Posted in match review on Nov 24th, 2013 149 Drinks »
The scoreline hints at a comfortable victory for the Gunners, but in truth Southampton made Arsenal work hard for the three points that doubled our advantage at the head of the Premier League. The early signs were encouraging as Arsenal settled into their smooth passing game. The same post denied Jack Wilshere, with a deft […]
Posted in match review on Nov 10th, 2013 285 Drinks »
Well that wasn’t what we wanted to see, was it? Reports of a bug sweeping through the squad prior to kick-off proved to have a degree of veracity to them. Per Mertesacker and Tomas Rosicky were ruled out, Mikel Arteta and Serge Gnabry played a part despite also suffering. The loss of the BFG and […]
Posted in match review on Nov 6th, 2013 308 Drinks »
It never gets boring. Juventus. AC Milan. Real Madrid. Bayern Munich. Now Borussia Dortmund (in the Champions League, thank you Lurky). Arsenal love being the first English club to win away at the big hitters. This was classic Arsenal this season. A lively start, matched by the hosts, and so as the first half progressed […]
Posted in match review on Nov 3rd, 2013 312 Drinks »
Good morning. And what a good morning. The voicebox is croaky, the mouth feels like the inside of a kangaroos pouch. Watching football is all about the days like yesterday. The occasional blips are put in some context by performances like that. Arriving to discover that Jack Wilshere had joined Mathieu Flamini on the treatment […]
Posted in match review on Oct 30th, 2013 370 Drinks »
So any post-match fears were well-founded. Chelsea arrived, not with the development squad promised by their slimeball of a manager, but with a first team squad eleven and a plan designed to wrestle the initiative from our first team squad eleven. In the world of petro-dollars and gazfunds we know who assembles the stronger secondary […]
Posted in match review on Oct 26th, 2013 130 Drinks »
Crystal Palace proved tougher opposition than many had thought beforehand in a match that for a long time served up extra helpings of tension for the impressive traveling faithful. Only three minutes from time were the points secured by a team reduced to ten players for the final quarter of the game. Arsenal were buoyed […]
Posted in match review on Oct 22nd, 2013 205 Drinks »
So I got the scoreline right. Sadly my prediction was for a home win and not an away one. Unlike our last defeat on the opening day of the season there is some hope for where we go from here. This was a proverbial game of two halves on the face of it, yet astonishingly […]
Posted in match review on Oct 20th, 2013 208 Drinks »
There are days when everything just slots into place. This was one. Not that it was a flawless performance. Passes went astray, the initiative was surrendered either side of half-time, but the quality of the goals that secured another three points and the top berth in the Premier League will long live in the memory. […]
Posted in match review on Oct 7th, 2013 132 Drinks »
A scrappy beginning to the contest should have been a warning of what might have been coming at the Hawthorns. a match that simmered as a result of some ‘interesting’ refereeing developed and to be fair to the Baggies they gave as good as they got. It is easy to see how they got a […]
Posted in match review on Oct 1st, 2013 273 Drinks »
Wow. I should leave it there. It sums up perfectly what we saw at the Grove tonight. It became a little bit harder tonight to say it is early days yet, although of course it is. This will be the stiffest test of the new Arsenal yet, they said, and they were right. The response? […]
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