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First Half After a nice jaunt round the Far East, Arsenal returned to N5 to play another in a difficult set of pre-season friendlies, this time against Villareal.  The ground looked full of youngsters and their parents with the pitch of the crowd a couple of octaves higher than usual as a result.  A good […]

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Predictathon 2024-25 Editor’s note: this is the historical record of the 2024-25 Predictathon. The commencement of the 2025-26 edition is now available at the GHF Contests tab above. Get your entry in and let’s make another big donation to the Willow Foundation! GHF Predictathon 2024-25: Season review in seven easy charts, or Who needs Opta […]

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Happily, our more learned and industrious friends have already taken on the onerous task of providing one and all with fact-filled and cogent analyses for both The Arsenal and our very own ‘Holics Predictathon in 2024/25.  This has left me with the far easier role of making up some stuff about the alternative reality of […]

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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 […]

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We have a winner By North Bank Ned and TTG And so we reach Match Week 38 and the finish line. Pangloss strolls across well ahead of the pack to win the inaugural GHF Predictathon and claim bragging rights to being the bar’s Biggest Know-It-All.  Poosker takes silver, and BtM, with a late surge, takes […]

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