Pre-Season Diary The penultimate instalment of my pre-season diaries comes to you a day late, due to me being on holiday last week. I took this week away as an opportunity to stay away from Twitter and pretty much all media coverage of anything for a week, so this week’s piece comes to you pretty […]
Pre-Season Diary Yes, we are now in the teens people! By the end of the week the Silly Season countdown clock will have broken out into spots and started taking an unhealthy interest in the swimwear section of the Littlewoods catalogue. When I started this diary eight weeks ago, it was with the intention of […]
Pre-Season Diary As I begin to write this, it has just occurred to me that I have neglected to change the title properly for the last few weeks, and we were stuck on week four for three weeks.I’m looking on that as a symbolic reflection of the Silly Season, rather than a shambolic reflection of […]
Pre-Season Diary That number of sleeps is going down quite quickly isn’t it? I don’t know about you, but the lower that number gets, the more excited I get. I still look at it as the number of sleeps until I get to go and watch The Arsenal again, not the number of sleeps I […]
Pre-Season Diary I have a feeling this is going to be quite a week. By this week, I mean last week as you are reading it the week after the week I have a feeling is going to be quite a week, if you get me. If that hurt your head as much as it […]
Pre-Season Diary Arsene Wenger was last night facing the biggest crisis of his Arsenal reign, as goalkeeper Vito Mannone looked set to follow Andrey Arshavin out of the club in a sensational £3m switch to Sunderland. After a traumatic month for the Gunners, which also saw Brazilian international star Denilson and Sebastien Squillaci leave the […]
Pre-Season Diary In Week One of these diaries I explained how my main aim was to diarise the “rollercoaster” of emotions we go through as fans during the close season. I wanted to show how we go from one extreme to the other from week to week and sometimes, on weeks such as this one, […]
Pre-Season Diary So, welcome to week two of the silly season diaries. After getting caught up a bit in the excitement/madness myself for a couple of weeks or so, I’m now feeling rather detached from the whole transfer speculation shenanigans. It feels like I’m having some kind of out of body experience when on Twitter […]
Pre-Season Diary If that title hasn’t put you off, and you are still reading, allow me to explain exactly what it is I want to do with this. Ok, so I guess you could say we are technically more in “close season” than actual pre-season proper, but let’s not split hairs, it pretty much amounts […]
