Morning all. Has an Arsenal game ever become this big? Of course, a match in Paris was once huge. Winning the Champions League would have been no more than Arsene Wenger deserved but the odd thing about that final is that Arsenal reached it after the Invincible squad had began to breakup. To this day […]
Category Archives: Daily Bits and Bobs
When the final whistle sounded yesterday evening at the Emirates Stadium I asked myself a question. How many Arsenal players currently would get into the Manchester City squad? Not the team, the squad, and I could only think of Saka, Partey, Tierney, Gabriel, Leno and possibly Smith Rowe. That’s it, that’s how much work I […]
Morning all. No one expects us to win today, apart from the most optimistic of Arsenal fans and possibly Mikel Arteta and the players. I usually have a ‘play the strongest team on the day’ view but I’m not so sure today, not with such a big game in a few days time. It must […]
Morning all. In the words of Jeorge Bird over at Arsenal Youth, “were it not for the exploits of Arsenal goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo, who made some fantastic saves in the second half”, the Arsenal under 23’s would have been beaten by a much greater score line than the 2-0 defeat they suffered. So who is […]
Morning all. When a striker misses what for him is a sitter, it’s human nature to think someone else would have taken the chance to open the scoring. If Eddie missed one, Pepe would have scored it, had Pepe missed a sitter, Lacazette would have buried it and if Lacazette missed his, of course, Aubameyang […]
Morning all. What do I know about Benfica? Nothing other than they’re a Portuguese Premier League club sat 4th place in the table. They came runners up to Rangers in their Europa League group having won three and drawn three of their fixtures. The last time the two clubs met was donkeys years ago and […]
Morning all. We all know that ‘new deal’ and ‘Arsenal signing’ headlines which fill the sports pages and NewNow need to be taken with a large pinch of salt but as the saying goes, sometimes there’s no smoke without a fire. Football London ran a story the other day which quoted Martin Ødegaard as telling […]
Morning all. A game started in daylight yet ended in darkness and with Arsenal fans near and far, happy. After a weird opening five minutes or so of little but sideways and backwards passing, Arsenal found their stride. Saka, ESR and debutant Ødegaard were playing well. Less than fifteen minutes gone in the game and […]
Morning all. I tuned in to the City game yesterday afternoon. What a bore fest it was. Football misses the fans in a massive way. I don’t mean the money although we know that’s causing different problems for most clubs but stadiums need to be full to creative an atmosphere. Fans, thousands of them […]
Morning all. The Premier League, FA, EFL, WSL, Women’s Championship, PFA, LMA, PGMOL and Kick It Out have all co-signed the letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder, chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerburg, asking them “for reasons of basic human decency” to use the power of their systems to end the abuse. – […]
Morning all. Football London reckon this might be our kit for next season. Real or not I don’t know but I like it. A lot. Patrick Bamford has been quoted as telling Leeds United’s official channel: ‘Do you know what? He (Alioski) said in the changing room, I can’t wait for Sunday. I was like “why?”. […]
Morning all. Back in 2004, Arsene Wenger and his Arsenal team had just beaten Toots 5-4. A scoreline that little man from Portugal called a disgrace. A ‘hockey score’ he said, ‘not football.’ Not that anyone Arsenal related would have given a toss what his views were back then, or now for that matter but […]