At half time I often check the thoughts of a few on twitter. Emotions can cloud. Clive Palmer @clivepafc is becoming increasingly well respected and often has the pulse. Today my main thought concurred with his: in-game management needed to be improved. Emery makes statements at half time either with subs or obvious improvements. The […]
First half…. an utter mess. Yet again the entire offensive 4 playing poorly all at once. The midfielders playing too slowly and positionally poor on defence. The back four left exposed yet making a litany of poor decisions. Cech keeps us in the game.. again. Second half… our biggest problem this season has been individuals […]
While it’s never pleasant to witness your team lose any game of football, let alone several on the trot, I find it extremely hard to get bent out of shape this morning. Context is king here, of course. Had we lost the two opening fixtures under Arsene Wenger, people would have been out in force […]
I asked four supporters four questions on what they would do this summer, from transfers to managerial appointments. First up is Jamie Brundle: 1) As we all know, someone new will grace the Emirates dugout from next season, who do you want as the next manager? – Hopefully we get Allegri, but I feel […]
This was another poor performance. We couldn’t get a Toon from the team today….. It seems there is something telling about our away form, certainly vis a vis our home form. I was hoping we could win this game. But then such hope was misguided, apparently. The thing is we started well. PEA and […]
We are off to Newcastle today and the one stat that caught my eye was the following: we haven’t lost five consecutive away games since 1925. As it stands, we are on a run of four successive losses on the road. Our recent home form made the situation look better than it is. Five straight […]
When I looked at the team sheet before the game I knew all I needed to: Wenger ditched the Premier League entirely to save players for the Europa League. That is a reasonable approach, one I have been advocating for even before the Milan games. I thought we would see a somewhat stronger side still […]
When I sat down to write this review it suddenly hit me I cannot recall the last time I wrote about an Arsenal win. I went ahead and checked … It was on December 29, a 3-2 win over Palace. Now, admittedly, it’s partially my fault. I couldn’t cover the win over Chelsea in semis, […]
Arsenal 3-0 Watford We had the cojones…shame Deeney didn’t…. In a way it’s funny, since not only was “cojones” a major trending word on Twitter, it has triggered us Gooners in a big way. And rightly so, since Deeney’s comments in our loss to Watford were true, though in highly poor taste. However, we […]
Well before the game I knew we were the underdogs for the final. I’ve seen City play countless times this season, and I knew they can be a handful for just about anyone. Our only slim hopes of beating them rested on defensive discipline and piling pressure on their fullbacks. Even so it was obvious […]
