Anyone who knows me or reads my articles will know that I am an admirer of Mikel Arteta but even the best coaches get tactics and decisions wrong. On a lucky day the odd poor call may not cost your team, or you may have time in a match to readjust or even reverse a […]
There is no doubt that strikers are on top of Arsenal’s summer shopping list. Having failed to acquire Dusan Vlahovic in the winter, Arsenal reported also had interest in Jonathan David, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Alexander Isak, but it seems that ahead of the summer they are broadening their search. One of the new names that […]
The game didn’t start at 4:05pm POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES It’s not too late. It seems like it is, but it’s not. The situation and our push for Champions League football is still possible even though it seems like we are throwing it away. What has been too late however, is how our coach and […]
“What is the realistic target for Arsenal and Mike Arteta this season?” If you asked to an Arsenal fan before the season started(or the summer transfer window ended), the most common answer might have been 6th place in the league and getting back into the Europa League. It doesn’t sound particularly ambitious considering that Arsenal […]
Whilst there is no escaping the stark fact that Arsenal were very poor and outplayed by an organised and well-drilled Palace side, we equally cannot ignore that prior to Monday, Arteta’s team had successfully engineered 5 successive away wins in the Premier League. In isolation, it is therefore logical to view the 3-nil defeat as […]
We had to win and we won. We had to score a lot and we did – although we left it late in the game.We didn’t quite match Chelsea’s 9-0 win but we scored five past Leicester and made sure we did our bit but unfortunately Chelsea also won easily against Reading, which means that […]
That’s it, our European journey came to an abrupt end at the Volkswagen Arena, last night.It hurts but we can hardly say the outcome was unfair: over the two legs, Wolfsburg has been the better team. Although we grew into the game and could have had more luck with some of our shots, the first […]
Yesterday I read that Arsenal are vying with Atletico for the signature of Lautaro Martinez from Inter, and are favourites to land Dutch winger, Cody Gakpo from PSV. Both are exciting links but yesterday’s news suggesting Arteta was ready to lure Marcus Rashford and that Arsenal had a pre-contract deal with Dominic Calvert-Lewin, are perhaps […]
Last night I suddenly realized how much I missed this kind of European night. Sure, the men’s team played a couple of Europa League semifinals at the Emirates but nothing really beats a Champions League knock-out game at home. Although the result wasn’t great, the performance from the girls was very encouraging and I bet […]
Prior to the 2021/2022 season commencing, a place in Europe was the objective for Arsenal as this would signal improvement when compared to previous league finishes under the stewardship of Mikel Arteta. But with ten games remaining, his side are now in pole position to finish in one of those all-important Champions League spots at […]
