Posted in Match Preview on Aug 27th, 2021
Where do I begin? (Hums old tune and conjures up the image of the young Ali McGraw) “Begin at the end!” said a wise elderly GP on being told by a notoriously garrulous patient that her current ailment was “a long story” and she was “not sure where to start”. I must confess that I […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 24th, 2021
On Wednesday 25th August 2021, the mighty Arsenal will play the first of a greatly reduced number of midweek fixtures for this season. No more Champions League, no more Europa League and, thank goodness, we weren’t quite good enough last season to qualify for the newly formed Europa Conference League. This is a competition sponsored […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 21st, 2021
On an early Spring morning – twenty-fifth of March to be precise – in Saint Petersburg one Major Kovalev — who is of an inferior rank but happy to have others think of him as a major and in any case such distinctions can easily get blurred in the real world of imagination – wakes […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 12th, 2021
Embed from Getty Images Brentford will play the second of their back-to-back league games against us on Friday evening, albeit the two games will be 74 years apart. Our 1-0 victory at Griffen Park in May 1947 was the Bee’s last game before being relegated from the top flight to which they only now return. […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 9th, 2021
Embed from Getty Images From ancient times it has been clear that human beings have an in-built drive and need to find patterns in outcomes, in order to make sense of what can otherwise appear to be the chaos of the everyday world. Chaos – the absence of pattern and certainty – is the antithesis […]
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