Posted in match review on Jan 30th, 2011 157 Drinks »
“you have the potential for a really nervy single goal triumph, with a late goal from a hastily summoned first-teamer from the bench” The ‘holic pound may have gone south, but I think I can claim a little bit of predictive expertise in the preview. Really nervy it most certainly was, and not just for […]
Posted in match review on Jan 26th, 2011 175 Drinks »
Nothing my hosts can do will stop me savouring tonight. Welcome back to my original, and now temporary abode. Thanks for dropping by. (Update, a new shiny home has been found. You’re in it!) Well, for two and a half hours of the three this semi-final took up, we were in a bit of a […]
Posted in match review on Jan 19th, 2011 155 Drinks »
Hard to know where to start. That was a proper old game of football. Two sides busting a gut in a one hundred mile an hour spectacular, and a lesson to some of the neanderthal managers in the Premiership that football can be played at that pace and intensity without leg-breaking challenges, and without two-footed […]
Posted in match review on Jan 15th, 2011 127 Drinks »
I will count myself among those who thought that West Ham would put up one hell of a fight before we eventually overcame them. I was wrong, although to be fair a side already shorn of Scott Parker could have done without losing Mark Noble after just twenty minutes. Boa Morte may be a niggly […]
Posted in match review on Jan 12th, 2011 177 Drinks »
One nil to the Worzels. I’m starting to take this personally! Sorry, but tonight of all nights I have to make a little light of this game. At the end of the day we are one down at half-time and should still come out on top, but we are most certainly doing it the hard […]
Posted in match review on Jan 8th, 2011 133 Drinks »
It is hard to remind yourself in the immediate aftermath of such a frustrating performance that the important thing is we are still in the FA Cup. If we are still involved at the sharp end of the tournament then today will have been put into context. That doesn’t detract from some uncomfortable thoughts that […]
Posted in match review on Jan 1st, 2011 132 Drinks »
Days don’t come much harder, in some ways, or much more rewarding in others. Three points at Birmingham, given what has happened there on our most recent visits, have provided a much-needed lift. The expected fierce contest transpired. Not surprisingly there were challenges by Johnson and Bowyer that caused much debate, but it would be […]
Posted in match review on Dec 27th, 2010 58 Drinks »
So for the second night running the management is asking why I appear to have swallowed a whole banana sideways. I have to say though that no cricket result will ever give me the pleasure that this victory over the bus stop in Fulham has tonight. Five straight defeats had raised question marks about Arsene […]
Posted in match review on Dec 19th, 2010 64 Drinks »
The alarm goes off at half past seven. First stop the bedroom window. “Jabbas, it didn’t miss us”. Cup of tea and check Twitter. This is a situation in which social media is such a good tool. North London is fine. The local radio talks of train cancellations if guards and drivers cannot get in. […]
Posted in match review on Dec 13th, 2010 217 Drinks »
Five defeats in seventeen games, and in this craziest of all Premier League seasons we are still second in the table. Looking back at the first four they caused so much anger. But half an hour after the final whistle and I am not feeling that same emotion. This was not us being outplayed, as […]
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