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Archive for January, 2017

What a draw for the fifth round of the FA Cup. Sutton United must be totally jubilant, and Craig Eastmond will be absolutely delighted to get a crack at one or two of his old team mates. Roarie Deacon and Jeffrey Monakana are also former young guns in the squad. If everybody but Santi Cazorla […]

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Arsene Wenger gave Steve Bould a much-changed team to oversee at St Mary’s. Skhodran Mustafi was the only player to keep his place from last week. There were not even places on the bench for Petr Cech, Laurent Koscielny, Francis Coquelin, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil, or Olivier Giroud. Martin Keown mentioned that he had heard […]

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Another FA Cup weekend looms, along with all the anticipation and hope that it brings. For some there is still a bit of an aura surrounding this competition. The prospect of another Wembley Final is always an appealing one. Perhaps a little bit of the gold dust is missing for we will probably see two squad […]

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With a little help from their friends the Arsenal Supporters Trust today launched     a survey into current views of Arsenal supporters about the prospect of having a safe-standing trial at the Arsenal. This is obviously just the first step in a campaign that will take time to come to fruition. As you will have seen […]

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A strange yet also wonderful weekend took a variety of turns on it’s final afternoon. After a delayed journey caused a complete reorganisation of the timetable I found myself in the stomach, if not the bowels, of our no longer new home. Friends of distinction came and we shared the news that we were going […]

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What a Saturday that turned out to be. Liverpool beaten and there were draws for Manchester United, Manchester City, and the neighbours from Middlesex. I only watched two matches, at Stoke and the Emptihad, and in both matches massive penalty shouts were denied by officials who must surely have seen them. Enough of that, other […]

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So it will be a trip south rather than east in the fourth round of the FA Cup. It took Southampton until the second of four added minutes to see off Championship team Norwich City in front of 13517 lonely souls. It is an opportunity to gain revenge for our defeat in the EFL Cup […]

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We took to the pitch at the Liberty with Gabriel switched to right-back, in the absence of Hector Bellerin, and the rest of our first choice back five in situ again. Olivier Giroud was retained up front with Alexis and Alex Iwobi notionally occupying the flanks. To say the match started slowly is a huge […]

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Introspection complete, we have a Saturday 3pm kick-off to look forward to, and an opportunity to reclaim a place or two, or maybe even three, at the top of the table. Such is the nature of the pile-up behind Chelsea at the head of affairs that the fixture computer has offered up an intriguing weekend […]

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Clearing The Bar

The evening after the day before has arrived and the thundersnow has not made it anywhere remotely close to ‘holic Towers. The predictive text really wanted ‘colic to appear there which is particularly apt today given that so many babies on social media are suffering with it. If you will forgive the me, me, me […]

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