Mesut is out, so how does the squad cope now?

By Tony Attwood So now we know.  Mesut Özil is out for about three months with a partial knee ligament tear.   The great dream of Sanchez, Walcott, Ramsey, Welbeck and Özil all in one team – the dream of stillness and speed – has taken another knock.  Will we ever see it I wonder? The …

Which team had the toughest start to the season?

By Walter Broeckx If you look at the number of points and the position in the league table I can understand that some people are not completely happy. But as in most things in life it is about perspective. And not just about the now moment. The season still has a long way to go. …

Trolls, hyenas and vermin

TROLLS, HYENAS AND VERMIN by Don McMahon Following our loss to Chelsea, which imho was a close run thing….I felt it appropriate to anticipate the reactions of our AAA minions. There is a phenomena in cognitive psychology which tries to explain how mankind’s morbid focus on small and often irrelevant negatives dominates many ordinary people’s …