Posted in Match Report on Apr 27th, 2023
Embed from Getty Images That wasn’t much fun, was it? Arsenal continued their teetering end-of-season form with their fourth consecutive game without a win, as they were thoroughly beaten 4-1 at the Emptihad by the-expensively-assembled-€itzens-of-(allegedly)-Off-Balance-Sheet-FC, as our Texas correspondent rightfully calls them. But regardless of the outcome, a wider perspective is necessary, and shows how […]
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Posted in Match Report on Apr 23rd, 2023
Embed from Getty Images Well, that was quite a game. Not quite what we wanted for an outcome, certainly not quite what we needed. Considering what was at stake it was quite a comedown, but considering how close we came to both losing and winning my blood pressure still hasn’t quite recovered. Arsenal hosted Southampton’s […]
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Posted in Match Report on Apr 17th, 2023
Arsenal threw away two vital points in their pursuit of the Premier League Title on Sunday afternoon. It remains to be seen whether the wound is fatal or not but with the title deciding clashat East Manchester Oil Incorporated only ten days away, this blow could hardly have come at a worse time for Arsenal. […]
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Posted in Match Report on Apr 10th, 2023
We came into the game high on hope, buoyed by 7 consecutive wins. At the same time, despite a curiously poor season, Liverpool had only been beaten twice at home all season: by Leeds, in the league at the end of October, and then by Real Madrid in the Champions League. Over the season they had beaten Citeh and Newcastle in the […]
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Posted in Match Report on Apr 2nd, 2023
As a failed professor of philology in Basel university once observed, thoughts are shadows of our feelings – darker, emptier and simpler. The paradox that he had to resort to an aphorism – which is but an articulated expression of thought — to convey his feeling about thought’s innate limitations was probably the kind of […]
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