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 […]
Posted in Match Preview on Jan 6th, 2024
And so to the Stadium of Stone on Sunday afternoon, with a horse to get back on after two unfestive league defeats over the holidays. Yet, a new year, a different competition and, hopefully, a fresh start. History leans to our side. Sunday’s 3rd round match will be our 14th FA Cup tie against Liverpool. […]
Posted in Match Preview on Dec 30th, 2023
Embed from Getty Images Fourth-place Arsenal head to Craven Cottage for a Sunday afternoon kickoff to end what can largely be considered an incredibly successful calendar year. Looking at those results we stand in third place, behind Manchester’s “115-charge” Blues and, surprisingly, Aston “Good Ebening” Villa. After nearly taking the league ending in May, we’ve […]
Posted in Match Preview on Dec 28th, 2023
I have not been absolutely sure of almost anything in all these years, but I do recall that one of the many intellectually fearsome girls – they are all kind of disconcertingly similar, so after a while the words of ironic and mocking disapproval from their otherwise shapely lips merge into one another, just as […]
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