Monday night squad ramblings
And so it came to pass that Arsenal's midweek Anglian aberration was put to the sword with a fine performance at Upton Park on Saturday. There's nothing like winning your…
Clean sheet, dented goalposts, but no goals
Arsenal 0-0 Manchester City In the pub beforehand, there wasn't a single member of our party who envisaged anything other than a home win, and some of us thought we…
A grumpy man’s belated thoughts
Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal I must admit, I haven't taken this one well. I was exceptionally downbeat after the game on Sunday. As soon as their first goal went in, my…
Wonderful Wilshere takes control
Tottenham 1-4 Arsenal Lovely. There’s nothing quite like thumping the old enemy in their own back yard, as Liam Brady will tell you. The argument for playing rookies in this…
It’s Fab to be back
Arsenal 4-1 Bolton Good weather, good mates, good football. A fine cocktail that makes for a very pleasant Saturday afternoon indeed. Bolton going down to ten men might have made…
Parlez-vous français, Manuel?
What's the state of the defence? I was asked that question on today’s round-table arsecast, in which the 'Holic, Goodplaya, Gunnerblog and I were participating. Overall, I think, the additions…
Arsenal’s new defence begins to take shape
And finally, Laurent Koscielny has signed for the Arsenal. His free Arsenal.com video is a brilliant mix of new signing intro and new shirt promotion. “We bought this! Now buy…
Feed me some transfers, Arsene, I’m hungry.
So England have slunk home sheepishly, and the inquest has begun in earnest as to quite how it went so calamitously wrong. I’m not going to get into that inquest…