There’ll be no homegrown trolley-dash for Arsène
“I definitely wouldn’t go somewhere just because I’m a homegrown player.†So said Jack Wilshere in the run-up to England’s match against Slovenia: a reminder, if ever it were needed,…
Where’s Wally? He’s right bloody here, that’s where
View image | gettyimages.com Arsenal 4-1 WBA Walcott’s pootled along this season, slowly recovering his potency - oh so slowly - not always convincing on his infrequent forays off the…
Keeping the concentration
The battle to finish second - or at least in the automatic Champions League slots - has twisted and turned but with some strange fizzling-outs elsewhere in recent weeks, it’s…
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…
Arsenal: Draw specialists
#456203642 / gettyimages.com Arsenal 1-1 Tottenham It’s hard to know what to make of this Arsenal side at the moment. In terms of personnel, we’re stronger than last season. But…
Alexis marks the spot
#455362898 / gettyimages.com Arsenal 2-2 Manchester City It was one of those games where disappointment at the final whistle pretty quickly morphed into satisfaction. It was our best performance of…
Wenger: The last of his kind?
Wenger It struck me the other day, as yet another manager was sent packing after a season and a half (on paid leave! Wrong job Jim, wrong job!), and with…
Arsenal’s lead whittled as floodgates open
Manchester City 6-3 Arsenal I keep hearing how this was a cracking game for the neutral. That would be all well and good if I was a neutral. From my…
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…
Me: Not efficient in the zones where it matters
And so it came to pass, as they said in the olden days (along with other common but now old-fashioned phrases like ‘Willlttttttooooooord!’ and ‘it’s up for grabs now’). We…