Posted in Club History, Interlull on Jun 6th, 2020
If you are a member of the mighty Goonerverse – and if you are not but still reading this, I must congratulate you on your impeccable taste – you are invited to choose your own single memory of Andrey Arshavin that best summarizes his time at the Arsenal. Maybe the drop-off-the-shoulder sauntering and impossible angle […]
Posted in Club History, Match Report on May 22nd, 2020
Arsenal FC vs. Liverpool FC – 8th May 1971 Arsenal: Bob Wilson; Pat Rice, Bob McNab; Peter Storey, Frank McLintock, Peter Simpson; George Armstrong, George Graham, John Radford, Ray Kennedy, Charlie George. Sub: Eddie Kelly. Coach: Bertie Mee. Scousers: Clemence; Lawler, Lindsay; Smith, Lloyd, Hughes; Callaghan, Hall, Toshack, Evans, Heighway. Sub: Thompson. Coach: Shankly. Attendance: […]
Posted in Club History on May 16th, 2020
Seventeen years without a trophy! How often have we heard a similar refrain? It is 1970; we last won the league in 1953 and we have been proven to be second best in two previous consecutive League Cup Finals. I don’t recall the 1968 final when we lost by a single controversial goal to Leeds […]
Posted in Club History, Waffle on May 9th, 2020
Hello again everyone, I hope the day finds you well and looking forward at least a tad more positively to the coming months. In May and June, society will dust itself down and emerge in whatever form is deemed safest in each country and that will include football. Welcome back to us all and fingers […]
Posted in Club History, Waffle on May 1st, 2020
I think most readers of this blog will know that I prefer my football live. Yes the view is far worse than on a 50” TV, no matter where you sit, you usually don’t get the benefit of replays and you have to drag up and down motorways, sometimes in foul weather. But the special […]
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