Afternoon all. As the saying goes, better late than never and this post comes with good news. Emile Smith-Rowe has signed a new long term deal with Arsenal. Still listed as an Academy player he might be but having turned 18 Years old whilst on tour, I reckon he’ll be involved a lot with the […]
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Morning all. In the words of Sokratis Papastathopoulos: I am here to show I am first a defender and after that comes everything else. Of course, you have to know how to play with the ball, in the last five or six years football has changed a lot. A lot of coaches and a lot […]
Morning all. Food for thought this morning as Potter poses the question, has much changed at the club, barring expectation? Had a long talk with my son today as our boat meandered from pub to pub on the broads and he described to me what he called the Emperor’s new clothes. He has always felt […]
Morning all. There’s a reason for sayings like ‘Old habits die hard,’ ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’ or ‘miracles don’t happen overnight’ etc etc, they haven’t just been made up for fun have they? No, they are real and that’s because new things can’t be taught in a short space of time, especially when […]
Morning all. Our lovely warm summer is soon coming to and end, or at least it’s set to have a break according to the Met Office. Today or tomorrow the storms are coming in with plenty of rain, thunder and lightening. Floods are much expected as the ground is too hard to absorb the rainfall. Be […]
Morning all. Unai Emery has been talking to the media out in Singapore. What have been your first impressions of Arsenal? It’s great, it’s a big club. It’s got the history, the present and we want to create the future. Arsenal is a London club, an English club, but every day I am seeing Arsenal […]
Morning all. One from Kev this morning. Isn’t it great to be able to spend most of an Arsenal summer with the majority of our business in the bank. To be able to relax whilst it’s other clubs rushing around doing their business. That used to be us under Arsene Wenger, but not anymore… The […]
Nacho Monreal. A kind of unsung hero really as so often he goes about his business quietly and confidently. Occasionally he’ll make a mistake, a big one too when some useless man dressed in black performs a hop, skip and a jump whilst blowing his whistle and pointing to the penalty spot quicker than the […]
Morning all. A short one today. The above is the who’s in and who’s out of the squad travelling to Singapore. I doubt we can read much into it though as Torreira, Ospina and Welbeck are yet to return from World Cup duties. Apparently Mesut Ozil has come back slightly early because he knows the […]
Morning all. The Premier League, the best League in football were the words heard and seen written many times since it was formed. It’s just a glorified League Division One imo just with a fancy name. Foreign ownership, television deals, foreign players, sponsorships and foreign managerial appointments are the only real difference between then and […]
Morning all. It’s all or nothing in sport, we’ll it seems that way with the sports I enjoy watching. All the tennis finals at Wimbledon including the invitation doubles and of course the third/fourth playoff in the World Cup followed by the final between France and Croatia yesterday afternoon. For once though, football had to […]
Morning all. Our new manager faced the media yesterday although not for the first time, that was on the day he took up his new post. This time though there was no Ivan Gazidis by his side. Just him, and his interpreter who was called upon on more than one occasion. Who cares about that […]