“I am always confident that a last-minute situation or solution is available, because the transfer market is especially moving in the last four or five days. But at the moment I cannot promise you that. We have specific targets but sometimes you get an idea from somebody because you didn’t know that the player you […]
There is an image in my head and often on the TV that makes me wonder whether Arsenal will score a goal. It’s the situation where the opponent is structured with eight players in defensive positions. Four at the back with four ringed in front of them. Arsenal are passing the ball around the perimeter […]
This evening Arsenal return to the Emirates for a blockbuster clash against Liverpool. No matter what our thoughts on the opposition are it’s always a big game given the history of the 2 clubs. In the same fixture last season we gave Liverpool a footballing lesson spanking them 4:1! I don’t expect tonight’s game to […]
This is the sort of question that Arsene Wenger has had to answer ever since the rather fortunate but successful emergence of Francis Coquelin as Arsenal’s first-choice defensive midfielder. Over a difficult period in December 2014, with Mikel Arteta, Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey all missing through injury, Arsene’s hand was forced in moving to […]
In what was one of my first articles for GunnersTown (back in March) I argued we need a winger. The idea wasn’t greeted with open arms back then: I was pointed out we have Oxlade, Alexis, Walcott and Welbeck. 4 players for two positions is a balanced and healthy squad, right? Not exactly. Fast-forward five […]
I was initially tempted to write an exploratory piece on Ramsey-on-the-Right but I think there are several quality posts lined up on that topic – including one already put up by Andrea and a bloody good piece by Dave Seager; so, I’ll do what I do in times like these and go off on a […]
Hi fellow Gooners, I’d like to share some of my thoughts about a very important – although nervy – win at Selhurst Park, would you mind reading this blog? Playing Crystal Palace away from home is not ideal when you are already desperate for a win, therefore I wasn’t utterly confident about us getting the […]
So a needed win for us against Crystal Palace on Sunday but I sit here remaining largely unconvinced by the strength of our first XI. I really do hope Wenger makes the necessary signings needed to elevate us otherwise it’s the same old story of ‘Arsenal being 1 or 2 players short to challenge’. We […]
“Quarterback” Definition: A member of the offensive team that lines up directly behind the offensive line. The Quarterback is the leader of the offensive team, responsible for calling the play. Cazorla back in the centre, next to Le Coq, playing the role he converted to last season and made his own. Not flirting around on the wings, have little […]
“Signed, sealed, delivered” Do you know where this phrase originated from? No? Neither did I until very recently. Until I started studying common law, in fact. The phrase refers to an agreement called “contract under seal”. This type of agreement is an unusual one: it places the written form above the consideration (consideration is that […]
