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Winning ugly is beautiful

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:16/09/2024
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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So close, yet so VAR

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:12/02/2023
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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Seize (the moment, not up)

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:05/02/2023
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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Holding out, Takehiro

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:02/05/2022
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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We don’t need another zero

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:24/01/2022
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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A good loss, now a bad loss

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:10/01/2022
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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Deck the halls with boughs of Martinelli

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:16/12/2021
  • Post category:Match Review

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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Frustration is better than resignation

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:03/12/2021
  • Post category:Match Review

Man Utd 3-2 Arsenal After last season’s winning aberration, it was back to business with another defeat at Old Trafford. As the scoreline suggests though, it was a case of…

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Nuno, Nuno Nuno, Nuno Nuno, Nuno there’s no limits

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:28/11/2021
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle Perhaps it was the chilly, early start, but yesterday’s first half felt like the quietest (and most empty-seated) of any game this season. Perhaps, too, it was…

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Some post-Saturday pre-Saturday bullet points on Tuesday

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:23/11/2021
  • Post category:Match Review/Other

Every time we lose, the questions about Arteta bubble up. I bet Mikel longs for the day when a loss isn’t followed by questions about his ability or his inexperience…

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