Tag Archive | supporters

Arsenal Versus Man City: Rage, Rage Against the Dying Of The Light

The frenzy which greeted our defeat on Wednesday night was enough to put any reasonable person off the game for life. I steered clear of the blood letting and the bed wetting because I knew my masters would be cracking the whip and expecting the minimum word count from me this morning. Had I indulged […]

Arsenal Versus Everton: Meaningless Methadone

When I finally stopped drinking the need to have a glass of liquid ever at hand remained with me. I used grapefruit or cranberry juice mixed with carbonated water. This provided a necessarily bitter beverage and a useful prop to ease me into my sobriety. Cigarette smokers have a variety of patches, gums and electronic […]

Kelly’s Heroes

I’m not much of a one for a post mortem. I’ll watch Adrian Clarke’s breakdown on the official site and that’s usually enough picking over the bones for me. I did however enjoy a chat with our Kelly, PA’s very own representative in Alabama, after the Everton match. It wasn’t so much a discussion about […]

Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ― Martin Luther King, Jr. Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ― Elbert Hubbard One of the biggest thrills in the […]