Posted in match review on Sep 21st, 2011 350 Drinks »
Well I have to say that is no way to follow a game. The searches for live video streams in all the usual places drew a blank. There is a strange irony that you can watch just about any match you want to in any country most weekends. You can take your pick of Champions […]
Posted in match review on Sep 18th, 2011 71 Drinks »
A gutful of Guiness and Tullamore Dew is usually guaranteed to chase the cares of the world away. I thought it wise not to rush to record my thoughts about the game at Ewood Park. My regulars would not have been very taken with the very dark place I found myself in at the final […]
Posted in match review on Sep 13th, 2011 607 Drinks »
At clubs where a new manager is trying to piece together a new side with a raft of new signings a degree of patience is accorded to both him and his players. There is a danger when an established manager faces the same challenge that he will not be given the time to complete the […]
Posted in match review on Sep 10th, 2011 290 Drinks »
“I’m not even slightly interested in our performance, only that we win the game. If we’re shaky at the back and toothless up front but score a goal deflected in off Frimpong’s arse in the final seconds of injury time, I’ll take it. I’m not sure I’ll enjoy it, but I’ll take it.” Prophetic words […]
Posted in match review on Aug 28th, 2011 209 Drinks »
I have just finished watching the news. Thankfully Irene didn’t claim a number of good people who watch Arsenal on the East Coast of the States today. That’s the important stuff sorted. Apparently though, Arsenal lost a game in a fashion even I haven’t seen in my lifetime. Chances are I will never see anything […]
Posted in match review on Aug 24th, 2011 506 Drinks »
No point in doing a standard match report. You have all seen it, haven’t you? Every nerve-jangling minute of the opening seventy minutes as a very good Udinese side made us sweat, as we suspected they would. All ninety-five minutes as Arsenal made us proud again, as many doubted. I have been quoted many times […]
Posted in match review on Aug 21st, 2011 426 Drinks »
I really don’t know where to start with what I have witnessed at the Grove today. Perhaps the home support? News reached us at the pub beforehand that Samir Nasri was starting. How would people react after last weekend? A few muffled boos greeted the announcement of his name before the start, but it did […]
Posted in match review on Aug 16th, 2011 250 Drinks »
I think my calm mood owes nearly everything to Roy Hodgson. Unable to get the afternoon off I was at the mercy of the Sky presentation of events this evening. The Baggies manager offered common sense from his pre-match appreciation of Arsene Wenger, to pointing out to his fellow sniping ‘pundits’ after the game that […]
Posted in match review on Aug 13th, 2011 174 Drinks »
I have counted to ten, more than once, and have placed myself under a media and web blackout so I can try and convey thoughts about a match that left me, and doubtless many of you raging. For a conventional report, go elsewhere. Where to start? Well, before I get holier-than-thou, and you know I […]
Posted in match review on Aug 6th, 2011 559 Drinks »
For various reasons it has been a few weeks since I have been to my local after work on a Friday. Thankfully that was rectified this week, and rather than complicate the food arrangements I got an old-school take away from the chippie afterwards. Now jumbo sausage, saveloy, fishcake, and chips may not be either […]
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