29 04, 2023

What does Arteta do tactically: Stick or twist?

By |2023-04-29T09:46:21+01:00April 29th, 2023|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

Bit of a weird one for a Saturday blog today, because although it is a Premier League weekend, Arsenal don't play until Tuesday, which means we'll be watching all of the other Premier League games unfolding in front of us, without any real proper football at all. From a personal point of view I'd rather [...]

21 04, 2023

Show you want to be champions: beat the Saints, Arsenal

By |2023-04-21T09:00:19+01:00April 21st, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

It’s match day tonight and, I’ll be completely honest with you not only am I worried that we might not deliver the kind of assured performance of a team that sits top of the league, but I’m also slightly concerned about our season longer term. That’s because Arteta had his press conference yesterday and confirmed [...]

19 04, 2023

Arteta and Real Madrid – that couldn’t be a thing – could it?

By |2023-04-19T08:27:00+01:00April 19th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Mikel Arteta, Ownership and the board|0 Comments

It's Wednesday, it's the middle of the week, but it is only another couple of days until matchday and after the disappointment of Sunday's draw there is half of me looking forward to hopefully seeing the team put it right at home  to Southampton, whilst the other part of me worries that a rut has [...]

16 04, 2023

Start fast and hopefully quieten West Ham down

By |2023-04-16T10:27:20+01:00April 16th, 2023|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Ahh man am I hungover. Started off with a stein at lunchtime and it slowly descended from there. So I’m feeling a bit fragile this morning. Don’t make my day worse Arsenal, please, I’m begging you. City made light work of Leicester City as we thought and so it means that if we want to [...]

15 04, 2023

The Saliba worry, the West Ham focus

By |2023-04-15T08:32:19+01:00April 15th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

Well we got our press conference from the boss yesterday and for me the one worrying thing that stood out was the Saliba update. We've all talked about it online, in the pubs amongst fellow Gooners, about how back injuries are apparently tough to get over and diagnose. But when you have an update from [...]

9 04, 2023

Arsenal must stop the long Liverpool diagonals

By |2023-04-09T08:12:28+01:00April 9th, 2023|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

When I woke up yesterday morning I thought to myself: “don’t bother about City; they smash Southampton (who are terrible), it’ll be all on us for tomorrow, the media narrative will be set, just prepare for it”. But as much as you can tell yourself that, as much as you know what will happen, there [...]

8 04, 2023

Arteta plays a straight bat pre Liverpool

By |2023-04-08T08:20:36+01:00April 8th, 2023|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, History, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Tricky Micky Arteta had his press conference yesterday and, as expected, didn’t really give away much in terms of team news. I suppose the best news is that we have no fresh injuries from last weekend. That is good enough for me because at this stage of the season the last thing we want to [...]

7 04, 2023

What is it about the North West for The Arsenal?

By |2023-04-07T10:09:26+01:00April 7th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, History, Mikel Arteta, premier league, referees|0 Comments

Happy Good Friday to you and yours. Hope you have nice things planned with the family. I'm spending the day doing jobs before sauntering over to the Mother-in-Laws so I can vegetate for a few days and just spend my time relaxing. Except I won't really ever 'relax' properly, because of what looms on the [...]

5 04, 2023

Making a case for the increasingly likely start of Rob Holding

By |2023-04-05T08:05:33+01:00April 5th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

I didn't bother to watch the Chelsea versus Liverpool game. I already knew how the script would play out; Liverpool looking ropey, Chelsea not able to finish their dinner, a game in which Football365 has already labelled 'El Sh*tico' would be a waste of an evening. Of course I still wanted to know how the game [...]

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