The road to perfection An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective I wasn’t sure if I was going to write about the first pre-season game. It feels harsh/unrealistic/unfair to analyze players on their first game back. Arteta’s Arsenal are different though. It is so much more than a fitness exercise. A first run-out. If ‘interesting’ […]
Arsenal and the castle An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Have you ever had to go South in order to go North? Have you ever had to try to explain this to a child? I’d say that I’m a pretty calm and lucid guy. At least my kids tell me that I am. A […]
The Arsenal fanbase have gone through various states of losing our collective mind over the course of this pre-season. First when we completed the signing of Declan Rice, having already secured the signatures of Havertz and Timber and extended Saliba’s contract. At this point everyone was OTT on optimism because we were going to […]
In the midst of anticipation and media speculation, Arsenal fans can now breathe a sigh of relief as the club’s new £100m signing, Declan Rice has finally arrived. The doubts created by the press about the deal’s completion were merely fleeting obstacles on the path to what was always destined to happen – a significant […]
The previous pre-season was the most interesting in a long while. There we got first glimpses of the inverted fullback, the high line, pressing from the front, the lone 6 and our new exciting signings, especially Jesus, Zinchenko and Saliba. We saw several impressive performances and results against top European opposition. This time around there […]
Little Lucky Winks Back POSITIVES, NEEDS AND HOPES Amongst the wash of badness that Arsenal have been this season, Arsenal have also been unlucky. Perhaps all teams are as unlucky as us? I don’t pay close enough attention to all of them to know. I can say however, that I can’t remember a season being […]
