Posted in Match Report on Sep 26th, 2024
Embed from Getty Images Several Hale Enders put on a show as Arsenal thrashed League one Bolton in the League Cup. It was a line up reminiscent of many of Wenger’s sides in this competition from yesteryear partially due to injuries as well as a few players knocking on Arteta’s door following good showings in […]
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Posted in Match Report on Sep 23rd, 2024
It was hammering with rain as we left Cambridgeshire on a dreich Sunday morning. The rain continued as we stopped for brunch (full English for me, a burger for my son) at the American diner near Newark on the A1. Suitably fuelled for a day at the football, we continued on our way, cutting across […]
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Posted in Match Report on Sep 20th, 2024
And so to Bergamo, home of Atalanta, where 1300 lucky Arsenal fans took their place at the newly revamped stadium. A quick glance at my Everyman’s Classical Dictionary tells me that Atalanta, for whom the club was named, as per Ned’s peerless match preview, was exposed at birth and suckled by a she-bear. Further it […]
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Posted in Match Report on Sep 15th, 2024
Embed from Getty Images We beat Spurs one nil to record our third straight victory at the Toilet Bowl. It is one of the good days. Spurs began with a lot of possession whilst we looked compact in defence. We took a few minutes to find our shape, Trossard and Havertz interchanging sufficiently that it […]
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Posted in Match Report on Sep 4th, 2024
with minor input from ClockEndRider In order to break the interminable boredom created by yet another ineffably pointless Interlull, CER and I decided to take in a game in the Bristol Street Motors Trophy where Arsenal’s U-21 team were playing away at Brisbane Road, the venerable old stadium of Leyton Orient. The last time we […]
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