Good day, fellow Gooners! I hope you had an excellent Christmas & New Year break and enjoyed the encouraging wins against West Brom and Crystal Palace. It must be said that we weren’t at our best in terms of performance and quality of our football but those six points did a lot of good; it’s […]
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Big Match Bottlers? Sell Ramsey? Drop Coq? Oh – and “Ha-ha Sp*rs!”
It didn’t feel like a win and no, a draw isn’t a result that we should be celebrating. I am, of course, referring to our undeserved draw, at Old Trafford. A game where, once again, we didn’t turn up. Yes, it was Manchester United and yes, their manager is Jose Mourinho but the use of […]
Old Trafford the First true Test of Arsenal’s New Squad Depth – Will they pass the Test?
Many words have been spent about the impressive depth of our team this season, so I guess that Arsène Wenger’s forgotten men won’t have a better chance to show their worth than Saturday’s match at Old Trafford. According to the latest team news, against Manchester United we’re very likely to miss all our major attacking […]
Arsenal must learn from their lucky escape in Paris – Where was Xhaka Le Prof?
It’s hard to argue that earning a point in the Parc des Princes in the opening game of a new Champions League campaign isn’t a good result. On paper Paris Saint-Germain are comfortably the toughest opponents Arsenal will face in Group A this season and a draw away to them is not one that should […]
Eleven things we learned from Arsenal 2-1 Southampton
I have just read some very interesting articles today and apart from Alex`s I have left comments. I didn’t comment on Alex’s, as usual, well-written one because I am including some of the points raised by him in this attempt at analysing where we are after the week end. Firstly his guess at what the […]
Arsenal Fans – Is the Club Respecting your Loyalty or Simply Exploiting it?
I have read the excellent articles by Petits Ponytail, Alex Baguzin and Timothy Hargreaves and this contribution is designed to augment them rather than to try to improve upon them. The one by Timothy was predictive and was written pre the Liverpool match and that is the cue for my lead in. Just before the game […]
Olivier Giroud looked good in a 2 in our Round of 16 Review but Jack is not back!
Hi. The round of last 16 was concluded on Monday evening and so here I am. I originally intended to maybe review it in 2 parts, but the first three games were so dire they made for very little writing material, hence the on-the-go change of plans. Lo and behold. France 2-1 Ireland Deschamps reverted […]
Euro Gunner Watch – Ramsey a ‘Big Game Thorn in the Side and Cech’s form a worry?
Howdy. Sorry for prolonged radio silence, but I bear good news: I’m finally done with uni (at least till September) and you’ll have my unreserved attention from now on. I’m also a bachelor of law now, only the formalities remain, so hit me with your congratulations in the comment section below. Anyway, quite a lot […]
5 Gunners help get their teams 10 points: a look at the first days of Euro 2016
Since all eyes are trained on the European championship in France and little is happening in even the world of transfer rumours, I decided it would be a good idea to write about how the tournament progresses. Naturally, a huge chunk of my attention will be focused on Arsenal players, since that’s what interests us […]
Can Olivier Giroud fire France to the Euro 2016 crown?
Olivier Giroud has struggled to inspire confidence in recent months but the Arsenal centre-forward has the perfect chance to build some momentum for France at the European Championship this summer. Giroud scored just one goal in ten matches before netting a hat-trick for the Gunners on the final day of the campaign. Could this inspire […]