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Are you a no wins in November or more of an unbeaten in 16?

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:23/11/2018
  • Post category:News

I think my blogging absence may have rendered me incapable of writing a decent headline. Or maybe I never was any good at writing decent headlines? There’s one to ponder.…

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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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A welcome winning blip

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:01/12/2014
  • Post category:Match Review

West Brom 0-1 Arsenal I could trawl back over my blogging years and find dozens of examples of my morale hitting rock bottom, only for Wenger to shed some ballast…

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The sweet foot of Aaron Ramsey sends Arsenal into dreamland

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:18/05/2014
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 3-2 Hull City It started, as all good things do, with some peri-peri chicken. Our little gang of five merry cup warriors met at lunch, seven tortuously long hours…

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Indefensible defence and a lesson in possession

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:30/09/2012
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 1-2 Chelsea Had Giroud not skewed a very decent chance to equalise wide in the dying breaths of the game yesterday, we might all be taking a different tack…

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We’ve got a lovely Per, Kos goes nuts.

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:23/09/2012
  • Post category:Match Review

Manchester City 1-1 Arsenal Now, when Gibbs gave that corner away, the ball wafted over and Joleon Lescott squeezed his dome between two of our players and thudded it past…

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Match review: From Blustered to Unflustered

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:06/11/2011
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 3-0 West Brom No perching on the edge of the seat, nails bitten to the quick or hearts a-racing. No early goal for the visitors. No visions of wildebeests…

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Handbrake off, defensive sureness on: Job’s a goodun

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:14/10/2011
  • Post category:News

It’s been another fortnight of stewing over Arsenal’s weaknesses. The previous international break came right after the pounding at Old Trafford; this one came after the derby defeat. On each…

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Match report: The wait goes on

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:28/02/2011
  • Post category:Match Review

Arsenal 1-2 Birmingham City As a football fan you roll with the highs, but you also have to cope with the lows. Barcelona, a few weeks ago, was as good…

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Holed in the O’s own lair

  • Post author:Jim
  • Post published:22/02/2011
  • Post category:News

Confession: I used the above headline as it's simply too cheesy to let pass, and if I don't use it now, it will be even later than the too late…

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