The boy is well and truly back. Martin Odegaard, captain extrodinaire, leader, goalscorer, the metronome through which our creative play flows, showed everyone watching last night just what you get when he is fully fit, in form, and able to deliver in the final third of the pitch. 121 touches in total, drifting over to that right-hand [...]
Before a ball was kicked yesterday, I went for a walk with The Management, and she asked, "How are you feeling about this one? The usual nerves?" My response was that no, I actually felt fine. I did. It was a strange feeling not to have the butterflies in my stomach as I wrote the [...]
This is a big one today. This is a match that is probably going to be one of the big two or three home games this season. The Scum is a derby, but they are clearly inferior. Liverpool still can't work out what they are yet I don't think, but City and Chelsea feel like [...]
It's the third match week in a row in which we find ourselves NOT playing on a Saturday and, if I'm honest, I don't like it. I enjoy change. I work in marketing and 'doing new stuff' is something I always try to adhere to as a work principle. Not when it comes to football, [...]
I think even before the news broke of the Al Hilal deal for Gabriel Martinelli, we all knew it was going to happen. He hadn't been in the squad for the Community Shield, he'd looked a bit sheepish and reluctant to take part in the dancing and frivolity that day. He hadn't made any squads, [...]
The good thing about us playing on Monday night was that it means we've got less time to wait until the weekend, and easily the biggest of the three games so far this season against Chelsea. Because of that, I'm hopeful that the thnkpieces from journos (and to be fair, bloggers like me) about how [...]
So Transfer Deadline Day came and went and we found ourselves with no incomings, and just the confirmations that both Fabio Vieira and Gabriel Jesus had left the club for Hamburg and Barcelona, respectively. Of course, there's no news on Martinelli yet, but that's because the Saudi Pro League deadline day doesn't finish until 6th September, [...]
We're around 36 hours (at the time of writing) away from the Transfer Window closing tomorrow evening, but thankfully for me, anyway, I'm less bothered about those goings-on and more bothered about what happens on the pitch tonight at Villa Park. We're at match week two all but completed, and the two familiar faces that [...]
This is shaping up to be a fun weekend, all things considered, eh? We kicked off with a lovely, comfortable, impressive 3-0 win at home to Coventry on Friday, then yesterday were treated to Man United losing the early game of the day to Hull. Lovely stuff. I hope this doesn't come back to bite [...]
I've been off the blog for a week, as the Management and I went to an Italian wedding and then toured Umbria, but back this weekend - and what a lovely thing to come back to yesterday, eh? Before I left for Italy, I was starting to feel like my daily musings were getting a [...]