Good ol' Arsène and his day early pressers. He's enabled me to talk about the game ahead on Sunday a day early, which is great, because I've been dying to sink my teeth in to it. Well, I have been and still am, but that doesn't mean I won't be absolutely bricking it come Sunday. [...]
Stoke away is up there as one of those 'least desirable' fixtures I look for at the beginning of the season. If I was given the choice, I'd probably want it to appear at the start of each season, so it can be just got out of the way. A bit like ripping of a [...]
Today is one of those days where I spend my Saturday semi-supporting other teams, with Arsenal playing tomorrow, because I have some sort of weird theory in my head that if at least one team in the top four drop points, then that's a positive for Arsenal. The reality is probably that we need to [...]
Arsène delivered an update on the status of the squads health yesterday and, to nobodies surprise, there wasn't really anything to update. Arteta, Rosicky and Alexis are the closest and none are available for the weekend. The real irritating one from that three is Alexis, but given Arsène mentioned that it was just precautionary, hopefully [...]
It's Christmas Eve and here I am, in the middle of a Waitrose car park in stockbroker belt Surrey, having just picked up a few provisions ahead of a bit of a pilgrimage to see the in-laws just north of Newcastle. Yet all I can think of is The Arsenal. Yesterday Arsène gave unto us [...]
In this craziest of crazy seasons, where everybody can beat everyone (including Watford smashing the Scousers), consistency will be king. Those teams who can put together a winning run like - gulp - Leicester are doing at the moment, will find themselves within touching distance of the title. Tonight we're up against a title rival [...]
Well, well, well, my how the 'mighty' mighty have fallen so quick, so fast and so hard, eh? I wonder if, at the end of season party when all of the back-slapping and self-congratulating had finished, the chortle from the speech about how there is a team who only play in calendar years (the jibe [...]
It's all very quiet at the moment. Perhaps you would expect this though, given the fact we play on Monday, which is why we see only the occasional titbit of information from the official site. Today's informational advent calendar chocolate equivalent is Jack Wilshere for me (I say 'for me' because it was probably released [...]
If, as expected, Arsène confirms that Cazorla will be out for potentially three months or at least until up to March, then that would pretty much cap off what has been a pretty savage seven days for us. Sunday's point against Norwich started the bitter taste in my mouth, because two wins against West Brom [...]
Quite often with Arsenal, when you hear rumours about an injury lay off, it usually results in the reality being much worse than feared. Rumours of a three week lay off = out for six weeks Hearing about a month out = three out. Possibility of a return before Christmas = Christmas 2016. So it [...]