Morning all. I don’t often write about the Arsenal women game because I know women’s football is not for everyone but what Renee Slegers team did last night was brilliant. Trailing 2-0 from the first leg of this tie against Real Madrid, they needed a big win if they were to progress any […]
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Morning all. Myles Lewis-Skelly started again for England last night and by all accounts, he played well. Declan Rice too and it was he who provided Kane with the easiest of finishes. I watched some of the game but another 90 minutes of watching England soon went out the window. Most of our […]
Morning all. I’ve just been watching ITV’s Big Match Revisited. The game was between Newcastle United and Manchester United with snow on the ground and the players wearing the shortest of shorts and some of the Newcastle players with short sleeved shirts on. Nowadays, the game would be called off I’m sure. […]
Afternoon all. We’re nearly half way through this latest international fortnight of football. I’d imagine every club manager, especially those whose club is still trying to win something or avoid relegation. Arne Slot, having watched his side crash out of the Champions League last week only to then see Newcastle lift the League […]
Morning all. I don’t know about you guys, especially the “tactical geniuses” out there, but whilst I’m watching a game of football, it’s usually what a player does well or not so well which stands out. The in-depth stuff passes me by, probably because I’m more interested in watching the game as a […]
Morning all. Scrappy, bitty and bad tempered at times, the words used by Alan Smith to describe the game between Arsenal and Chelsea yesterday lunchtime. He perhaps should have added comical too because Chris Kavanagh was so inconsistent, one can only laugh. Wesley Fofana escaped a booking on three separate occasions before Kavanagh […]
Morning all. It’s a cold and frosty one in West Berkshire but the sun is shining and it’s going to be a beautiful day. Arsenal face Chelsea at The Emirates at lunchtime today. This fixture last season saw us run out 5-0 winners but not for one minute do I expect a repeat […]
Photo from Freepik Morning all. Myles Lewis-Skelly has been handed his first England senior call-up by Thomas Tuchel for the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Thankfully, he’ll have Declan Rice to support him through his time away with England. There’s no place for Ethan Nwaneri in Tuchel’s squad which on […]
Morning all. Arsenal did their job well last night. A mix and match team from start to end but with a few surprises thrown in. Not as far as personnel goes but how they played. Zinchenko had an excellent game in midfield and Sterling played really well too ending with two assists. He […]
Morning all. I dipped in and out of the Liverpool v PSG game last night but I saw enough to know that when a neutral and strong referee oversees a game, Liverpool have to actually win a game for themselves. They didn’t. PSG, who we defeated 2-0 earlier in this competition by […]
Morning all. It feels like Arsenal has taken ten steps forward followed by seven steps backwards since Mikel Arteta took the Arsenal coach/managers job back in 2019. So many good things have happened, they’re squad changes, the fans believing again and the club getting back to being truly competitive. Yet this season has […]
Morning all. Sadly, the kind of performance we saw against PSV Eindhoven was nowhere near Old Trafford yesterday afternoon. The first half was more like a training session with a timid attacking unit up against a defence happy to let those up against them just pass the ball amongst themselves. Mikel Merino had a […]