8 06, 2023

Do Arsenal really need another striker?

By |2023-06-08T07:58:24+01:00June 8th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, Attack, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|4 Comments

There's not many of you who will probably know this, but on my Dad's side of the family there is an army of West Ham fans, with my Dad having been brought up in Stratford and his family all dating back to Whitechapel and the surrounding areas of East London. My brother chose to support [...]

1 06, 2023

Saliba situation: A journo decided to ‘get in there early’ this summer

By |2023-06-01T08:20:43+01:00June 1st, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Transfers, contracts, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, pre season|3 Comments

'Tis the season to be...... ....Worried about every single transfer rumour that gets banded about, apparently, and I am by no means an exception it seems. For yesterday in the morning - after I'd written my daily musings on here first thing, a story emerged about how Arsenal could be resigned to losing Saliba this [...]

12 05, 2023

Do Saliba and Zinchenko blows mean a rethink for Arteta?

By |2023-05-12T07:33:43+01:00May 12th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

And then The Ornstein went and did that to us... Yep, last night we got another injury blow via The Athletic reporter, that not only with Saliba miss the remainder of this season through injury, but we'd also lose his fellow defensive teammate Oleksandr Zinchenko through a calf strain as well. both are big blows [...]

25 04, 2023

Does the Saliba situation and the ‘Holding System’ mean a ‘Hail Mary’ is needed?

By |2023-04-25T08:27:15+01:00April 25th, 2023|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

The all but official confirmation yesterday that Saliba would certainly miss tomorrow's game at the Etihad yesterday, sent a wave of Arsenal fans - your humble narrator included - into a wave of 'formation and play permutation bingo' and, I'll be honest, none of it was particularly palatable. We all know the issues of late; [...]

21 04, 2023

Show you want to be champions: beat the Saints, Arsenal

By |2023-04-21T09:00:19+01:00April 21st, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

It’s match day tonight and, I’ll be completely honest with you not only am I worried that we might not deliver the kind of assured performance of a team that sits top of the league, but I’m also slightly concerned about our season longer term. That’s because Arteta had his press conference yesterday and confirmed [...]

18 04, 2023

Saliba injury forcing us to think ahead to that City game

By |2023-04-18T18:09:01+01:00April 18th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|1 Comment

Morning folks. Yesterday I put a tweet out about how I'd almost forgotten how rubbish Monday's are after a disappointing performance from Arsenal. We've been that good all season that out of the 28 or 29 match weeks (I know we are on game 31 but there have been midweek Premier League matches so sometimes [...]

15 04, 2023

The Saliba worry, the West Ham focus

By |2023-04-15T08:32:19+01:00April 15th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Rant|0 Comments

Well we got our press conference from the boss yesterday and for me the one worrying thing that stood out was the Saliba update. We've all talked about it online, in the pubs amongst fellow Gooners, about how back injuries are apparently tough to get over and diagnose. But when you have an update from [...]

8 04, 2023

Arteta plays a straight bat pre Liverpool

By |2023-04-08T08:20:36+01:00April 8th, 2023|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, gooners, Gunners, History, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Tricky Micky Arteta had his press conference yesterday and, as expected, didn’t really give away much in terms of team news. I suppose the best news is that we have no fresh injuries from last weekend. That is good enough for me because at this stage of the season the last thing we want to [...]

5 04, 2023

Making a case for the increasingly likely start of Rob Holding

By |2023-04-05T08:05:33+01:00April 5th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, Tactics|1 Comment

I didn't bother to watch the Chelsea versus Liverpool game. I already knew how the script would play out; Liverpool looking ropey, Chelsea not able to finish their dinner, a game in which Football365 has already labelled 'El Sh*tico' would be a waste of an evening. Of course I still wanted to know how the game [...]

31 03, 2023

Saliba’s injury and why we should all be worried about Holding long term

By |2023-03-31T07:55:08+01:00March 31st, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Defence, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|2 Comments

I'm probably going to spend the vast bulk of today's ramblings talking about how worried I am with regards to William Saliba's fitness concerns, so before I do that, I'm taking a moment to remember the wonderful player that was David Rocastle. He sadly died 22 years ago today and whilst he didn't end his [...]

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