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Monthly Archive for March, 2021

Fifty years ago in May 1971, the Arsenal played two matches in just six days to win the club’s first league and cup double. The Arsenal took on Spurs at White Hart Lane on Monday 3rd May and on Saturday 8th May faced Liverpool at Wembley.  Goonerholics Forever is commemorating the 50th anniversary of that historic first double […]

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The Two Faces Of Arsenal

Embed from Getty Images I wonder whether centipedes think millipedes are show-offs? Does Spaghetti Bolognese have bacon in it? Which ones are cumulonimbus? These are just some of the questions that may have been in the minds of our players for the first thirty-five minutes of today’s game against West Ham. Whatever they were thinking […]

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What, Me Worry?

The Arsenal play away at West Ham on Sunday, for a traditional 3 pm derby kickoff (8 am PDT for those of you in the ex-colonies, we’ve sprung forward our hour where in England they wait for March 28). The game comes on the heels of about 105 minutes of poor Arsenal football, and so […]

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Stumbling into the Quarters

Like a drunken sailor out all night before the morning when his ship is to sail, Arsenal somehow still managed to stumble through the alleyways in the port and dragged themselves over the gangplank to land successfully onboard in the quarter finals of the Europa League just when the captain had made up his mind […]

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Embed from Getty Images The dust has barely settled from a fine Derby result, the product of 75 minutes of total dominance and 15 minutes of hanging on for dear life against 10 men, and now we face yet another ‘season defining match’. Or at least another in a series of matches we have faced […]

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