Posted in match preview on Nov 30th, 2012 390 Drinks »
Friday night pints pre-preview, followed by a three o’clock Saturday kick-off. The world is in equilibrium. Sort of. It’s a big day tomorrow, for one reason or another, so let’s crack on. For the second time in three days we play a team within a point and a place of us in the Premier League. […]
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Posted in match review on Nov 28th, 2012 241 Drinks »
It seems I was one of but a few who found a decent stream to watch the match if Twitter is anything to go by. I decided to break my self-imposed ban on the social media site during a match just to check if it is still a place best avoided. Generally the mood wasn’t […]
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Posted in match preview on Nov 27th, 2012 267 Drinks »
A midweek trip to Everton evokes memories of 1975, and a League Cup tie at Goodison. My first trip to the blue half of the city. Three of us went up on the train, and I don’t recall seeing too many other Gooners on the trip. Alex Cropley and Frank Stapleton got the goals in […]
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Posted in match review on Nov 24th, 2012 428 Drinks »
A scoreless draw at the Villa. The latest in a line of disappointing results but I will defend those in the Yellow today from the charges that were quite rightly aimed at them at Norwich. This was not a day when anybody could accuse them of not trying. This was not a failure of a […]
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Posted in match preview on Nov 23rd, 2012 228 Drinks »
The forecast in the West isn’t too good for the weekend. The drought we were plunged into for several hours in the spring is now a sick memory. The outlook is much brighter for the Arsenal this weekend, however. For now I will let the improved sponsorship package with Emirates sit on one side. Much […]
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Posted in match review on Nov 21st, 2012 309 Drinks »
As I suspect one young ‘holic discovered this evening not every game goes according to plan. I’m looking forward to seeing what Wind made of the performance in the drinks later. From a comfortable sofa eighty miles away we appeared to survive an indifferent start before wrapping up a place in the knock-out stages of […]
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Posted in match preview on Nov 20th, 2012 303 Drinks »
Another big Champions League night for Arsenal. As we know depending on the results of both matches in Group B we could progress to the knock-out phase on matchday five, making for a less fraught final group fixture in Greece. It would bring about a fitting extension to the feelgood factor that has engulfed the […]
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Posted in match review on Nov 17th, 2012 444 Drinks »
It’s a long time since I got home from any Arsenal match, let alone the North London derby, before eight. Alright, it was a lunchtime kick-off and I wasn’t exactly on the wagon, but you catch my drift. What I did do was I made sure I enjoyed as much of the day as I […]
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Posted in match preview on Nov 16th, 2012 314 Drinks »
The restorative powers that are generated by THE London derby are well recognised by this particular scribe. As I type it is less than forty hours since waking a shaking, sweating mess. Several cups of tea, a bowl of soup, and umpteen paracetamols later I am now grateful not to be missing North London’s equivalent […]
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Posted in comment on Nov 13th, 2012 388 Drinks »
“How many of the present “tenants” of the terraces at the two stadia are fully conscious of the roots of the intense rivalry which has developed between the clubs? Why were supporters in the early 1920s so incensed, so fanatical as to indulge in street fights, the more belligerent armed with iron bars and knives? […]
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