Reasons to be cheerful, you’ll see Gooners to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3 Good summer jolly, more transfer folly Good golly, Miss Molly and high, high hopes Brazilian Martinelli, fellow countryman Gabi First game on the telly, no time to choke Ode down the channel, Wrighty on the panel The rest just talking […]
Coach Mike McDonald has given his season’s predictions on the Positives Needs & Hopes podcast – available for streaming in the player below. He has some surprising predictions for the Cup and League competitions!! Enjoy. Gunners Town Pub · Positives, Needs & Hopes – Expanded
What do you do when you’ve won the Treble? How do you motivate yourself to set yourself apart from the other Manchester team that has won the Treble? How do you step outside the shadow of the Premier League’s greatest team – Arsenal’s Invincibles – and their unrivaled accomplishment of going unbeaten for an entire […]
Bigger than the Shield An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective I had Max’s soccer team over to my house last week. They need to watch the game. Some of the parents did not send their kids because they didn’t see the value and others complained. This reminded me of how sport can be looked […]
Hello Arsenal Women aficionados!The traditional Arsenal Women Journal might well be in holidays mode but that’s no reason to rest. Sorry for the lack of updates, recently, but I took a break and travelled a bit, while keeping an eye on the Arsenal Women world – of course. Obviously, everyone’s attention is on the ongoing […]
Arsenal and the castle An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Have you ever had to go South in order to go North? Have you ever had to try to explain this to a child? I’d say that I’m a pretty calm and lucid guy. At least my kids tell me that I am. A […]
The Arsenal fanbase have gone through various states of losing our collective mind over the course of this pre-season. First when we completed the signing of Declan Rice, having already secured the signatures of Havertz and Timber and extended Saliba’s contract. At this point everyone was OTT on optimism because we were going to […]
Total Chaos I’ve seen a lot of talk about who’s going to start and in what position. Is Timber going to start in place of White? Is Havertz replacing Xhaka or is that what Rice is coming in to do? Will ESR be rotation for Odegaard or Martinelli? I don’t think that question is enough, […]
In the midst of anticipation and media speculation, Arsenal fans can now breathe a sigh of relief as the club’s new £100m signing, Declan Rice has finally arrived. The doubts created by the press about the deal’s completion were merely fleeting obstacles on the path to what was always destined to happen – a significant […]
The previous pre-season was the most interesting in a long while. There we got first glimpses of the inverted fullback, the high line, pressing from the front, the lone 6 and our new exciting signings, especially Jesus, Zinchenko and Saliba. We saw several impressive performances and results against top European opposition. This time around there […]
