Articles tagged ‘Arsenal’
London News 01.04
By Chris | January 4th, 2008 |
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* Pub chain JD Wetherspoon limits adults accompanied by children to two alcoholic drinks in their pubs. The number of non-alcoholic drinks served to people with minors will also be restricted. Metro
* Britain’s oldest emigrant quits the country for a new life in New Zealand at age 102, says he’s given it long enough but [...]
London weekend football
By Chris | December 14th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
It’s another important football weekend with this week’s big game taking place at the Emirates Stadium where Premiership leaders Arsenal take on the oligarch’s plaything aka Chelsea on Sunday. Arsenal are over due a victory against Abramovich’s boys but injuries made the possibility look unlikely. Now it seems key players Cesc Fabregas and Robin van [...]
London News 09.24
By Chris | September 24th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Arsenal’s turnover breaks the £200million a year barrier. BBCNews
* Vibes from Prime Minister Gordon Brown suggest he could be about to call a snap election. Guardian
* Londoners face the longest travel times and worst carbon dioxide levels of commuters in the UK. Metro
Arsenal Tickets Available
By Chris | September 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Tickets for Arsenal’s Carling Cup 3rd Round game with Newcastle at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday 25 September are now on general sale. They’ve only been available to club members up until Friday but now £10 Lower Tier and £20 Upper Tier tickets have been released. Arsenal are sitting pretty at the top of the [...]
Champions League fixtures
By Chris | August 30th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The draw for the group stages of the Champions League was made today with two London clubs, Arsenal and Chelsea, both involved. Arsenal got a pretty comfortable group with Sevilla or AEK Athens, Steaua Bucharest and Slavia Prague while Chelsea’s shouldn’t be overly difficult with them playing Valencia, Schalke 04 and Rosenborg.
In case you want [...]
Arsenal v Sparta Prague Tickets
By Chris | August 22nd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tickets for the second leg of Arsenal’s Champions League Qualifying round match against Sparta Prague have gone on General Sale. The game’s next Wednesday night 29 August with the kickoff at 8.05pm.
This is a good chance to see Arsenal play a competitive game at the Emirates Stadium, its very unlikely that any other Champions League [...]
An afternoon at the Emirates Cup
By Chris | July 29th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
I went along to the Emirates Stadium this afternoon for the second day of the Emirates Cup pre-season competition featuring Arsenal, Inter Milan, Valencia and Paris Saint Germain.
Daily Dose 07.20
By Chris | July 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Nine members of the new British cabinet admit smoking pot, but only while they were at university. Yeah, right.(Guardian)
* Government may review decision on the amount of hand luggage passengers at British airports may take on board.(DailyMail)
* Killers of 20 year old girl who was raped, tortured, strangled with a rope and finally kicked [...]
Premiership fixtures update
By Chris | July 11th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Now that SkySports and Setanta have picked the first round of Premiership games they want to televise live this season the schedule has been rearranged and shouldn’t be effected by Cup games until the New Year, although after November the tv companies will probably move some more Premiership games to times that suit them. If [...]
London’s football pre-season
By Chris | June 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Professional football clubs across London have been finalising their pre-season fixture schedules for the second half of July and the beginning of August. The players generally come back from their summer holidays around the end of June and after a couple of weeks of hard training start taking part in warmup games. Some clubs like [...]
