24 09, 2019

No Corporal return tonight, but the young players need to give Emery something to think about against Forest

By |2019-09-24T08:07:47+01:00September 24th, 2019|Arsenal, Arsenal Manager, Defence, League Cup, Match Preview, Unai Emery, youth|0 Comments

In just over 48 hours we have our second matchday, having only played Villa on Sunday and now the League Cup against Nottingham Forest just two days later. To put that in perspective it's like playing a Wednesday night Champions League game and then being on the bill for the Friday night football game on [...]

20 07, 2019

Saliba sorted, but the Sven situation doesn’t add up

By |2019-07-20T09:16:11+01:00July 20th, 2019|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Ownership and the board, pre season, sven mislintat, Transfers, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Howdy all and welcome to another ore season Saturday and it's a Saturday in which I'm sure you've already seen yourselves, but we appear to finally got the Saliba deal over the line, so all that remains to be seen is for us to announce it. I suspect it'll be a low-key affair. After all [...]

5 04, 2019

Who’s in the bin at Arsenal in the summer?

By |2019-04-05T11:15:05+01:00April 5th, 2019|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, contracts, finances, Transfers, Unai Emery|1 Comment

Morning all. With Unai still not due to speak to the assembled press for another few hours as I write this, I started to think about next season and regardless of whether we secure Champions League football next year or not, who I think will be 'in the bin' in the summer. This list, I [...]

30 11, 2018

Kids show the Arsenal future is bright

By |2018-11-30T07:17:55+00:00November 30th, 2018|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, Europa League, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Howdy campers! I'm feeling Friday fine and dandy I have to say, with a big part of that being the contribution of the young players, who stepped up last night and put in a composed and controlled performance away to FC Vorskla. There will be those that will say that the level of opposition were [...]

29 11, 2018

Arsenal and Unai taking ‘The Greys’

By |2018-11-29T06:50:11+00:00November 29th, 2018|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, Europa League, Formation, Match Preview, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

If you're a regular reader you'll be well aware of my 90s obsession with Championship Manager as a kid. In many ways it basically set the tone for any kind of tactical analysis of the game, which probably explains why I'm not really too great when it comes to some of the in depth, data [...]

16 08, 2018

Arsenal Deadwood sequel to pave way for Ramsey signing?

By |2018-08-16T07:59:22+01:00August 16th, 2018|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, contracts, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Transfers, Unai Emery|1 Comment

Happy Thursday y'all! It's technically still summer in the UK but given the drizzle that has engulfed my particular corner of the world, you'd never have guessed it, because it's looking pretty grim. As grim as Carl Jenkinson's hopes of getting out of Football limbo, where he currently resides, too expensive salary-wise to leave Arsenal [...]

22 08, 2017

Wilshere red, Jenkinson blue, Deadwood II

By |2017-08-22T08:52:59+01:00August 22nd, 2017|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Arsene Wenger, Attack, contracts, Gunners, Rant|0 Comments

A new season, a new issue for Jack Wilshere, this time getting himself sent off in an under-23s game against City yesterday. But whilst I'm sure it will fit the media narrative to lambast Wilshere for his ill discipline, probably unsurprisingly I have to leap to the guys defence based on what I've seen from [...]

27 07, 2017

Arsenal Deadwood II

By |2017-07-27T07:41:35+01:00July 27th, 2017|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Arsene Wenger, contracts, Defence, gooners, Gunners, pre season|1 Comment

During the era of Denilson, Bendtner, Chamakh and Gervinho, also known as The First Deadwood era, I held no real affinity for any of the players who weren't in the first XI. They were young players who'd shown promise and, thanks to the likes of Nasri and Cesc, the club had panicked and signed them [...]

10 07, 2017

Absentees from Arsenal tour put ‘for sale’ signs above heads

By |2017-07-10T08:01:51+01:00July 10th, 2017|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Arsene Wenger, Defence, gooners, Gunners, pre season|1 Comment

If ever there was an unspoken admission that certain players are leaving Arsenal this season, the squad announcement yesterday for the upcoming Australia tour was it, that's for sure. There were plenty of notable absentees when the news went on the Arsenal website about who was travelling, but where as some could be explained away [...]

1 12, 2016

Arsenal rotated players do themselves no favours

By |2016-12-01T07:43:26+00:00December 1st, 2016|Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, League Cup, Match Review|0 Comments

Yesterday evening I didn't get to watch the game as I was out with The Management doing other things; like enjoying myself. I think it's fair to say I've dodged a bullet on that one because by all accounts, it didn't make for fun viewing and had I spent some of my hard-earned cash to [...]

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