Suburban Gooners – Arsenal Blog
A tough challenge that Arsenal have to overcome if they want to be considered title contenders – Chelsea away
Morning Gooners - happy matchday! We're back! FINALLY! And it's a tough one to get us back in to the swing of things, as I think this Chelsea team will be bang up for an upset this evening. Their season started off with a respectable draw against Liverpool at home and I watched that game. [...]
Arteta gives little away as usual ahead of tough Chelsea encounter
Morning Gooners and welcome to the end of the working week! Well, it is from me, obviously I'm not sure if yours is too, but even if not, I wish you a happy Friday nonetheless. I decided to go have a couple of drinks and some Italian food with The Management last night, hence the [...]
Waiting on Mikel to give us a good injury update
As we begin the countdown to a tough away trip to Chelsea (yes, it will be tough, as they've not been as bad as their league form suggests), I've started to see the noises coming out from both fanbases ahead of the game. Whether it's the Arsenal fans who are batting away any chance of [...]
Stat-padding: Robert Pires was a better finisher than Harry Kane in North London Derbies
It's still pretty quiet after the international matches that were played last night and then in the early hours of this morning. Thomas Partey got 64 minutes for Ghana against the USA as they lost, with a goal for Flo Balogun for the USA the only other semi-Arsenal-related footnote in that game. I can't find [...]
International matches could cost us our marginal gains
Morning Gooners - hope all is ok with you? Had a rubbish night sleep - work stuff playing on the mind - so feeling like I've been hit by a bus. Haven't even touched a drop of alcohol either, so it makes it even more annoying. But there you go, such is life and all [...]
Is less games the answer for football?
Morning Gooners and happy Monday to you. I was in the Algarve over the weekend and so didn't have much chance to pen any thoughts, but as it was an international weekend that kind of worked out well for me, because Eddie Nketiah first England appearance aside in the last 20 minutes of the friendly [...]
Where should Arsenal hope to be when we reach the halfway point in the league?
Morning fellow Gooners, from a warm basement in the Algarve. Getting myself away with the Management for the weekend to soak up a little bit of sun whilst seeing the parental units. Well, it is the international weekend after all, right? Yesterday I was looking at the fixtures and the next 'block' of games we [...]
Arsenal’s next block of games post internationals could be pivotal
Morning fellow Arsenal-supporting humans, how art thee today? It's Thursday, we've made it this far through the international boredom, but there's still another tedious week ahead of us and I for one am hoping it passes by in the blink of an eye. It is nice to keep reliving all of the content and #HotTakes [...]
Refereeing transparency is good, but there are still too many questions unanswered
Morning folks - we all good? Or are you one of the many people slightly irritated by the 'Refs mic'd up' content Sky Sports pushed out last night featuring refereeing chief Howard Webb and, oddly, Michael Owen? On the Owen stuff, I'm not sure i've ever seen any kind of tactical insight worth him being [...]
A perfect time for recovery for Saka, Saliba and Trossard
With the international break now upon us, it feels like as Arsenal fans we really need to string out as much of the good vibes from the City win on Sunday as possible. That's certainly what I did and I've been watching videos, reading blogs and opinions from journalists and fans, plus listening to podcasts [...]