Paul Williams Archives: 01/2023

I don’t know how many people have been left surprised by Arsenal’s excellent form since the resumption of the Premier League season. Nonetheless, I’m certainly not going pretend I expected Arsenal to come through a very challenging run of fixtures, including 4 of this season’s top 6, not just unbeaten, but having taken 10 points out of 12 from those games. We also played, and beat, West Ham.

The repeated weekends spent round my Grandfather’s house listening to both him and my uncle crow about Arsenal’s latest win and QPR’s latest defeat got to me. Back then it seemed like Arsenal must have been winning every week and QPR losing, something that’s eminently possible, because it was towards the end of 1988 that I cracked.