‘Blooming Fruits’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective This should really be about a hat trick hero or a big win in a big game or another statement to the league. Then I read this and got pissed off. I’m getting rather frustrated at hearing opposing coach’s using Arteta’s experience at Arsenal as […]
Has anyone ever…..? An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective You may have heard this before…. I was at a tryout/trial for a good team back in the day. The first activity was simple. The coach wanted everyone to simply run around touching the cones. He said that we could stop anytime we wanted to, […]
‘The joy of predictability’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective I pondered whether to write about this game. Why? It was exactly how I thought it would be. ‘No news here’ kind of thing. Not in a dull way though. In a quite delightful way. Here is how it played out; Arteta starts his […]
‘When others pray’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Before the Palace game, I’d had a handful of conversations with fellow Arsenal fans. Everyone seemed nervous, but for some reason I didn’t. I can’t pretend that the nerves didn’t have me pacing the last 15 minutes but pre-game I was fairly lucid. I think […]
“Playing against Arsenal“ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective I’ve just started to write my ‘ preliminary notes’ for my boys high school season in the Spring. The few things that I want to focus on and ensure that we emphasize. I’ve learnt that when you coach a high school team here in the […]
‘In the end, it’s quality’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Where were you at 6:30pm UK time on Sunday? I had just dropped Max and Axcel off at their game. You need to know about Axcel. Axcel is a local legend. He is our family’s adopted soccer son. We drive backwards to go […]
An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Perhaps one of the reasons that you are reading this is because you know I’m an Arsenal fan. Up until the last 20 years, viewpoints on games were written by neutrals. That has its benefits, but I found that I could predict what I was about to read […]
‘The brake or the gas’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective The dialogue among Arsenal fans after the Liverpool game has been quite fascinating. Apart from those that automatically start attention seeking and wanting over the top accountability for one game of football, the rest of us seem to be somewhat uniquely divided on […]
Happy happy, sad sad happy An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective What to think about that game, right? It was like the events of a months worth of football in two hours. Lori, Max, his friend Jake and I were in Lexington, Kentucky to watch our friend Tyler Gibson play for USL team Oakland […]
‘Art in motion’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Well, I wasn’t expecting that. There wasn’t much ‘art’ against Villareal and the ’motion’ wasn’t jiving either. The game was littered with tactical nuance, experiments and improvements. Almost as if we had been storing this up for a rainy day, so to speak. ‘Sun on […]
