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…
Cloud nine at the Emirates
Arsenal 3-1 Spurs Not a bad day for my youngest to experience his first north London derby, I suppose - and not a bad experience for me either. And to…
It’s the wrong trousers, Granit.
Arsenal 2-2 Crystal Palace With impeccable timing, I was attempting to follow the Arsenal game yesterday on a train. What is it with mobile coverage on trains? You can spend…
It was a game that had it all. Define ‘all’.
Arsenal 3-3 Liverpool After last night’s game, Wenger joined Kelly Cates and Gary Neville on the grass at the Emirates (maybe the camera-on-a-string had run out of batteries) to chew…
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…
Dead or alive, Alexis spins me right round
Arsenal 3-1 Bournemouth As we tip-toe over the last few yards of November I keep expecting some chaos to unfold, as is longstanding tradition in our neck of the woods.…
Xhaka, tackle and roll
Embed from Getty Images Arsenal 3-2 Swansea “Why are raspberry bonbons blue?†asked Shedman quizzically, during the early lull - a time when the mind is prone to wander 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…