By Shard @ShardGooner Matchday 3 and it’s a newly promoted side this time. After the excitement of Premier League football being back, and the scintillating win against Leicester, there seems to be less of a buzz around this one among the fans. Talk of the Amazon series and of transfer…
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Blackburn George (the Arseblagger), Ehab (ex-Scout) and, yours truly, Shotta, were all smiles reflecting our satisfaction with the manner in which Arsenal defeated Leicester in their home-opener for the 22-23 season. Despite our joy with the performance we had some concerns. Check out our Player Ratings, where we discuss the…
ARSLEI match preview by @ShardGooner An opening day away win, solid to great debuts for new (and like a new) signings, and a clean sheet. What more could you ask for from the start of the new Premier League season? ManU’s loss and Liverpool’s draw were bonuses. Of course, not…
In this post match analysis of Crystal Palace versus Arsenal, we emphasize that it was a positive start to the 22-23 season by the Gunners but it was a game of two halves. Check out our unscientific player ratings in the last 15 minutes of the podcast. Feel free to…
By Shard Gooner Last Season, the biggest area of improvement …. was in picking up points against the teams from 9-15 in the table. We gained 5 more points. Goalscoring remains a concern, despite scoring 6 more goals in the league. We didn’t score in 11 games (12 in…
In our Arsenal post-season review me and Blackburn George, @arseblagger, are joined by Millsy, from a Gooner family with a 120 year-old allegiance to the club. We acknowledge there have been organic improvements under manager Mikel Arteta but note it was both injuries to key players and a managerial decision…
In his presser following the Arsenal-Everton season finale Mikel Arteta expressed “guilt” and “pain” for missing out on Top-4. According to him he had squeezed literally all the juice of the lemon. Significantly he disclosed that he and the club had already made several big decisions to be implemented by…
ARSEVE match preview by @ShardGooner So here we are – The final game of the season. For Arsenal’s shortest season in 4 decades this has seemed like a really long drawn, exhausting affair. I think a lot of that has to do with the narrative around the club, and it…
No-Spin. No-Bullshit. This has been the theme of our podcast ever since we we went audio-visual over two years ago. As recent as July 2021 we transitioned to YouTube with virtually zero subscribers. Due to the persistence of a small but growing group of supporters, especially my friend Blackburn George,…
Shotta and Blackburn George are convinced the the “non-penalty” penalty was key to Arsenal’s defeat vs Spurs. In their opinion such a call has never been given and will never be given. The injuries to central defenders are critical in Arsenal’s next match vs Newcastle. No spin. No Fake Narrative….