Post match thoughts
February 10, 2013
We seem to be taking this game of two halves cliché slighty too seriously these days. Still, yesterday at least, there were positives to be taken from both of them. In the first half we came out swinging like we’d already played 45 and were two goals down. It came as a bit of a revelation…Read the Rest
December 23, 2012
You should be careful what you wish for. Especially at this time of year. You might for example be wishing for Santa to come down the chimney with a brand spanking new Hungry Hungry Hippos game. You’ve seen the advert. You’ve witnessed those colourful little hippos gobbling up the marbles. You’ve convinced yourself that this…Read the Rest
December 18, 2012
A shaft of light beams down from the heavens. A choir of angels starts to sing. Last night Arsenal finally produced a display of attacking intent and finesse worthy of the names on the backs, and fronts, of their shirts. Yeah, I know it was only Reading. And of course we had that inevitable period…Read the Rest
December 12, 2012
I’m starting to think our manager may be actually losing his mind. I’m starting to think that somehow as a club we’ve managed to find ourselves in the extraordinary situation where we found a boss who was so successful, so revolutionary, so wise and so likable in the first half of his tenure that he’s…Read the Rest
December 9, 2012
Obviously nobody wants to win a match like that. Unless of course you’ve been having the kind of miserable run that Arsenal have this season, in which case maybe we’ll take it. Just this once? Of course there’s no excusing Cazorla’s dive yesterday. It was wrong and it was sad to see and I felt…Read the Rest
December 5, 2012
It’s a shame we were so unremittingly awful in the second half last night, not just because every time I have to witness us play like that it feels like another icicle has been driven into my heart, but because I actually thought there were a few positives to take from the first half display.…Read the Rest
