Posted in Match Preview on Feb 17th, 2024
Unless one was exceptionally enthusiastic about learning the long and colorful history of English football, for a non-English Arsenal fan – drawn towards the great London club by the magnetism of their football in the final years of the previous century – the name of Burnley was very unlikely to bring any sign of recognition […]
Posted in Match Preview on Feb 10th, 2024
And so the London Stadium on Sunday afternoon to take on West Ham United in the 151st encounter between these two teams founded by Victorian men who worked iron on opposite sides of the Thames. Embed from Getty Images The glow of last Sunday’s glorious triumph over Liverpool still warms. Yet therein lies a danger. […]
Posted in Match Preview on Feb 4th, 2024
One grew up in a Black Forest village in Baden-Württemberg, another in the seaside Basque cultural hub of San Sebastián. One had a mediocre playing career in Bundesliga 2 albeit with a bit of cult following among the supporters of the only club he played for, another played top level football for some of the […]
Posted in Match Preview on Jan 29th, 2024
Embed from Getty Images It seems improbable but we play only our second league match of 2024 and only our third in all so far this year when we meet Nottingham Forest at the City Ground on Tuesday night. When someone mentions Nottingham Forest to me I am transported back to January 1959. My grandfather […]
Posted in Match Preview on Jan 19th, 2024
Palace at home, a fixture that some Arsenal teams in the recent past must remember without fondness. In April of 2016, the season we should have won the title but faltered to allow Leicester City to live their dreams, Palace scored on a late counterattack, and the game ended 1-1 bringing home the sense that Arsenal’s […]
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