I need you to do something for me over the next few days. I need you to not get your hopes up too much about United being fatigued when they play us on Sunday. Yes, yes, yes, I know they have a lot of injuries at the moment, which is forcing them in to very [...]
It's another matchday, another FA Cup round, another early kick off and another game against Hull City. Anything feel a bit, y'know, familiar to you? Perhaps it's a good omen. After all, in the last two years, when we've beaten Hull City in the cup, we've 100% guaranteed ourselves a trophy. So a win today [...]
As the final whistle went yesterday, with Arsenal securing a point at The Britannia, it was hard for me to properly assess how I felt about the result. On the face of it it was a hard-fought point. It was more than City got against the Orcs and sees us go back to the top [...]
So no real upsets from yesterday's round of matches, saving plucky Spuds earning themselves a money-spinning and lucrative draw against title chasers Leicester City, or Oxford beating a woefully out-of-form Swansea. Actually, the fact that the Tiny Totts have another fixture to cram in to their schedule is probably a good thing from our perspective, [...]
I found yesterday's game against Sunderland fascinating, I must say, looking back on the game in the cold light of a January's Sunday. Fascinating from before the first whistle was even sounded, because of the pre-match pressers of both gaffers, followed by the subsequent reality of the teams that they put out. In the build [...]
I've seen three different first team Campbell's in my time as an Arsenal supporter. Kevin was a decent forward, Sol was an immense centre half and now Joel, who I will admit I have been a clear sceptic of in the past, has stepped up in an important game and maybe what Arsène 'smelt' in [...]
That should have been a lot easier than it actually was, or looked like on paper, for those neutrals looking at their phones, papers, etc, on a Sunday morning and seeing how the match panned out. The truth behind the result is - as often is the case - a little different from what transpired [...]
Quite often with Arsenal, when you hear rumours about an injury lay off, it usually results in the reality being much worse than feared. Rumours of a three week lay off = out for six weeks Hearing about a month out = three out. Possibility of a return before Christmas = Christmas 2016. So it [...]
Time is a good healer. I feel less peturbed about the lacklustre performance on Sunday now than I did yesterday. I'm still - nor do I ever will be - at the stage where I'm spinning this in to a more positive outlook like Arsène did when he said "at least we didn't lose", but [...]
Good old Arsène and his early press conferences. It gives me something to talk about on a Friday, you see, so I'm always happy when it happens. Of course, Saturday may still be a quiet day, but that's none of my concern first thing on a Friday morning, I can tell thee! Concerns. Do we [...]