Posted in match preview on May 18th, 2013 81 Drinks »
Spending Friday on the golf course took my mind off things. Spending a big chunk of Saturday watching cricket provided a distraction. Most of all though I am sitting here trying to put the final day of the league season into perspective just a few hundred yards from where two young girls lost their lives [...]
Posted in match preview on May 13th, 2013 469 Drinks »
“There is no room for shrinking violets, handbrakes, defensive brain-farts, tippy-tappy-afraid-to-shoot-sideways-surfing. Get the ball into their last third, quickly, directly and often.” zicoinexile 5.31pm That, I would imagine, pretty much sums up the approach we as supporters would like to see the team adopt as Wigan return to London for a fixture arguably more important [...]
Posted in match preview on May 2nd, 2013 285 Drinks »
Queens Park Rangers, away. Last season it was a fixture that came close to derailing our push for Champions League football this season. A repeat is unthinkable. By the time we take to the pitch at Loftus Road it is likely that we will have slipped a place with the neighbours entertaining Southampton in the [...]
Posted in match preview on Apr 26th, 2013 419 Drinks »
So I have. like you, been bombarded with how I should feel ahead of this weekend’s events. I’ve been instructed what I should or shouldn’t do when the teams come out. Trust me I understand, football has always generated diverse and contrasting emotions, and not all good. I may have the body of one who [...]
Posted in match preview on Apr 19th, 2013 282 Drinks »
Fulham away. It is a game I like to be at, although it is one that has become something of a banana skin for us in recent years. I have always fancied doing one of the boat trips to the game, but haven’t because Putney offers distractions I find hard to resist. Good food and [...]
Posted in match preview on Apr 15th, 2013 350 Drinks »
“If we’ve got any small chance of getting in the Champions League we need to get something out of this game and try and peg Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea back. For the last month or so we’ve been the big underdogs to be anywhere close to the Champions League but with the way we’ve been [...]
Posted in match preview on Apr 12th, 2013 385 Drinks »
So Norwich at home it is. I suppose it is fair to say it is not one of the most eagerly-anticipated fixtures in any football calendar, but strangely three home games with the East Anglians have stayed in the forefront of the memory, or rather one didn’t! Four days before Christmas in 1979 was a [...]
Posted in match preview on Apr 5th, 2013 181 Drinks »
“Here’s a tenner mate, and thanks for making me a proud Grandad. If you change your mind about supporting the Arsenal I want it back.” “I’m an Arsenal supporter Grandad.” Number one converted I go to his younger brother. “Same for you son. If you stop supporting Arsenal I want it back” “I’m an Arsenal [...]
Posted in match preview on Mar 29th, 2013 323 Drinks »
Thanks to First Great Western a long day awaits. Only they could reroute services around Reading Station on the day Reading are playing at our place and large numbers travelling from the west will face well over an additional hour in each direction. Grumble over. Blogs rock. You don’t get raw life like that in [...]
Posted in match preview on Mar 22nd, 2013 311 Drinks »
If there is something positive to look forward to in this international break, and the associated lack of action for the Arsenal side we would normally be supporting, then the quarter-final of the NextGen Series is just that. Arsenal’s U-19′s have battled through to this phase of the top European youth tournament and will host [...]
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