22 10, 2024

Arsenal have only one option tonight against Shaktar – get the job done

By |2024-10-22T09:04:20+01:00October 22nd, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners|0 Comments

Never have I been so glad of the frequency of games at this time of the season than now. On Sunday I managed to avoid stewing on the result to much, I had a little say on the Bournemouth game yesterday but thankfully, mercifully, we have a home match against Shaktar Donestk to focus on [...]

21 10, 2024

Arsenal need to up a gear offensively from now – starting with Shaktar

By |2024-10-21T08:07:03+01:00October 21st, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Spent the weekend at an AirBnB which had it's own sauna, cinema room, jacuzzi and pool this weekend, so when I woke up yesterday having watched the game on m iPad, I couldn't really be arsed to pen any thoughts. Why ruin a perfect Sunday ahead by re-living the memory, eh? A new week also [...]

19 10, 2024

Arsenal must play their game today, not Bournemouth’s

By |2024-10-19T10:13:11+01:00October 19th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Tricky one, this one today, because Bournemouth are no mugs. As Arteta said, Antonio Iraloa has created a well-drilled, well-coached, progressive passing (they’re seventh in the league on progressive passing numbers just behind us, Liverpool, Brighton, City and The Scum) team who have not had some of the results they - and a few - [...]

16 10, 2024

As they all trickle back, we’re starting to feel the Arsenal again…

By |2024-10-16T07:47:27+01:00October 16th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

I don't usually lead with stuff about the Arsenal women, because I'm not as close to the goings on, but seeing the news break yesterday that Jonas Eidevall had resigned as Head Coach was a bit of a surprise, I have to say. It's also very unusual these days to see a coach resign rather [...]

15 10, 2024

The turbulent tale of Takehiro Tomiyasu’s Arsenal career

By |2024-10-15T08:03:12+01:00October 15th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Are we being adversely punished or something, as Arsenal fans, eh? Last season we had plenty of people chirping that we'd barely had any injuries. But we were missing Thomas Partey for two-thirds of the season, Gabriel Jesus was out for big chunks, Zinchenko was missing a few times too. Smith Rowe missed seven Premier [...]

14 10, 2024

Rice returning to some form from last season?

By |2024-10-14T08:23:32+01:00October 14th, 2024|analysis, gooners, Gunners, Internationals, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Ok so it looks like Rice is safe from injury, following playing (and scoring) last night in the England game against Finland. I didn't bother watching it, I wasn't interested in it, I've just checked in to see the score and see some of the goals and Rice's one was a classic lung-buster from our [...]

11 10, 2024

Saka potential woe serves as another Arsenal blow

By |2024-10-11T08:28:50+01:00October 11th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, Internationals, Rant|0 Comments

Oh god how I hate these interminable international breaks. It feels like, for this season in particular, they were sent to try us Arsenal fans, as Saka limped off last night in England's pointless 2-1 defeat to Greece. Honestly, I wish international football was just fired in to the sun. I suppose it's my own [...]

10 10, 2024

How do we get 2022 Gabriel Jesus back?

By |2024-10-10T08:35:24+01:00October 10th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

As you'd expect on the eve of the current Interlull, there's very little Arsenal news rumbling on at the moment - well, Arsenal men's news, that is. I am not really up to speed on much of the Women's stuff but I saw they lost to Bayern yesterday evening and after a disappointing draw against Everton, [...]

9 10, 2024

Arsenal’s depth has delivered, now it’s time to kick on

By |2024-10-09T07:49:36+01:00October 9th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, premier league|0 Comments

So it sounds as if we've got some returning players due to come back for the Bournemouth game, which is a bit of a relief given that Partey didn't go to Ghana international duty due to illness and Havertz withdrew with knee problems. I talked about Havertz yesterday, so won't repeat myself, but Partey also [...]

8 10, 2024

Havertz has a knock, but hopefully it won’t stop him from bagging 20 goals this season

By |2024-10-08T07:33:07+01:00October 8th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, finances, gooners, Gunners, injuries, premier league|0 Comments

Well, well, well, it's all kicking off in the Premier League courtroom now, isn't it? Yesterday as I was about to start cooking dinner after work I did my usual switch on of the TV in the kitchen, to see that the first skirmish between the Premier League and 115 Charges FC has concluded, with [...]

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