Posted in match review on Mar 8th, 2017 114 Drinks »
UEFA, I have a plea. Your flagship competition is sponsored by the world’s leading brewers, and those of us who have no option but to watch a team that has devised ever more ways to tumble out of the competition in the round of sixteen need something stronger than the Bovril I revisited from my […]
Posted in match preview on Mar 6th, 2017 156 Drinks »
I can remember Sunday 15th May 2016 as if it were yesterday. We needed to take a point at home to already-relegated Aston Villa to clinch third place and the neighbours needed a point at already-relegated Newcastle to become Premier League runners-up. I went through every single emotion that day. Football pulls me out of […]
Posted in match review on Mar 4th, 2017 128 Drinks »
Arsene Wenger had clearly decided to shake things up for a very important fixture. The back five were as expected but ahead of them there were no starting places for Mesut Ozil (ill?), Alexis, or Theo Walcott. Ahead of Francis Coquelin and Granit Xhaka were Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Alex Iwobi, Danny Welbeck, and Olivier Giroud. Arsene […]
Posted in match preview on Mar 3rd, 2017 100 Drinks »
Twelve days after ending Sutton United’s FA Cup dreams we are finally back in action again in the north-west on a Saturday live on television. What could possibly go wrong? Well if that sounds nervous it isn’t meant to. Would you believe it if I told you on our last nine Premier League visits to […]
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