Posted in match review on Dec 9th, 2010 100 Drinks »
Interesting. I’m wondering whether it was worse to be in the Grove tonight, or watching a delayed transmission at home? I didn’t have the issue of thousands of nervous gooners around me, but the atmosphere did transmit itself to those watching at home, trust me. I did warn prior to the event that we would […]
Posted in match review on Dec 4th, 2010 101 Drinks »
It’s a bit unnerving to have called it perfectly in the preview. Fulham are a much better side than their league placing suggests. They have experience, organisation, and desire, although for the best part of half an hour this looked like being a stroll in the park for Arsenal. Even if you are not an […]
Posted in match review on Nov 30th, 2010 99 Drinks »
I recall an occasion when the old man sat me down after a school report had turned up in the post. English and Maths, the minimum requirements I thought, got me good comments. Sports brought glowing tributes. I was a bit surprised then when he started having a pop at me about Latin. “No doubt […]
Posted in match review on Nov 27th, 2010 166 Drinks »
The final whistle blowing before three on a Saturday a month before Christmas means the management determines where I spend the last couple of hours of the afternoon. So as I am perusing the bobble hats in Matalan I am thinking back on what I have just witnessed at the same time, and the likely […]
Posted in match review on Nov 23rd, 2010 189 Drinks »
A terrific debate followed the preview, dominated as it was by my downbeat reflections on a dark weekend. Those dark thoughts will surface in a grotesque distortion in the usual places after this latest humiliation. I know the majority, if not all of you, will have seen the game. I don’t need to give a […]
Posted in match review on Nov 20th, 2010 227 Drinks »
I promised myself I would not attempt to write anything tonight. The gut reaction to that second-half performance borders on the sort of stuff I urge people to refrain from voicing. Keeping a sense of perspective is admirable most of the time. But most of the time we don’t lose three home games out of […]
Posted in match review on Nov 14th, 2010 154 Drinks »
I don’t know what more you could want from a game of football than that. Two sides who by and large play the game the right way going hammer and tongs at each other. Atmosphere a plenty from the crowd, although mainly the travelling Gooners, controversial refereeing decisions, thundering tackles but no broken bones, and […]
Posted in match review on Nov 11th, 2010 116 Drinks »
I do recall going to visit my father a year or two back, and thinking I would miss a Portsmouth away game. We did dinner early, and I was back in the hotel just in time to watch it. Tonight I knew I would not get to see the Wolves game live, given that I […]
Posted in match review on Nov 7th, 2010 183 Drinks »
That is the scary conclusion to be drawn from today’s defeat. But for Vermaelen we certainly had nine of our best ten outfield players on the pitch at one time or another today. Can anybody remember the last time we could say that? Not this year, I’ll wager. Yet Newcastle came with organisation, with confidence, […]
Posted in match review on Nov 4th, 2010 60 Drinks »
Well that, my friends, was what one would call a very mixed night. I’ll not go into one about how disappointed I am that the much anticipated HD viewing didn’t materialise because even if you have Sky Sports and Movies you have to pay even more for the HD versions. Well that, Mrs customer service […]
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