Posted in match review on May 1st, 2016 200 Drinks »
A plate of first-class pasta, a little red wine, a tasty Guinness, and good spirits abounded as we took our seats and awaited an afternoon of mass demonstrations and sparkling football. Neither really materialised, although the potential for both to happen is real enough. Frankly in the first-half we saw a pretty insipid performance from […]
Posted in match review on Apr 24th, 2016 179 Drinks »
Arsene Wenger opted to go with an unchanged line-up at the Stadium of Light although there was a welcome return to the bench for Jack Wilshere. The Gunners started the stronger and with barely three minutes on the clock Alex Iwobi drilled an effort wide from the edge of the area. Sunderland attempted an immediate […]
Posted in match review on Apr 21st, 2016 66 Drinks »
As suggested in the preview Arsene Wenger opted to make three changes to the side that started against Crystal Palace. Per Mertesacker, Aaron Ramsey, and Olivier Giroud came in for Gabriel, Francis Coquelin, and Danny Welbeck in what looked a very attack-minded set-up. The expected sparse crowd were in quiet mood until the sixth minute […]
Posted in match review on Apr 18th, 2016 140 Drinks »
It won’t be an easy morning for those looking for a positive take on the performance yesterday. We had seventy percent of the ball, someone mentioned in the pub. That is not much good unless you do something with it though. For the second week running we surrendered two oh-so-valuable points to a London club. […]
Posted in match review on Apr 9th, 2016 169 Drinks »
Arsene Wenger surprised many by sticking with David Ospina in goal for the trip to Upton Park. The Gunners were unchanged from the team that started successive victories over Everton and Watford. What was about to unfold was madness on a grand scale. So, chronologically the talking points were; Carroll committed two awful assaults in […]
Posted in match review on Apr 4th, 2016 60 Drinks »
The Arsenal U18’s went into the second-leg of their FA Youth Cup semi-final against Manchester City needing to turn over a 1-2 deficit from the first leg. It took them just five minutes to level the aggregate score when Chris Willock evaded a couple of defenders to curl a right-footed effort into the corner from […]
Posted in match review on Apr 3rd, 2016 75 Drinks »
A sunny spring Saturday. A lovely lunch with friends old and new putting the world to rights. On such days Arsenal invariably put on a show and while they failed to put yesterday’s opponents to the sword three weeks ago they most certainly did this time around. The FA Cup failure came as a result […]
Posted in match review on Mar 19th, 2016 125 Drinks »
Accepting before kick-off that we had no more room for manoeuvre, Arsene Wenger went with the team that played either side of half-time in Barcelona. Francis Coquelin obviously included for the injured Mathieu Flamini, and a deserved Premier League debut for Alex Iwobi. There being no hiding place left it was important we made an […]
Posted in match review on Mar 16th, 2016 177 Drinks »
The rain lashed down on the travelling Gooners as kick-off approached. Would that be an omen for what was to follow? The team news was interesting. Arsene preferred Gabriel to Per Mertesacker, Mathieu Flamini to Francis Coquelin, Danny Welbeck to Olivier Giroud, and then Alex Iwobi to Joel Campbell. The latter raised eyebrows but Iwobi […]
Posted in match review on Mar 14th, 2016 100 Drinks »
Well that didn’t go too well, did it? Nearly twenty-four hours after the event, and without the benefit of having seen a re-run, how to sum up yesterday? I know some come here for a touch of perspective, a bit of calm amid the storms raging elsewhere. A sleepless night following that turgid performance isn’t […]
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