28 11, 2024

Arteta leveraging his positivity stick to reboot The Arsenal

By |2024-11-28T08:23:13+00:00November 28th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Eight goals in around 80 hours between Saturday and Tuesday has a Gooner like me rather excited right now. I seem to have eschewed my normal glass half empty mantra, which has been replaced with a really positive vibe about The Arsenal looking ahead to this weekend's game against West Ham. Of course, the feelings could be [...]

27 11, 2024

Arsenal blitz through Sporting to set a marker in Europe

By |2024-11-27T07:26:40+00:00November 27th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review|0 Comments

Well now, wasn't that a lot more fun last night than we expected, eh? I don't think there are any Arsenal fans that thought that Mikel Arteta and his charges were going to head over to Portugal, absolutely blitz an unbeaten team with a 100% domestic win record this season, with one of the clubs [...]

26 11, 2024

Familiarity and change about Sporting versus Arsenal tonight

By |2024-11-26T07:45:11+00:00November 26th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, History, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, press conference|0 Comments

So we're back in Champions League action this evening and it's the Portuguese champions we are up against in Lisbon tonight, in a game that sees a repeat of the March 2023 Europa League Round of 16 we played in March 2023. That game finished 2-2 and at the time I think most of us [...]

25 11, 2024

How does Arteta solve the right back rotation connundrum?

By |2024-11-25T08:19:57+00:00November 25th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, Defence, injuries, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

There's no rest for the wicked, as the Arsenal squad - and a fair few fans - make their way to Lisbon today ahead of our Champions League showdown against Sporting. I suspect we'll get an Arteta press conference towards the end of the working day today and we'll get a bit of an update [...]

7 11, 2024

A tale of two penalties in Milan

By |2024-11-07T08:13:41+00:00November 7th, 2024|Arsenal FC|0 Comments

There's really no other place to start than the deciding two factors in yesterday's 1-0 defeat to the Italian Champions Inter. At one end of the pitch Mikel Merino is punched in the head from Jan Sommer, at the other end of the pitch a ball flicks up on to his arm and the - [...]

23 10, 2024

Job done for The Arsenal. But scratch beneath the surface…

By |2024-10-23T09:07:55+01:00October 23rd, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

If the hope was that last night's game was supposed to inject a little bit more swagger in to the Arsenal collective psyche last night, both for the fans as much as the players and coaching staff, I think it is fair to say that all didn't go exactly to plan. Ultimately, we got the [...]

22 10, 2024

Arsenal have only one option tonight against Shaktar – get the job done

By |2024-10-22T09:04:20+01:00October 22nd, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners|0 Comments

Never have I been so glad of the frequency of games at this time of the season than now. On Sunday I managed to avoid stewing on the result to much, I had a little say on the Bournemouth game yesterday but thankfully, mercifully, we have a home match against Shaktar Donestk to focus on [...]

21 10, 2024

Arsenal need to up a gear offensively from now – starting with Shaktar

By |2024-10-21T08:07:03+01:00October 21st, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Spent the weekend at an AirBnB which had it's own sauna, cinema room, jacuzzi and pool this weekend, so when I woke up yesterday having watched the game on m iPad, I couldn't really be arsed to pen any thoughts. Why ruin a perfect Sunday ahead by re-living the memory, eh? A new week also [...]

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