Hot off the press!!!! A mate of mine at the UK patent office, just forwarded me a list of Trademark requests they have just received from Liverpool FC. 1 – Fist pump celebrations to the home crowd. (Klopp invented this don’t you know) 2 – Having a song that the crowd sings before kick off […]
Expectation and the Unexpected An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective It’s important to me that what I write is from a place of passion but balanced by the eyes of a neutral. That’s hard to do but important if analysis is going to be good. Max and I got a flavour of how much […]
In this edition we look back on Sunday’s clash against Liverpool at Anfield in the Premier League. HIGHLIGHT Paul Hepker: Two huge calls going our way for a change: a VAR goal check that, let’s face it, they could easily have fudged. Just drawn a red line and said “OFFSIDE”. And then the Odegaard handball. […]
Mistakes and Moments An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Dear Manchester United, Chelsea and Spurs fans (there has to be at least one of you reading), This is an Arsenal fan who has been where you are. Well actually, we’ve been where United and Chelsea are but we’ve never quite been as nakedly barren […]
1. Every self-respecting oligarch-sorry-I-mean-billionaire owns a football club. 2. You’re a genius – is there anything you can’t do? Electric cars, rocket ships, trains sorry-I-mean-hyperloops, robots… Like a little small-town boy with a big imagination limited only by his birthday money, building rocket ships, trains, cars, and robots in his back yard, surrounded by […]
Is there even a Top 6 in the Premier League any more? A look at the table after only 6 games might give one pause for thought. Yes – I know itʻs a pretty small sample size, but some of the results have been pretty shocking. As you will see below, the league has thrown up […]
There has been a lot of talk about Arsene returning to The Arsenal in some capacity and just maybe this has happened sooner than we think. Similar to Wenger’s infamous spat with Maureen back in 2014. Mikel came close to blows with Klopp on Saturday night. Presumably NOT the after effects of an afternoon on […]
Composure and Confidence POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES I’m writing this late in the day. Had to take time out from being disappointed. I just wasn’t expecting a return to shooting ourselves in the foot and quietly I thought that our momentum could sneak us a 1-0. I admittedly floated off to my dream state of […]
I remember being in the concourse of a bustling Liberty Stadium in October 2015, eagerly awaiting team news for Arsenal’s match against Swansea City, hoping for a Joel Campbell start, of all things. As I was waiting in hopeful expectation of the Costa Rican continuing his run in the team, I watched and enjoyed the […]
A Window to the Future Saturday at 5pm I sat down to make a coaching plan based on what I’d just seen. My son’s team had just been beaten 4-1 and I’d been asked to guest coach a session this Thursday. When deciding what to teach I always try to analyze what the root of […]
