Via @Arsenal Instagram (amazing pic)
Oh my gooood I’m back agaaaaaain.
That’s how I introduce myself into work meetings.
The kids at the agency think I’m super cool and totally nineties retro.
‘So young’ they shout.
Anyway, it’s been a dry week. Not even a pint of Gatorade can save this piece.
International break, right when the season is getting interesting, is by far the most offensive affront to my life.
Who. Fucking. Cares.
Hopefully, we can avoid any injuries to our key players, and hopefully Spurs pick up some niggles that reduce their players effectiveness as they enter the death spiral.
It would appear Danny Welbz is back in training, running like a true pro. That’s great news he’s recovering. I’d imagine it’s too much to expect him back by the end of the season, but wouldn’t that be nice? He’d be a help right now. Imagine him terrorizing defenders in our press. Would love that. LOVE IT MIGHTILY.
Hector Bellerin traveled to Dubai with the team. Great to see him back in business.
Mesut Ozil has been pictured smiling. BIG news imo. He’s also wearing gold boots.
Finally, Denis Suarez is looking pretty.
That’s all I have. I just have to keep up posting. Get in the comments you melts and stop talking about Brexit. x
Bankz is here for the Tr4phy again
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Tr4phy
Keeping it down on grid lock till DM returns from his paternal legrove leave.
Y’all have a nice weekend.
Too bad we won’t be seeing Arsenal play till next weekend
International week sucks!!!!
Long time I posted. Good to be back as well. Stop talking about Brexit.
I don’t want political talks on the blog.
Midfielder to replace Ramsey IMO should be Thomas Party of Ath. Madrid. Maguire should be our CB target….ooops forgot this is Arsenal.
Any player who can improve this team is welcome
Afternoon Grovers,
Very dry on the Arse news Pedro so well done for putting something up.
Argh repost Joke Friday. This one is for Un Na. A Syrian kid and his refugee family move to France. On his first day of school his teacher asks him “what is your name?”. To which he politely responds, “My name is Abdul and I am from Syria (Middle-East accent)..She abruptly stops him and corrects him.“No! From now on you are French and your name is Jacque.”. He ponders it over and agrees, you’re right I am French now and my name is Jacque. Upon arriving home his mother asks him how his first day at school was? He abruptly… Read more »
“International week sucks!!!!”
Umm, speak for yourself. Luxembourg vs Lithuania at 3:45 ET today. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.
Kay
“Stop talking about Brexit.”
No one was talking about it before you brought it up.
Sorry but really looking forward to tonight’s game.
Southgate for PM!
Why not talk about Brexit?
A wee bit of diversity doesn’t hurt.
Come on England!!
Haven’t been this excited about England since I was a kid.
All down to Sir Gareth.
G62
Totally agree! To me the last time I fully enjoyed England was back in the days of Gazza, Scholes, Beckham, the Neville Brothers. And who remembers when Owen became a sensation!?
What I think caused the winning attitude to shift towards total apathy where players saw Euros/ WC as a paid holiday, was due to the never ending bias of refs towards us in QF’s. They ended up losing belief in being capable of going past the QF’s.
Albania vs Turkey or Andorra vs Iceland? Decisions, decisions… I mean, who schedules two games of this magnitude at the same time?! And, I already mentioned Luxembourg vs Lithuania before. That one deserves its own PPV event.
England team to play Czech Republic: Pickford, Walker, Keane, Maguire, Chilwell, Henderson, Dier, Sancho, Alli, Sterling, Kane.
Strong team. Lot’s of talent,
Notably not a single Arsenal player to be seen. British core more like banter core.
The Football Associations care: they make money out of the games
Mitch Hedberg Joke Friday –
My friend said, “You know what I like? Mashed potatoes.” I was like, “Dude, you gotta give me time to guess.”
I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut. I don’t need a receipt for a doughnut. I’ll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut. End of transaction. We don’t need to bring ink and paper into this. I can’t imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend? “Don’t even act like I didn’t get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here!”
I like rice, rice is great when you’re hungry and you want 2,000 of something.
Only on Le Grove do people hate International Football
With all the shit going on in the world take a bit of pride in your national team
Miserable fuckers
“Miserable fuckers”
Could not have said any better myself.
How does not liking international football make someone miserable?
I find it boring, would rather give my attention to something more interesting and enjoyable. Hardly the definition of miserable.
HillWood, poverty football and I’m certainly not the only one who thinks so.
Fuck, didn’t realize that my Moldova is playing some 3rd world country today. I might tune into that one… for shits and giggles.
Pedro- Charlie
80 000 at Wembley tonight and Millions watching on the TV would disagree with you
Hillwood
You’ll have to explain why that somehow makes it miserable for someone to not follow suit?
I’ll go ahead and argue that more aren’t watching, than are.
Anyone who still feels bored by the international break should be ashamed of themselves.
I’m genuinely excited by England and agree totally with DB10, HillWood and Upstate.
Now I know that certain posters on here can only talk a good game.
Pedro and CC, shame on you both. Gone way down in my estimation.
“Poverty football” What the fudge on you on about?
Charlie
Enjoy tonight ‘s edition of East Enders
Come on England !!!
Graham
I don’t care whether you like it or not, but anyone that doesn’t should be ashamed? Lol ok mate, nice narrow view you got there.
CC
Omg!
The upsurge in international football will be there for all to see.
You are now in the minority.
CC
No Charlie, I’m now proud of my national team.
Actually, to be honest, it doesn’t surprise me that you aren’t .
Pedro
Poverty football?
I’ve always seen it as watching the best football you can get. Whether it translates into this, is something entirely. But this is what it is supposed to be.
Where I’ll agree is that lately it has not been all that good, but you can’t disagree that if there is a team who is tearing it up, you’ll want to watch it to appreciate the great football on display.
CC
Sterling, Kane, Sancho, Hudson-Odoi etc etc.
Bring it on!
Dier seems to have some problem. So far so good!
That should have been a pen for us. But you really had to see the nudge on Sterling by the Czech player.
Dier refuses to continue. Replace by Barkley
1 – o
Sterling
Assisted by Sancho
Interlull …
GR8 goal England.
Typical. Got up yo refill my pint glass and we score…..
Glad we did though.
Come on England!!!!!
Nice goal?
Kane passed to Sancho. He crossed over to sterling for a tap in.
Just watched the replay. Tap in? More like a great effort from Sterling as he had to stretch out.
Sancho should just fall down and get a penalty.
Sancho is fucking nuts! Loving him! The moves he makes are pretty jaw dropping.
That is not a penalty. Sterling dives
Very impressive.
2-0
Best England team for a long long time.
Still not the finished article.
Ross Barkley at last fulfilling his potential.
Sancho is a gem of a player.
Come on England!!! Well taken by Kane.
Pen? A very debatable situation indeed. There is a clear block by the Czech player. Would Sterling have reached the ball in the first place though? If he had would he have scored? Or would the goalkeeper have parried it? Or maybe the goalkeeper causes a pen and gets red carded?
Getting carried away here. Fuck it. We scored. Who cares?
Get out the way Mrs May
Gareth is coming through
Dont know what to say about that one. All very awkward from start to finish.
We’ll done Raheem!!! 3-0 to England!! Come on!
Sterling and ali are top mustard as is kane obviously.
Ali is massively unserrated imo
Pedro and Charlie must be gutted their country is winning 4 – 0
Come onnnnn England!!!! Nice goal by Raheem!!! 4-0!!!
Hillwood, shouldn’t you be out there celebrating by turning over an ambulance?
How can you not enjoy this?
Pedro
Sorry, lost me on that one.
Graham, I’m at work… 5 hours behind.
But I’m sure if I was down a pub right now I’d be having a terrific time… and I’d turn over an ambulance no doubt
Pedro
No mate
I pay national insurance
Do you ?
Own goal. Fuck It! 5-0!!! Well done Hudson-Odoi for still going at it.
Hillwood, you pay national insurance? That is quite the brag.
Do go on…?
Graham you’ve obviously had half a Stella and are getting rowdy with yourself.
I don’t care about international footy, couldn’t care less what view you dish up as a result.
We’ll done England!!! Good game. Kept control all the way through. The Czech have always been a tough nut to crack and a bogus team for us. Not tonight!
I was a bit worried at 2-0 In the second half when the Czech were piling the pressure. But that third goal relaxed us.
What I liked is that we kept on pushing. A very good sign in a team.
Pedro
It pays for the ambulance service
What’s your beef with all this ?
Hatrick hero Sterling… Give it till the next Euros or WC, the press will find a way to bring up something to remind us he’s not all that great nor really English… Faux love in from the faux English
Can’t believe anyone enjoy the international bore,its tedious and the level of footy on display hurt the eyes
Wouldn’t get too excited putting a few past a hapless Czech team, almost like its the typical flat track showing until they face any half decent team again and they get a painful whooping.
Sancho is some player tho, probably the brightest talent on show today. Dortmund can get obscene money if they cash in.
CC
No alcohol involved.
What is it with you?
Victorious
Just made yourself look stupid.
Oh yeh, almost forgot, your not English.
Feeling envious because England are actually developing into a top team?
Great to see Sancho and Hudson-Odoi playing keep ball at the end.
Hudson looks several levels above sancho
Victor
Does 90 minutes of Huddersfield v Southampton float your boat ?
Graham
Calm down tiger,
No need foaming in the mouth over a result against a poor Czech side
Don’t have to be English to get a view on England,
literally anyone that follows football a bit know you lot shit your pants when faced against any team with a bit of pulse.
Graham
What is it with me? Rich.
You’re the pleb draping the St.Georges flag around himself and saying folk should be ashamed for not being interested in international football.
Take a glance in the mirror maybe.
Bit moist Graham….
“i’m very ambitious, I want to take the next step, Arsenal does not have to be the last stop,” he told Tagblatt
Allow me to wish Xhaka well on his next step and the one after that and the one after that remember it’s left then right then left and right again. No but seriously take the next step this summer and it’d be great
Probably speaks volumes of the idiocy that is Granit Xhaka. The most problematic CM we’ve had for quite some time and he actually thinks we’re a stepping stone for HIM. Unbelievable. You’re actually the stepping stone you club foot idiot
Wa gwan LG what’s poppin
Victor – Pedro -Charlie
The Prem ain’t all about Arsenal v Liverpool
There are plenty of dross matches in the Prem
I hate international football because it’s a major inconvenience on my real passion that is Arsenal. I could never care as much about any other football team as I do about Arsenal. And that’s it in a nutshell. Also the level is honestly shite. Hudson Odoi can’t make an impression at all at club level and they call him up?
Victorious
Anyone who knows anything about football knows that this is a good England team, who are capable of going much further.
Then again, anyone who knows anything about football knew that AFC were in trouble many years before change eventually materialised.
Got the message?
Hudson-Odoi is a special talent that should be starting for Chelski.
What message Graham?
Personally, I want to see the England team goes deep into any tournament. I am familiar with all the players. It just feel more like a home team.
I play football myself. When I watch a game, I examine also the team formation and the technique of individual player. The England team has enough good players worth watching.
How come no one is blaming Guardiola for not spotting the talent of Sancho, the same way people lambast Mourhino for missing out on Kevin De Bruyne.
It was obvious that the kid had immense talent and Guardiola should have found a way to promote him sooner…and I know they had Sane and Raheem Sterling.
Dissenter
Guardiola did promote him, he was due to fly out to the US for preseason and had the biggest contract ever offered to an academy graduate on the table for him to sign.
Sancho and his advisors rejected it and took him to Dortmund. Doesn’t matter what’s offered up sometimes, the player is still at liberty to do as he (or his advisors) please.
What exactly should Guardiola have done to a 17 year old? Told him that he’d guarantee him games ahead of Sane and Sterling just so he stayed?
CC
Okay…makes sense
The fact that they had two excellent young pacy wing players motivates whatever blame Guardiola ought to get.
What will be …will be
I think Foden should have left as well.
Chelsea and City need to get a looking at for the way they hoard some of the best young Englsh talent and don’t give them a chance with their senior teams.
*mitigates whatever blame Guadiola ought to get
Does anyone know anything about this Frank Kessi that we are being linked to?
Milan have to feel for FFP reasons and all three London big clubs want him at the top of their wish list.
*Milan have to sell for FFP reasons
oh dear, this autocomplete sucks
Kessie is highly rated. Could be a good signing but he’ll fetch a decent amount desperate or no. Would prefer others. Lo Celso?
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This England team is pretty good and is pretty entertaining
International breaks in general are still a massive snore fest tho
Major tournaments are more interesting because of the atmosphere of the overall event and the regular matches (against good teams if you go far)
But generally speaking, most international breaks consist of friendly or low stakes competitive matches against entirely irrelevant teams. Qualifier after qualifier after friendly after friendly of games against mighty teams like Lithuania or Belarus. I’d far rather be watching arsenal.
Emirates they announced that rule but I doubt they will follow it to a T. If we turnover 12 players as you expect that would be one of the highest turnovers of a squad in PL history presumably.
I’d be absolutely shocked for 3 or 4 of those are not here next season