The Beginning Of The End?
My Dad and I won’t be at the game on Sunday.
My Dad and I won’t be at the game on Sunday.
I typed this blog by hitting the keys so hard on the keyboard that my girlfriend complained about the noise of it from downstairs.
Daddy Barnett gets in on the Arsène-bashing.
The constant insistence by those in charge that they’re not to blame is - just slightly - getting to me.
After nine years of being constantly reminded of how long we’ve gone without a trophy, Saturday was a blessed relief.
An opening day defeat and some idiotic fans have made me wonder whether I still enjoy going to see Arsenal play football.
We won 7-3 and yet I’m ranting furiously.
I analyse the forthcoming season and it’s prospects for Arsenal Football Club.
It’s easy to see how we made it to this point.
“We’re gonna win the league”.
It is 1 year and 3 days since Arsenal beat Barcelona. I think it’s fair to say that since then, things have not exactly gone according to plan.
Attitudes to the League Cup have changed.
It is customary, in this bizarre day and age, to base your opinion of any football team on the last 7 or 8 games (or less, in some cases) that they have play...
Just 46,000.
Being a football fan is really difficult.
**He may be my father but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with all of his views on our beloved football club.</p>
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We lost. In the last minute. We weren’t good enough. We didn’t want to win as much as they did. Simple as that.
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Nothing short of disgraceful.
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It seems that, whilst I was writing my previous post, Mister Wenger was telling everyone in the media that:-
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I have spent the last couple of days organising a trip to Paris!
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