Archive | August 2015
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Arsenal Versus Palace: Enough Is Enough
As Manchester United marches inexorably towards the Premier League title leaving us to wait and hope that Manchester City can beat Chelsea and so keep us in touch with our neighbours and fellow strugglers at the bottom of the table, Arsenal fans are left with one question. Why? Why can’t the stubborn management at our […]
Does Arsenal First Day Loss Put An End To Its Title Ambitions ?
Without confidence you are twice defeated in the race of life. – Marcus Garvey So, in contrast to the pre-game optimism that Arsenal was a sure thing to the title, a metaphysical force which had swept up even of the most virulent doom-mongers such as Pedro of LeGrove and Phil of Angry of N5, in […]
Arsenal Disappoint, To Say The Least.
Great, just great. I suppose when I thought of calling this blog Positively Arsenal I should have considered how difficult that would make days like today. All summer I’ve been looking forward to carrying on where we left off , and within 45 minutes of the start of the new season the rug has been […]
Arsenal Versus West Ham: Let’s Get This Party Started
The anticipation which built throughout December with each candle John Noakes or Peter Purves lit on the Blue Peter Advent Crown inevitably resulted in an anti climactic Queen’s speech and a fight with your sister for which you were bound to be blamed regardless of her having started it. Similarly the warm, flat lemonade sensation […]
Team Spirit Can Be The Key To Arsenal’s Success
Team spirit counts for a lot. Many people talk about it, some are lucky enough to experience it, only a few know how to create it. Having just watched the English cricket team complete an unexpected and surprisingly comfortable Ashes win, it seems appropriate to cast the mind back and remember the previous Ashes humiliation […]
Arsenal Can Win The Title With Giroud
“People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whom have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It’s a basic fact of life that many things “everybody knows” turn out to be […]
Friendly You Say? No, Anything But
A guest post from @foreverheady All Community Shields matter, but some matter more than others. You’d certainly wish you were playing, rather than just watching, given you only get the traditional curtain-raiser invite if you’ve won either cup or league the season before. Other countries glamorise such ties with titles like Supercup, but the UK […]
Yeah?? Yeah!! Get In There
There is no point me pretending I’m not over the moon with that win, I am. I couldn’t give a flying that it is a friendly because there was nothing friendly about it. They were trying to win just as much as Arsenal were. The tell tail signs were there early on when Santi had […]
Arsenal Versus Chelsea: Just Arsène meets Violet Elizabeth
A couple of short months ago I wrote to you of a harbinger. Like the early snowdrop suggests the first death knell of another long winter, the removal of the goal posts from our local park signified that the football season was nearly over and summer lurked around its traditional seasonal corner. In what seems […]
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