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…
Arsenal fluff their lines again
Arsenal 0-1 Chelsea A weary sense of familiarity abounded after another crack at breaking Chelsea’s strange grip on Arsenal failed, practically before it had begun. If Chelsea were meant to…
The good, the bad and the 90th minute equaliser
Liverpool 3-3 Arsenal There are no two ways about it: letting a win slip in the 90th minute is always the kind of result that gnaws away at you. Two…
Ozil’s magic wand-feet
Arsenal 2-0 Bournemouth Had Mesut Ozil, in a puff of smoke, magicked up a rabbit on the edge of the box yesterday, I don’t think many present would have batted…
Arsenal opened wide on Unboxing Day
Southampton 4-0 Arsenal That was, even with the benefit of a good night’s sleep to mull it over followed by a cup of tea that contained the ideal mixture of…
Joyeux Joel and a Happy New Giroud!
Olympiacos 0-3 Arsenal I have vacillated about Arsenal’s chances in this must-win ding-dong for several weeks now. Curiously positivity after the Zagreb game was followed by gloomy no-hope once Alexis…
Arsenal suffer a collective bad hair day
W.B.A. 2-1 Arsenal I’m not sure whether ‘a bad day at the office’ does this one justice, though Arsenal clearly did lose the document they were working on, said something…
Left-back wings it to save the day
View image | gettyimages.com Arsenal 1-1 Tottenham You wouldn’t have put much money on the cavalry arriving wearing a number three shirt and some underused boots, but Gibbs’ contribution was…