Last weekend finally brought the conclusions to the European competitions some two and a half months or so later than had been originally planned and in quite possibly the most surreal circumstances we have ever witnessed. The competitions were eventually staged as two concurrent mini-finals tournaments running in Lisbon and Germany and while it was […]
It may have been surreal in the extreme with no fans, no atmosphere, substitutes socially distancing and wearing masks but this weekend after two very long months we finally got football back, or at least something that resembled the football we used to know and love. Of course, we all knew that if anyone could […]
As the second phase of Champions League Round of 16 ties got underway this week, two of the competitions most successful sides met at Anfield on Tuesday when Liverpool hosted fellow five time winners Bayern Munich. Given Liverpool’s Premier League form and near success in Europe’s premier competition last season; it was largely felt that […]
Say what you like about Jamie Carragher and his tactical analysis work on Sky Sports but no one could deny that the former Liverpool captain: a) knows a thing or two about defending, or b) played every single game in his career with unquestionable commitment and passion; so when someone like that questions the character, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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