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Two Games In, Is It All Over?
I watched the game from the discomfort of my armchair and believed I had watched a good hard fought sporting encounter between two teams ,although quite a bit below their best, providing a decent game. Little did I know that I should have been booing and cursing at the manager and the players. I have […]
Arsenal: Playing the Fox
доброе утро Positivistas, For those of you keenly anticipating the wit and wisdom of young Stew this morning after the Summer break you may be dismayed to discover a change of plan. As someone who was also looking forward to the morning musings of our resident quill-meister I am among you. Normal service will […]
Arsenal: Meringues, Moreno and Mane
Good Morning Positivistas, Having looked forward to the opening fixture since the game was announced in mid June the afternoon did not disappoint and will certainly be one of the ‘opening days’ that are carved in the memory of games worth watching. Clearly to be on the wrong side of a seven goal contest, and […]
Forecast: Arsenal 3 – 6 Liverpool
In that classic piece of American movie-making A Few Good Men, the then fresh faced, unspoiled, up and coming lead-man, Tom Cruise, is playing the part of the newly minted, inexperienced and unenthusiastic U.S. Navy lawyer. He is up against a mean, corrupt, brooding representative of the Establishment, in the form of Jack Nicholson, Hollywood’s ageing warrior […]
Wenger – The Grinch Who Stole The Transfer Window
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What […]
Arsenal and the Myth of Transfers
A Myth is quite simply “a widely held but false belief or idea.” Positivistas, how many of you, like me, first daily instinct during the transfer window is to reach for whatever internet device is at hand to check if there is any new transfer story affecting our great club? Yup, I see many of […]
Ivan Gazidis Lets Arsenal Fans Down !
“So what have the Romans ever done for us ?” Well for much of Arsenal blog world in recent days that should read “What has Ivan ever done for us (that we don’t take offence to)” Seriously, what on earth has Ivan said that could possibly offend these great minds and leaders of opinion, or […]
Arsenal: Another Year, Another Wexit?
Greetings Positivistas! Whether we like it or not our football holiday is almost over. The Arsenal troops are reassembling, there is the smell of gunpowder, canons are being cleaned, occasional explosions are being heard; a clear signal that the competitive battle in the EPL is about to resume. OK my metaphors may be overblown […]
Fans Take New Signing Badly ! What’s New?
So ,Arsene Wenger is proven right once again – nothing new there says you ? Last season the malcontents took umbridge when AW said, when discussing how LCFC were able to sign the likes of Mahrez and Kante, despite the big clubs having the exact same scouting info on both players, that a section of […]
A Bird In The Hand
There’s a priceless piece of dialogue from the pen of the wonderful David Nobbs on a subject which has, just this morning, provided the sand in my emotional Vaseline. His character, known to us only by his initials CJ, is expounding upon the theme of trite, stereotyped phraseology of the kind employed by lazy minds […]
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