19 05, 2015

If's and but's on rotation, the league and transfers

By |2017-05-19T20:12:14+01:00May 19th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Arsene Wenger, Attack, gooners, Gunners, premier league, press conference, soccer|0 Comments

A little holiday away from work awaits yours truly here after today's London grind, so apologies if the timing of the blogs get a little wayward, a bit like a loose Fabregas kick into the centre of a group of players inside a penalty box I suppose. What a bit of madness that was, eh? [...]

18 05, 2015

United review: a better response to previous years

By |2017-05-19T20:12:14+01:00May 18th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Formation, gooners, Match Review, midfield, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Yesterday's proverbial 'game of two halves' gave us just what we needed - enough to effectively secure third on Wednesday night with one of two outcomes - but more importantly, showed a bit more resilience than I have seen in an Arsenal team at Old Trafford for a long time, FA Cup game a couple [...]

15 05, 2015

Glass half empty or full?

By |2017-05-19T20:12:15+01:00May 15th, 2015|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, premier league, soccer|0 Comments

Thank some sort of deity that it's Friday. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I've had a shocking week - Arsenal result aside - I've just had enough of the proverbial stuff thrown at me work-wise that I'll be grateful for a few days off.  Plus the league have deemed it acceptable for us [...]

13 05, 2015

Players out with positive responses

By |2015-05-13T07:03:23+01:00May 13th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, premier league, press conference, soccer|0 Comments

The phrase 'let your football do the talking' has never been more obvious than after a defeat like Monday's one to Swansea, because the website is littered with post match fallout from Wenger, Wilshere and Mertesacker. It's kind of funny actually, because in the last six weeks or so there's been practically nothing from the [...]

12 05, 2015

Poor tactically and defensively

By |2017-05-19T20:12:15+01:00May 12th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Defence, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, midfield, premier league, Rant, Tactics|0 Comments

After the winning streak that we've had in the last couple months, I find myself somewhat at a difficult place, because for all the criticism that I want to give the manager for what I believe we're totally the wrong tactics to deploy against a Swansea team who came for a point and went home [...]

9 05, 2015

Internal solutions to external questions on transfers; Santi the quarterback

By |2017-05-19T20:12:16+01:00May 9th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Arsene Wenger, contracts|0 Comments

Plenty to talk about today, as Arsene had his pre-match presser and had lots to say on a wide range of topics. He was asked about doing transfer business early and gave  the standard sort of non-committal answer about not doing early transfer business, but doing the right transfer business, which would surely be all [...]

6 05, 2015

Confidence is high with plenty still to play for

By |2017-05-19T20:12:16+01:00May 6th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, midfield, pre season, premier league, soccer|0 Comments

Securing the return of St Totteringham's Day milestone was just the start. Now we enter the crucial part of the season in which when we look back over the summer we either go 'this was the beginning of New Arsenal' or 'meh'.  Progress has been made - the players all know that and have spoken [...]

5 05, 2015

Blessed be St Tott with the gift of three points

By |2017-05-19T20:12:17+01:00May 5th, 2015|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsene Wenger, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, midfield, premier league, soccer|0 Comments

Much like Easter, I do prefer it when St Totterigham's Day is bought forward in the calendar, as it enables us to enjoy it more I think. It was nice for the authorities to see fit to grant a national bank holiday in honour of the occasion. I spent my St Totteringham's Day in the [...]

4 05, 2015

Exploit the width against Hull's formation

By |2015-05-04T08:57:16+01:00May 4th, 2015|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, FA Cup, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Today the good lord Bergkamp could see fit to bless upon us the day of St Totteringham, in which we celebrate the mathematical certainty that Arsenal will finish above the other team in North London in the Premier League. Ideally a draw yesterday coupled with an Arsenal win would have made this weekend just about as good [...]

3 05, 2015

Permutations, as St Totteringham's draws ever nearer

By |2015-05-03T08:54:10+01:00May 3rd, 2015|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Champions League, FA Cup, gooners, Gunners, premier league|0 Comments

So it appears that it's not just football in which there are some 'boring boring' tactics used, as Floyd Mayweather decided that yesterday he'd rather celebrate the equivalent of a 0-0 to beat Manny Pacquiao by winning on points in what I am reading from people on social media, was more of a snugglefest from the American. I'm [...]

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