Match preview by Shard aka @ShardGooner A lot of hope around Arsenal these days. And why shouldn’t there be? We’re finally scoring some good goals, we’re in with a great chance of 4th place, and Chelsea have just had some overdue comeuppance. Of course we also risk revisionism and triumphalism….
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By: Shard aka @ShardGooner It seems like an eternity since Arsenal last played a match. While the Dubai training camp ought to have done them good, as would the 2-week break, there is a real risk of rustiness. We saw a lot of PL teams struggle against lower league opposition…
With Arsenal barely making a new signing in the last transfer window but instead getting rid of 6 players, almost all on a free including the highest wage earner, Aubameyang, has raised questions about what is the real strategy being pursued by the owners. One indisputably fact is that ever…
Check out the latest Positively Uncensored Arsenal podcast. In our #ARSBUR match review, me and Blackburn George, @arseblagger note that Arsenal were consistent and predictable; the Gooners had plenty possession but posed a rare goal threat. Opposing teams have sussed us out; our primary source of goals is our two…
ARSBUR match preview by @ShardGooner 3 weeks from when we played ManCity, the league’s top team, we will play Burnley who are right at the bottom. In these weeks we’ve had postponements, controversies, and disappointments as we find ourselves out of both cups, and our good form now ebbed away….
Dear Uncensoreds, Happy New Year to you all. Despite my recent focus on building our YouTube channel (thanks to the assistance of many of you on this blog) every now and then am triggered by the writing bug especially when I observe another bout of insanity sweeping into the fanbase….
By: Shard aka @ShardGooner Arsenal have ended 2021 in pretty good shape. In 4th place, semi-finals of the League Cup, and over the last month or so, playing quite well. But the new year is going to bring new challenges. Starting with the toughest of them on the first day….
In recent victories over Leeds and West Ham Arsenal has created 20 shots in contrast to earlier in the season when they barely scratched single digits in shot creation. On the evidence of these two matches, highlighted by the goalscoring of Gabriel Martinelli in particular, a relevant question is whether…
#ARSWHU match review by @ShardGooner Arsenal took on West Ham in a possibly crucial top 4 shootout. But you’d hardly have known it as all the pre-match discourse was dominated by Arsenal’s announcement that Aubameyang had been stripped of the captaincy and dropped from the side. Predictably this led to…
#EVEARS match preview by Shard aka @ShardGooner Another game, another defeat, another argument about the culpability or lack thereof of the manager in his team’s fortunes. No point going over all that again I suppose. This is just who Arteta is. In his play and in his deflections. I do…