1 12, 2025

Chelsea draw – good or bad? I still can’t work out…

By |2025-12-01T08:23:02+00:00December 1st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

Even though the match ended over 12 hours ago and I have had time to digest the result and going's on in the 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge, I'm still not sure how I feel about it, you know. At the beginning of the day if you'd have offered me a draw I'd have taken [...]

29 11, 2025

Some good news from Arteta on the injury front

By |2025-11-29T06:38:05+00:00November 29th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

So the good news from the press conference yesterday appears to be that despite coming off injured in midweek against Bayern, Leo appears to be fit, as confirmed by Mikel when doing his pre-Chelsea chat to the assembled media. That's a relief. Considering just how impressive he's been for us this season, losing him at [...]

22 11, 2025

The press conferences are done, we’re a little clearer on whose around for the NLD (sort of)

By |2025-11-22T09:27:05+00:00November 22nd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Having spent the whole week lamenting the massive injury crisis that surrounds the North London Derby this weekend, both Arsenal fans and them got a bit more of an inkling as to how actually it's not all as bad as it seemed over the international break. If you look at the Premier League injury table during the [...]

21 11, 2025

Hints of unexpected returns ahead of Arteta’s press conference

By |2025-11-21T08:17:59+00:00November 21st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|2 Comments

Happy Friday folks - how we all doing? Let's start with some positive news, which is that yesterday afternoon Big Vik took to his Instagram to get pictures of himself in training. Given how Arsenal spend so much time trying not to give anything away by clearly selecting pictures they know won't include any players [...]

20 11, 2025

Tale of two NLD injury squads isn’t what we all suspect…

By |2025-11-20T08:21:38+00:00November 20th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Firstly, a tip of the cap to the Arsenal Women, who beat Real Madrid again in 2025 in the Champions League. Nice work ladies! Always good to see. As for the men, well, they'll all be back now and the countdown is well and truly on to the North London Derby on Sunday. This is [...]

19 11, 2025

Big Gabi’s bad news means a step up for the two newbies

By |2025-11-19T09:17:28+00:00November 19th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

Yesterday morning I was brushing my teeth and I was thinking about the Big Gabi injury. I thought to myself "it feels like every time we get an injury update from a Fabrizio Romano or an Ornstein Bomba with regards to injuries over the last 12 - 18 months, it's always been worse than is first [...]

18 11, 2025

Big Gabi’s not coming, but Oliver and Attwell are…

By |2025-11-18T08:15:20+00:00November 18th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, injuries, Internationals, premier league, referees|0 Comments

Had a couple of days of extreme hangover on Sunday and then yesterday, so really didn't feel like coming on here to lament about Big Gabi, but I guess you have to eventually face up to the inevitable. I watched a short clip of Martin Keown on that national radio station that has become a [...]

13 11, 2025

Is Martinelli’s injury record a cause for concern?

By |2025-11-13T13:02:34+00:00November 13th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta|2 Comments

This morning I find myself thinking about Gabriel Martinelli. One of the longest-serving players in this Arsenal squad, it's easy to forget that the Brazilian is still just 24 years old and doesn't turn 25 until next June. He broke through with us properly at 18 under Emery and had some early impressive Europa League [...]

10 11, 2025

All eyes on the Colney treatment room this week

By |2025-11-10T08:09:39+00:00November 10th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, Internationals, premier league|0 Comments

I watched the City-Liverpool game unfold with intrigue yesterday. At the beginning of the day, in my head, this was very much a 'we can't lose either way' kind of feeling. A draw means both teams drop points. A Liverpool win means we're still five off them. A City win, whilst the least palatable, would [...]

9 11, 2025

Uncharacteristic Arsenal defending scuppers Sunderland three points

By |2025-11-09T09:54:41+00:00November 9th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

When you concede a goal in stoppage time, you always have to say you're disappointed with the result, but perhaps in the fullness of time this 2-2 draw we had at Sunderland yesterday won't be seen as the dropped points it feels like this morning. I was impressed with Sunderland as a side. They are [...]

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