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Top Four, VAR and Balogun: all a bit too much

Happy Friday to you and your kin. I hope you are feeling fantabulous? More fantabulous than me no doubt, whose feline friend has discovered how to open does and so has taken to jumping on mine and The...

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Arteta needs to ‘Clockwork Orange’ mistakes out of Arsenal

Just over 24 hours until the North London Derby tomorrow at 4.30pm and after the team arrived back on Thursday and then most likely had themselves a day off yesterday, there will no doubt be a final...

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The fear of the North London Derby

Here we are. The worst day in our football calendar in my opinion: North London Derrby Day at home. I hate it. There’s just so much always riding on this one, the nerves are heightened and – despite...

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Cashing in: Edu’s big summer ahead

Phew. That was a relief to see that Man City are still in control when it comes to the Man City Cup, the cup which essentially proves that if you have enough money you can build a squad to rotate that...

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Trippier’s a no; Willock in the hole?

I had a skin full of booze yesterday. So to wake up this morning with a fuzzy head and see that Arsenal are linked with a £34million bid for 30-year-old Kieran Trippier doesn’t help my general state...

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Are Arsenal ready for the new season? Is Willock’s exit just the start?

So the two big talking points today then, are: The final televised friendly against the Scum that ended in a 1-0 defeat yesterday lunchtime The impending sale of Joe Willock First, the game itself,...

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Will Arteta answer the Xhaka question today?

morning folks and welcome to the end of the working week (for me at least), and the start of the weekend, the most nervy of weekends in the Arsenal football calendar. Well, when the fixtures come out,...

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We will need at least two in the North London Derby

It’s started already. As I tap away at my Macbook the time has only just ticked over to 8am in the morning and I’m already feeling those North London Derby day butterflies. The visit of the Scum at the...

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Arsenal ‘click’ in NLD – and it’s glorious

Sometimes football is just hella fun, isn’t it? I am here on this Monday morning thinking about how much I enjoy football. You? It’s funny what a difference a day makes. This time yesterday I was...

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The fine injury lines for a likeable Arsenal team

It appears the prognosis on Xhaka’s knee ligament injury was worse than we thought and the club confirmed yesterday that he’ll be out for three months as a result of the damage that was done in the...

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The perfect weekend and the perfect Arsenal partnership up top?

As weekends go, that was pretty tasty, from an Arsenal perspective wasn’t it? We had our win on Friday, which meant we could just watch the games pan out knowing we had done our job. Then we had...

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The Arsenal worrier and his ‘worry wall’

Antonio Conte to the Scum, Unai Emery to the new Geordie Oil Whores, what is happening right now? What weird twilight zone have we fallen in to that sees this collective of randomness occur? In...

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Will Arsenal’s away form determine a top four spot?

It’s Tuesday, a full three days since we were defeated against the state-funded Oil Whores, yet that defeat still stings a little bit. I guess it’s partially also due to the fact that on Sunday those...

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How does Arteta rotate in the next 10 days and what should we do about...

Morning folks and welcome to Friday. Been a long ol’ slog this week, I have to say, so has it been the same for you? Have you just jumped straight back in to the swing of work or have you counted down...

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Arsenal climbing down from the morale high ground?

So now we know…Arsenal’s hand has been played and the extent to which we have absentees has been laid bare, as the club confirmed yesterday afternoon that they’ve applied to the Premier League for a...

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Circling the wagons and uniting the Arsenal fanbase

A bit like The Arsenal, I took a day off yesterday from writing the blog, mainly because I was hanging and a little tired after a weekend of excess celebrating The Management’s birthday. But whilst on...

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Arsenal gambling on what they’ve got is a worry

Here we are then. Transfer Deadline Day. One of the most hyperbolic days in the footballing calendar and a day that TV companies like Sky utterly adore because it puts eyeballs on their products and...

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Arsenal need to build out some ‘wiggle room’

Morning folks and welcome to another week. But what a weekend from an Arsenal point of view, eh? For the last two months or so we’ve seen team after team have games in hand over us, been calculating...

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Arsenal’s run in does not make us favourites

It’s a watching brief for us Gooners this weekend, as our game against the scummy False-Positive-Victims-FC Liverpool is postponed until mid March with their involvement in the League Cup. Part of me...

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Who’s leading this Arsenal team on the pitch?

It was a shame that Wolves couldn’t at least muster a draw against West Ham yesterday, but if I’m going to look at the up side, it means a bit more daylight between us and them, with us five points...

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Glad we only have to worry about the football at The Arsenal

Morning folks and welcome to Thursday. I tested positive for COVID yesterday which is bloody annoying, because I was supposed to be at a work away day today in which I presented to the whole company,...

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The Cedric wave and the Tierney unpredictability

Mikel had his press conference yesterday and of course the natural course of events is to first find out about the team news. The good is that Emile Smith Rowe is back having trained a couple of times...

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Playing on Monday for The Arsenal – the good and bad news

Morning peeps. Happy Saturday, even if it is an Arsenalless one and in my head, I can’t quite work out if it is good or bad to have to wait until Monday night before we play. The bad is that by the...

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Top four twists and turns still to come

Happy Sunday campers – hope you guys are all doing well? No proper football until tomorrow evening, but despite the fact I thought to myself that I wouldn’t bother watching Man United beat Leicester...

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Don’t look too far ahead at Arsenal’s fixtures

Welcome to another week folks. It’s always nice starting off a working week off the back of an Arsenal win and when it is one in which you’ve just beaten two of the top teams in the league, it feels...

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Will the season finale will have one more uncomfortable twist for The Arsenal?

Morning Gooners – y’all alreet? I didn’t watch the Champions League Semi Final between Liverpool and Emery’s Villareal, but it seems as though even Mr European Cup Competition himself – Unai Emery –...

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The seven stages of NLD nerves for an Arsenal fan

I’ve got to be completely frank with you, I absolutely cannot stand the North London Derby. There are people that say they look forward to it, that it is a great opportunity to do one over the old...

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Searching for an Arsenal Nostradamus

As I tap away at my laptop this morning, hurtling at speed on the Met Line to a day in the office, my mind is essentially doing a ‘countdown to midnight a la ‘The Watchmen’ as we rapidly approach the...

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The longest day ever – North London Derby Day

Here we are folks. This has felt like a ridiculously long week for me, excruciatingly so, but we’ve arrived at the worst day of the football calendar in my opinion: North London Derby Day – away from...

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Arsenal tick all the wrong boxes in the NLD

If you were to not watch the game but ask an Arsenal fan what would constitute an absolutely horrendous night’s work in the Toilet Bowl arena, they would probably include any of the following: Early...

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