So another game where the O’s take the lead and another game where they get pegged back. Perhaps the most galling thing about last Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Oldham was that we appeared to be in control of the game and took the lead after just eleven minutes through either Ouss Cissé or an own […]
UEFA’s announcement last Friday that Manchester City would be banned from participating in European competition, (in their case the Champions League), for two seasons for breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, may have been several years in the making but it was still somewhat surprising as most of us doubted whether UEFA would actually […]
So how are we all enjoying the Premier League’s very first Mid-Season Break then? Will we accept the annoying reduction in fixtures for the greater good in terms of the positive impact it will have on English club’s chances in the latter stages of European competition and on our national team’s hopes at the upcoming […]
Following hot on the heels of the disappointing dropping of two sought-after points against Macclesfield, came the chance to put things right and widen the gap against another team sitting below us in the table, just three days later. If there was any sense of déjà vu however it was swiftly eradicated by the vastly […]
Such is the impact of circumstance that the same result in a football match can provoke completely contrasting feelings depending on how it has been arrived at. Only a couple of weeks back Mrs Football Nerd and I had a spring in our step as we headed up the road for our usual post-match debrief […]
As damming a defeat as it was in terms of any vague slither of belief they may have held that they could haul back Liverpool and somehow claw their way back to shaping some form of challenge to the Anfield club’s procession to the title; it was the way that Manchester City found a way […]
With a school night trip to Crewe having to be ruled out, albeit reluctantly, we felt we deserved a Saturday awayday to somewhere within our established radius of being no more than an hour by train outside London. So it was to the ‘delightful, picturesque’ (or so we were led to believe by absolutely no […]
It has become traditional at this time of year for anyone who comments upon, writes about, or simply watches English football to express a view on the world’s oldest cup competition, the FA Cup, and whether it has lost its ‘magic’? There are essentially two schools of thought at play: either that the Premier League […]
As sometimes happens, the football fixture planning fates have aligned and given Mrs Football Nerd and I a run of games that combine home games and easy-enough to get to away games all without the interference of my own Arsenal-watching commitments. Starting last Saturday with the visit of Newport County, the missus and I are […]
While Liverpool march on relentless towards their first championship in 30 years, the chasing pack and the rest of the so-called ‘Big Six’ continue to stumble and squander points and generally make a mess of any semblance of a challenge to the Anfield club’s ongoing dominance. The only questions remaining around this season’s title race […]
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