Newcastle 0-1 Arsenal One-nil to the Arsenal, and the relief is palpable. It was desperately close and not remotely good for the constitution, but we dragged ourselves over the line to fourth and into the final Champions League spot. That’s the 16th time in a row we have qualified for it. Did you know that? [...]
Fulham 0-1 Arsenal What will posterity tell us about this game? Not, I suspect, that it was a curiously below-par performance despite an 80-minute numerical advantage. History will record it as a win. Three potentially crucial points for supremacy among the title unchallengers. I do not deny that it would be preferable, having accelerated into [...]
W.B.A. 1-2 Arsenal A few days from it all does wonders for your soul – and it transpires that Arsenal haven’t done so badly in my absence either, with an I’m-away record of P2 W2 F6 A2. Perhaps I should leave the metropolis more often. In fact, we’ve now won five out of six league [...]
Swansea 0-2 Arsenal Optimism is not an emotion I have much associated with this stuttering season, during which all our weaknesses have been laid bare on far too many occasions, but I have been in a curiously upbeat mood since our ultimately futile win in Bavaria. I thought we’d win in Swansea – based on [...]
Arsenal 0-1 Blackburn So I voiced my inner fears in yesterday’s preview with these words: “The effects of a disjointed performance and a cup exit on the players, the fans, on pretty much everyone, do not bear thinking about.” Well we’re now having to bear thinking about it, because a disjointed performance is exactly what [...]
Sunderland 0-1 Arsenal Backs-to-the-wall, fighting spirit, riding our luck, throwing our bodies at everything, defiance &c. (And I’ll skate over ‘missing a hatful in the first half’). Yes, there’s something deeply satisfying about a one-nil away win in these kinds of circumstances, where at the end of the game the shirt colour can be described [...]
Arsenal 2-2 Liverpool Oh, ho, whoa! Another evening of football that encapsulated everything you need to know about Wenger’s latest, and possibly last, Arsenal side. Put that on a DVD and show the grandchildren. “This is how we were, kiddo”. “Wow, grandpa, look at that wave of attacking, that little dynamo at number ten. That [...]
In a season dotted with more than its fair share of lacklustre moments and peppered by curiously slow build-up play, the quick-fire four-goal salvo at the beginning of the second half on Wednesday was like music to my ears. So much so that I think I might just bundle the memory up and replay it [...]
Wigan 0-1 Arsenal One-nil to the Arsenal, that old war-cry of a result, forged during an era when we were often dour but brutally effective in defence. It was a long time ago, that. In fact it’s only the second win by that scoreline this season, the other being QPR at home. Since that era [...]
Arsenal since about 1979. Thick, thin and all that. 
