Arsenal Back on Track to Challenge Man City For The Title Arsenal’s recent 3-1 triumph over Manchester United has positioned them as strong contenders against Manchester City for this season’s Premier League title. The current best non gamstop casinos all still have Manchester city as strong favourites to lift the title at 4/9 with Arsenal […]
Keeping things short and sweet… A new regular feature on Gunners Town, using the framework started during lockdown on the Gunners Town Pub podcasts… Our writers each offer a highlight and lowlight for the previous Matchday, and then shine a headlight on what lies ahead for the Gunners. What do you think? Give us your […]
Thunder at the chess match An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Well, I’m not sure about you, but I was about to weep into my vegetable soup if we didn’t beat this version of Manchester United. Especially the last 15 minute version with Harry Maguire and Johnny Evans playing centre back. A team with […]
A friend of mine is a cleaner at the VAR Command Centre, Stockley Park. She found something on the floor, under Lee Mason’s terminal and thought I might find it interesting. She took this picture and sent it to me. Explains a lot. Steve WellmanEnglish by birth, Australian by choice. Traffic Engineer, Arsenal ST Holder, […]
Killing the wrong team POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES Did Manchester United deserve to win the game? Part of me thinks absolutely not. We looked like the superior team on their home patch and are clearly a better team right now. They rely strongly on individuals as they did yesterday. On the other hand, what are […]
From my sources, Paul Scholes is going to make an official complaint to the FA following Mikel Arteta’s disgusting antics during the Arsenal/United game on Saturday. In the 32nd minute, Mikel committed the heinous crime of enticing the home fans to get behind the team, whilst Craig Pawson was reviewing VAR footage for a possible […]
The Initiative Issue POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES I think that Mikel Arteta’s greatest success since becoming coach/manager has been defensive intensity and organization. If he were not to remain as coach in the long term I think he has solved arguably the most important need that the club had on the field in 15 years. […]
The 3 ways I’d change football Honestly, the game of football is becoming less attractive to me. I know I’m not the only one that feels this way too. It could be recovered though. I have two problems. The sport is now predictable. The rules are sucking out the joy and the punishment isn’t even […]
VAR (Very Average Referees) Academy It is the mid-season review at the VAR Academy, where all the ‘referees’ get together to assess how things are tracking and to check if all the refs are on course to meet their season KPIs. It’s 9.30am and the full thicket of EPL referees (google it, it’s the collective […]
The biggest match of the season, a season defining week, make or break for Arteta, are all phrases that any Arsenal fan will have read or spoken this week ahead of the Europa League Round of 16 and the North London Derby. In reality, it is simply the biggest week, since the last biggest week, […]
