Posted in Match Preview on Nov 9th, 2024
“Meet me at the bus stop in Fulham” is not the most romantic or enticing invitation. It’s not a patch on “Meet Me in St Louis” though that city has declined significantly since the era in which the movie was set. Nor indeed is it as beguiling as “Meet Me at Our Spot”, “Meet Me […]
Posted in Match Preview on Nov 5th, 2024
And so to Milan’s Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, more familiarly known as the San Siro, for our Wednesday evening Champions League match against Internazionale with the mini-league phase reaching its half-way point. Yet again, it falls to my lot to preview a football match against a club whose roots lie with cricketers. Inter was a breakaway […]
Posted in Match Preview on Nov 1st, 2024
Tomorrow we embark on the longest journey in our Premier League schedule to visit the capital of Geordieland and the pinnacle of their ‘culture’. Interestingly, the name of this conurbation has mutated over two millennia to reach its present form: المخفر الرياضي الشمالي (almakhfir alriyadiu alshamaliu). The site first appears in the historic record in […]
Posted in Match Preview on Oct 29th, 2024
And so to Deepdale, the long-standing home of Preston North End, for Wednesday evening’s fourth-round Carabao Cup tie. Deepdale was initially a cricket ground. Preston North End CC leased a field on Deepdale Farm in 1875, and the cricketers started playing football three years later to keep fit during the winter after a failed flirtation […]
Posted in Match Preview on Oct 26th, 2024
Embed from Getty Images Arsenal vs Liverpool. One of the great fixtures on the English football calendar. There have been cup finals, title deciders and everything in between. Sunday’s encounter should be no different as both sides hunt down the three points to keep the pressure on our common enemy. Liverpool have enjoyed a near-perfect […]
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