Posted in match review on Feb 19th, 2013 355 Drinks »
You don’t need the match report because I suspect half the planet watched that tonight. You don’t need some old boy in his spare room to explain to you just how poor we were in the first-half, although I would urge you to appreciate the quality that Bayern brought to the half. They worked harder, […]
Posted in match review on Feb 16th, 2013 323 Drinks »
“It’s all very Arsenal this. Neat and tidy around the box, dominant, but no goals.” My antipodean commentator summed up the opening half very well. Just twice we worked Kean in the Blackburn goal, and both of those from corners. The only other incidents of note were a poor effort at a dive by Francis […]
Posted in match review on Feb 9th, 2013 477 Drinks »
Who would have thought a week after we got the return fixture with Stoke out of the way that we would face an even sterner physical test at Sunderland? This was a match best described as beauty and the beast, and not beauty versus the beast. For the second week running we went toe to […]
Posted in match review on Feb 3rd, 2013 350 Drinks »
A match against Stoke. There are predictions that can be confidently made ahead of the match. High on the list is that you will see a terrible challenge by Shawcross. We can tick that box. What wouldn’t have been on there would be that you would see Michael Owen throw a punch at an opponent. […]
Posted in match review on Jan 30th, 2013 304 Drinks »
I don’t quite know where to start. I really don’t give two hoots for the neutrals who we have to keep saying must be loving watching Arsenal matches at the moment. Of course the beauty of football is that it does ensure those who fall for it’s charms discover every single emotion known to man, […]
Posted in match review on Jan 27th, 2013 283 Drinks »
What a day that was. As expected, a proper old Cup day and eventually a result to enjoy. Brighton, thank you for a cracking day out. I owe Tone, once of the West Stand Highbury, and now of the West Stand at the Grove, for rescuing me from the rail journey from hell. From the […]
Posted in match review on Jan 24th, 2013 234 Drinks »
Without doubt the hardest part of blogging sometimes, as with playing a strange old guitar, is finding the right note. I joked in the drinks earlier about being sick of saying what a first-half that was for the neutrals. Again. Yes, unlike our recent performances against Manchester City and Chelsea, we were this time the […]
Posted in match review on Jan 20th, 2013 283 Drinks »
I’m sure the neutrals would have been thrilled by that game, and more than a little mystified how each side dominated one half with apparent ease. Unfortunately we are not neutrals, so the frustration generated by our first-half no show, once again, drills deep into the bones. We avoided an early penalty scare when Abou […]
Posted in match review on Jan 16th, 2013 364 Drinks »
Well I can certainly get ‘a game of two halves’ in. I don’t mind accepting at some stages of that game the clichés I was most expecting to have to use were along the lines of ‘if you miss that many chances you begin to wonder if it is going to be your day’. At […]
Posted in match review on Jan 14th, 2013 223 Drinks »
Well, that was a party to remember. Apart from the ninety minutes intended to be the centrepiece of the celebration, obviously. The match was decided in the tenth minute with the dismissal of Laurent Koscielny and I have to say it has taken repeated viewings of the highlights to come to a more charitable view […]
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