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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The second that Chris Kavanagh produced the second yellow card from Gravenberch to effectively end the contest (even though it was still 0-0 at the time), I switched the football off and watched the remainder of Kung Fu Panda 3. There was no point in continuing to watch that farce that was on display. Playing [...]
Yesterday I think none of us were really that surprised with the type of game we got, as Leeds came to town with an identity, and that identity translated exactly onto the pitch as I talked about in yesterday's pre-match blog. They are a strong team. They are a physical team. They press intensively. They [...]
FINALLY! MATCHDAY! And it's Leeds United for The Arsenal for the early kick-off today, which means I'll be dumping these thoughts on here, going for a quick run, then making my way straight to Highbury for a pre-match warm-up with my mate Steve. These early ones are funny, I find, because they're usually a little [...]
This Man City stuff is going to dominate the headlines for a while yet, isn't it? Especially given that the City higher-ups are showing no contrition, no remorse, and instead are doubling down on their situation. Their latest 'lever' to pull is to get Etihad Airways involved, who are briefing to the press that they [...]
Let's start with an editorial correction from yesterday, shall we? I obviously didn't watch the game; I looked on FOTMOB at who played, for some reason missed that MLS got 70 minutes, and apparently did okay, according to some people in the comments. Hey ho - like I said, I clearly didn't watch it, so [...]
Right...so...this is an Arsenal blog, yeah? And I talk about The Arsenal on here and try to avoid going in too deep on other teams. But after the news emerged yesterday from David Ornstein that Manchester City have been found guilty of 114 of 115 charges, with an appeal set to take place (inevitably), I [...]
As the fallout from the defeat on Saturday continues in the social media discourse of Arsenal fans, I am still not feeling as angry as I thought I would be, which is strange. Perhaps it is because we've had a few years of this Arsenal team being really good defensively, and so this feels very much [...]