Posted in Match Report on Dec 4th, 2025
Arsenal won a tense London derby with an early strike by goal machine Mikel Merino supplemented in the first minute of added time with a finish by Bukayo Saka after that man Merino had played him through. Arsenal had reason to be grateful to a spellbinding save by David Raya in the first half after […]
Posted in Match Report on Dec 1st, 2025
The human mind has evolved to always look for patterns that make sense of experiences. Even something as innately human as seeing is essentially a complex pattern recognition/prediction mechanism to discern meaningful “images” from a continuous stream of photons arriving at our eyes. When we experience any event that doesn’t easily conform to our expectations, […]
Posted in Match Report on Nov 27th, 2025
Arsenal fans in the Emirates era had occasionally experienced riveting, enjoyable, even enthralling home champions league victories against much vaunted oppositions – the famous 2-1 against a Barcelona side that is now considered one of the greatest teams ever in world football, last year’s wins against PSG in the group phase and Real at the […]
Posted in Match Report on Nov 23rd, 2025
Eberechi Eze scored his first professional hat-trick, and the first hat-trick in a North London Derby since Alan Sunderland scored three in 1978, as Arsenal illustrated the chasm that exists between the clubs with a dominant performance in today’s North London Derby. I think I’ve seen over 60 North London Derbies and they are usually […]
Posted in Match Report on Nov 9th, 2025
All things end of course and sadly our excellent winning run and clean sheet bonanza both ended away at Sunderland yesterday (or about 4.30AM today if you happened to be in Japan) as we drew 2-2 after conceding two goals for the first time this season. It was not the end of the world, though […]
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