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Monthly Archive for November, 2020

Darkest Before the Dawn?

The architecture of footballing success is a less definitive and structured endeavor than what the aftermath of success deludes us to believe. There is no one grand plan where everything comes together by their logical inevitability, but a series of steps executed with different degrees of convictions, often arriving at the right combination of things […]

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What Is and what might have been When the Premier League fixture list for season 2020-21 was released on August 20th, it was immediately apparent that the early set of fixtures would represent a real challenge for Mikel Arteta and the Arsenal.   Before this season’s opener, there was good reason to be confident that, going […]

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An Arsenal squad that has, this season, both raised our hopes and dashed them horribly, made their way to the frozen north aiming to cement qualification for the Europa League knock-out rounds. In the PL we have averaged just over 9 shots per game yielding a mere 9 goals in 9 games whereas in this […]

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Remember, Remember the 5th of November? A few short weeks ago on that very day we welcomed Molde FK to The Arsenal on the back of an enjoyable victory at Man United. You might even say a roseate glow gleamed across the golden Goonerverse as we sailed serenely through seas of sunken Solskjaers. How I […]

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Alarming Plateau Of Mediocrity

After a fortnight of international football where most Arsenal players needed to travel around the world while a pandemic is raging, the team regrouped only a few days back to prepare for what was expected to be a particularly difficult away trip against the newly promoted Leeds, managed by the managers’ manager, Marcelo Bielsa. The […]

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