‘In the end, it’s quality’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Where were you at 6:30pm UK time on Sunday? I had just dropped Max and Axcel off at their game. You need to know about Axcel. Axcel is a local legend. He is our family’s adopted soccer son. We drive backwards to go […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Getting out of Leigh Sports Village Stadium with a point and clean-sheet is a good thing, all things considered. Ahead of the match, Mark Skinner’s team were top of the table after two impressive wins against Leicester (4-0) and London City Lionesses (5-1), and Melvine Malard looked unstoppable in front of […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados! Renée Slegers’ team recorded a second win in as many league games as they put five past West Ham, courtesy of goals from Frida Maanum, Stina Blackstenius, Caitlin Foord and Alessia Russo (2). Despite falling behind following an unfortunate own goal scored by Daphne van Domselaar, the win was never in […]
An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Perhaps one of the reasons that you are reading this is because you know I’m an Arsenal fan. Up until the last 20 years, viewpoints on games were written by neutrals. That has its benefits, but I found that I could predict what I was about to read […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados!The opening game of the season didn’t start in the best possible fashion, but one moment of individual brilliance turned the game upside down and transformed a close contest into a one-sided performance and a thumping win. Goals from Olivia Smith, Chloe Kelly, Stina Blackstenius and Frida Maanum gave Arsenal their first […]
Hello, Arsenal Women aficionados!Welcome back, Champions of Europe; it was not a dream, it really happened. The Arsenal Women team are back in action and ready to defend their European crown, as well as preventing Chelsea from winning a seventh consecutive WSL title to capture a title that has evaded them since 2018/19.The season officially […]
‘The brake or the gas’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective The dialogue among Arsenal fans after the Liverpool game has been quite fascinating. Apart from those that automatically start attention seeking and wanting over the top accountability for one game of football, the rest of us seem to be somewhat uniquely divided on […]
Happy happy, sad sad happy An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective What to think about that game, right? It was like the events of a months worth of football in two hours. Lori, Max, his friend Jake and I were in Lexington, Kentucky to watch our friend Tyler Gibson play for USL team Oakland […]
‘Reasons and Excuses’ ‘’An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective’ This is how I felt during and directly after the game. I don’t get flustered by much. I do have a list though. A short list. If you call QVC shopping network, a human picks up the phone and immediately asks you what they can […]
‘Art in motion’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Well, I wasn’t expecting that. There wasn’t much ‘art’ against Villareal and the ’motion’ wasn’t jiving either. The game was littered with tactical nuance, experiments and improvements. Almost as if we had been storing this up for a rainy day, so to speak. ‘Sun on […]
