Now you see us, now you don’t. Following Arsenal is magic.
Preston 1-2 Arsenal Ah, hello again mystifying Arsenal. The third round of the FA Cup heralded another performance - the second in a week, now *that’s* consistency - that left…
Dead or alive, Alexis spins me right round
Arsenal 3-1 Bournemouth As we tip-toe over the last few yards of November I keep expecting some chaos to unfold, as is longstanding tradition in our neck of the woods.…
Fact: Watching a game ‘as live’ never bloody works
Sunderland 1-4 Arsenal Ferrying children to various sporting endeavours is pretty much my weekend. I am a dad taxi. That is my life. It’s unpaid, to flag up an obvious…
Xhaka, tackle and roll
Embed from Getty Images Arsenal 3-2 Swansea “Why are raspberry bonbons blue?†asked Shedman quizzically, during the early lull - a time when the mind is prone to wander to…
Holding in and holding out
Leicester 0-0 Arsenal There was some good and bad to chew on in that performance, an entertaining but low-quality trip to the champions. But it’s not about the points at…
Bring on the cricket
Arsenal 1-0 Norwich One nil to the Arsenal, three points and we shuffle into third. That’s a sentence you could seamlessly copy from one Arsenal season and paste into another,…
Here comes the Sanchez
Arsenal 2-0 West Brom Of all the things that need to happen this summer - clear-out, existential reappraisal, signings that exude ambition - nonsense about the futures of Alexis Sanchez…
Arsenal no scrooges as Christmas comes early for Carroll
West Ham 3-3 Arsenal That slither of hope I spoke about? Yeah, that. Only the wildest of optimists would now give Arsenal the time of day when it comes to…
Coq off, Coq down and Coq out
Embed from Getty Images Tottenham 2-2 Arsenal ‘Arsenal fans are too demanding’, people say. ‘They have unrealistic expectations’. ‘They turn on their team too easily’. What a load of piffle.…
Meek Arsenal are all at sea
Manchester United 3-2 Arsenal The baffling thing yesterday was not so much that we lost - because lord knows, name a circumstance and Arsenal can magic up a defeat for…