Posted in Club History, Fan Experience, Tribute, Waffle on Jul 24th, 2024
The Twenty Tens – A sea change of a sort Arsenal found themselves under pressure as the new decade opened. It had always seemed a matter of time before Cesc Fabregas returned to his boyhood club in Barcelona, and eventually he did make that move; only his loyalty to Wenger delayed it for a season or […]
Posted in Club History, Contests on Jul 18th, 2024
The Nineties – Only one side in it As the nineties began both Spurs and Arsenal could face the future with excitement. The team from N.17 had recruited as manager arguably the best coach they have had in the fifty years or so since Bill Nicholson retired. Terry Venables was a hot property when Spurs […]
Posted in Club History on Jul 16th, 2024
I last went to the men’s team North London Derby at Tottenham in 2007. I went with my son-in-law who sadly supports the Marshdwellers. Before the game we went into a Tottenham pub – the home support was rabid. At the bar I asked one of the lads queuing what he expected to happen today. […]
Posted in Club History, Match Preview on Dec 4th, 2023
And so rapidly to Kenilworth Road, Luton, for a Tuesday evening game under the lights. We shall be looking to avoid back-to-back defeats there for the first time since 1958 and searching for our first win at ‘the Keny’ after six draws and four defeats since February 1986. The two teams last met in the […]
Posted in Club History on Jul 8th, 2023
TTG’s recent piece on the most impactful transfers of his lifetime made me think about where the £2,000 Herbert Chapman paid for Cliff ‘Boy’ Bastin in the summer of 1929 would rank. Less than seven months earlier, Chapman had shattered the British transfer record by buying David Jack from Bolton Wanderers for £10,647, making him […]
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