27 02, 2025

No jeopardy, no creativity, no spark at Arsenal

By |2025-02-27T09:03:52+00:00February 27th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

After the defeat to West Ham at the weekend I took a bit of time away from social media and blogging. That defeat was the nail in the coffin for any lingering title hopes and I just didn't feel like dipping back into the Arsenal world to lament and stew on what has been a Seasonis [...]

22 02, 2025

I think Arteta’s Sterling/Merino decision is closer than we might all think

By |2025-02-22T06:59:27+00:00February 22nd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Before we get on to today's task against West Ham at home, a word on the draw for the Champions League, which see's us up against PSV in the Round of 16, with victory in that tie meaning we'd be up against either Atletico Madrid or Real Madrid. A win there takes us to the [...]

18 02, 2025

Does the Merino project have a shelf life?

By |2025-02-18T09:22:27+00:00February 18th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Last night I was cooking dinner and I flicked on Sky Sports to have in the background. Almost immediate as the first feature story they had one of their reporters outside London Colney talking about the role Merino played at the weekend, whether he could be 'the guy' in at number nine for us for [...]

13 02, 2025

The football gods giveth and they taketh away for The Arsenal…

By |2025-02-13T08:30:46+00:00February 13th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Yesterday I was writing about the rotten luck we've had this season in the wake of the Kai Havertz rumours. It felt like we couldn't get any more bad luck this season, the level we've had from pretty much August onward, but then I forgot the propensity of the footballing gods to keep on battering [...]

12 02, 2025

Arsenal wouldn’t be very good in a casino…

By |2025-02-12T08:32:24+00:00February 12th, 2025|analogy, analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, Ownership and the board, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

If Arsenal needed to bet it's house on something, you'd probably bet the exact opposite of whatever they do, right? "All on red for us" "Erm....yeah, i'll take black please..." I am, of course, referring to the news that Sami Mokbel broke yesterday about Kai Havertz, who is rumoured to have suffered a hamstring injury [...]

6 02, 2025

Arteta and Arsenal get the approach wrong at Newcastle

By |2025-02-06T08:34:20+00:00February 6th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Rant, Tactics|1 Comment

After just a few minutes at St James' Park I had an inkling that this game was going to be very much a case of Deja Vu for us up in the North East. A bouncing ball in the middle of the park wasn't won by Partey, Isaak was found in space in behind and Arsenal [...]

31 01, 2025

FA wade in on MLS debate; Watkins deal probably a 1% chance now

By |2025-01-31T08:13:22+00:00January 31st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant, referees|1 Comment

Let's all give an extremely slow and sarcastic clap to the FA today folks, after they decided to charge Arsenal for its players' conduct after the sending off of Myles Lewis-Skelly last weekend. So let's get this straight. The dismissal was ruled to be incorrect, which is why the Arsenal players were furious, the response [...]

26 01, 2025

Congratulations

By |2025-01-26T08:48:25+00:00January 26th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, History, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant, referees|1 Comment

Congratulations to Michael Oliver. You made it all about you yesterday. You proved once again that your biases are clear when it comes to Arsenal and not even for the first time this season, you decided to change a game based on a decision that for 19 other clubs you would never give. Myles Lewis-Skelly's [...]

22 01, 2025

How much can/will Arteta change and rotate this evening against Zagreb?

By |2025-01-22T08:01:05+00:00January 22nd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, Defence, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to match day Wednesday. We've got the last of our five home games today and it's the final home game of this infernal Champions League Group stage, for which we welcome Croatian side Dynamo Zagreb to The Emirates. Standing on 13 points so far, it's an opportunity for us to put [...]

21 01, 2025

Arsenal – let’s go Sesko

By |2025-01-21T09:26:56+00:00January 21st, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, Mikel Arteta|3 Comments

Morning folks, how we all doing? Now, I don't usually do this, but the wife has been practicing this thing called 'manifestation' and I am thinking I might give it a go today. It's basically this concept of 'if you will it enough, that positivity will net a positive outcome' - or thereabouts. If you're [...]

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