Stanchion and Ollie
Arsenal 1-1 Everton It's always a bit frustrating to score late but concede even later (we used to be quite adept at that - it was an unwelcome feather in…
Interlull: Good for looking back and looking forward
One of the few benefits of downing tools for weeks on end, as I am increasingly doing, is the ability to view things in splendid hindsight. After the Utd game…
Sir Chez knighted at the Palace
Crystal Palace 0-2 Arsenal Two points clear at the top of the league going into November – nice, isn’t it? This time last year, and the year before that, we…
Where there’s a Wilshere, there’s a way
Arsenal 4-1 Norwich I don’t wish to get all meta about things, but do you ever wonder why you like football? The comfort of routine, the camaraderie, the sense of…
The year of the Ram
Sunderland 1-3 Arsenal Every now and then I do that thing where I wonder what some of our home-grown players would fetch on the open market. Jack Wilshere, of course,…
Giroud, Giroud, Giroud is on fire
Arsenal 1-0 Tottenham Doffed chapeaus all round - to Giroud, for an imposing performance in which he scored a deft little number ("good touch for a big man"), to Mertesacker…
Four, five? Senses working overtime
I think I would perhaps be enjoying this fourth-place run-in a bit more if Arsenal were a little less in the wanting zone. I'm finding it hard to prefer this…
Per-shaped, points plundered
Fulham 0-1 Arsenal What will posterity tell us about this game? Not, I suspect, that it was a curiously below-par performance despite an 80-minute numerical advantage. History will record it…
Ten glorious minutes
In a season dotted with more than its fair share of lacklustre moments and peppered by curiously slow build-up play, the quick-fire four-goal salvo at the beginning of the second…
Nil nil, hey hey, kiss it goodbye
Aston Villa 0-0 Arsenal “The thriller at the Villa†I spent a little while on Saturday morning musing about whether the new sponsorship deal could have an immediate uplifting effect…