Posted in Match Preview on Sep 18th, 2024
And so to Alpine Lombardy, where a new opponent and a new Champions League format await. One of the rewards of CL qualification is meant to be not having to play Thursday night football. However, we shall be playing football on Thursday night in hilly and historic Bergamo where Atalanta hosts us in its newly […]
Posted in Match Preview on Sep 14th, 2024
Even before the dust has fully settled down from this summer’s transfer window fun and frolics, Arsenal fans were treated this week with exquisitely positive news. I don’t know about everyone else, but I myself found Mikel Arteta extending his contract as the Arsenal manager for three more years as heartening a treat as that […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 30th, 2024
In Arsenal’s third match of the Premier League season the Gunners will be Saturday lunchtime hosts to the seabirds of Brighton and Hove Albion. Both clubs took six points and a +4 goal difference from their first two matches, as did Liverpool, but all three clubs trail C115y whose goal difference is marginally better at +5. […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 23rd, 2024
And so to Villa Park for Saturday’s early ebening game (17:30 kick-off) against Unai Emery’s Villans. Villa celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. Yet, our first trip to Villa Park, then Aston Park, was a mere 120 years ago, on Boxing Day, 1904, during our first season in the old First Division. I had expected […]
Posted in Match Preview on Aug 16th, 2024
I must admit that at the end of last season I was really looking forward to a complete summer break from football after the exhausting tension and ultimate disappointment of once again finishing second to Manchester C137y. Yes, C115y have become C137y due to the addition of no less than 22 charges of kicking off […]
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