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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.
29 11, 2024

A good record at West Ham shouldn’t undermine the tough task tomorrow

By |2024-11-29T07:52:15+00:00November 29th, 2024|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, History, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

In what is becoming a bit of a habit for me at the moment, I thought I'd go an check out the situation on some of the West Ham forums this morning, to get a bit of a vibe check on the opposition fans in the run up to our game against them. Unlike in [...]

28 11, 2024

Arteta leveraging his positivity stick to reboot The Arsenal

By |2024-11-28T08:23:13+00:00November 28th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Eight goals in around 80 hours between Saturday and Tuesday has a Gooner like me rather excited right now. I seem to have eschewed my normal glass half empty mantra, which has been replaced with a really positive vibe about The Arsenal looking ahead to this weekend's game against West Ham. Of course, the feelings could be [...]

27 11, 2024

Arsenal blitz through Sporting to set a marker in Europe

By |2024-11-27T07:26:40+00:00November 27th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review|0 Comments

Well now, wasn't that a lot more fun last night than we expected, eh? I don't think there are any Arsenal fans that thought that Mikel Arteta and his charges were going to head over to Portugal, absolutely blitz an unbeaten team with a 100% domestic win record this season, with one of the clubs [...]

26 11, 2024

Familiarity and change about Sporting versus Arsenal tonight

By |2024-11-26T07:45:11+00:00November 26th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, History, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, press conference|0 Comments

So we're back in Champions League action this evening and it's the Portuguese champions we are up against in Lisbon tonight, in a game that sees a repeat of the March 2023 Europa League Round of 16 we played in March 2023. That game finished 2-2 and at the time I think most of us [...]

25 11, 2024

How does Arteta solve the right back rotation connundrum?

By |2024-11-25T08:19:57+00:00November 25th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, Defence, injuries, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

There's no rest for the wicked, as the Arsenal squad - and a fair few fans - make their way to Lisbon today ahead of our Champions League showdown against Sporting. I suspect we'll get an Arteta press conference towards the end of the working day today and we'll get a bit of an update [...]

24 11, 2024

Arteta’s archetypal ‘perfect day at the office’ as Arsenal smash Forest

By |2024-11-24T08:34:32+00:00November 24th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

I've woken up this morning to an absolute gale swirling around outside my house, but it was Arsenal who were doing the blowing away yesterday, showing their true colours to absolutely batter Nottingham Forest yesterday afternoon. Pre match talk was of how impressive Forest have been this season; they know their strengths and they play [...]

23 11, 2024

Players returning a boost for Arsenal, as Forest’s blueprint and game plan is clear

By |2024-11-23T06:36:55+00:00November 23rd, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Couldn't sleep in the early hours of the morning, so decided to get my arse out of bed and do a bit of pre game reading, see what's out there and whatnot. First things first on days like today I usually go to the traditional 'pundits previews'. You know, your Merse's, Sutton's, Jones Knows on [...]

22 11, 2024

Forest will have ‘rope-a-dope’ eyes on The Arsenal – we have to control the narrative

By |2024-11-22T08:12:36+00:00November 22nd, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

With Mikel Arteta not due to have his presser ahead of the Forest game until 1.30pm today, I thought I'd go hunting around to find out a little bit about how our opponents have got on his season so far, as well as how their fans are feeling ahead of Nottingham Forest's trip to The [...]

20 11, 2024

Arsenal need to ‘bang’ – and ‘bang’ now

By |2024-11-20T08:04:05+00:00November 20th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

It's interesting how much introspection the international break brings out in us, isn't it, eh? Actually, not just us, but the media too. I've seen a Football365 article ranking Arteta in as 13th in terms of a manager 'power rankings' style approach to the season so far. I guess when you take a helicopter view [...]

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