29 04, 2021

Villareal preview: So much narrative swaying against The Arsenal

By |2021-04-29T08:31:37+01:00April 29th, 2021|Arsenal, Attack, Europa League, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

This is it folks. Crunch time. Game day. But not just any game day. We are here at season-defining game day. Again. Only today will be harder than any of the other season-defining game days we've had so far. For one thing the opposition are better than any other we've faced in the Europa League. [...]

24 04, 2021

Arsenal fans excel against KSE, Arsenal players decline against Everton

By |2021-04-24T07:13:34+01:00April 24th, 2021|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Ownership and the board, premier league, Unai Emery|0 Comments

I will get to the football that was played last night, eventually (and unfortunately), but first of all there should be only one place to start today's Arsenal-related musings and that is with the protest yesterday. Estimates between 2,000 to 3,000 fans were there outside the ground yesterday and in bringing together that many people [...]

16 04, 2021

Imperious Arsenal batter Slavia

By |2021-04-16T08:01:08+01:00April 16th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, Europa League, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Now THAT'S more like it, eh? That's more like an Arsenal performance that we can all get behind, appreciate and generally feel more positive as this dreadful season draws to a close, as Arsenal ran away 4-0 winners against a team who before the game had basically been proven by UEFA to be wrong in [...]

5 04, 2021

Arteta’s future: I’m becoming a Doubting Thomas

By |2021-04-05T09:30:09+01:00April 5th, 2021|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Europa League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Unai Emery|1 Comment

Bit of a provocative title for today's blog, I know, but let me just explain myself a little with my thinking here. Also, what with it being an Easter weekend, I thought I'd go for a variation on a theme... Yesterday after I'd written my usual match review on what transpired in the limp 3-0 [...]

1 12, 2020

Do you enjoy watching Arsenal?

By |2020-12-01T07:51:28+00:00December 1st, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant, Unai Emery|6 Comments

Howdy people. Didn't blog yesterday because, frankly, I just didn't feel like it. I've always enjoyed writing and writing every day about Arsenal has been something I've taken pleasure from. Then, when Arsenal have been bad and I've had to write negative stuff, I've still managed to get some catharsis from it. I guess that's [...]

19 08, 2020

Flexible formations for Arsenal ahead of ‘set systems’

By |2020-08-19T08:02:52+01:00August 19th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, FA Cup, Formation, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics, Unai Emery|1 Comment

Morning folks and welcome to another midweek of this weird pre-season we find ourselves in. What's weird about it is that even though the FA Cup is still relatively fresh in the minds of most of us (despite Arsenal's attempts to pour cold water on it through signings, redundancies, sackings at the top, etc), we [...]

14 07, 2020

Transfers or not, Arteta should inspire more hope in Arsenal fans for next season

By |2020-07-14T07:56:56+01:00July 14th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, finances, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Transfers, Unai Emery|0 Comments

We're all still a bit down at the moment because of the North London Derby defeat to a pretty average Tottenham team, but for some reason I haven't been as down as others, which is weird because I'm usually described as 'The Pessimistic One' when it comes to The Arsenal. But I just couldn't get [...]

30 06, 2020

Formations Schmormations (at the Arsenal)

By |2020-06-30T08:05:20+01:00June 30th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, Tactics, Unai Emery|2 Comments

Morning folks. Happy Tuesday. I hope you and yours are keeping well. I have woken up this morning in a good mood. Is it because I have no meetings today and so can just get through my 'to do' list without much interruption? Or could it be because it's payday? Maybe. But mostly it is [...]

17 06, 2020

Man City preview: How will Arteta react to City’s obvious threat?

By |2020-06-17T07:57:31+01:00June 17th, 2020|Arsenal, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

A match day blog. How about that then. I've almost forgotten what one of those looks like. But here we are a mere 12 or so hours away from the resumption of this Premier League season and even though we're playing City, even though we're probably losing tonight, I'm still excited. My expectations have been [...]

6 06, 2020

what could have been at Arsenal and what unfortunately has been – transfer thoughts

By |2020-06-06T07:29:21+01:00June 6th, 2020|Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, finances, Mikel Arteta, Ownership and the board, Transfers, Unai Emery|2 Comments

Well now, they've finally lost it at the Premier League and in trying to pump in crowd noise via the red button when the season restarts, we're going to have come to the last desperate grabs by the broadcasters to protect their 'product'. Selfishly I hope it bombs. That's because I'm one of the people [...]

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