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Archive for February, 2017

My thanks to one of our own, the inimitable Ttg, for telling the story of his grandson’s goalscoring exploits against the Arsenal, no less. A wonderful insight into an evening and an opportunity never available to those of us of a certain age. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I’ve spent […]

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Watching Mohamed Elneny in action for Egypt in Sunday’s African Cup of Nations Final was a roller-coaster experience. His elation at putting his side in front in the first-half was the bright spot of the weekend for many Gooners. I couldn’t help but wonder what condition he would be in mentally after Cameroon first equalised, […]

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Arsene Wenger went with the ten fit players who battered Chelsea at the Grove sixteen League matches ago with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain occupying the midfield berth vacated by Santi Cazorla. Lucas, surprisingly, did not make the bench as Arsene opted for two defenders, midfielders, and forwards. What would follow would define our Premier League challenge this […]

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It’s turned into a week of difficult pieces to put together. Before Tuesday night we were a team gathering a head of steam ahead of a monster of a match at the bus stop in Fulham. Now we go into a match against unquestionably the form team of the moment with a midfield decimated by […]

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The Longest Night?

Twenty-four hours on. You expected my mood might have improved, that I would find the words to at least try and make sense of last night, But I’m afraid not. With apologies for starting off me, me, me, I should put what follows into some context. The match started a string of just miserable fortune. […]

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