Is Héctor the last name on the exhaustive list of players we hang on for too long? Kieran Gibbs, Carl Jenkinson, Joel Campbell, Jack Wilshere, Abou Diaby, Johan Djourou, Nicklas Bendtner and Denílson are the prime examples of players towards whom the Club has been too loyal, despite the evident gaps.“Yeah but on his […]
I, too, cannot wrap my mind around Mikel Arteta’s substitutions. I can’t explain why he keeps playing Willian on the left, I can’t understand why he seems to overlook Martinelli, and so on. I believe he should have responded better when David Luiz got sent off at Molineux and I think he killed the team […]
Twelve games, seven wins, forty goals scored, eleven conceded. Good numbers – or not?Fourth place in the table, nine behind Chelsea and Manchester United at the top of the table, seems to suggest not.Of course, we have one game less than Chelsea and Manchester City and two games less than Manchester United, but the league […]
Mesut Özil is gone, we can all move on.When in the mood, he was one of the most creative players in the league, someone whose qualities we could do with at present, but sadly he hasn’t been in the mood for quite some time and now he’s gone.Emile Smith Rowe is in desperate need of […]
That goal against Ludogorests!That assist against Swansea!That game against Leicester!The other game against Leicester! Oh boy, we should have won the league that year!”Mesut Özil is no longer an Arsenal player, finally.I don’t say it with joy, I don’t say it with regret either: it was long due and the best outcome for both parties.The […]
Will it ever happen for Wilo? The more I think about it, the more I tell myself it might not.The French defender is yet to make his debut for the Club, two years after his arrival from Saint-Étienne, and won’t be sporting our colours until next summer, at the earliest.He recently joined OGC Nice in […]
BLOODY HELL, SCORE SOME GOALS!As if it was easy… As a 37 year-old man, I couldn’t fully appreciate the boring, boring Arsenal days; when I first met the Gunners, in 1994, the George Graham era was scarily close to its end – although none had a clue about it. The Cup Winners’ Cup final was […]
Reset your brain and watch our game against Leicester, last night.It could have been just another Arsenal performance under Unai Emery: short of ideas, zero movement in attack, passive midfield with zero creativity.When he first came in, the former Sevilla and PSG coach had two main targets: fix the defensive phase and make Arsenal competitive […]
Bernd Leno will never win, will he? Ever since Emiliano Martínez was sold to Aston Villa, the German has been the primary target of attention for all Gooners who think the Argentine should have stayed.Now, it’s perfectly fine to think that we should have kept Emiliano Martínez over Bernd Leno but the decision was made […]
There are moments that propel you to local folklore and turn you into a hero. Not that Jordan Nobbs needed any of that, having been a cornerstone for the Arsenal team for a decade already, but when she lobbed the ball over Rebecca Spencer from 25 yards out, the legendary status became even more legendary […]
