Posted in Match Report on Apr 12th, 2021
After the frustration of the Liverpool game and the late concession against Slavia Prague, this match took on something of an end-of-season aura as Arsenal’s league season has been defined as one of mid-table mediocrity even as the opportunity remains for them to move up, with only two of the seven remaining fixtures against clubs […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 10th, 2021
Embed from Getty Images I intended to start this preview with a discursion into how football was played under its first set of rules, published in 1858 by the original footballing occupants of the venue for our match on Sunday. However, the wheels came perilously close to coming off our season this past week. In […]
Posted in Match Report on Apr 9th, 2021
During last season we often commented that it seemed a cursed season, albeit one that lasted fifteen months but it ultimately ended in delight and a trophy. Tonight we set out to play a crucial quarter-final on which the immediate future of our club rested. Would we prevail or would the inconsistency that continually surfaces nowadays […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 7th, 2021
Let us first get all the soft illusions out of the way: Slavia Prague – more accurately SK Slavia Praha or Sportovní Klub Slavia Praha as they have been known since 1991, in their current incarnation is a considerably dangerous opponent. In their long history since their beginning as SK ACOS Praha in 1892 the club has been renamed […]
Posted in Match Report on Apr 4th, 2021
My Grandmother used to tell me, when I was a wee lad, that “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all”. A fine sentiment Granny, but I fear you never had to write a match report after a 3-0 home defeat. Anyway, moving on, some of you may have […]
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