15 12, 2025

The dangers of results-based analysis

By |2025-12-15T08:39:00+00:00December 15th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, History, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|5 Comments

After the final results from yesterday's 2pm kick offs was confirmed, I had a quick check in to see what the 'vibes' were like and to my surprise, there was a lot of doom and gloom going on amongst some corners of The Arsenal fanbase. I saw people saying it's City's title, that they'd win [...]

6 12, 2025

Villa away: A curious opponent for The Arsenal today

By |2025-12-06T08:20:46+00:00December 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Didn't manage to compile some thoughts on Villa, what the pundits are saying and also how they play under Unai Emery this season, before the managers did their press conferences. But a lot of what unfolded yesterday with the pressers was kind of pushed to the background when, yesterday afternoon, Sami Mokbel broke the news [...]

4 12, 2025

Merino kicks Arsenal off again as Arsenal do the business against Brentford

By |2025-12-04T07:49:27+00:00December 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

That was one of those ‘on paper’ routine nights, wasn’t it? Arsenal had a job to do. They needed to avoid a banana skin. They needed to de-risk the whole evening. They needed to make this a perfunctory three points. Brentford are not a team to be trifled with. Yes, they have a pretty shoddy [...]

2 12, 2025

Assessing Brentford: More physicality and a low block to come for Arsenal?

By |2025-12-02T08:22:10+00:00December 2nd, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Howdy folks, hope we're all good? I thought that the catharsis of the Same Old Arsenal pod last night with James and Amanda would help me to understand my feelings over that Chelsea result, but I'm still no nearer to breaking it down. I think that's because City ultimately beat Leeds and so it feels [...]

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 [...]

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