specifically, The Arsenal, eh? They put you through everything. Arsenal went in to last night’s game having battered two teams and been basically knocked out of two cups (I mean, come on, we’re not overcoming a 2-0 home defeat in the North East), piling up chances after chances in those games, with [...]

8 01, 2025

Arsenal’s profligacy in front of goal highlighted by excellent Isak

By |2025-01-08T07:53:55+00:00January 8th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, History, injuries, League Cup, Match Review|2 Comments

Sometimes when I watch Arsenal, I just have that feeling of “oh no, this is going to be one of THOSE games” and after we’d created a couple of good chances before Newcastle got their first goal, including Martinelli crashing the ball off the post, I started to have that feeling. It’s the feeling that [...]

2 01, 2025

Nwaneri slips in to an Arsenal team building momentum

By |2025-01-02T10:48:49+00:00January 2nd, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, Match Review, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Well now, that was much better than the Ipswich game, eh? In fairness, there is of course a lot to do with game state with all matches and the one on 27th at home was against a team absolutely battered in their previous match and therefore naturally not wanting to create a spiral of doom [...]

22 12, 2024

Arsenal’s efficiency against Palace is welcome indeed

By |2024-12-22T08:29:37+00:00December 22nd, 2024|Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Howdy peeps, from an overcast Johannesburg, in which me n the Management are spending our Christmas with friends. The time zone is a couple of hours ahead of the UK which meant I was able to time the watching of the game with an early dinner, meaning no disruption to the most important activity of [...]

19 12, 2024

Balance restored in second half – and we have a spark from Gabriel Jesus

By |2024-12-19T08:10:12+00:00December 19th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, League Cup, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

I said it as I was on my way home last night from The Emirates, but that was your archetypal 'tale of two halves' from The Arsenal last night, from attacking sense, I mean. Arteta suggested he would do a bit of rotation and I had a feeling that Tierney would make his way back [...]

15 12, 2024

Everton snoozefest shows Arsenal have a profligacy problem

By |2024-12-15T10:45:54+00:00December 15th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

That was absolutely pants yesterday. I said it in my match preview, I was worried that it would be a stinky 'non game' in which Arsenal would need to find the answers to a low block, long ball, deep lying team with very little ambition to go forward in Everton. That is exactly what we [...]

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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