Morning all. So the good news this week, well, sort of, is that all three of Francis Coquelin, Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud all signed contract extensions and I’m sure more will follow when Merts and Santi get their one year extension. The downside is that I think we can all assume that Arsene Wenger […]
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Morning all. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Arsenal FC have a ladies team, once a very good one too which has won nearly everything on offer in the women’s game. One player who has been part of the glory days is Kelly Smith who yesterday announced her retirement from the game. She’s not going […]
Morning all. How refreshing, a young Englishman has been snapped up by Arsenal and when asked how he felt, the best word he could describe his move was ‘mental’. Cohan Bramall, a soon to be 21 year old non-league player, a name most of us would admit we’d not heard before his link to Arsenal […]
Morning all. With all the talk about Arsenal’s interest in Andrea Balotti, a player we are supposed to have made a £56 million for, which in itself I think is a load of rubbish despite the stuff being said by his club, do Arsenal need another striker? Alexis, Giroud, Lucas, Welbeck and Akpom. Throw in […]
Morning all. Reflecting back on Saturday evenings match against Preston, Arsene Wenger has been talking to the official website: “We were caught cold in the first half by the enthusiasm of Preston, and their quality as well. You must say it’s a good team. We responded very well and as usual we came back. “It […]
Morning all. We know that the FA Cup can spring a few surprises, after all, one only has to look at a few of the results yesterday and in years gone by to know that. Who’d have though Utd would beat Reading eh….. That was a shock. The biggest upset of yesterday could have, maybe […]
Morning all. When Arsenal were drawn to face Preston in the FA Cup, my mind cast back to a joke I once heard. Not the kind of language I am keen on, but it was funny regardless. Two Hard of Hearing Guys In A Pub. Two hard of hearing guys walk into a pub in Burnley, one […]
Morning all. Much has been made of the body language, outbursts, sulking etc etc of Alexis Sanchez after Tuesdays match against Bournemouth. He stormed off the pitch after the final whistle, not shaking any players hand according to some. He was angry, that was visibly clear, and not for the first time since he joined […]
Morning all. Just another game away from home and another really awful performance, until the last twenty minutes. Bellerin had a nightmare in defence which allowed Bournemouth to take the lead, Xhaka showed inexperience to give away a penalty and then I still don’t know how the home team was allowed to score a third… At […]
Morning all. At least this year has started well enough with a comfortable win over Crystal Palace at The Emirates but it’s nights like tonight which are key to where we end up in May. The last two away fixtures have seen us score early, drop in our performance and end up losing 2-1. That’s […]
Morning all. I was planning to describe the passage of play before Olivier Giroud scored his goal yesterday but The Mail have done me a huge favour. As much as the finish was outrageous, the build up was vintage Arsenal. Quick, clean passing followed by a not particularly good cross from Alexis Sanchez but somehow, […]
Morning all. What an awful year 2016 was. So many lives have been lost, not all from natural causes and yet again this morning we wake up to the news that yet another terrorist attack has killed many more in Istanbul whilst ordinary people were innocently seeing in the New Year. This is a cruel and ghastly […]