Posted in Match Preview on Oct 31st, 2020
Arsenal vs. Manchester United is the rivalry that made the Premier League. That is not to trivialize the intensity or significance of many of the other traditional contests in the English football with roots of enmity deep in the collective psyche of a football-crazy nation, but since the current incarnation of the Premier League broke […]
Posted in Match Report on Oct 30th, 2020
I dreaded the prospect of Thursday night football before it eventually arrived at the Grove. The level of the Europa League is substantially below the Champions League and the game with Dundalk illustrated this graphically. But the chance to refresh our line up and to play with less pressure meant that this was a game […]
Posted in Match Preview on Oct 29th, 2020
Arsenal v. Dundalk FC Europa League Group Stage Round 2 Thursday, October 29, 2020, 8:00pm, Emirates Stadium Having seen off Rapid Vienna a week ago thanks to a Luiz/Aubameyang second half salvo after we struggled in many of the same ways we suffered against Leicester on Sunday, Arsenal’s second Europa League group stage contest features the challenge […]
Posted in Match Report on Oct 26th, 2020
After the pedestrian display midweek that was nonetheless efficient enough to get us all the three points away at Vienna in what would most likely be our relatively toughest match in the Europa group league, we reassembled back at our home ground in the league against a team who finished above us last season and […]
Posted in Match Preview on Oct 24th, 2020
How time flies? It seems like only last month that I was writing a Leicester preview. In fact on checking I find that it was last month for a Carabao Cup tie that we won handily 2-0 at their place. This time of course it is a Premier League fixture and, as we showed against […]
