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Archive for May, 2016

Bank Holiday weekend is drawing to a close. Curses. Tomorrow morning it’s back to the workhouse but with some memories of the winding up of another season of club football. Real Madrid triumphed over neighbours Atletico to secure the Champions League in the cruellest of penalty shoot-outs. Hull City secured the richest prize in Championship […]

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Hello again from an unusually warm and pleasant West Country. Don’t forget we have a competition running at the moment. Our friends at Art of Football have launched another outstanding range of teeshirts for the upcoming European Championship. The theme is inspired by the 50 blank years that have followed England’s World Cup triumph in […]

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Well, out of the blue Arsenal today announced the signing of Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach. Who could have seen that coming? The undisclosed fee has been rumoured to be an initial £25m possibly rising to £30m depending on how successful his stay at the Gunners is. The Arsenal social media team showed good humour […]

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The Long Good Saturday

What a day that was. I had planned to cover the Arsenal Ladies trip to Doncaster yesterday but the great British weather put paid to that idea. The downpours also restricted me to a day in front of two screens, a test match, four cup finals, and a farce of a boxing bout. One of […]

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“I’m Rosicky” “No, I’m Rosicky” A guard of honour forms The morning after the night before. Ouch. The last match of the season invariably results in a tour of Highbury pre-lunch. It doesn’t get any less emotional with time. The old girl looked gorgeous, resplendent in the spring sunshine. Then on to join those who […]

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The Arsenal Ladies have won their fourteenth FA Cup Final this afternoon, but their first at Wembley in front of a record crowd of 32,912. I saw lots of Arsenal supporters (including some ‘holics!) took the opportunity of going along and if Twitter was anything to go by even more watched the BBC coverage of […]

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…here’s to the first three points of the season, please. Should they be gained we have a base on which to build. Damn you hope, this is your time. So I previewed the opening match of the 2015/16 season. We didn’t get the three points. Here we are readying ourselves for the last match of […]

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Specialists determined surgery was required after scans and tests revealed significant cartilage damage… his full recovery is expected to take approximately nine months. Those who saw Danny Welbeck’s obvious discomfort on Sunday will have been dreading the arrival of the announcement on Arsenal.com today. It looked a bad one at the time, and a year after […]

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News that Per Mertesacker and Mesut Ozil were ruled out of the team at Manchester City by injury took some of the gloss off Southampton’s victory at the other end of Seven Sisters Road. City started on the front foot and the Gunners were pinned into their own half. In the eighth minute Fernandinho head […]

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So, a season defining week for the good folk of Leicester comes to a conclusion, and we have an opportunity to seal third place at least in the Premier League. We have just the small matter of winning in the Etihad between us and avoiding the Champions League play-off in August. A draw would keep […]

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