Should’ve been easy, but just too difficult! POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES One of the most impactful pre-game team talks I can remember came when I was a teenager. My coach was a man called Roy Butler and I was playing for St.Albans. It was a big game. We were the better team on paper but […]
Intensity or Exhaustion… The clear Arsenal style POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES That was absolutely maddening. Almost embarrassing. I’ll get on to that (see first point in ‘NEEDS section), but for now I want to talk about a theme that I see. There has been much talk recently about what Emery’s style is. Almost all of […]
The Spectacular Unspectacular POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES Fans need hope but boy, oh boy has society done a number on our levels of patience. Yesterday, was a spectacular display of seriousness. Flicking through Twitter I have started to only pay attention to those who don’t have extreme views. “We are awful”, “So and so is […]
West Ham United 1-0 Arsenal Premier League Review Our trip to the London Stadium didn’t really turn out well, as lost to the Irons via a Rice goal early in the second half. This performance, over both halves, I think can be summed up via these points: Strong defending (for once) The goal we […]
The Perfect Showcase for Arsenal’s problems POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES Ordinarily, if you wanted to compile a snapshot of the problems at your club, you’d have to scroll through 3 or 4 games to find the problems. You want to see ALL of them in one game? Watch West Ham vs Arsenal. *Goal conceded by […]
This game against Brighton has to be the worst performance from Arsenal this year. We had 68% possession and were a goal up after 6 minutes yet we could only manage a1-1 draw against a team whose players were shivering with fear at the start of the game. They could not string two passes together […]
Arsenal about to light the fire 🔥 POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES Sometimes the coach needs to see something so poor in order for the fire to arrive. Ever since I moved from London to the US, I have greatly enjoyed living here but if I was to change something then this would be on the […]
The Summer Mistake POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES I’m not going in on the transfer team with two feet, but it is becoming very evident that Arsenal needed a natural winger last summer. Whether we kept Reiss Nelson or bought one or two of the names being brandished around, it is obvious that we don’t have […]
Utter frustration to unexpected joy… POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES It seems to me that this season whenever I’m getting highly frustrated, wishing we had a spark on the wing we find a way to win anyway. This season feels so different in many ways. We just seem like winners. We were very poor today but […]
Good things can come from bad things…. POSITIVES, NEEDS and HOPES That was our most disappointing game of the season. There were good reasons for all the points dropped previously. Not today. But….. here’s the thing. Often the best thing to happen to a team before two monster games is for you to be exposed. […]
