Posted in history on Mar 11th, 2013 107 Drinks »
I’m looking on jealously as a number of you prepare to journey to Munich for Wednesday’s Champions League fixture. The grey cells flicker dimly as I recall my first venture into Europe following the Arsenal. In the sixties and seventies the novelty of European competition was restricted to home legs for me. That all changed […]
Posted in comment on Mar 8th, 2013 286 Drinks »
These quiet weeks are a mixed blessing. There is time to dig out the old videos and dvd’s, and trawl YouTube for golden moments from days gone by. Football, music, and childhood cartoons. They’re all there if you look hard enough. Watching once more those I grew up cheering on keeps the mind working overtime. […]
Posted in history on Mar 6th, 2013 179 Drinks »
It seems a good time to remind people that Arsenal once went 44 years without winning a major trophy. That included a seventeen year blank after moving to a larger stadium. It came after Herbert Chapman, rightly now revered, had gone five years without delivering the trophy Arsenal supporters craved. A piece I originally penned […]
Posted in match review on Mar 3rd, 2013 448 Drinks »
“It’s very frustrating. We were 2-0 down when we should have been 2-0 up. It was a strange game to lose.” Allow me the temerity of correcting you Arsene. We were 2-0 down when we could have been level at 2-2. That we weren’t owed a little bit to Hugo Lloris and a little to […]
Posted in match preview on Mar 2nd, 2013 366 Drinks »
Fifty three weeks ago, and I wouldn’t be an old boy if I didn’t add it seems like yesterday, I previewed the North London derby thus. ‘At a time when the natives are getting more vociferously restless to a lesser or greater degree, the Arsenal face a make or break test of that oft-mooted ‘mental […]
Posted in match preview on Mar 1st, 2013 59 Drinks »
Jim Furnell; Don Howe, Gordon Ferry, Peter Simpson, Freddie Clarke; George Armstrong, Frank Mclintock, George Eastham, Terry Anderson; Geoff Strong, Joe Baker. The first Arsenal team I remember watching at White Hart Lane. You don’t want to know what the final score was. Suffice it to say that in October 1964 we were a frustrating […]
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