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Stanchion and Ollie

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:08/12/2013
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 1-1 Everton It's always a bit frustrating to score late but concede even later (we used to be quite adept at that - it was an unwelcome feather in…

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Interlull: Good for looking back and looking forward

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:16/11/2013
  • Post category:News

One of the few benefits of downing tools for weeks on end, as I am increasingly doing, is the ability to view things in splendid hindsight. After the Utd game…

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Sir Chez knighted at the Palace

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:27/10/2013
  • Post category:Match Review

Crystal Palace 0-2 Arsenal Two points clear at the top of the league going into November – nice, isn’t it? This time last year, and the year before that, we…

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Where there’s a Wilshere, there’s a way

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:20/10/2013
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 4-1 Norwich I don’t wish to get all meta about things, but do you ever wonder why you like football? The comfort of routine, the camaraderie, the sense of…

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The year of the Ram

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:15/09/2013
  • Post category:Match Review

Sunderland 1-3 Arsenal Every now and then I do that thing where I wonder what some of our home-grown players would fetch on the open market. Jack Wilshere, of course,…

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Giroud, Giroud, Giroud is on fire

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:02/09/2013
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 1-0 Tottenham Doffed chapeaus all round - to Giroud, for an imposing performance in which he scored a deft little number ("good touch for a big man"), to Mertesacker…

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Four, five? Senses working overtime

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:06/05/2013
  • Post category:News

I think I would perhaps be enjoying this fourth-place run-in a bit more if Arsenal were a little less in the wanting zone. I'm finding it hard to prefer this…

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Per-shaped, points plundered

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:21/04/2013
  • Post category:Match Review

Fulham 0-1 Arsenal What will posterity tell us about this game? Not, I suspect, that it was a curiously below-par performance despite an 80-minute numerical advantage. History will record it…

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Ten glorious minutes

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:25/01/2013
  • Post category:Match Review

In a season dotted with more than its fair share of lacklustre moments and peppered by curiously slow build-up play, the quick-fire four-goal salvo at the beginning of the second…

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Nil nil, hey hey, kiss it goodbye

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:25/11/2012
  • Post category:Match Review

Aston Villa 0-0 Arsenal “The thriller at the Villa” I spent a little while on Saturday morning musing about whether the new sponsorship deal could have an immediate uplifting effect…

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