29 08, 2020

Arteta and Arsenal’s midfield test at the Community Shield today

By |2020-08-29T08:50:15+01:00August 29th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, friendly, Match Preview, midfield, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|1 Comment

Match day for The Arsenal! Alright, it is only the Community Shield and ok, it’s Liverpool. But a match day is a match day and this is one in which I don’t have the usual nerves or fear of what a result will do to our season. That’s because, frankly, it doesn’t matter. As Arteta [...]

28 08, 2020

Has Guendouzi bought a ticket for the Arsenal boat?

By |2020-08-28T07:50:05+01:00August 28th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, friendly, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, pre season, Transfers|0 Comments

Morning party people, hope you’re all well and happy Friday to you and yours, which is happy because... FOOTBALL’s BACK TOMORROW! Ok, it’s a friendly and ok, it’s against a Liverpool side who will probably batter us with our midfield. But at least it’s something to talk about and with that we also got Mikel [...]

11 06, 2020

Don’t lose your sh*t over a friendly fitness exercise defeat to Brentford

By |2020-06-11T08:06:19+01:00June 11th, 2020|Arsenal, Arsenal Manager, friendly, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

So it turns out there was a bit of football played again yesterday, as we entertained Brentford at an empty Emirates bowl and unfortunately lost 3-2, with the Bees bagging a goal in the last couple of minutes to see off the game. It was all a bit cloak and dagger until the last minute, [...]

4 09, 2019

Nacho’s sad admission; international football’s confidence concerns

By |2019-09-04T07:51:37+01:00September 4th, 2019|Arsenal FC, friendly, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals|0 Comments

Nacho Monreal leaving us to go back to Spain was greeted with a lot more respect and acceptance than the poor way in which Laurent Koscielny left the club earlier in the transfer window. It was seen that he'd been professional right up until the last and whilst that certainly appears to be the case, [...]

5 08, 2019

Silly goals conceded against Barca; deja vu defending shows signings needed

By |2019-08-05T07:57:58+01:00August 5th, 2019|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Defence, friendly, pre season, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Final pre season friendly out of the way and, as probably is to be expected, we went to the Nou Camp and came back with a defeat. It's a familiar thing that we've seen before so there won't be too many surprises with that and hey, I've spent all summer saying that the results from [...]

3 08, 2019

Arsenal need to ship out before they bring in and Coutinho shouldn’t be one that comes in

By |2019-08-03T09:33:13+01:00August 3rd, 2019|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, Defence, friendly, pre season, Unai Emery|0 Comments

So we have our first bit of significant cash coming in as Krystian Bielik becomes a Derby player for around £10million, as well as Takuma Asano heading off to Partizan Belgrade for £1million, meaning that we made a £2.5million loss on a player who essentially went out on loan for the whole of his Arsenal [...]

29 07, 2019

Some positives from youth but that Arsenal back line terrifies me

By |2019-07-29T07:57:07+01:00July 29th, 2019|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, Defence, friendly, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, pre season, Unai Emery, youth|2 Comments

So we had the Emirates Cup yesterday in which Lyon eventually beating us from coming two goals behind (one of which looking like it certainly had more than a whiff of offside about it) and as a result there were a few Gooners who sadly couldn't see a victory on home soil before the important [...]

24 07, 2019

Madness against Madrid; empty seats against Lyon?

By |2019-07-24T07:48:15+01:00July 24th, 2019|Arsenal FC, Attack, friendly, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Ownership and the board, pre season, Tactics, Transfers|2 Comments

As I've been saying all summer there's very little that you can take from these friendly matches other than who's at what stage of their development, but it looked like it was one heck of a crazy game against Madrid last night, especially when you have sendings off in friendlies. I didn't watch the match [...]

29 03, 2019

Friendlies Schmendlies, but who plays in Arsenal’s midfield?

By |2019-03-29T11:30:04+00:00March 29th, 2019|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, friendly, injuries, internationals, pre season, premier league, Rant, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Can I admit something to you? I really couldn't give a monkeys about the pre season friendly games. Sorry, but there, I said it. I mean it's not that I don't appreciate their value to fans that don't get to see The Arsenal every odd week like I do, but because I do and because [...]

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