14 04, 2026

Sporting tomorrow, City looming, doubts everywhere

By |2026-04-14T08:16:10+01:00April 14th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|2 Comments

I am still down after last weekend. A little more time between now and the result has helped, but not by a lot, I must admit. I think my biggest issue is that I am worried that nothing will change in a short period of time. As I said to somebody in the comments from [...]

6 04, 2026

The quick turnaround is what all Arsenal fans (and players) need

By |2026-04-06T11:32:29+01:00April 6th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Happy bank holiday Monday, kids. Hope all is well with you, and you have something nice planned? I'm still in the cold North, so it'll be a day of chilling and probably doing a bit of boozing too, before the reality bump back down to earth tomorrow by doing some work remotely. The Arsenal players [...]

4 04, 2026

Reading between the Arteta lines as Arsenal face Southampton

By |2026-04-04T08:35:35+01:00April 4th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, FA Cup, injuries, Internationals, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, press conference|1 Comment

At Arteta's press conference yesterday, he was inevitably asked about the withdrawals of players from international duty and - according to the official site version of events, anyway - he played the most impressive of straight bats. To be fair, he will have known these questions would be coming; he'd have been briefed by the [...]

28 02, 2026

Low blocks and high stakes: Breaking down Rosenior’s Chelsea

By |2026-02-28T07:30:55+00:00February 28th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

So, now we've heard from the managers, and we have somewhat of a team update, we can start to look at how Arsenal get three points in a London Derby that I am really nervous about. Not as nervous as before the NLD, but just starting today's musings has some butterflies in the stomach, such [...]

6 02, 2026

The seven-point itch: Can Arsenal finally pull away from the chasing pack?

By |2026-02-06T06:50:19+00:00February 6th, 2026|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

We find out team news from Mikel Arteta today, so we'll know what we're dealing with when it comes to tomorrow's opposition, Sunderland, but I wonder what Mikel is thinking from a tactical perspective? From a fitness point of view, the news we have all unofficially heard is that Saka is out until probably the [...]

24 01, 2026

Arsenal must rediscover domestic ruthlessness against united tomorrow

By |2026-01-24T11:24:54+00:00January 24th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Howdy folks, from an overcast Sri Lanka in which I’m operating on about two hours sleep, so please bear with me if my usual Arsenal-related rambling is a little more incoherent than usual. We heard from Mikel Arteta yesterday and I guess the first thing to be happy about is that Hincapie and Calafiori are [...]

13 12, 2025

Concentration, taking chances and dealing with a low block: Wolves preview

By |2025-12-13T09:23:59+00:00December 13th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Tactics|0 Comments

Mikel Arteta was his usual coy and non-committal self when it came to the injury update in yesterday's press conference. So we got merely the continued "matter of days" schtick with regards to Saliba, Trossard and Timber, whilst Rice was the same with the manager admitting that it was an illness that he picked up [...]

3 12, 2025

Arteta has some selection decisions to make at home to Brentford

By |2025-12-03T09:25:18+00:00December 3rd, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Mikel Arteta had his press conference yesterday and, as expected, give nothing away in terms of availability of key players like Saliba or Trossard. He did say that Big Gabi is a ‘few weeks’ away and given it’s the beginning of December, I think most of us would take it if he’s coming back for [...]

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