Arsenal are no strangers to a home defeat on the opening day of a new league season – to Villa in 2013 and West Ham in 2015, in case you needed reminding – but unlike those morale-sapping collapses, their defeat to Manchester City in Unai Emery’s first game in charge need not cause alarm. It […]
Unai Emery will lead out his Arsenal team for the first time as Arsenal host champions Manchester City in an enthralling encounter at Emirates Stadium on Sunday. Arsenal It’s exciting because no one knows what to expect, formation, lineup, performance, it’s all new, one thing we do know is that everyone will be 100% […]
What is progression under Emery? We’re eagerly awaiting the Man City game, and our debut in the post-Wenger era. But what is progression? How should it be defined? And how much time do or should we give our new head coach? There have been many media out there predicting we’ll finish sixth again: […]
O Captain, My Captain Unai named his ‘Captains’ yesterday and to be fair, the names did not come as a surprise. “The captain of this group is Laurent Koscielny, who is injured at the moment. After Laurent, our other captains are Petr Cech, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil and Granit Xhaka.” […]
Welcome to a new series where I will predicting every match of the Premier League season with a guest each week, first up is our very own Dave Seager. Manchester United v Leicester Dave: An interesting prospect because Leicester managed to keep United target Maguire. However as unhappy as the United camp is they will have […]
It’s not much longer now. Pre-season has concluded, a taste test of the Emery era has been served, and football that matters is only hours away. I’ve always believed that preseason should be taken with a grain of salt. I felt disjointed lineups and teams playing at half speed can lead to few concrete observations. […]
There has been a lot of fan angst, understandably, about Stan Kroenke’s ownership of Arsenal. Alisher Usmanov has said that he is willing to sell his stake, which Kroenke is very willing in terms to buy. Thus, he can now own the entirety of our club’s equity, and move it off the London Stock Exchange […]
Arsenal’s soul will never be up for sale. Arsenal is the gasping of breath at my first sight of the Highbury turf, after my small legs carried me up the well-trodden steps. Arsenal is the smell of frying onions on an autumnal evening as a sea of red and white meanders the terraced streets […]
I am writing this on the morning the awful devastating news broke that Stan Kroenke is going to buy Alisher Usmanov’s shares in Arsenal Football Club. I feel that this is the saddest and darkest day in the history of the club. I understand he is paying Usmanov £650m at £29,419.60p a share. Well below […]
Calum Chambers has been a lauded youngster at Arsenal since he joined in 2014. His initial stint in the team, in the season we ended up as eventual FA Cup winners no less, had him hailed (albeit comically) as the next Tony Adams. And in some ways, his playing style greatly mirrors that of […]
