Morning all. I had a choice. The Great British Bake Off Final, or Sporting Lisbon v Arsenal. It was a tough decision to make but earplugs in and iPad in hand, Arsenal just edged it. Unlike the actual game of course which Mikel Arteta’s players bossed with consummate ease! The occasion reminded me a […]
Category Archives: Match review
Morning all. It’s taken a while but yesterday it finally arrived. A top performance all round against Everton, it really was. From Ospina through the team to Welbeck who led the line, every single player performed. Arsenal were quick with their passing and didn’t give the Everton players time on the ball forcing mistakes from the […]
Morning all. What a frustrating match that was, yet so typical of Arsenal. Something like 90% possession, 5000 attempts on goal with just a few on target and those were saved by a goalkeeper who had the game of his life. Same old passing in and around the box when in plenty of space to […]
Morning all. What a game that was. It had pretty much everything from a good penalty shout from Arsenal turned down, a dubious one given to Leicester and a few strong challenges passing by Martin Atkinson as usual. Two cracking goals in the second half, with one right at the death… An early foul by Danny […]
Morning all. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has to be up there with one of the most frustrating Arsenal players right now. Scorer of our second goal and a very good one it was too, he just doesn’t do enough to help the team. He seldom tracks back, when he does is half-hearted and all too often he loses possession. […]
Morning all. January has been awful for high profile deaths hasn’t it and yet again this morning, Cancer has taken one of Britain’s most favourites, Sir Terry Wogan.. RIP big man, you’ll be dreadfully missed… I didn’t see the game yesterday and only caught the highlights on Match of The Day which to be fair, […]
Morning all. Relying of a few highlights and a stream which when the rain fell and the wind blew, dropped out is tough. Even so, I saw enough to know that once again Martin Atkinson was nothing short of useless and how he is considered good enough to be officiating at the Euros in the […]
Morning all. A minutes applause. Fitting for a man who was so important to Arsenal. An Arsenal man, so important to football. Don Howe who passed away just a few days ago…… Well what a night that was. Not the 2-0 victory of course, although that result was most welcome, but the achievements of two […]
Morning all. Well that was all a bit too close for comfort, but to be honest, I wasn’t surprised at all. Reading were up for it in every sense. A bit of bullying, a few elbows and whatever way they could, they stopped us from playing football. Alexis was battered but he didn’t wince or […]
Morning all. Well what else did we expect? An easy Game? A four or five goal romp to victory? Neither of the above was ever going to happen, well not in my opinion. I thought we’d win but not without a fight and we certainly got that. And credit to Burnley too, I’m not really […]
Morning all. Was that perfect Arsene? Perfect? You always have imperfections in any game but I feel we started with a great intensity, which is what we wanted to put them under pressure. We created some early chances after and then when we relieved the pressure they had one or two chances. Liverpool are […]
I was very pleased with the resilience because it shows qualities that are important such as solidarity. Arsène Wenger In a game of two halves, Arsenal emerged victorious 2-1 but the game was far from the relatively easy nature that some people would have you believe with the pre-match hype about how we were going to […]