1 07, 2021

Tavares and Locatelli – one locked down, the other not down

By |2021-07-01T07:27:25+01:00July 1st, 2021|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Defence, Internationals, Mikel Arteta, pre season, Transfers|0 Comments

Happy Thursday folks! Hope you are doing well? Bit weird with no football on for two consecutive days, isn't it? I had to make do with Wimbledon last night and Andy Murray scraping through against a guy who had basically never played tournament tennis, or something like that. He was decent though and made Murray [...]

26 02, 2021

Saka the saviour as Auba and Arsenal profit from our talented wonderkid

By |2021-02-26T07:59:26+00:00February 26th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Europa League, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Oh Arsenal, you do make me age, quite significantly I can tell you. With just over an hour gone I had come to the grim acceptance that our season was effectively over before March had even begun. We were down 2-1 to Benfica, 3-2 on aggregate, needing another two goals in the game to put [...]

25 02, 2021

Benfica at “home” – the first goal sets the tone of the game

By |2021-02-25T08:15:58+00:00February 25th, 2021|Arsenal, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Europa League, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

So here we are folks. This will either be the latest in a number of important match days for Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal team this season, or it will be the last meaningful match day for Arsenal, as we take on Olympiak......sorry....Benfica....in Athens to progress to the next stage of the Europa League and [...]

24 02, 2021

All eggs in Europa: Tomorrow night is season defining for The Arsenal

By |2021-02-24T07:08:53+00:00February 24th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Europa League, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Ok I'm going to just go ahead and say it this morning: Anyone else have some slight regrets over the departure of Olivier Giroud? After he exited in that January window we signed Aubameyang. I don't think there was a single Arsenal fan who thought we now didn't have an upgraded attack with Aubameyang joining [...]

23 02, 2021

Normal football is on the horizon again!

By |2021-02-23T08:00:26+00:00February 23rd, 2021|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Europa League, gooners, Gunners, History, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Today feels like it should be a good day. I've woken up to the sun shining here in London, birds tweeting, as well as a bit more of a clearer indication as to when some normality returns to life again in England. Yesterday the Prime Minister made his statement about when he thinks the country [...]

19 02, 2021

Frustration in Rome for Arsenal

By |2021-02-19T07:03:00+00:00February 19th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, Europa League, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Before this game began I looked at Benfica, looked at some of the players they had - the likes of Ottamendi and Verthongen as well as Rafa and Everton - and I was bemoaning our bad luck in drawing quite a high profile team in the first knockout round of this competition. This morning I [...]

18 02, 2021

Benfica: Arsenal must emphasize attack in first leg and away goals

By |2021-02-18T07:43:34+00:00February 18th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Attack, Europa Leagur, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to match day Thursday, with the Europa League in our sights, as a trip to Benfica on the horizon. Well, I say 'trip to Benfica', but what I actually mean is 'neutral venue as part of two legs. Because As I bemoaned yesterday, the farce that is this current situation where [...]

17 02, 2021

UEFA preserve no ‘integrity of the competition’ in Arsenal’s case

By |2021-02-17T07:40:39+00:00February 17th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Europa League, Mikel Arteta, press conference, Rant|0 Comments

I didn't watch any Champions League football last night, but I have seen the gifts that Liverpool were so generously offered by RB Leipzig last night, as well as the borderline free handout that the referee tried to leg up on Barcelona in their game against PSG. Honestly, when you see that given as a [...]

16 02, 2021

Rotation, rotation, rotation – some thoughts on Arsenal in the next 10 days

By |2021-02-16T08:11:07+00:00February 16th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Defence, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

Nothing like a bit of intermittent internet problems to start off ones day, eh? It’s amazing how reliant we are on these little black/white boxes that pump invisible connectivity to all parts of our houses and when that goes temporarily we feel lost and bereft. So it’s a bit of old school blogging from my [...]

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