Posted in Match Preview on Jan 17th, 2021
Being from America, my youthful exposure to things Newcastle was limited to two things: coals, and brown ale. Now, the former was always presented by my Scottish grandmother in the form of “like coals to Newcastle”, and for years I couldn’t figure out what the heck it meant (given her outspokenness what she meant was […]
Posted in Match Preview on Jan 13th, 2021
Never a truer word Mikel! This week the recently resurgent Reds will host Crystal Palace in a game that provides an opportunity for us to win four premier matches in a row for the first time since October 2018. Not a great statistic that and it actually quite shocked me when I read it, though […]
Posted in Match Preview on Jan 8th, 2021
The first FA Cup Final that I remember watching Arsenal contest was the 1998 Final against Newcastle. Goals from Overmars and Anelka secured Arsene Wenger a first Double and the club’s first since before I was I born. I jumped around in our lounge and made a lot of noise. Top day, that. Ever since […]
Posted in Match Preview on Jan 1st, 2021
As Arsenal happily say goodbye to the old and hello to the new, they enter 2021 with ever more daunting challenges including an anything-but-trivial visit to the West Midlands on Saturday evening, so it may be a good time to pause and digest a morsel or two of trivia. The far-flung or more recently hatched ‘holic […]
Posted in Match Preview on Dec 28th, 2020
Well, what went wrong last time we played at the Amex Stadium in Brighton was that we lost 2-1, just as we had done at the Emirates in early December 2019. Last time.In that latter game, we had Özil, Mesut Özil, and I just don’t think I understand quite how his situation has arisen, or […]
