Morning all. There was a time when the Arsenal midfield what a thing of beauty. Powerfully destructive in it’s defending of the oppositions attempts to threaten, dynamic in turnovers, brutally efficient, with a Gallo-Romance twist or a South American Samba. The names trip off of the tongue; Petit, Vieira, Edu, Gilberto Silva, Parlourinho. They drove us […]
Category Archives: Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. It’s been ten years since we last won our opening two fixtures. The BT Sport crew made sure we didn’t forget that little gem, just like both they and Sky Sports made sure we remembered how long it was since two young English players started a Premier League together. Whatever floats their boat […]
Morning all. It’s great to see Hector Bellerin, Kieran Tierney and Dinos Mavropanos back training. Not much football going on but they’re all out in the fresh air and back running. Pushing hard to reach peak fitness. Pushing hard for what will be a much welcomed return to the first team. Rob Holding is […]
Morning guys. Kev’s part two, the defence. The Maitland-Niles experiment at full back/wing back, has not exactly been rip roaring success as his performance in Baku highlighted last season but it’s not been a disaster either. Summer rumours linked Arsenal with a move for PSG right back Muenier but it didn’t happen so AMN continues […]
Morning all. Another from Kev this morning. I started writing this piece before the transfer window had even opened. The rumour mill was already in full flow by then with what often seemed to be credible links to players. Most though never made through the Arsenal doors, just as I believed they wouldn’t. I kept an […]
Morning all. Haven’t seen the game yet, nor the highlights so can’t comment on anything other than how good it is to kick the season off with a victory. An away one at that which is something we struggled to achieve last season. Another bonus is Chambers and AMN being part of a defence which […]
Morning happy people. Feeling all warm and fuzzy inside? Positive and optimistic ahead of the new season which kicks off on Sunday at Newcastle? I sure am. In fact I’ve not felt such optimism towards Arsenal going into a new season for a long long time. This has to have been one of the best […]
Morning all. A scribble from Kev this morning.. So, what does everyone think about our brand new transfer task force after their first proper transfer window? Raul stated a few months back that Arsenal would have to be smarter in the market, which in fairness wasn’t a very high bar to set given the shambolic […]
Morning all. This is Arsenal’s statement on Laurent Koscielny. Laurent Koscielny is leaving us to join Ligue 1 side Bordeaux. The centre back has made 353 appearances for us since signing from Lorient in 2010. He was part of our Emirates FA Cup-winning squads in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Laurent, who started his career in […]
Morning all. It’s late in the transfer window. Arsenal need defensive players but any club willing to sell players now, hold the cards. Unless they have a seriously unhappy player on their hands, they can pretty much demand whatever fee they like from the buying club. Especially a British one. Speculation I know but we’re […]
Morning all. Pre-season came to and end last night with a defeat to Barcelona. A narrow one though I hasten to add with Barcelona needing an own goal to draw level after Aubameyang had opened the scoring. Then right at the end of the game, Suarez popped up with their winner. The own goal was […]
Morning all. I’ve taken a bit of stick for my ‘support’ of Stan Kroenke and his American enterprise, although I do use the term support rather loosely. Of course we could have better owners but then we could have much worse too. People admire the free cash flowing clubs like City and Chelsea, Utd too […]