The fifth game of my busy pre-Christmas football marathon was an unusual 3pm Saturday kick-off for Arsenal and the visit of Newcastle United. Match 5 – Arsenal vs Newcastle United Saturday 16th December 2017. KO: 15:00 After a goalless draw at West Ham during the week, that felt very much like a game that if […]
Seventy five minutes into the Arsenal – Bournemouth match last Saturday afternoon, Alexis Sanchez replaced Danny Welbeck, and was greeted by a completely mixed reaction around the stadium, and one that I have to say took me by surprise. The smattering of boos that were later drowned out by cheers, revealed that for many in […]
August, that fantastic yet strange month of the football calendar when the domestic leagues get going once again, yet the transfer window stays open and all of the rumour, misinformation and general associated nonsense continues right the way up to deadline day, which this year comes a full 3 weeks and 3 matches into the […]
After what is often described as ‘the longest 2 months of the year’ for us football obsessives, it is time to get back into the more familiar way of spending our time; for the next 10 months (actually 11 if we factor in the World Cup!) it will be back to submersing ourselves in the […]
Recent events have given us more examples of how money is the all-pervasive factor in the modern football world; its influence and lure growing year on year. For the first time since the deal that created the Premier League was inked with Rupert Murdoch’s News International, the English game is facing a potentially even wealthier […]
Rather predictability the much-hyped ‘Red Monday’ (as Sky Sports dubbed the clash between Liverpool and Manchester United) turned out to be a bit of a damp squib. With defeat almost unthinkable for Mourinho and United, it was always going to be the case that they were going to set up to be hard-to-beat first, and […]
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