Though more satisfied supporters will argue that wins always justify the means, and with eight wins from 14
league games there certainly have been enough victories to keep some punters happy, United are a club with a reputation to service, and certain factions of fans who demand that their team try to win in style.
The Red Devils have gone W5 D5 L1 at home this season and are unbeaten in nine
league games there and they have gone W3 D1 in their last four on home soil.
They have produced a W4 D4 L5 record on home soil this term, but Huddersfield are winless in five at the John Smith's Stadium now (D2 L3) and have netted just one goal in their last three
league games there.
He had some Champions
League games there.
Newcastle meanwhile have shown a bit of good home form in the top flight in winning their last two
league games there.
With five defeats in their last six
league games there doesn't appear to be much light at the end of the tunnel.
We have an abundance of right sided wingers, yet CM Ramsey played the last 7
league games there for us.
Arsenal are preparing to face Man United at Old Trafford this afternoon, and despite not having won
a League game there for ten years Arsenal are surprisingly hot favourites!
The campaign succeeded despite some local opposition, and Albion moved into Withdean in 1999, thrashing Mansfield Town 6 - 0 in the first
league game there.
Not exact matches
There's not much Major
League Baseball can do to compete with the weather, but if they continue to reschedule
games at such a high rate, teams might have to begin to find some creative solutions as schedules tighten later in the season.
For example,
there's Robert Morris University's scholarship for «
League of Legends» players, which awards up to $ 19,000 in room and board for highly skilled
gamers, similar to how rising stars are currently recruited for baseball or football.
I know I said that
there won't be any
games with licenses that Nintendo has to pay for, but hear me out: This brilliant puzzle
game never should have had Tetris in the title to begin with, so this is a perfect time for Nintendo to do its own ROM hacking, take out the T - word, and rename this to Yoshi's Puzzle
League.
SPANAWAY — In sports,
there are a few undefeated streaks that have stood the test of time, such as the 35 -
game win streak by the 1979 - 1980 Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey
League.
If you attended the St. Paul Saints» minor
league baseball
game last night,
there's a good chance that comedy legend Bill Murray took your ticket when you made your way into the stadium.
There is a long history of famous major
league baseball players who missed important
games since they chose to observe the Sabbath and not play.
Who has time for meditating at work when
there are football fantasies, bowl (and football and basketball and baseball) pools, golf
leagues, fitness centers, video
games and coffee breaks to get finished before the end of the day!!!
Later on Sunday, Barcelona FC will hold their first
league game of the season, with 100,000 expected at the Camp Nou, where
there will be a minute's silence.
People are less interested in the church because
there are football
games on Sunday, little
league games, and people who spend too much time condemning than being inclusive.
But
there are families of language -
games just as softball, Little
League baseball, and professional baseball have similar rules with a few significant differences.
They also pass well as «
game day» fare, which is important around this time of year when you live with the quarterback of the senior boys school football team and
there are fantasy football
leagues and suicide pools you're trying to keep track of each week.
There are no easy
games in the
league..
They finished with a
league - worst 5.37 ERA.One especially telling statistic: Texas scored almost six runs per
game at homeand still had a losing record
there.
As well as the need for Arsenal to keep winning our Premier
League game to stop Chelsea running away with the EPL title this season,
there is a growing importance to Arsenal fans on the FA cup.
«It's going to be a tough end to the season as we're not quite where we want to be in the
league, but
there are still eight
games to go and we need some big performances and results between now and the end of the season.
no one single player can win the
league for us under the present regime.presently
there are eleven losers starting each
game for us, not one of them give a damn about the shirt, not even sanchez!.
While it is vital for Arsenal to get off to a positive start in the Champions
League by beating Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia tomorrow,
there is no way that Arsene Wenger can focus on just this
game.
Arsene Wenger has been handed a few selection problems ahead of this
game, but he did the right thing by resting most of the regular first team stars in the Europa
League win at BATE Borisov, so
there should be no excuses about tired legs today.
That is the reality at Arsenal and the fans still singing «
there is only one Arsene Wenger» (I pity those fools and deluded fans who still think that winning a
game of football is by having the most possession and not taking a shot... Soon they will believe they won the
league by finishing second, third or even fourth...), I applaud you.
The worry has to be that our next
game however is a trip to Stamford Bridge, where we have conceded 10 goals without reply in recent years, and we now have to go
there and target all three points, otherwise any hopes of winning that illustrious fourth Premier
League title will be gone for another season.
With the Stamford Bridge outfit five points and a
game in hand clear at the top of the Premier
League and still in the Champions
League there is a chance this could be the Portuguese's best season yet as a manager.
«
There are some tough fixtures coming up in the
league too — Leicester at home next Sunday and trips to Manchester United and Tottenham — but they are
games to look forward to, not fear.
«The Twins aren't moving — I'd say
there's a 99.9 percent chance they'll stay,» says Mike Veeck, president of the St. Paul Saints, an independent minor
league team that sells out all its
games in a 6,329 - seat stadium 15 minutes from the Metrodome.
While Wolves have done some great business, Sam Allardyce has been forced to pay over the odds because Jarvis is English and Premier
League proven, meaning
there is no risk that he will fail to adapt to the English
game or get chronically homesick.
The EPL is the toughest
league in the world, you go from playing Liverpool to playing Swansea but have the same amount of difficulty in the differing
games,
there are no 6 - 0 scores like in la liga
There have been suggestions that the boss made some sort of promise to Ospina about his playing opportunities and from the first two
games in the Champions
League, especially the second
game against Olympiacos when we were under great pressure to win, it seems like the Colombian is the first choice for all of the Arsenal cup
games.
But
there is another big reason why I think that Jack should not start and that is the fact he is on four yellow cards in the Premier
League and our next
game is at home to Manchester United.
Brett Hull's controversial foot - in - the - crease OT goal won the Cup for Dallas in
Game 6 of the final against Buffalo, but Nieuwendyk got the Stars
there by scoring a
league - leading 11 goals, and 21 points, in 23 postseason
games against Oilers, Blues, Avalanche and Sabres.
Morale is down, toxicity in the stands is spreading to the dressing room, pay attention to Ozil and Sanchez and even Bellerins body language, the playing for a lost cause... If I'm Ozil
there is no way I'm putting in a similar level of performance I did last season if the «main striker» goes missing for 14
games despite creating 141 chances and breaking the premier
league record
There's been over 2.5 goals in 5 of Cardiff's last six league games, so when you add that to Birmingham's awful defensive record, you'd presume there'll be a goal or two at St Andrew's ton
There's been over 2.5 goals in 5 of Cardiff's last six
league games, so when you add that to Birmingham's awful defensive record, you'd presume
there'll be a goal or two at St Andrew's ton
there'll be a goal or two at St Andrew's tonight.
There is just one Premier
League game and one FA cup final left this season before Wenger has to make the call.
Arsenal are preparing for tonight's
League Cup
game and, although we have great deep looking squad,
there are still quite a lot of injury news to report.
There will be sponsors on uniforms, and in -
game advertising on the stands, and whatever else the
leagues and their television partners can plaster onto a TV screen — if only because the attention spans of the audience will only get shorter, and their patience for enduring even the biggest and most coveted live sports broadcasts more scarce.
There are numerous strong Teams in this
League and if you don't bring your best (either literally to the
Game or while playing in the
Game) you will get beat.
There has been and will continue to be an awful lot of talk among Arsenal fans and in the football press about various behind the scenes goings on at our club, but right now the manager and the players need to focus on the next match and taking all three Premier
League points from our home
game against Manchester City.
Phil i agree get to the
game but i think the majority have enjoyed finishing top four playing beautifully entertaining attacking football and winning fa cups making it to another final this year also emirates and invincible a champions
league final we sadly lost but hey made it
there and wengers success is legendary hes a club legend somone arsenal fams will tell
there kids and grand kids about but lets win and make it to the final they are special go arsenal
Facts are facts and our position in the premier
league its a fact but also the fact that we loose on home turf is a fact standing with billboards at
games and breaking the unit up is a crime in my eyes we become a laughing stoke as the saying goes
there is many ways to skin a cat and skinning the cat with billboards at home
games or away
games is totally preposterous We need to do things in a professional manner and with respect In matches we need to united and loud behind our club an Arsenal colorful fortress were players feed from our supporters electric form A match
game the Emirates Stadium isn't the cinema
Whilst Kevin Davies is of course well known for his rough and tumble, no nonsense, old fashioned approach to the
game there is no denying that the Bolton veteran could well prove to be a very useful addition to any Premier
League squad and Martin O'Neill will surely be just one of many manager's showing their interest in the Trotters forward.
There have been many mutterings about Alexandre Lacazette being eased out of Arsenal after the arrival of PE Aubameyang this January, as it appears that Arsene Wenger has decided that the Frenchman not adapted to life in the Premier
League and has now failed to score in his last 12
games for the Gunners.
Every team in the
league plays over the weekend and while many teams will receive their day off on Monday,
there is consistently an ample slate of
games.
Now, we're in an offseason where a potential superstar like Shohei Ohtani is only getting the
league minimum after signing with the Angels for a capped international bonus figure; where one of the very best hitters in the
game, J.D. Martinez, still can't find a reasonable offer with less than two weeks to go before spring training; where Yu Darvish can't sign with either of the teams he would like to (the richest out
there, the Yankees and Dodgers), despite their having a need for a starter of his caliber, because they «need» to clear salary in order to avoid paying the luxury tax.