All change at Emerick’s Stadium
It’s hard to remember a transfer window like it. Two players in, five out, one superstar signed, one sold, another nailed down to a new contract - leaving us with…
Just the seven goals then
Arsenal 4-3 Leicester Do I have the strength to dust myself down and go at it for another year, with diminishing returns, or shall I just pack it all in?…
That warmed the Coquelins
Stoke City 1-4 Arsenal Fourth is on - until it’s off again. From the rubble of a north London derby no-show, we’ve dusted ourselves down to win three on the…
Now you see us, now you don’t. Following Arsenal is magic.
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…
Fact: Watching a game ‘as live’ never bloody works
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…
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…
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…
Looking back, looking forward
View image | gettyimages.com I would have been delighted in hindsight for this international break to have been as unremarkable as all those that have come before, but for all…
No place to Jekyll and Hyde
And so to the derby, which gets no less nerve-wracking with the passing of the years. I almost always profess my fear and pessimism prior to the game, which stands…