Posted in Season Review on Jun 6th, 2025
Embed from Getty Images When 2025 began we were six points behind Liverpool, who had a game in hand. C130y, who we had expected to be our major competition, were eight points behind us. To everyone’s surprise, including Predictathon participants, Nottingham Forest occupied third position. We had work to do to catch Liverpool who had […]
Posted in Season Review on May 28th, 2025
We often bemoan the fact that hope is a frustrating commodity for football fans. Certainly the abundance of hope among Arsenal fans at the start of the 24/25 season was as high as it had been for twenty years. Two second place finishes in the previous two seasons had fuelled optimism that the title was […]
Posted in Fan Experience, Season Review on May 29th, 2024
I’ve stated many times on this forum that I prefer my football live. In doing so I’m very conscious of my privilege in being able to attend matches, home and away. Many readers of this blog cannot get to games, either because they live overseas or far away, find the expenditure of time and money […]
Posted in Season Review on May 24th, 2024
The story of Arsenal’s 2023/24 season My sense is that I am writing an article on a season that has not fully concluded. We have theoretically lost the league (for the second consecutive season) to a team facing 115 charges and they must soon face the scrutiny that those charges will bring. So any analysis […]
Posted in Fan Experience, Interlull, Season Review, Waffle on Nov 19th, 2023
Embed from Getty Images One of the cliches that is regularly trotted out on sports media programmes is that ‘Football is a game of opinions.’ Cliché it may be but the reality is that the debate and discussion between fans, which after all is one of the main reasons that the original Goonerholic blog was created, […]
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