Most fans were rather happy with the transfer business done by the Gunners in the 2022/23 season. The signings of Gabriel Jesus, Oleksandr Zinchenko and others paid off as the club mounted their first serious title challenge in years. The summer 2023 window remains open at the time of writing, but so far Mikel Arteta’s … Read more
As anyone who watched the excellent All or Nothing: Arsenal documentary will know, the Gunners fell away at the end of 2021/22 and just missed out on qualification for the Champions league in 2022/23. Despite the disappointing end to their campaign, fans had begun to believe in both the club and the manager, Mikel Arteta, … Read more
Arsenal are set to play Man City in the 2023 Community Shield at Wembley on Sunday, 6th August. The Gunners qualified for the traditional curtain raiser by finishing second in the league with City, of course, winning both the league and FA Cup as part of their incredible treble. This clash, formerly known as the … Read more
Declan Rice has just made the short move from West Ham to Arsenal and the Gunners have had to pay through their noses to land the England midfielder. A monster fee of £100m plus up to £5m in add-ons is what it took Mikel Arteta’s Gunners to get their man. But the big question on … Read more
Arsenal might not have won the Premier League title since the Invincibles took the division by storm in 2003/04. But since then, the Gunners have added a very impressive haul of five FA Cups to their list of honours. And though they are only the third-best side in terms of the number of top-flight titles … Read more
Arsenal have never won the Champions League or its forerunner the European Cup. But they did compete in Europe’s primary club tournament for 19 seasons in a row from 1998/99 to 2016/17. Since then, the Gunners have had to make do with the Europa League (or indeed no European football at all, as in the … Read more
Granit Xhaka has always been a player that seems to be in some sort of trouble. Usually, this is with the club for disciplinary reasons, such as red cards, fights with teammates in training, provocative celebrations and the like. Xhaka used to be the captain of Arsenal until he was stripped of his captaincy in … Read more
For their Premier League fixture against Watford at Vicarage Road in March 2022, Arsenal made a rather unusual kit choice. Instead of pairing their red home kit with their traditional white shorts and white socks, the Gunners were dressed in an all-red kit, which led to some fans remarking that they thought they were watching … Read more
The All or Nothing series is an Amazon documentary-style show that follows a sports team’s journey during a season. Whilst not all English fans may realise it, the first documentary was released in 2016 and followed the NFL team, the Arizona Cardinals. Since then, the programme has gone on to do seasons with various other NFL … Read more
Where a club train is almost as important as where a club plays, as in training the conditions have to be as similar to the stadium pitch as possible so that the players have as big an advantage as possible over the opposition. As well as this a training ground must have the most up-to-date and … Read more