13 05, 2025

The rebalancing of The Arsenal squad

By |2025-05-13T09:12:20+01:00May 13th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

As you'd expect it's a wee bit quiet out there on the Arsenal front, save for the odd spurious transfer rumour, although I have to say my thinking has been dominated by the potential absence of Declan Rice for this weekend. Having been pretty clear of most of the Champions League chasing pack all season, [...]

12 05, 2025

Draw FC strikes again

By |2025-05-12T08:22:20+01:00May 12th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Yesterday I decided to sit in the garden instead of watching the game at Anfield. It was relatively meaningless, I didn't want to see the crowing Liverpool fans, plus after the PSG exit, as I've already mentioned last week, I'm done with this season. So today's musings will be based on vibes and how I [...]

7 05, 2025

Arsenal have to leave it all out on the pitch against PSG

By |2025-05-07T08:19:08+01:00May 7th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

I'm not going to lie to you and tell you that i'm supremely confident about tonight. In truth, that home defeat to PSG rocked me a little, because I thought we would give a better account of ourselves. We've known about our profligacy in front of goal all season and I saw that Donnarumma made [...]

3 05, 2025

Just win, don’t draw: Arsenal v Bournemouth preview

By |2025-05-03T08:22:30+01:00May 3rd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, Match Preview, premier league|1 Comment

Premier League action today for The Arsenal and, for me, there are just three requirements today: Win Don't lose Don't draw The latter particularly. I'm getting pretty fed up with draws this season and whilst I know the context of some of the early ones, as well as some of the ones latterly, we really [...]

1 05, 2025

Thinking time for Arteta (and Odegaard) these next few days

By |2025-05-01T08:24:04+01:00May 1st, 2025|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Some days it's really easy to just brain dump a load of Arsenal thoughts on to the page. Today is not one of those days. I'm still kind of reeling from the defeat to PSG in the first leg, but what has struck me as interesting is how many Arsenal fans are actually quite positive that [...]

25 04, 2025

Injuries cost you everything – comparing Liverpool 2023/4 with Arsenal 2024/5

By |2025-04-25T10:59:43+01:00April 25th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, injuries, premier league|1 Comment

With Liverpool ostensibly going to win the league this weekend, naturally all of the talk has been about them, the great work that Arne Slot has done, how impressive they have been. So naturally with Arsenal not playing this weekend, that's taken a little bit of my focus today rather than the usual look at [...]

23 04, 2025

Arsenal need to ‘do the job’ against Palace tonight

By |2025-04-23T08:49:33+01:00April 23rd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, premier league|0 Comments

Tonight's game against Palace feels like a bit of an inconvenience for both teams, if we're all honest with ourselves, but Arsenal still have a job to do this evening. With Man City winning late against Villa last night, City are within five points of us now, having played a game more. The whole world [...]

22 04, 2025

Will Palace tomorrow have ‘summer friendly’ vibes to it?

By |2025-04-22T08:26:17+01:00April 22nd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Spent the Easter weekend with family, which meant less time available for blogging first thing in the morning, but had I jumped on here for some post match words yesterday, I'd have talked about a professional performance against an opponent who looked like the jig was up. For Arsenal the approach was good; the players [...]

19 04, 2025

A Kai-shaped ray of hope from Arteta’s presser yesterday?

By |2025-04-19T08:59:54+01:00April 19th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Me having suggested that perhaps they'd take the day off yesterday, of course Mikel Arteta rocked up to do his press conference in the afternoon after I'd posted some thoughts, such is my luck. I don't mind, it gives me something to have a look at on an Easter Saturday morning, although aside from some [...]

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