Tag: Football

New season

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The Charity Shield

a season curtain raiser

it begins again

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by Scooj

Champions

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Twenty-two long years

monkey on our back climbs down

no longer bridesmaids

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by Scooj

  • on my beloved Arsenal Football Club at last becoming English Premier League champions again, and on the back of finishing second for the last three years.

Football fan’s lot

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A loss hangs heavy

and there is nowhere to hide

mood akin to grief

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by Scooj

Arsenal v Bournemouth

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I’m a bag of nerves

every game a ‘must win’ game

train trip to London

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by Scooj

Precocious

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Max Dowman, sixteen

sets a goal scoring record

star in the making

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by Scooj

Skat’s challenge

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Gunners misfiring

adding squeaky bumminess

to every fixture

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by Scooj

Thank you Skat for the challenge – not an easy phrase to incorporate into the short format. I fear every Arsenal game from now until the end of the season will be filled with such squeaky bumminess, but they seem to be rising, just about, to the challenge. Of course, as a lifelong fan, I am preparing for disappointment.

Hope of a football fan (Arsenal v Spurs)

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The stars have aligned

rivals for top spot have lost

don’t capitulate

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by Scooj

Arsenal 1 – Barcelona 0

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Ladies’ silverware

new champions of Europe

come on you gunners

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by Scooj

Real Madrid

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To become the best

you must meet and beat the best

change the paradigm

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by Scooj

Stay humble, eh

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Manchester City

soundly thrashed by the Gunners

stay humble Haaland

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by Scooj

  • Last night was a sweet moment for Arsenal fans, with the team beating the premiership champions 5-1. It was extra sweet, because the last meeting was a fiery affair, with an Arsenal player sent off in the first half with Arsenal leading 2-1. Manchester City grabbed an equaliser in the last minute of the game, and Erling Haaland (a Manchester City player and most prolific goalscorer in the world) was recorded saying ‘stay humble eh’ to Mikel Arteta, the Arsenal Manager at the end of the game. These are words that will follow and haunt Haaland for the rest of his career. Stupid boy.