1 09, 2025

Arsenal hit the wrong side of the fine margins

By |2025-09-01T07:55:28+01:00September 1st, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

The overriding feeling I have this morning is one of frustration. Frustration that we didn't remove the hoodoo of not winning at Anfield. Frustration that we didn't make a solid first half a great second. Frustration at the injuries. Frustration at a prevailing media narrative that 'Arsenal got what they deserved', like we didn't cancel [...]

30 08, 2025

Keeping everyone happy at Arsenal

By |2025-08-30T07:59:32+01:00August 30th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Transfers|1 Comment

Happy Hincapie Saturday folks! Although Arteta was tight-lipped on that arrival, the Ornbomb has already dropped and it appears we're loan-optioning him for the season and clearly we'll drop the actual cash on Leverkusen's lap in the summer of 2026, which makes sense given that we probably don't have the cash lying around to make [...]

27 08, 2025

Even Arsenal fans don’t know how we’ll line up…

By |2025-08-27T09:29:50+01:00August 27th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, Defence, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

With it being Wednesday and still a good four days until the game against Liverpool, I've still been drinking in some of the Eze stuff, whilst also watching the odd tactical review of the game against Leeds. I said before that game that I thought it was difficult to know what Leeds team would turn [...]

26 08, 2025

Big squads and Ecuadorians

By |2025-08-26T08:27:15+01:00August 26th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Defence, finances, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Transfers|0 Comments

I thought about watching the Newcastle v Liverpool game, but ended up doing a BBQ instead and when we'd finished eating, I flicked on the TV to see Liverpool two-goals up and Newcastle down to ten men so I said to myself "no chance I'm watching the rest of that game" and switched it off [...]

18 08, 2025

An Un-Arteta-like performance, but grinding out a win can’t be sniffed at

By |2025-08-18T08:21:14+01:00August 18th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|2 Comments

There's two things you absolutely cannot do in life: Look a gift horse in the mouth Scoff at three points at Old Trafford There's plenty of time for us to all look at the performance, the individual clunkiness of some of the players and the fact that this felt like a very 'Un-Arteta'-like Arsenal performance, [...]

17 08, 2025

Arteta’s options show our strength – we need to prove it against Man United

By |2025-08-17T09:49:07+01:00August 17th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Here we are folks - it's match day! And what a start we have to it, eh? United away. I know they won't be the force of 20 years ago, or even five years ago, but this is still Man United and it's still a place that hasn't been a happy hunting ground for us [...]

11 08, 2025

VAR, PGMOL and a sense of familiarity brewing ahead of the new season

By |2025-08-11T08:14:23+01:00August 11th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, friendly, gooners, Gunners, pre season, premier league, referees|2 Comments

How does the old saying go? Nothing is certain but death and taxes...and Liverpool getting a VAR decision in their favour I watched the second half of the Community Shield game in my garden as I was prepping some food for the grill and I don't know what Arne Slot was seeing, but when he [...]

7 08, 2025

Weighing up “it’s a friendly” against some concerns Arsenal fans have

By |2025-08-07T07:50:03+01:00August 7th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, friendly, injuries, Mikel Arteta, pre season|2 Comments

It’s a curious thing, is pre season, because you can have your concerns about performances, but not about results. It’s a real juxtaposition to the real thing, in which ultimately the opposite is true. Due to work commitments I managed to catch from minute 28 of the game against Villareal last night and found myself [...]

29 07, 2025

Saliba’s positivity on a new deal needs to be capitalised on

By |2025-07-29T08:31:43+01:00July 29th, 2025|Arsenal FC, contracts, Defence, gooners, Gunners, pre season|1 Comment

First things first, I have to say, I'm not 100% happy about the fact that Granit Xhaka is returning to the Premier League for Sunderland. The first thing that popped into my head was 'why?' when I heard the rumour. He won the league with Leverkusen, he was a regular in their team last season, [...]

14 07, 2025

Arsenal making moves this week

By |2025-07-14T08:05:53+01:00July 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, pre season|3 Comments

Well it's the start of a new week and we have ourselves quite a busy one it sounds like, because last night we got the Ornbomb that Arsenal and Sporting Lisbon have settled on a package that works for both parties and Viktor Gyokeres will be allowed to get himself over to The Arsenal for [...]

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