Posted in match review on Jan 16th, 2013 364 Drinks »
Well I can certainly get ‘a game of two halves’ in. I don’t mind accepting at some stages of that game the clichés I was most expecting to have to use were along the lines of ‘if you miss that many chances you begin to wonder if it is going to be your day’. At […]
Posted in match preview on Jan 15th, 2013 423 Drinks »
After frustration comes perhaps rotation, albeit enforced. Arsenal attempt to beat Swansea for the first time in four attempts and earn us a decent day out in Brighton into the bargain. They will have to do it without the injured Mikel Arteta and Tomas Rosicky (bit of a mystery knock that one), and the suspended […]
Posted in match review on Jan 14th, 2013 223 Drinks »
Well, that was a party to remember. Apart from the ninety minutes intended to be the centrepiece of the celebration, obviously. The match was decided in the tenth minute with the dismissal of Laurent Koscielny and I have to say it has taken repeated viewings of the highlights to come to a more charitable view […]
Posted in match preview on Jan 12th, 2013 302 Drinks »
Saturday 4th October 1975. I know exactly what I was doing that day. I was watching an Arsenal side including Brian Kidd losing 3-2 to Manchester City at Highbury. For what it matters Alex Cropley (one for the Hibees there, sorry zico) and Alan Ball scored for us. It was a season in which we […]
Posted in comment on Jan 9th, 2013 487 Drinks »
Wednesday evening. A post is in order, but what about? I know, how about ticket prices for Grade A games? Too late, I should have got in last night. Arseblog carries a comprehensive recount of the issues today and I commend that to all. The point about City’s salary policy forcing prices up for all […]
Posted in match review on Jan 6th, 2013 437 Drinks »
The third round of the FA Cup. It still stirs the passions, and didn’t that become evident in the drinks and elsewhere today? The morning started in usual fashion. I try and catch up with who has written what in the Sundays’. I already mentioned the Amy Lawrence Guardian piece in the preview drinks. “Watching […]
Posted in match preview on Jan 4th, 2013 520 Drinks »
There is no escaping the size of the task that Arsenal face in Swansea this weekend. I was at the Grove a month ago when the Welsh side outplayed us and deservedly took three points back across the Severn Bridge. Fortunately the lacklustre Arsenal that played that day had a run-out at Southampton in the […]
Posted in match review on Jan 1st, 2013 648 Drinks »
“If you eat caviar every day it’s difficult to return to sausages” Arsene was forced to defend his champions after a frustrating 1-1 draw against Middlesbrough in 1998 and the words he chose resonate even more today. In the short term he had a point then, and one could argue it is valid today. Three […]
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