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 [...]

24 10, 2025

Jesus’ return is nice, Palace fans are bullish, and their xG form suggests a reason for that…

By |2025-10-24T07:19:40+01:00October 24th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, contracts, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

I'm going to do my usual look at how Palace fans are feeling right now ahead of our game at the weekend, as well as a bit on their game last night against Larnaca (which I think is more famed for it's party town history than it's football team, but there you go), but before [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

12 10, 2025

Mikel Merino and the ‘horses for courses’ debate

By |2025-10-12T09:21:04+01:00October 12th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

How we all doing? Surviving the Interlull so far? I've been alright, actually, thanks for asking. I filled my day yesterday with 'other stuff' and didn't even switch on Sky Sports once for an extended watch of something. I'm going proper old-skool today and going to the circus with the management this afternoon (No, not [...]

9 10, 2025

Avoiding the Interlull: Talking about stadium seats

By |2025-10-09T07:45:05+01:00October 9th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, finances, gooners, Gunners, History|2 Comments

I was too focused yesterday on what I wanted from the international break from an Arsenal perspective, that I didn't even talk about the stadium expansion that's been talked about for the last couple days, so as I try desperately to fill my thoughts and this blog on Arsenal stuff so I can avoid talking [...]

4 10, 2025

Solving the low block problem: Why Arsenal need to be quicker against West Ham

By |2025-10-04T09:13:38+01:00October 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|3 Comments

Matchday Saturday, a 3pm kick-off, a game in which you'd normally be expecting Arsenal to pick up all three points against a struggling West Ham side and yet, here we all are, a little nervous about history repeating itself. Mikel was asked yesterday what he felt about the fact that Arsenal had lost 50% of [...]

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