30 05, 2015

My cup final. Your cup final. Arsenal's cup final. Make history.

By |2017-05-19T20:12:13+01:00May 30th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, Formation, gooners, Gunners, History, Match Preview, midfield|4 Comments

This is it people. Cup final day. It's hard to effectively communicate the significance of today to anybody who isn't a football fan, or even isn't a fan whose team is in the final, but this is season defining. And I mean that with no sense of hyperbole at all. By 10pm tonight we will [...]

28 05, 2015

Heartbreak for Welbeck and a hint on Theo vs Giroud?

By |2015-05-28T08:41:16+01:00May 28th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, FA Cup, Formation, gooners, Gunners, press conference|0 Comments

So who'da thunk that FIFA were a corrupt collection of cheating no-good-for-nothing's, eh? Then, quelle surprise, who'da thought that Sepp would persist with the FIFA elections to ensure his dictatorship remains for another however many years, by not postponing the election process after this latest set of troubles? Well, everybody, actually. Even Arsene had his [...]

20 05, 2015

Sunderland preview: Breaking down a defence again

By |2017-05-19T20:12:14+01:00May 20th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview|0 Comments

A lovely midweek game to keep us occupied tonight, how thoughtful of The Arsenal to get so far in the FA Cup and ensure this fixture was moved to a midweek, where we would have something to talk about. And that something appears to be how likely Arsene is to shuffle his deck a little [...]

18 05, 2015

United review: a better response to previous years

By |2017-05-19T20:12:14+01:00May 18th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Formation, gooners, Match Review, midfield, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Yesterday's proverbial 'game of two halves' gave us just what we needed - enough to effectively secure third on Wednesday night with one of two outcomes - but more importantly, showed a bit more resilience than I have seen in an Arsenal team at Old Trafford for a long time, FA Cup game a couple [...]

17 05, 2015

United preview: play with width and stretch an average back four

By |2017-05-19T20:12:15+01:00May 17th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Formation, Match Preview, midfield|6 Comments

United at Old Trafford. A game in which historically has had extreme significance, but in very recent times has not been as intense as the early Arsene Wenger years. Neither side is competing for the league for one thing, which inevitably results in a reduction of the pressure, but at least both teams have something [...]

12 05, 2015

Poor tactically and defensively

By |2017-05-19T20:12:15+01:00May 12th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Defence, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, midfield, premier league, Rant, Tactics|0 Comments

After the winning streak that we've had in the last couple months, I find myself somewhat at a difficult place, because for all the criticism that I want to give the manager for what I believe we're totally the wrong tactics to deploy against a Swansea team who came for a point and went home [...]

4 05, 2015

Exploit the width against Hull's formation

By |2015-05-04T08:57:16+01:00May 4th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Today the good lord Bergkamp could see fit to bless upon us the day of St Totteringham, in which we celebrate the mathematical certainty that Arsenal will finish above the other team in North London in the Premier League. Ideally a draw yesterday coupled with an Arsenal win would have made this weekend just about as good [...]

2 05, 2015

desert of arsenal nothingness and 'keeper speculation

By |2015-05-02T08:12:19+01:00May 2nd, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Arsene Wenger, Formation, gooners, Gunners, premier league, press conference, soccer|0 Comments

So here we are folks, standing in the middle of metaphorical desert of football nothingness, with the oasis of Arsenal delight miles and miles away in the distance. It'll take us at least until Monday to get to it, so I hope everyone has bough provisions? I have, thanks to Arsène, who spoke at his [...]

26 04, 2015

Last monkey off the back please

By |2015-04-26T08:58:27+01:00April 26th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Defence, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, premier league, soccer|0 Comments

After a pretty decent set of results yesterday, seeing both Spuds and Saints duke out a draw and Liverpool fail to score against West Brom away, we come to some proper football today and an opportunity to almost certainly confirm Champions League status against the eventual champions of this season in Chelski. I think first [...]

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