Eek, a whole week since the last post.
Which means I’m bouncing straight from a dismal post-mortem straight into this preview. I’d like to say my outlook has changed and I’m bursting with confidence. I’m certainly more sanguine than I was on Monday morning.
It’s been a funny week, coloured at the end by Wenger [...]
Good result, bad result, two points lost or one gained – we just don’t know yet. I would wager that a draw at Villa is a good result, but ask me again after the next three games and we’ll know more. We were hardly going to go there and waltz it.
The main sensation I had [...]
“I want to pick a team which is strong enough to win the game, without ignoring we are under immense physical demands in every single game right now and the fact some players need to have a breather.”
It was always pretty clear to me that the almost permanent hindrance of having anywhere between four and [...]
Continue reading about Wenger stuck between a rock and a hard place
Good things, as they say, come to those who wait.
I sat watching Sky Sports on 1st January expecting a flurry of new players to change hands within moments, and here we are some three weeks later with a 35-year-old prodigal-ish son having returned but not much else. This transfer window thus far has been a [...]
Continue reading about Seize the moment (and fix the unfixed)
Morning all. I did the classic thing of waking up in the middle of the night, and in the course of trying to get back to sleep thought of something particularly noteworthy to blog about this morning. Sure enough, when I woke up, I couldn’t remember a jot. I remember once being advised by someone [...]
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Football, I can report, still has the power to amaze.
After a sabbatical of 3½ years, Sol Campbell’s all set to sign for Arsenal until the end of the season. Amazing because he’s 35, amazing because he’s hardly the age profile of the classic Wenger signing, and amazing because despite having trained for months with [...]
Continue reading about Out with the new, in with the Sol at Arsenal
Breaking news: We’ve neither signed nor sold anyone.
I switched on Sky Sports News on about 2nd January and they were already lathering at the chops and reminding us that there were a mere 29 days and 6 hours and 14 minutes or whatever it was remaining before the end of the transfer window. Not [...]
Continue reading about Snow, hype and the chance to go second
A very belated hello to the week from me. We’re midwayish between the Hull and Villa games, a hopeless time for blogging as we’re too far past the former and not near enough the latter.
What we are also is a mere eight days away from is the opening of the transfer window. The cynical amongst [...]
Contracts
You can’t see the wood for the trees when it comes to Arsenal players being offered new contracts, can you? First, misser of two good chances on Tuesday, Charles Vela, earned himself a new deal. And now, talk is of man-of-balsa Thomas Rosickly getting new terms.
Might seem a bit weird to some people.
However, I [...]
Anyway, I’m back again. I spent the weekend looking after small children, and as anyone who looks after small children can attest, there’s not a lot of scope for blogging on the side when you’re in charge. Not a lot of scope for anything, in truth.
So I looked on at the Stoke win in semi-detachment, [...]
