Posted in match review on Sep 28th, 2013 302 Drinks »
Each season is a new relationship. This one could not have started much worse for Arsenal Football Club and their devoted, but opinionated, suitors. This one included. You question do you want to go on with it if we are going to have more of the same old, same old. Arsenal and suitors squared up. […]
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Posted in match preview on Sep 28th, 2013 290 Drinks »
A little later than usual, and therefore with judgement even more impaired, a look at the trip to Swansea. This may prove important when we get to the ‘holic pound! The team news seemed to be we have no new injuries from the League Cup triumph at West Bromwich, although Arsene spoke of niggles for […]
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Posted in match review on Sep 26th, 2013 196 Drinks »
Sorry about that title. It had to be done. That was quite the evening, wasn’t it. I can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear so suffice it to say the game was largely painful viewing. That’s not intended harshly. Arsenal’s starting eleven was necessarily a mix of players who will only have […]
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Posted in match review on Sep 23rd, 2013 368 Drinks »
If I have settled down to write a review twenty-seven hours after the event before then I don’t remember it. There is not much point in a conventional summary as you will probably have seen at least the highlights by now, and probably read a cross section of reports too. A diary entry is in […]
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Posted in match preview on Sep 21st, 2013 347 Drinks »
A new dawn, or the resumption of hostilities? The absence of Tony Pulis from matchday five is welcome. A favourite pantomime villain for many a Gooner has made way for Mark Hughes, himself no leader of any popularity poll around here. The middle-aged man in the silly cap has gone. Good. Of course there will […]
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Posted in match review on Sep 18th, 2013 231 Drinks »
We could not have made a better start to what is undoubtedly a very competitive group phase of the Champions League. Amazing to me was the surprise that greeted Marseille’s enthusiastic peformance in the opening hour. They are a good side who troubled us similarly a couple of years ago before we took the game […]
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Posted in match preview on Sep 17th, 2013 196 Drinks »
So here we go again. Another shot at old big ears starts in Marseille. Somehow it doesn’t seem like any old beginning. For years we have sailed confidently through the group stage despite on occasion getting a tricky draw with a couple of other decent sides. I have to say I am not sure we […]
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Posted in competitions on Sep 16th, 2013 37 Drinks »
Arsenal has introduced a special area for 12 to 16 year old supporters at Emirates Stadium this season, with £10 tickets available to up to 1,000 youngsters for selected games. I’ve got a pair of tickets to give away in the new ‘Young Guns Enclosure’ for this weekend’s match with Stoke. Don’t forget, this isn’t […]
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Posted in match review on Sep 14th, 2013 285 Drinks »
As performances go, that will definitely be filed under mixed bag. Over the course of a season you will get games like that, but the astonishing difference in our attacking and defensive ‘efficiency’ (as Arsene likes to say) hints at a fair few twists and turns as we recover from our opening day defeat. The […]
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Posted in match preview on Sep 13th, 2013 238 Drinks »
So for two weeks I assume everybody has been wandering around with an inane grin on their face? Once again they came to witness the fabled power shift in North London, and once more we sent the swamp-dwellers back up the road with their slightly grubby tails between their legs. As if that day didn’t […]
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