Morning all. Nicolas Pepe has to be one of the most difficult to read players Arsenal have on their books. Not for defenders though, well, not usually. But the way I’d describe him is that he makes the difficult look easy and the easy look difficult. I thought he had a good game, especially when […]
Category Archives: Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Yesterday marked two years since Mikel Arteta arrived at Arsenal for the second time. Too inexperienced was my opinion back then, certainly to get Arsenal back into the Champions League and definitely as far as winning the League title goes. To go up against Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola was always going to […]
Morning all. I don’t often take any notice of what Jurgen Klopp has to say but after yesterday’s match between his Liverpool team and Toots, he was right to criticise both referee Paul Tierney and VAR. Harry Kane got away with a shocker of a challenge on Andrew Robertson. Tierney gave Kane a yellow […]
Morning all. It’s hard to believe that this time last year we were closer to the relegation places than the top four. Now though, we’ll be sitting in 4th place when the big fella dressed in red and white, starts climbing down chimneys. Last season, a real star was born. We knew he was good […]
Morning all. Leeds v Arsenal is just one of two Premier League fixtures taking place today. Leeds have a glut of injuries to contend with and go into this game with a 7-0 thrashing by Man City still in their minds. Manager Marcelo Bielsa will want a response from his players, whilst Mikel Arteta will be hoping […]
Morning all. Five of this weekend Premier League fixtures have been postponed because of Covid. Leeds v Arsenal tomorrow evening isn’t one of them and neither is the only 3pm fixture of the day, Aston Villa v Burnley. On Sunday, Wolves take on Chelsea, Newcastle play Man City and then the late afternoon game sees […]
Morning all. This group of Arsenal players really do confuse me. One minute they go all soft and shaky, losing against average teams like Everton and Man Utd and then they go and put in a performance like they did last night against what is a very good West Ham team. If the performance level […]
Morning all. A big fat wow from me to kick off with. Arsenal have shown a ruthless streak in the way they’ve dealt with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and they get my backing 100%. Aubameyang has been stripped of the captaincy and he’s not in the squad for tonight’s match. He joins a long list of pretty […]
Morning all. West Ham have hit a dip in form with just one win in their last five league games. Having looked likely to go on and cement that 4th place this season, the door has been kicked open. Arsenal, Man Utd, Toots, who have two games in hand, can overtake the Hammers this week. If […]
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 […]
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 […]