Wayne

This is not just a blog post. Some may not see this as a measured opinion. But – this is a cry. A cry from the terraces, a cry from the pub, a cry from every living room where a…

Champions League: Paris-SG 2-1 Arsenal (Agg 3-1) And so, it began… with hope. That quiet, maddening companion that walks with you through the hours. As you dress the children. As you answer emails you barely read. As you stir sugar…

The dust has settled on a titanic tussle — a contest that bellowed, blazed, and bewildered. Inter Milan and Barcelona, two colossi of European football, shared thirteen goals, a dizzying deluge of drama. This was football at its most rarefied,…

And so, another Premier League weekend consigned to the history books — and once more, Arsenal stumbles, staggering through a script we’ve written ourselves, in a play we ought to have directed. Between great European nights, we have fluffed our…

Premier League: Arsenal 1 – 2 Bournemouth Here we go again. Déjà vu, draped in red and white. Arsenal — once more — on the cusp of a European night, and yet again, the domestic stumble precedes the continental stage.…

Back to the Premier League. Back to the weekly footballing soap opera that sustains us. The disappointment of the Emirates still lingers like a song we wish we’d never heard. But that must wait. It must. For all the noise,…

And so this week, this beguiling, bewildering week in football… We had with dreams still flickering, the embers of a once-glorious season still warm to the touch. We stood, not yet broken, on the edge of belief — peering over…