Match day! Before I go in to the nuances of the game today, as well as Mikel Arteta's press conference yesterday, please allow me to indulge in a bit of smugness, having spent an hour in Alan Smith's presence last night for the Same Old Arsenal podcast yesterday evening. We talked about a wealth of [...]
Morning fellow Gooners, we alright? If you're UK based, you holding up ok in the heatwave, or are you excited to get out there this weekend in the sun? Do you know, I think this might be the hottest match I've witnessed at The Emirates? Can't wait. I really can't wait. I'm super excited about [...]
Morning Gooners, hope we're all doing well? It's a heatwave over Europe and so all of the cooling fans in the UK have been switched on and people are complaining about how hot it is. Not me. I love it. nice warm weather is a great opportunity to get the shorts, t-shirt and shades out [...]
There's nothing really going on that's any different today in the Arsenal world, unfortunately. Everything feels very 'samey' if I'm honest. Tielemans is still rumbling around as a rumour. Nothing new on Lisandro Martinez. Sergei Milinkovic-Savic is still bubbling away. I mean, there are nuances in which journos are trying to keep their news ticking [...]
Happy Sunday campers - hope you guys are all doing well? No proper football until tomorrow evening, but despite the fact I thought to myself that I wouldn't bother watching Man United beat Leicester City yesterday evening, I flicked on the TV in the kitchen last night as I was cooking to see what was going [...]
Yesterday I wrote about how I feared that Leicester would hit us on the counter. I wrote about being super nervous for this game because I thought we would get a match similar in frustration to the game last year; not taking our chances and sucker-punched by a goal on the counter by the likes [...]
I'm super nervous about today, lads and lasses, super nervous indeed. I think the reason why is because I fear what Leicester can do to us on the counter attack. They feel to me like a team absolutely geared up to smash and grab us and whilst their defence is nowhere near as resolute as [...]
Mikel had his press conference yesterday and of course the natural course of events is to first find out about the team news. The good is that Emile Smith Rowe is back having trained a couple of times after contracting COVID last week. The bad is there is still no sign of Tomiyasu. My biggest [...]
Earlier in the season I wrote a post about no European football, then lamented how when we were in the competition, we always seemed to suffer by playing opponents fresher in the league than us. And we have heard managers of Arsenal over the years talk about how the midweek game had the players a [...]
I'd take a draw today. There, I said it. I've set my stall out for today's blog early on and I'll be completely frank with you, I fear this game now that we are on the eve of it. We've scored one goal away all season, which was in the 1-0 win over Burnley. We've [...]