Poor ol’ Pierro Hincapie, eh? His national team gets knocked out of the World Cup, plus he gets his marching orders in Mexico in the early hours of this morning, for covering his mouth and saying something to a Mexico player. I didn’t watch the game, but I have seen the incident, and the Mexico […]
It’s a new week, and another set of World Cup games to be peppered with, and the first of the knockout matches has already been decided. I didn’t watch Canada beat South Africa last night, mainly because I wasn’t sure what time it was on. I’ve gotten so used to the games being on at […]
I watched the Germany vs Ecuador game last night, whilst sipping on some white wine in the garden, getting over the melting of the day in London. To be fair, it wasn’t a bad one, with Germany scoring first to add some urgency, although the goal they got really shouldn’t have stood. If that isn’t […]
If you are somebody who reads my ramblings regularly, you’ll have noticed that I have been quite conspicuous by my absence. If there is anybody out there who finds what I have to say on football moderately interesting, firstly, you’re a mentalist 😉 But secondly, apologies if you’d been wondering if I fell into a […]
Let’s start today with a bit of sad news, which is that Ben White now misses the rest of the season through injury, as a result of the clash he had with Summerville on Sunday. The club confirmed yesterday that he had sustained a ‘significant medial ligament‘ injury in his knee, which would rule him […]
I wonder why Mikel Arteta decided that he wanted to do the press conference yesterday? The cynic in me says that, as we reach the pinnacle of the drama on this season, he wants to double down on his usual approach of leaving injury problems even more open in the air, by adding day before […]
I don’t think any of us, deep down, thought that yesterday’s victory over Burnley would be the absolute drubbing that we wanted. Sure, Burnley are crap, sure, they’re relegated and have little to play for, but this Arsenal team seems to be masters of making life difficult. And so it proved yesterday. And yet, in […]
Yesterday was about joy. It was about the feeling. What it meant after so long. We did a ‘vibes’ pod on the Same Old Arsenal after work that leaned into that. I got some literal ‘receipts’ from my drawers to illustrate a point about all of those rival fans and pundits that called us bottlers […]
Yesterday afternoon/evening, there was a flurry of articles that were released interviewing Josh Kroenke, as the co-chairman of Arsenal, to discuss the journey that the club has been on since he and his father became majority stakeholders at The Arsenal. I myself read the Telegraph one by Sam Dean (my dad has an account so […]
The news that Christian Eriksen collapsed yesterday playing for Denmark really should hit home that when people say “it’s only a game”, this is when you say”yep – not worth it”. It may be Erikson’s livelihood, his job, his identity, but health has to come above everything else, and when you put yourself in his […]