Tag: emirates stadium

An interview with… Nigel Winterburn

February 3, 2011 32 Comments by Sian

‘Ark at me, titling this post as if it’s the start of a series! Aim high and all that! Anyway, yesterday I was thrilled to find myself at the Emirates Stadium interviewing the legend that is Nigel Winterburn!  Nigel was at the ground promoting the Fred Perry Table Tennis Urban Cup 2011, the finals of which will be [...]

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Football Saturday returns to the Emirates!

September 8, 2010 2 Comments by Sian

Thanks to Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Moses, each of the Hindu gods (and goddesses) and a whole plethora of power-giving people, the International period is over! It was a lot more fun to support England this time round than it was was during the World Cup. Mostly because, you know, we weren’t useless this time around. [...]

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Arsenal 4 – 0 Fulham. And breeeeeathe.

May 10, 2010 12 Comments by Sian

So that’s that then. I have The Carpenters’ Goodbye to Love stuck in my head. If I was bright enough to know how to embed music into a post, I’d stick the track on for your hearing pleasure as you read. But I’m not, so you know… Youtube it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdG-ITxL8ok It’s apt though. Another season [...]

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Arsenal 0 – 0 Manchester City. Goalless, but funny.

April 26, 2010 20 Comments by Sian

Uninspiring match= struggling to find the inspiration to write about it. Funny really, as there were certainly plenty of talking points. I listed these talking points when I originally tried to attempt writing this blog post yesterday afternoon. This was my unedited summarisation of 98 minutes in the sun on Saturday afternoon: 1.) Vieira/Toure return [...]

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Arsenal 2-2 Barcelona. Classfest.

April 1, 2010 8 Comments by Sian

The night before the match yesterday, I dreamt that Lionel Messi hit me with his car and drove off. After about 30 minutes of play yesterday, I reckon Arsenal must have felt like Barcelona had hit them with their team bus and driven off. Well, we wanted to see classy football and we got classy [...]

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