25 04, 2017

3-5-2 has different paths for Hector and Giroud

By |2017-05-19T19:51:02+01:00April 25th, 2017|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, premier league, press conference, Tactics|1 Comment

There's no time to savour the result from the weekend as Arsenal already have one of the remaining league games left tomorrow evening against a reinvigorated Craig Shakespeare. So it's an Arsène Wenger pre match presser today and that means we'll get an update as to whether he'll stick or twist on the starting XI, [...]

24 04, 2017

Battle and bottle back for The Arsenal

By |2017-05-19T19:51:02+01:00April 24th, 2017|Arsenal FC, Defence, FA Cup, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Review|0 Comments

This season the players have - rightly in my opinion - been chastised for some of their performance and at times the perceived lack of effort they deliver for Arsenal football club. We've seen too many under par performances and that has led to widespread condemnation. So it only seems fair that this morning that [...]

23 04, 2017

Season defining game at Wembley

By |2017-05-19T19:51:02+01:00April 23rd, 2017|Arsenal FC, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, soccer, Tactics|0 Comments

I'm sure I'm not alone in breathing a collective sigh of relief at what happened yesterday at Wembley. The fact that everyone has been speculating in the media on a possible Tottenham match towards a double has left a horrible taste in the mouth and a churning of the stomach. So when the final whistle [...]

22 04, 2017

The horrible permutations of today’s game; the expectation of tomorrow’s

By |2017-05-19T19:51:02+01:00April 22nd, 2017|Arsenal, FA Cup, History|0 Comments

Happy Saturday Gooners. It's FA Cup weekend but as seems to be par for the course these days, we don't play until Sunday. I suppose we'd better get used to it because next season unless something drastic happens in the Premier League, we'll be seeing a lot less Saturday football and a lot more Sunday [...]

21 04, 2017

Keeping City guessing the best option for Arsenal

By |2017-05-19T19:51:03+01:00April 21st, 2017|Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, press conference, Tactics|0 Comments

Arsène's pre FA Cup semi final chitter-chatter yesterday was as to be expected. There was the inevitable question asked about his contract and the inevitable response from the manager that he had no update. He also neither confirmed nor denied the Kolasinac rumours, whilst saying the same old same old about contracts for Özil and [...]

20 04, 2017

Club envy, Arsène’s hints and Jack’s long goodbye

By |2017-05-19T19:51:03+01:00April 20th, 2017|Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, FA Cup, Formation, gooners, Gunners, injuries, press conference, Tactics|0 Comments

I wonder if Arsène is looking forward to today's press conference at all, not least because it is a detachment from the Premier League which let's face it, has hardly been easy for us in 2017. An opportunity to talk up his decent cup record is probably something of a welcome respite from the likely [...]

17 04, 2017

Repair the damage for next week’s semi final 

By |2017-04-17T10:06:40+01:00April 17th, 2017|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, premier league|1 Comment

The second Monday night football of the season provides us with a chance to at least get back to some kind of winning ways ahead of next weekend's FA Cup semi final and I must say that if we can't turn over a Middlesbrough side who are in freefall from the Premier League at the [...]

14 03, 2017

Cup memories over fourth place trophy

By |2017-05-19T19:51:07+01:00March 14th, 2017|Arsenal FC, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, premier league|0 Comments

So yesterday the quartet of semi finalists were confirmed and as much as I'd love to see Chelski brought down a peg after the season they've had, it's still delightful to see Jose and United fans outraged at some kind of perceived injustice against them, like they haven't had cart blanche as a club for the [...]

13 03, 2017

Confidence restoration; Ox injury saves a selection decision

By |2017-05-19T19:51:07+01:00March 13th, 2017|analysis, Arsenal FC, FA Cup, Formation, gooners, Gunners, injuries, midfield|0 Comments

Had a bit of a heavy Saturday this weekend after the Lincoln game, which effectively wrote off my Sunday and even the ability to stare down a computer screen to compile some thoughts, so I thought I'd leave it and put something together on Monday. And here we are. We already know three out of [...]

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