Quite often with Arsenal, when you hear rumours about an injury lay off, it usually results in the reality being much worse than feared. Rumours of a three week lay off = out for six weeks Hearing about a month out = three out. Possibility of a return before Christmas = Christmas 2016. So it [...]
Time is a good healer. I feel less peturbed about the lacklustre performance on Sunday now than I did yesterday. I'm still - nor do I ever will be - at the stage where I'm spinning this in to a more positive outlook like Arsène did when he said "at least we didn't lose", but [...]
On the face of it, if you consider that we are still just two points from the top of the league, life appears to be not that bad for us. But that is if you ignore some of the clear issues that appear to exist at the club right now. A 1-1 draw against Norwich [...]
I wonder if Arsène will deliver his pre-match presser today, given that we're away this weekend, or whether he'll just leave it until tomorrow? That's the kind of thinking that goes through my mind first thing on a weekday, so it's probably good that I have a medium with which to channel my constant Arsenal [...]
So Arsène's presser delivered an update on the much anticipated Coquelin injury situation yesterday and, perhaps having been burnt too many times with incorrect prognoses before, the manager was reluctant to give an exact timeframe on Le Coq's return. He said it would certainly be more than a month, and would most likely be more [...]
The team news from Arsène will be revealed at some point today ahead of the Champions League game against Dinamo Zagreb, but there's only one real piece of news we're all nervously awaiting: the immediate fate of Francis Coquelin. Perhaps foolishly, I pushed myself in to believing that it would not be as bad as [...]
Where to even begin with the shower of the proverbial that we witnessed from Arsenal yesterday, eh? I mean seriously, I have no idea where to even start. Nothing went right. We played terribly. Then, even with most of the 90 minutes of tripe we had to sit through, we still get handed a lifeline [...]
Please forgive me if I end up jinxing the outcome of today's game, but this match today feels very much like the Swansea game of a few weeks ago, in which we had some very difficult moments but ended up winning comfortably away in South Wales. I'm not saying that I think we'll win today [...]
With the friendly game to take place at Wembley tonight most probably being the centre of attention for most of the world and its media, it is perhaps inevitable that from an Arsenal perspective there is some involvement. I suspect we'll see Giroud and Koscienly take their place in the team at some point, whilst [...]
Nothing is fun about this morning for me. Yes it's Friday, for which I am thankful, but that I drag myself in to work after a boozy night in which I needed to be at a work function, supporting an organisations awards in which my company get involved in, is particularly vexing for me this [...]