Posted in match preview on Jan 24th, 2019 63 Drinks »
What an evening to have to write a preview of the big match of the FA Cup 4th round at home to Manchester United. In Barbados seventeen wickets have fallen today as I type and Chelsea are two up on the Middlesex Nomads. This may well be finished very late tonight! Hector Bellerin’s unfortunate injury […]
Posted in match preview on Jan 18th, 2019 70 Drinks »
It feels as though we are reaching a make or break point in our Premier League season with the Saturday evening visit of Chelsea. Put simply if the gap between us and the club currently occupying fourth place in the table grows to nine points tomorrow we are likely to be overtaken by Manchester United […]
Posted in match preview on Jan 10th, 2019 60 Drinks »
Right, as I will be enjoying some superb Italian food and wine tomorrow night it’s an early preview of Saturday’s trip to the Meccano Stadium for a lunchtime meeting with West Ham. The hosts are much improved on the team that gave Unai Emery his first Premier League win at the Grove in August, 3-1. […]
Posted in match preview on Jan 4th, 2019 44 Drinks »
Blackpool versus The Arsenal is a fixture that dates back to 1896/7. In the 1930s, 40s, and 50s it was usually a clash of the titans. Our first FA Cup date with Blackpool saw us defeated 2-1 at Highbury in a 1953 quarter-final, a championship winning season for us. That Blackpool team went on to […]
Posted in match preview on Dec 31st, 2018 89 Drinks »
The shockwaves of what happened at Anfield are still being felt, but if you could select an opponent to face on New Years Day it would be Fulham at home, bless them. They may be unbeaten in three vital matches against two of their fellow relegation candidates plus a home match with Wolves (a draw […]
Posted in match preview on Dec 28th, 2018 101 Drinks »
It’s not unusual, as someone once sang, for me to be sitting at the keyboard on a Friday evening having downed several pints of delicious ale and a superb Chinese meal and about to put my thoughts into print. Tonight feels different, and there is much to contemplate. Let’s start with a Saturday evening visit […]
Posted in match preview on Dec 21st, 2018 56 Drinks »
The eve of the last home match before Christmas. The holiday has officially started for me but the management team and the players will not be getting much of a break at this busy time of the year. Burnley arrive at the Grove with every reason to want to stop us securing what have become […]
Posted in match preview on Dec 18th, 2018 114 Drinks »
It’s been nagging away at you all day, hasn’t it? I know it because it has nagging away at the hordes of Gooners on social media all day. Does Unai Emery understand that large numbers of us expect our strongest fit starting eleven against the Middlesex Nomads in the Carabao Cup quarter-final? Hector Bellerin and […]
Posted in match preview on Dec 15th, 2018 61 Drinks »
Sunday lunchtime, Southampton away, a fixture that became a difficult one for us, particularly in 2015. We have won just once at St Mary’s in our last seven visits. Whilst we appear to have found an answer to the inconsistency of recent seasons there is the worry about our lack of central defensive options as […]
Posted in match preview on Dec 12th, 2018 180 Drinks »
Matchday six in the Europa League. Qarabag arrive for what is a dead rubber for already qualified in first place The Arsenal. Qarabag also have nothing but pride to play for as Sporting have already clinched the second qualifying spot for the knock out phase. We know that Laurent Koscielny will at least start the […]
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