Another who understands… FRANCIS COQUELIN L’EQUIPE INTERVIEW: November 2016 Equipe: Before I leave you in peace, let’s talk a bit about your future. You’re under contract until June 2019 with Arsenal. They never say anything about the dates, but, well, that’s what it is in theory. Do you dream of spending your whole career here? […]
There is a nice story about Colin Bell – one of the very best Box-to-Box players in the late 1960s/early 1970s. He was physical stamina personified. Endless energy – a player who played extra time in every First Division match. He was trained by Malcolm Allison at Manchester City who watched every step of […]
It didn’t feel like a win and no, a draw isn’t a result that we should be celebrating. I am, of course, referring to our undeserved draw, at Old Trafford. A game where, once again, we didn’t turn up. Yes, it was Manchester United and yes, their manager is Jose Mourinho but the use of […]
Howdy. We take on PSG today in what will be a battle for the top spot in Group A. The winner gets Bayern/Atletico in the last 16 … Kidding, kidding. It’s actually Borussia/Real. However, on the off chance we get lucky + there’s no tampering with the draw this season, it is worth beating […]
“I think Arsenal is not only about being a football player. You have to have principles, you have to be a good person to play here and that’s what transmits inside the club. You know you represent more than a football club.” ~ Hector Bellerín – 22nd November, 2016 The lad understands…. There were a […]
. We are going back to the seventies for this week’s Highbury Hero, to look back on a player who had an Arsenal career of remarkable longevity, playing under four different Arsenal managers from Double winning Bertie Mee, through the Terry Neill and Don Howe period and beyond, well into the George Graham reign. Nobody […]
I watched the Arsenal match on Saturday and a feeling of Deja Vu came over me. Can you have multiple Deja Vu? It is November, we are away to Man Utd, we are playing well and we are reasonably confident of the result. The teams came out and Wenger and Mourinho touched hands and ignored each […]
Well that was irritating in the extreme was it not? I was left with an overwhelming sense of frustration at the manager, his selection and his in game management. Of course I have already been told on social media that I am not qualified to comment on or question the decisions of Arsene Wenger but […]
I’ll get this out of the way first: we were crap. The performance scraped the bottom of the barrel. In fact, it was almost a negative number on a scale of 1 to 10. We were utterly abject, insipid, completely disinterested in getting a result. There was no urgency to our play, no desire, no […]
It’s been a while since I did a Tarot reading… it used to be a regular feature back when I first started blogging on Invinciblog. (My three regular readers will remember it well. Or not.) Anyway – I was sorting out my iPad apps and I came across my trusty Tarot HD app. Since I’m […]
