So… Pam has been on a secondment to Nike of late and she’s only managed to sneak into the chief designers office and steal me some notes on the new kit!
The strange crest that we’ve seen floating about the net (here) might not be far off the final design. It’s a special design for our 125th anniversary… why such a design though? Well, here is the goss…
- It has 15 laurel leaves to the left side of the Club’s crest, reflecting the design detail on the reverse of the six pence pieces paid by 15 men to establish the Club – the laurel leaves also represent strength.
- The 15 oak leaves to the right of the Club’s crest give a nod to the founders who would meet in the Royal Oak pub.
- Underneath the crest is one of the first recorded mottos related to armament and battle – Forward.
Interesting that the founding fathers of the club met in the same entrance to club level I currently sit in! Can’t believe they could afford such expensive tickets way back when.
Make sure you tune in Monday… I might have a pic to show you, or you could just look at this version.
*I can also confirm 100% that next years away kit will be the reported blue triangle kit. You know, the one that looks like the Monaco kit of old.
I’ve managed to secure a season ticket next season sitting in the normal seats. I couldn’t justify £2600 and to be honest, with my new job situation, even the £1000 felt steep. Some people who don’t go make a judgement on a £1000, in the grand scheme of things it’s not a huge amount. What people forget is all the additional cost around it. £3 for a programme, a travel card, beer, food… salt beef bagel. It all adds up and it can mean sacrifices elsewhere in your life… like eating and stuff.
JD has been speaking to the Guardian in a very revealing interview. He talks about how he was the result of an affair between his dad and a lady from the Ivory Coast. It worked out quite nicely, JD’s dad’s partner based in Switzerland was infertile, so they adopted JD instead! How very sweet…
The interview follows much the same path as the Theo one. He cites hunger as being a problem… he struggles to articulate what they can do about it. It’s a tough question. He also talks about being a better team than United… something I struggle to comprehend really. They’re still in the Champions League and they’re on for the league, we might have a better paper starting 11, but when it comes down to the crunch, United are just driven in a different way.
Sometimes I feel Wenger instills a sense of entitlement in his players. Like they should expect a trophy to drop in their lap by virtue of the style they play. That’s not going to happen and I do think an injection of winnertivity into the squad could help remedy that.
We face a real challenge tomorrow. In my opinion, a victory against United will appease Arsenal fans to a certain extent and it’ll at least leave us far closer in the league than we’ve been in a long time. If we can beat United in a big game, it might shake the crunch game hoodoo that we seem to have acquired during project youth.
I’ll give a richer preview tomorrow…
P.S. Anthony has entered a competition that needs a bit of Gooner voting to help push him over the line. They’re in the final 3 of a competition that had 2000 applicants and they need you to vote for the Ivory FC here. Check out there promo video here, a warning, they’re where they are for being triers! Good luck to them!
Also, I have 2 club level spares for United going for cost at £150 and a single for £40… e-mail in if you’re interested, don’t try and haggle!
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Mourinho is the best coach in the world, if Real Madrid sack him where do they go ?
I hope they do sack him though because then there is more chance he will come to us.
its too easy WS
2007 ES 31 appearances 12 goals (3 of which in europe, 1 goals every 2 games)
2007 DB 36 appearances 8 goals
lol @ Alchy, what a pisshead!
Matthew,
if he is supposedly the best, why the epic fucking fail at Madrid?
Oh and WS that was in half a season. comments?
I thought Barca had already won the Liga this year?
If that’s the case then Mourinho has no reason to worry about winning at the moment.
Lurch.
Bent = 374 Aps 161 Goals.
And he’s a gooner.
And he’s Premiership proven.
Considering the both I’d have Bent any day of the week.
Fuck me we absolutely destroyed Chelsea at the Emirates, where did it all go wrong?
I can see there being a twist to this game yet.
isnt it funny that bolton have lost every game bar us since their semi final hammering
Bent?
do me a fuckimg favour – he’s a good craftsman and that’s it…
SUGA3
he is up against the best team that have ever played football, despite that he probably has a better record against them than anyone else.
Dial,
Chelsea were in the worst form in years and there was no Drogba either – false dawn, I’m afraid…
Bent or Chamahk/Bentner?
At least Bent knows where the back of the net is.
The real problem is that those two fucking clowns are so woeful we’d take Bent.
Go back five/six years though and the idea would be laughed outta court!!
sorry thats a fail WS.
the point you called me on was ‘pre injury stats in the EPL’, not only did he outscore bent in that period in the EPL, he scored 3 in the highest profile cup competition in the world.
I don’t know why you then leap off into ‘premiership proven’ to shift the argument, probably because you don’t have one.
So my point stands – pre injury, EDUARDO SHAT ALL OVER BENT.
not too sure about the Drogba bit
I think you will find Drogba played Suga
SUGA3 –
Bent a good craftsman.
Exactly what Arsenal need.
Anyway, it’ll never happen. Expect no changes in the summer.
ddm,
as far as I am concerned, this idea is still fucking laughable…
yes Aryan Pele and Gel Boy are pap, but that does not make me want Bent who is also pretty shit…
DS,
I think you will find I have corrected myself outright, but the poorest form in ages bit still stands
eat this you Spud cunts!
Chelsea solidifying 2nd spot.
Lurch.
Your just selecting a period of time that best suits your argument.
Overall, Bent is better. Pre Eduardo injury or not.
End of.
Bent may not be skillful, but what do we need? Someone to take all those fucking missed chances, to be at the right place at the right time. You think the Mexican from United is a good footballer? Fuck no, he’s a very good goalscorer though.
3rd place trophy hopefully for us then.
What a massive slice of fortune for the Chavs though.
How comes Arsenal never get this unbelievable rub of the green.
Still, much rather Falcao from Porto or Gameiro from Lorient.
Pat has hit the nail on the head.
Case closed.
which part of this didn’t you comprehend WS
sorry but if dyslexia’s holding you back I understand.
“You think the Mexican from United is a good footballer? Fuck no, he’s a very good goalscorer though.”
Yeah this makes a lot of sense.
WS,
bollocks he is – Bent is so one dimensional it’s unbelievable, all he has is a bit of pace, whereas Eduardo can still score some outrageous goals…
can Bent do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT-aL–07TA
can he fuck! and that’s post-injury…
The most famous myths in history:
3- Bigfoot
2- The Illuminati
1- Eduardo was world class pre injury
case closed? what that we need a striker!?
WS you melt, that’s not even open for debate, of course we need a fakin striker!
gambon,
stop talking bollocks, of course he was world class, a proper predator!
Gambon is does. I don’t mean shit footballer as a profession but shit footballer as in his contribution when he doesn’t score. He’s an atrocious passer of the ball for starters.
I love a good Myth.
I’d agree that eduardo wasn’t world class yet, your point is?
disgusting cheating for them chelsea cunts,makes me sick….
Lurch,
Croatia did not do half bad with him being the focal point of their attack, did they?
he would not get to play for Croatia if he was a poor player – they had plethora of talent at their disposal back then…
Eduardo was/is a fairly good finisher but average overall, hes found the right level now.
Eduardo WAS the best finisher before his injury, I think we can agree on that. Chicharito isn’t world class either.
Every commentator for every Eduardo goal: “He just doesn’t miss, does he”
Chelsea could very well nick the tittle.
Everton will tell us who wins it.
David, all depends on the result tomorrow where I can’t see us winning.
Also regarding eduardo, it was a joke that we sold henry and brought him in.
Yet another example of wengers strategic weakening in recent years.
Lehmann……..Almunia
Campbell…….Gallas
Cole………..Clichy
Flamini……..Denilson
Pires……….Rosicky
Is it really a wonder we are nowhere near our old level?
Being objective about it Suga,
he was well on his way to becoming World Class – he certainly had the touch – but that class demands a high level of consistency which sadly he was robbed of the opportunity to display at the top level, EPL/ECL/WC/euro’s etc…
He’s lost flexibility in his ankle and yeah he’s now found the right level for his physical capacity, its arguable that he will regain the form he was finding with us in 07.
gambon,
Eduardo was well on course to scoring about 20 goals in all comps before the injury, IMO…
sure thing, Henry he is not (no one is), but that’s not too shabby, non?
Why are we talking about Darren Bent.
as for being the target man for Croatia, yeah point taken, it was steve Mclaren’s back 5 he tore apart though…
Yep.
Then….
Bergkamp
Wiltord
Kanu
Henry
Reyes
Now…
Chamakh
Bendtner
100+ Games Van Persie
I think we will do the chavs a favour tomorrow.
Manure will pack the midfield and try hit us at the counter as usual.
We will get a break and score first and the go on to win 2-0
Pat
I can see us winning it.
Matter of fact i can bet anything I own on it.
Thats how you know this team is structured to fail but give you just enough success to dangle the carrot infront of paying fans.
I fully expect us to win.
That being said i fully expect us to win all the time.
Too much to ask?
Eduardo isnt world Class. Probably never will be.
But we miss him so much.
Ade too.
haha them cunts celebrating like there gonna win the league,CUNTS.
Wiltord was shite
We need to beat Utd for our own points but I hope Utd win this league over those fucking Chav cunts.
Not in 2002.
ABU!
Wiltord was shit?
You having a laugh mate?
He was a very important player for us.
go easy on him dial he’s an AKB
Shite not as Shite as Suker but still Shite, apart from his goal at Old toilet
Wiltord was a good player.
Not great7, but certainly good. You dont get 92….yes 92 caps for France (the france of Henry, Trezeguet, Anelka) unless you are good.
How we could do with a Wiltord now.
where’s the next win coming from??
Wiltord was played out of position often but still scored goals.
I won’t be wasting energy until the summer if we buy the wrong players or the wrong amount..
Maybe Wenger will sign Kaka.
He seems to like signing players with serious injuries.
Lurch,
I’m a AKB?
Where have you come to that conclusion?
It was you that suggested Wenger’s Eduardo was better than Bent.
Anyway. Wiltord’s record at Arsenal.
2 league titles and two F.A Cups.
He also scored the winner at Old Trafford to win us the League in Manchester.
What would you give for that right now?
Next win will be at the Emirates Cup
Kanu and Reyes weren’t all that either, both never lived up to expectation
Eddie was top class injury did him end of debate….
I’m speechless, its black and white for me WS, dyslexia & Alzheimer’s tricky combo that one.
Kanu was another important player for Arsenal.
Bringing him on for Bergkamp to hold up the ball and waste a bit of time ensured we got our wins.
He also scored a wicked hat trick against the chavs.
Eduardo is miles better than Bent.
Heck.
Even Nikki B is better than Bent.
And i hate the prick.
Lurch, I stick by that.
Where are you confused?
I’d stick with Wenger providing he makes the right additions to the team and signs top players in the summer in the same way he did at Highbury.
What has Dyslexia & Alzheimer’s got to do with anything?
David,
now, now, anyone is better than Nikki
Nikki B is better than Bent?
You sound like Wenger!!
sorry WS im bored with you now, go take your meds and come back when you can conduct a linear and sensible conversation.
PS go read the AKB guide, its educational.
your turn david.
haha sociedad score against the barcunts
haha offside
Since you’ve missed me,
Bendtner: 9 goals and 8 assists in 27 appearances and 12 starts and has played out of position in an injury ravaged season and never had a proper run in the team.
FACT
Yes, we all know he can do a lot better, but he’s not that bad is he now.
hahhahahhahahahahahahahhahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahhahhaahahahhahahhahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhaha nick o loserrrrrrrr bender
peno for sociedad! wooohooo
14 starts***
yeah, including the hattrick against the might of Orient
SUGA3 says:
April 30, 2011 at 20:22
David,
now, now, anyone is better than Nikki
———————
lol. Its funny because its So true.
Hatrick?
O yeah. The tap in/Penalty’s
Benddy loves looking good off of someone else’s hard work
HAHHAHAHA BARCA LOSE TO REAL SOCIEDAD!
The cuntalans lose 2-1.
oh well…
at least we can say that Real beat Barca
Bullshit, the first goal was a great header and the second one was a very classy finish. Tap-ins my arse.
lol
Rohan,
I am a Leyton man, but come on
knew you weren’t a polack!
Did anyone see this? Fucking hell, not even the Argies are this bad…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgNy5IbwOc&feature=player_embedded#at=34
Lurch,
well, Leyton is as good as in Poland, you know?
I used to live there for a bit and we went to a few O’s games, I’ve got a soft spot for them
hilarious Zeus. shocking
proper dark side dive, that, take a bow!
Howdy everyone! I’ve written the post to go up automatically tomorrow… hopefully nothing too exciting will happen in the next 12 hours… I’ll be hammered though!
Have a good night, I’m Geoff tomorrow…!
Pedro,
you are Geoff as in DooM™ monger or will it be just ‘posted by Geoff’?
Anyone else notice Geoff and Sabeel have dissapeared together yet again
Sabeel and Geoff sitting in a tree…
Suga and Szczesny sitting in a tree
Dial Square and Shea sitting in a tree…
So childish
agreed
well did the cunt score a penalty off of someone elses hard work or not?
For fuck’s sake, is scoring a penalty a crime?
Gomes made my day.
Eduardo had a ridiculous goal scoring record (80goals in 120 games) for dinamo before he came to us, his injury was a big hit, prevented him to claim a first team spot although he was close.
Cheatcharitto isn’t better than him imo and eddie could make some deadly through balls at time athough hernandez is a better dribbler.
If Cuntarito played for us, he wouldn’t score half as much. United is set up to play to his strengths
“We have not lost against a low level team. So I give this team a lot of credit. We have battled on all fronts and we have produced quality. We just couldn’t finish the job.”
low level teams????
wba
newcastle
bolton
spurs
ipswich
shaktar
braga
birmingham
are u sure arsene
it’s easier for youngsters to make it at united because they are surrounded by older players who can show them the way without putting too much pressure on them
Gooby,
not too sure what prevented Wenger from keeping Bobby here?
or Gilberto?
these two at the club would be a massive influence, IMO…
SUGA3
i always ask myself this question. why the fuck did he sell bobby?
Gilberto was fine, but he was on the downhill at the end, should have kept flamini, maybe freddie and defo bobby and sol
Gooby,
Sol went a bit cuckoo and that’s why he left…
Gilberto was still a regular in the Brazil national team until recently, so I think he would do the job nicely despite losing a yard of pace
Freddie was seriously crocked, he went to WHU, played very little and was on £90K per week!
but Bobby? fuck me, it was all about not giving him a 2 year contract, now remember that Silvestre (a shit ex-Manc cunt) got one not too much later!
IMO, losing Flamini is the sole reason why cunts like D******n, Diaby and the other fluffy cartoon heroes are getting new contracts and payrises left, right and centre!
SUGA3
we should have done everything we could to keep sol at the heart of our defence from 2007 till 2009 at least, he was still a top player. The club always finds a solution when they look for it…
you’re right, freddie was a crock, i forgot a bit about that considering all of our players become crocks at some point lol
denilson should never wear an arsenal shirt again, disgrace of a player.
flamini got away because Dein had been sacked and there was no one at board level left to acknowledge his value and keep him.
Lurch,
you may recall that Wenger tried to sell Flamini to fucking Brum before his last season at the club started…
can’t blame the fella for sticking two fingers up to OGL for that, can you?
but I can blame Wenger for mis-handling the situation, as he had three perfectly capable DMs at the club at the beginning of the season and the next one started with D*******n and Song!
Gooby,
not even in private!
yeah sure but he put in a great season after that Suga. Your not suggesting that he wouldn’t have stayed with the right offer on the table?
what I am suggesting is that it would take a much lesser offer to convince him to stay at the beginning of his last season here…
as for the later time, well, I have to agree with you regarding Dein’s absence:
remember what he said in that video about the extra subs and personal kits with names and numbers? this is who he had to work with and that is exactly what PHW is – a penny pinching twat with no vision and no ambition!
I recall him coming out and saying that a ‘good offer’ was on the table – probably as good a treatment as the one Cole got, stuping haggling over £5K per week…
I did some bizzo in my life and negotiated a few gigs, but there are people in PHW’s mould who I would just let my mates/associates to do the talking with…
temper, temper and all that
I fucking hate my life. 5000 lines of code, 3 allnighters and I just found the bug because I mispelt hashCode as hashcode.
Yeah, that’s right.
get a mac!
lol.
Nothing to do with that. Kept looking for nonexistent bugs and rewrote parts of my code, when in fact my function kept being overrided by the default underlying one.
Cunts the lot of them. I should have become a humanities major.
Suga, it wouldnt have been left so late with dein at the helm – An individual that can relate to the desires of the common man, that said he was around during the cashley fiasco and pires, so who really knows?
i get that Rohan it was just a trite wind up. chin up, it’ll be awesome when your finished. humanities? what and hang out with cunts like suga? no thanks.
yeah, I have just thought of that myself RE: Cole…
but the Pires thing was just down to that one year nonsense, nothing more, I guess no one wanted to interfere in this particular field?
nah, I don’t like goddamn no good hippies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EPC39jyHBY
naah, i actually like the stuff i’m doing these days.
yeah the 1 year deals are moronic unless your a hyper crock like king or woodgate etc…
still had Pires not suffered the fate of substitution in the CL final he might have stuck with rolling one year deals – maybe not, depends on his fitness outlook and the bonuses.
Provided the player stays fit, I’d suggest they earn more in rolling deals than on moderately well paid 2 year ones no?
fuckin hippies. smelly pussy’s, yuk.
speaking of crocks, RVP must be nearing his record run of games!
Christ, spit it out, you’ll jinx him
someone had to mention the elephant in the room before it shat on the carpet and ate geoff’s nuts!
makes sense what you’re saying about these one- and two year deals, but I reckon Bobby got a better offer from Villareal anyway…
anyway, I am off, laterz
as my aim is to educate entertain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkcei-i_CiY
*and entertain
night bud.
did you just tell me to fuck off!?
sure as fuck I fucking didn’t?
what the fuck could possibly give you that fucking idea?
blog law would likely indicate that I’d enjoy it anyway.
lurch and suga
sitting in s tree
F E L C H I N G
jealous much?
oh dear the spunkbubble has cometh, how goes it? – heard you dumped your bitch today? did you manage one last hate shag at least?
HaHa you pair of joker’s!!
doom raiders united!
reggie reg! howdy!
hmmm…
I don’t think we should use the ‘U’ word today, before you say anything, I know that ‘at the same place and the same time’ does not have the same ring to it
howdy partner you and lurch have got a good bit of banter going on good to see gooner’s getting on so well im off to bed now as extremely pissed until tomorrow!!
i hope we lose today,can’t have them cheating chavs win the league again…
ABU!
laters reggie
you are rather superstitious Suga, I didn’t think you kommy bastards believed in the fates…