Arsenal’s decision to sign Declan Rice from West Ham for a club-record fee was a serious statement of intent by the Gunners. More than just a defensive-minded midfielder, Rice is very much the complete package, blending physicality with intelligence. He’s a defensive shield that can also drive the team forward. Since arriving at the Emirates, […]
‘Crossing without finishing’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective For those that live in the United Kingdom, you might be familiar with a playground game called ‘Headers and Volleys.’ I say ‘playground’ but we played it everywhere. We played it before school. We played it during playtime. We played it during field hockey practice […]
My mate’s sister, is a cleaner at PGMOL HQ and found a copy of the minutes from this year’s PGMOL pre season meeting left on the photocopier. She thought they made interesting reading, so passed a copy on to me. Agenda: Protocol 1 – Common Sense. As part of the new procedures for this season, […]
The need for inevitability An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective This is technically Part 2 of this weeks blog. Part one was dedicated to a nice chap called Chris. You can read about Chris and what he was up to on the weekend right here…. I sit here guilty of what I’m going […]
Arsenal 1 Brighton 1 Kavanagh won An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Dear Howard Webb, This is not reactionary. I’ve intentionally waited 2 days before writing this and watched the game twice without emotion. On behalf of Arsenal fans and confused football fans in general, I would like you to answer these questions about […]
XG Building An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Firstly, apologies for the delay in writing. The plan this weekend was to drive to DC to watch the Arsenal ladies, not have my car give out on me and spend $600 on being disappointed. I’m still reeling from the weekend, so this will be shorter […]
Last week I was fortunate enough to fly out to Berlin, Germany with tickets to Switzerland vs Italy at Euro 2024. Right now all the Arsenal talk is all about Riccardo Calafiori, and it would have been nice for me to write a piece about him and what I saw from him in that game. […]
How are you feeling about this summer transfer window when it comes to Arsenal? Often fans can be found at one end of a spectrum or the other. Either feeling excited, dreaming of what might be possible, or feeling pessimistic, doubting the clubs ability to do what these fans deem necessary to improve the squad. […]
Arsenal unsurprisingly have been linked with numerous central midfielders since narrowly missing out on the Premier League. For a while, there seemed to be a debate on whether the target to improve the first 11 should be a left sided 8, now Havertz has moved further forward, or a defensive midfielder now that Rice has […]
What to make of that? An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective I wasn’t expecting that. After rattling off 19 reasons why Arsenal are wicked brilliant just a couple of days ago, we were not close to wicked and only showed baby flashes of brilliance. Perhaps I needed to watch Arsenal in the CL before […]
