Posted in Match Report on Apr 12th, 2021
After the frustration of the Liverpool game and the late concession against Slavia Prague, this match took on something of an end-of-season aura as Arsenal’s league season has been defined as one of mid-table mediocrity even as the opportunity remains for them to move up, with only two of the seven remaining fixtures against clubs […]
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Posted in Match Report on Apr 9th, 2021
During last season we often commented that it seemed a cursed season, albeit one that lasted fifteen months but it ultimately ended in delight and a trophy. Tonight we set out to play a crucial quarter-final on which the immediate future of our club rested. Would we prevail or would the inconsistency that continually surfaces nowadays […]
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Posted in Match Report on Apr 4th, 2021
My Grandmother used to tell me, when I was a wee lad, that “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all”. A fine sentiment Granny, but I fear you never had to write a match report after a 3-0 home defeat. Anyway, moving on, some of you may have […]
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Posted in Match Report on Mar 21st, 2021
Embed from Getty Images I wonder whether centipedes think millipedes are show-offs? Does Spaghetti Bolognese have bacon in it? Which ones are cumulonimbus? These are just some of the questions that may have been in the minds of our players for the first thirty-five minutes of today’s game against West Ham. Whatever they were thinking […]
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Posted in Match Report on Mar 19th, 2021
Like a drunken sailor out all night before the morning when his ship is to sail, Arsenal somehow still managed to stumble through the alleyways in the port and dragged themselves over the gangplank to land successfully onboard in the quarter finals of the Europa League just when the captain had made up his mind […]
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