Posted in match review on Apr 20th, 2013 691 Drinks »
Finding the right words to cover that performance is an impossible task. Every journo and blogger will be called out by half of their casual readership for being too negative or bottling it. So where do I begin. “The three points are everything and how we get them doesn’t matter at this stage of the […]
Posted in match review on Apr 16th, 2013 351 Drinks »
It is the emotions that make football the spectacle it is. The best games usually have goals involved, but every now and again a goal-less draw wraps a strong hand around your intestines and squeezes. Two massively committed sides served up a raw feast for a huge audience tonight. From the off it was clear […]
Posted in match review on Apr 14th, 2013 221 Drinks »
It is the stage of the season where the points are far more important than the performance. That is just as well. This victory was highly amusing for a number of reasons, but Norwich came close to doing what other sides with limited ability and ambition have sometimes achieved at the Grove since we moved […]
Posted in match review on Apr 6th, 2013 534 Drinks »
What a three points that was. Seventy minutes of very impressive and controlled football gave way to twenty minutes of sheer torture on what could prove to be a big afternoon in our season. It is only right that we should focus firstly on that opening phase. From the off it was the visitors who […]
Posted in match review on Mar 31st, 2013 438 Drinks »
A long day came to a blissful end. Fair play to everybody who managed to get to the Grove eventually. It turned out that I wasn’t the only one experiencing travel chaos. A shorter than usual pre-match analysis sprung to life when the team news came through. “Gervinho’s in”. We didn’t get the full flavour […]
Posted in match review on Mar 25th, 2013 157 Drinks »
Well, that was a different way to spend a Monday evening, and a thoroughly enjoyable one watching the U-19’s advance to the Finals weekend of their inaugural NextGen series campaign in Italy over the Easter weekend. The first-half saw both sides eager to close down their opponents and so the ball was moved around quickly, […]
Posted in match review on Mar 16th, 2013 266 Drinks »
A mixed day for the English in South Wales ended with the Arsenal supporters enjoying their journey back across the bridges rather more than the rugby union fans. Aaron Ramsey in particular will be savouring the events of the day. The former Cardiff City player came on for the final twenty minutes at the Liberty […]
Posted in match review on Mar 13th, 2013 230 Drinks »
An hour before kick-off I was scraping the egg off my face having been sucked in by the rumours sweeping Twitter of Arsenal going with a rotated side in a critical Champions League fixture. If only someone had outed Neil Ashton as the source I would have known what utter bollocks it was. Sorry Arsene, […]
Posted in match review on Mar 3rd, 2013 448 Drinks »
“It’s very frustrating. We were 2-0 down when we should have been 2-0 up. It was a strange game to lose.” Allow me the temerity of correcting you Arsene. We were 2-0 down when we could have been level at 2-2. That we weren’t owed a little bit to Hugo Lloris and a little to […]
Posted in match review on Feb 24th, 2013 85 Drinks »
Midway through the second half, and the moment came that was most discussed in the post mortem. Weimann was allowed to charge unhindered through the centre before shooting more in hope than in expectation. Wojciech Szczesny might have been distracted by the lack of a challenge by those in front of him and allowed a […]
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