#WHUARS I’m not sure what to say about the Brighton game. For one, I only caught the final 20 minutes and I will confess to not watching it in its entirety. It’s been a busy week. I followed the text updates during and it was frustrating. The final 20 minutes…
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Compliments of Wikimedia New Podcast: Arsenal is sinking like the Titanic, critically damaged but the band is still playing. No quick-fix available. Sinking into relegation danger. Freddie Ljunberg unlikely to survive. Key players have been lost because the Kroenkes refuse to spend big on wages. More likely to leave as…
Arsenal did not merely lose to Brighton, they were outplayed in midfield by one of the poorest teams in the league; 49.2% possession to the Gunners versus 50.8% for the Seagulls. This is unheard of in the modern era. Under Arsene Wenger, only the best teams in Europe have come…
Arsenal vs Brighton: Freddie Ljungberg attended his first press conference ahead of his second game in (interim) charge of Arsenal. But this time he’ll be at home. Of course the media asked him the important questions such as why he didn’t wear a suit. Freddie gave a very Wenger-esque response…
See game stats at end of article courtesy of premierleague.com Freddie Ljungberg’s Arsenal career in the dugout of a Premier League game started in the same fashion which Unai Emery finished his, a 2-2 draw that saw Gunners come back twice. Once again fans were left with the perception that…
In his first match as Arsenal’s new head coach, a 2-2 draw with Norwich, there were positive signs from Freddie Ljunberg’s first match as coach of Arsenal but there is still a long way to go. The team showed aggressive, attacking intent but there remains a lack of quality in…
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…
In this latest edition of the Uncensored podcast, yours truly and Blackburn George conclude that so much damage has been done to Arsenal over the past 18 months, on and off the field, that there is no quick fix by Freddie as interim head coach. We urge cautious enthusiasm. Here…
Freddie Ljunberg in the dark represents hope and fear. It was to be Unai Emery’s last game of his Arsenal career and it had everything you would associate with the Spaniard’s tenure at the Emirates. It was lowly anticipated on the field and highly off the field; never have Emirates…
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…