Morning all. That’s three draws on the bounce now. The one against Liverpool was not such a problem because of recent results and certainly poor performances against them but Palace and Sporting? We should have won both. Admittedly, the injury to Danny Welbeck appeared to shake the younger players up a bit but even so, […]
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Sporting are a club in crisis. Having recently sacked their manager they almost certainly saw this game at Arsenal as a chance for them to recover some of their tarnished pride and for what is in essence a poor side, Sporting actually dug in well, defended in numbers and made it a difficult evening for […]
Morning all. Medhi Benatia is no spring chicken but that’s doesnt seem to bother Unai Emery. Not when it comes to defenders anyway. Stefan Lichtsteiner was and still is 34 years old when he signed back in the summer and Sokratis Papastathopoulos had just turned 30 years old. We’ve signed some mature defenders in […]
Having to sell our best players because of stadium debt has had a debilitating effect on Arsenal and it’s ability to complete sensible transfer business. I think it affected both Wenger and Gazidis towards the end of their time at the club which probably continued to be an issue into this past summer despite the […]
Morning all. “It was an intense game. “It was a good game for the fans and we also played very well. I think we deserved to win but the draw is OK because Liverpool are a big team. The way we played was very good. “I think today we saw that we can play our […]
Morning guys and gals. Still chirpy after our performance on Saturday evening? Me too but the bar has been set. The Arsenal press, the level of commitment, the work ethic. We have seen our boys go toe to toe with a team which has caused us all sorts of problems over the last three years. […]
Morning all. Watching Unai Emery on the sidelines epitomises everything he’s brought to the club. The passion, the rapport with the fans as he urged them to be loud and then louder still. Waving him arms around as if the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra were playing in front of him. Strutting his stuff around his technical […]
Morning all. I’m still unsure whether I’m looking forward to tonight’s match or dreading it. I guess it’ll tell us whether or not we’ve improved at all since our opening two fixtures as Liverpool are probably the third best team in the league right now behind Manchester City and Chelsea, as far as the football […]
Morning all. If someone had asked me whether or not our winning ratio was better when Mesut Ozil plays than when he doesn’t, straight away I’d have said the latter. I’d have been wrong. The margin might be small, but nevertheless, our results are better when he’s larging it up on the pitch. It’s not […]
Where to start? Well let’s be frank, it wasn’t a classic, in fact it was quite a poor cup tie. Blackpool will come away from it feeling as if they gave us a game and in truth they did, but only because Arsenal were well below par. Unai Emery had picked a strong side too, the […]
Morning all. You’ve probably seen the Paul Merson/Jeff Sterling clip by now which I think is brilliant. For his quick reaction to Jeff Stelling’s comment alone, I’ll forgive Merse for all the other odd comments he made. Not seen it? It’s here at FootballBurp. Sticking with the neighbours, Dele Alli signed a new six year […]
Morning all. I’ve started this piece three times already and all three have ended up being deleted. This is when I wish I was writing with a pen onto a piece of paper, or using a typewriter even as there’s something about screwing up paper and throwing it into the bin. Or ripping the paper […]