Posted in match review on Nov 9th, 2006 Comments Off on Calm Down, Calm Down!
Did he, or didn’t he? The hairspray question is filling column inches as the Everton camp go to war with Graham Poll. The whys and wherefores of Mcfadden’s foul mouthed tirade at the hapless official are being used to paper over the cracks at Goodison. Let’s make one thing clear chaps. Even with ten members […]
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Posted in match preview on Nov 7th, 2006 Comments Off on Examination Time For Wenger's Latest Class
If you are looking for a valid reason why the fledgling Gunners may get a result up at Goodison in tomorrow’s Carling Cup encounter you need only go back two years, almost to the day. Admittedly Arsenal enjoyed home advantage for the fourth round tie in 2004, but in-form Everton were using their first choice […]
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Posted in comment on Nov 6th, 2006 Comments Off on Beware The Ides Of, Er, November!
November 1935, and Arsenal’s third defeat of the season is at the hands of Aston Villa in front of a packed Highbury. Three years on and our fourth defeat of the season came at Grimsby in, you’ve guessed it, November. A decade on and Derby turned us over in the same month. 1952 and it’s […]
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Posted in match review on Nov 5th, 2006 Comments Off on Get Me Out Of Here – It's November
If the red tops are to be believed Paul Merson is heading for the outback to film ‘Get Me Out Of Here, I’m A Celebrity’. Chances are there will be a few present day gooners hoping to find themselves in the middle of nowhere after the defeat at Upton Park. A fairly even contest saw […]
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Posted in comment on Nov 3rd, 2006 Comments Off on Pick Of The Day – Or Maybe Not
Friday is a dreadful day when the weekend action is taking place on a Sunday. You know that any team ‘news’ appearing today is of limited value. There is an extra day for the walking wounded to heal, or the healthy to be struck down with an exotic virus. So I have been scouring the […]
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Posted in tongue in cheek on Nov 1st, 2006 Comments Off on A Few Words From My Russian Cousin – Goonerholich
Greetings Comrades, I am enjoying very much the heatwave here in London. It was nearly three degrees tonight. It is so good to be able to take your shirt off in a strange stadium. People have been unbelievably friendly all night. Many of the Arsenal supporters were waving to us, and they have obviously heard […]
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