End of Season Awards – GunnersTown Review
It’s been an up and down season which includes some great performances and some terrible ones. Below, me and the GT team look back on Unai Emery’s first campaign in charge of the Arsenal. Gary Lawrence (@garythegooner56) Player of the Season: Lacazette Worst Player of the Season: Mustafi Most Improved: Maitland: Niles Most Underwhelming: […]
Top 5 Things to keep an eye on in this Arsenal Transfer Window
Here were are post season and Arsenal and their frustrated fan base enter a summer of frenzied media and social media speculation of who will arrive and who will depart the playing staff ahead of the 2019/20 campaign. What we all know, or think we know is that having failed in his first season to […]
To Baku and Back (via Istanbul and Tbilisi) – A Gooner’s Journey there and back
Part 2 – And back…… I hope you enjoyed part 1, the journey to Baku The day after the game, our moods were sombre and it was difficult to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves down to go again because neither of us were motivated and we both knew how the other felt. There was […]
To Baku and Back (via Istanbul and Tbilisi) – A Gooner’s Journey there and back (Part 1)
Part 1 – There Our journey to Baku started energetically on Monday 27th May and finished, with fatigue, on Saturday 1st June. Sandwiched between the travelling was of course, a performance and result that left us inconsolable. A feeling that was well and truly placed in to perspective when we were greeted by the tragic […]
“Lost, in a far away city” – Arsenal’s season in a poetic post-mortem
Lost, in a far away city We started with Man City, the result was pretty shitty, And then along came Chelsea, the gulf there for all to see Things were looking pretty grim, but then we started to win, All the fans started to freak, when we hit a winning streak, Went thirteen wins in […]
Arsenal’s future is bright if they give their young stars a chance to shine [Positive Needs & Hopes]
‘HOPE IN THOSE WITH THEIR SHINPADS IN THEIR HANDS’ Positives, Needs and Hopes END of SEASON REVIEW I’m sure we all have this childhood memory… We build a Lego Tower. Our sibling comes along as we near completion of said tower, and knocks it down. I may have been 6 but at the time this […]
Tactically busy – but ‘astute’? Nope. How Emery hasn’t helped Arsenal (or himself).
Are Arsenal getting bored of Emery? As I watched on with a slight grimace at the first few games of Arsenal’s new season, I kept telling myself “it’s a process, it’s a process, it’s a process “. There was a disjointedness about the team, which you’d almost allow due to the fact Unai Emery had […]
Silent, but Deadly – Stan is killing Arsenal: Kroenke Must Go.
I agree with Lario3, who replied to Callum Perret`s excellent article. I am not willing to accept that we as fans should be expected to stand idly by while the club disintegrates. Next season Man City, Liverpool, Spurs, Chelsea and Newcastle will quite possibly finish ahead of us and Leicester will be right on our […]
‘Kroenke is our Gillet and Hicks’ – The Long Summer is underway, and it’s going to sting
And so months of endless navel gazing and pontificating begins. If, like me, you’re a fan of HBO’s Game of Thrones and thought the much anticipated “Long Night” foreshadowed in the show ended up being something entirely anti-climatic, I can promise you as an Arsenal fan that this summer is going to be the complete opposite. It’s […]
Europa success may well define Unai’s season – but should it? A close look at the Tricks of Emery’s Trade.
For Arsenal fans, victory on Wednesday evening is all that will matter. A European trophy, a return to the Champions League and a significant influx of cash that will hopefully give Emery the tools to rebuild and restructure a somewhat dysfunctional squad will be significant reward for what has been at times an underwhelming season. […]