Posted in match review on Mar 30th, 2014 365 Drinks »
Grateful thanks to Takeabowson for stepping into the breach at short notice, particularly as it dawned on him he might be commenting on a proper hiding. Fortunately that didn’t transpire. Thanks TaBS for helping out again. “Bit busy tomorrow mate. Do you fancy writing this one up?” asked the Guvnor over the pre-match pints. Rueful […]
Posted in match preview on Mar 28th, 2014 247 Drinks »
So here we are again. Preview time. Simple enough really. Quote from Arsene maybe, team news, praise the midfield, predict a victory, wish everybody a good one. Job done. Except there is a very different feel surrounding Saturday teatime’s visit of Manchester City in the wake of a drubbing at the bus stop in Fulham […]
Posted in match review on Mar 25th, 2014 364 Drinks »
At the final whistle I tweeted the line from Fever Pitch that is probably more applicable today than it was back in 1989. No, bollocks to probably. That is a superfluous word. “After a while, it all gets mixed up in your head, and you can’t remember whether life’s shit because Arsenal are shit or […]
Posted in match review on Mar 22nd, 2014 663 Drinks »
Where to start? Having taken time out to let the immediate reaction subside I guess the first thing is to hold our hands up and accept we got well and truly humbled on a very big day. We spoke beforehand about the possible recall of Mathieu Flamini to ‘fight for every scrap of possession in […]
Posted in match preview on Mar 21st, 2014 318 Drinks »
When the first game of the season was lost if you had offered us the possibility of closing the gap on the current Premier League leaders to a point in the penultimate weekend of March I suspect both of your arms would have been ripped off. I also suspect you might have expected the said […]
Posted in comment on Mar 19th, 2014 172 Drinks »
Midweek. Worse than that, a midweek without a game. Fortunately the afterglow of winning at the Lane remains to keep the spirits somewhere north of the equator. Much of the talk has turned to our second consecutive trip in the capital when we visit Chelsea on Saturday, and the fact that it will be Arsene […]
Posted in match review on Mar 16th, 2014 338 Drinks »
Well, what can one say about that? The strangest of derby days for this old boy. In need of some thinking time I made for a park in town and felt completely calm ahead of a fixture that usually gnaws away at the stomach. I used to love going to the Lane in the days […]
Posted in match preview on Mar 14th, 2014 245 Drinks »
The evolution of North London derby previews tells me a number of things about Arsenal and I over the last eight years. They have gone from utterly contemptuous and dismissive of the neighbours to a period of acknowledging the family links for those of us born in the vicinity, and on to today which should […]
Posted in match review on Mar 11th, 2014 317 Drinks »
So for a second year running we achieved a better result in Munich than at home, but again it was not enough to get past a side widely regarded as the best in the game right now. Given that we were missing Wojciech Szczesny, Kieran Gibbs, Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey, and Theo Walcott, among others, […]
Posted in match preview on Mar 10th, 2014 250 Drinks »
Right then, with a Wembley semi-final secured in one competition it is now time for the small matter of overturning a two goal deficit against the reigning European champions in their own stadium. In a strange way the pressure is off us a little bit because few consider us likely to match last season’s 2-0 […]
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