What’s Olivier Giroud ever done for us? With shiny new French strikers on the Arsenal horizon is it time to ask? These guys thought so…….. Reg: He’s bled us white, the bastard. He’s taken everything we had, not just from us, from our fathers and from our fathers’ fathers. Stan: And from our fathers’ fathers’ […]
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Arsenal Reverting to a back 4 at Wembley if they don’t have 5 fit? – FA Cup Special Preview
It’s the last game of the season for Arsenal, and, for the third time in four seasons it is the FA Cup final. Undoubtedly Arsene Wenger’s men will be looking to salvage something from the otherwise disappointing campaign. Winning a third FA Cup in four years seems fitting. It can also be the saving grace […]
Will Wenger Give Ospina a Run Out before Wembley and is it Danny or Oli v Toffees?
So, it’s the last league game of the season, and we go into it needing the start to align to make the Champions League places for the 21st consecutive season under Arsene Wenger. I’ll start with the permutations then. What we need to do to qualify for the Champions League We can either rival Manchester […]
Lucky Charm Giroud to start and bring up his Century against the Unlucky Black Cats
So, West Ham didn’t do us any favours on Sunday and were comprehensively thrashed by Liverpool. Lazy bastards. Probably still hold a grudge for the two beatings we dished out to them. In all honesty though, this situation is ours fault, and ours alone. Just think about it: of the 36 games we’ve dropped points […]
Stoke Destroyed by Marauding Monreal, Alexis’s Willpower, Giroud’s Near Post Instincts and Rambo at 10!!
I think the only appropriate place to start this report is to apologise for something I said after we lost to Tottenham: “And barring four wins in five remaining games, our total this season won’t be better than in 2016. Want a bet we won’t amass 12+ points before the end of May?” I hold […]
Why did Wenger stop playing Alexis up front?
When did we stop playing Alexis up front? Why did we? I was asking these questions to myself and couldn’t really find any answer to that, I hope you can help me. My weekly column is all about this: my attempt to deviate your attention from the toxicity surrounding our Club, these days. I was […]
Wengernalysis: He Does Do Tactics – Just Not Very Well
Wenger’s supposed tactical ineptitude is a bugbear of many. I can agree, somewhat. Though in my mind, it’s more about stubbornness than ineptitude. Wenger DOES do tactics. He can change things up. And he can take time to see what needs to change. The issue though is more about ideology, than not knowing, understanding or […]
Vent and purge: dissecting another poor Arsenal performance
I have to work. And by ‘work’, I mean write beautiful, creative, inspiring music. On a deadline. Try doing that when there is a Mariana Trench of a frown that won’t wipe itself off your forehead. Try doing that when you still find yourself shaking your head when you remember that last night Arsenal played […]
Arsenal keeps its French Connection alive as 3 key players pen deals
Rejoice, Gooners, our key players have renewed their contracts! No, I’m not talking about either Mesut Özil or Alexis Sánchez as their new contracts are still up in the air and there’s no sign either they will pen new deals anytime soon. There’s a huge debate ongoing about what the Club should do to keep […]
Bring Me Sunshine & Blame Alexis….The Arsenal Drama Continues……..
Well, it has certainly been a while since I last wrote. Such a while that I’m not sure it should be called a diary anymore, because if there were a blogging version of the Trade Description Act I would be hauled before the Office of Fair Blogging for being in breach of the Blog Description […]