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All change at Emerick’s Stadium

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:31/01/2018
  • Post category:News

It’s hard to remember a transfer window like it. Two players in, five out, one superstar signed, one sold, another nailed down to a new contract - leaving us with…

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Just the seven goals then

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:12/08/2017
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 4-3 Leicester Do I have the strength to dust myself down and go at it for another year, with diminishing returns, or shall I just pack it all in?…

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That warmed the Coquelins

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:14/05/2017
  • Post category:Match Review

Stoke City 1-4 Arsenal Fourth is on - until it’s off again. From the rubble of a north London derby no-show, we’ve dusted ourselves down to win three on the…

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Now you see us, now you don’t. Following Arsenal is magic.

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:08/01/2017
  • Post category:Match Review

Preston 1-2 Arsenal Ah, hello again mystifying Arsenal. The third round of the FA Cup heralded another performance - the second in a week, now *that’s* consistency - that left…

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Fact: Watching a game ‘as live’ never bloody works

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:30/10/2016
  • Post category:Match Review

Sunderland 1-4 Arsenal Ferrying children to various sporting endeavours is pretty much my weekend. I am a dad taxi. That is my life. It’s unpaid, to flag up an obvious…

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Arsenal fluff their lines again

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:25/01/2016
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 0-1 Chelsea A weary sense of familiarity abounded after another crack at breaking Chelsea’s strange grip on Arsenal failed, practically before it had begun. If Chelsea were meant to…

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The good, the bad and the 90th minute equaliser

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:13/01/2016
  • Post category:Match Review

Liverpool 3-3 Arsenal There are no two ways about it: letting a win slip in the 90th minute is always the kind of result that gnaws away at you. Two…

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Joyeux Joel and a Happy New Giroud!

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:10/12/2015
  • Post category:Match Review

Olympiacos 0-3 Arsenal I have vacillated about Arsenal’s chances in this must-win ding-dong for several weeks now. Curiously positivity after the Zagreb game was followed by gloomy no-hope once Alexis…

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Looking back, looking forward

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:20/11/2015
  • Post category:News

View image | gettyimages.com I would have been delighted in hindsight for this international break to have been as unremarkable as all those that have come before, but for all…

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No place to Jekyll and Hyde

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:08/11/2015
  • Post category:News

And so to the derby, which gets no less nerve-wracking with the passing of the years. I almost always profess my fear and pessimism prior to the game, which stands…

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