With a solid, if squeaky goalwise, win over Steaua Bucharest in a dead rubber game, the Gunners got rid of the blip on the PL radar. Much ado over the draw and loss in the Northeast, but all teams have suffered worse against lower table opposition. The absence of our striker and three-fourths of the [...]
Is it October already?
And we’re well underway into the season, and at the top of the table. Let me just pinch myself here - Ouch! Okay, this IS reality. Just checking. Wenger, predictably, wants us to enjoy the happiness while warning that it’s still too early to bring out the parades. For me, though, more than the pole [...]
Kanu believe it
I didn’t. Senderos sent off? When we’re up 2-0? Just about ready for Pompey to sing the blues? But then the decision was fair, by the book. Ref didn’t have a chance, with Big Phil being the last defender. Kanu did go down as if he’d been battered with dinosaur-old Swiss cheese, but Senderos was [...]
Puerta, RIP
One of the reasons we admire footballers is their sheer physicality, their feats of athleticism; that’s the reason we secretly imagine ourselves at play when we see them battle it out on the field. All the more shocking then, when they prematurely depart the field of play. It’s the Ultimate Red Card in a [...]
This is the season….
Been a long time since I blogged on Arsenal. Really long. Well, longer than I expected. After the Henry will-he won’t-he ( he did) there was hardly any stuff worth writing about. Did consider blogging when Eduardo came in, but couldn’t be bothered anyway.
Scintillating preamble, check.
For all the doom and gloom surrounding Titi’s departure, I [...]
Et tu, Henry?
Pumped about tomorrow’s La Liga? One of the most dramatic chases ever; tomorrow’s trio of matches will decide who among the three will get the title. Real Madrid are favorites, needing to exceed or equal Barca; Barca must exceed Real Madrid to win; and Sevilla will be hoping to win while plumping for Real [...]
‘Henry goes to Barcelona’ title goes here
No, I’m not going to talk about Henry much, despite the title. Much ado has been made about his dogged refusal to make a concrete denial of his move to Barcelona being touted around half of Europe. Barcelona to me seems to be a team in tatters. A team that can drop the league as [...]
Bzzz….
Running out of good titles here as yet another day of season transfers ends. No big news on the transfer front after this week’s flurry of signings. In Arsenal news, it seems somebody saw Arsene on a flight to Sardinia, no doubt scouting the Next Big Thing ( or the Next Little Thing) to wear [...]
Offseason rumblings
It’s the start to the monsoons and thunder here in Mumbai but you can hear the rumblings over at Arsenal. Henry said that he is an Arsenal player “for now”. Barca seems to have been hanging on those two words, as it resulted in a virtual explosion of headlines. “Henry frustrated with Arsenal” screamed one, [...]
Another day,another season.
And with the FA Cup action last night the English football for the season comes to an end. This is not a season that Wenger would like to remember; we started off well but stumbled and then narrowly avoided dropping out of the Big Four. Given our resources in the latter half we were stretched [...]
