Posted in match review on Oct 17th, 2011 143 Drinks »
Where to start? Well the serious match reports will have been done elsewhere. They told you who did what and when. Hopefully this will give you a flavour of what it felt like to one blogger. You know the day could get awkward when you need to make an early start and your train goes […]
Posted in match preview on Oct 14th, 2011 172 Drinks »
At last, a weekend with real football to look forward to. Perhaps it is more accurate to say I am looking forward to running into some friends old and new on Sunday. Much is in the pipeline, and with good luck and a following wind the Arsenal will gild the day with a quality performance […]
Posted in history on Oct 12th, 2011 141 Drinks »
That means there will always be the temptation to return one day especially, you imagine, if a certain north London club comes calling. ‘The plan is to be settled here now I’ve built my house,’ he says of a home which he was designing during his time at Arsenal. ‘But there is something that stays […]
Posted in history on Oct 10th, 2011 156 Drinks »
Many happy returns to my second Arsenal idol. 61 today? I don’t believe it. All the best, maestro. Thanks for the pleasure, and the laughs. And thank you to @Mickasacker on Twitter who reminded me it is not only the birthday of one Frederick Charles George, but also another Arsenal legend. Tony Adams, have a […]
Posted in comment on Oct 8th, 2011 65 Drinks »
An early getaway to the coast on Thursday meant I missed the news of Arsenal Ladies progress in their latest European campaign. I was delighted therefore to catch up with the news that the girls got through to the last 16 of the Women’s Champions League with a 6-0 win over Belarusian side FC Bobruichanka […]
Posted in comment on Oct 6th, 2011 132 Drinks »
Regular drinkers will be aware that the provider of some remarkable match reviews is a man for whom the glass is not so much half-full as overflowing. Bergkamp the Man has taken the time to produce a piece that will provoke a few responses no doubt. Fourteen straight years in which Arsenal never finished out […]
Posted in comment on Oct 5th, 2011 69 Drinks »
“I would like to bid for the major stars, but the Arsenal board’s wage structure will not allow it. We urgently need a pick-up in the League because we are down in thirteenth place. That’s virtually unheard of in my time as manager at Highbury.” Fascinating words from the diary of the Arsenal manager on […]
Posted in match review on Oct 2nd, 2011 213 Drinks »
“…this is the most difficult North London derby to predict in a very long time.” So I wrote beforehand, too which now I can add, this is the most difficult North London derby to summarise, in a very long time. It was a game of many contradictions. How could we claim to be the better […]
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