It's a week to go and although I'll get into the World Cup when it comes around, it's hard to get too excited about this round of friendlies, especially when they are a right royal pain in my arse when it comes to my journey home. I take the Met Line from Moorgate to Uxbridge [...]
So far the Arsenal PR and comms team are having a decent fist of this summer, what with the Emery arrival followed up yesterday by Lichtsteiner joining on a free. In an age of humans so ravenous for content, content, content, they've played this summer well so far. Just at the point at which the [...]
So it looks like 'Mr Socko' (little WWF reference for all you old school wrestling fans) is on his way to The Arsenal after his father...erm...Passthepoddodomolous Senior...said on a Greek radio station that it'll happen tomorrow. Which I can now confirm is officially today. It's one of those moves where Sokratis himself will probably be [...]
Bit of a provocative blog title today, I know, but it's something I've been thinking of for a while since the Emery appointment was announced. We've spent years being led to believe that it's Arsène's laissez-faire attitude to team structure, to specific and detailed instructions, that have been an issue for these players. We knew [...]
This will probably be a short one today because there's little going on in the Arsenal world. Hopefully this is because Unai is already in a darkened room trying frantically to work out how the heck he's going to turn Shokdran into a world class defender and how he's going to help Iwobi to learn [...]
On Wednesday we got ourselves a new manager confirmed and it's no surprise given what we now know about him that he's been at the training ground and going hardcore on swotting up on everything about the club. Meeting all the backroom staff, having a quick chat with Kos, starting to get an idea on [...]
Happy Friday to all, the first in the reign of Head Coach Emery, first of his name. We've seen he's now at the training ground taking it all in, wandering around and obviously introducing himself to all of the trees that only this time last week we had Arsène Wenger saying goodbye to individually. I [...]
So, it's all official now, we have our new Head Coach. A man who will slot into the revamped Arsenal structure and that man - Unai Emery - was presented to the media yesterday in a press conference alongside Ivan Gazidis. And I must say I was impressed. Firstly by his English, which was a [...]
So, it's all official now, we have our new Head Coach. A man who will slot into the revamped Arsenal structure and that man - Unai Emery - was presented to the media yesterday in a press conference alongside Ivan Gazidis. And I must say I was impressed. Firstly by his English, which was a [...]