Impressions and Player Ratings from Arsenal 3-0 BATE Borisov
Arsenal 3-0 BATE Borisov – Europa League Round of 16 Second Leg Review (Agg. 3-1) After last week’s debacle, we comfortably progressed to the next round after a good win vs. BATE at home. I’m left thinking “how the hell did we lose to them last week?!” I attended in person, with some […]
Arsenal 3-0 BATE Borisov (3-1) – Relief as centre-backs spare Gunner’s Europa blushes [Positive Needs & Hopes]
A Tale of Execution and Deception POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES I feel happy but still concerned. Ultimately happy. Did we need to produce a fluid performance?… not really. Did we need the 3-0 victory?…. absolutely. As forgettable as these two games have been they were pivotal to Emery and Arsenal. The longer we don’t make […]
A little ditty ’bout Mezut Ozil
A little ditty ’bout Mezut Ozil A little ditty ’bout young Mezut Ozil Who played up front Germany when they destroyed Brazil He came to Arsenal to be a football star He left Madrid where he’d come so far At his best, he is a master magician Whose sublime vision lays waste to […]
A Ballad of Mesut and Unai – Sort it out between now and May
While the season for Arsenal goes down in flames Mesut still loves our club or so he claims I do not know if he does nor do I particularly care But I do know the team I love is missing his flair I would rather he did is talking with his feet and […]
Hard to watch Arsenal without a Plan v Bate after watching Spurs crush Dortmund
I watched most of Spurs match against Borussia Dortmund and it was hard to take the disparity between their performance and that disaster last night. The stadium is bouncing and the fans are belting out their songs when their team is playing. In contrast, we had a decent amount of proper fans who made the […]
After Emery goes defensive and loses to Bate – Do we Trust this man ‘with no style in our Transition.
Arsenal suffered one of the worst results in their European history by losing 1-0 in Borisov to Belarusian side BATE. Lacazette was sent off for violent conduct in a game that summed up the Arsenal performance. The Wrong Man? There’s no hiding that Unai Emery inherited a very weak and poor Arsenal side in comparison […]
BATE 1-0 Arsenal: The Heat Is On Emery As Cautious Game-plan Backfires In Belarus [Positive Needs & Hopes]
Should’ve been easy, but just too difficult! POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES One of the most impactful pre-game team talks I can remember came when I was a teenager. My coach was a man called Roy Butler and I was playing for St.Albans. It was a big game. We were the better team on paper but […]
Why Arsenal were wrong to thank Aaron Ramsey – It was disrespectful to the player and to us fans
Why Arsenal were wrong to thank Aaron Ramsey Well it was finally confirmed what many Arsenal fans knew for some time, that Welsh international Aaron Ramsey will be leaving Arsenal to join Italian champions Juventus in the summer. The news was first broken by BBC sport journalist and Arsenal Oracle David Ornstein, when […]
Arsenal Transfer talk – Part Two looks at who may go and who may arrive including Zaha and Maguire!!
Transfer talk – part 2 OK, so the transfer window has shut, of course. But then who is really “Arsenal quality” if any such thing can be discerned? Who can go, and who can actually come in? And is it really true that Emery doesn’t have a defined style? In part 1, I analysed […]
Player Ratings see Iwobi the Star Man as Arsenal edge the Herbert Chapman Derby
The Herbert Chapman derby, as it were, ended in an Arsenal win. The game perhaps wasn’t the best, but I’m sure Mr Chapman is looking down and happy to see both of his prodigy performing in the top division. His Yorkshire former club is certainly going down this season – though on this showing they […]