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Archive for April, 2013

More than twenty four hours after the event I can finally write what was impossible last night. A handful of you were, if not entirely responsible, significant contributors to my inability to focus on returning home from the match yesterday. It was a long day, and almost perfect, from brunch at Piebury Corner to the […]

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So I have. like you, been bombarded with how I should feel ahead of this weekend’s events. I’ve been instructed what I should or shouldn’t do when the teams come out. Trust me I understand, football has always generated diverse and contrasting emotions, and not all good. I may have the body of one who […]

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If you were watching the SWOL Google Hangout on Monday you will know that the subject of Olivier Giroud’s appeal, and his potential replacements for the next three matches, was the hot topic. Unfortunately today we have the not entirely unexpected news that the appeal has been rejected. Disappointing though that is I don’t feel […]

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Finding the right words to cover that performance is an impossible task. Every journo and blogger will be called out by half of their casual readership for being too negative or bottling it. So where do I begin. “The three points are everything and how we get them doesn’t matter at this stage of the […]

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Fulham away. It is a game I like to be at, although it is one that has become something of a banana skin for us in recent years. I have always fancied doing one of the boat trips to the game, but haven’t because Putney offers distractions I find hard to resist. Good food and […]

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It is the emotions that make football the spectacle it is. The best games usually have goals involved, but every now and again a goal-less draw wraps a strong hand around your intestines and squeezes. Two massively committed sides served up a raw feast for a huge audience tonight. From the off it was clear […]

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“If we’ve got any small chance of getting in the Champions League we need to get something out of this game and try and peg Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea back. For the last month or so we’ve been the big underdogs to be anywhere close to the Champions League but with the way we’ve been […]

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Stale Bunn Is Toasted

It is the stage of the season where the points are far more important than the performance. That is just as well. This victory was highly amusing for a number of reasons, but Norwich came close to doing what other sides with limited ability and ambition have sometimes achieved at the Grove since we moved […]

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So Norwich at home it is. I suppose it is fair to say it is not one of the most eagerly-anticipated fixtures in any football calendar, but strangely three home games with the East Anglians have stayed in the forefront of the memory, or rather one didn’t! Four days before Christmas in 1979 was a […]

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1998 Remembered

Another piece reproduced from my days writing for Arsenal-Land with thanks again to Darren. I was tempted to keep this piece back for another occasion, but with the benefit of hindsight it is not one to hold back for any reason. I have to confess I would rewrite it, and probably will at some future […]

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