Posted in Match Preview on May 10th, 2025
And so to Anfield for Sunday’s late afternoon Premier League game, with the weight of Wednesday’s disappointment hanging heavily. There was a moment this season when it seemed that this fixture could potentially be the league decider, and we would be summoning the spirit of ’89 to carry us to another famous title. As we […]
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 […]
Posted in Match Preview on May 2nd, 2025
And so to the Stadium of Stone, where the Arsenal entertain AFC Bournemouth in Saturday’s early evening kick-off. A hundred years ago to the day, (if you are reading this on May 2), Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic, as it then was, long before renaming itself in a pathetic attempt to precede Arsenal among English clubs, […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 28th, 2025
And so, while we have recently perhaps struggled to maintain concentration and second place in the Premier League, Tuesday evening sees us switch to what has become our number one priority for this most difficult of seasons, the Champions League. Given our injury problems this season we have done quite brilliantly to win a place […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 22nd, 2025
Those who follow such things might notice that I rarely do previews. My strong preference is to analyse and report matches but we were short of a previewer and I stepped in to cover Wednesday’s match between Arsenal and Crystal Palace. When I grew up in South London, Palace was the nearest professional club to […]
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