20 10, 2026

Won’t somebody please think of the Premier League?

By |2026-10-20T07:34:35+01:00October 20th, 2026|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

With the Bayern game on tomorrow night, we should get a Mikel Arteta press conference with one of the players this evening, and I wonder if the media narrative and fainting couch approach by the English mainstream media translate to European competition? I've seen a few bits and bobs from yesterday, and what I saw [...]

19 10, 2026

Forest away: One shot on target, one goal, three points. Job done?

By |2026-10-19T08:03:44+01:00October 19th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|1 Comment

That was a tough watch yesterday. Well, I say "tough watch", but nothing is tougher than seeing The Arsenal lose, so the fact we speak today safe in the knowledge that Arsenal picked up the sixth win of seven so far this season has to be read as something that speaks with a sliding scale. [...]

18 10, 2026

Let’s go to Forest and play like champions

By |2026-10-18T10:53:39+01:00October 18th, 2026|Arsenal, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

Seen a lot of Arsenal fans on my timeline this morning talk about how worried they are about today's game. I get it. I mean, we have a pretty poor record at The City Ground; Oliver Glasner is a very good manager, plus they've been massively underperforming their statistical metrics on things like xG, so [...]

16 10, 2026

Forest fans aren’t convinced, but the City Ground is never easy for The Arsenal

By |2026-10-16T08:05:23+01:00October 16th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

It's a wet and windy Friday in London. If they didn't earn thousands of pounds literally per hour, I'd almost feel sorry for the players going out and training in this up and down the land. But they gotta do their job, like all of us do. And whilst this (blogging) isn't exactly a 'job' (certainly [...]

15 10, 2026

A mid-block, a low-scoring Forest and a big Arteta decision

By |2026-10-15T07:51:02+01:00October 15th, 2026|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

So it looks like Pantomime Villain FC finally came-a-cropper in a game last night, as PSG smashed them on their own patch 4-2. Lovely stuff. It's a shame that Man City have a three-point banker with a home game to Ipswich at the weekend, because it would be nice to see how they respond to [...]

18 01, 2026

The wrong attacking approach means dropped points for Arsenal against Forest

By |2026-01-18T09:15:09+00:00January 18th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|1 Comment

I have a real sense of gnawing frustration this morning. I watched the United/City game, and I just assumed United would be pants and City cut our lead, not the other way around, so by the time kick off came for our game, I was buzzing. There's nothing like a Sean Dyche mid-block slog-fest to [...]

16 01, 2026

Forest fans not confident ahead of this one, but the Premier League always throws up surprises

By |2026-01-16T08:06:47+00:00January 16th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

Happy Friday folks. It's a press conference one today, which means we'll get Arteta and Dyche having their say on the evening kick-off under the lights tomorrow as we travel up to the City Ground. And the nerves are starting to kick in for me, having had a week off and two cup games to [...]

14 09, 2025

The perfect three-pointer against Forest

By |2025-09-14T07:50:45+01:00September 14th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Yesterday morning I spoke of the fact that Forest could be a bit of a banana skin on account of the fact that we don't really know how they would play. In the fullness of time and with the benefit of hindsight, we can say that regardless of what they were going to do, this [...]

13 09, 2025

Forest are an unknown quantity but Arsenal must start fast

By |2025-09-13T07:48:28+01:00September 13th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Here we are folks. It’s matchday. Like, a proper matchday, not like those fake match days that masquerade as if they’re matvhdays when in fact they’re international breaks. Oh how I have missed them. The nerves, the anticipation, the apprehension…it’s all here. Except…I’m at Heathrow as I type this, about to board a flight to [...]

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