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In the battle of two number twos, I expect Kepa to remain as out League Cup keeper. The recruitment of Illan Meslier opened the door for an Arsenal keeper to leave – had an offer came in for Kepa, Meslier would have been 2nd choice. Instead, Kepa stayed, Tommy Setford went out on loan and […]
I am not a conspiracy theorist. I call things how see them. And on Saturday I saw a referee making decisions that appeared to be premeditated. John Brooks made a lot of inconsistent, strange decisions. My only explanation is he was either instructed to keep a special eye on Arsenal “incidents”, or Brooks himself decided […]
There is something very satisfying about watching Martin Ødegaard when everything is clicking. The little touches. The head-up passes. The effortless movement between the lines. And, increasingly this season, that wonderfully calm ability to decide a game himself. After a 2025/26 campaign that never quite reached the individual heights we have come to expect from […]
As predicted, Arsenal arrived in Naples with a heavily rotated side with 4 changes from the weekends game with Chelsea – Mikel Merino, Viktor Gyokeres, Eberechi Eze and Piero Hincapie all coming into the starting XI. In a hostile stadium, against a Napoli team with plenty of experience and attacking quality, the changes made little […]
There is a temptation, when you are Arsenal and you have finally established yourself among Europe’s elite, to treat every Champions League game as a statement. Every point matters. Every position matters. Every home game must be won. But Mikel Arteta should resist that temptation this season. If Arsenal are serious about finally winning the […]
Mikel Arteta out of his technical area There is nothing that winds up opposing fans more than Mikel Arteta daring to stand outside his technical area. You literally have Aston Villa and Newcastle fans boasting about “only watching Arsenal to count how often Arteta is outside of his technical area”. How said must your lives […]
There are football matches that feel like a conversation, and then there are football matches that feel like someone has tipped the table over and everyone is scrambling to save the plates. Arsenal’s 2-1 victory over Chelsea at the Emirates somehow managed to be both. Chelsea scored after just 77 seconds. Morgan Rogers pounced with […]
There are Arsenal games that matter because they are Arsenal games. There are Chelsea games that matter because Chelsea are standing in the way. And then there are the meetings where everything seems to converge at once. Today’s Arsenal v Chelsea at the Emirates feels like one of those occasions. For years, this fixture has carried plenty of history. It has produced title-defining moments, painful defeats, memorable goals and the sort of needlethat only develops when […]
I think we all have a right to be disappointed with our attacking recruitment this summer. It has certainly been a head scratcher. A fairly public pursuit of Vinicius Jr, Julian Alvarez and Morgan Rogers all led to nothing. And on top of that we “forced” Gabriel Martinelli out of the club, and Gabriel Jesus […]
