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Arsenal – The Slave of Nervous Circumstance
Good morning fellow Positive Arsenal fans, Another Sunday afternoon passed in a blur of frustration as Chelsea made off with all the points in a game where I fancied, I think almost all of us fancied, that we would win and stamp our footballing superiority, indeed our collective moral superiority, over the faltering Russian Empire […]
Arsenal Versus Chelsea: Unfinished Business
Lots of football fans are spending a lot of time discussing the various merits of teams not their own. There is even a rift among Arsenal fans – but fear not for this is a rift of the gentlest and least acidic nature – as to whether Leicester City should stop irritating everyone and bugger […]
Arsenal – Professional Performance Points Won
Good Evening Positivistas, Final whistle at the Britannia just blown as I begin to write. Overall I am pleased with not just the point but with the performance. Stoke may have changed their spots under Mr Hughes but there is still that very physical core to their game that, on other cold, Sundays afternoons over […]
Arsenal Versus Stoke: Keep Buggering On
I’m taking part in something called the six week challenge. It happens every year and the local radio station, of which my show is a small part, is an enthusiastic participant. The joy for me has always been that they start the thing in November and I am therefore ready equipped with an excuse. November […]
Arsenal: Examination taken and passed
Dzǎo-anh Positivistas, Sky and BT often blather on about the “superior quality/best in the world etc” of the Premier League with no apparent justification but in terms of entertainment that was a great contest last night. Congratulations to both teams and both managers for putting on a spectacle that gripped from the first whistle to […]
Arsenal Versus Liverpool: Tuning Up The Orchestra
Our little break from the long mountainous climb to the Premier League summit didn’t last long. A quick kick about on the plateau which is the FA Cup third round with hard working but ultimately out classed, out passed, out manoeuvred and out scored Sunderland and we are back onto the steep slopes. We travel […]
Arsenal Should Win The Title Says The Data
How often do we hear the old cliché “football is all about emotion”? While this may be used to explain the wild swings in opinions and attitudes of pre and even pubescent supporters of Arsenal Football Club, it can in no way excuse such conduct by the mainstream media as well as other opinion-leaders (bloggers, […]
Arsenal – Black Cat Episode 2
Hyvää huomenta Positivistas, I admit I anticipated problems this morning in producing anything vaguely readable or fresh about yesterday’s game. Different competion to the 4th December but same score, same result, almost the same players, same one-eyed nonsense from Sam Allardyce about how his side deserved “more” from the game, same weather, same bloody […]
Arsenal Versus Sunderland: Sparkling Near The Brim
Is it just me or does it seem an awfully long time ago that we last had a game of footy to contemplate? I suspect the schedule of one match every twenty minutes which we experience over the Christmas and New Year holiday acclimatises us to a more frantic agenda. Combine that with the ominous […]
Arsenal Players and Management – Analysed !
Well, it’s a new year and I think that’s a good time to look at the squad and management. So let’s analyse them individually through my expert eyes. Petr Čech A Chelsea back up player that showed us all we need to know when he threw in two during our first league game against West […]
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