Morning, boys and girls, hope you're all well. Yesterday I was waxing lyrical about Mikel Arteta's new deal, and in that blog I talked about how we need to start looking at Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice next. Well, wouldn't you just know it, but Tuesday and yesterday's news started emerging about just that. Declan [...]
Good old Arsenal, we're proud to say that name, While there's no proper football, Arteta's contract announcement is the name of the game. Alright, it doesn't quite work, but it was the first thing that popped into my head as I started penning today's musings. And it's a big deal. Both literally and figuratively, because [...]
I don't know about you, but given what happened last weekend, I was hoping that the desire to talk about something else - even England - would have kicked in a little more by now. I'm going to try to give it a go, but whether I'll be able to hit my normal 1,000 words [...]
As the fallout from the defeat on Saturday continues in the social media discourse of Arsenal fans, I am still not feeling as angry as I thought I would be, which is strange. Perhaps it is because we've had a few years of this Arsenal team being really good defensively, and so this feels very much [...]
That was the worst Arsenal performance I've seen in nearly two years. It was so bad that I'd describe my feelings as stunned rather than ragingly angry. Arsenal put in the kind of display yesterday that makes me think that they all went out on the lash on Friday night. Passing was off, movement wasn't [...]
I know we're playing later, so this schadenfreude might age like four-day-old milk being left out on the back patio in summer, but man, it's funny to laugh at Chelsea. I was doing other things last night, so I only checked in and out on the game, but seeing them drop a 3-0 away to Brentford [...]
How is it Friday already? This is what happens when The Arsenal play - and play well - in midweek. The weekend comes around, and you're like, "blimey, that hit us quick, eh?" I guess we're also at the stage in the season where it isn't a grind. The season is still fresh, young, in [...]
Man United getting done over by Brighton was a bit funny last night, wasn't it, eh? I saw the Sesko 'assist'. Ouch. That won't make good viewing when they get in the video room for the post-match analysis today/tomorrow. As for us, in the next round, it's a relatively kind away one at Fleetwood Town. [...]
I think, as League Cup matches go, that was about as stress-free as you're going to get. Even after each of the Ipswich goals, I never really felt even the slightest concern. yes, we had a rotated squad, and yes, so did Ipswich, but the 'look and feel' of this Arsenal side seemed exactly like [...]
Under normal circumstances, I’d be saying things like “I quite like these types of games tonight”. Arsenal in the EFL Cup, or League Cup as I prefer to call it, is an opportunity to usually rotate a few players, to take the stresses away from the Premier League, and last season it certainly offered that [...]