According to my son, who was standing on the lower tier of the North Bank, the Arsenal players went through a number of warm up drills which included a series of long range shooting. A precursor for the game ahead perhaps? As it was the Gunners almost took an early lead from a […]
Category Archives: Match review
I had a few misgivings leading up to yesterday evening’s League Cup 2nd leg v Chelsea, I just couldn’t shake off those horrible memories of Arsenal losing to the Pensioners in the 2nd leg of the Champions League in 2003/04 – 22 years ago. Where has all that time gone? I have […]
After three Premier League games without a win, the spotlight was well and truly back on Arteta and his players with a savage vengeance yesterday. The Sky/Media/Online narrative was simply winding itself up into an absolute frenzy as Leeds suddenly became this major obstacle and potential banana skin to the many hopes of all […]
After the last few days of purgatory following the defeat to Manchester United and having to listen to the obvious joy from the usual mob of wind-up merchants and general pee takers, we definitely needed a bit of a lift. We wanted to see a response from our team and a return to resolute […]
There had been a fairly clear narrative all last week (mostly on Sky Sports) where it was obvious to me that Sky via its reporting and punditry were hoping, nay desperate, for a positive Manchester United result at the Emirates this weekend, coming hot on the heels of the United demolition of Manchester City a […]
I switched on my television and there it was, Bodo Glimt 3-1 Man City and to be honest, Bodo looked well worth their win whereas City by comparison looked worn out. The fall off in recent games from the Eastlands Mob is quite astonishing. But it really is as easy as that to […]
I don’t normally watch other teams’ games live and certainly not our nearest rivals’ matches but yesterday at midday I put it on the TV in the hope that I would possibly see the Eastlands Mob drop a couple of points yet again. But never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that […]
The Football League Cup has been the ugly duckling for as long as I can remember, even more so since the growth in the Premier League and the expanded Champions League, which dwarf it more now than at any time in the past and to such a degree that most newer fans, particularly from […]
Morning all. Gabriel Martinelli had spent the last few days being treated as if he was some kind of dastardly criminal by the usual suspects, you know the low-grade TV pundits whose ‘unblemished records’ gave them the freedom and latitude to attack Gabby for his singular error of judgement in the Liverpool game and […]
It seems like only yesterday that the dreaded Etihad Cartel were sitting there, poised and only two points behind the Gunners with all and sundry in the media suggesting that the Arsenal were about to ‘bottle’ it again as they stared nervously down the barrel and into their review mirror at the oil ogre chasing […]
Morning all. The period over Christmas and the New Year saw opinions and results fluctuate but maybe not as wildly as many in the media expected or wanted. All the same, the end result of all the jaw jaw was some very encouraging results for us and disappointment for everyone else – and […]
Morning all. Fresh in our minds no doubt was how sick we all felt when Aston Villa scored their winner in added time at Villa Park just a few weeks ago. That feeling has bubbled away just under the surface since as Arsenal has struggled to score the goals we probably deserved, goals which would […]