Winning ugly is beautiful
Spurs 0-1 Arsenal In line with tradition, before all north London derbies I am filled with a sense of dread. The things that have been evident for so long leave…
Reasons why August is the best football month
August, for the football fan in general, is very hard to beat. Here's why: It’s high summer Picture the scene. It’s January and the weather hasn’t risen above zero all…
And so it begins
The curtain is raised on the 2024 US tour, and indeed pre-season proper. I am not counting the behind-closed-doors friendly against Leyton Orient if that’s alright with you. If something…
Roll on the Euros
If there’s ever a good time to be out of work, it’s probably now. With the Euros, the Olympics and Wimbledon all locked and loaded, rather than networking, putting out…
My blogging hiatus has not served Reiss Nelson well
Clearly, Reiss Nelson’s goal was all a bit much for me. Surfing on a wave of excitement, I extolled the virtues of his winning goal against Bournemouth that kept our…
Reiss unleashes, I’m in pieces
Arsenal 3-2 Bournemouth Mere seconds divide desolation from ecstasy in this most glorious of sports. There is nothing that compares to it - nothing at all. This is why we…
So close, yet so VAR
Arsenal 1-1 Brentford As if one goal in three games combined with a new-found defensive hesitancy wasn’t enough to get you biting your nails, along comes a VAR decision that…
Seize (the moment, not up)
Everton 1-0 Arsenal Typical really. Rather than blogging right after one of our recent high points - the first away win at our neighbours in nine years, or the Platt-like…
A week of goodwill… and now for the finale
On and off the pitch, Arsenal are barely putting a foot wrong at the moment. Top of the table, a smooth passage to the 4th round of the FA Cup…
All I want for the new year is more of the same
Would Arsenal’s form survive a six-week hiatus, we all wondered? Is it possible to bottle momentum and uncork it again? We needn’t have worried - out came the Boxing Day…
Holding out, Takehiro
West Ham 1-2 Arsenal Any excuse to wheel out and remodel the Bonnie Tyler headline and I’m there, frankly. I was watching us arrive at the latest stop on the…
We don’t need another zero
Arsenal 0-0 Burnley The tentative optimism of Thursday morning had well and truly evaporated by 4pm yesterday. There was a smattering of boos at the final whistle - boos of…
A big night for bruised Arsenal
It’s been quite the week. With all the hoo-hah there’s been, you’d think Arsenal were the first team to request a postponement due to a squad decimated by Covid, injuries…
A good loss, now a bad loss
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Arsenal It does make me chortle a bit that we were lauded for losing last week, but lambasted for losing this week. A week’s a long time…
Deck the halls with boughs of Martinelli
Arsenal 2-0 West Ham Back to the Emirates we went, all tumbled together, in full voice, to see whether this team could scrabble momentarily into the top four at the…
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