For sheer entertainment value, the fair served up by Arsenal and West Ham was about as good as it gets. It had goals, cards, penalties and drama across 90 minutes of bonkers football that would have kept the neutral gripped, let alone fans of the two antagonists. And while we can all be delighted at … Continue reading VIDEO: West Ham 2 Arsenal 5: A costly win?
Sometimes, we will turn up there and blow them off the park, making them look every inch the average team they are.
We didn't just get a result, we put Sporting to the sword.
Football is still football, of course, and nobody has re-invented putting the ball in the back of the net but there are some changes that, if we're being honest, have caught us out. Both the team and the manager have shown a little naivety.
Three goals, a clean sheet, an opponent thoroughly dominated: what more could any of us asked for? Of course, three points is the only real target from any league game but consistency, stability, vivacity - these are all bonuses that point towards a team in form and in control. There's a lot more ground to … Continue reading Arsenal 3 Nottingham Forest 0: I can’t argue with that…
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
In football, as in life, you don't always get what you want or deserve. For my money, Arsenal were much the better side at the San Siro last night - more ambitious, more threatening, and more productive - but they came away with precious little to show for it. While that, in and of itself, … Continue reading Inter Milan 1 Arsenal 0: A better performance but still no goals
Our trip to Newcstle on Saturday was, in many ways, a microcosm of our last few months without Odegaard.
It was never thus before the Saudi takeover but the influx of money into the north east seems to have ignited a certain strident aggression that simply didn't exist before. No club seems to have felt that more than Arsenal.
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