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
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
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 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
I don't think I've ever seen a side be so comfortable, so dominant and yet somehow manage not to win. But that was how it played out on Saturday evening as Aston Villa recovered from 2-0 down to snatch a point at the Emirates when, for all the world, they looked dead and buried. And … Continue reading Villa capitulation leaves season hanging in the balance
In the end, all that matters is that we took the three points. After a lousy few weeks littered with bad results and bad injuries, it was a relief to finally get a win under our belts again, even if it wasn't the picture perfect result we were looking for. We'd already passed up two … Continue reading Arsenal 2 Spurs 1: Just about enough
We've had a terrible week, there's no getting away from it. Missed penalties, open goals, long-term injuries; everything that could have gone wrong has gone wrong for Mikel Arteta's men and, perhaps worst of all, they haven't even performed that badly. Despite being shorn of several key squad members and the accumulated fatigue of a … Continue reading Arsenal vs Spurs: We can’t afford to miss this chance
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