Posted in match preview on Apr 30th, 2010 73 Drinks »
There was a distinct end-of-season feel to the press conference ahead of Arsenal’s visit to Blackburn on Bank Holiday Monday.
Four days before the event is perhaps too far in advance to be talking about who may or may not be available, but reading between the lines it looks as though Andrey Arshavin, the only casualty [...]
Posted in history on Apr 28th, 2010 43 Drinks »
Thank you to Arsenal.com for reminding me of the ‘holicdad’s forty-eighth birthday present, and the first trophy I ever saw Arsenal win.
Those of us born after Arsenal’s seventh Championship in 1953 had endured two failures in the preceding seasons. Successive League Cup defeats at Wembley to Leeds United and Swindon Town had left our desire [...]
Posted in match review on Apr 25th, 2010 78 Drinks »
When the old man started taking me to Arsenal all those years ago I don’t think he could have imagined in his wildest dreams what he started. I doubt very much he could have predicted that one day I would be sitting in the old Caledonian market watching a bunch of strange individuals from around [...]
Posted in match preview on Apr 23rd, 2010 50 Drinks »
So the press conference today has only added one name to the equation that we didn’t mention when discussing the Arsenal team yesterday. Does anybody expect Eduardo to get a start? Me neither. So let’s consider the opponents before squandering a pound on the potential outcome.
City, like most clubs, do not have the same strength [...]
Posted in comment on Apr 22nd, 2010 67 Drinks »
The preview of the Citeh game will be tomorrow night, but I can save myself some time, and a couple of paragraphs, by picking the likely starting eleven for the Gunners tonight.
The official website brings us the news that early hopes for a return by Andrey Arshavin are not to be rewarded, and only Alex [...]
