Posted in Match Report on May 18th, 2022
Watching the match with an increasingly certain sense of an inevitable calamity, counterbalanced just enough by that tragicomically irrational optimism of football fan, I could only admire and respect the cheery tenacity of the faithful away fans who had all throughout the season represented the Arsenal with a consistency that if were replicated by the […]
Posted in Match Report on May 13th, 2022
“Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams” – W.B. Yeats Having stayed busy all day in order not to have to think about the game, around 7pm tonight, my thoughts began to turn to the great North London derbies at the predecessor to The Armitage Shanks. Of course, May ‘71 will live long in […]
Posted in Match Report on May 9th, 2022
Embed from Getty Images It was about 2pm on a glorious sun kissed afternoon at the Emirates when it came. The Arsenal big flag had been up and down the North Bank as the teams ran out and then, as they huddled, over the PA came Louis Dunford’s ‘The Angel’. As the chorus began, the […]
Posted in Match Report on May 2nd, 2022
The Arsenal started the matchday 34 against their East London, and fellow contenders for European spots for the next season, rivals West Ham with the result of a previous matches on Sunday moving them down a position from the much-coveted Champions League top four. A more surprising result of another match opened up the tantalizing […]
Posted in Match Report on Apr 23rd, 2022
Arsenal followed up their excellent victory at Chelsea in midweek with an equally impressive win over fellow top 4 challengers, Manchester United. The Gunners came into the game knowing a win would take them into fourth, above Tottenham at least for a few hours. Mikel Arteta made just one change from Wednesday’s win, with Cedric […]
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