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 [...]

23 10, 2025

Arsenal are in good nick at both ends of the pitch

By |2025-10-23T08:34:12+01:00October 23rd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, premier league|0 Comments

To demonstrate how fast football moves... Yesterday I woke up feeling terrible. I'd started to come down with a fever on Tuesday afternoon and by the time the Arsenal game on I was running a high temperature and got barely any sleep, going to bed straight after the game. That mean that yesterday morning I [...]

21 10, 2025

Arsenal and Atletico holding up the mirror to each other?

By |2025-10-21T08:51:16+01:00October 21st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

We're back again for a match day and it's a tricky one in the shape of Simeone's Atletico Madrid who come to town looking to spoil our party and recent form by picking up three points in this horrible large-league format. Arteta knows that a win today would be a big one and with 15/16 [...]

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 [...]

19 10, 2025

Functional Arsenal do the job against Fulham

By |2025-10-19T09:05:37+01:00October 19th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Sometimes football can feel like a slog. Like some kind of grind. Something you just have to endure. Sometimes it feels like it goes on forever. "This game feels like it's been going on for four hours" The Management said to me on around 84 minutes. Arsenal had huffed and puffed their way through a [...]

13 10, 2025

Calafiori’s very different look in an Italian shirt

By |2025-10-13T08:10:20+01:00October 13th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, Internationals, midfield, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|3 Comments

The Arsenal Women provided the dosage of Arsenal football for many Gooners yesterday, albeit through the lens of a somewhat underwhelming 1-0 win over Brighton at home I hear. I say that mainly because I was out and about so couldn't watch the game, but I kept track on my phone and with Chelsea already [...]

3 10, 2025

A look at West Ham fan view, probabilities and the likelihood of lightning striking thrice

By |2025-10-03T08:07:02+01:00October 3rd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|3 Comments

Happy Friday folks - how we all doing? Feeling pretty chipper after two wins this last week? Ready for a hopeful third tomorrow? I am. Not least because of what's happened in the last two season's against our opponent this weekend. It's been a feeling of Deja Vu in the last two season's against West Ham. Two [...]

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 [...]

28 09, 2025

We have an opportunity at St James’ Park

By |2025-09-28T09:34:31+01:00September 28th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, History, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

We have an opportunity today. One of the most frustrating part of last season - injuries aside - was that it felt like every time an opportunity opened up for The Arsenal to claw points back on Liverpool, we didn't take it, so they ended up creeping away from us until the lead they had [...]

22 09, 2025

Passive first halves and selection questions leave Arsenal with just a point against Man City

By |2025-09-22T08:13:44+01:00September 22nd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

In the fullness of time a draw against Man City may not appear to be the worst result in the world. Indeed, when you get an equaliser in the dying ebbs of the game, it feels like more of a boost than it should. But given where City were, given how the game played out [...]

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