Written by Football NerdMarch 31, 2017

Football Nerd’s Weekly Ramblings – Football’s back with the Merseyside Derby, important weeks for Manchester City and Arsenal, Feyenoord look to keep the dream alive and Rocky Remembered.

With the final Interlull (© Arseblog) out of the way we can now focus on the race for the Premier League title and with a double helping of fixtures this week, things should really start to take shape. The Merseyside derby gets us underway with the lunchtime kick-off on Saturday; given Everton’s wretched form in […]

Written by Football NerdMarch 29, 2017March 29, 2017

Dulwich Hamlet – A Football ‘Experience’ for Non-Football Fans

For a few years now there has been a bit of a buzz around South London non-league side Dulwich Hamlet FC; whose (re)positioning of themselves as London’s ‘most hipster club’ has seen a significant swell in crowds with attendances regularly numbering in the thousands. Suburban London’s answer to Germany’s revered left-wing rebel club St Pauli; […]

Written by Football NerdMarch 24, 2017March 24, 2017

A weekend in Porto- Football Tourism, Ghost Football Clubs, Puppies, Cerveja and Ultras

This time four years ago, on a return journey from Madrid (having of course been to the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu to watch Real Madrid), in a conversation with a TV cameraman working with BBC travel journalist Simon Calder, Mrs Football Nerd for the first time described us as football tourists. Since that day we have […]

Written by Football NerdMarch 15, 2017March 16, 2017

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- All Eyes on the Etihad

After the sojourn for the quarter finals of the FA Cup, the Premier League is back in full swing this weekend; the unquestionable standout fixture is Liverpool’s trip to the Etihad late on Sunday afternoon. The baffling thing about Liverpool this season is that they have seemed completely comfortable against the other top six sides, […]

Written by Football NerdMarch 15, 2017March 15, 2017

Adiós a una Leyenda- a Tale of Unrequited Adulation

At the risk of angering Mrs Football Nerd, for she long ago grew tired of my near constant insistence that a certain Spanish playmaker was on the verge of signing for Arsenal in 2008 only for Arsène and the board to baulk at stumping up a reported £2 million more and instead watched him depart […]

Written by Football NerdMarch 10, 2017March 10, 2017

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Protest marches at the Emirates, Feyenoord wobble and the Miracle of the Camp Nou.

As covered in a previous post for You Are My Arsenal (http://youaremyarsenal.com/behind-enemy-lines-undercover-anfield/), I had the ‘pleasure’ of being at Anfield last Saturday evening to watch Arsenal’s latest apologetic capitulation against a top six side. Three days later, as I emerged from Arsenal tube station heading to the second leg Champions League game against Bayern Munich, […]

Written by Football NerdMarch 1, 2017

Football Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Feyenoord continue to make us believe, Barca sneak past Atletico while Liverpool flop at Leicester.

As a result of Southampton’s participation in the EFL Cup Final, I didn’t have an Arsenal game to fret and worry about this weekend; however as the resourceful (hopeless?) football obsessive that I am, I focused my full attention on the Eredivisie and La Liga on Sunday for an afternoon football marathon, much to the […]

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Month: March 2017