Posted in match review on Jan 6th, 2013 437 Drinks »
The third round of the FA Cup. It still stirs the passions, and didn’t that become evident in the drinks and elsewhere today? The morning started in usual fashion. I try and catch up with who has written what in the Sundays’. I already mentioned the Amy Lawrence Guardian piece in the preview drinks. “Watching […]
Posted in match review on Jan 1st, 2013 648 Drinks »
“If you eat caviar every day it’s difficult to return to sausages” Arsene was forced to defend his champions after a frustrating 1-1 draw against Middlesbrough in 1998 and the words he chose resonate even more today. In the short term he had a point then, and one could argue it is valid today. Three […]
Posted in match review on Dec 30th, 2012 186 Drinks »
So much is made of the conflict stirred up on social media sites that we tend to ignore the plus points they provide. Like new friends. Courtesy of a few friendly exchanges on Twitter I met up with John, currently residing in Australia, before embarking on yesterday evenings voyage across the emotions. We discovered, not […]
Posted in match review on Dec 22nd, 2012 375 Drinks »
Lo, and it came to pass on a wet and nippy afternoon in Lancashire that the Arsenal did pull up their sleeves and deliver the newborn three points in humble surroundings. What? Of course it is going to be one of those posts. I have watched us, then the the little lot up the road. […]
Posted in match review on Dec 18th, 2012 485 Drinks »
As Christmas parties go that was one of the better ones. The journey by rail to Reading listening to some favourite music in bright sunlight created a feelgood factor. Five and a half hours in the Slug & Lettuce with a variety of tinctures and platters of finger food maintained the mood. “TAXI”. It was […]
Posted in match review on Dec 9th, 2012 257 Drinks »
The final home match before Christmas usually provides the opportunity to share a brief few moments and some tasty morsels with a top Gooner and his family. This year was no different. Bubbles, rioja, and some very tasty nibbles set the general air of well-being. To the pub I went to locate my temporary neighbour […]
Posted in match review on Dec 4th, 2012 537 Drinks »
Starting eleven, check. Tomas Rosicky to score, check. Result like last season can be written off, check. If you read the preview, you knew what was going to happen. However predictable that result looked last night it only arrived as a result of two huge swings in fortune. Firstly, at half-time the player who had […]
Posted in match review on Dec 2nd, 2012 381 Drinks »
Wood; Hollins, O’Leary, Whyte, Sansom; Talbot, Davis, Nicholas, Rix; Sunderland, Vaessen February 1982. I sat in the East Lower and watched a very talented Swansea team beat a very ordinary Arsenal 2-0. Who doesn’t believe in Groundhog Day? Yesterday I relived the experience in the West Lower. The mid eighties, like the mid seventies, remain […]
Posted in match review on Nov 28th, 2012 241 Drinks »
It seems I was one of but a few who found a decent stream to watch the match if Twitter is anything to go by. I decided to break my self-imposed ban on the social media site during a match just to check if it is still a place best avoided. Generally the mood wasn’t […]
Posted in match review on Nov 24th, 2012 428 Drinks »
A scoreless draw at the Villa. The latest in a line of disappointing results but I will defend those in the Yellow today from the charges that were quite rightly aimed at them at Norwich. This was not a day when anybody could accuse them of not trying. This was not a failure of a […]
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