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Archive for November, 2014

Well, a ‘not too good’ week turned bad at the Liberty Stadium as Arsenal once again surrendered a lead. Although Anderlecht only recovered a point against us on Tuesday Swansea grabbed all three with two goals in the last fifteen minutes. Let me give credit to Garry Monk and his team. They were competitive throughout […]

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Swansea away, probably not the ideal fixture to follow Tuesday’s events,  but a happy hunting ground for us last season thanks to a 1-2 success. Those who would argue that the same side should be offered the opportunity to redeem themselves will have read by now the news of the skippers absence with a hamstring […]

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Time to rewrite the report on the first-half, already committed to the page at half-time in an attempt to publish soon after the final whistle and to enable a relaxing early night. Gone the talk of the visitors playing into our hands with their adventurous approach to the contest. Full marks to Anderlecht for turning […]

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With apologies to Poirot obsessives, two weeks on from our astonishing smash and grab in Brussels we go head to head with Anderlecht again. We will need to start the way we ended against Burnley at the weekend.  If the anticipated home wins transpire then Dortmund and ourselves will have secured the last sixteen berths […]

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The morning after the night before. The ‘holics, as ever, have been a bad influence, clearly. It was good, however, to be celebrating what became a comfortable win once Arsene worked out that Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini were in excess of the required number of holding players against limited opposition to the tune of […]

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