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Archive for January, 2008

A trip to Manchester City has so often been something to be eagerly anticipated, but you have to say the unexpected loss at Eastlands last season, and City’s impressive home form this term, may temper expectations for some this weekend. A Barton penalty was enough to see the Gunners return empty-handed from the City of […]

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Arsenal 3 Newcastle United 0. It’s the scoreline of the week. Another slow start, another performance lifted out of the ordinary by Matty Flamini, and we have set out our stall at the head of affairs again, if only for twenty-four hours. For a long time it looked as though the first-half would be memorable […]

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Thank You Billy McCullough

The column inches dedicated to the latest philandering of one Ashley Cole over the weekend came in a week when two completely different and unconnected people had reminded me of one of his predecessors at Highbury. Billy McCullough was in the first Arsenal side I can recall watching, and as such is assured a place […]

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First up, let me offer my sincere thanks to Railtrack, who managed to turn a relatively straightforward trip to the Grove into a four hour nightmare. Great Western deserve a mention too, for ensuring that replacement bus services did not arrive remotely close to the departure time of the trains they were presumably intended to […]

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Butt Me No Buts

The longest four days of the season will finally come to an end when Kevin Keegan leads his Magpies out at the Grove in the fourth round of the FA Cup. A cracking atmosphere is guaranteed as the barcodes have taken their full allocation of tickets, consigning me to an upper tier seat. One result […]

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Let’s show some grace from the start. Tottenham thoroughly deserved to go through over two legs, and did an extremely professional job on the Gunners in their second-leg triumph. The nuts and bolts of the contest can be found in the match report on Arsenal.com. Part of the education for the younger players is to […]

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Injuries to Philippe Senderos and Johan Djourou, coinciding with the absence of Kolo Toure and Alex Song, mean a stronger Arsenal side than expected will travel to the marshlands in the northern outskirts of the capital for the second leg of the Carling Cup semi-final. William Gallas now looks certain to lead his willing band […]

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On Friday I suggested that Emmanuel Adebayor may be worth a punt for first goalscorer given Fulham’s loss of height this season. The opening half at Craven Cottage saw the Gunners almost cruelly expose that advantage. From perfect crosses by Clichy and Hleb the big man planted headers to the left hand side of Fulham […]

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Fulham brings back memories for this old gooner. My first trip to the Cottage was as a schoolboy over forty years ago, and one thing stands in the memory. It had rained all week and the pitch was like a ploughed field. Arsenal looked to have won it when George Eastham found himself with an […]

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A strange day. A couple of really good things have happened, but the doomometer is still pinging away in the corner. Robin van Persie and Johan Djourou are both ‘gone in the fetlock’ and will miss weeks rather than days. A mate asked the other day, ‘why do you write that fetlock nonsense?’. I assured […]

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