17 02, 2024

Positive news on returning players for Arteta – some rotation against Burnley?

By |2024-02-17T08:03:20+00:00February 17th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Preview, premier league|0 Comments

Matchday it is and it's a chance to keep pace with Liverpool and City. City play in the evening, Liverpool play at lunchtime and given the two opponents they have, I'm not expecting us to have anything beneficial come out of their two games, so we simply must do the business against Burnley in the [...]

10 02, 2024

Will we see Zinchenko, Jesus, Tomi or Kiwior tomorrow?

By |2024-02-10T11:24:52+00:00February 10th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, injuries, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to Saturday. We've still got over 24 hours until we rock up at The London Stadium (one of the worst to get in and out of I've ever experienced, I have to say) and yesterday Arteta was doing his usual press conference stuff in the afternoon to give us an insight [...]

15 01, 2024

Gambling on Zinchenko’s fitness

By |2024-01-15T07:57:29+00:00January 15th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

Morning folks and a happy Monday to you and yours. Well...as happy as a Monday as you're going to get when there's been no Arsenal on and you've had to sit through a Man United versus Tottenham game in which both sides looked a little bit pants. The night before I'd watched a ding-dong of [...]

11 01, 2024

The delicate Partey balance

By |2024-01-11T10:47:14+00:00January 11th, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, premier league|1 Comment

Yesterday I saw the news emanating from a few sources that Thomas Partey is close to a return to the side and that the club are potentially earmarking the Nottingham Forest game as a match in which he could play a part. My first reaction was a Futurama Professor Farnsworth-style "Good news everyone!" reaction. We have [...]

4 01, 2024

The timely re-integration of Thomas Partey?

By |2024-01-04T08:49:10+00:00January 4th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

With Mikel Arteta not doing his press conference until tomorrow lunchtime, it's up to us to start doing ALL THE SPECULATIONS on the game we have on Sunday, which was of course ably delivered on the Same Old Arsenal Podcast with the two James' last night. James J went for a 1-0 scraper and I [...]

14 12, 2023

The tricky January questions Arsenal need to address

By |2023-12-14T08:55:16+00:00December 14th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Transfers|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to Thursday. I have my work Christmas party this evening, so whether I'm in any fit state tomorrow morning to drop a few words on this virtual page I don't know, but for now I'm good so will crack on for now, although there hasn't been a presser, there's little more [...]

8 12, 2023

Arsenal and Arteta’s control – we’re getting used to it

By |2023-12-08T07:26:46+00:00December 8th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Tactics|0 Comments

Last night after I'd had my dinner I quickly checked my phone to see the Scum v West Ham score. It was about 20 minutes in and I saw that they had bagged one early so I put my phone down and tucked in to some festive TV. "I'm not watching the media love in of [...]

10 11, 2023

The Partey is over – time for Arsenal to move on

By |2023-11-10T08:08:52+00:00November 10th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, gooners, Gunners, injuries, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, referees|3 Comments

Morning all and welcome to Friday. We're just over 24 hours until we take to the field against Burnley and we'll hear from Mikel at some stage today about the team news for this one and I'm sure he'll be asked about the fitness of a certain Thomas Partey, with whom the noises are now [...]

31 10, 2023

Saka is bullish on his availability, but that still won’t stop us worrying

By |2023-10-31T09:07:47+00:00October 31st, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard were yesterday confirmed as being two of the top 'something-or-other' on the Balloon D'or awards yesterday, with the competition once again being won by Messi in what is football's biggest popularity contest. I'm pleased for Bukayo and Martin to get the accolades for their performance, but the competition in itself [...]

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