“I truly believe [Financial Fair Play] FFP is gone. I think it’s better to open the circus door and let everybody enjoy.” It is not often that I find myself agreeing with the Premier League pantomime arch-villain and self-avowed “Special One”, nor is it a position I want to find myself in too often in […]
As much as everyone suspected the defeat at St James Park was a temporary blip, a one-off, a lapse in focus; no one truthfully saw what happened next coming. As good as Manchester City were in making light work of Arsenal last week, the shredding to pieces of Chelsea last Sunday was simply extraordinary. To […]
For those of us of a Gooner persuasion it was never in doubt that Manchester City would bounce back after their dodgy showing and result away at Newcastle. For our team we simply hoped that it wouldn’t be another one of those embarrassing tonkings away at purported rivals that have been all too common over […]
Probably the hardest thing to take about Arsenal’s latest meek capitulation in a big match is that it really wasn’t all that shocking; Arsenal fans have become numb to these types of performances as there have been so many over recent years. It is plain to see that the team has a soft underbelly, when […]
After what is often described as ‘the longest 2 months of the year’ for us football obsessives, it is time to get back into the more familiar way of spending our time; for the next 10 months (actually 11 if we factor in the World Cup!) it will be back to submersing ourselves in the […]
As covered in a previous post for You Are My Arsenal (http://youaremyarsenal.com/behind-enemy-lines-undercover-anfield/), I had the ‘pleasure’ of being at Anfield last Saturday evening to watch Arsenal’s latest apologetic capitulation against a top six side. Three days later, as I emerged from Arsenal tube station heading to the second leg Champions League game against Bayern Munich, […]
Having pretty much declared the Premier League title race over on these very pages last week, it came as a bit of a surprise that Chelsea were held to a draw at Turf Moor, not in any derogatory sense towards Burnley, Sean Dyche’s men boast a highly impressive home record, but simply because, for the […]
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