18 02, 2025

Does the Merino project have a shelf life?

By |2025-02-18T09:22:27+00:00February 18th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Last night I was cooking dinner and I flicked on Sky Sports to have in the background. Almost immediate as the first feature story they had one of their reporters outside London Colney talking about the role Merino played at the weekend, whether he could be 'the guy' in at number nine for us for [...]

16 02, 2025

Merino as nine keeps Arsenal’s hope alive for another week

By |2025-02-16T07:51:48+00:00February 16th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

Talk about a variation of emotions from the start, middle and ending of a football match, eh? On about 75 minutes Amanda messaged me and asked whether to bother with doing a post match Same Old Arsenal podcast. It'd been a pretty turgid game, punctuated only with the occasional bright spark from eventual man of [...]

15 02, 2025

Arsenal must explooit the wings against Leicester

By |2025-02-15T08:22:50+00:00February 15th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Morning folks.  It's matchday again! After a ten day hiatus, The Arsenal are back, the nerves are back, the trepidation remains and the trip to Leicester - whilst ordinarily I'd see it as an opportunity to potentially rack up some goals given their position and form - that is fraught with concern given our attacking [...]

14 02, 2025

Trossard time

By |2025-02-14T09:15:48+00:00February 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Ok Leo, all eyes on you now mate. I know you've looked a bit sullen at times, Arteta has talked about how you don't like it when you're not playing, so now is your chance to shine because you are basically going to play every possible game between now and the end of the season. [...]

13 02, 2025

The football gods giveth and they taketh away for The Arsenal…

By |2025-02-13T08:30:46+00:00February 13th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Yesterday I was writing about the rotten luck we've had this season in the wake of the Kai Havertz rumours. It felt like we couldn't get any more bad luck this season, the level we've had from pretty much August onward, but then I forgot the propensity of the footballing gods to keep on battering [...]

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 [...]

8 02, 2025

Martinelli’s telegraphed injury

By |2025-02-08T08:18:34+00:00February 8th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant, Transfers|1 Comment

Morning folks and welcome to an Arsenal-less Saturday. But of course Arsenal being Arsenal and this season being what it is (cursed), of course the dust had barely settled before we learned of another injury setback. If we all thought that seeing Martinelli get on the plane in the Dubai warm weather training trip was [...]

5 02, 2025

Arsenal’s slim chances buoyed by our good form

By |2025-02-05T07:50:55+00:00February 5th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, League Cup, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

The up side of playing this evening in the League Cup is that we find ourselves - well, I do anyway - quickly deviating away from the disappointment of TDD with a match in which suddenly there's a wee bit of optimism amongst the fanbase. It's odd because when the first leg of this tie [...]

3 02, 2025

MLS shines as Arsenal destroy Mr Stay Humble’s City

By |2025-02-03T08:12:19+00:00February 3rd, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Man, that felt good yesterday, didn’t it? After all of the hand-wringing about our lack of signings this month, after what felt like a very barren beginning of the year with us profligate in front of goal and virtually out of the two domestic cups, Arsenal turned up on a cold London February afternoon and [...]

1 02, 2025

Watkins waffle with City prep in full sway

By |2025-02-01T08:52:30+00:00February 1st, 2025|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to the weekend, in which we face yet another massive game tomorrow, so yesterday and today becomes all about the build up to that. Although having said that I do think the Villa situation is interesting. I listened to the Arsenal Vision podcast yesterday whilst out on a walk and I [...]

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