6 10, 2025

Odegaard’s injury was a freak, but the volume of games teams are playing tells a different injury story

By |2025-10-06T07:58:01+01:00October 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, injuries, premier league|0 Comments

To continue the theme for this season, which feels like a bit of a hangover from last season's luck, we find ourselves once again asking: Are we not allowed nice things? Arsenal confirmed that Martin Odegaard had suffered medial collateral ligament damage on Saturday with his clash of knees in the game against West Ham. [...]

24 09, 2025

Injuries should dictate that Arsenal fully rotate against Port Vale

By |2025-09-24T08:07:58+01:00September 24th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, injuries, League Cup, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, press conference|0 Comments

It's League Cup match day today and I don't know about you, but sometimes it's nice to not feel the pressure of the Premier League or Champions League and just 'watch' an Arsenal game, right? It's a little like the summer friendlies. You can watch, you can have your preferences for victory being The Arsenal, [...]

6 09, 2025

How many Arsenal players have made it out alive so far?

By |2025-09-06T09:09:46+01:00September 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, injuries, Internationals|2 Comments

So here we are folks - we're now immersed deep into the mire that is the September international break, with players now away with their national teams and Arsenal's doing all kind of rain dances, prayers and voodoo witchcraft tricks in the hope that we get them all back in one piece. We've already suffered [...]

4 09, 2025

Gabriel Jesus’ Champions League omission raises eyebrows

By |2025-09-04T08:31:27+01:00September 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, injuries|3 Comments

I was thinking about talking about Gabriel Martinelli today, but before I get to that, there was the small matter of the Champions League squads announced yesterday ahead of the group stages and, unlike in previous years, the news was awash with players who had not made the respective squads for their teams. Spare a [...]

30 08, 2025

Keeping everyone happy at Arsenal

By |2025-08-30T07:59:32+01:00August 30th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Transfers|1 Comment

Happy Hincapie Saturday folks! Although Arteta was tight-lipped on that arrival, the Ornbomb has already dropped and it appears we're loan-optioning him for the season and clearly we'll drop the actual cash on Leverkusen's lap in the summer of 2026, which makes sense given that we probably don't have the cash lying around to make [...]

25 08, 2025

Injuries this early show that the squad depth is integral for The Arsenal

By |2025-08-25T10:16:27+01:00August 25th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

I spent the day out yesterday having a walk with the Management. We went to the pub for lunch and she kept saying "why do you keep looking at your phone? What are you watching?" "Videos of the Eze signing" **Wife rolls eyes** It was good content to absorb yesterday and with the bank holiday [...]

24 08, 2025

An almost perfect day at the office for The Arsenal

By |2025-08-24T10:04:06+01:00August 24th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, premier league|0 Comments

Yesterday was so very nearly the perfect footballing day. An arrival of a new signing and boyhood fan before the game, a thumping of a newly promoted side with the goals shared, your star striker off the mark, plus a debut for the 15-year-old wonderkid. Yep, yesterday could have had it all. Unfortunately for us [...]

7 08, 2025

Weighing up “it’s a friendly” against some concerns Arsenal fans have

By |2025-08-07T07:50:03+01:00August 7th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, friendly, injuries, Mikel Arteta, pre season|2 Comments

It’s a curious thing, is pre season, because you can have your concerns about performances, but not about results. It’s a real juxtaposition to the real thing, in which ultimately the opposite is true. Due to work commitments I managed to catch from minute 28 of the game against Villareal last night and found myself [...]

1 08, 2025

The ‘Meh’ NLD hasn’t really taught us anything we didn’t already know

By |2025-08-01T08:20:51+01:00August 1st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, friendly, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, pre season|3 Comments

Having not watched any of our pre season friendlies - and I think I should probably underline the word friendly for today's blog of context - I wasn't going to start yesterday lunchtime by watching us play The Scum. But I followed what was going on and have also read a few match reports and seen [...]

13 05, 2025

The rebalancing of The Arsenal squad

By |2025-05-13T09:12:20+01:00May 13th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

As you'd expect it's a wee bit quiet out there on the Arsenal front, save for the odd spurious transfer rumour, although I have to say my thinking has been dominated by the potential absence of Declan Rice for this weekend. Having been pretty clear of most of the Champions League chasing pack all season, [...]

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