6 12, 2025

Villa away: A curious opponent for The Arsenal today

By |2025-12-06T08:20:46+00:00December 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Didn't manage to compile some thoughts on Villa, what the pundits are saying and also how they play under Unai Emery this season, before the managers did their press conferences. But a lot of what unfolded yesterday with the pressers was kind of pushed to the background when, yesterday afternoon, Sami Mokbel broke the news [...]

3 12, 2025

Arteta has some selection decisions to make at home to Brentford

By |2025-12-03T09:25:18+00:00December 3rd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Mikel Arteta had his press conference yesterday and, as expected, give nothing away in terms of availability of key players like Saliba or Trossard. He did say that Big Gabi is a ‘few weeks’ away and given it’s the beginning of December, I think most of us would take it if he’s coming back for [...]

29 11, 2025

Some good news from Arteta on the injury front

By |2025-11-29T06:38:05+00:00November 29th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

So the good news from the press conference yesterday appears to be that despite coming off injured in midweek against Bayern, Leo appears to be fit, as confirmed by Mikel when doing his pre-Chelsea chat to the assembled media. That's a relief. Considering just how impressive he's been for us this season, losing him at [...]

21 11, 2025

Hints of unexpected returns ahead of Arteta’s press conference

By |2025-11-21T08:17:59+00:00November 21st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|2 Comments

Happy Friday folks - how we all doing? Let's start with some positive news, which is that yesterday afternoon Big Vik took to his Instagram to get pictures of himself in training. Given how Arsenal spend so much time trying not to give anything away by clearly selecting pictures they know won't include any players [...]

19 11, 2025

Big Gabi’s bad news means a step up for the two newbies

By |2025-11-19T09:17:28+00:00November 19th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

Yesterday morning I was brushing my teeth and I was thinking about the Big Gabi injury. I thought to myself "it feels like every time we get an injury update from a Fabrizio Romano or an Ornstein Bomba with regards to injuries over the last 12 - 18 months, it's always been worse than is first [...]

5 11, 2025

The clean sheet machine rolls on with 3-0 Prague win

By |2025-11-05T07:36:29+00:00November 5th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, Defence, History, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

It's easy to look towards the two headlines of Merino and the record-breaking back five from last night's ultimately comfortable 3-0 win against Slavia Prague, but I have to say that to a man, that Arsenal team showed what a confidence-laden side looks like from minute one yesterday. It wasn't all plain sailing yesterday and [...]

25 10, 2025

Arsenal’s not-so-secret on set pieces

By |2025-10-25T10:21:58+01:00October 25th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Tactics|0 Comments

Happy Saturday folks. I hope wherever you are and whatever you are doing you have something enjoyable planned. Me, I’m going to get myself out for a run, then I’m going to settle down to watch some football at home this afternoon, as the Management and the mother-in-law are in London watching Black Sabbath: The [...]

20 10, 2025

How much rotation can keep the whole squad happy?

By |2025-10-20T08:47:09+01:00October 20th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, Defence, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Well now, that turned out to be a lovely ol' weekend of football we've just had, didn't it? It may not have been the most exciting game that we engaged with on Saturday night, but given how serenely we went about collecting our away points at Fulham, it was much preferred over the kamikaze way [...]

4 10, 2025

Solving the low block problem: Why Arsenal need to be quicker against West Ham

By |2025-10-04T09:13:38+01:00October 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|3 Comments

Matchday Saturday, a 3pm kick-off, a game in which you'd normally be expecting Arsenal to pick up all three points against a struggling West Ham side and yet, here we all are, a little nervous about history repeating itself. Mikel was asked yesterday what he felt about the fact that Arsenal had lost 50% of [...]

1 10, 2025

The familiar foe, but an unknown quantity: Olympiacos

By |2025-10-01T07:53:42+01:00October 1st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

It's match day two of the Champions League tonight and after Liverpool dropped points to Galatasaray and the Scum also dropped points to The WIFI password, it should serve as a telling reminder that just because we are in the Best League in the World (refereeing body aside), doesn't mean we have any God-given right to [...]

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