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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Why Play In The UCL If We Don't Take It Seriously?

Written by Sam Stubbs-Benbow on 01 October 2015. Posted in Loose Cannon Reviews

Match Review: Arsenal 2 Olympiakos 3 - Champions League 29.09.15

Where do you start with the debacle we witnessed on Tuesday night? Champions League elimination is beckoning as Arsenal somehow contrived to concede three goals to an average looking Olympiakos side and in doing so have given themselves little hope of getting out of the group. After years and years of failure, it is sadly time to ask, what is the point of Arsenal playing in the Champions League anymore?

Alexis Back To His Devastating Best

Written by Sam Stubbs-Benbow on 27 September 2015. Posted in Loose Cannon Reviews

Match Review: Leicester City 2 Arsenal 5 - Premier League 26.09.15

This Premier League season is shaping up to be all sorts of crazy. Two weeks ago, City looked set to race away at the top and the obligatory ‘can they go unbeaten?’ tweets were starting to appear. Fast forward a fortnight and City are rocking after two defeats in a row, the latest a 4-1 capitulation at Tottenham. Chelsea continue to play poorly, dropping more points at Newcastle and Liverpool were run close by Aston Villa. Despite the 5-2 scoreline, our game was far from straight forward. The quality across the board in the Premier League has greatly increased and I think we’ll see one of the lowest points totals for the Champions in a long time.

Flamini's Heroics Lit Up A Tame Derby

Written by Sam Stubbs-Benbow on 25 September 2015. Posted in Loose Cannon Reviews

Match Review: Sp*rs 1 Arsenal 2 - Capital One Cup 23.09.15

Wednesday night brought a much needed return to winning ways after two sickening defeats. The debacle at Chelsea had left a very bitter taste in the mouth and although the FA have gone some way to putting right some of the injustices, we’re never going to get back the lost points from the Bridge. We needed a response and a rotated Arsenal side delivered it in the best way possible: stuffing the Sp*rs on their own turf.