17 01, 2025

Villa fan vibes and Arsenal’s striker questions

By |2025-01-17T11:33:35+00:00January 17th, 2025|analogy, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

It's Friday, we've barely had time to breathe post the NLD, yet Mikel Arteta goes in front of the press at some stage today (at the time of me penning this) to talk about tomorrow evening's game against Villa - yet another 'must win'. Obviously looking ahead to that game is going to be the [...]

15 01, 2025

North London Derby: No extra motivation needed

By |2025-01-15T08:34:15+00:00January 15th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

The big ones just keep on coming and after Liverpool and Chelsea both dropped points yesterday, Arsenal have an opportunity to put the rough start to 2025 behind them by going and picking up all three points against The Scum. Strap yourselves in, boys and girls, because it's North London Derby day. Or night. I [...]

14 01, 2025

Jesus injury will force Arsenal to act

By |2025-01-14T08:30:02+00:00January 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Transfers|1 Comment

Was travelling back from South Africa to Blighty yesterday, so didn't get to pen any thoughts in the wake of that FA Cup exit to a United side who - like a few before them this season - basically scored with the one chance they really fashioned. And with the games coming thick and fast, [...]

6 01, 2025

Arsenal can’t afford slip ups when others slip up

By |2025-01-06T06:00:01+00:00January 6th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, History, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Well now, it appears as though we got away with one yesterday, eh? After the disappointment of the Brighton game, I think a lot of us had thought “that’s it. All over. Liverpool to canter to the title now” but here we all are, the morning after they have drawn 2-2 with what has been [...]

4 01, 2025

Another tough south coast Arsenal away day

By |2025-01-04T07:29:56+00:00January 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Is it me, or does it feel like we’ve played tough game after tough game this season? I get it - “you have to play everyone twice” as well as “everyone plays each other twice”, but still, it’s really felt like this is week after week in which we’ve had some super tough fixtures. And [...]

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 [...]

24 12, 2024

Solving the Saka problem

By |2024-12-24T06:20:17+00:00December 24th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|1 Comment

Happy Christmas Eve y’all. Hope you’re enjoying the Christmas period and, like me, are already moving yourself in to Gorge Mode like I am. My normal approach the day after Mike Arteta has had his press conference is to pour over every word of his ahead of the game on 27th December, but given that [...]

23 12, 2024

Arsenal need a repeatable game blueprint

By |2024-12-23T06:22:39+00:00December 23rd, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

I watched the mentalness that was The Scum against the Scousers last night in a Durban airport and although I wanted to see Liverpool drop points, it’s hard not to have a wry smile about how terrible Tottenham are at the back. Yes, I know they have injuries, but playing your back line on the [...]

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 [...]

20 12, 2024

Some teams get all the luck…

By |2024-12-20T06:52:16+00:00December 20th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsene Wenger, Attack, gooners, Gunners, History, injuries, League Cup, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant, Transfers|0 Comments

Happy Friday folks - hope you're all good? It's my last working day today and also my last in the UK for the next three weeks, as I jet off to South Africa for the holidays, so it was fun to learn that the Scum almost blew a three-goal lead in the League Cup last [...]

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