About Chris

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.
14 08, 2025

Looking over at other clubs’ gardens

By |2025-08-14T07:48:08+01:00August 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, pre season, premier league|3 Comments

Ok, I just want the season up and running now, as I'm becoming a bit impatient and I'm needing to not have the 'feelings' that I've got. Those 'feelings' are the ones that are irrational and based on the fact that because nobody has really kicked a ball in anger yet, every other team has [...]

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 [...]

12 08, 2025

The dominoes need to fall for Arsenal if Eze is to become a ‘thing’

By |2025-08-12T07:13:10+01:00August 12th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Transfers|1 Comment

The sheer volume of cash that floats around the Premier League is mental, isn't it? I mean, when you get newly promoted Sunderland about to drop £51million plus add-ons (because you have to always talk about the add-ons these days, it seems) for Lois Openda from RB Leipzig, it really hits home. This is a [...]

11 08, 2025

VAR, PGMOL and a sense of familiarity brewing ahead of the new season

By |2025-08-11T08:14:23+01:00August 11th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, friendly, gooners, Gunners, pre season, premier league, referees|2 Comments

How does the old saying go? Nothing is certain but death and taxes...and Liverpool getting a VAR decision in their favour I watched the second half of the Community Shield game in my garden as I was prepping some food for the grill and I don't know what Arne Slot was seeing, but when he [...]

10 08, 2025

All the boxes ticked in Arsenal’s Bilbao victory

By |2025-08-10T09:02:04+01:00August 10th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, friendly, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, pre season|1 Comment

Well now, that was more like it, eh? Arsenal’s final pre season friendly of this summer ended with a pretty emphatic 3-0 win against a Champions League Athletic Bilbao, with boxes ticked all over the shop, including: Big Gabby returning to start Calafiori on the pitch for valuable minutes Timber shaking off his knock and [...]

7 08, 2025

Weighing up “it’s a friendly” against some concerns Arsenal fans have

By |2025-08-07T07:50:03+01:00August 7th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, friendly, injuries, Mikel Arteta, pre season|2 Comments

It’s a curious thing, is pre season, because you can have your concerns about performances, but not about results. It’s a real juxtaposition to the real thing, in which ultimately the opposite is true. Due to work commitments I managed to catch from minute 28 of the game against Villareal last night and found myself [...]

6 08, 2025

Villareal part of Arteta’s careful friendly selection process

By |2025-08-06T08:08:54+01:00August 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, pre season|0 Comments

It's another friendly match day today for The Arsenal and I'm intrigued to see how we line up tonight against Villareal. Will we see a pretty much first team rock up against the Spanish side? Or will it be a blended side from the start like in the Asian tour? equally, will we have a [...]

5 08, 2025

Sell…Sell!…Sell?

By |2025-08-05T09:50:31+01:00August 5th, 2025|Arsenal FC|0 Comments

Morning folks and let me bestow unto thee a most happy of Tuesday's. The sun is out in London, The Arsenal are back in the country and a new kit dropped to keep those merch-starved fans sated for at least another week until the next training kit is launched at some stage in August no [...]

4 08, 2025

How much stock to take in other teams’ friendlies?

By |2025-08-04T07:55:21+01:00August 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, friendly, gooners, Gunners, pre season, premier league|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to Monday. I had family over and coupled that with a bit of a two-day hangover, so didn't blog this weekend, but thankfully not a lot really happened in the Arsenal world, as the players headed back to the UK and today they kick off the proper pre season prep ahead [...]

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