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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.
15 01, 2025

North London Derby: No extra motivation needed

By |2025-01-15T08:34:15+00:00January 15th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

The big ones just keep on coming and after Liverpool and Chelsea both dropped points yesterday, Arsenal have an opportunity to put the rough start to 2025 behind them by going and picking up all three points against The Scum. Strap yourselves in, boys and girls, because it's North London Derby day. Or night. I [...]

14 01, 2025

Jesus injury will force Arsenal to act

By |2025-01-14T08:30:02+00:00January 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Transfers|1 Comment

Was travelling back from South Africa to Blighty yesterday, so didn't get to pen any thoughts in the wake of that FA Cup exit to a United side who - like a few before them this season - basically scored with the one chance they really fashioned. And with the games coming thick and fast, [...]

11 01, 2025

Arteta’s presser giving little away on attacking change ups

By |2025-01-11T06:39:14+00:00January 11th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, History, Mikel Arteta, press conference|0 Comments

It’s FA Cup weekend this weekend and whilst most of our rivals have basically been given free reign to rotate and rest key players by playing teams further down the football pyramid, the footballing gods saw fit to once again do us a dirty by having to come up against relatively strong opposition in the [...]

9 01, 2025

Should Arsenal take a punt on Mbuemo?

By |2025-01-09T08:38:49+00:00January 9th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, Transfers|0 Comments

I’m not going to bother getting in to the stupid League Cup ball nonsense this morning. It’s simply another way to bash Mikel Arteta for answering a simple question. Meh. What I am going to get in to, is the fact that we are almost a third of the way through this January window and [...]

8 01, 2025

Arsenal’s profligacy in front of goal highlighted by excellent Isak

By |2025-01-08T07:53:55+00:00January 8th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, History, injuries, League Cup, Match Review|2 Comments

Sometimes when I watch Arsenal, I just have that feeling of “oh no, this is going to be one of THOSE games” and after we’d created a couple of good chances before Newcastle got their first goal, including Martinelli crashing the ball off the post, I started to have that feeling. It’s the feeling that [...]

7 01, 2025

Strap yourselves in for a dirty Low Block FC game tonight against Newcastle

By |2025-01-07T05:53:55+00:00January 7th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, League Cup, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

It’s another game in this hectic schedule for The Arsenal this evening and with a potential League Cup final place at stake if Arsenal manage to overcome an in-form Newcastle side over two legs, it’s going to be a really tricky game against a side who will fancy their chances with the way they are [...]

6 01, 2025

Arsenal can’t afford slip ups when others slip up

By |2025-01-06T06:00:01+00:00January 6th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, History, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Well now, it appears as though we got away with one yesterday, eh? After the disappointment of the Brighton game, I think a lot of us had thought “that’s it. All over. Liverpool to canter to the title now” but here we all are, the morning after they have drawn 2-2 with what has been [...]

4 01, 2025

Another tough south coast Arsenal away day

By |2025-01-04T07:29:56+00:00January 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Is it me, or does it feel like we’ve played tough game after tough game this season? I get it - “you have to play everyone twice” as well as “everyone plays each other twice”, but still, it’s really felt like this is week after week in which we’ve had some super tough fixtures. And [...]

2 01, 2025

Nwaneri slips in to an Arsenal team building momentum

By |2025-01-02T10:48:49+00:00January 2nd, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, Match Review, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Well now, that was much better than the Ipswich game, eh? In fairness, there is of course a lot to do with game state with all matches and the one on 27th at home was against a team absolutely battered in their previous match and therefore naturally not wanting to create a spiral of doom [...]

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