The Unbeaten Season Was Never About the Numbers

The penalty was never really in doubt, not for the eighty-nine minutes before it. Ruud van Nistelrooy placed the ball

14 September 2026

Arteta's Rotation Talk Doesn't Match His Team Sheets

Arsenal were 3-1 up at the Emirates against Tottenham, deep into the kind of afternoon a manager dreams about handing

13 September 2026

Arteta's Calm About the Forward Line Is the Tell

Back in May, standing in the wreckage of a Champions League final lost on penalties to PSG, Mikel Arteta told

9 September 2026

The Unbeaten Talk Inverts Everything Wenger Got Right

Sunday afternoon, the final whistle goes at 2-1 over Chelsea, and the number on the scoreboard says one thing while

8 September 2026

Wenger Survived Two Februaries Before He Won Anything

By the second week of February 1998, Arsenal sat twelve points behind Manchester United at the top of the table,

7 September 2026

Arteta's Shrug Is Doing a Lot of Work

There is a particular flatness to the way Mikel Arteta said "it is what it is" on deadline

6 September 2026

Arsenal Spent £201million Not To Buy A Striker

The goal that beat Aston Villa this month didn't arrive on a private jet in August. It came

4 September 2026

Arsenal's Transfer Discipline Is Starting to Look Like Neglect

The concourse under the East Stand does a particular hum in the last days of August, half relief that the

3 September 2026

Saka's Goal Papers Over a Real Arsenal Problem

Fifty-nine minutes gone at Villa Park on the last Monday of August, and Riccardo Calafiori arrives on the overlap Eze

2 September 2026

Arsenal's Álvarez Fixation Is Solving the Wrong Problem

Atlético Madrid's asking price for Julián Álvarez is €150 million, the same figure Real Madrid had rejected outright

1 September 2026