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Monthly Archive for June, 2020

Last gasp agony

An extraordinarily late and frankly undeserved goal from Neil Maupay who had earlier been involved in a controversial incident when Bernd Leno was seriously injured in a first half incident saw Arsenal fall to a second successive defeat since the restart of Premier League football. Maupay who scored the winner in the game in London […]

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The matches come thick and fast in Project Restart and though the ink has barely settled on a miserable trip to the Emptihad we are back on the road again, perhaps halfway down the line by now. The weekend sees us journey from London down to Brighton for a game that offers the opportunity to […]

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Definitely Maybe.

The pre-match ritual for this game was unlike any that I have previously experienced. No fine Italian food and wine, not even the Ruby Murray much beloved by CM100. I had planned a nice pre-match piece of pork belly accompanied by the Wine Society’s California Old Vine Zinfandel 2018 and while I did partake of […]

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Manchester City vs Arsenal

Embed from Getty Images It’s back! The mighty Arsenal, the rip-roaring Gunners, the one proper team in London are back! BUT …… that opening exclamation is about the only predictable thing there is to say about an actual football match being played again in the English Premier League. Well, there is one other predictable thing […]

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If you are a member of the mighty Goonerverse – and if you are not but still reading this, I must congratulate you on your impeccable taste  – you are invited to choose your own single memory of Andrey Arshavin that best summarizes his time at the Arsenal. Maybe the drop-off-the-shoulder sauntering and impossible angle […]

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