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Archive for August, 2010

I know people will be expecting a bit more than I am able to offer tonight or tomorrow. For a variety of reasons I am in the middle of two very long days, and today has helped put some of the events, or should I say non-events, of today into some perspective. I have time […]

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800 Not Out

As a babe I was carried to that place in N5, Where in time I felt all between dead and alive. I’m six when begins my hazy recall, Of so many in red who could master the ball. Joe Baker, George Eastham, first idols of mine, So many would follow, and join in that line, […]

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The difference between the makeshift eleven who lost at Blackburn in May, and the side that travelled to Ewood today, was greater than just the seven different faces in the starting line-up. It was also the mindset of those who battled through an opening 45 minutes that could have gone either way before imposing their […]

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“IT’S BEHIND YOU, ROBBO!” Go on. Yell it out. Like any true old friend it makes you feel better as the good memories come flooding back. “YOU WANT US TO PUT A BELL IN THE BALL SO YOU CAN HEAR IT COMING, FATGUTS?” Ever was it so when Paul Robinson, once of the parish of […]

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So there is another hour of my life I won’t get back. The most needlessly prolonged draw of them all is complete, and it would appear the biggest threat to Arsenal’s progress is the distance they will have to travel. I think we all suspected that first opponent out of the bowl for us would […]

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Come Back On Thursday Night

Champions League seedings for the group stages. Pot 1 Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd, Barcelona, Inter, AC Milan, Lyon, Bayern Pot 2 Werder Bremen, Real Madrid, Roma, Shakhtar Donetsk, Benfica, Valencia, Marseille, Panathinaikos Pot 3 LWC’s, Rangers, Ajax, Schalke, Basel, Sporting Braga, Kobnhavn, Spartak Moscow Pot 4 Hapoel Tel Aviv, Twente Enschede, Rubin Kazan, CFR Cluj, […]

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The lack of white smoke billowing from Highbury House means I have precious little to comment on this evening. So convinced was I that we would all be paying homage to a thirty year old defender that, let’s be honest here, we don’t know much about, I hadn’t prepared anything else. I watch football from […]

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Nearly midnight. Long day, but a good one. “You aren’t going to write your load of bollocks now, are you?” I can tell the love of my life has secretly missed me! I’ve missed her too, but have to say it was really good to meet up once again with a whole bunch of Gooners […]

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It is exciting to be previewing a Premier League game that I am going to see again. The pre-season friendlies provided enjoyable afternoons, and in great company, but without the edge that competitive matches bring. Almost forty years since I saw Blackpool play us in the league I am repeating the experience, and I am […]

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I wasn’t going to go to the game on Saturday, preferring instead to attend the first home game in September in order to view all the new signings currently negotiating with the club. Then a phone call required me to drop that plan, and Ticket Exchange offering a seat by the tunnel for the first […]

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