We don’t need another zero
Arsenal 0-0 Burnley The tentative optimism of Thursday morning had well and truly evaporated by 4pm yesterday. There was a smattering of boos at the final whistle - boos of…
Plenty to ponder as Arsenal self-destruct
Liverpool 5-1 Arsenal It’s not lost on me that since it all came together so spectacularly against our old friends up the road on 2nd December, cracks have started to…
I’m just not feeling the panic
Two months and no posts. That is without doubt the longest I have ever left it fallow since raising the mainsail on this blog, all those mixed metaphors ago. And…
No laughing Mathieu
Like most people, I’m intrigued to know what will happen in January, not least because it’s rare to hear Wenger this bullish about doing business. I am already busy. We…
In for El-Nenny, in for a pound?
Well, Wikipedia says El-Nenny’s an Arsenal player, and as we all know, that’s as good as an announcement as it being on dotcom. *Ahem*. But it does at least look…
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…
Theo, nothing about signings, and the sound of ambition
I have very little to say about the England game - less than normal, in fact - other than to say that it will have done Theo a world of…
Hindsight, transfers and hats.
It still takes me by surprise when the passage of time makes a result different. You’d have thought that 30 years of watching Arsenal in the flesh would have given…
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…
The summer of glove
What a pleasant football-less summer I’ve had to date. That’s the main point to take from the almost one month of nothingness from me. I can’t say I’ve missed it…