14 11, 2025

Eze’s England goal shows how he can carve out his own niche at The Arsenal

By |2025-11-14T07:26:58+00:00November 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Internationals, Mikel Arteta|2 Comments

So the Arsenal boys did the business last night for England. Not that I was watching. Now that England are qualified these matches become nothing more than glorified friendlies and all that leaves me thinking is: Why the HELL is Saka playing the full 90? Rice was taken off on 65 minutes, so that's good, [...]

12 10, 2025

Mikel Merino and the ‘horses for courses’ debate

By |2025-10-12T09:21:04+01:00October 12th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

How we all doing? Surviving the Interlull so far? I've been alright, actually, thanks for asking. I filled my day yesterday with 'other stuff' and didn't even switch on Sky Sports once for an extended watch of something. I'm going proper old-skool today and going to the circus with the management this afternoon (No, not [...]

9 09, 2025

Ethan should still have a wide role at The Arsenal

By |2025-09-09T07:22:52+01:00September 9th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Internationals, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Given that we play them at home at the weekend, I really hope that Forest's decision to sack Nuno Espirito Santo in the early hours of this morning have a destabilising effect on them for when they rock up at the Emirates on Saturday lunchtime. Let's hope that it doesn't galvanise them and we can [...]

8 09, 2025

What is a Merino? Cross everything for Calafiori and the Adrenaline around Dowman

By |2025-09-08T08:56:47+01:00September 8th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Internationals, premier league|1 Comment

Take a bow Mikel Merino son! He bagged himself a hat trick for Spain last night and the second one in particular looked like a really good strike. Naturally that kind of output and the fact he also scored in their last game against Bulgaria has you thinking about his life in an Arsenal shirt [...]

6 09, 2025

How many Arsenal players have made it out alive so far?

By |2025-09-06T09:09:46+01:00September 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, injuries, Internationals|2 Comments

So here we are folks - we're now immersed deep into the mire that is the September international break, with players now away with their national teams and Arsenal's doing all kind of rain dances, prayers and voodoo witchcraft tricks in the hope that we get them all back in one piece. We've already suffered [...]

20 11, 2024

Arsenal need to ‘bang’ – and ‘bang’ now

By |2024-11-20T08:04:05+00:00November 20th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

It's interesting how much introspection the international break brings out in us, isn't it, eh? Actually, not just us, but the media too. I've seen a Football365 article ranking Arteta in as 13th in terms of a manager 'power rankings' style approach to the season so far. I guess when you take a helicopter view [...]

18 11, 2024

Arsenal’s injury woes feel never-ending right now…

By |2024-11-18T08:15:39+00:00November 18th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

This season has absolutely battered Arsenal with injuries from day one, so perhaps it is no surprise that I've woken up this morning to jot down some thoughts, only to find that Leandro Trossard limped off after 37 minutes in Belgium's 1-0 defeat to Israel in Budapest yesterday. I haven't read any comments that talk [...]

14 11, 2024

White’s injury blow shows this season might be a cursed one for The Arsenal

By |2024-11-14T07:36:21+00:00November 14th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Internationals, premier league|0 Comments

The last few words I said on my blog post from yesterday: As Arteta said in the wake of the Chelsea game, it’s been eight weeks of consistent players going down with niggles, so we need to just get through this final international window and then get some flipping players back! Famous last words, eh? [...]

13 11, 2024

Odegaard’s return important and sensible

By |2024-11-13T09:21:55+00:00November 13th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, injuries, Internationals, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

When Norway boss Solbakken called up Odegaard, I naturally feared the worst, as I'm sure you did too. Footballers are a little different from you and I, you see, because where I personally would happily tell England to 'do one', they want to play for their national teams in these pointless glorified friendlies. So I [...]

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