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
Without wishing to tempt fate, it's difficult to see any scenario in which Arsenal don't qualify for the next round of the Champions League tonight. Nothing can or should ever be ruled out and nobody wants to appear arrogant but the deficit facing our Dutch visitors is so great that it would require the sort … Continue reading Arsenal v PSV: Finding new motivation
The unravelling of our Premier League season was slow at first but then accelerated until it hit the buffers at breakneck speed. The only real surprise was that we limped on for as long as we did as we relied on makeshift formations and individual brilliance to keep our ship afloat. At Nottingham Forest, though, … Continue reading PSV v Arsenal: Gunners need to show they can be a threat
It wasn't even a bad performance at the City Ground on Wednesday night. The team was clearly better motivated, more ambitious, more aggressive and more incisive in its efforts to get forward. It was a 100 per cent improvement on the dross we were served up on Saturday against West Ham. And yet, despite all … Continue reading Nottingham Forest 0 Arsenal 0: No light at the end of the tunnel
You don't have to cast your mind back far to recall the sort of beatings we used to take at the hands of Manchester City. In fact, in the oil money era, we became a bit of a whipping boy for City, regularly coming away from the Etihad on the end of ignominious defeats as … Continue reading Arsenal 5 Manchester City 1: A long overdue thumping
We've been waiting for this fixture since the moment the final whistle blew at the Etihad last year. It was a fixture remembered not for any great feats of football but rather for the acrimony so long hidden from view that erupted at last. None of us can forget Erling Haaland's now infamous 'stay humble' … Continue reading Arsenal vs Manchester City: No humility, just revenge
I worried we might sink without a trace when Girona took the lead in the first half of last night's Champions League dead rubber. With a heavily rotated squad and not much to play for, it felt like the kind of game in which the players might sense the complete lack of urgency and coast … Continue reading Girona 1 Arsenal 2: On to bigger and better things
It takes a lot to surprise an Arsenal fan these days. So often are we on the receiving end of 'never-before-seen' refereeing that it's become almost another challenge for us to plan for, mitigate and overcome during the course of a match. It was genuinely shocking once upon a time but now it's become part … Continue reading Wolves 0 Arsenal 1: A precedent for the unprecedented
It feels like it's been a while since we've got through 90 minutes in relative comfort. The rigours of the winter schedule in the Premier League, mixed in with various cup competitions, has made it a gruelling month or so in north London and we have had to dig deeper than is reasonable in order … Continue reading Arsenal 3 Dinamo Zagreb 0: About as comfortable as it gets
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