Posted in match preview on Oct 26th, 2019 83 Drinks »
Let’s face it, there won’t be much in the way of change to the team for the visit of Crystal Palace after Thursday. Bernd Leno likely starts behind Calum Chambers, Sokratis Papasthopoulos, David Luiz, and Sead Kolasinac. Granit Xhaka to patrner Matteo Guendouzi behind Mesut, just kidding, Dani Ceballos. Bukayo Saka will surely join Pierre-Emerick […]
Posted in Guest Tales, match preview on Oct 24th, 2019 55 Drinks »
Last season’s final weeks dispelled the majority of the positive Arsenal feelings I’d squirreled away. The prospect of this coming season left me underwhelmed. And then there were droplets of good news. Celtic had agreed to our offer for Kieran Tierney. William Saliba was coming (and then going, of-course, it wouldn’t be Arsenal otherwise), a […]
Posted in match preview on Oct 24th, 2019 11 Drinks »
I understand when Ive been around for the last twelve years I have never missed a preview and it’s been something that’s been planned I have got a drinker to step into the breach. Here we are at 9.30 for whatever, and now, hopefully just this once I am not in a position to do […]
Posted in match preview on Oct 20th, 2019 77 Drinks »
It’s been a full day, one way or another, and a preview post awaits. Let’s see what we can do at this hour of the night. Positives to take into Monday night? Middlesex, Yanited, and ‘Pool have all dropped points this weekend. Tougher is that we need to win at Bramall Lane to reclaim our […]
Posted in match preview on Oct 5th, 2019 75 Drinks »
A 2pm non-televised kick-off on a Sunday. It’s a result of only qualifying for the Europa League and why we need to win to leapfrog Leicester City and secure third place to defend as the season progresses. Forget our struggles against Watford, Villa, and United. Bournemouth’s record at The Arsenal is indicative of why we […]
Posted in match preview on Oct 2nd, 2019 86 Drinks »
If you are something of a fossil you will recall with clarity and pleasure our first coming together with Standard Liege in our successful 1993/4 Cup-Winners Cup campaign. We brushed them aside 3-0 at home and 0-7 away. Imagine an English club scoring 7 away from home. Surely no shambles of a club could concede […]
Posted in match preview on Sep 29th, 2019 147 Drinks »
There’s no point in pining for those halcyon days of 1997-2006 when Manchester United versus The Arsenal encounters were battles in a war-like atmosphere. It was probably the last decade where blood and thunder battles between the giants of the day were allowed to push the spirit of the laws to breaking point. Today the […]
Posted in match preview, match review on Sep 23rd, 2019 116 Drinks »
A quick look at the Villa match before turning my head to the Forest preview. Once again we allowed a struggling side two sloppy goals. After McGinn had run beyond a static defence to flick the opener home Ainsley Maitland-Niles was given a second yellow card in a fifty challenge which has provoked opposing views. […]
Posted in match preview on Sep 21st, 2019 115 Drinks »
A long and exhausting day necessitates the briefest of late previews of the Villa home match. The starting eleven? I stress I am guessing at who Unai Emery will pick, not who I would. Bernd Leno behind Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, David Luiz, and Sead Kolasinac. Granit Xhaka and Matteo Guendouzi behind Nicolas Pepe, Mesut […]
Posted in match preview on Sep 18th, 2019 52 Drinks »
My least favourite preview post of the season. Why? I haven’t a clue who Emery will pick, and that obviously informs the pound. Frankfurt could be our toughest away game in the group stage but the players left at home tell a story. Let me hazard a guess at the starting eleven. Emiliano Martinez to […]
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