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a gale it s bloody cold and we spend the rest of the game standing in front of the main stand a third for met police comes from turner on 76 a nice finish but a goalkeeping error going into a 50 50 situation without being committed grandad comes on for met police no idea who he was but the tannoy bloke clearly got it wrong as the met fans near us start to take the piss we start chatting with one of the fans who turns out to be mrs turner the mum of the recent scorer we have a bit of a chat with her about the club and about her son s masters that he s just finished and of which she is quite rightfully very proud and because we re fickle we start quite liking met police wingate pull one back on 55 minutes through their captain mark weatherstone in scrappy goal that just crossed the line in the keeper s hands there s an excellent save from the met keeper on 89 wingate seem to be picking it up but it s far too late there s 5 minutes additional time and all the action is in the met goal dan and i look at the weather and i morph back into being about 15 and call my dad for a lift home it s a been a good game although wingate seem to be taking a pasting for most of this season and i doubt we ll be up here again in a hile i think we ll probably head up to met police at some point though and i absolutely promise no acab tshirts author groundhoppergirl posted on january 31 2016 leave a comment game 26 arsenal v manchester city english premier league 21st december 2015 it feels like an age since i ve been to the arsenal germany northampton boreham wood but now i m home and for a huge huge game it s a monday night it s cold and i m very excited it s our charity day today every member of club staff including the players and manager donate a days salary to our club charity which this season is the arsenal foundation which funds save the children and the willow foundation i ve always been very proud of the work that arsenal does for charity and there is a large section in the programme about support we are giving to help displaced persons including the building of football pitches for iraqis who have been forced out of their homes i know other clubs do this sort of thing too but i really do feel that it s important that this work is highlighted the team is unchanged from villa and city are without kompany still so i m feeling positive ah yes it s city and whoever wins is second for christmas as neither of us can go above leicester and some are talking about this as a title winner i m very early as i ve been at a meeting in the afternoon and then having a drink with a friend in shoreditch i like to think that i m probably the only person who s walked through the uber hipster shoreditch house in an arsenal scarf and 1971 home shirt although i stop short of putting the bobble hat on i get the overground from shoreditch to highbury islington and go up to the ground the teams come out the home crowd boo sagna which i think is more than a little harsh i m happy to boo fabregas van persie nasri but i don t see a need to boo bacary and i don t like that arsenal fans sometimes have a reputation for hating ever player who leaves us arsenal are very strong in the first half hour really dominating city look sloppy at the back and incohesive everyone seems to be on a high here we re singing blame it on eboue and watching some lovely football city seem to be getting a bit desperate and the game is getting a bit tasty silva is putting the boot in and he should have seen yellow well before the 33rd minute when he finally got booked the game is getting a bit tasty andre marriner seems to be letting a lot go and is playing pretty poor advantage in response to city s abject refusal to play anything resembling decent football we re very vulnerable down the right wing de bruyne is being given a lot of space and i m starting to relax a little less city have a great change which they miss and then straight down the other end amazing theo with 13 to go before half time and assist from ozil again and a beautiful strike from theo puts us one up now we re getting somewhere the rest of the half is pretty end to end but i feel we have the edge just before half time giroud gets on the end of a bad pass and shoots low past joe hart i cannot believe we are going into half time 2 0 up the second half sees city come back into it de bruyne again the danger but per is doing well to stop him silve isn t getting a look in with flamini on fire that man is a legend and getting him back on a free was one of the best things that mr wenger has done with thirty to go aguero down with a head injury play continues arsenal are fouled and we get the free kick whilst it s always nice to get advantage there s no doubting that this was terrible refereeing and marriner is undoubtedly having a terrible game it s really very even now with city s defence and our keeper keeping the ball out cech really is fantastic and no doubt our best keeper since seaman there is a real chance that he could go into the books as another arsenal keeping legend and i just hope that he wins the trophies he deserves the tide seems to be turning against arsenal we re not as confident in midfield and wholly expected with eight minutes to go toure scores with a lovely chip over cech s head and suddenly we are not so relaxed the next four minutes are hair raising but somehow by the skin of our teeth we hold on second for christmas this is my last game before christmas and we have quite a few home games over that period so this blog is going to be a little arsenal heavy for a while but i am committed to blogging every game and who knows if this turns out to be the year arsenal win the champion s league or do the double again or win an historic three fa cups in a row i m sure i ll welcome this little reminder i just hope it doesn t get too boring for anyone reading author groundhoppergirl posted on january 28 2016 january 31 2016 leave a comment game 25 northampton town v northwich victoria fa cup 2nd round 5th december 2015 as per usual i ve been poorly with a cold picked up during my travels and i haven t really recovered from the excesses of germany i really should be in bed if i wasn t in bed i should be at the arsenal v sunderland game but no like any good groundhopper i ve put my ill health to one side i ve flogged my arsenal ticket lawfully through the exchange scheme of course and me and spursboy are on a bus to cockfosters to head up to meet andy trousers and then drive up to northampton v northwich victoria we had such a cracking time at borehamwood for the last round i ve dusted off my old celtic scarf and we ll be in the away end to support the vics despite andy twice missing the turning on the m25 and a complete satnav fail we have a pretty good run up there and are fairly early we park at a car park across the road from sixfields and go on a hunt for tickets a steward directs us to where tickets for the away end will be available a small booth which at the moment is empty as the bloke from vics with the tickets hasn t turned up we stand and have a bit of chat with him about the financial problems and the unfinished stand and the fact that northampton were royally screwed over by their former owner and only a few days ago were hours from liquidation the tickets arrive we buy three and head for a look around the club shop where i buy a programme and then go for a pint in the clubhouse as i sip a reasonably priced guinness i realise i have forgotten my camera again which later on will infuriate me the club house is nice modern and rammed i m not sure if they always let away fans in but they did today the toilets are decent and there is actually hot water which is a nice surprise the programme is a bit flimsy for the cost and in reading the teams i notice that ricky holmes a former barnet player is at northampton these days we head into the ground and to the away end which is all seater a decent cheese pasty warms me up nicely and we prepare for kick off poor old northampton the first think you notice is the half built stand along one side of the pitch and the fact that this must be the only ground where the ballboys wear hard hats it seems that the club borrowed 10 5 million from the council to build the new stand then before it was complete the builders downed tools having been paid only a fraction of the money they were owed david cardoza seems to have a lot to answer for and well google it for the full details i d rather not be hit with a defamation suit the vics are in good voice several come in wearing city hats having just seen them lose to stoke tee hee and a song is sung to the tune of the red flag but i can t quite catch the words the teams come out to the liquidator accompanied by clarence the dragon which is apt as a fire seems to have broken out in a pub on the hill overlooking the ground luckily the other side from where the car is parked a pity i don t have the camera as i d be able to take some spectacular pics over the next few hours the whistle blows town are on a mission and come in for three hard tackles within the first five minutes the vics fans are quite clearly torn between watching the game and watching this pub fire which now seems to be getting out of control and has caught the pub next door the first real chance comes after about 7 minutes nicely saved by the vics keeper we are all now just watching the fire as an announcement comes over the tannoy f you are parked in the north car park please do not return to your vehicle we are not the wind is insane which is affecting every long ball and is blowing this raging fire and then just to make the situation better some idiotic vics fans who so far i have loved chuck flares on the pitch there are shouts of you re fuckin shite from others and it dawns on me that with the northern accents and the city hats northwich could be quite near manchester i am such a londoner i ve actually been in the away with these guys for two matches and i have no idea where their town is or even if it is a town at all sorry northampton are getting closer with a goal line clearance on 39 and a penalty appeal a few seconds later and then against the run of play a vics goal on 43 from jimmy ball vics go nuts and shortly after the whistle goes for half time andy heads off to get some tea whilst i go to the loo which is okay but again no hot water the cuppa warms me up vics are in fine voice at half time and it dawns on me that i ve never sung green army before i m trying to work out who their rivals are and who they call scum in a song buti can t quite catch it the groundstaff are doing what they can at half time to get the pitch back to shape it s looking pretty nice but once the game kicks off the vics keeper has to dig a ditch in the ground with his foot so the ball will stay still for a kick the wind is getting stronger and that fire is still raging the fire brigade are out in force and we can see the roof of the pub collapsing ricky holmes comes on and i very subtly clap on 63 minutes vics score again from rochard bennett it s amazing and it s clear that the vics fans are daring to dream about a decent cup run town are now giving it all they have the ball goes for a corner it s cleared off the line and then vics keeper springthorpe saves again when comes back in town number 4 taylor and 6 cresswell are in my mind lucky to be on the pitch as they are really coming in heavy and when cresswell finally gets booked he gets subbed fairly shortly afterwards a wise decision and is greeted by boos from the vics fans springthorpe is having an amazing game with another fantastic save on 72 vics are really very impressive defending well skillful on the ball and i find it hard to believe they re not at a higher level but still northampton come and come but they cannot get past the keeper and then they do hoskins on 83 and a lucky goal as adams shoots and it takes a deflection that no one could anything about and then seconds later town s second from a free kick foolishly given away the vics sink players and fans utterly deflated and having held them off for such a long time all it took was a small change in pace for town a silly mistake and it s all falling apart there is clearly still another goal in this and with 5 minutes on the clock and town on the ascendancy i have the fear and then it happens calvert lewin on 87 scores the third for northampton town fans go balmy and start the inevitable chorus of two nil up and you fucked it up but i think they must know how much credit that gives northwich that they got to that stage especially as they had been pretty much silent until the first goal vics come close with 2 minutes on the clock and then it s straight down the other end with calvert lewin one on one with springthorpe looking set for the fourth when he skies it i m so bad at being neutral i ve gone and got invested in the vics and even the news that arsenal have gone 3 1 in their game up doesn t put a smile on my face there is five minutes of injury time and i am screaming for the vics it doesn t happen and the whistle blows and northampton town are through to the next round i think this is the second time we have accidentally gone to the game of the round the vics players come over to applaud their fans and then a few of the northampton players come over as well i m now welling up and then as we leave the ground the remaining northampton fans turn to the vics fans and they applaud us as well and this is why i love this game town know how close they came to losing and what an achievement this was for them northampton go on to draw their neighbours mk dons in the next round and as for northwich victoria thanks for everything my little journey with you has been fun and i ll certainly be seeing you again we head out and notice a little memorial garden and suddenly things fit into place because it s the memorial for walter tull who went on to play for spurs died in ww1 and was one of the first black professional footballers he was brought to northampton by herbert chapman who obviously went on to manage arsenal so although we wanted the vics to win all three of us two gooners and a spud have good reason to wish northampton the best in the next round it s about time they had some luck postscript town drew with mk in the next round of the cup and have a replay on tuesday 19th january 2016 both buildings were destroyed in the fire at the sixfields tavern but thankfully there were no injuries author groundhoppergirl posted on january 17 2016 leave a comment game 24 kickers offenbach v hessen kassel regionalliga südwest 1st december 2015 it s the fourth and final game in the mini tour of german football and we re bringing offenbach now staying in a lovely hostel in the red light district of hamburg me spursboy and tom are having a few bevvies in the irish bar opposite the station before we head off to the ground which is about 30 minutes away 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