Do bad starts to a season mean a terrible season? The facts.

By Tony Attwood Arsenal don’t lose opening games of the season to lowly opposition very often.  In fact I’ve only found five examples in the last 20 years.  However I think we should also note 2012/13 where we opened with two goalless draws which thus gives us six poor openings to Premier League seasons. Here …

Arsenal have no tactics and Arteta must go (according to some supporters)

By Tony Attwood The media have persistently denied that Arsenal were the second best club over the last two thirds of last season, and so on the back one defeat and a fictitious serious failure last season there are now calls for the manager’s head.   But just before he goes it really might be worth …

Few teams could survive losing all 3 goalscorers, but staying with the tactics will help

By Tony Attwood The responses to last night’s defeat seem to be that Arteta is the wrong manager and we have a fair number of the wrong players.   Which when one comes to think of it was the response to Arsene Weneger and Unai Emery.  So the calls seem to be out for another change …