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Blogging about Arsenal on a long-term contract for an undisclosed fee

Arsenal revert to type in supine derby defeat

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:01/05/2017
  • Post category:Match Review

Tottenham 2-0 Arsenal Remember that second half at Wembley, when we looked like we had a plan and worked our socks off to execute it? There was always the danger…

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Pinch yourself – yes it is Monreal

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:24/04/2017
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 2-1 Manchester City Imagine my surprise when Arsenal’s mojo - which I had prayed for in hope rather than in expectation before the match - emerged in the second…

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Bridge over: Troubled Wenger

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:05/02/2017
  • Post category:Match Review

Chelsea 3-1 Arsenal Apologies in advance, because this is a pun-free, humourless post. “I wonder if you could stick a gag in?” asked Mrs Lower as she read it. I’ll…

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Now you see us, now you don’t. Following Arsenal is magic.

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:08/01/2017
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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Dead or alive, Alexis spins me right round

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:27/11/2016
  • Post category:Match Review

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.…

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Fact: Watching a game ‘as live’ never bloody works

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:30/10/2016
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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Xhaka, tackle and roll

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:16/10/2016
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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Holding in and holding out

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:21/08/2016
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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Bring on the cricket

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:01/05/2016
  • Post category:Match Review

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,…

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Here comes the Sanchez

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:22/04/2016
  • Post category:Match Review

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…

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