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NORTH LONDON JEOPARDY
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Well, my friends, today, I guess we dine in hell"
The biggest North London Derby of the past two decades is here, and the consequences of failing could not be more jeopardacious for both teams.
Unai Emery stole a point against...
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NORTH LONDON CUP FINAL – BIGGEST YET"
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Liverpool effectively bowed out of the title race, slumping to a 2-2 draw with West Ham away from home. We all said their collapse would come and we can all pat ourselves on the back for being right on the money.
There were certainly...
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LIVERPOOL LUCK TRAIN FINALLY DERAILS
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Well, good morning BEST FRIENDS. That’s what we are, right" RIGHT"
I’m still on my sugar high from the Chelsea game. A magnificent beasting for the ages! Should have been 7 or 8 when you watch it back. I still can’t quite...
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ARTETA DECKS HIS FOOTBALL DADDY
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Arsenal ? what exactly WAS that"
A footballing tour de force, that’s what. An otherworldly display of energy. All the hallmarks of a legendary performance, one that cements the status of this squad as mentality...
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DADDY ISSUES, AGAIN"
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Another game" Already" Sheesh, this Premier League season…
The Premier League has had about 16 two-week breaks, then they lump all the games into one month. It’s really quite irritating ? the more successful a club is in the cups, the worse...
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RUNNING ON TITLE FUMES
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Well, hello dearest friends of the internet. Here we go again – another week of competitive football in the Premier League of England & Wales. Let’s get into some of the mad stuff that happened yesterday.
Nottingham Forest skewered the VAR in...
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WALKING IN A TROSSARD WONDERLAND
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Sometimes, to tee up a match report, you focus on what the best manager in the world is saying about his game.
?It?s unacceptable,”
?Because I?ve won I have the courage to tell you. For the health of the players, it?s not normal. I don?t...
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MATCH DAY BLOG – WOLVES
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Mikel Arteta needs to show his teeth this afternoon.
His players are emotionally drained, they are tired, and I?ve been telling them they only have 5 games left when it?s 6.
Sorry boys.
This is where the manager earns his corn. Beat...
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GLORIOUS, GLORIOUS, EUROPA FĂšTBOL
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EUROPA DA DAH DA DAHHHHH! (Or something like that)
What a night in Europe’s third-best competition (Champions League > Eurovision > Europa League).
So many bad things happened to teams we are in direct rivalry with. Let’s go through...
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FIGHTING TALK FROM ARTETA
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Mikel Arteta came out firing in the media. I won?t quote, but the gist was very clear.
The journey these players have been on has been immense
We?ve gone from a midtable joke, to competitors
Only one team can win the Premier League and we?re...
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JESUS AND BOSSARD SAVE THE TIE
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Well that was a very weird evening. Arsenal heads into the second leg of the Bayern game with a 2-2 draw and a sharp reminder that top teams, with top players, do not roll over to the new kids on the block.
Things started well, Bukayo Saka...
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WHAT THE BRIGHT LIGHTS DEMAND
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Champions League knockout games haven?t been good to us over the past 25 years, not have games against Bayern Munich. This one feels extra huge given the context of potentially blowing the league against a messy Aston Villa side.
The...
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CURSE OF DON UNAI STRIKES AGAIN
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You can look at coefficients, analyse the colour of a gilet, get hyped about starting line-ups… but none of it matters when Arsenal face up against Don Unai Emery. His exit from the club cast a forever curse on the big occasions when we have to...
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SPURS HAMMERING CHANGES DYNAMIC OF SUNDAY – OR DOES IT"
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The Premier League weekend got off to a bang with Spurs losing 4-0 to Newcastle in horrendous fashion. Angeball is coming unstuck of late and this was another example of what happens when you start to get sussed in the Premier League. Not too many...
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WHY UNAI EMERY MIGHT THROW ARSENAL GAME
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They were dark days indeed, my friends. Unai Emery took the Arsenal job, and I was not happy about it from day one. I tried to hide my disdain for the hire (for 3 hours), but I knew that he’d not be the right fit over the long term.
In the end,...
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BAYERN OUTCLASS ARSENAL – HERE’S THE COPIUM
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We’ll start out with a bit of perspective.
That was Arsenal’s first Champions League in 7 years. It was our first quarter-final in 14 years. Only two of our starting 11 players had played in the Champions League before this season. We just...
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BIG BOY BOOTS REQUIRED
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Fans giving Zinchenko abuse in the Aston Villa game are a disgrace. I can sort of understand folk leaving early when we?re 2-0 down, but abusing one of our own players after the season we’ve had" Outrageous behavior ? brings back...
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MATCH DAY BLOG: TROSSARD, ZINCHENKO, AND JESUS REWARDED
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Someone added me to a tweet about Unai Emery getting a good response from the Arsenal fans this afternoon. I have to be clear that any beef in this land is between me and Emery and it’s all one way. He should get a good response. I didn’t rate...
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FIXTURE FURY
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The Premier League dropped the fixtures for some of the reworks needed before the end of the season… and they have not been kind to Arsenal or Aston Villa.
The big issue" The break Tottenham Hotspur has been given before meeting us.
Crazy as...
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KIT DETAILS – WHY THEY MATTER!
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Good evening, my darlings; how are we on this fine day"
England plays Brazil. Should be a fun match-up. Shame the pre-game drama is about a kit detail.
That said, I do want to weigh in on it because I live in this world.
Nike presented this...
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ANOTHER ONE
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TOMIYASU SIGNED A NEW DEAL.
We all love it.
Worth noting that Edu and Richard Garlick opted to give him a 2 yr extension (option for one yr), instead of the 3-5 everyone has been signing onto.
This reflects two things for me:
Lack of...
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WITHDRAWAL AMOUNT: JUST RIGHT
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Arsenal finally moved towards earning their diploma in the dark arts by withdrawing the following players:
Gabriel Jesus
Big Gabriel
Martinelli
Thomas Partey
Tomiyasu
By withdraw, I mean, the players themselves have told their county...
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NEW STRIKER LINKS
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I’m so sorry I wasn’t there for you when you needed a hit of CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW reaction. So here it is now:
I like it.
Bayern Munich is the perfect blend of super club at a lowish ebb that is very beatable. If you win, you’re really...
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BENNY AND TOMI PUT PEN TO PAPER
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What are you doing Friday" That’s right. CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER FINAL DRAW.
Feels sexy, right"
That is a very nice collection of top tier clubs. No Qarabag for us. Just pure heritage clubs that’ll have American gooners crying off sick...
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DAVID RAYA CEMENTS #1 STATUS WITH HERO PERFORMANCE!
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Arsenal is through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2010.
Wow.
14 years out in the cold. And here we are. What a feeling!
I’m a touch emotional about it because I wasn’t sure we’d ever get back the...
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