I like to keep things fairly positive around here but I’m pretty frustrated today. Frustrated because the same team which performed so admirably to knock over the Champions-to-be last weekend were so terrible, so out-of-sorts against Stoke on Sunday that it was embarrassing. I would sound like a broken record if I said that our […]
Tag: English Premier League 2010/2011
Tomorrow Arsenal host Manchester United at The Emirates. Two weeks ago this looked a mouth-watering, potentially title-deciding contest. Yet while the latter holds true for the away team, the bad guys, the Red Devils — for our own boys it is a game that cannot really end well. A loss and we virtually hand the […]
Long-time readers of this blog will know that I am not a person who regards winning as the be-all-and-end-all of football. There are so elements to football that draw people in: the entertainment, the aesthetic beauty, the presence of team dynamics, the narratives, the tactics, the learning of right and wrong, the representation of culture. […]
Spurs 3-3 Arsenal What a game this was. It may prove to be the straw that broke the camel’s back with regards to our title challenge — although one could argue our camel has been lying, crushed in the desert for some time now — but if you can’t appreciate a game of football like […]
Last night Newcastle did what nobody thought they would and drew with Manchester United. While the result has hardly blown the title race wide open, it has done something to my psychological well-being. It’s got me thinking we can win the damn thing again. At this point in time, I really like Newcastle for doing […]
Amanda has been an Arsenal supporter since the start of this season. A Brisbanian-cum-Berliner like myself, friend of my older brother and now good friend of mine, she has well and truly engrossed herself in the world of Arsenal over the past six months. Amanda has watched almost every Arsenal game this season with me, […]
Defending Emmanuel Eboué I said in my wrap-up of the game that “Emmanuel Eboué dug deep into our bag of tricks and found yet another creative way to prevent us from winning”. I now wish to alter that statement. Yes, we found another creative way to prevent us from winning the match. But it was […]
People say that when we play at the top of our game the football we produce is like art. Yet this season the real art has been the creative way in which we have thrown away all manner of seemingly insurmountable leads. You name it, we’ve done it. We are the masters in the art […]
Just setting up an open thread to discuss this weekend’s game against Liverpool. It’s well and truly make or break time but with Wojciech Szczesny, Johan Djourou and Alex Song all set to return to bolster our defence, we have the goods to take care of an in-form Liverpool side. As always on these open […]
I’m writing the report for this game super early this time, partly to make up for the lateness of last week’s post and partly because I’m just so bloody excited we managed to win! Our boys scored three of the sort of goals that only a team like Blackpool will concede to secure a 3-1 […]