Morning all. It’s great to have the internet back again, no, not because I’m now able to write some drivel for Highbury House but I can watch the cricket and Alistair Cooks last batting innings in an England shirt. Please don’t tell me he’s already out… I didn’t get to see the Arsenal v Real […]
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Morning all. At least that’s almost a week of this boring break over and done with. Ramsey scored for Wales last night, Guendouzi embarrassed all the senior players in the squad by scooping up the Arsenal Player of the Month award and Mesut Ozil has been telling us how exciting yet nerve wracking it was […]
Morning all. Plenty of Arsenal players have been called up for international duty. Mohamed Elneny, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Aaron Ramsey, Lucas Torreira, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Granit Xhaka, Danny Welbeck, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alex Iwobi and Konstantinos Mavropanos. (Loaned players Ospina, Asano and Kelechi Nwakali could also be in action during the break.) France clearly still have a problem finding a place in the squad for […]
Morning all. Mid October 2017 and 1-0 up at Vicarage Road against Watford only to be defeated 2-1. After the game Troy Deeney bleated on about Arsenal lacking ‘cojones’ which despite annoying many of us, pretty much hit the nail on the head. ‘No guts no glory’ is a saying heard many times and for […]
Morning all. Two weeks of nothing, nothing but pointless international friendlies during which time we’ll be praying our players won’t pick up an injury. Well, most of them but if Granit Xhaka suffers a little one I won’t be crying in my cornflakes, not a serious one of course as I wouldn’t wish that on […]
Morning guys. There’s being confident, sometimes cocky but when you’re a keeper being put under pressure by an opposition player in the opening minutes of a game, faffing around in possession is foolish. This playing out from the back is all well and good but the passing is too slow, Cech tries to be fancy […]
Morning all. Europa League Group E: Arsenal, Sporting CP, Qarabag, FC Vorskia, two of which I’ve never heard of. Qarabag are in Azerbaijan and Vorskla the Ukraine so that’s a fair bit of travelling which we could have done without but it is what it is and that’s the downside of being in the […]
Morning all. The Champions League draw threw out a few tasty fixtures for the Premier League clubs, tough groups too for three of them. Man City are the ones you’d expect to top their group with relative ease but the rest, second spot at best I reckon. Pochettino and his lot take on La Liga […]
Morning all. Fruit juice, loved by so many and previously on the menu at Arsenal has been axed by Unai Emery and replaced with water. I’m not surprised at all really as fruit juice, nice as it is first thing in the morning, is nothing other than a sugar overload. It’s far better to eat […]
Morning all. Can you believe it, having gone three games without scoring a single goal, Sunday’s opposition finally found the back of the net last night in the League Cup. I was hoping their goal drought would last long past us going there this weekend. But don’t worry, it’s not as bad as it sounds […]
Morning all. Well that was a bit of a shock last night with Utd getting thumped 3-0 at Old Trafford. I’d normally be quite happy seeing a Mourinho side take a hiding but considering it was the noisy neighbours who dished out the beating, it’s kind of a bitter sweet feeling. Mourinho must be getting […]
Morning all. A few days ago Kev posted a link to an article on The Swiss Ramble which by all accounts was very good. I didn’t read it because for some reason my computer security said no. (Yes I know I need to sort that) Soon after, Potter emailed me with a germ of an […]