Suburban Gooners – Arsenal Blog
Under the lights, under pressure: Arsenal’s season partially on the line against Sporting
I need to obviously talk about this massive game against Sporting Lisbon tonight at The Emirates, but before I do that, I just need to tell you about a dream I had last night. We had to play Jack Wilshere's Luton Town in the Premier League, which was a prize they won for winning the [...]
Sporting tomorrow, City looming, doubts everywhere
I am still down after last weekend. A little more time between now and the result has helped, but not by a lot, I must admit. I think my biggest issue is that I am worried that nothing will change in a short period of time. As I said to somebody in the comments from [...]
Not today.
Yesterday morning, I wrote the blog, I jumped on the pod with James, then I went to wake up The Management and said, "No football for me today. No watching, no social media, I want to avoid it all." Of course, I failed. I tracked the Chelsea v City game, and afterwards I just felt [...]
Brought our dinner, Arsenal players brought the dross
Arteta's rally cry on Friday was that the fans needed to have a good breakfast, then "bring your lunch and your dinner", as the atmosphere needed to be an intense one, for a fixture time that was usually a bit muted. Well, having stood in Block Five yesterday, I will tell you this: Those Arsenal [...]
Have you eaten? Arteta needs to know ahead of Bournemouth today…
I loved his comment in the press conference yesterday: The players know it, our supporters know it, it's an early kick-off, so get up early, have an early breakfast, bring your lunch, bring your dinner, and let's all go together for it because it has to be a big day. I went out and had [...]
Unbeaten runs: pre-Arsenal v Bournemouth questions
With Mikel Arteta and Andoni Iraola not due to speak to the press until this morning/lunchtime today, I'm left looking at training pics and videos to try to guess some team news, as well as looking at what the pundits are saying about this tough one tomorrow. Firstly, the training pics and team news, and [...]
28 days later: Bournemouth looms on the horizon
I feel like the countdown to this huge Bournemouth game on Saturday lunchtime is well and truly on now. I remember talking about this one ahead of Southampton and Sporting Lisbon during the international break pod I did with Amanda a couple of weeks back. It's been looming over me ever since the last league [...]
Havertz at the death, but Raya is the hero in Lisbon
On Saturday against Southampton, we were victims of a late goal that knocked us out of the cup. Last night we were the recipients of a late goal, which may well have the same impact. We will know for sure in a week, but Kai Havertz's last-minute winner in Lisbon was for sure a welcome [...]
Hostile reception awaits The Arsenal players in Lisbon – they must react
So we got some good news, as well as some less good news, yesterday, both with the open training session and then with Mikel Arteta's press conference. Let's start with the good news, which I think top of my list this morning, the inclusion of Big Gabi in the training session. He went off with [...]
The quick turnaround is what all Arsenal fans (and players) need
Happy bank holiday Monday, kids. Hope all is well with you, and you have something nice planned? I'm still in the cold North, so it'll be a day of chilling and probably doing a bit of boozing too, before the reality bump back down to earth tomorrow by doing some work remotely. The Arsenal players [...]