- Arteta’s conventional 3-4-3 vs the hybrid 3-4-3
Arteta’s conventional 3-4-3 vs the hybrid 3-4-3 Guardiola, Klopp, Rodgers, Solskjaer, Bielsa and now Tuchel; a list of impressive managers who have come up short against Arteta. Whilst it’s ... read more17 hours ago - Saka’s Flexibility must make Gareth Southgate take notice for the Euros
Our English Lion There has been a huge amount of revisionist hindsight amongst the Arsenal fanbase this week after Bukayo Saka’s stunning performance at left back against Newcastle. Suddenly, ... read more3 days ago - Little Lucky Wins Back – One-nil to The Tenacious Arsenal as Arteta Gets it Right
Little Lucky Winks Back POSITIVES, NEEDS AND HOPES Amongst the wash of badness that Arsenal have been this season, Arsenal have also been unlucky. Perhaps all teams are as unlucky as us? I don’t pay close enough attention to all of them to know. I can say however, that I ... read more4 days ago - Arteta – Back Him or Boot Him?
Awkward Clumsy, at best.When Mikel Arteta faced the press before the Chelsea game, some of his quotes left me appalled: in a very Mourinho-esque way, he did throw ... read more4 days ago - The Big Question – Is Arteta learning from his mistakes or will he?
Undoubtedly, Mikel Arteta has made mistakes this season, but is his most costly not utilising the versatility of Bukayo Saka during Kieran Tierney’s absence? When the Spaniard first arrived ... read more5 days ago - Apathy, Arrogance, Naivety have caused Arsenal’s Demise – It’s the time to ‘Act not Talk!’
Stan Kroenke & Arsene Wenger before gaping cracks emerged. The saying goes, “It may get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.” Towards the end ... read more7 days ago - A little glimpse, but not enough – Arsenal’s future, and Arteta’s role in it…
A little glimpse, but not enough POSITIVES,NEEDS and HOPES There was so much about yesterday that could’ve been better. Happier. Perhaps, hopeful. I was trying to feel more excited but couldn’t fake it. All 3 goals were ordinarily seat jumpers but my son and I only managed a token fist ... read more7 days ago - Has Arteta let the players down or have the players let Arteta down!
This was my column for Sun Football yesterday.
The Morning after the woeful night before I knew I would be asked to articulate my views on Arsenal’s ... read more1 week ago - The Controller and His Joystick – Undecided on Arteta as Arsenal’s Season Goes Down The PlugThe Controller and his joystick POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES It was the 70th minute yesterday. For the first time this season, I’d lost hope. Actually, that’s not true. There have been others. I felt without hope because I knew everything that Arsenal were going to do next. Nothing came as ... read more1 week ago
- A Fan’s Firsthand View of Arsenal’s 70/71 Historic Double – The Finale
The season was reaching its climax with Arsenal on 61 points from 39 matches and Leeds on 60 points from 40 games. The stakes were sky high as Arsenal travelled to Yorkshire to meet their title rivals knowing that a victory at Elland Road would win us the title for ... read more2 weeks ago - Has Covid Changed The Way We Are Fans?
I ask this only due to all the goings on recently with fans in Manchester storming into Old Trafford and making tits of themselves. Bringing the wrong kind of publicity towards a cause all the fans want. Arsenal fans turned up in numbers and put on a great show ... read more2 weeks ago - A Fan’s Firsthand View of Arsenal’s 70/71 Historic Double – Part 2
The cold snap over Christmas continued into the New Year and Arsenal’s FA Cup third round tie against non-league giant killers Yeovil Town was postponed due to a frozen pitch. Many a big club had come unstuck on their infamous sloping pitch and the non-league side were angry and upset ... read more2 weeks ago - There Once Was A Guy Who Owned Spotify…
There once was a guy who owned Spotify Who loved Arsenal and his dream was to buy So he spoke to Thierry And his mate Paddy Then they ... read more2 weeks ago - A Fan’s Firsthand View of Arsenal’s 70/71 Historic Double – Part 1
Everyone at Highbury and all the fans including me were looking forward to the new season with great excitement and expectation after the team’s success in the Fairs Cup. However Arsenal couldn’t have had a tougher start to the 1970-71 season. Away to the Champions Everton at a raucous Goodison ... read more2 weeks ago - Martinelli’s display has created serious headache for Arteta! An analysis of Arsenal’s win against Newcastle
Despite the fact that this was a poor Newcastle side, it was integral that Arsenal would go into their season-defining game against Villareal with a positive mindset and the performance provided on Tyneside was definitely required. In this piece, an analysis of Arsenal’s win against the Magpies is discussed. ... read more2 weeks ago - Quicker, why quicker? How Arsenal’s pace overwhelmed Newcastle – the template for Thursday success
Quicker, why quicker? POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES Watching that performance yesterday I had two main emotions…….. relaxed and frustrated. It was quite lovely to be able to watch ... read more2 weeks ago - A Fan’s Firsthand View of Arsenal’s 70/71 Historic Double – The Prelude
This week marks the 50th anniversary of The Arsenal winning their first ever historic Double. I’m 64 years old and back then as a 14 year old living in South Woodford recently moved from Hackney. I used listen to The Beatles singing “When I’m Sixty Four” and couldn’t imagine being ... read more2 weeks ago - Do we have any excuses left for Arteta? – We need to win a match because of him and not in spite of him
No more excuses It’s time for the excuses to stop and some of our fans need to finally accept that Arteta’s poor management has been part of the problem ... read more2 weeks ago - Belief, Hardship and Bigger Ambitions – Or Smith Rowe, Saka and Martinelli will go the way of Fabregas, Nasri and van Perise
Bright Futures – With Us? I recently watched “The Dawn Wall”, a superb documentary about one on the most epic sporting ventures of recent times. A truly inspiring ... read more3 weeks ago - Has it taken Smith Rowe to be Arsenal’s Fekir for Lacazette to thrive again?
When Alexandre Lacazette signed for Arsenal in the July of 2017, expectations were high, the frustrations surrounding Oliver Giroud had reached boiling point and many hoped that a more clinical striker would ease the burden on the likes of Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez. The ninety-one goals in his past ... read more3 weeks ago - Outside the Emirates the Gooners excel, while the Gunners fail within
I have been at an Arsenal match as accredited media before, but not at The Emirates, so last night was a first ... read more3 weeks ago - The Initiative Issue: the simple coaching tip Arteta needs to learn [ARS 0-1 EVE]
The Initiative Issue POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES I think that Mikel Arteta’s greatest success since becoming coach/manager has been defensive intensity and organization. If he were not to ... read more3 weeks ago - Sell Up or Front Up Now, Stan!
Sell up or front up! As the football world tries to come to terms with the implications of this week’s failed football coup – Gunner Town’s Dave Seager adds ... read more3 weeks ago - We’ve won the battle but not the war – we cannot let up until we get #KroenkeOut
That was the most dramatic 48 hours in football. Fortunately the European Super League has been stopped in ... read more4 weeks ago - It is time for Stan Josh, Tim and Vanai to go -We Want More!!Time to go Stan – We want more We Want More. The decision to pull out of the proposed European Super League was right but it was also ... read more4 weeks ago
- Never learnt to kill – how Arsenal Past is crippling Arsenal Future (Positive Needs & Hopes)
Never learnt to kill POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES I was watching the game yesterday and wondering if there were 3 teams out there. ‘Arsenal current’, Fulham and ‘Arsenal past’. We started the game with energy and intent. We didn’t get the goal but I enjoyed the desire to do so ... read more4 weeks ago
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