As disappointing as Arsenal’s season has been this time around, certainly before Christmas even if things have picked up to an extent recently, perhaps the one (only?) bright spark has been the emergence of two supremely talented young players that look set to take the football world by storm at least in this country, if […]
Love him, hate him, regard him as one of, if not the greatest players of all time, or simply a cheat and someone whose behaviour and lifestyle inevitably destroyed him, no one will ever forget Diego Armando Maradona and the mark he made on the history of football, or indeed on society as whole. Like […]
Anyone who has read these pages in previous seasons won’t have found it a particularly tough stretch to draw the conclusion that I am far from being a fan of the seemingly too frequent and often pointless International breaks during the domestic season. As much as I love the major International tournaments in the summer […]
Interlull Tedium So here we are in the deepest darkest depths of another Interlull (© Arseblog), after the relative excitement generated by the fledgling Nations League, this one sees a return to the overwhelming tedium of qualification for Euro 2020. Back in 2016 when the Euros expanded to 24 teams, it was suggested that the […]
So it is finally out of the way! The final whistle on Tuesday evening signalled the end of the third(!) international break this season and the majority of us will be relieved that we can now return to the usual order of business and a period in which the season intensifies. Presumably as the result […]
So we find ourselves at the start of yet another International break in the domestic football programme, or as popular Arsenal blogger Arseblog has christened them, ‘Interlulls’. The marginal amount of anticipation for England followers comes with the sacking of Sam Allardyce and the appointment of Gareth Southgate as interim coach; although in all honesty […]
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