By Tony Attwood It happened on 25 January 2003 and is still recorded in most history books as Farnborough 1-5 Arsenal. But in fact the game took place at Highbury, switched there to help Farnborough get additional revenue. Arsenal donated all the income from programme sales for the day to Farnborough, and as the teams came …
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By Tony Attwood Watford and Arsenal are in two very different places. Yes I know, one is in Hertfordshire and one in North London. But apart from that, they are in two very different psychological places. In the FA Cup Walter Mazzarri made seven changes to the Watford side for the game against Millwall on Sunday …
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by Andrew Crawshaw Firstly an apology for the inadequacy of my preview of Jon Moss. In essence I got things right but failed to predict the scale of his ‘crimes’. My predictions for his performance are in blue italic script, post match comments are in black Mr Moss is really not a terribly good referee …
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By Sir Hardly Anyone, Prince of the Make Believe. Just when we thought it was safe to conclude that Alexis was ready to walk away from Arsenal having had a big fall out with Arsene Wenger over money, position on the pitch, minutes played, tactics and how big the banner about his dogs should be, …
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