Yesterday during the day I filled my day with work-related stuff, in an effort to not think ahead to the game in the evening, which worked to an extent. Then when I got home, I obviously started to think about the match, but with every Arsenal WhatsApp group I was in my response was the [...]
I'm not going to lie to you and tell you that i'm supremely confident about tonight. In truth, that home defeat to PSG rocked me a little, because I thought we would give a better account of ourselves. We've known about our profligacy in front of goal all season and I saw that Donnarumma made [...]
Premier League action today for The Arsenal and, for me, there are just three requirements today: Win Don't lose Don't draw The latter particularly. I'm getting pretty fed up with draws this season and whilst I know the context of some of the early ones, as well as some of the ones latterly, we really [...]
This one felt different to Real Madrid. I don’t know why, I sort of know how, but pre game I didn’t have the same vibes. Pre Madrid I was very much “ahh we’re underdogs and probably won’t win, so I’m here for the craic” but, as the game played out, things changed. Real sat off, [...]
It's the big one tonight. The season-definer (until, maybe, next week in Paris), the one in which glory could be found like Madrid at home, or gut punch can be received, like the home defeat to Man United within the first few minutes in 2009. Arteta knows he will need the home support to replicate [...]
I completely avoided football this weekend, on account of the Cup semi finals taking place and also a certain team being crowned champions. The good news is that as Arsenal fans we have something else to worry about tomorrow, but as I went to the pub yesterday with The Management for a spot of lunch [...]
With Liverpool ostensibly going to win the league this weekend, naturally all of the talk has been about them, the great work that Arne Slot has done, how impressive they have been. So naturally with Arsenal not playing this weekend, that's taken a little bit of my focus today rather than the usual look at [...]
At this point in the season I'm not really sure what I can that is different from what we've seen for the large part of the football calendar. Arsenal have had their eyes on other things for over a month now and that has been born out in the results we've had over the last [...]
Tonight's game against Palace feels like a bit of an inconvenience for both teams, if we're all honest with ourselves, but Arsenal still have a job to do this evening. With Man City winning late against Villa last night, City are within five points of us now, having played a game more. The whole world [...]
Spent the Easter weekend with family, which meant less time available for blogging first thing in the morning, but had I jumped on here for some post match words yesterday, I'd have talked about a professional performance against an opponent who looked like the jig was up. For Arsenal the approach was good; the players [...]