West Ham – Arsenal: not 1- 2 for the faint hearted

By Walter Broeckx To start this match at the home ground of the team that sat in front of us at the start of this match we had Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Alexis, Welbeck. On the beach sat  Ospina, Gibbs, Chambers, Campbell, Walcott, Podolski, Akpom. So Koscielny back in the …

Foresoothe tis the eastern quarter away. Gadzukes

By Bulldog Drummond Taking his lead from the invidious aaa and their allies within mediaeval journalism (I rather like that phrase) the Rather Large Sam speaks.  Arsenal are weak and so can be exploited.  West Ham, quoth he, are going for Europe – and indeed Europe quakes. A goodly length in times past Europe quaked …

West Ham v Arsenal 28 December 2014 – the Match Officials

by Andrew Crawshaw Referee – Neil Swarbrick Assistants – S Ledger and M Wilkes Fourth Official – K Stroud Mr Swarbrick is Lancastrian and has been officiating in the Premier League since December 2010, along with Mr Moss he was officially promoted to the select group at the start of the 2011-12 season. He has …