Sometimes you have to roll your sleeves up and make some big unpopular calls. Arteta is about to have to do some of that. The Everton result was not par the course this season, that was a throwback to December last season. The levels were shocking. The performance was incoherent. It was a throwback to… Read more »

Sounds a little bit like a track title for an Adele song. BUT IT’S NOT OK? It’s about the game today. Top 4 was the stretch target this season, especially after the shocking opening we had… but the more the season goes on, the clearer it is, that the objective might not be that outrageous…. Read more »

Results weren’t going to keep swinging for us, this weekend, they’ve roundly gone against the top 4 dream. Spurs beat Norwich looking super organised. United beat Crystal Palace. West Ham beat Chelsea. Basically, the pressure is on. We’ve dropped to 7th place in the league. The game against Everton really takes on a different kind… Read more »

The post-match reaction from Gooners seems to be pretty unified: A frustrating game we threw away. Mike McDonald had the most incisive piece of analysis: The team that made the most mistakes lost. The goals we conceded were all unforced errors. Ben White with a shocking clearance Nuno and ESR making a mess of a… Read more »

Manchester United vs Arsenal goes down as the most frustrating game of the season. We lost. We shouldn’t have. That was a very hard dropped 3 points. There are some pretty clear areas we need to improve in over the next 2 months if we want a realistic chance of winning things, and the first… Read more »

Arsenal vs Manchester United. At Old Trafford. I don’t care what anyone says, this is still a big game,  I still couldn’t sleep last night thinking about it. Both teams are quite a bit away from their peak. I remember some of the great games of the past. Henry, peak-Cristiano, Paddy, Pires, Freddie, O’Shea, Scholes,… Read more »

Let’s start the post with the sad news that Ray Kennedy passed away. The midfielder started his career at Arsenal before moving on to further greatness with Liverpool. He was a bit before my time, so I can’t really pay my respects in the way some of the posters below likely will, so if you… Read more »