Posted in match preview on Dec 10th, 2012 487 Drinks »
“We will have an experienced squad at Bradford. We have a good recovery time ahead of the game at Reading on Monday. So we can use the players we want to use.” I would be surprised if that wasn’t Wengercode for ‘We will pretty much start the side that played at Olympiacos last week’. The […]
Posted in match review on Dec 9th, 2012 257 Drinks »
The final home match before Christmas usually provides the opportunity to share a brief few moments and some tasty morsels with a top Gooner and his family. This year was no different. Bubbles, rioja, and some very tasty nibbles set the general air of well-being. To the pub I went to locate my temporary neighbour […]
Posted in match preview on Dec 7th, 2012 313 Drinks »
Friday evening. Always an enjoyable ritual. Post-work pints, a tasty take-away, then sit down with another pint or two to check out the presser and interviews on Arsenal Player. Give me that one phrase please, Arsene. “Our focus is more on the next few games than the transfer market.” Focus. That is the word of […]
Posted in match review on Dec 4th, 2012 537 Drinks »
Starting eleven, check. Tomas Rosicky to score, check. Result like last season can be written off, check. If you read the preview, you knew what was going to happen. However predictable that result looked last night it only arrived as a result of two huge swings in fortune. Firstly, at half-time the player who had […]
Posted in match preview on Dec 3rd, 2012 441 Drinks »
The fixture has some similarities with the 1998 meeting with Panathinaikos, when Arsenal’s fate had already been decided and a youthful side stunned the hosts 3-1. Words I wrote a year ago for a preview of the identical fixture come back to the forefront of my mind. Yes, there was a time we took a […]
Posted in match review on Dec 2nd, 2012 381 Drinks »
Wood; Hollins, O’Leary, Whyte, Sansom; Talbot, Davis, Nicholas, Rix; Sunderland, Vaessen February 1982. I sat in the East Lower and watched a very talented Swansea team beat a very ordinary Arsenal 2-0. Who doesn’t believe in Groundhog Day? Yesterday I relived the experience in the West Lower. The mid eighties, like the mid seventies, remain […]
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