24 10, 2026

Everton at home: Patience is all well and good, but let’s score early

By |2026-10-24T07:53:42+01:00October 24th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

It's match day; it's Everton, and as I said yesterday, it's going to be another tough one in which an opponent tries to stifle and contain us. This one isn't going to end up 4-0 to The Arsenal. Everton are going to be a tough nut to crack, whilst also having a fair bit of [...]

23 10, 2026

Can Arsenal find a way through Everton early?

By |2026-10-23T10:47:58+01:00October 23rd, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, premier league|0 Comments

Bit later than usual today, on account of midweek 'on a school night' drinking last night. The Management and I have promised ourselves there'll be no booze this evening. Let's see how that plays out... And let's see how the press conferences play out today. I hope Arteta hits the assembled journo's with a big [...]

20 10, 2026

Won’t somebody please think of the Premier League?

By |2026-10-20T07:34:35+01:00October 20th, 2026|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

With the Bayern game on tomorrow night, we should get a Mikel Arteta press conference with one of the players this evening, and I wonder if the media narrative and fainting couch approach by the English mainstream media translate to European competition? I've seen a few bits and bobs from yesterday, and what I saw [...]

18 10, 2026

Let’s go to Forest and play like champions

By |2026-10-18T10:53:39+01:00October 18th, 2026|Arsenal, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

Seen a lot of Arsenal fans on my timeline this morning talk about how worried they are about today's game. I get it. I mean, we have a pretty poor record at The City Ground; Oliver Glasner is a very good manager, plus they've been massively underperforming their statistical metrics on things like xG, so [...]

16 10, 2026

Forest fans aren’t convinced, but the City Ground is never easy for The Arsenal

By |2026-10-16T08:05:23+01:00October 16th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

It's a wet and windy Friday in London. If they didn't earn thousands of pounds literally per hour, I'd almost feel sorry for the players going out and training in this up and down the land. But they gotta do their job, like all of us do. And whilst this (blogging) isn't exactly a 'job' (certainly [...]

15 10, 2026

A mid-block, a low-scoring Forest and a big Arteta decision

By |2026-10-15T07:51:02+01:00October 15th, 2026|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

So it looks like Pantomime Villain FC finally came-a-cropper in a game last night, as PSG smashed them on their own patch 4-2. Lovely stuff. It's a shame that Man City have a three-point banker with a home game to Ipswich at the weekend, because it would be nice to see how they respond to [...]

12 10, 2026

Cheaters FC, ProRef and a league losing its credibility

By |2026-10-12T08:24:26+01:00October 12th, 2026|analysis, History, premier league, Rant, referees, soccer|2 Comments

The second that Chris Kavanagh produced the second yellow card from Gravenberch to effectively end the contest (even though it was still 0-0 at the time), I switched the football off and watched the remainder of Kung Fu Panda 3. There was no point in continuing to watch that farce that was on display. Playing [...]

11 10, 2026

Sometimes you just need a Bruno banger

By |2026-10-11T10:07:07+01:00October 11th, 2026|Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Yesterday I think none of us were really that surprised with the type of game we got, as Leeds came to town with an identity, and that identity translated exactly onto the pitch as I talked about in yesterday's pre-match blog. They are a strong team. They are a physical team. They press intensively. They [...]

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