Posted in match review on May 11th, 2015 171 Drinks »
A tough weekend turned into a worse one for Arsenal as Swansea pulled off a smash and grab at the Grove. Second place is no longer in our hands, three points behind Manchester City, albeit with a game in hand, and nine goals worse off. We started the match positively enough, and before three minutes […]
Posted in match review on May 4th, 2015 175 Drinks »
It is really difficult trying to work out how to review a game. Sometimes a simple match report seems appropriate. How many people will have watched it? Try and build a picture for those that didn’t. Then there are nights like tonight. On social media it seemed as if everyone was watching us bid to […]
Posted in match review on Apr 26th, 2015 129 Drinks »
This was the match that had everything – except goals. Chelsea departed the Grove carrying with them the point they had sought. The scenes at the final whistle as Terry led the astonishing celebrations told you they viewed avoiding defeat as effectively the title clincher. In truth I think they would have been crowned champions […]
Posted in match review on Apr 19th, 2015 141 Drinks »
The full Wembley experience, warts and all, ended well, but what a meal Arsenal made of their Championship opponents. The tone was set by a bus replacement service followed by a less than salubrious rattler into Paddington packed with exuberant Reading supporters. The tube whisked me to the next port of call. A fabulous Fullers […]
Posted in Guest Tales, match review on Apr 11th, 2015 172 Drinks »
A number of ‘holics have been good enough to share their thoughts with us in recent years. When our very own zicoinexile said he was heading for the other side of the pond this weekend and could he do a report on the Burnley match I ripped his arm out of it’s socket straight away. […]
Posted in Guest Tales, match review on Apr 8th, 2015 78 Drinks »
Once again I owe a huge debt of thanks to one of ours, this time the excellent company that is Steve T, for a guest post covering the U21 fixture at the Grove last night. Steve, thank you for helping out one who has been clocking up the motorway miles this week. It is much […]
Posted in Guest Tales, match review on Apr 4th, 2015 153 Drinks »
A huge thanks to our very own Lars for a report on today’s match which enables me to visit the grandholics tomorrow morning. Thank you sir, and I hope all of you are as fortunate as I to be seeing some special people for Easter. Before kickoff there were several things to worry about for […]
Posted in match review on Mar 21st, 2015 165 Drinks »
Down the years I’m sure we have all seen games that could be described as the archetypal game of two halves. Somehow though, and maybe just because it is so fresh in the memory, Arsenal’s match at Newcastle is right up there among the most astonishing of them. Having drawn Newcastle’s sting in the opening […]
Posted in match review on Mar 17th, 2015 153 Drinks »
Yet again in the ’round of sixteen’ Arsenal have produced a wonderful second leg performance in the wake of a poor first leg display. Heroic failure? Maybe less so this time but there is no question that the Gunners came within a whisker of a Champions League quarter-final with an impressive performance in Stade Louis-II. The […]
Posted in match review on Mar 15th, 2015 89 Drinks »
Another enjoyable day spent in pleasant company and the bonus of another decent performance from the Arsenal which went largely as expected. Arsene made five changes to the team that defeated Manchester United, resting among others the in-form Santi Cazorla. We made a bright start and could have grabbed an early lead but Theo Walcott […]
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