Thanks to Arsenal I look forward to watching England again!

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Now that Jackie boy, Theo and maybe even Gibbsy will be regular starters for the England team, I can finally come out and watch them again, during those dark days of Sven and the wags, through to the Capello years of giving Beckham 45 second caps, I just had no interest in watching my national team, a team that my brother and I travelled all over to watch, in 1986 I even went to Mexico, how’s that for a supporter!

Anyway, now there are a few Arsenal players on show, I can finally take an interest again. Though the picture of Jack in the Metro today and on Sky News last night showed him in the tightest shorts you can imagine, not a good look jack, you need to sack them, it reminded me of Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle!

It appears the Spanish have called time on the Cesc deal because of the money, they were apparently shocked that the chavs (who Bruce Buck said were going to be self sufficient by next season, oops) £50mil purchase of Fernando Torres, and said he wasn’t worth it. Rich of course coming from the slimebags that paid €67mil for an unattractive Swedish substitute forward. Anyway, they said they can’t afford him and the deal is dead, good, it was getting boring and he still has a contract with us until 2015. So come back in 3 years and we’ll have a little chat.

I was musing over the hypocrisy in football and the media, a couple of weeks ago I was defending Arsenal hating Sky pundits Gray and Keys, over their female lino comments and their subsequent sacking.

Well yesterday I find out they have pitched up at radio station Talk Sport, more commonly known as Talk Shite, what a line up, they joined a radio station that employs a drunk who thinks Joe Barton tackles are acceptable, a dogging woman beater that thinks he deserves a second chance (Peter Sutcliffe thought he did too) and amongst others, a failed politician that supports countries where women have no rights, still with their views on females they will feel right at home, good judgement call boys, says it all really. I am sorry I defended you.

Then I read that Mad Jens says he rates all three of our keepers, that’s not what he said when he was here, maybe he sees something in Almunia that he missed before.

I would like to end this post on a positive and cheerful note, it seems that star centreback Johan Djourou isn’t as injured as rumour suggested and he could be back for the Wolves game, I hope so for two reasons, one we need him, it will be a disaster without him, secondly it will show that his crock days are behind him, because if it was his knee again, it would have been curtains, we can’t afford a ‘will he, won’t he?’ situation in that position, far too risky, come on Johan, hang on until Vermaelen comes home, we need you.

Have a great day Grovers and enjoy the game tonight!

446 Responses to “Thanks to Arsenal I look forward to watching England again!”

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  3. Zak

    This Erikson kid looks good, hope the stories of him going to the bindippers are wide of the mark.

    Get Walcott and Wilshere subbed at half time please.

  9. Geoff

    Ha, ha our scouting system is so good we get Denilson, Senderos, Nordtveit, Barazite and Larsson.

    How many players have come out of Ajax and went there as kids that we missed.

    Let’s see, Vermaelen (we got him at 23 and £10.5mil not as a kid) Overmars (£6.5mil also not a kid) Kanu (also not a kid) Schneider, Van Der Vaart, Van der Veil, Ihbrahimovic, Suarez and this new kid Erikson, but we have the worlds best scouting network. Hmmmmm

    I may have got a few of those name wrong and their clubs, but they were all kids in Holland.

  10. jackthearsenalripper

    geoff

    did you no arsene had the choice of taking fabregas or messi and he choose cesc. thats what you call a BAD scouting network

  23. Geoff

    Jack it doesn’t surprise me, I don’t believe he sees half of the players he claims to.

    Pedro, apart from nicking Cesc and getting Jack at 8 years old, we don’t appear to have got any world class young players.

    But we will win a trophy this year for having the most players loaned out, 18 in all. One of them is Randall and another is Hoyte. Can’t wait.

    Still two in 14 years at £6mil a year is impressive. You are obviously easy to please…

  28. Marko

    You’re a stupid dickhead. Imagine making up shit about one of our players breaking their legs coming into a massive period for us. Complete prick you

  35. Kushagra India

    Here’s the always thoughtful Petr Fremont: “As for Capello’s expression, consider that Wilshere, the center of the team to come per the English media, is a water carrier at Arsenal for Fabregas (so recently beloved of that same media in its many forms), and Fabregas can only make the Spanish bench under normal circumstances. The bench where Wilshere might be if Nasri and Song are available with Fabregas. Maybe Capello, like any workman, is wondering about his tools. Wilshere is good enough to be matched against Eriksken and it’s not clear what other young English midfielder would be up to it. Any suggestions?” No one as good as him, Petr. No one.

    guardian…

  37. jackthearsenalripper

    you cant blame wenger as he never goes anywhere scouting as does harry redknapp and other premier league managers

  41. Kreshnik

    hmmm … Wenger finally realizing how stupid these internationals are ? Got a few of our guys not to go, told Capello to take Jack off at half time apparently, and I’d not be surprised if he told the France coach not to play Clichy today :D about time then

  47. albo

    Geoff – you seem to have this weird view of world football that if Arsenal aren’t the absolutely best in the world at everything then we are utter failures! Firstly, Ajax have been renowned for their scouting and youth development for decades! Far more than Arsenal has been.

    And in this instance to avoid ‘missing’ all these players we would have to have literally 100s of youth players on our books. 2 young players with the same level of talent will progress to different levels due to fairly unmeasurable preconditions – their eventual physique, their motivation, their attitude, their maturity (or lack of it), how they deal with fame and fortune etc. Who turns out to be top class and who doesn’t is, to therefore some extent a lottery.

    As a result, it makes sense to have a fairly large number of youth players that slowly get culled depending on how they develop. Given how critical you are of all the young players on our books it seems hilarious to then criticise all the kids we ‘missed’ out on when it would have involved having hundreds more kids on our books to be sure of getting the ones that happened to have all the ingredients.

  52. Marko

    That guy’s a dumbass he says Clichy broke his leg just to get across his point that he’d prefer Gibbs to Clichy. Prick

  53. Marko

    Lionel Messi has certainly been targeted for some rough tackles by the Portugal players , both Meireles and Rolando have sent the little genius up in the air with late tackles.

    Come on hamstring injury.

  62. Marko

    Anyone believe we might be seeing Benzema coming in as a Bendtner replacement in the summer? He really looks out of sorts at Madrid and he’s great friends with Nasri.

  66. mahessar

    Benz honestly would either go to United or come to Arsenal, with Madrid getting Llorente or Adebayor in the summer!
    Benzema is the typical Arsene buy, Potential,Rusty and someone who will shine under Wenger! It will help us keep Nasri as well :D !

  67. choy

    marko,

    I would rather we spend that on defensive players.

    Benzema can’t play as a lone striker in RM, doubt he can do the same in the Premier League.

  70. ardentgooner

    thats the worst Brazillian midfield i have seen… No gilberto, no Kaka, no Diego, no ramires?….what is the coach upto???

  76. albo

    Tell you what, France may be playing a slightly anaemic Brazil team, but they are shaping up to be a top class side over the next few years. Even without Nasri they look excellent on the ball. With him they could be deadly…

  77. ardentgooner

    looks like Messi is playing the whole 90mins..can he play 3 games in a week and still be effective?? hope not

  78. zeus

    aRDENT

    To be fair to him, Gilberto is past it, Kaka is only just back from injury, Diego has NEVER looked a world beater for Brazil (and thats under 3-4 different coached now) and Ramirez depsite all else is just a kid who happens to play for Chelsea semi regualrly.

    Tim Vickery rights at length of the fact that Brazil hasn’t produced ball playing midfielders (CM ala Xavi, Riquelme or Fabregas) over the last decade and a half.

  82. Lurch LeRouge

    hmmm.. strikeforce is a little thin Albo, benzema is still not quite there, but yeah theyre not far off a cracking xi

  85. Rohan

    hmm, yeah I agree as well. France could be a cracking team. Them and Belgium are outside bets for WC 2014.
    My, how Theo has improved though. Jack was world class out there.

    Has Koscielny come on? Must be a great moment for him..

  91. jackthearsenalripper

    why cant spain score against colombia hopefully they will be in the same state next week with the barca team

  93. albo

    Lurch LeRouge – yeah I agree. I almost put that in the original post. Benzema has tons of natural talent. I think he needs to be at a different club to really find his form in front of goal. A club where he plays week in week out and has a team built around him a little…

  95. Lurch LeRouge

    yeah Albo, i actually think he’d be awesome working off RVP – but who wouldn’t.

    I don’t think he’s really got the power yet to play 451 in the epl though.

  96. Rohan

    I don’t rate Benzema really. Don’t think he’s intelligent enough. Great finisher and all, but he doesn’t have the same awareness that the Persie has.

  97. albo

    Yeah hard to know. The trouble for us would be that he would certainly have to take a wage cut to come here (as I imagine Real are paying him crazy money), so we’d have to hope that he is more interested in furthering his career than cash.

    I do think Wenger would love him here. I remember him being genuinely shocked in interview after he went to Real, saying he thought he wouldn’t move for another year. I think he very much planned to be after him, but then Real appeared with their new galacticos spending and priced everyone out of the market…

  99. Lurch LeRouge

    can’t see benzema coming tbh and i don’t think he’d be a priority. he missed his chance with us by going to real.

  105. Lurch LeRouge

    something like this choy

    ——chesny
    sags–JD–Verm–Clichy
    theo–cesc–JW/song/diaby–nasri
    ——–rvp
    ——benzema

  107. David

    For all the lyrical waxing over Wilshere, Walcott got both assists.

    At a boy Theo, keep proving the inbred c8nts wrong.

  114. choy

    I think our first team is pretty good.

    Sczzer
    Sagna DJ Verm Clichy
    Jack Fab Song
    Theo RVP Nasri.

    Just need a better back up for Song.

  122. E4 Paul

    They’ll spend even more now on acquiring property and land in the n17 area, especially as they have probably pissed off all their remaining owners.

  125. albo

    Walcott for me is now a top top player. If he hadn’t been overhyped to the roof in previous years I think everyone would be getting VERY excited about him this season…

  127. albo

    That is frickin AWESOME news about West Ham.

    It will be really interesting to see what Spuds do now. Cos I think there is a growing awareness that they can’t afford a new stadium the way the planned it before (though that may have been faked to help the bid). Whether they build one or don’t, I have a feeling we will be shown just how incredible an achievement the Emirates was, all the while staying competetive at the top…

  130. E4 Paul

    He would have made even more had they got stratford. The land already owned in n17 was bought reasonably cheap and would have sold for a significant profit after development. The spuds will now have to settle for a stadium with a smaller capacity than they would have had they moved.

  140. Kushagra India

    The Dutch ,French keep producing them whats the problem with England they look very rigid and not intelligent enough unless they play at Arsenal ,they may struggle again at the Euros..

    Scott Parker should be given the Cdm role and Wilshere the Eriksen one….Lampard is useless…

  142. Gooby

    The Dutch ,French keep producing them whats the problem with England they look very rigid and not intelligent enough unless they play at Arsenal ,they may struggle again at the Euros..

    Kushagra

    it’s because the dutch and the french have top youth facilities. they give youngsters a chance on regular basis. you don’t see that in the English top clubs(bar arsenal)

  143. abnet

    good morning grovers
    i thought last night Jack had a decent game !! its a shame he has partnered with fatfrank , the guy should give up international footy right now IMO

  145. gnarleygeorge9

    “I look forward to watching England again”?

    Its funny you should say that. Do you ever have days where you keep seeing hot looking women; then you can have a period where all you see are howlers. You know what I mean, well in the past week or so through work or just socially, I’ve bumped into heaps of poms. In fact the last 3 or 4 poms I’ve happened upon I’ve mentioned it to them that I’ve happened upon a heap of their lot lately.

    You know what, all of them wouldn’t give a XXXX about England anymore, & none, not one has any regrets about moving down here.

    I don’t think any of them want to see England again from what they told me, except to go back & catch up with relies. Interesting that.

    Maybe England will end up a muslim country coz all the English will have moved to Oz.

    Anyway, COYRRR

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