If the level of performance shown by the Arsenal squad is befitting of the shirt, the vast majority of fans accept that not every game will end with three points. So it was today against Chelsea as the Gunners at last did themselves justice in a game against the reigning Premier League champions and perennial…
Mood stays sombre despite Arsenal’s comfortable win over Bournemouth
‘Meh’ is about as appropriate an expression as can be used to sum up the reaction after Arsenal’s cakewalk against Bournemouth on Saturday. ‘Meh’ because we knew it was perfectly possible that we might make the Cherries look absolutely rank, and ‘meh’ because victory really didn’t act as any sort of salve to the woes…
Arsenal vs Bournemouth: Lucky dip football has to end in must-win match for Gunners
We are all back aboard the Arsenal bus this weekend and, as ever, the destination is a mystery that will only become apparent once the final whistle has blown. Will Arsene Wenger’s beleaguered side produce a superb performance and romp to a comfortable victory? It’s very possible. Will the team’s recent woes continue and the…
Floundering Arsenal make bad situation worse with amatuer antics on transfer deadline day
It has been almost 48 hours since the transfer window slammed shut for the summer and still, as I ponder over all the ramifications and fall outs, I don’t have the remotest idea what Arsenal were trying to achieve. The argument about doing business early and avoiding last-day panic buys and frantic phone calls is…
Alex Oxlade Chamberlain transfer is indicative of problem that is crippling football
The widely-mooted transfer of Alex Oxlade Chamberlain to Chelsea speaks to the dire situation in which both Arsenal and, more widely, football find themselves in the era of billionaire excess. That a player on the back of half a good season, and having been enormously unreliable in his preceding six years, feels that he can…
Liverpool vs Arsenal: The Gunners must leave Anfield with something to show for their efforts
Sunday’s trip to Anfield to face Liverpool fills me with a sense of grim foreboding, particularly after last week’s woeful showing at Stoke City. Two wins from two matches would at least have given us a little insulation from the possibility of a hiding but, having squandered the chance to claim three points against Mark…
Rinse and repeat: Arsenal throw it away again as Stoke capitalise on same old mistakes
Ever the ground-breakers, it took Arsenal just two weeks of the new season to have me longing for an end to this campaign. What an absolute puddle of piss. After a pre-season riddled with silly, thoroughly avoidable defensive mistakes, followed by an opening fixture against Leicester punctuated with the same idiocy, Arsenal proved once again…
Battle under the high ball will be key as Arsenal travel to Mordor to take on Stoke
When we took on Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium amid the dying embers of last season, we thrashed a team that was already on the beach. In fact, Mark Hughes’s side were so lacklustre that the may as well have rolled out the deckchairs and called for the sangria, such was their general apathy…
From agony to ecstacy as Arsenal pull victory out of the fire against Leicester
It was messy, it was chaotic, it was shambolic, but, above all, it was absolutely mind-blowingly exhilarating. I can’t stress enough how playing the way we did against the Foxes is almost certainly going to cost us a lot of points this season, but dear lord did it make for sensational watching. Never content with…
Perfect end to imperfect pre-season as Arsenal beat Chelsea to lift Community Shield
Arsenal launched their season in fine style by taking victory over Chelsea in the Community Shield on Sunday, stretching the Gunners superb run at Wembley to nine consecutive victories. Though there was a whiff of good fortune about parts of it, Arsene Wenger’s men showed more than enough in 90 minutes, and especially in the…
Community Shield offers Arsenal chance to pull it all together ahead of Premier League campaign
After something of a topsy-turvy pre-season campaign in which Arsenal have shown flashes of both brilliance and ineptitude, the summer’s preparations are set to come to a close at Wembley on Sunday in the Community Shield. And while I always crave artistic mastery from the Gunners, it would perhaps be nice just to see them…
It’s time for Arsenal to bring some order to a pre-season campaign of chaos
A lot of Arsenal fans seem remarkably relaxed about how things have panned out during this pre-season campaign for the Gunners. How I envy those people, those rational, level-headed souls who are capable of looking beyond inconsequential, one-off friendly fixtures and taking in the wider picture. That’s not to say that I’ve worked myself into…
