‘Different ways of looking at it.’ (Positives Needs & Hopes) [ARS 1-0 HUL]
‘Different ways of looking at it’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective I just got a text from my Arsenal group chat. TC could be right. Obviously, we are not being literal here, but I suppose it’s the messaging. What does the coach place emphasis on? I guess that in the early days it […]
Arsenal’s December Fixtures: A Tragic Tale of Geography
Breaking: Football club plays matches in the city where it lives. Rivals outraged. Gather round, friends, because a crisis is upon us. Arsenal’s December schedule features a series of games in London, and the internet’s finest minds have noticed. Somewhere, a man with a Tottenham-adjacent username and a profile picture of a lion is typing […]
“Near Perfection” (Positives Needs & Hopes) [LIV 0-1 ARS] [SLA 1-2 ARS]
‘Near perfection’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective I wanted to talk about both the Liverpool and the Slavia Prague games. I will leave the thoughts from the Slavia Prague game to later. The Liverpool game was one of the most memorable football matches I’ve seen in quite a while. Not because it was […]
Well Done, FA: Football Is Finally Safe
Congratulations to the Football Association. After years of tireless work, you have identified the real menace to the beautiful game: a teenager who got upset after being clattered. Not the clatter itself, of course. That was fine. A poor challenge, the kind that could have put a young player on the treatment table for a […]
The Arsenal Women Journal – A Win Is a Win. Or Is It?
…aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we’re back! It is quite fitting to talk about the Arsenal Women’s somewhat tribulated, troubled new season during a tribulated, troubled personal time, so let’s get to it right away and try to understand how and why things went bad so early for Renée Slegers’ team during what was expected to be a breakout […]
‘Talkin’ bout an evolution’ (Positives Needs & Hopes) [ARS 2-0 EVE]
‘Talkin’ bout an evolution’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Tracy Chapman reminds me of the time that I moved to America. She was so good. Not sure where she is now. I’ll look her up. Anyway, she has nothing to do with what I’m thinking. The title reminded me of her. I watched […]
‘See Man Utd, then see Arsenal’ (Observations after an impressive Munich outing)
‘See Man Utd, then see Arsenal’ Firstly, my apologies for not being able to blog the last couple of games. I was going to park my blog until after the Everton game, but there is something I cannot shake. I don’t like to talk about Manchester United. I dislike them more than any other club, […]
‘Good enough’ no longer good enough (Positives Needs & Hopes) [ARS 2-1 LEE]
‘Good enough’ no longer good enough An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective There is a knock-on effect to footballers becoming much busier these days. I think that most of them are somewhat unaware of the details of what else is going on in the league. Even though video analysis will now be used where […]
A Car With 3 Gears (Positives Needs & Hopes) [BHA 3-0 ARS]
A car with three gears’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective I never like playing Brighton away. We’ve been pretty successful there recently, but they are always a team that I think are capable of beating us. Always well coached, unafraid, and capable. Capable of beating us at the same game. The result was […]
Raya, fire! (Positives Needs & Hopes) [SUN 0-2 ARS]
Raya, fire 🔥 An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective For some reason in the last week, I’ve had two people ask me who I thought was the best player at Arsenal. I get asked a lot of questions about Arsenal, but that one hasn’t come in quite a while. I had to think about […]