Good Friday afternoon you Gooners. It pains me to write this, but there are several reasons why tomorrow’s FA Cup semi-final is filling me up with dread – like Adam Richman’s toilet after a series of Man vs. Food – and breaking me out in a cold sweat: – Arsenal have, time and time again […]
Good afternoon you Gooners, I am going to cover an Arsenal subject today that has had me scratching my head since 2011. No-one seems to be able to explain the background story of this transfer nor what followed and I hope this post results in a ‘Deep Throat’ type character (steady…) stepping out from the […]
Good afternoon Gooners, today I am re-visiting a piece that I wrote for Sabotage Times, August 10th, 2013. It was my six fears for the upcoming season. So how has that worked out? As an Arsenal fan, I can rely on three things in life; Death, Taxes, and Arsene Wenger treating the Club’s transfer ‘war […]
The Rioch Arsenal Years – 1995-2000 It started off with such positive feelings. Welcome to my commemorative post, celebrating the five years Bruce Rioch had in charge of The Arsenal. I will attempt to faithfully look back at the pivotal moments of his five incident-packed seasons at our famous North London side: 1995-96. Rioch’s debut season […]
Good afternoon Gooners. Well, the European adventure is over then for another year, although, unlike Spurs, Arsenal won’t be scrabbling around for old copies of The Sun to get their ‘Go to France for a Tenner’ vouchers in order to get back over there… The dragging saga that is Arsene Wenger’s future is still going […]
So then, Stoke City, away. An almost perennial nadir for Gooners. A tried and tested script that contains all the predictable tropes; like an old Bond film on the box during a Sunday afternoon… – Ultra-defensive set up from the home side to counter the (non-existent) Arsenal attacking threat. – Arsenal players spitefully kicked by […]
“Baby, baby. Baby don’t leave me. Ooh, please don’t leave me. All by myself” Summer 2011. Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri depart Arsenal Football Club. Summer 2012. Robin van Persie departs Arsenal Football Club. Summer 2013…who is left to leave? Is Santi Cazorla going to stick around? May 2013…June 2013…July 2013…August 2013… Where are the signings at, Arsene […]
Crikey, where to start? After a thoroughly tense FA Cup win against Liverpool, during which, deep into the second half, I am sure my anus collapsed in on itself through sheer anxiety, Arsenal had to combat arguably the best football team of the 21st century. A Pep Guardiola-led Bayern Munich side who now threaten to […]
Afternoon Gooners. As you may remember, last week I talked about Sod’s law and how Arsenal had the opportunity and ability to take charge in their forthcoming crunch matches and throw Sod’s law back into their rivals’ faces. And what did we get?! Utter humiliation against Liverpool. Now, I watched Liverpool tear into their high-flying […]
“Anything that can go wrong, will.” Afternoon Gooners. Yes, Sod’s law. Thursday served me up a steaming dish of it, with a side order of utter bollocks and a dessert heaped with sprinklings of f**k you. Long story short; one pick-up of old sofa arranged, to be followed by a drop-off of a new sofa. […]
