Recent content by FeelingDangerous

Think the ref/VAR have got three big decisions wrong this game. It was a red card early on, wasn't a penalty and the Bournemouth goal should have stood. Shocking performance from the officials.

It would be an incredibly jobsworth decision to give the penalty. Even removing my Arsenal bias, I would never expect nor want a decision like that to be given at any level of profession football. Its a nothing event which had no impact on the game. No-one sought to gain an advantage. And...

Nope? It's not 1989..

10 Premier League games this calendar year, including against our title rivals in City and Liverpool. 9 wins. 1 draw. 0 losses. 33 goals scored. 4 conceded.

Also had an inconveniently timed International friendly and two week hiatus to interrupt our flow. I'm not a professional footballer so I can't say for certain, but I'd suspect its awkward to come back after this mini (and pointless) break and pick up from where you left off in what is the...

I don't understand why United and Liverpool fans are so indignant Arsenal secured a draw in the manner they did. We're two points off the pace with around 25% of the season left to go. It wasn't pretty, but it was a job done and we're still very much in the running. There's still 27 points to...

I wouldn't say so. Saka has been cold since March. Yes, he's had spectacular moments since then, but he's definitely cooled off from his peak performance of last season. Whether he's carrying a knock, experiencing growing pains as teams handle him differently or was having a purple patch I'm not...

Rice has unequivocally been our player of the season so far and I think you’ll draw few arguments from the fan base. If he's not the most important player in our team, he’s certainly up there. I wasn’t overly enamoured with the purchase when we made it, but having watched him now week in / week...

I’ve never remotely cared about the Carling Cup and its various incarnations as a competition. In Wengers pomp it was used to blood youth and was never taken seriously. Even in our darkest days over the very (very) grim past two decades any celebration would have been tongue in cheek to my...

Always such an embarrassing position. Sheffield United are now the worst team in Premier League history after 10 games. If they're not bending over for you, you're the problem.

The game wasn’t "entertaining". It was 90 minutes of the respective defences of both teams coming out on top. Tactically I found it interesting, however. There wasn’t any width until Doku and Martinelli came on. For Arsenal, you had Jesus and Trossard who both wanted to invert and come infield...

I get what he means to a degree. The Ozil & Sanchez years were disappointing because they’re coloured by hindsight. They didn’t amount to anything. But at the time, it felt exciting, it felt like progress. Who’s to say in three, four, five years we’re not looking back at 2023 as another false...

This is just a product of football tribalism. Another team has success? Worse still a rival? Easier to brush it off as potluck, a fluke, dismiss it as a flash in the pan. Undeniably, however, Arsenal have taken a massive leap forward from where we have been in recent history and Arteta deserves...

Just to interject because I keep seeing this bandied about, there’s no chance Kai Havertz is on £330k/week – breaking the Arsenal wage structure on a chance acquisition. There’s no doubt Arsenal have taken the plunge here and it’s a transfer fraught with risk, but we wouldn’t confound that by...

Kroenke exploited the pandemic to restructure the debts in more favourable terms. The debt remains, just rather than the club owing to an anonymous bank – for lack of a better word – it’s now the owner. We still owe the money. We’re still paying it off. But at reduced interest. In reality...