Posted in match preview on Sep 15th, 2015 97 Drinks »
“Our last visit was a very tough game. We needed to be patient against a very strong side.” Arsene Wenger in his pre-match press conference. It certainly doesn’t seem like nine years since last we met the Dinamo Zagreb of Corluka, Modric, and Eduardo, with a back four of Emmanuel Eboue, Johan Djourou, Kolo Toure, […]
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Posted in match review on Sep 12th, 2015 147 Drinks »
Arsene Wenger named an unchanged side for the visit of Stoke City to the Grove. That meant of course that Theo Walcott retained the striker’s role with Olivier Giroud remaining on the bench. The Gunners started strongly and in the fourth minute Alexis Sanchez was denied by a wonderful Butland tip on to the post. […]
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Posted in match preview on Sep 10th, 2015 103 Drinks »
Stoke City at home. Not a fixture to get the juices flowing in recent years, but perhaps there is a little more to look forward to now. Stoke have made attempts to improve the quality of their squad and the summer signings of Ibrahim Afellay and Xherdin Shaqiri caught the eye. Afellay settles into the […]
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Posted in comment on Sep 7th, 2015 89 Drinks »
A long weekend off. Alright then, a very long weekend off. I hope you are surviving the accursed international break. I have managed to avoid much of it, including England’s romp in San Marino. In fact I have only really seen Mesut Ozil lead Poland a merry dance. Do you still not get him? For those […]
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Posted in comment on Sep 2nd, 2015 188 Drinks »
“I am always confident that a last-minute situation or solution is available, because the transfer market is especially moving in the last four or five days, but at the moment I cannot promise you that. We have specific targets but sometimes you get an idea from somebody because you didn’t know that the player you like […]
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