Posted in Match Report on Feb 28th, 2021
Embed from Getty Images The Arsenal travelled to Leicester today seeking a happier ending than our last three visits in the PL (we lost them all, in case your memory fails you) and also looking, I would hope, for a measure of revenge for a particularly annoying home defeat this season. Before the game Leicester […]
Posted in Match Preview on Feb 27th, 2021
Given the unanimous popularity of the somewhat tangential Valentine musings in the Leeds match report, I thought it is all the more desirable to start this preview with reminiscing about another Valentine’s day victory, in 2016, this time maybe with a higher degree of relevance. Danny Welbeck, playing his first match since April 2015, came […]
Posted in Match Report on Feb 26th, 2021
Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images It was a crazy day of sport all round. 17 wickets fell in a Test match and I missed every one of them because I was in Zoom meetings. So, in a game critical to our season, we settled down to a tea time kick off in Athens […]
Posted in Match Preview on Feb 25th, 2021
Home, what is it that drives us home? What drives us on at home? And when home is away from home, how can we cope? Putatively “at home” for Thursday evening’s tussle with a gritty S.L. Benfica side, we must make our Homerian trek across the sea to Athens’ Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis. Now, if we […]
Posted in Match Report on Feb 21st, 2021
Embed from Getty Images This afternoon we lost a strangely subdued game against quite possibly the best side in the world on current form. I wanted to start with that piece of perspective before digging a bit further into what happened and what we might make of it. Indeed, before the game there were many […]
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