It has generally been accepted for a good few weeks / months that the title race is a two horse race, which will be determined by whoever blinks first between Liverpool and Manchester City. However below those two standout teams of the season, another exciting race is starting to bubble away. A mere matter of […]
So another weekend passes and another win each for Manchester City and Liverpool and still no decisive move in the race for the Premier League title. First up on Saturday evening Manchester City made light work of Watford thanks to a thirteen minute hat-trick from Raheem Sterling. On Sunday Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool responded to the […]
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 […]
For those of us of a Gooner persuasion it was never in doubt that Manchester City would bounce back after their dodgy showing and result away at Newcastle. For our team we simply hoped that it wouldn’t be another one of those embarrassing tonkings away at purported rivals that have been all too common over […]
With the Premier League in a strange kind of limbo with little to be decided at the top end of the table, attention seems to be turning more and more towards the battle for relegation, with all of the bottom ten teams all still under the magical 40 point mark. While not technically safe, it […]
In what is widely being dubbed as the ‘week of comebacks’, this week’s European clashes certainly threw up some drama and excitement in what were threatening to be a number of dead rubber second-leg games. Of course in an absolute classic invocation of Sod’s Law (which for the uninitiated is defined as: the humorous or […]
The third instalment of my packed pre-Christmas football watching programme brought the final group game of the Europa League and the visit of serial Belarusian champions BATE Borisov on a chilly Thursday evening. Match 3 – Arsenal vs BATE Borisov Thursday 7th December 2017. KO: 20:05 Borisov Automobile and Tractor Electronics, to give them their […]
When I started writing this post earlier in the week, I was very upbeat and positive about Arsenal’s participation in the Europa League as something different, a fresh competition featuring teams we don’t usually face, the chance to be a big fish in a small pond and to actually potentially stretch a European campaign beyond […]
As I have touched upon on these pages previously, while I love the big international tournaments, I find the international breaks, especially the early season ones in September, October and November, very hard to handle. Increasingly I find myself becoming more and more apathetic to the performances of England, probably as a result of a […]
In the end, seemingly comfortable victories for Manchester City and Liverpool, finally condemned Arsène Wenger and Arsenal to the Europa League as they missed out on the Champions League gravy train for the first time in 20 years. So often over past seasons qualification for a place at European’s top table has been something of […]
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