Posted in Match Report on Oct 4th, 2020
We welcomed Sheffield United to the Grove this afternoon eager to regain league momentum after Monday’s setback at Anfield. Our team selection was a slight surprise. Granit Xhaka who quite undeservedly receives dogs abuse from some posters (😃) was left out and Nketiah replaced Lacazette upfront in the centre. It looked as if we were […]
Posted in Match Report on Oct 2nd, 2020
Our second visit to Anfield repeated two sequential matches at that recently inauspicious venue within 4 days that last took place in January 2007 when we played an FA Cup tie and a League Cup quarter final winning the former 3-1 and the latter 6-3 during an era when the relative relationship between the two […]
Posted in Match Report on Sep 29th, 2020
We went away to the reigning champions Liverpool after winning the first two matches of the new league season. Last time we had won the opening three matches was when we were the reigning champions, the mighty Invincibles aiming to protect their title in a rampaging start to the 2004-2005 season. Since then the fortunes […]
Posted in Match Report on Sep 24th, 2020
The Carabao Cup is a funny one. Part of us wants not to have the competition, but that wrangles with the part of us that would be glad for Arsenal to raise it as yet another trophy in the early Arteta years. The boss’s opinion was revealed by the strength of the team he put […]
Posted in Match Report on Sep 20th, 2020
It is very rare that I do not watch an Arsenal game live, either at the game, or on TV. However that late move of the game from Sunday afternoon to Saturday night totally snookered me. We had arranged to visit two dear friends in North Norfolk. Although only in her 50s, she has very […]
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