28 10, 2021

League Cup becomes interesting, as does Balogun’s ‘clear plan’

By |2021-10-28T08:16:02+01:00October 28th, 2021|Arsenal, gooners, Gunners, League Cup, Mikel Arteta, youth|0 Comments

Wellington, wellington, wellington. Welly, welly, welly. Wllety, wellety, wellety. Look at what transpired yesterday. The Man City Cup, brought to you by Man City and in association with Man City, this season will no longer be won by Man City, after their five year reign of terror ended with a penalty shootout against West Ham, [...]

26 10, 2021

Arsenal must maintain momentum against Leeds, but with the fringe players

By |2021-10-26T07:35:19+01:00October 26th, 2021|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, League Cup, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Howdy peeps and welcome to what I like to call the "low risk match day". It's a game this evening at home to Leeds United in which Arsenal we hope will of course win, but with it being in the League Cup, the stakes don't feel as high, so as a result if we end [...]

25 10, 2021

The perfect weekend and the perfect Arsenal partnership up top?

By |2021-10-25T08:25:58+01:00October 25th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

As weekends go, that was pretty tasty, from an Arsenal perspective wasn't it? We had our win on Friday, which meant we could just watch the games pan out knowing we had done our job. Then we had Everton stunned against Watford, followed by yesterday's results, which were almost perfect. First the Scum were beaten [...]

24 10, 2021

Momentum is winning the home games for The Arsenal

By |2021-10-24T09:02:12+01:00October 24th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|2 Comments

Football is a mental ol' sport sometimes, eh? Like watching a team in Everton who could have gone up to fourth with a home win against what looked like a hapless Watford last weekend, get battered in ten minutes to lose 5-2 at home. Or like how after three games of the season we were [...]

21 10, 2021

Arteta’s margins are too fine when we don’t score enough goals

By |2021-10-21T07:43:41+01:00October 21st, 2021|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Last night I had a weird ol' dream. I was back in my old season ticket seat at Highbury in the North Bank and time had rewound and the team were now allowed to play back in the old stadium again. Which is weird because a) that would take some serious engineering work needed, not [...]

20 10, 2021

Arteta can’t coach-out stupid mistakes, he CAN mitigate them. But is he?

By |2021-10-20T07:34:34+01:00October 20th, 2021|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Formation, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Morning folks. How is it Wednesday already? Given we have a game on Friday too, there will probably be a pre-match presser tomorrow and so it'll be interesting to hear what Arteta thinks of what transpired on Monday given there has been some time between the raw emotion of a disappointing result and when he [...]

19 10, 2021

Overly-structured ArtetaBall isn’t working: Palace

By |2021-10-19T08:18:19+01:00October 19th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|1 Comment

At just before the hour mark I looked up to the big screen behind me yesterday and saw that with two thirds of the game gone, we were labouring, with Palace in the ascendency. And I hoped for a change. The set up wasn’t working. Crystal Palace we’re pressing across the pitch in an organised [...]

18 10, 2021

Arteta needs to sweep aside the narrative and Arsenal must ‘click’ against Palace

By |2021-10-18T07:39:55+01:00October 18th, 2021|Arsenal, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, Formation, History, Match Preview, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

A week of 'R n R' in Spain this past seven days and having also decided that the international break was an opportunity to step away from the blog in the mornings, I find myself rejuvenated and excited for what feels like 'Part III' of Arsenal's season. In Part I we experienced the lows, the [...]

6 10, 2021

Arsenal’s successful future needs the stars to align

By |2021-10-06T07:57:02+01:00October 6th, 2021|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, gooners, Gunners, History, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

It's oh-so-quiet in Arsenal right now. Well, not the whole of the land, because of course the Arsenal Women played last night and sadly got a little beat up by Barcelona Women 4-1 on their home turf. Bit of a shame but I guess there are five more Champions League Group games to go and [...]

5 10, 2021

Freestyle footballers might be absent, but knowing the opposition intimately shouldn’t be

By |2021-10-05T07:48:33+01:00October 5th, 2021|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Formation, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

Morning folks. Hope you and yours are well on this Tuesday morn. My evening was spent without Facebook and WhatsApp and aside from planning a couple of vineyard tours next week in Spain as I go to celebrate my mates wedding and then stay out in Catalonia for a few days extra, I didn't miss [...]

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