Loose Cannon Reviews

Goonersphere's match review page covering all first team matches. Reviews include scores, injury updates, match stats, and player ratings.

Sam Stubbs-Benbow, known on Twitter as @sambangsdrums, is a student in Sound for television and is a keen musician. He has been following the Arsenal all his life and more widely, is a football nut, keen on anything to do with the beautiful game. You will find him at most home games and a few away ones and will be providing match reviews for Arsenal first team games this season.

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Arsenal's Glorious Failure Could Help Them Win A Trophy

Written by Sam Stubbs-Benbow on 18 March 2015. Posted in Loose Cannon Reviews

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Match Review: Monaco 0 Arsenal 2 - Champions League 17.03.15

No-one does glorious failure quite like Arsenal. Having made a complete mess of the first leg, most had accepted that we were already out. Three goals against a notoriously mean defence seemed an impossible task. But, once more, Arsenal produced a courageous effort that felt just short of what was required. We were cruelly given hope, but another self-destruction in the first leg has led to a disappointingly premature exit from the competition.

Giroud Is Arsenal's Most Improved Player

Written by Sam Stubbs-Benbow on 16 March 2015. Posted in Loose Cannon Reviews

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Match Review: Arsenal 3 West Ham 0 - Premier League 14.03.15

Arsenal's performance against West Ham wasn't necessarily one of our best of the season, but provided us with some of our best goals of the season. We played well, but the result wasn't secure until the 80th minute so 3-0 makes it look a little more comfortable than it was. Still, it's another good win to build confidence and momentum and with City and Chelsea dropping points, we may be able to start looking above us rather than over our shoulders.

Arsenal Broke Their Mental Hoodoo

Written by Sam Stubbs-Benbow on 11 March 2015. Posted in Loose Cannon Reviews

Match Review: Man Utd 1 Arsenal 2 - FA Cup 09.03.15

Monday night will live long in the memory of Arsenal fans. Old Trafford has been a bitter sweet ground for us, with mainly poor results punctuated by a historic win every now and again. The title securing win in ’02 and Overmars’ classic winner in ’98 stand out, but on the whole, Old Trafford has been a bogey ground of epic proportions. Even with United’s spectacular decline over the last couple of years, we still haven’t been able to break the hoodoo. Until Monday night. Finally, after so much pain and some seriously heavy and damaging defeats over the years, we gained a measure of revenge.