A Game for the Others POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES Best laid plans. Sometimes you’ve got to bin them. Players you expect to make the difference could sometimes be out there all night. Not happening. Opponents drive your choices as much as you can. Then sometimes you win but only if you aren’t stubborn. You can’t […]
There has been a report lately that Hector Bellerin, the club’s Spanish full-back with the London accent, has asked to leave the club. “Heccy B”, as he’s known in some quarters online, could well leave whilst being one of our longest-serving players. Bellerin emerged in the 14/15 season, following an injury to Mattieu Debuchy, […]
What do you need to do to make the fans of a club love you? 1) Be a mercurial talent such as Ozil or Alexis 2) Mock your rivals on social media the way Poldi did Well what if you are both and a product of the club’s academy? Well, obviously the fans will go […]
Arsenal lost 3-3 today and it was a match that could well have been our most important step to continuing the dream of the title yet. That was not to be and while we all have our views (and some of us have abuses) I am not here to talk about that game, thankfully. Yesterday […]
Our editor wrote a blog recently voicing concerns about the future of the young English Core at Arsenal. Yes we have a talented squad and no less than 6 of the Arsenal first team set up have featured for Hodgson’s England during eh qualifying period – Danny Welbeck, Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Kieran Gibbs, Jack […]
WHAT A NIGHT OF FOOTBALL! The amazing and surprising (let me say that…) win against Bayern Munich has left a wonderful feeling, even hours and days after the final whistle. We have shown solidarity, maturity, composure and desire to see off one of the best teams in Europe and surely one of the favourites to […]
England is the home of football. England is the home of the oldest cup competition in the world, the FA Cup. It is also home to one of the strongest leagues in the world, the Barclays Premier League. But why are the English players underperforming? Raheem Sterling, Ross Barkley, Jack Wilshere, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Theo Walcott, […]
“We want to finish on a high at the Emirates and we want our fans to go home happy, full of hope for next season. We have fought very hard to directly qualify for the Champions League and we want to get over the line and finish the job, which we couldn’t do on Wednesday […]
Well this is awkward. We all know how people tend to overlook the performance in the context of the result. Of course, it’s fair to say this is mostly wrong: down the years Arsenal fans have seen good performances aplenty only to see the Gunners consequently lose the match. Many started supporting Arsenal for the […]
