Brentford v Arsenal: the team prediction and the first game defeat syndrome

By Bulldog Drummond Now here is a thing: Alexandre Lacazette is the only player in history to score the opening goal of the Premier League season on two separate occasions. I have to thank the BBC for that one.  He did it in both 2017-18 in two mins against Leicester and 2020-21 and in nine …

Will the negativity surrounding Arsenal bring AFC down, or can we rise up tonight?

By Bulldog Drummond It has been a long, long time since the media were so united in their vision that Arsenal were in really deep trouble.  No one is actually promising relegation, but some are getting quite close to that. But let’s look back at Brentford’s final run of top division games. Date Match Res …

Why Brentford are Arsenal’s bogey team: but hopefully not today

By Bulldog Drummond Now you might be a little disinclined to call Brentford “Arsenal’s bogey team” but Brentford seriously were the team that amazingly caused Arsenal a lot of problems the last time we played them regularly. Brentford arose from League Division Two to the first division in 1935 when Arsenal were absolutely the dominant …