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7th July 2006
At long last...
A comfortable ride on a choo-choo train deposits me at Putney Bridge for the short walk to the Eight Bells, where a pint or two of the landlord's finest foaming ale fuels me nicely for the walk through Bishops Park to Craven Cottage. That's what was supposed to happen. Alas the choo-choo trains were subject...
Sleek and Sexy 2 Fat and Flabby 1
This was my second visit to the Emirates - having first been for the FA Cup tie and seen a battling 1-1 draw. This time I saw the game with my incredibly attractive, intelligent and witty Gooner-fan friend and her severely northern-accent-challenged husband. They failed to get tickets in the...
The TW Guide to Marital Bliss
Oh what a dilemma for thousands of Gooners and Trotters - it's February 14th and the missus (or the hubby) says it is "fine" if you go to the match - "you go to the match if you want to, darling" - but you've heard that tone before - and...
Arsenal Cissies Scrape a Draw
Travelling to the game: On the way to the ground I solved the Van Persie mystery… I saw him on the train. I know it was him because he was wearing an Arsenal shirt and it had the number 11 on the back – and in said “Van Persie” in...
Manchester City are not a Big Club
In 2003/4 Citeh did the double over us and, in the process, whacked 9 goals past Jussi, but times have changed. Last season the double was ours, and this season the double-double awaits us. (Here's an interesting factoid: neither Wanderers or Citeh has ever achieved the double over the other in...
Putting it up Pompey
First let's unwrap a festive fun stat-pack!! We have played Portsmouth a total of 90 times - this will be the 91st encounter. We have won 39 of those encounters, Portsmouth have won 30 and there have been 21 draws. Older members (Tango?) will remember the thrilling 4-4 draw on the...
Is The Hatred Dying?
A number of times recently I have found myself watching football on the tellybox and wanting Manchester United to win. In my head, I have tried to want them to lose – but my heart and my body-language have betrayed me. I have usually allowed Arsenal as a special case...
Barcodes Preview
OK so the footie’s back – proper footie, I mean, not the sorry excuse for footie that is served up by England’s “finest” – but we have to wait another day as we’ve been moved to Sunday – Aaaaaaggghhhhh!!! It’s a trip to Newcastle. Now, Newcastle used to be everyone’s...
Incitement
It is laughable (and quite amusing) when footballers start to take themselves too seriously. The first sign is that they start to refer to themselves in the third person, and they go on to write (or have written for them) autobiographies which chart with tedious monotony the non-events that constitute...
Freedom of the Boro
For Bolton exiles there is another kind of local Derby – forget your ManUtd, Blackburn, Wigan and Citeh – they’re not proper derbies, your proper derby is when the Wanderers come close to the place where you live – the team that your work colleagues and your neighbours support… Nowadays I...
