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Happy Tuesday folks. I’m sitting here this morning wishing I could write something that has the answers. You know the ones I mean. Not how did we get here; not the meaning of life; not ‘how can the universe be infinite?’; not why are Maroon5 still around; nothing as trivial as that. But – what […]

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. In this episode we look back at Saturday disappointing and disheartening defeat to Bournemouth. We chat about the team selection with some key players missing but with some ineffective combinations in key areas. There’s analysis of the goals we conceded, the […]

Good morning. It’s a brand new week, and quite possibly one of the most important weeks in the recent history of this football club. As expected, there was nothing other than a Man City win at Stamford Bridge. Fair play to anyone who sat down and endured that yesterday. I absolutely could not bring myself […]

Match report – Player ratings – Arteta reaction – Video The morning after and the cold light of day have made little difference to me with regards yesterday’s 2-1 defeat to Bournemouth. We turned what was a big opportunity to take a significant step towards the title into something far more damaging. My gut feeling, […]

Join us for live blog coverage of our Premier League clash at home to Bournemouth, kick-off 12.30. We’ve got up to the second live text commentary, updates, goal clips, observations and occasionally witty asides. If you want to join the chat, register an Arseblog Live account. To do that, go to Arseblog Live – click […]

Morning all. Given how soon kick-off is, this is a very quick preview blog for our game against Bournemouth this afternoon. Mikel Arteta was playing his cards very close to his chest in terms of player availability. There were doubts over Martin Odegaard, Jurrien Timber, Riccardo Calafiori and Bukayo Saka, none of whom were seen […]

Hello everyone. I’m back in Dublin after a very nice trip to Lisbon. Obviously I was very pleased with the result, it puts us in a good position for the second leg, and hopefully provides a timely boost ahead of tomorrow’s early game against Bournemouth. It was also beneficial to be reminded of how spending […]

When Arsenal travelled to Everton in December, they took a cautious approach in possession. This was, I think, for a few reasons. Firstly, in the preceding fixtures the Gunners had played games that were far more transitional than I think Mikel Arteta would have liked. They had squeaked past Wolves at Emirates Stadium the weekend […]

Good morning. Here’s a really quick blog for you because I’m heading back to Dublin this morning. Did I really need that extra Negroni before returning to the hotel? I don’t think so, but I blame Andrew Allen for that. I’m just a 54 year old person without any agency and an inability to say […]

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In this episode I’m joined first by Andrew Allen in my Lisbon hotel room to chat about Arsenal’s 1-0 win over Sporting on Tuesday evening. We discuss the team line-up, a first half that wasn’t exactly replete with chances but which saw the Gunners […]