15 08, 2025

What’s the opposition and pundits view of Arsenal this weekend then?

By |2025-08-15T07:50:49+01:00August 15th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, History, Match Preview, premier league|1 Comment

Here we go folks. The Premier League all kicks off this evening with the Scousers beating Bournemouth at home as they get a relatively comfortable home game to get themselves going. Us? Well, we know we have to wait and we know we have to play Man United at their gaff knowing all of the [...]

14 08, 2025

Looking over at other clubs’ gardens

By |2025-08-14T07:48:08+01:00August 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, pre season, premier league|1 Comment

Ok, I just want the season up and running now, as I'm becoming a bit impatient and I'm needing to not have the 'feelings' that I've got. Those 'feelings' are the ones that are irrational and based on the fact that because nobody has really kicked a ball in anger yet, every other team has [...]

13 08, 2025

Eze could become the ‘sour taste in the mouth’

By |2025-08-13T07:52:34+01:00August 13th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, midfield, premier league, Transfers|1 Comment

Let's do some 'real talk' here, shall we? Because it looks like - if Fabrizio Romano is to be believed - that the Scum are advancing talks ahead of us to get Eze out of Palace. The 'real talk' bit is that as much as many of us would like to, there'll be no rowing [...]

11 08, 2025

VAR, PGMOL and a sense of familiarity brewing ahead of the new season

By |2025-08-11T08:14:23+01:00August 11th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, friendly, gooners, Gunners, pre season, premier league, referees|2 Comments

How does the old saying go? Nothing is certain but death and taxes...and Liverpool getting a VAR decision in their favour I watched the second half of the Community Shield game in my garden as I was prepping some food for the grill and I don't know what Arne Slot was seeing, but when he [...]

9 08, 2025

Full strength big guns for Bilbao

By |2025-08-09T08:51:30+01:00August 9th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, friendly, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, pre season|0 Comments

It’s the final friendly of the 2025 pre season today and it’s The Emirates Cup for Arteta and his lads. I have to say I preferred the old Emirates Cup format of two matches per day and played over the Saturday and Sunday, but they keep it to one these days and there’s probably a [...]

7 08, 2025

Weighing up “it’s a friendly” against some concerns Arsenal fans have

By |2025-08-07T07:50:03+01:00August 7th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, friendly, injuries, Mikel Arteta, pre season|2 Comments

It’s a curious thing, is pre season, because you can have your concerns about performances, but not about results. It’s a real juxtaposition to the real thing, in which ultimately the opposite is true. Due to work commitments I managed to catch from minute 28 of the game against Villareal last night and found myself [...]

6 08, 2025

Villareal part of Arteta’s careful friendly selection process

By |2025-08-06T08:08:54+01:00August 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, pre season|0 Comments

It's another friendly match day today for The Arsenal and I'm intrigued to see how we line up tonight against Villareal. Will we see a pretty much first team rock up against the Spanish side? Or will it be a blended side from the start like in the Asian tour? equally, will we have a [...]

4 08, 2025

How much stock to take in other teams’ friendlies?

By |2025-08-04T07:55:21+01:00August 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, friendly, gooners, Gunners, pre season, premier league|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to Monday. I had family over and coupled that with a bit of a two-day hangover, so didn't blog this weekend, but thankfully not a lot really happened in the Arsenal world, as the players headed back to the UK and today they kick off the proper pre season prep ahead [...]

1 08, 2025

The ‘Meh’ NLD hasn’t really taught us anything we didn’t already know

By |2025-08-01T08:20:51+01:00August 1st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, friendly, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, pre season|3 Comments

Having not watched any of our pre season friendlies - and I think I should probably underline the word friendly for today's blog of context - I wasn't going to start yesterday lunchtime by watching us play The Scum. But I followed what was going on and have also read a few match reports and seen [...]

30 07, 2025

The ol’ “shirt sales have paid for his transfer” schtick – bringing back some nostalgia

By |2025-07-30T08:03:19+01:00July 30th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, finances, friendly, pre season|0 Comments

Do you know what I love? A good ol' fashioned story about how shirt sales have paid for a transfer. Nothing beats it. It reminds me of the early 2ks when you hear stories like how Beckham's fee that Real Madrid paid to United was paid for overnight. It does make me chuckle. So when [...]

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