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Hypocrites! Arsenal’s new back five as good as the old guard?

Enjoying life with domestic football? It’s weird I think, it’s November and we should be watching our club carry on the fantastic run, not waiting for Sunday’s World Cup opener just to catch some competitive football. The television viewing figures will be interesting that’s for sure. I’m confident there’ll be Classic Coronation Street I can […]

Strong team for Brighton. Arsenal striker wins top award.

Morning all. Arsenal kick off the 2022/23 League Cup campaign against Brighton tonight at The Emirates. This is Brighton’s second fixture of the competition, beating Forest Green Rovers 3-0 in the last round. I wondered if this would be the competition in which Mikel Arteta might rest more players than he has in the Europa Cup […]

Arsenal breeze past another rival and are looking good..

Morning all. One minute into extra time and a Chelsea player finally showed a bit of passion. Chalobah didn’t like Granit Xhaka preventing him from giving the ball back to Mendy. Chelsea were 1-0 down and perhaps thought that in the four minutes remaining, they could do what they hadn’t managed to do in the […]

Arsenal team to face Chelsea, Zinchenko returns…

Morning all. Two of the biggest decisions Mikel Arteta has had to make since becoming Arsenal manager has in my option, involved Mesut Ozil and Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang. One hasn’t really done much since leaving Arsenal, the other has found himself back in the Premier League with Chelsea after a short stint at Barcelona. With Arsenal […]

Winning ugly is fine. Transfer window plan confirmed by Arteta.

Morning all. I’m not making excuses for the disappointing performance from Arsenal last night but there must have been a few nerves in the players. This group is still young and other than Gabriel Jesus, I don’t think any of our starting eleven have much experience in winning the fixtures which really matter. The game […]