Posted in Champions League, Match Preview on Apr 14th, 2026
Embed from Getty Images And so to the Stadium of Stone for the second leg of our Champions League quarter-final against Sporting CP on Wednesday evening. We renew an acquaintance that began in the second round of the Fairs Cup in 1969-70, a competition we would go on to win. A good omen, one hopes. […]
Posted in Champions League, Match Report on Mar 12th, 2026
And so to Germany, to Cologne, where I and many of those lucky enough to get tickets for the game based themselves. Formerly the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior, or Lower Germania, it was originally an “Oppidum” – a relatively small garrison town – and represented a visible Roman military presence on […]
Posted in Champions League, Match Preview on Mar 10th, 2026
Arsenal’s push for an unprecedented quadruple, as well as our first ever Champions League, will face its latest obstacle in the shape of Bayer 04 Leverkusen on Wednesday. It will be our first competitive meeting with Leverkusen since a 4-1 triumph in 2002. Remarkably, Leverkusen went onto reach the Champions League final that season, losing […]
Posted in Champions League, Season Review on Jun 12th, 2025
Embed from Getty Images Last season’s experience of the Champions League had been encouraging but ultimately frustrating, and had ended just as it so often did under Wenger, with an exit at the hands of Bayern Munich. This season, with a new expanded league system, there would be more games to play and it was likely […]
Posted in Champions League, Match Preview on May 6th, 2025
That was the mantra provided by Mikel Arteta prior to the Real Madrid tie who we absolutely walloped (in case you needed reminding) and he repeated it before the PSG first leg which has so far, taken a slightly different course to the previous round. Before the game and for the first few minutes, the […]
The Goonerholicsforever auction in support of the Willow Foundation is over. Please click here for results.
