Posted in Match Preview on Apr 19th, 2025
And so, from the beau monde of the Bernabéu to prosaic Portman Road to face Ipswich Town in one of Easter Sunday’s three 2pm Premier League kick-offs. Arsenal will become the first Premiership side to play on three consecutive Easter Sundays — now there’s trivia for you! — but this will be our first visit […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 15th, 2025
So, the moment of truth is upon us. This may sound all very dramatic – maybe even melodramatic – and I expect that a lot of Arsenal supporters are not going to share this emotion: but I feel that it is absolutely necessary for this incarnation of Arsenal that they don’t give up the advantage […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 11th, 2025
“After the Lord Mayor’s Show comes the rag parade” is a time honoured phrase that one of my father’s bridge partners used to deploy regularly to describe a disappointing hand at Bridge – a phrase repeated so often that it has been seared into my cortex. Hopefully it isn’t going to be an appropriate descriptor […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 7th, 2025
Arsenal vs Real Madrid. Champions League quarter final. Two powerhouses of European football. A staggering 15 European Cups between them. It doesn’t get much bigger than this. And yet remarkably this will be the first meeting between the two sides in almost two decades. March 2006 was the last time we met at Highbury. But […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 4th, 2025
Let me begin by wishing all our readers a very happy St Totteringham’s Day. Have a blast, mate! Next up is the Gunners’ final visit to Goodison. The main stands display the classical Archibald Leitch design once so common in British football stadiums. The criss-cross steel balustrades at the front of the upper tier of […]
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