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For any professional football manager, picking young players for the first team is an achievement in itself. Fans invariably love seeing ‘one of their own’ – players who have come through the club’s youth development system, and who are therefore much more likely to identify with and even support the club than players who are […] READ MORE
Christmas and New Year has always been one of the most important periods of the season in England, simply because of the sheer number of games that are played at this time of the year. While other major European leagues sensibly have a winter break, the Premier League, like the old Division One before it, […] READ MORE
Mikel Arteta must be as perplexed as every Arsenal fan. Where exactly has it all gone so wrong over the last month or so, during which time Arsenal have taken just one point from four league games and plummeted down the Premier League table, to such an extent that the club has now made its […] READ MORE
To read Part One of this article, click here. Mesut Özil: An Arsenal Career of Two Halves The Second Half In our time of plague (or at least pandemic), it can be easy to forget what life was like at the start of 2020, let alone at the start of 2018, when Arsenal faced the […] READ MORE
The Premier League returns this weekend, but of course, Mesut Özil will not. Having been left out of both Arsenal’s Premier League squad and Europa League squad, Özil is not eligible to play for Arsenal again until January at the absolute earliest, but by then he will be able to speak to foreign clubs about […] READ MORE
Arsenal’s ultimately very easy victory over Dundalk in the Europa League continued a remarkable run in all cup competitions under Mikel Arteta, both domestic and European. He has now lost only one of the 13 cup games that he has presided over, in the FA Cup, EFL Cup and Europa League, which, regardless of its […] READ MORE
Even in the international break, the feelgood factor continues to build at Arsenal. Of course, that is principally because of the transfer deadline day signing of Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid. The Ghanaian midfielder had long been sought after by Mikel Arteta and he finally joined the Gunners for what was by some distance the […] READ MORE
So, as almost everyone had expected, Arsenal face not one but two trips to Anfield next week, after Liverpool beat Lincoln City 7-2 in the Carabao Cup to set up a fourth-round match between the clubs almost immediately after their Premier League encounter on Monday night. Given the proximity of the two matches, Mikel Arteta […] READ MORE
For a coach to take over a club halfway through a season and lead them to a trophy, as Mikel Arteta did at Arsenal last season, is remarkable enough. For Arteta to have done so in the 2019/20 season, which will surely be remembered forever as ‘the Coronavirus season’ (or at least ‘the first Coronavirus […] READ MORE
It is a saying variously attributed to Jack Warner (the legendary movie mogul and not the disgraced football apparatchik), Alfred Hitchcock and others, but whoever said it, it is still completely true: “The three most important things to make a movie are the script, the script, the script”. Similarly, this summer Mikel Arteta’s top three […] READ MORE