Aug 25
Sir Alex, are you watching?!
The same team being portrayed by the Manchester United manager as “a dirty side” merely a couple seasons ago has won the Premiership Fair Play Awards last season! And all that being achieved despite the highly hyped Old Trafford “disgrace” by the media.
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Aug 25
I am a firm believer of DEFENCE WINS GAME. The buzz and thrill of our two season openers has masked a potential weakness of our team - the defence. The stats shows: we have scored an amazing 9 goals in 2 matches (12 in 3 if you included Community Shield), yet we can’t overlook the fact we have also conceded 4 goals in 2 matches. And that’s against Middlesbrough (without Southgate and Ehiogu) and Everton…
Make no mistake we can’t score 3 or 4 goals every game. The attacking players would inevitably have their off days. By then our defence have to stand up and...
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Aug 24
I was certain that Rovers had made changes, in personnel and attitude, that would pull them from last year’s 15th place to the top 10 where they belong. After watching the weekend match I’m positive no changes have been made. Even after taking the lead 2-1 on the Saints it was only from 20 minutes of good football. The other 50 minutes that had passed where monotonous. Then when they had the lead they fell apart, and when the match was tied they became just unlucky. This match was a microcosm of the whole of last season and what may be the whole of this season.
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Aug 24
UPDATE - It should be on between 10pm and midnight tonight.
For those who might be interested (hi mom, hi dad), I’ll be on the Up All Night Program tonight discussing Arsenal and the unbeaten streak. This should be interesting as in the past I’ve always done these live via phone. Tonight it will be in studio here in NYC and taped.
Anybody know where I can find a list of the matches in Forest’s run? I’d like to see how many games were blowouts, etc.
You can listen tonight by going to ...
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Aug 24
As DennisBergkamp begins his final campaign a natural question to ask is: Where does he rank among the greats of the game? There are a number of ways to look at this, all of them unfair, but what?s the point of being a fan if you can?t spout off, throwing in your two cents? These sorts of exercises are always skewed towards the present day ? did you see Ted Drake play live? But what the hell, here goes?
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Aug 23
Ok, that was just ridiculous. You don’t like to talk about teams flipping a switch, but what was that yesterday? Down 3-1 to a not half bad squad and then they just hit the gas. There is no doubt I would hate Arsenal if I rooted for any other team. There is that inevitable march towards destruction now - you can just hear that Darth Vader music - as Arsenal pour forward again and again. Not because Arsenal plays dirty or for any other reason, just because of how obnoxiously good they are. I can’t imagine Arsenal going undefeated, and they are no lock to win any trophy, but right...
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Aug 22
What a thriller!! Judging from this match, the addition of Reyes seems to push up into an even higher level in our attacking play. No longer, we are over-reliant on Henry, I dare Alex Ferguson to call us an “one-man team” again. To be frank, I never realized Reyes could be THAT good. He got the skills of Henry, got the aggressiveness of Ian Wright, and got the toughness of Adams. What a player!
With the likes of Henry, Reyes, Bergkamp, Pires, Ljungberg in full flow, we are now attacking the opponents from left, right, midddle to even a more devesating effect than last...
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Aug 22
I just moved to Jacksonville, FL on a job transfer. My only other option was being laid off, so I moved from Ohio, to here.
Well, I haven’t met too many people down here and I’m missing my fellow Gooners in Ohio more then I ever imagined. The only soccer fans I have met are ManU or Real Madrid fans. I didn’t know if there were any places around here that other fellow Gooners frequented. It’s just not the same not having someone else to share Arsenal with.
Thanks.
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Aug 20
Middlebrough won their first trophy, in quite some time, by defeating Bolton in the Carling Cup. Now the Cup may not be the most prestigious of trophies but it may signify the rise of this team and club. Management at Boro has made a number of good decisions and these decisions may spell a move into the top 5 or 6 in the league and a competitive match this weekend.
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Aug 20
No rational person can refute the claim that the Wenger era Arsenal squad is one of the great teams of English football. Maybe not of European football, but certainly of English football. The unbeaten season, the record number of games without being shutout, three consecutive FA Cup finals - a litany of records.
What initially struck me as being interesting about this is that Arsenal have managed to be a truly exceptional team at virtually the same time that Manchester United have also fielded a team for the ages. Two historic teams at one time, what are the chances of that? Well, better...
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