The Arsenal boys are getting excited about the up coming World Cup, some have different reasons. My inside contact at London Colney managed to grab some screenshots of the latest team WhatsApp group chat and very kindly forwarded them to me.
Time To Declare: why I believe Arsenal will be Champions [ARS 5-0 NFO] (Updated)
Time to declare An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective. As you read this, you are reading the fourth rewrite of this opening paragraph. I have been tempted to write about what you are about to read for a while, but have resisted until I was sure. I wasn’t thinking that yesterday‘s game would be […]
Time To Declare: why Arsenal have convinced me they should be Champions [ARS 5-0 NFO] (Positives Needs & Hopes)
Time to declare An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective. As you read this, you are reading the fourth rewrite of this opening paragraph. I have been tempted to write about what you are about to read for a while, but have resisted until I was sure. I wasn’t thinking that yesterday‘s game would be […]
The Arsenal Women Journal – Steady Sailing as Arsenal dispatch Zurich in convincing CL display
Jonas spoke, the players listened.The Swede was very vocal about the need of being humble after the win in Lyon, pushing away any talk about us winning the Champions League or being favourites to replicate our success from 2007, and the team responded with a mature, assured performance against Zurich.Goals from Jordan Nobbs and Lina […]
Sluggish: Is Arsenal’s Squad Deep Enough? (A Prophetic Pre-PSV Post-mortem)
*Written before our 2-0 defeat to PSV* Arsenal’s winning run came to an end on Sunday as they dropped two points to a Southampton side which has proved an immovable object in recent years. It seemed as though it was going to be a comfortable trip down South as we created multiple chances early doors […]
Arteta to opt for a back 3 v PSV to rest jaded stars?
Arsenal are in the middle of a bruising playing schedule and like most fans I was concerned to see the energy and urgency in the team’s performance drop off at St Mary’s on Sunday. Fortunately, Arteta’s team, despite their first dropped Premier League points since the defeat at Old Trafford, still sit 2 points clear […]
Adjusting to shorter games: how Arsenal can conquer the red zone [SOU 1-1 ARS] (Positive Needs & Hopes)
Adjusting to shorter games An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective I don’t think it’s a coincidence anymore that we are not looking as comfortable in games. I didn’t think it was necessarily fatigue at first but this cannot be ignored. I’ve loved that we have picked largely the same team every week. It’s undoubtedly […]
The Gift Of Oxygen – Arsenal 1-0 PSV [Expanded Edition] – Positive, Needs & Hopes
The gift of oxygen POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES An Arsenal blog from a Coach’s perspective (Expanded Edition includes link to podcast at end of post) Watching yesterday’s game I had that yucky feeling. We were snatching at most all of our shots. It just looked like one of those games that could’ve gone on all […]
Some injury concerns as juggernaut Arsenal faces Sunday trip to Southampton (Match Preview)
After securing Europa League knock out football with a 1-0-win last night over PSV, Arsenal can get back to their impressive Premier League campaign with a visit to St Mary’s. Thursday’s win was an eight successive win across the 2 competitions since Arteta’s team were beaten at Old Trafford in September. Because of their impressive […]
The gift of oxygen: how Arsenal’s ‘second-stringers’ have given us room to breathe [ARS 1-0 EIN] (Positive Needs and Hopes)
The gift of oxygen POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES An Arsenal blog from a Coach’s perspective Watching yesterday’s game I had that yucky feeling. We were snatching at most all of our shots. It just looked like one of those games that could’ve gone on all night and we weren’t going to score. The rest of […]