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 […]
Once again with almost Nostradamus-like powers of prediction, yours truly’s proclamation last week that the title race “looks very much like it is going to go right down to the wire” and “it feels very much a case of waiting to see which one of the protagonists will blink first“ (https://football-nerd.org/2019/01/25/football-nerd-weekly-ramblings-the-title-race-mexican-standoff-continues/), proved as prescient as […]
The problem with a title race that looks very much like it is going to go right down to the wire is that we find ourselves very much waiting for something determinant to happen. Many sage commenters and analysts are suggesting that both Liverpool and Manchester City are capable of breaking the ninety point threshold […]
While we all wanted change, any change, in response to the stale, dreary atmosphere around the club in Arsène’s final season, I am not sure any of us really anticipated just how much of a breath of fresh air our new Basque Head Coach would prove to be. Now with fifteen league games played including […]
Periodically a story breaks in both the football-focused and news media alerting us to the desire of Europe’s elite clubs to break away from their own domestic leagues and to form a European Super League. This time it was German news magazine Der Spiegel that ran a story alleging that seven of Europe’s top clubs […]
Start of the season thoughts- https://football-nerd.org/2018/08/10/football-nerd-weekly-ramblings-the-premier-league-is-back-will-anyone-be-able-to-stop-manchester-city/ As October reached its end, with each of the Premier League teams having now played a quarter of their matches, it feels like an appropriate time to take stock of how things are shaping up. Going into the season considered opinion suggested that the push for the title […]
While Leyton Orient had at least been active over the past few weeks, even if I hadn’t always been in attendance, I hadn’t been to the Emirates for more than three weeks. Arsenal had signed off before the international break with a 5-1 demolition of Fulham adding to the feeling that a feel-good factor is […]
Despite significant changes to the senior management team, my club Arsenal once again find themselves in a situation where they look like losing a player who has seemingly chosen to run down his contract rather than commit to a new deal. Thinking back to this time last season, we were going through almost identical will-they-won’t-they-sign […]
As a result of the recent international break and a whirlwind trip to New York City with my Dad to watch the New York Yankees take on their long-standing rivals the Boston Red Sox on consecutive evenings, I have been slightly disengaged from all things football over the last couple of weeks. Our baseball experience […]
There were worrying developments over in Spain the week before last, when it emerged that La Liga officials were planning to move an official league fixture over to Miami this season as part of a 15-year deal to promote the league to a wider audience. It is a potential move that echoes of the Premier […]
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