Posted in match review on Sep 16th, 2007 6 Drinks »
Only the truly smug would point out that at the start of the season our hosts in yesterdays ‘meet the neighbours’ show were going to claim our Champions League qualifying place. There was some logic for them in the argument that spending over £50 million pounds on top new talent while we ‘lost’ Thierry Henry […]
Posted in match preview on Sep 14th, 2007 10 Drinks »
The best laid plans, and all that. My intention to build up to THE derby game has been knocked off course by other matters. Thanks to those of you who have left your comments on the last blog. Nonetheless the game is now so close you can touch it, and looking around the other blogs […]
Posted in history on Sep 11th, 2007 11 Drinks »
A brief history lesson is in order to put what follows into context. The ‘holic family settled in North London sometime in the middle of the nineteenth century. Great grandfather ‘holic was a baker, an economic migrant, in the days when people really believed the streets of London were paved with gold. By the time […]
Posted in comment on Sep 10th, 2007 7 Drinks »
I’m loathe to believe anything that comes from the hand of Mihir Bose. The BBC sports editor has a history of mischief-making when it comes to reporting matters Arsenal. I would dearly like to believe one of the quotes he has attributed to Peter Hill-Wood in his latest creation here. He is alleged to have […]
Posted in comment on Sep 9th, 2007 3 Drinks »
So far, so good. The international reports I have seen contain no injury scares for us. I hope it stays that way. Most news about the Gunners on duty was encouraging. Eduardo grabbed a first-half brace as Croatia eased past Estonia in what is starting to develop into a ‘group of death’. England remain in […]
Posted in comment on Sep 7th, 2007 13 Drinks »
My last post ended with the expressed desire that Arsene Wenger would sign a three year extension to his existing deal. Like a few others , it would appear, I had heard the rumours. I have heard such rumours before and this time have waited for the official declaration on .com, or .con, or Pravda, […]
Posted in comment on Sep 4th, 2007 2 Drinks »
“I have not seen a number of what you might call world class players. World class prices maybe but not world class players.” With those words Arsene Wenger has explained in the clearest possible terms why we did not see perhaps as much activity in the transfer window as we may have hoped for. I […]
Posted in match review on Sep 2nd, 2007 7 Drinks »
I made the point when the fixtures were first published that we did not face another top four team until we travel to Anfield at the end of October. The unwritten hint was that if we could avoid the painful dropped points against the supposed lesser lights of the Premiership we had a very real […]
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