Posted in Match Report on Feb 20th, 2020
It was a cold and rainy night in the city by the bay. The sort of night to test the calibre of Arsenal’s young guns who arrived in Piraeus on the back of an 8 match unbeaten run in cup and league. Before the match Mikel Arteta had talked of his belief that our younger […]
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Posted in Match Report on Feb 17th, 2020
I was supposed to write this match report from a hotel room in India, in the middle of the dark night, my creativity fueled by sleeplessness, drinks, and a long day of visiting friends and relatives that despite sapping physical energy – or maybe, because of that – tends to light up the imagination. Bereft […]
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Posted in Match Report on Feb 2nd, 2020
As the team news came through we found out that Gabriel Martinelli had shown enough to Mikel Arteta to keep his place in the team. Perhaps surprisingly, Lacazette also kept his place and we started with him up top and Gabi on the right flank, Auba on the left and Ozil at 10. Mustafi started […]
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Posted in Match Report on Jan 28th, 2020
An away ticket to Bournemouth is one of the most eagerly sought amongst the Arsenal away going fans. Why? Because there are so few of them. The tiny Vitality stadium only has a capacity of 11,300. So for a standard Premier League game we get 5%, or just under 600. There are 1000 fans on […]
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Posted in Match Report on Jan 21st, 2020
Arsenal visited the bus stop in Fulham standing in twelfth place at kick-off with only one win in five PL games under Mikel Arteta and only six wins all season. Mikel had said we needed to win to keep a CL place in our sights. Our last win at the bus stop was in October […]
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