Where did that go? With three rounds and a total of thirty Premier League matches played out in just eight days from Boxing Day to the 2nd of January, the Festive Period flew by in a whirl of live matches and questionable scheduling and we now find ourselves having emerged at the other end of […]
In case you missed it (as if!), the self-proclaimed “Special One” is back, after using his brief stint as a pundit on Sky Sports to issue some thinly veiled “come and get me” soundbites, he seemingly helped convince the powers that be at Tottenham that the only way to salvage their season, even this early […]
Watching Arsenal over recent seasons, since Arsène lost his magic touch at the time of the premature break-up of the Invincibles, with the evident disinterest of an owner concerned only with the bottom line value of his asset and an apathetic, if not increasingly disenfranchised fanbase, hasn’t been an especially thrilling experience. The dog days […]
After the apparent indignity of being made to play and captain a team made up of youngsters looking to stake their claim for a first team spot, squad players and some returning from long-term injury against Nottingham Forest in the League Cup a couple of weeks ago, Mesut Özil seems to have gone missing again. […]
With an impeccably prescient sense of timing, I wrote on these pages a month and a half ago that Arsenal’s “results and performances to date provide enough encouragement for us long-suffering Gooners to not only believe the future is bright but also that we might just be ahead of schedule in getting back to where […]
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 […]
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 […]
So here we are, the FA Cup final is done and dusted for another season and just before we head into the strange limbo-land ahead of the start of the four week football extravaganza that is the World Cup, there is only the small matter of the Champions League Final for us self-avowed football obsessives […]
Having pretty much declared the Premier League title race over on these very pages last week, it came as a bit of a surprise that Chelsea were held to a draw at Turf Moor, not in any derogatory sense towards Burnley, Sean Dyche’s men boast a highly impressive home record, but simply because, for the […]
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