27 09, 2024

Arsenal’s ‘dark arts’ talk is a media concoction to sell a product

By |2024-09-27T07:24:56+01:00September 27th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|2 Comments

Morning folks, how we all doing? First things first, congrats to the Arsenal Women who yesterday overcame their first-leg 1-0 defeat to Hacken to win 4-0 and secure Champions League football this season. No more painful memories of last season and Eidevall also referenced that the squad has been built for Champions League football, so [...]

26 09, 2024

Arsenal rotate, but the same ‘estandards’ remain in Bolton bashing

By |2024-09-26T07:51:31+01:00September 26th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, League Cup, Match Review, youth|0 Comments

At 3-1 the Bolton fans were chuckling to themselves with a rendition of "Johnny, Johnny Stones" to the tune of "Daddy Cool" by Boney M. At 5-1, they were singing in the rain. It's good to know that the dying embers of hostility still exist for them. For us it was an opportunity to show [...]

25 09, 2024

A smattering of first teamers today, but who plays in goal?

By |2024-09-25T07:35:05+01:00September 25th, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, League Cup, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, press conference|0 Comments

Morning folks - here we are at another match day and this time we kick off our League Cup campaign - a home tie against Bolton Wanderers and, I think the key question all of us want answered for this evening's game is: How many first team players are going to be rested tonight? Because [...]

24 09, 2024

Arteta needs to think carefully about who is risked tomorrow evening

By |2024-09-24T07:55:07+01:00September 24th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, League Cup, Mikel Arteta, press conference|1 Comment

Morning folks, how we all doing this Tuesday? A lot better than 115 Charges FC, it appears, as they now have the utterly scandalous situation of playing Watford this evening at home, just 48 hours after playing us (which they were at home) on Sunday, as well as having played Inter (which was at home) [...]

23 09, 2024

Battling point for Arsenal that I’d have taken pre game

By |2024-09-23T08:28:14+01:00September 23rd, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, referees|1 Comment

If you'd have offered me a Desmond 2-2 in the morning yesterday when I was writing my pre match thoughts, I'd have bitten your hands off. If you'd have told me that Arsenal would get back in the game after the first 10 - 15 minutes of yesterday's game at the soulless Etihad I'd have [...]

22 09, 2024

Toughest trip of the season for Arsenal, but season-defining it is not

By |2024-09-22T09:12:39+01:00September 22nd, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

It's the big one today. Man City away and do you know what? I'm actually not that nervous. I know that sounds weird, maybe it'll change throughout the course of today, but I kind of feel fine about whatever happens today. I suspect it's because I'm managing my own expectations; I think we might come-a-cropper [...]

21 09, 2024

Pep and Arteta have their say on each other and the fixture schedule

By |2024-09-21T08:22:42+01:00September 21st, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Happy Saturday peeps. How we all doing? I drank a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon to myself last night, whilst making and then consuming a chilli con carne, listening and watching the two respective managers talk about the game on Sunday. Firstly, Sky Sports were all over Pep, featuring him again and again and some of [...]

20 09, 2024

Raya saves Arsenal’s blushes on an otherwise noneventful evening in Italy

By |2024-09-20T08:43:22+01:00September 20th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

That was a tough ol' watch yesterday, eh? Arsenal went to Bergamo, they played a tricky opponent with a very specific approach that is ingrained in their system; they play high-intensity, man-for-man (something Mikel reflected on afterwards in the post-match presser), looking to nullify us by winning those individual duals and hoping that we didn't [...]

19 09, 2024

How much rotation will Arsenal see tonight against Atalanta?

By |2024-09-19T08:57:51+01:00September 19th, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

Morning Gooners, hope we're all pumped for the start of our Champions League campaign, eh? Tonight should be an interesting one because we've had one English team nab three points in Italy in the shape of Liverpool at Milan on Tuesday, one Italian team nab a point at the Emptihad against 115 Charges FC last [...]

18 09, 2024

Kicking of the Champions League thoughts

By |2024-09-18T08:18:40+01:00September 18th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Tomorrow it's Atalanta in the new phase of the Champions League and for some reason unbeknownst to myself, I decided to watch Villa away to Young Boys and then Liverpool away to Milan. Well, the first half of that one, anyway. I say 'unbeknownst' mainly because watching other teams in the Champions League isn't really [...]

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