Arsenal Opinion Archives: 09/2018

There was a time when the news Aaron Ramsey was set to leave Arsenal would have made me really sad, but a lot has happened since then to turn me into a cold-hearted b*stard. Let me explain…

Arsenal fans have urged the club to take away tickets from season ticket holders who regularly fail to turn up for matches.

It’s easy to get carried away with Mesut Ozil scoring two goals in two games but it’s hard to escape the fact that this season he’s being asked to be a regular member of the squad and he actually seems to be enjoying it.

Arsenal Women are absolutely flying this season having scored 24 goals already in just a handful of matches. So who is the manager that looks to have the team back on track?

After Arsenal dispatched Vorskla Poltava (say it out loud and somebody will say “bless you”) we can turn our attention back to domestic fare for the rest of September.

Arsenal’s sixth game of the Premier League campaign is a home match with Everton – another side that harbour hopes of improving on their position from last season.

Ivan Gazidis is off to Milan after taking his sweet time to make up his mind, but what has he actually achieved in his 10 years at Arsenal?

The Europa League occupies a weird place in English football despite the media’s obsession with certain clubs needing to win trophies.

For once, the media headlines surrounding Mesut Ozil are mainly focused on his performance on the pitch, in the wake of Arsenal’s 2-1 victory over Newcastle.

The last time Arsenal failed to keep a cleansheet in their opening five matches of a league campaign was 1988 – but they went on to win the league that year.

Lucas Torreira was Arsenal’s most expensive signing of the summer. When on the pitch, he has been objectively and subjectively one of the best players on the pitch. So why has he yet to start a match under Unai Emery?

Ivan Gazidis looks to have finally made up his mind to take the money and run for Milan, so who will Arsenal get to replace him?

Call it the League of Nations all you want but we all know it’s just another set of glorified friendlies that ends up costing clubs their players.

Modern football loves nothing better than a snap judgement – with players and managers written off or over-hyped on a tiny window of evidence. At Arsenal this season, people are bound to be rushing to a conclusion about the Unai Emery era after the departure of Arsene Wenger.

Arsenal fans may not like Stan Kroenke, but it seems we haven’t even had a small taste of the anger he’s capable of inducing, a rage so visceral some people would rather be Spurs fans…

If fans are going to dislike you because you own their football club, there seems to be two ways to go about dealing with that.

Drink driving, sex tapes, and bending the rules of the game. It’s been quite the 2018 for Tottenham, their players, and supporters, but would any other club get away with this much scandal?

Paul Merson doesn’t often talk sense but he might have accidentally struck gold when he said Mesut Ozil helped Alexis Sanchez look good.

The season has barely got started and instead of talking about round five of the Premier League, we’re twiddling our thumbs and talking about an international tournament nobody cares about or wants.

At the time of writing, there has been no hint that Harry Arter will receive retrospective punishment for the dive he used to con Anthony Taylor against Arsenal on Sunday.