There are just three match days I absolutely hate. Today is one of them. The other two are: The NLD away - just hate the stakes, even when they are shit and we've beaten them on their own ground for the last couple of seasons The Emptihad - because, like Anfield, we just never win [...]
First things first: The Ballon d'Or. Not for me. Sorry, but in a team sport, individual awards are just a bit pointless. And ever since Thierry Henry was passed over for Pavel Nedved, I've always scoffed at these a bit, so congrats to Harry Kane but 'meh'. And I'm also not that fussed about the [...]
It's match day; it's Everton, and as I said yesterday, it's going to be another tough one in which an opponent tries to stifle and contain us. This one isn't going to end up 4-0 to The Arsenal. Everton are going to be a tough nut to crack, whilst also having a fair bit of [...]
Last season we topped the League format of the Champions League with eight wins out of eight. That included a rather impressive home win against tonight's opponents, Bayern Munich, as Timber, Noni and Gabby Martinelli scored the goals in a dominant display in which the numbers showed we were by far the better team. This [...]
Seen a lot of Arsenal fans on my timeline this morning talk about how worried they are about today's game. I get it. I mean, we have a pretty poor record at The City Ground; Oliver Glasner is a very good manager, plus they've been massively underperforming their statistical metrics on things like xG, so [...]
It's Lille tonight under the lights for The Arsenal, and it's a return for 40-year-old Olivier Giroud to the Emirates turf. Of course he's been there before with other clubs, notably Chelsea, but there's been enough time that has elapsed since then that I think most Arsenal fans can look relatively positively on his time [...]
FINALLY! MATCHDAY! And it's Leeds United for The Arsenal for the early kick-off today, which means I'll be dumping these thoughts on here, going for a quick run, then making my way straight to Highbury for a pre-match warm-up with my mate Steve. These early ones are funny, I find, because they're usually a little [...]
I know we're playing later, so this schadenfreude might age like four-day-old milk being left out on the back patio in summer, but man, it's funny to laugh at Chelsea. I was doing other things last night, so I only checked in and out on the game, but seeing them drop a 3-0 away to Brentford [...]
Under normal circumstances, I’d be saying things like “I quite like these types of games tonight”. Arsenal in the EFL Cup, or League Cup as I prefer to call it, is an opportunity to usually rotate a few players, to take the stresses away from the Premier League, and last season it certainly offered that [...]
If last season taught us anything, it's that Sunderland are a side not to be taken lightly. That 2-2 up at the Stadium of light come over my birthday weekend in November, I was up in the North East, funnily enough, but on the black and white side, and Arsenal were gut-punched late on to [...]