Posted in competitions on Aug 13th, 2013 229 Drinks »
So in a summer transfer vacuum it was quite a shock to the system to witness fifteen new signings today. The Diab’holical squad for this season was rather rushed into place as if it were September 2nd. Luckily we have more relaxed transfer rules in the Fantasy version so liberal use of the market will […]
Posted in match review on Aug 10th, 2013 241 Drinks »
There are a number of ways of looking at Arsenal’s final friendly before the season starts in earnest. As with so many of our recent matches we have an eye-witness account, with thanks to Lars… “Helsinki’s an expensive shithole with not one decent pub anywhere that we could find and the stadium was a prehistoric […]
Posted in comment on Aug 9th, 2013 256 Drinks »
There was one major disadvantage to my choice of holiday destination for the last few days. Aside from flaky wireless coverage in the hotel lounge I was largely incommunicado and almost totally unaware of what was going on. However there was an equal and opposite advantage to being there. I was largely incommunicado and almost […]
Posted in match review on Aug 5th, 2013 782 Drinks »
Huge thanks to our very own Takeabowson for stepping into the breach while I am in some sort of a communications blackspot. Still I haven’t seen the game so his report tells me all I need to know. Thanks TaBS. So it was only the Emirates Cup right? Right. It is a competition whose format […]
Posted in match review on Aug 3rd, 2013 146 Drinks »
Apologies to my Twitter followers who have just had to suffer that headline for the second time today. Football returned to the Grove this afternoon and the fact that it was a pre-season friendly didn’t detract from the extremity of the views being expressed as the game unfolded. For the first time I swerved the […]
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