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 Preview on Jan 26th, 2020
Arsenal shift from the bus stop to the seaside on Monday night for a ridiculously scheduled 4th round cup tie away to Bournemouth. The match however will find the Gunners in good heart after a courageous performance last week. A similar showing for 90 odd minutes should surely be enough to take the recently reticent […]
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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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Posted in Match Preview on Jan 20th, 2020
Fourth play tenth tomorrow evening at the bus stop in Fulham with a ten-point gap between them. Despite the gap, there are several parallels between the clubs. Both have experienced recent decline in status, though Arsenal’s decline is currently more severe. Both have responded by appointing ambitious, young, former players as coaches and have unveiled […]
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Posted in Match Report on Jan 19th, 2020
A pellucid day dawned in Cambridgeshire, a fabulous day for football. I normally drive to games, but due to the Holics forever dinner later, I was on the train. Clearly the train companies had caught wind of this because the dread words “replacement bus service” appeared all over the schedule and I was forced to […]
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