By Myles Palmer Leeds 1 Arsenal 0 ————————- Vieira played, but Bergkamp was ill on Saturday and did not travel. Dacourt scored after 55 minutes. Next three games are all at home: Southampton, Bayern and Newcastle. Bergkamp can help Arsenal…
By Myles Palmer Did you see Hold The Back Page on Friday night? Brian Woolnough and Shaun Custis had been in Moscow with Arsenal. They said they had never seen Arsene Wenger as down as he was after they lost…
By Myles Palmer Moscow Spartak 4 Arsenal 1 Silvinho had scored after 77 seconds. Marcao had equalised after 29 minutes. The score was 1-1 at half-time. Then Spartak got their second goal after 51 minutes. Titov saw his first cross…
By Myles Palmer Spartak Moscow 4 Arsenal 1 Uefa coaching director Andy Roxburgh will want Silvinho’s goal for his video compilation. As a demonstration of how to destroy a sweeper defence by lightning counter-attack this was ONE OF THE FINEST…
By Myles Palmer A fantastic night of live football – if you have ITV 2 and can get home by 5pm. The Spartak Moscow v Arsenal programme starts on ITV2 at 4.30 pm and kicks off at 5 pm, which…
By Myles Palmer The T-men worry me because Vieira and Grimandi are missing. If there was ever a night when Arsenal needed strong-tackling midfielders it is this one. I’m worried that the runs of Titov and Tikhonov are too deadly…
By Myles Palmer England improved more in three days with Peter Taylor than they did in 18 months with Kevin Keegan. Taylor added 25% to England’s performance in one game. If he adds another 10% against Spain at Villa Park,…
By Myles Palmer I thought Darren Anderton would play! So I was really looking forward to Italy v England. I didn’t care about the result and I didn’t care about the performance. I only cared about ONE THING. Whether Peter…
By Myles Palmer Arsenal 0 Derby 0 Coaches need to be pragmatic,not schematic. They need to build their style of play round what their best players do best. Arsene Wenger proved brilliant at that when he changed the team in…
By Myles Palmer Arsenal get easier group than Leeds By Myles Palmer Moscow and Munich here we come! And hello Tony Vairelles, the exciting winger of Lens, who is now with Lyon. Man United are normally expected to…