“Quarterback” Definition: A member of the offensive team that lines up directly behind the offensive line. The Quarterback is the leader of the offensive team, responsible for calling the play. Cazorla back in the centre, next to Le Coq, playing the role he converted to last season and made his own. Not flirting around on the wings, have little […]
Archive | August, 2015
Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal: Ozil pulls the strings as the Gunners get back on track
“Signed, sealed, delivered” Do you know where this phrase originated from? No? Neither did I until very recently. Until I started studying common law, in fact. The phrase refers to an agreement called “contract under seal”. This type of agreement is an unusual one: it places the written form above the consideration (consideration is that […]
Aaron Ramsey – The Comeback Kid: he’s done it before, he’ll do it again.
There are a lot of reasons to love Aaron Ramsey, and very few to hate him. He turned down Manchester United and signed for Arsenal instead He came back from the most horrific injury – better and stronger He personally kept the celebrity population in check He scored the winner in the most important […]
Time for Head Chef Wenger to blend new Ingredients as last week Arsenal were Under-Cooked
After the positive tone of my previous post, it was perhaps inevitable that the team would go on to produce a collectively uninspiring opening game performance that delivered an unexpected early blow to the optimism built up by supporters during recent weeks. One thing that could be expected following the poor result against West Ham, […]
Crystal Palace preview: only a win will do so will Alexis be risked and will Ramsey play?
If there are positives to be gleaned from a defeat, then the discussion it generates is surely one of these. While you can praise your team after a win only so many times, there are endless ways to dissect why it has lost. Of course it’s all a bit exaggerated: there is no sure way […]
Aaron Ramsey: from Zero to Hero and back again – what does the future hold for the Welshman?
Aaron Ramsey is becoming a very divisive character nowadays. At only 25 years of age, this fella has already endured some very hard times in his career and is likely to get some more stick from fans, especially if Arsène Wenger keeps playing him alongside Francis Coquelin in midfield. I still don’t know what to […]
No Giroud or Walcott but Ramsey, Ozil, Ox and Alexis to the fore
The activities and fallout from last Sunday’s agonizing derby defeat at the Emirates might still remain unclear and unparalleled but there’s a certain fact already established: This side still struggles when they go behind. That said it’s quite difficult to tell if this season’s opener was a one-off or a reflection of Arsenal’s recent […]
Introducing PeloTonyAdaMS: another Arsenal team that needs your support – EXCLUSIVE MUST READ!
This afternoon I would ask for your attention for 5 minutes to read a blog that contains no tactics, no formations, no transfer speculation or indeed anything about the Arsenal team, their woeful start of their forthcoming fixtures. What you are about to read however does have an awful lot to do with being […]
Dear Jack Wilshere I’m worried about you. Yours sincerely, a concerned fan.
Late last week, I opened up the Twitter application on my phone and perused my timeline. To my dismay, I discovered that Jack Wilshere had once again been struck down with – at least what seems to be becoming – his biannual injury, and that he would require yet more surgery. I reacted in a […]
Arsenal Confidence Good but Over Confidence Bad as leads to COMPLACENCY
Complacency We were complacent. There was so much confidence going around before the game that no-one saw this result coming. Obviously the players felt it too and even when we went a goal down I was convinced that we’d pull one back and then go on to win the game. The problem is that whilst […]