Suburban Gooners

I know we’re playing later, so this schadenfreude might age like four-day-old milk being left out on the back patio in summer, but man, it’s funny to laugh at Chelsea.

I was doing other things last night, so I only checked in and out on the game, but seeing them drop a 3-0 away to Brentford was hilarious. This was a side that their fans were telling us would r...

How is it Friday already?

This is what happens when The Arsenal play – and play well – in midweek. The weekend comes around, and you’re like, “blimey, that hit us quick, eh?” I guess we’re also at the stage in the season where it isn’t a grind. The season is still fresh, young, in its infancy, so having three games in a week (or thereabouts) is kind of novel and exciti...

Man United getting done over by Brighton was a bit funny last night, wasn’t it, eh? I saw the Sesko ‘assist’. Ouch. That won’t make good viewing when they get in the video room for the post-match analysis today/tomorrow.

As for us, in the next round, it’s a relatively kind away one at Fleetwood Town. Got to be happy with that.

I see that a few people have said t...

I think, as League Cup matches go, that was about as stress-free as you’re going to get. Even after each of the Ipswich goals, I never really felt even the slightest concern. yes, we had a rotated squad, and yes, so did Ipswich, but the ‘look and feel’ of this Arsenal side seemed exactly like the first team. I don’t know who was on commentary last night for Sky, but one of th...

Under normal circumstances, I’d be saying things like “I quite like these types of games tonight”. Arsenal in the EFL Cup, or League Cup as I prefer to call it, is an opportunity to usually rotate a few players, to take the stresses away from the Premier League, and last season it certainly offered that bit of respite. If you get knocked out, it’s no biggie, because there are...