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That should rule out Arsenal job! In form Norwich will test the young guns..

Morning all. Doesn’t it feel good to be the club which finally ended Ronald Koeman’s managerial career at Everton? His bully boy tactics were ghastly. Blaming the players, most of whom he actually signed, for their bad start the season wasn’t a smart move. Just goes to show doesn’t it that no matter how much […]

If only Arsene Wenger could keep all three. More questions than answers from yesterday.

Morning guys and gals. Watching this Arsenal team play like they did yesterday raises more questions than it does answers. Where the heck has that kind of performance been hiding? How did Wenger manage to get the boys up for an away game? Why has Mesut Ozil not been playing like that for the last […]

Back to the future? It wasn’t pretty, but a moment of magic made viewing worth it….

Morning all. When Rick posted last night that eight of the players in the squad which played against Red Star yesterday evening it was music to my ears. Arsenal could very well become a club like not many other in the league again. A team full of proper homegrown players and not those plucked from […]

Wenger’s pick and mix! Hostility awaits but can Arsenal handle it?

Morning all. Arsenal travel to one of most hostile stadiums for todays early evening kick off to face Red Star Belgrade. I didn’t know that almost almost half the country of Serbia who support a football team, support Red Star. Their stadium seats just over 55,000 fans and I doubt they’ll be too many Gooners […]

Eight points off the top but heading in the right direction? Time to focus on the youth perhaps…..

Morning all. While Wenger and his big boys go about trying to convince us all that all is well, which it isn’t and won’t be for a long time yet, the under 23’s are doing a tad better. Sitting in second place in their league, just eight points separate them and leaders Chelsea. Perhaps they […]

Double boost ahead of trip to Watford. City did, we must too!

Morning all. Back in the good old days under Arsene Wenger, fixtures like today’s would be little to concern ourselves about. We had leaders, men, warriors. The minutes spent in the tunnel before both sides walked onto the pitch were often daunting for the opposition as they sized up the Arsenal team. Adams, Keown, Vieira, […]

Two could be off in January but Wenger rules out a third…

Morning all. Arsene Wenger has spoken to the media this morning: Mustafi is out for 6-8 weeks. Koscielny has a final test tomorrow. Alexis doesn’t return until tomorrow and could miss the game after receiving ‘special treatment’ from the Brazil players. Chambers is injured. Sead Kolasinac has a sore hip and he too needs a […]

January player swap with PSG? Squads looking thin for the weekend.

Morning all. I’m liking the story about Alexis Sanchez heading off to PSG in January especially as Julian Draxler is reportedly heading our way in exchange. I actually think that’s one of the best deals, if not the best, we could do. But I guess the stumbling block would be either player refusing to move. […]