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I like Football but Not Burnley

Arsenal were held by Burnley in a frustrating goalless draw at the Emirates on a bitterly cold January afternoon. Arteta made just the one change from Thursday’s disappointing league cup exit to Liverpool, with Rob Holding coming in for Takehiro Tomiyasu, who clearly wasn’t fully fit on Thursday. Due to Cedric also being unavailable, Ben […]

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Embed from Getty Images A double by Diogo Jota helped Liverpool to an ultimately comfortable victory in the Carabao Cup semi-final. Our disappointment was compounded by a sending-off for Thomas Partey who managed no more than fifteen minutes on the pitch after returning from Africa. There was a noticeable difference in class between the sides […]

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Embed from Getty Images We got out of Anfield with a nil-nil draw and so many positives that I am going to enjoy writing about them. But first, let’s just dive into Granit Xhaka’s performance and get it out of the way. I do not like the guy, and anyone who has read anything I’ve […]

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Sleepwalking to the Exit Door

In the recent history of Arsenal, there is a particular pattern of play that, once it starts to unfold on the matchday, suspends the entire team into a state of somnambulance from which they wake up only after the final whistle has been blown. On those days we move the ball with the alacrity of […]

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The Agony and The Ecstasy

Back in August I wrote the review of the total dismantling we suffered up at The Emptihad and so I was keen to use this review as a means of measuring the progress made since. I think after that performance we can well and truly believe that we have reached an inflexion point in terms […]

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