5 03, 2020

FA Cup thoughts from a gooner: To Schadenfreude or not to Schadenfreude…

By |2020-03-05T08:32:29+00:00March 5th, 2020|Arsenal FC, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

I'm trying to work out this morning how hard to go in on the schadenfreude with the scum after they crashed out of the FA Cup on penalties to Norwich last night. I mean on the one hand I want to get stuck in two footed and laugh my t*ts off, but then I think about the [...]

3 03, 2020

A second half step up from The Arsenal against Portsmouth

By |2020-03-03T08:29:59+00:00March 3rd, 2020|Arsenal FC, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

Well, we got there in the end and, despite some pretty decent concerted effort from Portsmouth in the first half against The Arsenal last night, the job was done and we are into the bowl for the next round of the FA Cup. It wasn’t easy though. Far from it in the first half and [...]

2 03, 2020

Ring the changes tonight, Arsenal: let’s see some of the future

By |2020-03-02T07:53:43+00:00March 2nd, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|1 Comment

It’s another Monday match day for us and it’s another silver trinket that we’re fighting for at the end of the road, as we take the trip to Fratyon Park to face a Portsmouth side who will be no mugs tonight I’m sure. Portsmouth may be a couple of divisions down from us in League [...]

29 02, 2020

Arteta needs to pick us all up

By |2020-02-29T08:03:55+00:00February 29th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Europa League, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

After the game on Thursday Arteta said it’s his job to pick up the players form the crushing feeling of a last second goal in extra time. But actually the man now has the weight of an entire club - including the fan base - with which to lift the mood. It’s strange though. We’re [...]

27 01, 2020

A full strength team for Arteta away to Bournemouth?

By |2020-01-27T07:51:17+00:00January 27th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Yesterday I was far too hanging to be able to tap away at my computer. Had I have been then I'd have most likely talked about Pablo Mari, who is set to become our first signing, after being spotted on Saturday night at Heathrow airport with Edu. It's a deal that brings in a centre [...]

25 01, 2020

Arteta tight-lipped on Matvienko, but less so with Ceballos

By |2020-01-25T09:40:03+00:00January 25th, 2020|Arsenal Transfers, Defence, FA Cup, Mikel Arteta, press conference|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to another bloody weekend in which Arsenal aren't playing, because we've got a poxy Monday night game going on. It's bloody annoying I can tell thee. But it is what it is and I guess we have to deal with it. I suppose if you're going to look at the positives [...]

7 01, 2020

Gritty Arsenal beat Dirty Leeds

By |2020-01-07T07:54:49+00:00January 7th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|2 Comments

Well now, wasn't that a slightly different performance to the ones we'd had under Arteta in the previous three games, eh? Certainly it was what you'd call 'gritty' and in terms of the high intensity that we'd seen in the previous two games, it was hardly the same, but perhaps that was opposition dependent. Leeds [...]

6 01, 2020

Possession-based Leeds might work well for Arsenal tonight

By |2020-01-06T07:55:43+00:00January 6th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, FA Cup, Formation, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

Matchday on a Monday is becoming a far more regular thing than I'd have liked it to have been, if I'm completely honest and with all of the other FA Cup round fixtures now having been played, we'll be learning our fate before a ball is kicked. That is of course assuming we can get [...]

4 01, 2020

The importance of that Edu/Arteta relationship is massive

By |2020-01-04T09:40:55+00:00January 4th, 2020|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, FA Cup, injuries, Mikel Arteta, Transfers|0 Comments

Morning friends and happy Saturday to you. It's an FA Cup weekend and in my opinion it's the best FA Cup weekend - cup final day aside if you're in it - of all of the round. It's the one in which all the Premier League teams feature, there's a shedload of games going on, [...]

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