Honestly, it was not that long ago. We just recently went a decade unbeaten in league play against them, a record that lasted until early 2010, when they beat us here by an identical score as today. Since then, they have won two of the three league fixtures – including the infamous first win at […]
Category Archives: Match review
What a night for our young Englishman, at just 18 years old he scored his first ever Champions League goal and became the youngest player ever to do so! That was possibly the brightest part of this game, other than Santos securing our victory with a second….. None of us really wanted to Alex Song […]
After failing last week to string consecutive league wins together for the first since the beginning of this calendar year, we will try to make it back to back in any competition, and follow our 3-1 Carling Cup third round win over Shrewsbury Town with a similar result against second-from-bottom Bolton Wanderers FC. Last weekend […]
At least that (momentum) was the mantra heading in to this match. We chalked up a first league win (of this season) the past Saturday, and scrapped for a valuable away point in what figured to be the most difficult match of this season’s Champions League group phase. Two positives, with another three points necessary […]
Yesterday we saw the closing act of a season which promised so much up through the end of February but ultimately saw us finish empty-handed. February saw us lose the Carling Cup final in calamitous circumstances, sending our side into a tailspin from which they never really recovered. Exits from the European and FA Cup […]
Our 2010-11 season home programme ends with a slow start, defensive errors which gifted the opposition goals, a wrongly denied penalty, a dubiously chalked-off goal, a belated wake-up, and a Robin goal which ensures we do just enough to lose by a single goal margin… We have seen this all many times this season – […]
Said “illusion” being, of course, the possibility that we could still win the league. Our defeat this afternoon, coupled with Manchester United’s victory of Chelsea a couple of hours later put us 9 points adrift, with only six left to play for – so the best we can now finish is three points off the […]
Flash back to December 27, 2010. We were in the midst of a wretched winless run against Chelsea when they visited the Emirates looking for their customary three points. We took the pitch well and truly up for that one, and even though we had to wait until almost halftime to score our first goal […]
Before we even discuss Sunday afternoon’s events, may I take the opportunity to wish all readers a Happy Easter. The weather in Lancashire looked beautiful, and it has been a warm, pretty day here in the Metro DC area. The task was evident as we lined up at the Reebok – scene of some previous […]
So it comes to this. Another North London Derby and another opportunity to claw points back against Manchester United after their draw at Newcastle United. Getting three points tonight was of paramount importance – second only to beating Spurs and not allowing them to get six league points at our expense. We beat them 4-1 […]
That is our points total since our last home league win, February 23rd (1-0 over FA Cup finalists Stoke City). Five matches. One win. Four draws. An average of 1.2 points gained per fixture. Subtract our two away league matches, and the reading is even more gruesome: three matches. Three points. One goal – and […]
Well they were yesterday, after the game Robin van Persie confirmed he would have been the man to step in had anything happened to Mad Jens. On to Oliver’s match report, please bear with the long post this morning… After the week we have just endured, an actual premier league fixture almost seemed a subplot […]