There is no point me pretending I’m not over the moon with that win, I am. I couldn’t give a flying that it is a friendly because there was nothing friendly about it. They were trying to win just as much as Arsenal were. The tell tail signs were there early on when Santi had […]

A guest post from Seebs Singapore, half time, first friendly of the season, a young side are putting on a decent display in extreme heat. Stupidly I wandered on to twitter, hoping to see praise for Chuba Akpom and Alex Iwobi, only to find many showing frustration at the game. One person twitted “that’s 45 […]

A guest post from @foreverheady The autumn of 2012 was an interesting time for The Arsenal. The three new signings, Olivier Giroud, Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla were settling in quite nicely, but their arrival early in the summer, initially greeted by the fans with some degree of enthusiasm, did little to compensate for the […]

A guest post from @foreverheady Meaningless methadone it may have been and for the manager and team no doubt a low stakes game, where getting fit and building up gently for the rigours to come was the main priority. And yet Arsene would have known that it was also a game that the team was […]

A guest post from Tim ( @foreverheady ) “If you think you have more than one Derby horse in your yard, you haven’t got a Derby horse.” So went the advice given by an eminent trainer sometime last century and you can see the logic. To win the most prestigious prize in racing you needed […]

The simple truth is that being a football fan is more about emotion than it is about logic. We want what we want and for most it matters not that what we want is a fantasy. We have a romantic notion of how our club should perform. We all think our club should be “taken […]

Last night I read again a blog written by @AFC_ChrisGooner “Arsenal putting pieces in place for future success” http://bit.ly/1QpmfXr  .I have read it several times now and it a fabulous piece , well written and researched. Having read it I then tweeted “Positively Arsenal ‏@Blackburngeorge  People didn’t see a plan not because there wasn’t one, but because they […]

The internet is awash with bloggers pod-casters and tweeters quickly changing tack and realigning themselves behind Arsene. Gone are the days when someone was brave enough to voice their wholehearted and unequivocal support for the great man. Now you can’t mention his name without someone trying to praise him above and beyond the level of […]

A guest post from @foreverheady Just for a moment I want to imagine what it must feel like to be Morgan Schneiderlin. Or rather, to imagine how he views his career and its likely progression. I should think he feels pretty good about things: another great season at Southampton, on the fringes of his national […]

How often do we see Arsenal dominate a game, play the best football and not win? Too often, I hear you say. Why does it happen, or appear to happen, more often to us than others? When it happens we hear the same old rhetoric and soundbites ” same old same old” or ” Tactical […]