Posted in Match Preview on Mar 5th, 2021
Embed from Getty Images Burnley, oh Burnley! That bucolic spot! Where warm Westerlies blow cumulus clouds across the Costa Hibernica to deposit nutrient rain on lush meadows beside the confluence of the Rivers Calder and Brun in a valley beneath Pendle Hill. There, itinerant Mesolithic Britons knapped flints and incoming Neolithic farmers built tumuli and […]
Posted in Match Preview on Feb 27th, 2021
Given the unanimous popularity of the somewhat tangential Valentine musings in the Leeds match report, I thought it is all the more desirable to start this preview with reminiscing about another Valentine’s day victory, in 2016, this time maybe with a higher degree of relevance. Danny Welbeck, playing his first match since April 2015, came […]
Posted in Match Preview on Feb 25th, 2021
Home, what is it that drives us home? What drives us on at home? And when home is away from home, how can we cope? Putatively “at home” for Thursday evening’s tussle with a gritty S.L. Benfica side, we must make our Homerian trek across the sea to Athens’ Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis. Now, if we […]
Posted in Match Preview on Feb 20th, 2021
This weekend sees the visit of the high-flying league leaders to The Arsenal, who will, no doubt, want to bring City down to earth with a heavy dose of bumps. We have returned from our Italian job mildly frustrated not to have put the tie away, but on the whole I think confident that we […]
Posted in Match Preview on Feb 18th, 2021
Nearly a year to the day since Arsenal faced Olympiakos in the first, away leg of the Europa League round of 32 in a tie that ended disastrously for the Gunners, Mikel Arteta’s side travel to Italy rather than Portugal to face Benfica in the first leg and same round of this year’s tournament that […]
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