16 02, 2025

Merino as nine keeps Arsenal’s hope alive for another week

By |2025-02-16T07:51:48+00:00February 16th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

Talk about a variation of emotions from the start, middle and ending of a football match, eh? On about 75 minutes Amanda messaged me and asked whether to bother with doing a post match Same Old Arsenal podcast. It'd been a pretty turgid game, punctuated only with the occasional bright spark from eventual man of [...]

15 02, 2025

Arsenal must explooit the wings against Leicester

By |2025-02-15T08:22:50+00:00February 15th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Morning folks.  It's matchday again! After a ten day hiatus, The Arsenal are back, the nerves are back, the trepidation remains and the trip to Leicester - whilst ordinarily I'd see it as an opportunity to potentially rack up some goals given their position and form - that is fraught with concern given our attacking [...]

6 02, 2025

Arteta and Arsenal get the approach wrong at Newcastle

By |2025-02-06T08:34:20+00:00February 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Rant, Tactics|1 Comment

After just a few minutes at St James' Park I had an inkling that this game was going to be very much a case of Deja Vu for us up in the North East. A bouncing ball in the middle of the park wasn't won by Partey, Isaak was found in space in behind and Arsenal [...]

3 02, 2025

MLS shines as Arsenal destroy Mr Stay Humble’s City

By |2025-02-03T08:12:19+00:00February 3rd, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Man, that felt good yesterday, didn’t it? After all of the hand-wringing about our lack of signings this month, after what felt like a very barren beginning of the year with us profligate in front of goal and virtually out of the two domestic cups, Arsenal turned up on a cold London February afternoon and [...]

30 01, 2025

Arsenal’s Girona advance gives us Starboy 2.0 vibes

By |2025-01-30T08:17:56+00:00January 30th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, Champions League, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, Transfers|0 Comments

Arsenal's conclusion to this horrendous Champions League group stage format concluded last night and after the initial concern of how the format would play out when we drew away at Atalanta and then ended up losing to a dodgy penalty away at Inter on match day three, we ended up finishing third in the competition, [...]

26 01, 2025

Congratulations

By |2025-01-26T08:48:25+00:00January 26th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, History, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant, referees|1 Comment

Congratulations to Michael Oliver. You made it all about you yesterday. You proved once again that your biases are clear when it comes to Arsenal and not even for the first time this season, you decided to change a game based on a decision that for 19 other clubs you would never give. Myles Lewis-Skelly's [...]

23 01, 2025

A routine Arsenal win (and about time!)

By |2025-01-22T22:38:09+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Match Review|0 Comments

Sometimes I write the headlines before I own a single thought on here. But coming out of the ground last night with Arsenal all but secured an automatic spot in the last 16 of the Champions League, that’s exactly what I felt, because we were never really troubled at all against a Zagreb team who [...]

19 01, 2025

It probably ain’t our season – the Villa draw might show it

By |2025-01-19T09:05:47+00:00January 19th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|3 Comments

Feel a bit down this morning. After the highs of the midweek win against The Scum, yesterday we were brought back down to earth and sadly, I think our title chances are probably all but gone now. We have 16 games left to play, Liverpool will beat Everton with their game in hand and that [...]

16 01, 2025

Edgy, nervy, but a confidence-boosting NLD win

By |2025-01-16T07:29:46+00:00January 16th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, premier league|0 Comments

Football, eh? Most specifically, The Arsenal, eh? They put you through everything. Arsenal went in to last night’s game having battered two teams and been basically knocked out of two cups (I mean, come on, we’re not overcoming a 2-0 home defeat in the North East), piling up chances after chances in those games, with [...]

8 01, 2025

Arsenal’s profligacy in front of goal highlighted by excellent Isak

By |2025-01-08T07:53:55+00:00January 8th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, History, injuries, League Cup, Match Review|2 Comments

Sometimes when I watch Arsenal, I just have that feeling of “oh no, this is going to be one of THOSE games” and after we’d created a couple of good chances before Newcastle got their first goal, including Martinelli crashing the ball off the post, I started to have that feeling. It’s the feeling that [...]

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