7 01, 2025

Strap yourselves in for a dirty Low Block FC game tonight against Newcastle

By |2025-01-07T05:53:55+00:00January 7th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, League Cup, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

It’s another game in this hectic schedule for The Arsenal this evening and with a potential League Cup final place at stake if Arsenal manage to overcome an in-form Newcastle side over two legs, it’s going to be a really tricky game against a side who will fancy their chances with the way they are [...]

24 12, 2024

Solving the Saka problem

By |2024-12-24T06:20:17+00:00December 24th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|1 Comment

Happy Christmas Eve y’all. Hope you’re enjoying the Christmas period and, like me, are already moving yourself in to Gorge Mode like I am. My normal approach the day after Mike Arteta has had his press conference is to pour over every word of his ahead of the game on 27th December, but given that [...]

23 12, 2024

Arsenal need a repeatable game blueprint

By |2024-12-23T06:22:39+00:00December 23rd, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

I watched the mentalness that was The Scum against the Scousers last night in a Durban airport and although I wanted to see Liverpool drop points, it’s hard not to have a wry smile about how terrible Tottenham are at the back. Yes, I know they have injuries, but playing your back line on the [...]

22 12, 2024

Arsenal’s efficiency against Palace is welcome indeed

By |2024-12-22T08:29:37+00:00December 22nd, 2024|Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Howdy peeps, from an overcast Johannesburg, in which me n the Management are spending our Christmas with friends. The time zone is a couple of hours ahead of the UK which meant I was able to time the watching of the game with an early dinner, meaning no disruption to the most important activity of [...]

20 12, 2024

Some teams get all the luck…

By |2024-12-20T06:52:16+00:00December 20th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsene Wenger, Attack, gooners, Gunners, History, injuries, League Cup, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant, Transfers|0 Comments

Happy Friday folks - hope you're all good? It's my last working day today and also my last in the UK for the next three weeks, as I jet off to South Africa for the holidays, so it was fun to learn that the Scum almost blew a three-goal lead in the League Cup last [...]

14 12, 2024

Prepare yourselves for a stinky game against long-ball deep block merchants Everton

By |2024-12-14T10:02:15+00:00December 14th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

A home match day again see's us up against 15th-placed Everton and an opportunity to at least keep pace with runaway leaders Liverpool, who will absolutely beat Fulham today on their own turf, if last weekend's game is anything to go by. Let's face it, we did everything to win that game and it was [...]

12 12, 2024

Momentum maintained with Monaco mauling

By |2024-12-11T22:44:55+00:00December 12th, 2024|analysis, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

That, eventually, was a jolly nice evening in the end. Don’t get me wrong, we had some perceived wobbles at times and particularly in the first half of yesterday’s ‘scoreline’ hammering of Monaco, we looked like that might be one of those “we’re going to regret missing our chances aren’t we?” kind of games. But [...]

11 12, 2024

A makeshift cast of understudies for both Arsenal and Monaco tonight?

By |2024-12-10T17:59:33+00:00December 11th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

Happy Champions League match day folks! I'm super excited for this one. Do you know why? Because I'm going tonight AND I used to play in defence for my Uni team, so I might get a place on the bench!! After all, with the amount of defenders we seemingly have on the treatment table right [...]

25 11, 2024

How does Arteta solve the right back rotation connundrum?

By |2024-11-25T08:19:57+00:00November 25th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, Defence, injuries, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

There's no rest for the wicked, as the Arsenal squad - and a fair few fans - make their way to Lisbon today ahead of our Champions League showdown against Sporting. I suspect we'll get an Arteta press conference towards the end of the working day today and we'll get a bit of an update [...]

20 11, 2024

Arsenal need to ‘bang’ – and ‘bang’ now

By |2024-11-20T08:04:05+00:00November 20th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

It's interesting how much introspection the international break brings out in us, isn't it, eh? Actually, not just us, but the media too. I've seen a Football365 article ranking Arteta in as 13th in terms of a manager 'power rankings' style approach to the season so far. I guess when you take a helicopter view [...]

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