Morning all. Hector Bellerin is 20 years old today. Happy birthday to him… You won’t have to scratch your head and search your memory too much to recall the great moments Dennis Bergkamp dished up. Anyone who has read Stillness and Speed will know that as much as Dennis was a world class player, he acknowledged […]
Morning all. So out we went again at the same old stage we like to each Spring. It’d be easy to say ‘just one more goal’ and yes, that’s all we needed last like in order to progress. However, until we either learn to do better in the Group stages and top the league in […]
Morning all. Happy birthday to Pat Rice and Lee Dixon. Pat is 66 years old today, Lee 51 – a mere whipper-snapper…. Last night Reading blew Bradford away with ease and next up for them is Arsenal in the semi-final at Wembley and they’ll want revenge for that 7-5 loss at the Mad Stad a couple […]
Roy of the Rovers did it, but that was in truth, fiction. A boys own comic story. That kind of fairytale just doesn’t happen in the real world. The real world of tough, unforgiving, cynical professional football… Or does it? A callow French youth, of 18 years young, moved to Arsenal permanently, on 1st July 2009, […]