Is 20 years a long time in football? I think so. 1989 was before Sky, before the Premier League, before the ghastly VAR. 1989 by Amy Lawrence is a book written for gooners about a match played in unique circumstances,…
In 2017 Miran and I had a rocking night out at a preview of Beware Mr Baker at the Hospital Club. We both know Neasden because we live quite near there and I once met Twiggy and that was big fun.…
By Dan Ferguson ——————————————- In the middle of this rumour-fed silly season Arsenal has had a serious kicking from all aspects of the media relating to our budget, planning and lack of on both fronts. I started thinking about why…
Because blogging Arsenal should be done by Arsenal fans. Covering Premier League football and European club football has become too much. And I also did tournaments. World Cups are big and too long and I started to fatigue during Euro…
From Rhys Jaggar Clough (holding a football): ‘What’s this?’ Forest player: ‘It’s a ball, boss.’ Clough: ‘Right: go and play with it….’ And that was all he said before a Nottingham Forest victory. It is the ultimate empowerment team talk…
Southgate is an organisational revolutionary. He’s mild-mannered and thorough and a good listener. A bold leader, he has reached into the future and yanked the 2020 England team into the present summer and tried it out. Last week he lost…
Liverpool 2 Spurs 0 Salah (pen) 2 Origi 87 ——————————————– Poch started Harry Kane, who hadn’t played since April 9th. Kane hadn’t played for 53 days! In my preview, said I didn’t think he would start Kane. We watched the…
2001 Kahn, Lizarazu, Effenberg deserve Champions Cup victory 23rd May 2001 __________________________ Bayern Munich 1 Valencia 1 Bayern win 5-4 after sudden death penalties ___________________________________________ Real Madrid versus Arsenal would have been a far better game! This was the dullest…
It would be huge if Spurs beat Liverpool. New stadium and the Champions League in the same year? Wow!!! Many Arsenal fans would be gutted. What will happen in Madrid on Saturday night? Goals will be scored, I’m sure of…
Chelsea 4 Arsenal 1 Giroud 49 Pedro 60 Hazard 63 Iwobi 69 Hazard 71 —————————— Eden Hazard is a playmaker who produces. And Mesut Ozil is a passenger who hides. Three excellent saves by Petr Cech prevented Chelsea from winning…