8 02, 2015

Spuds: we were the dope on a rope

By |2017-05-19T21:35:27+01:00February 8th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, midfield, premier league, Rant, Tactics|0 Comments

I don't really feel like writing today's blog. I'm almost doing it this Sunday morning, purely out of habit rather than desire, because I feel like just forgetting yesterday's match even happened. The second that Harry Kane second goal went in, I got up from the heavily weighted Spud pub that I was in, walked [...]

7 02, 2015

Derby day: form players need to show up

By |2015-02-07T08:50:02+00:00February 7th, 2015|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, premier league, Tactics|2 Comments

I know I may be jinxing us all into a horrible afternoon and subsequent evening, should defeat befall The Arsenal this lunchtime, but having looked at the probable line ups today through a couple of sources, this is a Totteringham team that we really should be beating. We should have already served them up a [...]

6 02, 2015

Click, click, BOOM

By |2017-05-19T21:35:27+01:00February 6th, 2015|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Formation, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

At the weekend we managed to chalk up our fifth consecutive win, albeit against a very Pony and Trap Aston Villa side, so it would be very churlish to poo-poo your side when they score five (sexy) goals against a fellow premier league team. We've come up against equally poor sides and not given them [...]

5 02, 2015

My favourite NLD and the lucky charm

By |2017-05-19T21:35:27+01:00February 5th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, History, premier league|0 Comments

There's some stuff on the official site from David Ospina naming a host of 'keepers, but with a distinctly absent amount of NLD referencing to the piece, I'm disinclined to talk about good goalkeepers over the last thirty or so years. Francis Coquelin (who seems to be wheeled out more and more on the official [...]

4 02, 2015

Excited NLD countdown, with ridiculous optimism for 2015

By |2017-05-19T21:35:27+01:00February 4th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Arsene Wenger, Champions League, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, premier league|0 Comments

With the countdown to the North London Derby (NLD) now well underway, the speculation on team line-up has never been so intriguing, from what I can see online and with people I speak to in real life. Us Gooners are collectively salivating over the possible options and, for the first time since I don't know [...]

3 02, 2015

Transfer-schmansfer, our squad options get me excited

By |2015-02-03T07:20:13+00:00February 3rd, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Arsene Wenger, gooners, Gunners, midfield, Transfers|0 Comments

Do you know, in all the commotion and emotions of winning yet another football game and keeping yet another clean sheet, I completely forgot that yesterday was Transfer Deadline Day? How remiss of me. How terrible that I did not feed the behemoth that is the last day of the January silly season, by counting [...]

2 02, 2015

Form throughout the squad will serve us well

By |2015-02-02T08:14:00+00:00February 2nd, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, midfield, premier league|0 Comments

Don't really know what I was worried about yesterday. Perhaps I'd read too much into the various pre-game tactical analysis about Villa, coupled it with the reappearance of the worst ref in the league Antony Taylor, then rebooted a few old memories of past discrepancies against our Midland opponents yesterday. I probably should have looked [...]

1 02, 2015

Villa: Tougher than the pundits think

By |2015-02-01T09:00:55+00:00February 1st, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

I was in a good mood at the start of the weekend. I still kinda am, actually, but there's a few things that have made me ever-so-slightly 'harrumph' in the last 24 hours, if I'm honest. The first was upon listening to the always excellent Arsecast, in which I heard that Antony Taylor will be [...]

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