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Archive for February, 2009

If someone had said at the start of the season that the side would go on a fifteen match unbeaten run from December to the end of February, and be roundly booed off the park at the end of that fifteenth game, you would have suggested that they be sectioned. Yet the astonishing thing is […]

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I still have a nervous twitch when anybody mentions the game at Fulham this season. It seems like we have been waiting an age to exorcise the demons of that particularly horrendous performance, one of the worst of the Wenger years. Looking back, my tipping of William Gallas to score on Tuesday night was a […]

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Van Persie, Vidi, Vici

It may be Shrove Tuesday, but tossers were in short supply on pancake day as Arsenal saw off the challenge of Roma at the Grove. A one goal triumph was scant reward for the efforts put in by all in the red shirts. By now I am guessing most of you will have witnessed the […]

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Pontificating Over Roma

‘Ooh ‘holic, that is painful’. You’re right, I would apologise, but now I have your attention, yes? The upcoming contests with Roma have occupied my mind since Saturday night. The side lying sixth in Serie A, having accrued 43 points from 25 games, stand between a quarter-final berth and the club that lies fifth in […]

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Sorry for the slight delay in posting. Removing egg from ones face can be a messy business. Ten days ago, while assessing the next seven Premiership fixtures I wrote ‘Should we really contemplate dropping points, let alone suffering a defeat in any of those games if a top four place is to be a realistic […]

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It’s preview time. A rare treat these days to have a Saturday three o’clock kick-off to look forward too, although that presents its own problems as this piece is having to be done ahead of the Friday interviews and press conferences. I can cut back considerably on what I write about this weekend’s game as […]

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Well, in all competitions Arsenal are now unbeaten in twelve. In the previous eleven however there has been considerable doubt about just how well they have been playing. Tonight we welcomed back the Arsenal that a dearth of confidence had taken from us. ‘Ah ‘holic’ I hear you say, ‘it was only Cardiff’ Well you […]

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Cardiff City or Arsenal or Burnley v Sheffield United or Hull City. That’s not at all confusing is it? Fourteen clubs are in the quarter-final draw, and it is not being presumptive to point out that the four biggest remaining clubs will avoid each other in the last eight, if that is we get through […]

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I Know I Shouldn't, But…

Have you had a really good look at the fixture list? I must confess since the fixtures were first published back in June the only thing that stuck in the memory was that we faced Chelsea and Manchester United in the last three games. Thankfully Stoke at home is the ‘anchor leg’. With Liverpool away […]

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The North London derby is invariably a feisty affair. Off the pitch grown men lose all sense of the rational as local bragging rights are contested. I’ve been there, still go there on occasion. Is it therefore hypocritical to expect players not to get caught up in the excitement of the day as well? I […]

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