4 01, 2025

Another tough south coast Arsenal away day

By |2025-01-04T07:29:56+00:00January 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Is it me, or does it feel like we’ve played tough game after tough game this season? I get it - “you have to play everyone twice” as well as “everyone plays each other twice”, but still, it’s really felt like this is week after week in which we’ve had some super tough fixtures. And [...]

2 01, 2025

Nwaneri slips in to an Arsenal team building momentum

By |2025-01-02T10:48:49+00:00January 2nd, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, Match Review, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Well now, that was much better than the Ipswich game, eh? In fairness, there is of course a lot to do with game state with all matches and the one on 27th at home was against a team absolutely battered in their previous match and therefore naturally not wanting to create a spiral of doom [...]

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 [...]

15 12, 2024

Everton snoozefest shows Arsenal have a profligacy problem

By |2024-12-15T10:45:54+00:00December 15th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

That was absolutely pants yesterday. I said it in my match preview, I was worried that it would be a stinky 'non game' in which Arsenal would need to find the answers to a low block, long ball, deep lying team with very little ambition to go forward in Everton. That is exactly what we [...]

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 [...]

13 12, 2024

Did Martinelli already hit his ceiling? Does he need to re-invent himself?

By |2024-12-13T08:15:25+00:00December 13th, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

That Fylham game still rankles me, you know, because it feels like even if we'd have sneaked by with a 2-1 and that goal at the end of the game that was chalked off for VAR would have stood, we'd be in a pretty decent position right now. We'd be on a winning streak in [...]

9 12, 2024

Another Fulham disappointment brings back Arsenal attacking questions again

By |2024-12-09T08:23:26+00:00December 9th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, premier league|0 Comments

I wasn't able to watch the game yesterday, as I was at a Christmas get together with the family (we're off over Christmas so this was a bit of a non-negotiable from The Management's family), but I've seen the goals and a few of the Arsenal chances, so today's musings will be very much 'vibes' [...]

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