Well, it’s almost back. The Premier League season begins again in earnest tomorrow with newly promoted Brentford playing host to my Arsenal. In anticipation of the new season, here is the new Premier League Matchday Intro for the 2021/22 season. And it’s absolutely magnificent…
Welcome back, Premier League. I simply cannot wait for tomorrow. And come on you, Gunners! 😀⚽️😍❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 13, 2021
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I’ve been a fan of Arsenal football club for as long as I can remember. My love for the club dates back to the early nineties. Way back in the day, I would watch (and record) the hour-long highlight show from the week that was in the English first division. And I fell in love with Arsenal. I fell hard. Their name, their kit, their larger-than-life cast of characters, their style of play with all the intricate passing, and jaw-dropping team goals. Before Arsene Wenger led the club to new heights. Heck, even before there was even an English Premier League. Arsenal has just always been my team for as long as I can remember.
Fast forward to the start of the 2014/15 season, and newly promoted Leceister City caught my attention. I still remember the piece NBCSN did on the newly promoted Foxes from “Lester.” And I thought if Arsenal were my top-of-the-table team, Leceister would be my relegation battle team. Leicester survived their first season back in the Premier League and then went on to become Premier League Champions during their unbelievably magical 2015/16 season. All of a sudden Leicester is my team competing for top-four finishes. Because in the meantime, Arsenal forced out their club legend manager, Arsene Wagner and is now somehow a middle of the table team.
Long story short, I’m a big fan of two football clubs.
Today, Leicester played in their fifth FA Cup final. They’d made the finals on four other occasions and lost all four, the last itme being during the 1968/69 season.
But today, the Foxes won their first-ever FA Cup by beating Chelsea 1-0 on a Youri Tielemans goal from 25 yards out. I collected a bunch of images from social media to commemorate the occasion…
It was an amazing match! It had a bit of everything… a banger of a goal from Youri Tielemans, an iconic save from Kasper Schmeichel, VAR controversary and most importantly, Leicester City lifting the Cup!
#FoxesNeverQuit 😀🦊⚽️🏆😍❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on May 15, 2021
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We were up super early this morning. It was very foggy…
This truck was on our street today…
I really liked the bear and dot-matrix glow around their logo…
Leicester beat Sheffield United 5-0…
We ordered El Taco Veloz from Doordash…
We found a really good one in El Taco Veloz. And they have dessert…
😀🌄⚽️🌯🌮♥️
Posted by Thadd F. on March 16, 2021
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I’d never seen all The Hobbit movies. So tonight, we started watching the trilogy…
😀🌄⚽️🍕📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on March 6, 2021
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It’s Saturday! Happy Saturday!
Good morning from Northside…
We ran over to the grocery this morning…
And Ice Bear was still locked inside the claw grab machine…
And there was only one panda and the trains were all sold out…
We always liked 21st Amendment’s Hell or High Watermelon. But we’ve never seen Hell or High Mango before. We’ll have to give it a try sometime…
And we saw this M-43 NE IPA from Old Nation Brewing in Williamston, Michigan over on the other side of Lansing…
I’d never really heard of One Nation Brewing or Williamston before. There were still some football balloons before next weekend’s Superb Owl big game…
And there were some Valentine’s Day balloons…
Bunches and bunches of Valentine’s Day balloons…
We stopped at Biggby for coffee…
And we had a BOGO…
We’re saving our Christmas Biggby gift cards for when we don’t have a free one…
Mmmmm… Biggby…
Arsenal played a nil-nil draw with United. And Xavier resumed their season, picking up right where they left off with a 13 point win at Butler.
Good evening from Northside…
And later it started snowing…
It started snowing kind of a lot for us. We were watching the snow accumulate on our street from our third-floor WyzeCam…
We watched The White Tiger on Netflix and then started season one of Unit 42. The White Tiger was pretty good and Unit 42 is just pretty okay. And that was our Saturday It was a pretty happy Saturday. 😀🌄🎈☕️❄️📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 30, 2021
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It was a very bright and sunshiny morning…
Good morning from Northside…
And the sun was out all day today…
Good evening from Northside…
We had another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals. This was Swiss Chicken with honey mustard green beans and crispy onions…
It was another really delicious meal. The cheesy chicken was really terrific and the green beans were really good. I think crispy onions can make anything even more delicious. We like the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kits a lot.
While I was working this afternoon, I listened to Leicester beat Chelsea 2-0 to go top of the Premier League. And this evening, we watched Michigan bounce back from their first loss by thumping Maryland 87-63.
We had another good Tuesday. 😀🌄☀️🐔⚽️🏀❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 19, 2021
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Today, we remember the legacy of a great man. We honor The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr… a man who dared to dream while standing fearlessly in the face of adversity. We celebrate the man who taught us to dream while still loving others…
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
We both had the day off work today for the holiday. It was a cold and snowy day…
Good morning from Northside…
Genifer made cheesy buffalo chicken pasta with garlic bread for lunch…
Good evening from Northside…
I realized when we got to the stairs at the top of the hill at the end of our street that I had forgotten my little fisheye Moment lens…
Today, we watched Arsenal beat Newcastle 3-0. And we watched the MLK Day NBA games especially the Grizzlies win over the Suns. I like the Griz. I think they have the best logo in the NBA. It was a very nice day off. And another very low-key, relaxing day. 😀🌄❄️🔥🐔⚽️🏀❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 18, 2021
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It was very pretty this morning. A little chilly but still a very pretty morning…
Good morning from Northside…
We were pretty lazy this morning…
We went to St. Bernard to get some Skyline chili for lunch…
We used our #15 gift card that we won from a Skyline Chili virtual parachute drop on Twitter during one of the Xavier basketball games a while back…
That gift card didn’t last very long. It’s Skyline time!
Mmmm… Cheese coneys…
And we ordered a slice of Cinnabon cheesecake to share…
We ate our lunch, watched Arsenal beat Brighton & Hove Albion, puttered, and took the dogs on their evening walk around the block…
Good evening from Northside…
This evening we watched a couple of terrible movies on Amazon Prime Video. Terrible. I don’t remember what they were called but they were so bad that I’m not even going to look them up to see what they were called. Ohmigosh. They were so bad. Movies, bad. But our day off was really good. 😀🌄🌭🧀🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 29, 2020
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Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day. It originated as a holiday to give gifts to the poor. Boxing Day was traditionally a day off for servants, and the day when they received a special Christmas box from their masters. The servants would also go home on Boxing Day to give Christmas boxes to their families. Today, it’s a great day of soccer from the UK. Early this morning, we watched Leicester rally twice to draw 2-2 with Manchester United…
And we watched my Arsenal…
Arsenal lifted the funk they’ve been in recently with a 3-1 win over Chelsea…
That’s two in the row for the Gunners. They actually looked like the formidable Arsenal of old today.
It was a very pretty evening…
Good evening from Northside…
For dinner tonight, we had stuffed mushrooms that we got at the grocery…
Stuffed mushrooms are delicious. And then we had a frozen oven pizza…
Later, we started watching Hinterland on Netflix. It’s pretty good.
We had a really good Boxing Day. 😀🌄⚽️🍄🍕❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 26, 2020
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When we woke up this morning, we found Northside got a dusting of snow…
But there wasn’t much snow on the hill at the end of our street…
Time for Lego City Advent Calendar day 15…
Genifer ordered Chipotle delivery for lunch….
Chipotle was delicious. I hadn’t had Chipotle in forever.
Both Arsenal and Leicester played at the same time this afternoon. I kept an eye on both of the matches while I was working…
And both of my teams lost. Arsenal is really in a death spiral right now.
We got a couple of special deliveries today. The first package was from my parents…
And there was a wonderful box of Christmas cookies in their package…
There were so many delicious cookies in that box. We cant wait to try them all. And now we also have presents under our tree…
Thanks, mom & dad! Our second package was from TastesOfChicago.com…
And inside were two Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria Chicago-style deep-dish pizzas…
And two huuuuge chocolate chip cookies…
Thanks, JJVE! We can’t wait to try our pizzas and those cookies look terrific!
Later, we took the dogs around the block. It was kind of misty outside this evening…
We couldn’t even see the hill across the way on the other side of the highway…
The hill was just barely visible…
Good evening from Northside…
Today is my Timehop was this photo…
It’s interesting that when I saw this photo my mind went to a completely different place when I saw animal mask than when I saw this originally. And there was this one too…
That would have been the best white elephant gift ever. To this day, I still kick myself for not buying it.
Hi Oscar. He’s so fuzzy!
We had a great Wednesday. Thank you again for the wonderful Christmas gifts.
😀🌄🌯📺⚽️🎁🦕❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 16, 2020
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