Posted in Match Preview on Jan 22nd, 2021
It’s been almost normal lately, after our recent run of better results, if not always better performances, to state that “this could have been a different report had we not beaten ……….”. (fill in the name of your favourite victim). Well this could have been a very different report had Shrewsbury beaten Southampton on Tuesday […]
Posted in Match Report on Jan 19th, 2021
Following a recent turnaround of performances and results — inspired primarily by Hale End graduates — in the league to drag Arsenal up into a less catastrophic position on the table, last Thursday, Mikel Arteta’s team came up against what has been their most troublesome nemesis this season: a low block of dogged defenders at […]
Posted in Match Preview on Jan 17th, 2021
Being from America, my youthful exposure to things Newcastle was limited to two things: coals, and brown ale. Now, the former was always presented by my Scottish grandmother in the form of “like coals to Newcastle”, and for years I couldn’t figure out what the heck it meant (given her outspokenness what she meant was […]
Posted in Match Report on Jan 15th, 2021
With a chance to make it four Premier League wins on the bounce Mikel Arteta rang the changes from the Cup team that played last weekend: Bellerin came back into the team after he was rested against Newcastle, and the newly re-signed Holding replaced Pablo Marí in central defence where he was partnered by Luiz. […]
Posted in Match Preview on Jan 13th, 2021
Never a truer word Mikel! This week the recently resurgent Reds will host Crystal Palace in a game that provides an opportunity for us to win four premier matches in a row for the first time since October 2018. Not a great statistic that and it actually quite shocked me when I read it, though […]
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