by rico | Thursday, March 30, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Alan ‘Smudger’ Smith, perhaps the style of striker Arsenal could do with these days? Tall, dangerous in the air and not too shabby with his feet either. A plan B when plan A isn’t reaping a reward. The big fella turned to talking about football after...
by rico | Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Afternoon all. Arsene Wenger has been inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame. So has Fergie but only one of the two needed many extra minutes to get a win. Only one of them managed to go an entire season undefeated but when it comes down to who was more...
by rico | Monday, March 27, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Antonio Conte has finally left a building of no interest, leaving those not so noisy neighbours in need of another manager. Whoever it is, he’ll be their fourth in two years. I think his last and final rant about the club was calculated, with an exit on...
by rico | Sunday, March 26, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. International breaks are tough, boring and oh so quiet. Honestly, I’m not overly interested in England these days. I’ve tried but they’re so, well, boring. I read something yesterday about Gareth Southgate and how the numbers have reduced as far as his...
by rico | Saturday, March 25, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
One week down, five days to go and then the boys will be back. Bukayo Saka won the head to head bragging rights over Jorginho a couple of nights ago as England beat Italy, a game in which Kane became the highest scoring penalty taker in history, or something like...
by rico | Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. How unlucky were the Arsenal Women’s team last night, two cleared off the line, one hit the post, plenty of other opportunities and two penalty shouts turned down. Jonas Eidevall said after their 1-0 defeat: Part of me is angry, because obviously VAR was...
by rico | Monday, March 20, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. This group of Arsenal players seldom seem to surprise. Tired bodies after 120 minutes of football just a couple of days ago, then penalties and the sucker punch. Defeat. My fear was a lethargic performance yesterday, a struggle to get going and even...
by rico | Sunday, March 19, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Having been 3-1 up against Southampton with just over fifteen minutes to go, Tottenham ended up drawing 3-3. Antonio Conte went into meltdown in his ten minute post match press conference. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth watching just for it’s...
by rico | Friday, March 17, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. Disappointed? Of course, but over the two legs, did we really deserve more? Regardless of your or my opinion, we’re out of the Europa Cup. Beaten on penalties but the killer blow was Sporting CP’s equaliser which was incredibly good. Aaron Ramsdale will...
by rico | Thursday, March 16, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Evening guys. Arsenal take on Sporting CP shortly. Any kind of home win and we’re through to the quarter-finals of the Europa League Cup. Like Arsenal, Sporting won 3-0 at the weekend so they’ll be confident. After the game, Sporting boss Amorim said: It was a perfect...
by rico | Wednesday, March 15, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all I heard/read the words “it’s a two horse race” the other day in reference to the Premier League title. I still think Man Utd shouldn’t be written off entirely but it would take a huge dip in form and dreadful run of results for both City and ourselves for...
by rico | Monday, March 13, 2023 | Daily Bits and Bobs
Morning all. The fans. In the tone of Craig Revel-Horwood – FAB-U-LOUS! Seriously, you’d have thought we were playing at The Emirates rather than Craven Cottage. Mikel Arteta on if he would have been chanting with our away supporters… I would be singing...
