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.…
If it’s broken, fix it
There we all were, shaking our heads at the sheer misfortune of losing two players before the game had even got going at Hillsborough in the League Cup, and agreeing…
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…
Oli and Wally earn their lolly despite dilly dally
View image | gettyimages.com Arsenal 2-0 Stoke City A beautiful early autumn afternoon that saw me shedding layers as the match went on - sort of like a striptease, but…
Arsenal feel like they’re two players short, again
View image | gettyimages.com Arsenal 0-0 Liverpool A weird game in which we should have been one nil up, then two nil down, and could finally have won. It was…
Coquing marvellous
View image | gettyimages.com Burnley 0-1 Arsenal Yesterday’s win was a gentle reminder that it’s not every week you fire off a three-goal, eight-minute salvo where all the goals were…
Getting used to sausages
Wigan 0-1 Arsenal One-nil to the Arsenal, that old war-cry of a result, forged during an era when we were often dour but brutally effective in defence. It was a…
Prawn sandwich fan / Hip Hip Hooray
Admission: Tuesday came and went and passed me by entirely. For me, it's a rarety for me not to follow a game in some way. I go to most home…
Arsenal doldrums: Still not enough wind in the sails
Tottenham 2-1 Arsenal Another league game, another defeat. It’s hard to be positive when Arsenal’s season lurches from one reverse to another with such predictable regularity. We sit 15th, which…
Wenger’s numbers don’t come up in Pottery lottery
Stoke City 3-1 Arsenal I said yesterday that Wenger had little choice but to gamble in today’s FA Cup game. Gamble he did – and he lost. As expected, he…