Podcast: In this special post Europa League edition of the podcast,yours truly and Blackburn George (@arseblagger) pull no punches explaining how Mikel Arteta has been a total disaster since becoming manager of Arsenal and the bleak future that faces the club after the failure to defeat Villareal. Appeal to our…
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Ozil and Arteta. Where has the love gone? (Blog originally published on September 4, 2020. Original title: “Freezing Out Ozil, Arteta is Playing With Fire”) I have been one of Mikel Arteta’s biggest supporters as manager of Arsenal Football Club. Following in the footsteps of my podcasting colleague Blackburn George,…
Podcast: On behalf of my friend and podcast partner Blackburn George, my apologies as I lost all 40 minutes of our podcast recorded Saturday morning. But I was able to recover our chat prior to the formal recording when we discussed why we lost to Everton, focusing on the difference…
Podcast: Despite Arsenal’s recent win at Sheffield United, in this podcast BlackburnGeorge, @arseblagger, is in despair, unhappy with the football, Arsenal and Arteta. In his opinion, after 18 months there has been no improvement under Arteta. And there is “no change” in the offing. Appeal to our readers and supporters: We…
A gloomy Mikel Arteta. Dear friends. It has been a very long time since I wrote a piece for my own blog relying almost exclusively on my friend Shard to generate some very insightful Premier League match previews while I follow up with post-match podcasts featuring the inimitable, outspoken Blackburn…
#ARSLIV match preview by Shard aka @ShardGooner Liverpool may no longer be as good as the last couple of season when they were the benchmark for every team to judge itself against, but they are still a very good team. They’ll still be hoping to make the top 4 as…
#WHUARS match preview by Shard aka @ShardGooner Mikel Arteta was brought in to English football nearly 2 decades ago by a young manager named David Moyes. He went on to become the 3rd longest serving manager at a PL club, behind the big 2 of Ferguson and Wenger. A great…
Podcast: Yours truly and Blackburn George, the Arseblagger, are bright, happy campers after Arsenal’s defeat of Spurs in the North London Derby (NLD). We give full credit to Arteta for his tactics and team selection. Of the players, we single out Xhaka for extra praise for being the dominant player…
Podcast: In our post-match review of Leicester v Arsenal, yours truly and Blackburn George, the Arseblagger, give full credit to the so-called Arsenal “deadwood” and to Mikel Arteta for a magnificent victory over Leicester. Is the wave now in Arsenal’s favor? Appeal to our readers and supporters: We are one of…
Podcast: After Arsenal’s 1-nil loss to Manchester City on Sunday, Pep Guardiola declared that Arteta knows everything but, in the opinion of yours truly and Blackburn George, Arteta knows nothing about setting up a team to score goals. Instead of getting better, Arsesal are getting worse. No wonder the Gunners…