Posted in Match Preview on May 13th, 2023
Embed from Getty Images I was having a discussion the other day with Arsenal-loving friends when the spectre of gridiron football arose. It led to a remembrance of great quarterbacks and their receiver pairings (Montana to Rice, Bradshaw to Swann), and that led me to the team I most enjoyed behind my hometown Rams, when […]
Posted in Match Preview on May 6th, 2023
Embed from Getty Images Two or three months ago when I was looking at the end-of-season fixture list, I noticed Liverpool, Manchester City and Newcastle (all away) within a few weeks of each other and wished we could have replaced those three with a string of easier fixtures. The first two of those didn’t go exactly to […]
Posted in Match Preview on May 1st, 2023
“A bugger’s muddle is a colloquial military term for a disorderly group – either assembled without formation or in a formation that does not meet the standards of the commentator” – and the only way Dorset farmer Tim Gelfs could describe the current egg producers market, but it reminded me of a couple of London […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 25th, 2023
I grew-up on a farm in a small, rural community. We didn’t have a lot of luxury, material goods, but my parents provided for all of our needs. Most of my schoolmates lived “in town” and had access to then-luxury diversions like cable television, but cable access was not available for our farm. Most times, […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 19th, 2023
Embed from Getty Images Emotional resilience under stress. Arsenal could use a bit of it at the moment, or maybe I am projecting my nerves onto the team. In either case, it is fair enough for people to point out that successive surrenders of two goal leads is not optimal performance for a title-contending side, no […]
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