Posted in Match Preview on Jan 6th, 2025
Games are arriving so thick and fast that it’s hard to keep up with the schedule from a diary point of view – Heaven knows what it must be like for the players! The dust (snow?) has barely settled on the strange events at the Amex – can it really be yet another blow in […]
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Posted in Match Preview on Jan 3rd, 2025
And so to the Falmer Stadium, better known as the Amex, for a late Saturday afternoon encounter with Brighton & Hove Albion. The Amex site, although not the stadium, sits astride the Lewis-Brighton border, a geographical inconvenience that delayed by at least five years the ending of the Seagull’s 14 errant years after their old […]
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Posted in Match Preview on Dec 31st, 2024
New Year’s Day sees us playing ‘Tail End Charlies’ for the second week in succession when we make the short trip to Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium for an evening kick-off after everyone else has played their week 19 fixture. A visit to Brentwood evokes the memory of their first home Premier League game on Friday […]
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Posted in Match Preview on Dec 26th, 2024
And so to the Stadium of Stone on Friday evening to welcome Ipswich Town, whom we last played in the Premier League more than two decades ago. A second-half Freddie Ljungberg brace gave us a 2-0 win at Highbury in April 2002. We were closing in on the double. The Tractor Boys were staring at […]
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Posted in Match Preview on Dec 21st, 2024
Part One – The RecapThe Gunners will make the short journey across London this weekend for the return leg of our seasonal double-header against Crystal Palace. After a slow start to the first game an Ødegaard/Jesús inspired attack was far too sharp for the pleasingly ponderous Palace defence, an eventual 3-2 victory enough to see […]
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