19 06, 2025

Arsenal get most difficult possible start – how important is momentum?

By |2025-06-19T07:55:23+01:00June 19th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, History, Mikel Arteta, pre season, premier league|0 Comments

Morning folks and welcome to Thursday. It's another glorious day in London today, so I'm bringing my work stuff into the garden and do a proper old school "shall we take our workbooks outside, kids" situation for my working day. Screw it, life is too short. I wonder if that's how Mudryk is feeling today. [...]

17 06, 2025

Williams to Barca, but Martinelli posts up just as well…

By |2025-06-17T09:15:41+01:00June 17th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, premier league|0 Comments

It's funny, you know, because whilst lots of people have been hot on Nico Williams, that has never really permeated the football side of my brain. So when Ornstein drops a confirmation that Williams wants Barcelona and that Barca are sorting out the details on a deal, I say "absolutely fine by me". I think [...]

25 05, 2025

Hats off to The Arsenal Women

By |2025-05-25T09:35:14+01:00May 25th, 2025|Arsenal FC, Champions League, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Only one place to start today, which is with The Arsenal Women, who did what I think most of us would agree was the unthinkable, by sinking Barcelona Femini. That Barca team tend to down anyone they come across, so to completely shut them out and then see the final stages over the line after [...]

20 05, 2025

Other teams get to do transfers too

By |2025-05-20T08:22:32+01:00May 20th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, Ownership and the board, premier league, Transfers|0 Comments

You know it's funny, I get so focus and insular on Arsenal and improvements that we make, that I forget that other teams will also be making efforts to improve their squad in the summer. I didn't watch the Brighton-Liverpool game, but I saw that Arne Slot was doing his bit to stoke the transfer [...]

19 05, 2025

Job done for The Arsenal. Just.

By |2025-05-19T08:37:17+01:00May 19th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, premier league|0 Comments

That wasn't the most fun afternoon watching of football that we had yesterday, but the requirement was to get the job done and, by the time the full time whistle had gone after that silly VAR check, ultimately that was what happened. A 1-0 win against a decent Newcastle side who will most likely be [...]

17 05, 2025

Arteta and Andrea’s Arsenal’s alignment

By |2025-05-17T08:06:20+01:00May 17th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Transfers|0 Comments

I thought we saw a relatively relaxed Mikel Arteta at his press conference yesterday. I wonder if it was the sun, the fact that he was starting to get over recent disappointments, the tone of the questioning, or maybe it was that he got to deliver good news to the media on Kai Havertz. Naturally [...]

16 05, 2025

As the season (thankfully) draws to a close, at least next year’s kit looks good…

By |2025-05-16T08:26:06+01:00May 16th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

It's the penultimate press conference of the season today and I'll bet Mikel Arteta can't wait to be shot of them at this stage. It'll be more of the same as he's had in the last few weeks and I suspect he'll have to go on the defensive a bit for the form. Other than [...]

15 05, 2025

Returning players a welcome end to the season

By |2025-05-15T08:49:26+01:00May 15th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Arsenal held an open training day session yesterday at The Emirates, where the players took to the field and went through some pretty basic numbers, whilst also doing a few autograph signings, etc. That in itself is nothing ground-breaking or new, but the fact that Leo Trossard, Declan Rice and Kai Havertz all made it [...]

13 05, 2025

The rebalancing of The Arsenal squad

By |2025-05-13T09:12:20+01:00May 13th, 2025|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|1 Comment

As you'd expect it's a wee bit quiet out there on the Arsenal front, save for the odd spurious transfer rumour, although I have to say my thinking has been dominated by the potential absence of Declan Rice for this weekend. Having been pretty clear of most of the Champions League chasing pack all season, [...]

12 05, 2025

Draw FC strikes again

By |2025-05-12T08:22:20+01:00May 12th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, midfield, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Yesterday I decided to sit in the garden instead of watching the game at Anfield. It was relatively meaningless, I didn't want to see the crowing Liverpool fans, plus after the PSG exit, as I've already mentioned last week, I'm done with this season. So today's musings will be based on vibes and how I [...]

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