‘Undebatably Elite’ End of Season Review (Part 3/3) HOPES: Arrivals: Before we start, Santi Cazorla as an assistant coach. Would bring so much joy to the fanbase and inspiration for the players. Would encourage others to value improving their weak foot more than anything else. I’ll start with my personal choices. If you know how […]
Reflect on yourselves before deflecting onto The Arsenal
There are football fans who celebrate success, and then there are football fans who celebrate Arsenal not winning the Champions League as if it’s a trophy parade of their own. This is the great contradiction of the 2025/26 season: The Champions League is being contested at the highest level, actual silverware is being lifted, and […]
Season Review Part 2 – “Undeniably Elite – (Positives Needs & Hopes) [Arsenal: Champions!]
‘Undeniably Elite’ End of season review part 2 (of 3) NEEDS: Balancing risk and control: This would not only help us to crack the shells of the hard eggs in the league, but make us a more entertaining team. That’s what our opponents fans seem to be demanding, anyway. I was reminded the other day […]
Season Review Part 1 – “Undisputedly Elite – (Positives Needs & Hopes) [Arsenal: Champions!]
‘Undisputedly Elite’ End of Season Review (Part 1) Up until the month of May 2026 there was a fair argument that Arsenal Football Club were not in the same bracket as the elite. I have called Arsenal an elite club for the past two years at least but fans of other clubs had a fair […]
If Not For Mikel… A Tribute to Arsenal’s Greatest Asset
‘If not for Mikel’ A tribute to the main reason I’ve spent numerous days planning how to frame this piece. This is my attempt at finding the reason for the return of glory to Arsenal. The main reason. After thinking and overthinking, I couldn’t get away from the fact that Arsenal winning the Premier League […]
Process complete, Era begins
‘Process complete, Era begins’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective Where do you even start? I have wrestled for a few days as to how to describe what I saw and what we are seeing at Arsenal Football Club. It seems like a seminal moment in our 140 year history. Life doesn’t always go […]
Why Arsenal Fans Should Care About Smart Betting During Match Days
Why Arsenal Fans Should Care About Smart Betting During Match Days Been following Arsenal since 2007. I was barely 14 when I started, and the way I watch games now is completely different – not just because we’re actually good again, but because I figured out how to make even dull midweek fixtures matter beyond […]
Arsenal Title Win Musings – it’s been a long road!
Until last night I had never seen Arsenal win the league title. I’m 32 years old and I started supporting the club when I was 10. Those of you good at math will quickly grasp my obsession started in 2004, which was the year of the Invincibles. Yet the obsession started in the summer, when […]
The monkey jumps off and the giant roars
‘The monkey jumps off and the giant roars’ An Arsenal blog from a coach’s perspective There are a handful of sleeping giants in world football. Juventus, Man United, AC Milan and probably others. There are those that win frequently. Barcelona, Porto, PSG, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, Celtic, Man City and probably others. There are those […]
It’s coming home. North London’s throne. Reclaimed.
They said it quietly at first, like a superstition you don’t dare say out loud. Then louder, bolder, until it rolled through pubs, group chats, and North London streets like a familiar drumbeat rediscovered: It’s coming home. North London’s throne. Reclaimed. Not the old joke. Not the meme. Not the yearly setup for the fall. […]