I don’t care if Monday’s blue… it’s Friday, I’m in love
Arsenal 3-1 Aston Villa An inglorious start: right up until the announcer welcomed Aston Villa onto the pitch, I thought we were playing Newcastle. Middle age, my friends, is a…
Cloud nine at the Emirates
Arsenal 3-1 Spurs Not a bad day for my youngest to experience his first north London derby, I suppose - and not a bad experience for me either. And to…
Arteta’s lightbulb moment can’t come quick enough
Manchester City 5-0 Arsenal Anyone who was at the Emirates in April 2016 will remember just how painful it was witnessing our splintered fanbase openly disagreeing about Wenger. But when…
533 days later…
Amid the angst that has accompanied much of Arsenal’s close season and subsequent opening day defeat - some worries justified, other reactions overblown - it’s sometimes easy to forget that…
Getting to the bottom of my blogger’s block
I’ve not written a blog since 30th December, 2019. That’s 590 days and also, as it turns out, pretty much the entire reign of Mikel Arteta. It was also one…
Something to cling on to despite another dose of defeat
Arsenal 1-2 Chelsea Another day, another defeat, and the worrying stats rack up. 5 league wins in 20 (only two teams have won fewer this season), and no league wins…
Arteta, who art unproven
Oof, what a mess. I saw a few comments after the defeat to Brighton that this was as bad as they’ve seen Arsenal play. I’m not so sure that’s true:…
Arsenal’s noise, Arsenal’s Moyes
Into the international break we stumble, with plenty to ponder. When a football club’s a happy ship the dressing room leaks dry up and ambiguous words matter less. But Arsenal’s…
It’s the wrong trousers, Granit.
Arsenal 2-2 Crystal Palace With impeccable timing, I was attempting to follow the Arsenal game yesterday on a train. What is it with mobile coverage on trains? You can spend…
Get the hell out of stodge
Sheffield Utd 1-0 Arsenal As Arsenal became less competitive in the second half of the Wenger era, we could at least comfort ourselves with the knowledge that we continued to…