Posted in match review on Apr 8th, 2008 94 Drinks »
I have to get one thing straight from the start. We might have some justifiable grumbles about the deal we got from the officials over two legs, but Liverpool played their part in a tremendous contest and good luck to them. I hope they ride the luck I’m sure they appreciate they got over two […]
Posted in match review on Apr 5th, 2008 21 Drinks »
Tuning into Sky Sports at lunchtime I was greeted with the team news. It was astonishing. Everybody had expected that Liverpool would make wholesale changes. When I wrote beforehand, “Now we are about to find out if Arsene believes the Premier League is still a realistic target”, I really thought the answer was yes. His […]
Posted in match review on Apr 3rd, 2008 12 Drinks »
You know it’s not your night when your centre forward makes a goal-line clearance to deny you victory. You know it’s not your night when the referee misses a blatant tug in the box and is just feet away from the incident. Only we could have got Holland’s answer to Mister Magoo in charge. Yet […]
Posted in match review on Mar 29th, 2008 14 Drinks »
What an astonishing day. It didn’t start that well. Regular readers will have noticed that the last week’s posts ‘vanished’ around lunchtime. It wasn’t Gus Caesar’s people, honestly! Having recovered just one of the posts, courtesy of Google’s cached pages, I set off for the local, via William Hill where I put the ‘holic pound, […]
Posted in match review on Mar 23rd, 2008 5 Drinks »
I have said to myself on more than one occasion lately that I should wait until the following day to report on matches. There is no question a more objective piece would be the result. Then I tell myself that this is a blog, and sometimes I forget that. Blogs are written by people who […]
Posted in match review on Mar 15th, 2008 53 Drinks »
Humble pie doesn’t taste good at the best of times. On top of a large helping of Guinness it is even less appreciated. What sticks in the throat even more is that it shouldn’t even be on the menu. Did we play well? No, of course we didn’t, but we were the only side attempting […]
Posted in match review on Mar 9th, 2008 18 Drinks »
The little voices in my head are at war again. ‘Third draw in a row against a side we should beat’ says the first. ‘So what, it’s still in our hands and that is one early St Totteringhams Day’, says the other. It is astonishing that a side that has lost just one league game […]
Posted in match review on Mar 4th, 2008 63 Drinks »
Sorry about that! You have found a very, very drunk and very, very happy Arsenal blogger. According to Arsene Wenger we have just beaten the European champions with ‘audacity and enthusiasm’. From where I was watching we beat them with better football! Arsenal football! Doubtless before long there will be match reports from people who […]
Posted in match review on Mar 2nd, 2008 14 Drinks »
No names, no pack drill, but the landlord of my local chose a bad day to go out. The staff didn’t know how to get two channels on two screens so I was stuck in front of West Ham against Chelsea yesterday. That dilutes my appreciation of what happened at the Grove. I have seen […]
Posted in match review on Feb 23rd, 2008 149 Drinks »
There is a danger of over reaction to so many things that happened at St Andrews. Not least amongst these was the challenge that removed Eduardo from Arsenal’s season, and Croatia’s European Championship challenge. It is difficult not to be seething about the challenge depicted here and here. Balance what you see in those images […]
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