13 10, 2025

Calafiori’s very different look in an Italian shirt

By |2025-10-13T08:10:20+01:00October 13th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, Internationals, midfield, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|3 Comments

The Arsenal Women provided the dosage of Arsenal football for many Gooners yesterday, albeit through the lens of a somewhat underwhelming 1-0 win over Brighton at home I hear. I say that mainly because I was out and about so couldn't watch the game, but I kept track on my phone and with Chelsea already [...]

12 10, 2025

Mikel Merino and the ‘horses for courses’ debate

By |2025-10-12T09:21:04+01:00October 12th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

How we all doing? Surviving the Interlull so far? I've been alright, actually, thanks for asking. I filled my day yesterday with 'other stuff' and didn't even switch on Sky Sports once for an extended watch of something. I'm going proper old-skool today and going to the circus with the management this afternoon (No, not [...]

5 10, 2025

Word of the day after Arsenal win: Routine

By |2025-10-05T09:25:31+01:00October 5th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Match Review, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

I watched the Chelsea versus Liverpool game on the tube home from The Arsenal last night, then finished off the second half in my kitchen as I cooked a big juicy ribeye steak and as well as being the result we all wanted, the game itself was a proper good game of basketball football. Liverpool [...]

22 09, 2025

Passive first halves and selection questions leave Arsenal with just a point against Man City

By |2025-09-22T08:13:44+01:00September 22nd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

In the fullness of time a draw against Man City may not appear to be the worst result in the world. Indeed, when you get an equaliser in the dying ebbs of the game, it feels like more of a boost than it should. But given where City were, given how the game played out [...]

20 09, 2025

How does Arteta solve a possible Ødegaard absence?

By |2025-09-20T07:32:44+01:00September 20th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Tactics|0 Comments

Well we have heard from the managers now, with both doing their usual niceties talking about each other, which we’ve all come to expect given how close they are as friends. Pep did a little flippant comment about how if Mikel wins the league it is not because of him or his team, but because [...]

16 09, 2025

Does the physical midfield battle against Bilbao mean a shuffle for Arteta?

By |2025-09-16T06:47:19+01:00September 16th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, midfield, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

It's Champions League match day one and we find ourselves up against a familiar adversary from the summer friendlies: Athletic Club in Bilbao. In the summer we saw an Arsenal side who swash buckled their way to a comfortable 3-0 victory at The Emirates with Big Vik also getting on the scoresheet in a game [...]

3 09, 2025

Arsenal need the best version of Odegaard

By |2025-09-03T07:46:27+01:00September 3rd, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Happy hump day people. The only down side to this particular one, is there is an intolerable international break that is getting in the way, with Arsenal not due again out on the green stuff until the Saturday after this one against Forest. I'm still trying to process the summer transfer window though. I'm focusing [...]

13 08, 2025

Eze could become the ‘sour taste in the mouth’

By |2025-08-13T07:52:34+01:00August 13th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, midfield, premier league, Transfers|1 Comment

Let's do some 'real talk' here, shall we? Because it looks like - if Fabrizio Romano is to be believed - that the Scum are advancing talks ahead of us to get Eze out of Palace. The 'real talk' bit is that as much as many of us would like to, there'll be no rowing [...]

9 07, 2025

Comparing Norgaard and Jorginho at Arsenal

By |2025-07-09T07:51:59+01:00July 9th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, History, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

It's Wednesday, it's the start of a bit of a heatwave here in the UK, it's sure to be an announcement day today with Christian Norgaard expected to be announced as the latest Arsenal acquisition. Why? Because as we all saw on the socials yesterday, somebody snapped him arriving and getting his video done as [...]

7 07, 2025

Zubi’s in, Gyok is next?

By |2025-07-07T07:53:16+01:00July 7th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, midfield, Mikel Arteta, pre season, premier league, Transfers|0 Comments

Well now, it's all kicking off in the Arsenal universe, eh? Yesterday we got the official confirmation of Martin Zubimendi's arrival from Real Sociedad, with the first pictures of him in next season's kit, then later in the day there was talk of the striker situation finally nearing a conclusion. Thankfully. Let's start with the [...]

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