@LaboGoon initiates the faithful Maybe all new managers of top Premier League teams going through some sort of initiation ritual wouldn’t be such a bad thing at all: Big game to the League’s most expensive team – check Big game away from home – check Having Tony Adams, Sam Allardyce and Tim Sherwood doing their […]

  Good Evening Positive AFC fans, The first game of the 2018/2019 season under the belt, so to speak, and I feel a lot better with that opening obstacle concluded. A real thumping would have cast a pall over my week and I could not have that. Not the result we hoped for but a […]

@GoonerReverend ponders the hereafter this morning and the Great Leap Forward Football waits for no man and as recent events at Arsenal have shown the show always goes on no matter what is happening or who is leaving the game that is the English Premier League. Arsene Wenger & Arsenal have parted company after 22 […]

Good Morning Positives, For those of you lucky enough to find a live broadcast or a reliable stream yesterday from the John Smiths’ you will have enjoyed an end to end contest as much as I did, Admittedly the occasional muttered contribution from Owen Hargreaves (the most peculiar contributor among commentators in any sport surely?)  […]

@LaboGoon enters the finishing straight Last Sunday Arsène Wenger bade farewell to the Emirates faithful with much pomp and circumstance but it is the John Smith’s Stadium that provides the stage for his swansong. Going to Huddersfield for this memorable event almost feels like the football gods are smiling down on us. Through the legendary […]

Good morning Positives, Another road-trip, another defeat. And the 3-1 loss following a spanking victory at the Emirates a few days previously. The story of the first five months of 2018, play, pause, rewind, play. Of last night’s game it was likely to be a ‘tricky’  fixture with Leicester’s players and beleaguered manager seeking salvation […]

@LaboGoon serves up the starter for tonight’s game Arsenal is taking the Arsène Wenger farewell show back on the road, and specifically the King Power Stadium tonight, to take on Leicester. When the Foxes appointed Claude Puel back in October it was a decision that seemed to have raised a few eyebrows. Those fears were […]

@5MinuteFinal aka ‘Improper Fan’ puts the pen to work to describe his regard Arsene Wenger Where do I start! There’s Ludovico Einaudi’s Oltremare playing in the background as I pen this, and the music is so deep that it’s evoked a slow-motion collage of Arsene’s finest moments running through my head. A tear drop hits […]

Good morning Positive Arsenal fans, We enjoyed a marvellous, historic day yesterday. As I said yesterday morning on here it is a day that will be with me for the rest of my life, and will be a recollection of the best kind, warm and clear. The whole stadium paid tribute to an Arsenal manager, […]