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Archive for November, 2010

I recall an occasion when the old man sat me down after a school report had turned up in the post. English and Maths, the minimum requirements I thought, got me good comments. Sports brought glowing tributes. I was a bit surprised then when he started having a pop at me about Latin. “No doubt […]

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“The only thing I promise is that we will take the tie seriously, but I have to consider how many games my players play. For six weeks we have played every three days with Champions League and internationals. I will consider who needs to play and who needs to rest.” It says everything. It says […]

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The final whistle blowing before three on a Saturday a month before Christmas means the management determines where I spend the last couple of hours of the afternoon. So as I am perusing the bobble hats in Matalan I am thinking back on what I have just witnessed at the same time, and the likely […]

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Well what else did you expect me to hang this preview on? I’ve read so much negative stuff this week (yes, and written some too!) that the prospect of seeing that famous Pires gait again is a major attraction of the visit to Villa Park. Villa have an injury list that seems to have overtaken […]

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As you might imagine, I get all manner of email traffic, daily. Around the time of the North London derby I am always impressed at the number of different drug and porn offers that various bots try to share with you. Reliable filters generally sort out the worst of it leaving me to sift through […]

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A terrific debate followed the preview, dominated as it was by my downbeat reflections on a dark weekend. Those dark thoughts will surface in a grotesque distortion in the usual places after this latest humiliation. I know the majority, if not all of you, will have seen the game. I don’t need to give a […]

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Unlike Paul, I was not on the road to Damascus when the possibility of conversion hit me. Just after half two on Saturday I was standing in row 27 of the faux-Clock End upper. Koscielny cleaned out Bale on the left, in not entirely dissimilar circumstances to his red card offence against Newcastle. Luckily Phil […]

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Bali, Hi!

It’s a two parter tonight, ‘holics, and as a light-hearted aperitif, prior to an altogether more difficult to digest main course, I am happy to bring you an update from our friend in Bali. I remember playing cricket with a medical student some years ago, who had persuaded someone to sponsor him to do a […]

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Not Good Enough

I promised myself I would not attempt to write anything tonight. The gut reaction to that second-half performance borders on the sort of stuff I urge people to refrain from voicing. Keeping a sense of perspective is admirable most of the time. But most of the time we don’t lose three home games out of […]

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It’s nearly here. Fun has been had this week, but now it it’s time to get a little more serious about the impending North London derby. It’s important for ‘holicdad, the first ‘holic generation born in an Islington incorporating Arsenal. It’s important for the late ‘holicgodfathers who used to brave the back of the Clock […]

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