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Archive for January, 2011

The sheer madness of deadline day is not yet fully unfurled as I type the first words of another brief preview. The drinks, and the comments fields on every football blog it seems, are full of astonishment at the £35 million price tag for a player Newcastle could not have given away eighteen months ago. […]

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“you have the potential for a really nervy single goal triumph, with a late goal from a hastily summoned first-teamer from the bench” The ‘holic pound may have gone south, but I think I can claim a little bit of predictive expertise in the preview. Really nervy it most certainly was, and not just for […]

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You can probably guess by the time that this preview is hitting the web that it may not be my most lucid piece of work. I am a boxeater steak (no,  it’s the shoulder actually!) and several pints of Cornwall’s finest to the wind. Before going further can I thank everybody for your response to […]

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The Old Man Saw Them All

Forgive me for the personal nature of this post. I am heading west on Friday afternoon for what will probably be the last trip to ‘holicdad’s home. It is not a prospect I particularly relish. I have already the most important of his saved possessions. The Supporters Club membership cards from just after the war […]

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Nothing my hosts can do will stop me savouring tonight. Welcome back to my original, and now temporary abode. Thanks for dropping by. (Update,  a new shiny home has been found. You’re in it!) Well, for two and a half hours of the three this semi-final took up, we were in a bit of a […]

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Huddersfield Town, Stratford Hotspur, Stratford Hotspur, Everton, Crystal Palace, Stratford Hotspur. The old boys are with me. I remember them all, and so does anybody else over fifty. Still stuck? If Ipswich Town are beaten by at least two goals at the Grove our friends and neighbours will no longer have provided the opposition in […]

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Well, that was quite the performance, wasn’t it. Admittedly, for the second week running, we found ourselves playing a very poor bottom three side, but Arsenal’s fluidity and firepower were impressive in the extreme. I had thought that Wigan’s recent results hinted at a degree of organisation that would frustrate us for a while. I […]

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Wigan-ner Have A Party

“Any victory tomorrow will be a fantastic result for us.” We all know what the boss means by that. Of course everybody expects us to beat Wigan handsomely, but we know only too well that in our last two meetings with the pie-munchers we have contrived to throw away five points out of the six […]

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Hard to know where to start. That was a proper old game of football. Two sides busting a gut in a one hundred mile an hour spectacular, and a lesson to some of the neanderthal managers in the Premiership that football can be played at that pace and intensity without leg-breaking challenges, and without two-footed […]

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“Some of the Arsenal lads looked forward to Leeds with as much enthusiasm as root canal work at the dentist without gas, but they never frightened me. Rather, I licked my lips in anticipation.” I’ve already started an article this season with that quotation from Peter Storey. Little did I know at the time it […]

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