Posted in match review on May 8th, 2011 196 Drinks »
I know. You came here for perspective. You came here for a sense of ‘well that sort of thing happens but we are still Arsenal”. Sorry. Not today. At two this afternoon there was still a feasible, if highly unlikely, series of results that would see us somehow land the title. At two this afternoon […]
Posted in match preview on May 7th, 2011 117 Drinks »
The summer of 1979 I’m thinking about today. At Wembley in May the sun shines on one Liam Brady as he almost single-handedly destroys Manchester United in the ‘five-minute-final’. For one 22 year old the little Irishman with a magic wand for a left foot has become the finest player ever to pull on the […]
Posted in comment on May 4th, 2011 122 Drinks »
Like all of you my various mailboxes are weighed down with correspondence from the club, the supporters organisations, and some of you. The increase in ticket prices next season comes at an inopportune moment, of that there is little doubt. The timing, however, is a given. From the club’s point of view if they don’t […]
Posted in match review on May 2nd, 2011 172 Drinks »
I’m inspired. By friends new and old. Thank you for your company, and your whisky! This was a day to treasure in an end of season that has seen us contrive to snatch misery from the brink of glory. Yet it had started with some considerable surprise when the team news reached the pub and […]
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