Posted in Match Preview on Aug 20th, 2026
The 2026 Premier League Champions, Arsenal, kick off the 2026/27 season on Friday evening at the Emirates Stadium against newly promoted Coventry City. As we are all well aware, it had been 22 years since we last were Champions. Patrick Vieira was the captain. He is now 50 years of age and has just been […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 15th, 2026
…(Or, a glimpse into the dizzying possibilities) If you are theologically inclined to read the language of chance, you may find it mildly disconcerting to note that the previewer of the seasonal curtain-raiser happens to be the same “sell your soul to the devil for what goes around as wisdom” chap who wrote that stridently […]
Posted in Match Preview, Waffle on Aug 11th, 2026
Our final pre-season warm-up match is against Como 1907. It’s a club that has suddenly appeared in the upper reaches of Serie A, seemingly from nowhere. Como’s rise to prominence is probably not unrelated to having the richest owners in Italian football, the Hartono brothers, who have a combined wealth of over $40b, and own […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 8th, 2026
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund (BVB) provides our next preseason warm-up opponent and may represent a stiffer challenge than we have faced to date. Hopefully, we won’t be as lethargic as we looked in Dublin against Betis. This is also the Grand Final of the 2026 Emirates Cup so there’s silverware (of a sort) […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 4th, 2026
Real Betis Balompié S.A.D. is our next preseason opponent and for a reason that I have so far been unable to discover, we are playing them in Dublin. Could it have been arranged so that Andrew can just wander down the road (perhaps, via a familiar hostelry or two) to see his favourite team? Betis, […]
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