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Archive for May, 2011

The Summer Starts Here

The first blank weekend of the summer, well Arsenal-wise anyway, assuming you discount the ‘Legends’ event at Craven Cottage, where luminaries such as Paolo Vernazza, David Hillier, and Ian Selley avoided a charge under the trades descriptions act. The portly old Gunners were kept at bay by the portly old ten man defence of our […]

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Real Perspective

A few words on Twitter put things into perspective on Tuesday. jack_wilshere So sad to hear that my friend @sonnyvanpersie has passed away. Love and thoughts are with his family at this sad time. I didn’t know Sonny’s story, but I’m so glad that by following Jack on Twitter I do now. The link to […]

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Reflections

Apologies to anybody who expected something more substantial than a photographic tour of the ‘holic’s day out on Sunday. Frankly I felt it unnecessary to add to the air of gloom I expected to see everywhere else. It was a day to share the positives of the day with you. I had an absolutely blinding […]

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We Defended A Corner

So the last day of the season. The highlights were… at the Eight Bells. Lunch is served… Nice pint at the river… Spend some flipping money. And afterwards… Can’t believe they lost the Timothy Taylor beers. Not on. Swines. G’night all, for this season.

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The final preview of the season, and anger has turned to resignation for some, this blogger included. Of course if we don’t better the Manchester City result at Bolton then there will be more venting of spleens, and understandably so. For me though, it is about trying to grab the positives that are about. Like […]

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I’m back. Thank you ‘holics for keeping the bar open while I was otherwise occupied, and thanks from the management too for your kindness. It’s a strange evening, as I have been watching Arsene’s presser prior to the final match of the season whilst preparing the bags for the opening of the ‘holic golf season […]

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“I shall be glad to avoid…what could be a less enthusiastic than usual response to the lap of appreciation at the end of the game. I hope I am wrong, but I sense there could just be a mixed reception for the boys at this one.” OK, so I’m no soothsayer. I think everybody could […]

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I cannot remember the last time I missed the final home match of the season. It is a ritual, grabbing the last opportunity to see the team in the flesh for a month or two. A good man has come to the rescue and provided me with the opportunity to wave goodbye to a player […]

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The New Kit. Thumbs Up Or Not?

Thursday night. Quiet news week. How quiet? Six of the top seven stories on NewsNow are just pure transfer speculation, and the season isn’t even over yet. You can’t blame anyone for doing that when the only other Arsenal story of note concerns Merse forgetting the yellow liquid he was injected with back in the […]

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“Do us a history post, ‘holic. It will cheer everybody up, maybe even you!” Thank you for the mail, old. It has got me thinking. There was a time when while still too young to head off to games under my own steam we had a pretty set pattern during the football season. We would […]

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