19 09, 2026

Chelsea are funny. Brighton won’t be

By |2026-09-19T09:04:57+01:00September 19th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Tactics|0 Comments

I know we're playing later, so this schadenfreude might age like four-day-old milk being left out on the back patio in summer, but man, it's funny to laugh at Chelsea. I was doing other things last night, so I only checked in and out on the game, but seeing them drop a 3-0 away to Brentford [...]

12 09, 2026

Arsenal need to be ‘Always on’ against Sunderland

By |2026-09-12T07:25:39+01:00September 12th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

If last season taught us anything, it's that Sunderland are a side not to be taken lightly. That 2-2 up at the Stadium of light come over my birthday weekend in November, I was up in the North East, funnily enough, but on the black and white side, and Arsenal were gut-punched late on to [...]

6 09, 2026

Game state could define Arsenal v Chelsea

By |2026-09-06T10:07:37+01:00September 6th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

This is a big one today. This is a match that is probably going to be one of the big two or three home games this season. The Scum is a derby, but they are clearly inferior. Liverpool still can't work out what they are yet I don't think, but City and Chelsea feel like [...]

9 04, 2026

28 days later: Bournemouth looms on the horizon

By |2026-04-09T09:04:02+01:00April 9th, 2026|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, premier league, Tactics|3 Comments

I feel like the countdown to this huge Bournemouth game on Saturday lunchtime is well and truly on now. I remember talking about this one ahead of Southampton and Sporting Lisbon during the international break pod I did with Amanda a couple of weeks back. It's been looming over me ever since the last league [...]

13 03, 2026

Arsenal face the attritional game of the season against Everton tomorrow

By |2026-03-13T08:05:57+00:00March 13th, 2026|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|2 Comments

It's Friday, which means press conference day, as Mikel Arteta faces the media ahead of a really tough game against Everton. We'll have a little look at what he said, as well as Moyes, in tomorrow's blog. Today, I think I'll take a look at where Everton are at. Well, from a form perspective, they're [...]

27 02, 2026

The Havertz waiting game, and why we can’t afford another 2026 first-half lapse this weekend

By |2026-02-27T08:22:29+00:00February 27th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

It's Friday, so the official countdown feels like it begins now for this Sunday's big crunch match against the world's most reprehensible football club, Chelsea FC. Today we'll have the managers' press conference, which will give us an update on team news, which won't be very telling on our side. But as I sort of [...]

10 02, 2026

Controlling the controllable’s: Thoughts ahead of a massive match week 25

By |2026-02-10T08:51:06+00:00February 10th, 2026|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, contracts, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|0 Comments

We kick off match week 25 with a host of non-Arsenal fixtures, as the TV companies continue to feed from the money trough by spreading matches over three days, and I can't work out whether us playing on Thursday is a good thing or not. The Scum, for example, play Newcastle tonight, but then they [...]

20 12, 2025

Fresh legs vs. old habits: Can a rejuvenated Arsenal finally find the clinical edge against Everton?

By |2025-12-20T07:45:01+00:00December 20th, 2025|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference, Tactics|0 Comments

I have mixed feelings about tonight's game away at Everton, you know. One the one hand, we have had a full week of training for the players, there are plenty of training pics that show key players are back in the squad and fit for tonight, plus we got an update from Mikel that Big [...]

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 [...]

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