I won't look back on this game with any great fondness. The only thing of importance or interest to emerge from it was the three points and, at this stage of the season, that's all that matters. With the league title race over, our focus is now on keeping those sides below us firmly where … Continue reading Arsenal 1 Chelsea 0: A bad game, a good result
We're not going to win the Premier League this season. It's a bitter pill to swallow but most rational, right-minded Arsenal fans have made their peace with it now. Our focus must turn to more realistic goals. The first priority with the title gone is to secure our spot in next season's Champions League and … Continue reading Arsenal vs Chelsea: Focus must be on top four
Opportunities to win games against the top sides don't come along often so, when they do, you have to make sure you take them, you have to have full focus for 90 minutes or more because a moment's lapse can kill you.
It's only November but a failure to take some points from Stanford Bridge today could be terminal for Arsenal's title hopes this season. I don't want to be alarmist or reactionary but a gap of 10 points, even this early in the season, would be unrecoverable. It's simply too much. That is the scale of … Continue reading Chelsea vs Arsenal: It already feels like win or bust
Chelsea's injuries and lack of consistent form will more likely than not see Arsenal installed as slight favourites but that could give Potter room to manoeuvre
The thing about Mikel Arteta's team is that it almost never surprises you...and that's not a compliment
Chelsea have yet to experience proper away crowd hostility and the Gunners faithful must do all it can to make the experience jarring.
If our problem persist, the only way is down for this side and the only way for the manager is out of the door.
The more time passes, the greater the task of overhauling this side becomes and the harder it seems to be to get anything done about it.
We can argue for days and days about this missed chance, that missed chance or whether we got what we deserved from this game of that. It doesn't matter.
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