Posted in Match Preview on May 18th, 2024
Well, here we are. The final game of yet another season. It is frightening how quickly they go by, isn’t it? Perhaps it is a symptom of the rising levels of fun we are having. The phrase, “time flies when you’re having fun” comes to mind. Overall, it’s been another fantastic season, progress wise. We […]
Posted in Match Preview on May 12th, 2024
Sunday’s agenda for the Arsenal surely must be to stay focused and visualize the positive. Mikel Arteta says he has been doing exactly those things, and wants his team to do likewise when they step out to face Manchester United in their penultimate league match at Old Trafford: “My brain always takes me to the […]
Posted in Match Preview on May 3rd, 2024
And so to the Stadium of Stone, where AFC Bournemouth will be the visitors shortly after noon on Saturday. In the early 1970s, Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic Football Club impudently changed its name to elevate itself above us in alphabetical listings. Whatever. It says something about the recency of Bournemouth’s ascent to the top flight […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 27th, 2024
So, it comes around again. Our visit to the dark side, at the sleazy end of Via Septum Sororum. The 209th North London Derby, of which we have won 86, drawn 55 and lost 67. This is our 92nd league fixture in the Slough of Despond where we have won 26 times and drawn 26 […]
Posted in Match Preview on Apr 22nd, 2024
There’s a lot about Chelsea in this preview but rather than apologise for that, I will invite you to revel in the details of the complete mess into which they have gotten themselves. Fortunately, I started researching all this some time ago as it turned out to be a rats’ nest of huge proportions. I […]
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