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Gooner born in 1982 from Harlow, Essex, now living in Uxbridge. I say what I see - frequently wrong, but hey, it's just an opinion piece, right? Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
12 11, 2024

Can we FINALLY get some real change at PGMOL now please?

By |2024-11-12T08:03:15+00:00November 12th, 2024|History, premier league, Rant, referees|0 Comments

There's only really one place to start today, eh? David Coote. Winning of the "I'm going to send Tomiyasu off for breathing on Jordan Ayew" award for farcical refereeing, was yesterday suspended from duties by the PGMOL, pending an investigation into his conduct. The video that leaked - a pretty clear-cut case of two blokes having [...]

11 11, 2024

Frustration at the Bridge for The Arsenal, but positive signs are there

By |2024-11-11T07:48:30+00:00November 11th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Before the game yesterday I would have taken the point. Sod the context of Liverpool being nine clear of us and screw the fact that you don't get many chances to overtake City and make ground on them, this was an away game against a tough opponent who had been in decent form. Yet after [...]

10 11, 2024

Rice’s availability could be the difference at Stamford Bridge for today’s game

By |2024-11-10T10:21:55+00:00November 10th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Yesterday's City defeat has cast today's game in a slightly different light I think. I still believe that if Arsenal lose, we're probably out of the title race, but a draw puts us one point closer to them and although Liverpool will be nine points clear of us, that isn't unsurmountable. Liverpool won against Villa [...]

9 11, 2024

Does Arteta have something up his sleeve for Chelsea?

By |2024-11-09T08:43:53+00:00November 9th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Mikel Arteta had his say ahead of tomorrow's tough encounter with Chelsea yesterday and, as usual, he was relatively tight-lipped on who was available. He confirmed that Declan Rice hadn't trained as of yesterday and I guess we all have to hope that his admission that he 'has to be vague' is just his way [...]

8 11, 2024

We don’t need any more pantomime villains

By |2024-11-08T09:06:47+00:00November 8th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, referees|1 Comment

I'm reluctant to kick off today's musings with a commentary that starts to make it's way down the winding conspiracy theory road, but given I've seen a bit of chatter online about Michael Oliver's decision to disallow a goal against City Group-owned Girona FC on Tuesday, then it has emerged he's refereeing us again on [...]

7 11, 2024

A tale of two penalties in Milan

By |2024-11-07T08:13:41+00:00November 7th, 2024|Arsenal FC|0 Comments

There's really no other place to start than the deciding two factors in yesterday's 1-0 defeat to the Italian Champions Inter. At one end of the pitch Mikel Merino is punched in the head from Jan Sommer, at the other end of the pitch a ball flicks up on to his arm and the - [...]

4 11, 2024

The title is gone for Arsenal if the history books are to be believed

By |2024-11-04T08:27:48+00:00November 4th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, History, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

On yesterday afternoon's Same Old Arsenal podcast James gave me a sobering stat that he'd read: No team has ever won a Premier League whilst being more than six points behind at this stage of the season. I read that again this morning - United in 2002/3, City in 2013/14, the City in 2020/21 were [...]

3 11, 2024

No way to dress up a trash Arsenal performance in Newcastle

By |2024-11-03T09:18:48+00:00November 3rd, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|2 Comments

There's no way to sugar coat it today. There is no way to dress up yesterday abysmal Arsenal performance. There is only the truth that needs to be spoken and sadly what you're going to read for the next 1,000 or so words is that of a disappointed Gooner with very little positivity. Arsenal's defeat [...]

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