Posted in Match Preview on Feb 20th, 2021
This weekend sees the visit of the high-flying league leaders to The Arsenal, who will, no doubt, want to bring City down to earth with a heavy dose of bumps. We have returned from our Italian job mildly frustrated not to have put the tie away, but on the whole I think confident that we […]
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Posted in Match Report on Feb 19th, 2021
In some (not so) distant future some young Arsenal fan — curious about the beginning of the by then wondrous Arteta years and looking to learn more about how the journey started – poring over the results of this surreal 2020-21 season will likely be at a loss to come up with an explanation of […]
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Posted in Match Preview on Feb 18th, 2021
Nearly a year to the day since Arsenal faced Olympiakos in the first, away leg of the Europa League round of 32 in a tie that ended disastrously for the Gunners, Mikel Arteta’s side travel to Italy rather than Portugal to face Benfica in the first leg and same round of this year’s tournament that […]
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Posted in Match Report on Feb 15th, 2021
Embed from Getty Images There have lately been heard whispers in the air that one Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has, if not entirely fallen out of love with his muse, lost that intense drive, the instinctive touch, the infectious joy – maybe even the jouissance as a Lacanian might say – of scoring goals which has been […]
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Posted in Match Preview on Feb 13th, 2021
Sunday teatime (or breakfast-time, if you’re on the West coast of North America) sees Arsenal host the long-disappeared club from the relative flatlands of the Aire at the Emirates for what promises to be an interesting clash. If perhaps you’ve had a rough day, bring the yardarm lower and partake of something stronger while you […]
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