A few days is a long time in football. Everything moves so quickly. One day you’re frustrated with the never ending awfulness of it all, and the next you’re beaming with joy, goodwill, and full of hope. Even Unai Emery, him of the faux-class reputation managed to exit in the…
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Via Wikimedia Commons Emery’s final game? That seems to be the general feeling around the Arsenal fans and media. There’s lots of drama involved in this fixture that has nothing to do with football. As far as that goes it’s not the greatest of stakes. No wonder then that attendance…
Arsenal’s loss to Leicester may not have been the best way to enter the 2 week long international break. One could choose to stew in it, but I think the majority of supporters treated it as a welcome break from all the drama around the club. Things seemed to have…
It’s a strange time to be an Arsenal fan. The club feels very different. By the end of Arsene Wenger’s time it became a chore to constantly argue over the manager’s future. But the tedium of the end of Emery’s time here comes from the football. It’s not that the…
Vitoria v Arsenal We move onto the 4th group game in the EL in a strong position. 9 points from 3 games, and some solid performances too. Vitoria themselves put up a stubborn fight but were undone by Pepe’s free kicks. Having been kept on the bench at the weekend,…
The pre match talk was centered around Granit Xhaka. Emery made it clear he won’t play, but not what the future with his captaincy might be. After the Wolves game, that may not be the future he has to worry about. Arsenal have been playing poorly and our results have…
So the fallout from the Palace game continues into this week. Strangely enough, the result and the quality of football has been almost out of the narrative, which just may be how the club hierarchy like it. Xhaka left holding the can might be inconvenient to them but is also…
League tables tend to be a mess in the early part of the season. Something I just glance at rather than seriously consider before the first 10 games. But Leicester’s demolition of Southampton made me look at the table with a bit more interest, and it’s quite a sight at…
Two weeks away from Arsenal, courtesy of the international break, will come to an end this Monday. Normally, the break would be moaned for breaking the rhythm of a team with good results. But though many seem to be happy with the results, I got the feeling there was just…
In our last game, the Arsenal came back to something of a recognizable approach and execution! Standard Liege may not be the standard bearers of top-quality football, but they came to play. They pressed us too as I had a feeling they might. What I didn’t expect is how well…