Happy Monday all and if you're in the South East of the UK you'll be feeling the same way I've been feeling this weekend and this morning: It's about effing time the summer decided to show up, especially warmth-wise. Of course for The Arsenal it feels like our summer, this summer of supposed team strengthening, [...]
So we know how our season next year is going to pan out fixtures-wise, with the first one of the season away to Newcastle on Sunday 11th August. Then it's a home game against Burnley before Liverpool away and the Tiny Totts at home. Hardly the easiest of starts and certainly isn't a series of [...]
I guess one of the benefits of the new job I have is that because I often have to do early morning calls my commute into London is a little later than in my previous role. That's a benefit from a blog perspective because it means I'm writing today's instalment having just seen the team [...]
So it's an FA Cup home tie against United that we have to face in the next round of the FA Cup. I guess the best way to ensure you have an easier cup final is to beat them along the way, eh? ;-) On a serious note, how are Liverpool fans going to explain [...]
Yesterday I wrote a piece outlining that I suspected last night's game would have a bit of a testimonial match about it and in the cold light of day and ha big stood in a biting cold Emirates with half a dozen old school chums, I find myself unsurprised that it's effectively what we got [...]
In the end it was 'job done' thanks to an acrobatic finish from Torreira with about seven minutes remaining on the clock, but you can hardly say it was a vintage performance again from the team, as we struggled to break down a dogged but ultimately technically limited Huddersfield team. The big questions as we [...]
So, it's all official now, we have our new Head Coach. A man who will slot into the revamped Arsenal structure and that man - Unai Emery - was presented to the media yesterday in a press conference alongside Ivan Gazidis. And I must say I was impressed. Firstly by his English, which was a [...]
So, it's all official now, we have our new Head Coach. A man who will slot into the revamped Arsenal structure and that man - Unai Emery - was presented to the media yesterday in a press conference alongside Ivan Gazidis. And I must say I was impressed. Firstly by his English, which was a [...]
Well now. What should we talk about today then? Is there any particular Arsenal-related topics of conversation that we should focus on? You're right, how silly of me, Petr Cech being given the number one jersey, Xhaka bizarrely choosing to up his short number to 34, whilst Hector and Mo Elneny got single figures with [...]
On Sunday before the game I posted my preferred line up which included Özil, Lacazette, Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan, with our number 10s starting on paper out wide although in all honesty in my mind I saw it as a very fluid system. I remember writing years ago about Rosicky and his mobility (when not on [...]