Author Archives: rico

As far as ‘bad days’ go, that was a bad one…

Good morning. What matters isn’t how well you play when you’re playing well. What matters is how well you play when you’re playing badly.   Martina Navratilova. Martina Navratilova, one of the greatest sportswomen ever, didn’t do bad very often during her prime but even when she appeared to be having an off day, she […]

Plenty to prove, much to gain. VAR let down by its user..

Good morning. VAR was in use at Wembley yesterday. Anthony Taylor had a chance to prove its benefits before its introduction to the league next season but he blew it big time. If he couldn’t see Kyle Walker’s headbutt on Alireza Jahanbakhsh deserved a straight red card then what hope do we have? Brighton should […]

A break, but it’s not a break. A rest then, but they’ll be no sloping off on a money earner…

  Good afternoon. If it’s good enough for Unai Emery, it’s good enough for me. That’s what I thought anyway. It doesn’t matter whether we’ve won, lost drawn, been cheated out of a victory or whatever. The first thing he says to the guy/gal with the microphone is good morning. Or whatever greeting the time […]

Chambers conundrum. Bellerin being outdone in most departments…

Good morning. You build you own luck in life right? In which case, you must build your own bad luck too. Arsenal have certainly had their fair share of both this season with the bad luck possibly just edging it. Certainly in the injury department and to a degree, in other areas too. Harsh sendings […]

Ramsey, Lacazette and Guendouzi boss MNF.

Good morning. Decent performance. 👍🏻 Three points.👍🏻 No booking, therefore no ban for Sokratis. 👍🏻 A clean sheet. 👍🏻 Overtaken Toots. 👍🏻 Ramsey injury. 👎🏻 Anthony Taylor. 👎🏻 A good night for Arsenal. I think we’ll all agree on that. Our opening goal was disallowed and rightly so I thought. By the letter of the […]

Unai Emery could go one better than the Invincibles tonight. Could match our points tally for last last season too.

Lady Luck was certainly on rotten form for us over the weekend, all but at Anfield that is. Man Utd rode yet another wave of good fortune against Watford at Old in the Saturday afternoon fixture that’s for sure. Yesterday in Cardiff Craig Pawson had a dreadful day. Cardiff were winning 1-0, should have been […]

‘The Arsenal’ spirit is just around the corner. We can’t throw it away..

It’s true though isn’t it? We never forget David Rocastle. Perhaps right now looking back at the man we all knew as Rocky, has never been more poignant. Rocky, along with so many others in The Arsenal team back then were probably never looked upon as being the greatest footballers the world has ever seen […]

Mavropanos and Sokratis disagreement. Anfield battle could open the door for Arsenal.

Just a few days ago I watched Sokratis and Mavropanos play some kind of game on the official website.Something to do with naming countries beginning with a particular letter which on this occasion was an A. Sokratis said America which left his fellow teammate in fits of laughter. It’s the United States of America said […]