Posted in Match Preview on Sep 19th, 2020
The Moment In Saturday’s late game Miguel Arteta’s high-flying and sharp-shooting Gunners will try to make it two wins in as many tries when they host predicted relegation candidates West Ham United. In the last few seasons I would look at this fixture and think “potential banana skin” but with the feelgood factor flowing ever […]
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Posted in Match Report on Sep 12th, 2020
I’ve been waking up on the opening day of the season as an active Gooner for 62 years and that feeling of butterflies mingling with anticipation has visited me every single year. It was no different today and those butterflies intensified with a look at the team. Elneny and Gabriel were surprise inclusions and Willian […]
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Posted in Match Preview on Sep 11th, 2020
Amor fati – love of fate: not just accept the vicissitudes of life with a stoic calmness but celebrate the entire spectrum of experiences as a joyous necessity. This may or may not be a philosophy to live by, or at least an attitude to dress up in (the boundary between those two nations of […]
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Posted in Waffle on Sep 7th, 2020
When I sat down to write this preview the first thing that struck me as I pondered the upcoming season was how much the whole vibe around the club, the players and the supporters had been changed by our FA Cup win, benefits both tangible and intangible were gained that day. If we had not […]
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Posted in Club History, Interlull, Waffle on Sep 2nd, 2020
When I set about writing this piece I imagined it was going to deal only with our current group of goalies and how blessed we are to have – transfer window and budgetary issues permitting – two top class goalkeepers, following an era when that has not always been the case. But for me, it […]
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