Weave your magic, Tony Colbert
Good morning, and as the French say, ‘April Fish’. Internationals have been and gone, and there seem to have been wall-to-wall matches since Thursday. Uefa changed this a few years…
My season opener / Wenger Mark IV?
Season opener This feels absurd – my first game of the season and we’re a month in. Damn you fixture list and blast you international week. Still, here we are…
Stale, mate
Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea One point from six now, and yet we remain in charge of our own destiny – just about – thanks to our twelfth man, ‘results elsewhere’. God…
Arsenal report: On the fringe, muscle-wise
Arsenal 1-1 Fulham So Arsenal’s five-match league winning run comes to a close. Churlish to moan too much, given how - until recently - we’d not strung two league wins…
Pulses race on Matchday 5
I must say I always enjoy it when a German club comes to town. They invariably bring loads of fans, make lots of noise and have a cracking time. Marseille…
Handbrake off, defensive sureness on: Job’s a goodun
It’s been another fortnight of stewing over Arsenal’s weaknesses. The previous international break came right after the pounding at Old Trafford; this one came after the derby defeat. On each…
Match preview: Third home game lucky?
Warning: This blog contains the cliche 'one game at a time' It’s a glorious, bright spring morning in London: perfect for a trip to the Grove. It makes sense to…
Seaside succour / Silent Stan swoops
Blackpool 1-3 Arsenal What a day: A hard-fought and much-needed away win at Blackpool gave way to the momentous news that Stan Kroenke is on the verge of an Arsenal…
Match report: One slump or two?
Manchester United 2-0 Arsenal And so, as feared, the sleep-slump to disaster continues. I can't see this one ending well. You don't have to scour the Arsenal online diaspora for…
Holed in the O’s own lair
Confession: I used the above headline as it's simply too cheesy to let pass, and if I don't use it now, it will be even later than the too late…