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Archive for August, 2014

And Leicester

I have waited until the final whistle has blown at Goodison before considering the preview of our trip to Leicester, hereinafter to be compulsorily referred to as And Leicester, in honour of the song we amended in the early seventies. Quite why things got so lively at And Leicester, both when we played there and […]

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Seventeen And Counting

If you want to read a conventional report on the game tonight can I recommend the Guardian. I haven’t seen what they have come up with yet, but among the mainstream media they and the Observer get it right more often than most. Actually, I just checked, and it is here. For this blogger and, […]

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A difficult week could be made much more bearable on Wednesday night should Arsenal beat Besiktas to reach the group stages of the Champions League for the seventeenth consecutive season. The online Arsenal world is alive with talk of injuries and potential transfers. They have to be put on the back burner for the first […]

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It’s August, and Arsenal are trailing at half-time in the northwest. Two second half goals get us a result. Next time out we are spared a home defeat against Portsmouth by the infamous Robert Pires penalty award. Now nobody is claiming that eleven years on that this Arsenal side is in any sort of shape […]

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April Shower

So I have a routine. Friday evening I have the first pints since Sunday, then watch the presser, then try and fashion some sort of a preview. Maybe it is too routine. I am about to find out. No presser seen, and I’m not sure all the Kate Bush footage I have seen this evening […]

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I feel the need for a somewhat defensive post about the goal-less draw with Besiktas tonight mainly because of the reaction on social media sites, but actually that is not how I feel about the game. For much of the ninety minutes I saw two commited teams trying to fashion an open contest on a […]

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The game looms that emphasises the importance of a top three, not a top four finish in the Premier League. We head off for Turkey for the final qualifying round of the Champions League minus the three World Cup winning Germans, Kieran Gibbs, and Yaya Sanogo. The latter two have picked up injuries at the […]

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A minute left on the clock. It’s 1-1. I turn to the neighbour and say “The last time I left a game early, we won. I’m off to see if it works again.” So I skipped, not quite gazelle like, up the stairs and by the time I hit the bottom of the steps outside […]

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An Air Of Expectation

Knocking on a wee bit I may be, but there is something about the start of this season that has me regressing, and in a good way. When was the last time the buzz was this strong? I cannot honestly say but it is most certainly what some would label ‘a while’. A World Cup […]

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Well that was fun, wasn’t it? Arsenal (no mention of the missing World Cup Germans or that we started with Olivier Giroud on the bench) thrashed a (media emphasis, much-weakened) Manchester City 3-0. Arsene surprised a few with his selection of Yaya Sanogo to start in the main striking role, and although the former Auxerre […]

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