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Is This Sport or a Soap Opera?

Normally, I try to write my reports as soon after the game as possible. But given the way we lost yesterday’s game, I have chosen to wait until the morning so I can avoid making knee jerk reactions.  But now I have slept on it, and it seems even more ridiculous, I won’t talk much […]

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Sometimes one feels one is fated not to win and everything seems to go wrong. This was one of those nights for Arsenal as they stumbled to a hugely disappointing defeat in this Carabao Cup last 16  tie. Arsenal’s record in the League Cup, which has had many guises since it’s inception in 1961, is […]

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A prestigious gathering of Holics at our spiritual home in Stroud Green Road was a pleasant preamble to a pleasant amble as Arsenal put a pitiful Sheffield United to the sword – or should it be Blade?  Eddie Nketiah was assassin in chief with his first hat trick for our senior side and we were […]

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A big game loomed in beautiful Andalucía as the reality of the Champions League became real. After a home romp against PSV and then a subdued defeat against Lens, it was time to get back on the horse and, just three short days after a tough game at Stamford Bridge, cope with a tricky trip […]

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Damp Squib at the Wet Bus Stop

I have always liked to discover similarities between jazz and football, highly dissimilar even though they are. It is possible that my simple anthropic pattern seeking mind mistakes a merely accidental topographical similarity between two entirely psychological landscapes – landscapes that I am naturally drawn to – as hidden clues to some greater understanding, but […]

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