4 10, 2025

Solving the low block problem: Why Arsenal need to be quicker against West Ham

By |2025-10-04T09:13:38+01:00October 4th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|3 Comments

Matchday Saturday, a 3pm kick-off, a game in which you'd normally be expecting Arsenal to pick up all three points against a struggling West Ham side and yet, here we all are, a little nervous about history repeating itself. Mikel was asked yesterday what he felt about the fact that Arsenal had lost 50% of [...]

7 09, 2025

Noni impresses, Eze doesn’t, but that shouldn’t bother Arsenal fans

By |2025-09-07T10:17:15+01:00September 7th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Internationals, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

I watched the WSL opener as I was doing some work in the kitchen yesterday and I have to say, that Olivia Smith lass looks good, doesn't she? That's one heck of a shot she's got on her and if that's the sign of things to come, then Arsenal Women have themselves one heck of [...]

23 08, 2025

Will Leeds really come to play us?

By |2025-08-23T08:19:10+01:00August 23rd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|3 Comments

It's match day folks and I've woken up with a bloody trapped nerve at the base of my spine. I hope it isn't a life metaphor for what we'll have to go through today, because it's bloody painful. Hopefully with some exercises and a bit of moving around it'll get freed up a bit. And [...]

28 09, 2024

A different approach from previous week’s now needed – Leicester at home

By |2024-09-28T08:48:08+01:00September 28th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Here we are folks, it's a lovely day in London (albeit a little chilly), that most sacred of things in the shape of a 3pm kick off and I'm bringing The Management along to the game today in the seat next to me. As a hopefully advantageous twist of fate, the last time she rocked [...]

17 05, 2024

A look at Arsenal’s opponents this weekend: Everton

By |2024-05-17T07:46:51+01:00May 17th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|2 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to the last Friday pre match ramble of this Premier League season. There will be plenty of time for a review of the season and reflect on how good it is, but much like those Arsenal players having to forget whatever happens in Manchester (although we're all 99.9% in the know [...]

9 03, 2024

Compact Brentford will make this more difficult for Arsenal to break down

By |2024-03-09T08:50:06+00:00March 9th, 2024|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

Right then, it's match day, so let's see what we're up against with today's evening opponents Brentford, eh? Firstly, their team news, which sees the Beeds facing quite a lot of missing players due to injury, particularly at the back, where Rico Henry, Ben Mee, Aaron Hickey and Ethan Pinnock all remain out for this [...]

11 02, 2024

How do Arsenal unlock another West Ham low block?

By |2024-02-11T09:55:45+00:00February 11th, 2024|Arsenal FC|0 Comments

It's match day and after last weekend's high, anything other than a win today will make that feel like quite a fruitless exercise. Last weekend we worked so hard to get back to touching difference and asper expectations, yesterday all of the results went the way we expected and now we find ourselves five points [...]

8 02, 2024

The Arsenal defensive chicken or egg situation

By |2024-02-08T07:36:42+00:00February 8th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, History, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|2 Comments

Morning folks and happy Thursday to you and yours. I flicked on the Villa/Chelsea game last night and watched about 20 minutes of it as I was doing other stuff in the house. What a weird two teams those two are, eh? Chelsea, who looked absolutely ridiculous at the weekend at home to Wolves and [...]

20 01, 2024

Arsenal vs The embodiment of Low Block FC

By |2024-01-19T05:59:11+00:00January 20th, 2024|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

Happy matchday folks! Hope you're all good? Excited for The Arsenal finally being back today? I know I bloody am! It feels like it's been AGES! It's almost as if it's been worse than an international break, for some weird reason, as I recently pointed out here. But it's back, The Arsenal are back, there's [...]

5 12, 2023

Arteta will stress the importance of not underestimating the Hatters

By |2023-12-05T08:29:18+00:00December 5th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Morning folks - hope we're all good and in the festive Christmas spirit? Not least because at this time of the year the games come thick and fast and whilst there is obviously plenty of juggling that Arteta and his coaching staff need to contend with in the busy festive period, for us fans it's [...]

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