4 11, 2025

Arsenal’s makeshift attacking options must do the business in Prague

By |2025-11-04T07:27:57+00:00November 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, press conference|0 Comments

Morning campers, hope you're all well on this here Champions League match day, in which a visit to Prague is on the cards for the team for one of the earlier kick offs today. Firstly, we have to ponder who on earth is now going to be playing up front, after Big Vik succumbed to [...]

23 10, 2025

Arsenal are in good nick at both ends of the pitch

By |2025-10-23T08:34:12+01:00October 23rd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, premier league|0 Comments

To demonstrate how fast football moves... Yesterday I woke up feeling terrible. I'd started to come down with a fever on Tuesday afternoon and by the time the Arsenal game on I was running a high temperature and got barely any sleep, going to bed straight after the game. That mean that yesterday morning I [...]

21 10, 2025

Arsenal and Atletico holding up the mirror to each other?

By |2025-10-21T08:51:16+01:00October 21st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

We're back again for a match day and it's a tricky one in the shape of Simeone's Atletico Madrid who come to town looking to spoil our party and recent form by picking up three points in this horrible large-league format. Arteta knows that a win today would be a big one and with 15/16 [...]

20 10, 2025

How much rotation can keep the whole squad happy?

By |2025-10-20T08:47:09+01:00October 20th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, Defence, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Well now, that turned out to be a lovely ol' weekend of football we've just had, didn't it? It may not have been the most exciting game that we engaged with on Saturday night, but given how serenely we went about collecting our away points at Fulham, it was much preferred over the kamikaze way [...]

2 10, 2025

Odegaard pulls the strings in Olympiacos win

By |2025-10-02T09:23:32+01:00October 2nd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Match Review|0 Comments

In the cold light of the next day, last night's 2-0 win against Olympiacos felt like a routine Champions League three-pointer against an opponent from a - with all due respect - inferior league, that shouldn't really warrant too much thinking about. Indeed, Arsenal dominated the first half and probably should have put the game [...]

1 10, 2025

The familiar foe, but an unknown quantity: Olympiacos

By |2025-10-01T07:53:42+01:00October 1st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

It's match day two of the Champions League tonight and after Liverpool dropped points to Galatasaray and the Scum also dropped points to The WIFI password, it should serve as a telling reminder that just because we are in the Best League in the World (refereeing body aside), doesn't mean we have any God-given right to [...]

17 09, 2025

Arsenal’s squad depth on show in Bilbao

By |2025-09-17T06:44:41+01:00September 17th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta|1 Comment

You can’t always win pretty, you can’t always steamroll teams and sometimes (especially away from home) you can’t always impose your game exactly as you want. Sometimes you just have to dig in, get a result, then get out of Dodge. That’s what it feels like Arsenal did last night and with two goals from [...]

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 [...]

15 09, 2025

Winning sets the narrative, as Arteta works out the Arsenal Rubik’s Cube

By |2025-09-15T06:57:35+01:00September 15th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

I had a dream last night that we played Burnley, we were beating them 2-0 and into injury time, when Bukayo Saka went down and we were arguing for a penalty in stoppage time. The ref waved it away, but then was called to the monitor, to see that the second goal we scored hit [...]

4 09, 2025

Gabriel Jesus’ Champions League omission raises eyebrows

By |2025-09-04T08:31:27+01:00September 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, injuries|3 Comments

I was thinking about talking about Gabriel Martinelli today, but before I get to that, there was the small matter of the Champions League squads announced yesterday ahead of the group stages and, unlike in previous years, the news was awash with players who had not made the respective squads for their teams. Spare a [...]

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