Using pains of the past to fuel success in future
Well, how about yesterday’s FA Cup draw and subsequent shock defeat by Wigan of Moneychester City? Hands up who thought that might happen when the draw was made at 4pm (rhetorical question. If you’ve...
View ArticleChanging focus: looking down not up
Liverpool’s victory last night firmly entrenched us in the now annual pursuit for fourth spot. It means that rather than look up at a potential dream double, we’re nervously looking down at our rivals,...
View ArticleI think we’ll be up for this tonight and so will the players
Yesterday I was walking back with Steve having our usual post work chinwag, when something he said struck a chord with me, in relation to how he’d been feeling about Arsenal all week. Words like...
View ArticleUnpredictability, passion, dreams and loss
The unpredictability of the league that you and I watch every week was there for all the world to see yesterday as Liverpool conceded a trio of relatively late goals to all but sink their hopes of...
View ArticleVermaelen legacy in tact, as we prepare for excitement of new season
Before I delve into the thoughts of what may transpire come 3pm later at Wembley, there’s the small matter of the confirmation that our Captain Thomas Vermaelen, has departed our rainy shores for the...
View ArticleAnything’s a bonus today
It’s Sunday, the time of prayer in the Christian world, to which I too am offering up some prayers to the football gods for this afternoons game. I am praying for a win or even a draw, because let’s...
View ArticleAn unsung hero
I wanted to spend a little bit of time today to talk a of an unsung hero. A player who has been an almost ever-present in the Arsenal team this season, yet rarely do I take to social media and see his...
View ArticleThoughts on City from Benjy
Every time Thierry Henry pauses for dramatic effect. An angels heart skips a beat and one of those Lad accounts on twitter dies. I spent the early part of Sunday afternoon hanging off every word of...
View ArticleSanti or Alexis: player of the season so far?
Chelski, eh? A deplorable club with a racist captain and selection of racist fans. But did we expect anything else? It’s like somebody telling you that politicians don’t always tell the truth. No sh*t...
View ArticleTicking the boxes in Cech saga; rolling back the transfer clock
A Quick mosey around the online football world and what do you know? More ‘angles’ on the Cech deal. Surely it’s all reaching its inevitable conclusion now, right? I mean we’ve had the discussions...
View ArticleBuilding momentum is all the start of the season is about: this league is a...
What did we learn from yesterday’s games? That plenty of teams will be as to compete with each other, and this season will be a tough one because of the money in the Premier League improving the...
View ArticleAwesome weekend of results, but does it matter?
Completing the most awesomest of weekend fixtures not involving Arsenal yesterday, Manchester United’s defeat to Swansea means that aside from an all-conquering Moneychester City (I’ll come to them in...
View ArticleChampions League malaise isn’t enough to keep me from Premier League excitement
This season is crazier than Will Ferrell, hepped up on goofballs, riding a unicycle the wrong way down a one-way street. Everything is weird and no more so can it be signified than the game I watched...
View ArticleTaking any small advantage and longing for the old transfer days
I don’t know whether it’s acceptable or not to be happy that Liverpool saw a couple more players go down with hamstring injuries yesterday evening against Stoke. I don’t wish injury on anybody really,...
View ArticleThe fools errand: predicting Arsenal’s upcoming fixtures
I know it’s the FA Cup this weekend, I inow it’s an opportunity to bench our league campaign for a few days, but it is the league that keeps me awake at night. What’s been keeping me awake is our poor...
View ArticleThe fools errand: predicting Arsenal’s upcoming fixtures
I know it’s the FA Cup this weekend, I inow it’s an opportunity to bench our league campaign for a few days, but it is the league that keeps me awake at night. What’s been keeping me awake is our poor...
View ArticleThree defining fixtures, after one make or break one this weekend
Donald Trump looks like he could become the next President of the United States and Leicester City could become Premier League champions. What witchcraft is this? The reality is that only one of the...
View ArticleThree defining fixtures, after one make or break one this weekend
Donald Trump looks like he could become the next President of the United States and Leicester City could become Premier League champions. What witchcraft is this? The reality is that only one of the...
View ArticleThree defining fixtures, after one make or break one this weekend
Donald Trump looks like he could become the next President of the United States and Leicester City could become Premier League champions. What witchcraft is this? The reality is that only one of the...
View ArticleThree defining fixtures, after one make or break one this weekend
Donald Trump looks like he could become the next President of the United States and Leicester City could become Premier League champions. What witchcraft is this? The reality is that only one of the...
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