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 [...]
It’s a case of Like, Yikes! as another spooky tour through the emotions concludes in a dilapidated mansion of despondency. Pick your own baddy dressed up as a pretend ghoul and you can write the ending yourself. This blog has gone semi-fallow, a little like the team I love, but can you blame me? I’m [...]
Arsenal 0-2 Swansea This time, the broken crests are merited. Arsenal are all at sea after a performance so dispiriting, so lacking in any redeeming points, that the only conclusion you can draw with any confidence is that something is very wrong at the club. I was, for the second game running, prawn-sandwiching it up [...]
Aston Villa 0-0 Arsenal “The thriller at the Villa” I spent a little while on Saturday morning musing about whether the new sponsorship deal could have an immediate uplifting effect on the club on the pitch as well as off it. You know, give the players something to think about. Spur them onto a barnstorming [...]
Season opener This feels absurd – my first game of the season and we’re a month in. Damn you fixture list and blast you international week. Still, here we are and I’m ludicrously excited. So excited I’ve dusted off the blog! That’s a sign that something giddy is afoot, if ever I’ve seen one. I’ve [...]
A very good morning to you on a humdinger of an English summer’s day. 30c+ days are like Chamakh goals in this country – we get a few in late summer then nothing at all for the rest of the year. The new season is upon us too, which means we have one of those [...]
W.B.A. 2-3 Arsenal We score an early goal, then we let two in, then we score two more before holding on for dear life for the win. And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up Arsenal’s strengths and weaknesses in one handy cut-out-and-keep sentence. Ultimately though, despite pretty much three dicky patches, ten league defeats and [...]
Arsenal 3-3 Norwich I would like to tell you with a straight face that I withheld my thoughts on Saturday’s ‘thriller’ because I anticipated yet another twist on Sunday afternoon, but if I did say that I’d be lying the lie of a thousand liars. I honestly expected the Totteringhams to take the gift we [...]
QPR 2-1 Arsenal Like most Arsenal fans, I expect, I wasn’t naïve enough to anticipate a serene run of victories that would enable us to sail through to the end of the season unhindered. I expected a blip, but I didn’t really expect that blip yesterday. Maybe the players didn’t, either, and therein lies the [...]
Arsenal since about 1979. Thick, thin and all that. 
