16 12, 2025

Arsenal need to ‘unlock’ the first half goal conundrum

By |2025-12-16T06:42:47+00:00December 16th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Morning Gooners, we all good? I have to admit, I was kind of sad that I didn't watch the batshit-mental football match last night that was Man United 4 - 4 Bournemouth. Looks like a Christmas hum-dinger of a game and one in which I saw Jamie Carragher describe it as "the best of the [...]

14 12, 2025

Arsenal scrape by against Wolves in another worrying day at the office

By |2025-12-14T11:09:02+00:00December 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

That was objectively bad yesterday. No 'ifs', not 'buts' - Arsenal just sucked a bit against a team who have made scoring goals and keeping them out look like Mission Impossible this season. I spoke about Wolves' form, about the problems they have, about the fact that they an injury to a key player and how [...]

13 12, 2025

Concentration, taking chances and dealing with a low block: Wolves preview

By |2025-12-13T09:23:59+00:00December 13th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Tactics|0 Comments

Mikel Arteta was his usual coy and non-committal self when it came to the injury update in yesterday's press conference. So we got merely the continued "matter of days" schtick with regards to Saliba, Trossard and Timber, whilst Rice was the same with the manager admitting that it was an illness that he picked up [...]

12 12, 2025

A look at Wolves’ numbers ahead of Arsenal’s game tomorrow night

By |2025-12-12T08:36:57+00:00December 12th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

It's Friday, it's press conference day and with Mikel Arteta having bedded back in some of our strikers in midweek's Champions League win, I'm interested to see in what kind of mood he might be today. Hopefully it is a jovial one, because the frustration and annoyance of last Saturday's defeat has been countered with [...]

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 [...]

4 12, 2025

Merino kicks Arsenal off again as Arsenal do the business against Brentford

By |2025-12-04T07:49:27+00:00December 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

That was one of those ‘on paper’ routine nights, wasn’t it? Arsenal had a job to do. They needed to avoid a banana skin. They needed to de-risk the whole evening. They needed to make this a perfunctory three points. Brentford are not a team to be trifled with. Yes, they have a pretty shoddy [...]

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 [...]

2 12, 2025

Assessing Brentford: More physicality and a low block to come for Arsenal?

By |2025-12-02T08:22:10+00:00December 2nd, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Howdy folks, hope we're all good? I thought that the catharsis of the Same Old Arsenal pod last night with James and Amanda would help me to understand my feelings over that Chelsea result, but I'm still no nearer to breaking it down. I think that's because City ultimately beat Leeds and so it feels [...]

1 12, 2025

Chelsea draw – good or bad? I still can’t work out…

By |2025-12-01T08:23:02+00:00December 1st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

Even though the match ended over 12 hours ago and I have had time to digest the result and going's on in the 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge, I'm still not sure how I feel about it, you know. At the beginning of the day if you'd have offered me a draw I'd have taken [...]

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