Morning all. Unsurprisingly, the pre-match talk was about Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who was missing from the squad. I assumed he’d picked up an injury in training but no, he was absent through punishment. Mikel Arteta said the striker was dropped because of a “disciplinary breach”. I think we have been very consistent, that we have certain non-negotiables […]
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Morning all. Southampton come to The Emirates today with Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal players in dire need of a strong performance coupled with a win. The south coast club, like both Everton and Man Utd, have been struggling to find any consistency this season. 16 points from 17 fixtures is not good by a […]
Morning all. Do you get the feeling there’s a battle going on within Arsenal? Mikel Arteta v the players, or at least some of them? A minority of them perhaps but as we’ve all seen and not only at Arsenal, once a manager loses the support of his players, there’s usually no way back for […]
Morning all. The FA Cup draw had kind of passed me by but we’ve been drawn against Nottingham Forest, the club which knocked us out of the competition back in 2018. The tie will take place over the weekend of the 7th-9th of January 2022. Having seen the way things are going in the League, […]
Morning all. Yes, Ben Godfrey should have been sent off for stamp on Takehiro Tomiyasu’s face alone but let’s not use that as excuse for being beaten. Everton had the ball in the net before we took the lead and after, but both were ruled offside, the second by the smallest of margins. Smallest of […]
Morning all. Arsenal’s women didn’t turn up at Wembley yesterday and were battered by Chelsea in what was last year’s FA Cup Final. 3-0 was the final score but it could so easily have been double that and by halftime. A bad day at the office that’s for sure. Arsenal take on Everton tonight and […]
Morning all. I love Thierry Henry for all he did for Arsenal football club. He’s probably one of the best players the Premier League has ever seen, the best Arsenal ever signed. But sometimes, I just wish he’d keep his opinions to himself because honestly, I think they can do more harm than good. Why […]
Morning all. What can Mikel Arteta and Edu do about our lack of goals when the transfer window opens in January? Sign a striker, that’s the simple answer but who? Newsnow headlines lead us down the Dominic Calvert-Lewin v Ollie Watkins path. Calvert-Lewin has more than three years left on his Everton contract, meaning Everton […]
Morning all. There are defeats which can be kind of accepted I think, or understood at least, but losing the game in the manner we did last night, really cheeses me off. To put it mildly! I thought we started really well, on the front foot and with it, put Man Utd under a lot […]
Morning all. Think of Old Trafford, think of Man Utd v Arsenal and immediately it’s easy to think it’s going to be a tough game. A game we’ll struggle to get something from. Yet, the BBC stats tell a different story. Head-to-head Manchester United could go seven Premier League games without beating Arsenal for the […]
Morning all. I was just a kid when Ray Kennedy arrived at Arsenal in 1968 but by the time he left us for Liverpool, he was certainly a name the world of football would never forget. A footballer both Arsenal and Liverpool fans would never forget. With Arsenal, he won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1970, and […]
Morning all. I don’t understand all the fuss being made about Ralf Rangnick’s arrival at Manchester Utd. Actually, he hasn’t arrived yet as he has Visa issues so won’t be in the dugout on Thursday night. VfB Stuttgart U19 – Under 19 Bundesliga: 1990–91 Ulm 1846 – Regionalliga Süd: 1997–98 VfB Stuttgart – UEFA Intertoto […]