LadyArse

It’s 7.40am as I begin this blog. A Saturday morning, beginning this early is somewhat uncharted territory for me. Jo and I are holding an engagement celebration this evening and, despite the fact that I spent Wednesday and Thursday in bed (and still have a bit of a cough), it feels a bit like Christmas [...]

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Good old Arsenal. Just when I get to the point of feeling like giving up for the season, and start being glad about my schedule forcing me to miss games, we get a couple of great results. Very few sides win at Bayern or Swansea at the moment, and equally few keep clean sheets at [...]

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I often regard clichés like ‘glorious defeat’ as nauseatingly patronising, but it would be difficult to find another way of describing Arsenal’s exit from the Champions League on Wednesday night. A 2-0 win in the Allianz Arena against Bayern Munich, when taken out of context, could genuinely be considered one the greatest results in the [...]

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Bleh. After my vaguely optimistic preview the natural order of things returned. Good strikers always score against their old clubs, Arsenal can only beat Man U if all the best players are fit and firing, and Ferguson always manages to get his selection of players and officials spot on against us. I’m not particularly keen [...]

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Yesterday saw RvP complete the personal honours set by being named Football Writer’s Player of the Year.  I know many people think that in a team game individual honours mean nothing but in a season where we won’t be winning anything it’s nice to see his tremendous year rewarded somehow.  Of course, the same people [...]

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There are, in this life, few things better than watching Arsenal win, watching Arsenal win big is one of them, as is watching Arsenal win over a despised rival or team with more money than sense or class.  When Arsenal aren’t playing joy comes from watching said rivals/mouthy teams failing to win – if they [...]

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Arsenal travelled to QPR on the back of a seven game winning streak. The fans who had spent a large part of the season spitting bile, hatred and spewing predictions that we would lucky to finish top ten were nowhere to be seen.  For a short time Arsenal land was a happy place.  One defeat [...]

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So here it is folks, back for the season, and as that’s a long ‘aul haul I shall be breaking it up in to two competitions.We have a mid-season ‘winner’ but now the league will continue on, so all points won up until December 31st will carry forward and the overall winner will be announced [...]

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Thankfully, we had Arsene Wenger’s press conference today or I’m not really sure what we’d be talking about, With such a big match just around the corner, it seems surprisingly quiet. Maybe those responsible for most of the noise have exploded from too much food and drink. It’s a theory. As usual, Wenger was asked [...]

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Apologies for the lack of blog yesterday, my granda, who is the reason I’m a football fanatic, was turning 80 and I’m sure you can forgive me for prioritising that. Anyway, football, and we have the joy of another home tie tomorrow against (everyone’s favourite ex-Man cnut) Mark Hughes’ Fulham. In today’s press conference Wenger [...]

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So here it is folks, back for the season, and as that’s a long ‘aul haul I shall be breaking it up in to two competitions. We will have a mid-season ‘winner’ – so whoever is top of the league on December 31st will win a Tshirt. The league will continue on from then, so [...]

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Wasn’t quite sure I would get time to do a blog today, been out with my nephew all day and heading to see Mr. Nice in person tonight, but given the miracle that has happened at Ashburton Grove Medical Centre it would seem sacreligious not to at least mention it. Yes, in case you haven’t [...]

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So here it is folks, back for the season, and as that’s a long ‘aul haul I shall be breaking it up in to two competitions. We will have a mid-season ‘winner’ – so whoever is top of the league on December 31st will win a Tshirt. The league will continue on from then, so [...]

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When it was announced midweek that Cesc, Denilson, Song, and Arshavin would miss out on the trip to Shakhtar with a collective bag of injuries, some conspiracy-minded people suggested that they weren’t injured at all and that Wenger was simply resting them. That theory has received a bit of a boost with the news that [...]

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