Matchday song revival causes MASS OUTRAGE

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There is FURY on the website messageboards…

‘WONDER OF YOU R U AVIN A LAUGH!’

I really have to say that the thought of that song entering the musical lexicon again really fills me with sadness.

Where has that idea come from?

Wasn’t it Ivan Gazidis that brought that song back?

It’s awful. Utter shite. Doesn’t get anyone excited. I swear, every time it came on, people bitched and moaned about its existence. The song reminds me of Denilson falling on his face, not something I want to be reminded of.

I grew up with ENTERTAIN YOU by the magnificent Robbie Williams. Great build, electric, sung by one of the great pop ROCK stars of my childhood. I genuinely lost my mind listening to that song before it came on at Highbury.

I was a kid so don’t judge the taste levels… actually, fuck it, you can’t be too cool for this song, it’s a great track. I won’t have anyone deny me. You can still like Beach House and appreciate Robbie.

Another classic Arsenal tune we could revisit is Fatboy Slim, Right Here, Right Now. I still get Arsenal chills when I hear that song, a bit edgier, everyone knows it, there’s even a hint of Ian Wright in it.

Wonder of You? I don’t care about its history. I don’t care that it’s a classic. I don’t care that your grandad knocked up your grandma to it. It’s a shite song and has absolutely no place at the club.

We could roll with something a little more contemporary? Foals – Providence is a great track.

I know Kasabian are Leicester fans, but come on, Underdog? SYMBOLIC.

You know you’d be pissing in your plastic cup and lobbing it at Steve Bruce if this came on… because that is how we enjoy gigs in London. I told American’s that what happens and they refused to believe me.

Which tune would YOU want to hear?

Mesut Ozil rumours reached the Washington Post… I was quite excited to hear what they had on offer, sadly, all pointers indicate to a deal being for next summer. Probably better for our squad if I’m honest. I’m not sure we can lose too many more players without taking on massive risk to our experience balance. Still, at least they’re making moves for next year.

Chelsea lost in the Super Cup on penalties, but again looked far better than the result suggested. Frank Lampard has had a tough start, he’s going to have to hope he has strong motivational skills otherwise he’s going to have problems this season. Jury still out, but Kante is an absolute powerhouse, he’ll always be worth 10 points a season.

I was having a debate with some grown adults trying to convince me that mobile phones in grounds when the games are going on is acceptable. ‘It’s a Generational thing’ apparently like mobile communications devices started last year.

Can’t have it.

They’re a blight on gigs, the cinema, stand-up shows, dinner dates, funerals, after-sex-chat, and it’s simply bad manners. You’d be lying to yourself if you think it’s just the young, if anything, this behaviour is just as prevalent in older folk. Tommy Robinson can’t even go to court without filming himself and he’s 36.

Here is Donald Glover, one of the hottest contemporary artists on the planet (I know some of you needed that), making a great point.

“I think telling people to put their phones away really forces a person to be present.”

Amen Donald, spoken like a true pro. We could all do with a little less phone time in our lives because it’s a sad indictment of humans when there’s a market for addressing the problem.

I like the generation that the ASHBURTON ARMY (@ArsenalChants) is from, the average age there is probably sub 23. Their Twitter page is starting a fan movement to make loads of noise at the home games. They look like they have a lot of fun, they make up great songs, and they’re getting a fucking drum.

Unreal.

Finally, new Lacazette song.

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Jamie

“Shania Twain Still the One for all the pro-Wenger rabble”

Back of the net!

Tony –

Springsteen – Hungry Heart

Marko

That Lacazette song is dope btw

Pierre

Tony
“Pierre likes The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round”

Why not, an excellent catchy tune that is sung the world over.

Personally, I prefer ” if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands”…it always brings a smile to my one year old grand daughter’s face.

Tony

Jamie
Good choice

Wasi

Ozil and Kola back in training apparently. Hopefully they are fit enough to feature against Burnley.

Tony

Pierre
🙂

Words on a Blog

Kolasinac song, given his recent heroics and troubles:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_DiRxu2pIvk

TitsMcGee

Here is Donald Glover, one of the hottest contemporary artists on the planet (I know some of you needed that), making a great point.

“I think telling people to put their phones away really forces a person to be present.”

–Good luck with that. News, Tinder, Google, Amazon, work email, personal email, Twitch, Google Maps, Facebook, instagram, whatsapp, iMessage, banking apps etc etc.

Not going to happen, although the “look at me” aspect of life today is quite disturbing.

Marko

Pedro has used snaps he’s taken on his phone at a game before so I don’t see the issue. Obviously if you’re on the phone having full blown conversations while the game is on you’re a bit of a dick

Marc

I know people who check there phones for other scores during a match, or check the odd text message etc but you don’t see people having full on phone calls during a match.

It’s all about a sensible balance – I mean you’ve just paid £40 – £50 for a ticket and you’re not watching the game?

Dplanet

Whippin Excursion – Giggs

Mark

Pierre appears to be a 100% Wenger Boy. Not saying Pierre has issues personally, but imo most Wenger boys have Psychological problems either as online trolls or when meeting them face to face. Over an 18 month period 5 Wenger boys were chased off the Gooner after constantly bombarding the site with sexist , bigoted even anti Semitic blabbering . Turned out the key was to suffocate them with piss taking , humiliation and constant retorts. After 12 months of it we got down to just 2 and they then were banned after making death threats. The Gooner site is… Read more »

Valentin

Marc,

If you go to the club level and boxes, you would see a lot of that. Not necessarily full phone call, but Instagram and Twitter conversation.
Some People spend more time on their phone than watching the game.

Some people in that level don’t pay for their seats. Some are just guest, even those are not guest are spoilt rich. They go to the football like they would go to the theater: Spectators.

Marc

Valentin

As you say a huge chunk of the club level seats and boxes are corporate. They are there to generate cash for the club – nothing else. I’m talking about the 99% of fans who sit lower or upper tier.

One of the guy’s who sits near me get’s text messages from a mate after controversial decisions – sometimes it’s quite handy to have someone give an update from someone who’s seen a replay. Of course VAR should put an end to the need for that.

Marc

Mark

Pierre’s just mildly disturbed you wait until you see CG full on.

Pierre

Mark

Reading that rather strange comment from you, it’s perfectly clear who has the “psychological problems”

But you wouldn’t need me to tell you that would you .

Have you ever thought that you are maybe taking it all a bit too seriously…

Here is a little bit of advice for you.

Try not to look at things too deep and lighten up a bit…

Matt Foley

Anything by Aldous Snow

karim

At last some good taste on le grove !

Leedsgunner

Mkhitaryan served his purpose when he persuaded Auba to join us, so I guess that has to count for something. Really, apart from that he’s been a damp squib.

Valentin

Auba wanted to join Real Madrid, but the only form offer he had was from China. Mkhitaryan or not he was only to happy to join us, especially on the financially favourable term stupid Gazidis was offering.

While nearly every clubs is moving from players individual term that do not take into the club overall position and final results such as qualification for Champion’s League, winning a cup conpetition, Gazidis just offered him bonus per goal, bonus if PEA top the league goal scoring chart and for playing in a game victory.

karim
Valentin

Correction: the only form offer.

Valentin

Damn autocorrect. Firm become form.
Only written offer.

Freddie Ljungberg

Good that we’re finally approaching loaning out our players in a serious way:

https://www.allarsenal.com/revealed-how-arsenals-pioneering-new-approach-to-loan-deals-secured-nketiahs-leeds-move/

Will help with development and if they’re not making it with us hopefully it’ll help with exposure so we can get a bigger first time fee instead of the sell on clause netting us more cash a year or so later.

Marc

Valentin

You struggling there mate!

izzo

Cmon guys we all know the best song is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN7HQrgakZU The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

Freddie Ljungberg

Pedro

It doesn’t have to be pioneering really, just better than Wenger or Gazidis pulling a random name out of a hat or letting the player decide on their own.

Valentin

Freddie, Those are changed introduced by Per. Other clubs such as Chelsea have had those for at least 6 years. The loan officer started his role mid way through the season before last. They had to go and request players phone number to create a Whatsapp group for loanees because they did not have a central repository of the youngsters players. It was so backward compared to other clubs. Same thing they have only now introduced discount on loan fee based a loanee game time. The more a player is used, the lower is his loan fee and vice versa… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“Have you ever thought that you are maybe taking it all a bit too seriously…” Pierre is this an admission that most of the stuff you post here is done with the intent being to annoy??? Like how you go on and on about Suarez and using him to suggest that maybe Pepe and Ceballos aren’t Emery type of players?? I remember you once lamenting that Emery benched all our “technical” players last season and including Suarez in that list, today you list Iwobi as a better footballer than Suarez yet Iwobi was singled out as a “headless chicken” footballer… Read more »

Marko

The soundtrack to euphoria is excellent. Just pick something from that

Valentin

Freddie, Wenger was not in charge of the academy. Gazidis was supposedly changing it behind the scene, in reality despite some great coach such as Ampadu, organisationally it was struglling. Even before Liam Brady’s departure it was a shamble. Andries Jonker was a nice man and I am sure a decent coach in the Neetherland, but completely unsuited to Arsenal and its inner city kids. You can’t expect black inner city kids to have the same background and behave the same way than white Middle class kids from Holland. During one of his talk to inner city kids he tried… Read more »

Freddie Ljungberg

Valentin

Your not trying to tell me that a man that had to have his finger in every aspect of the clubs dealings didn’t decide where we sent the youths on loan? Nah, not buying it.

I’m aware he wasn’t technically in charge of the academy but for a very long time he was the emperor of Arsenal FC.

Mark

Pierre you may well be right lol but one thing and that’s I’ve always put Club over Manager and that included the day I was queuing up for tickets to hear the news GG had been sacked. Even though results hadn’t been right it was like a punch in the guts. But club was still most important to me. The Gooner had 18 epic months of verbal and potential physical threats. The marches for what they were worth started from there and the term WOB / AKB was from those battles. Anybody who took part has medals for services rendered… Read more »

Dissenter

Serge Gnabry should have never been loaned to Westbrom under Pulis.
Had we used this new approach, that obvious mistake would have been prevented.
The club was being run on haphazard cruise control.

Dissenter

Valentin
Wenger has his finger in every activity that involved football. A first team player [which Gnabry] was] didn’t go on loan unless Wenger agreed to it. This is not even an academy matter since the lad had already broken into the the first team.
I think you need to stop trying to recreate history.

Dissenter

Valentin
“During one of his talk to inner city kids he tried to explain the intricacies of central midfield movement by using equilateral and isosceles triangles. After his talk, most kids were on their mobile trying to spell the words to understand what it means.”
You know these academy players are required to stay in school right.
It’s not like he was trying to use Riemann’s Hypothesis to teach tactics. The basic geometry stuff you mentioned is hardly O-level material. My 10- year old knows that already. These players aren’t as dim as you may want to think.

Pierre

Mark
“The marches for what they were worth started from there and the term WOB / AKB was from those battles. Anybody who took part has medals for services rendered . The Wenger boys were dispersed and left rag tag , wandering bereft of their Messiah.”

It must have been a right old battle ridding the world of the “Wenger boys”

In the old days young men used to get medals for services rendered following world war one and world war two.

How times have changed

Words on a Blog

Dissenter,

Sending any U-23 player to The Great Orc, Pulis, is the equivalent of telling them: fuck off you’re not wanted.

Marc

“These players aren’t as dim as you may want to think.”

I wouldn’t bet any money on that!

Receding Hairline

” You can’t expect black inner city kids to have the same background and behave the same way than white Middle class kids from Holland.”

Don’t know what you mean here. They came to Arsenal to learn how to play from a young age, what exactly has their background or color to do with it. Jonker is a coach with pedigree, sometimes certain things just don’t work out. I doubt his “failure” here has anything to do with him failing to connect with “inner city kids”.

Dissenter

Marc
It’s had tried to use a quadratic equation, then I would nod in agreement.
It’s hard to learn football tactics without understanding triangles.
These kids have to get reasonable academic work don to stay in the academy. The better academies even incorporate schools into their system.

Marko

Arsene Wenger signed off on signings in’s and out’s who went where and for how much and he specifically was responsible for who got opportunities or not. To try to spread some of the blame for losing Gnabry for example is ridiculous but not surprising given who it’s from. Truth is it was his fault for losing Gnabry exclusively. He left because he wasn’t given opportunities or didn’t see himself getting a chance which is made all the more ridiculous when you factor in that for months prior to leaving he’s was being eyed up for the senior German team.… Read more »

Dissenter

Besides, most of the kids in the Arsenal academy are from immigrant families, lots of Nigerian ones
Never under-estimate the salience of education in these communities. Education is like life and death in many immigrant communities.
I call BS on that claim that Jonkers needed to treat the kids in the academy any different from the kids in g=dutch academies.

Jamie

“You can’t expect black inner city kids to have the same background and behave the same way than white Middle class kids from Holland”

Jesus Christ

Marc

Dissenter

Yeah – OK nice logic on my side of the argument is listening to 99% of English footballers speak.

Mark

Certainly was some battle Pierre . I feel a little sorry for the AKB’s as they were just about to start kitting themselves out in PSG scarves ready for the Emperors return to France but his stipulation of wanting to finish 2nd ( in a 2 horse race )for the next twenty years or at least the 4th in a 3 horse race plus finishing in the Champions League top 16 just didn’t get his Emirate Princes moist. Then old Bayern fell off their seats with laughter . I know he and you are waiting for his next Big, Big… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“Yeah – OK nice logic on my side of the argument is listening to 99% of English footballers speak.”

Eloquence isn’t really a true measure of intelligence. Some of the most intelligent people i know sound dumb when they speak. Intelligence is a measure of how fast you can acquire and apply knowledge not how well spoken you are.

Dissenter

““You can’t expect black inner city kids to have the same background and behave the same way than white Middle class kids from Holland
Jesus Christ”

My head dropped when I read it too.
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
Jonkers should have used rap music and lollipop sticks to communicate with them.

Jamie

Receding –

“Eloquence isn’t really a true measure of intelligence. Some of the most intelligent people i know sound dumb when they speak. Intelligence is a measure of how fast you can acquire and apply knowledge not how well spoken you are.”

According to Valentin, being white also helps.

Mark

A few comments about Jonker. My understanding was that he put a lot of noses out of joint with the parents. Far from being nice he was a bit of a harshly opinionated dictator.
Could be just incorrect rumours but my thoughts were Arsenal removed him to stop an exodus of Academy players .

Dissenter

If you think Soccer tactics are hard, try learning American football tactics or play-calls as they are called.
It’s entirely written in code and players are expected to cram it.
It’s commonplace to see the same impoverished inner city kids that struggles with reading being fluent in the most complex rule book
“One frog channel delta’ and he’s making the most calculated stuttered run into a route that does not yet exist for a ball that is yet to be thrown.
Intelligence is a very complex concept.

karim

You’re all c#nts anyway !

Nelson

The past two games, Micki has been working much harder. Obviously, he is feeling the pressure after we sign Pepe.
A hard working Micki is still useful for the team. We need every available resource to achieve our goal. Micki can run with the ball. His final passes are not accurate. That can be improved. He still have some chemistry with Auba. I hope he can keep up with his current attitude.

Batistuta

Anyone else get Wenger 08/09/10 vibes from the Chelsea the this season…

Very good going foward with a very good midfielder(Kante/ Cesc), but will gift the opposition loads of chances

Graham62

Pierre (cc:Jamie/GOH) Re: Wenger/ Ferguson comparison from yesterday I waited with bated breath but nothing was forthcoming. In hindsight, I suppose it’s a good thing because it gave me time to reflect on exactly what you said and, significantly, your own understanding of “competitive sport” and in particular what is perceived as failure. At high noon yesterday you wrote and I quote- “If you had the slightest understanding of competitive sport at the top level, then you would know that the very best managers(Ferguson)suffer heavy defeats” You also highlighted that “I needed educating” on my understanding of competitive sport. Now,… Read more »

MidwestGun

They look like they have a lot of fun, they make up great songs, and they’re getting a fucking drum.
_______
Pedro, YES!!! Since we now have a Brazilian in charge of football quality control… need a bit of samba drums.

How about Enter Sandman by Metallica because Emery’s football will put you to sleep? 😀 I kid … I kid… sort of… epic walk out song though,soon as those opening chords start… then the drum kicks in… then BOOOM!!!!!!

Say your prayers…… Exit light…. Enter Night!!!! etc etc..

Valentin

Dissenter, Why do you see offense and racism when there is none intended? Adapting your talk to your audience based on their cultural background is not racism, it is just common sense. RVP’s parents are children of the 60’s artists. Talking about arts and influence of mathematics in all walk of life including football is something he would have been accustomed to. When Andries Jonker tries that talk to London inner city kids in an outreach Arsenal initiative, it just flopped. Despite his best intention, He was like a fish out of water. Their life experiences was so different, they… Read more »

Cesc Appeal

MidWest

Like we’re Virginia Tech up in here

jwl

“You’re all c#nts anyway !”

Ain’t that the truth, Karim!

MidwestGun

Lol Cesc… I like AC/DC.. too.. was just a suggestion..

Bob N16

Valentine, you’re way off in relation to languages and kids in inner city London. The majority of kids are from first or second generation immigrant backgrounds. The vast majority of these kids speak two languages, English and their ‘home’ language.
Obviously if they’re ‘ white English’ they’ll probably only speak one !

Valentin

Jamie, Just so you know, I am a Black French man before you start implying that I am racist. The reason I mentioned white middle class Dutch kids instead of just middle class Dutch kid is because being a white middle class Dutch kids has his privilege. One is that you are unlikely to have been a victim of racism. Most black middle class Dutch kid have friends or family member that are poor black kids. Why do you think that the black players of the Holland Euro 96 team were all eating together? Despite having different social class background,… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Very long post saying nothing but strengthening stereotypes Valentin\ You say the kids whipped out their phones and googled equilateral and isosceles triangles, good. Next time someone else mentions it they would know exactly what he means hence Jonkers afternoon was not wasted. Again you have not proposed alternative ways he could have conveyed his message. Phiona Mutesi became a chess champion, her background did not indicate she had the intelligence for that William Kamwbamba built a windmill in his village, his background and education did not hint he had that in him One should not fold his hands and… Read more »

MidwestGun

Any word on a possible Mustafi exit.. ? Apparently Xhaka is a fitness worry for Burnley.. might get a chance to see what a midfield with out him there might look like… could be exciting.. Willock, Torreira, Matty G perhaps.

jwl

I am not expert on Dutch culture but they seem to have hard time getting along with one another if their football teams are anything to go by. It seems like every time they make international tournament, there are stories about how their players are beefing and don’t want to play with one another, Joncker sounds like one of that type.

Jamie

Valentin –

Cool story.

p.s. Jesse Lee Peterson. Checkmate.

Pierre

Graham
I prefer to let my many winners medals and player of the year trophies do my talking.
It’s all about what happens on the pitch that matters.
You can talk the talk but can you walk the walk .. I doubt it.

You are full of waffle I’m afraid

Valentin

Receding, You seem to want to be offended for everything I said. My point is that if people need a thesaurus to understand you, then you have already lost the communication war. Some will make the effort to understand you, the vast majority will just ignore what you say and concentrate on what they know and understand. This is exactly why the so called Elite class is getting kicked in most western democracy. Better a populist who speak my language even he is faking interest in me than an arrogant elite who I don’t understand and can’t relate to my… Read more »

Ghana

Race is important

Receding Hairline

“CAN WE STOP TALKING ABOUT RACE THINGS”

The conversation is more on privilege and opportunities than race Pedro.

I think it’s an interesting rather than controversial conversation. The downside of course is Valentin will never admit he got it wrong in the first place so renders it all pointless in the end

Receding Hairline

“Some will make the effort to understand you, the vast majority will just ignore what you say and concentrate on what they know and understand.”

Maybe the few who will make that effort are the ones Jonker was interested in to begin with?? I mean we all know that talent without application (hard work) never amounts to much.

“You seem to want to be offended for everything I said.”

I never indicated offense. For someone taking Jonker to task on communication you are not a very effective communicator yourself.

Valentin

Receding,

I am telling an anecdote that I have personally lived.
I am not sure why you take offense for something that happen to me.

I don’t remember seeing a lot of people volunteering to give to inner city kids math class after spending a full day work in the city.

Valentin

Receding,

“Very long post saying nothing but strengthening stereotypes”.

Looks like you were offended by the so called stereotyping, maybe I am not the one struggling with communication.

MidwestGun

I think it’s an interesting rather than controversial conversation
_______
Nope .. read all the posts … turns out not interesting at all. 😀

Receding Hairline

“Nope .. read all the posts … turns out not interesting at all. 😀”

LOL

Graham62

Ten things I want Boris to do. 1. Enforce road tax on all cyclists and spend the money generated on repairing all the potholes. 2. Put an end to all disabled bays in residential areas. 3. Stop private parking companies from profiteering from hospital car parks. 4. Ensure all police have tasers and, in our capital city, bring in visible armed officers. 5. Hand over southern rail to a professionally run rail company. Nationalise if necessary. 6. Rip up the Education P’s and P’s and ensure all schools enforce zero tolerance on bad behaviour. 7. Invest in our armed forces… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“Looks like you were offended by the so called stereotyping, maybe I am not the one struggling with communication.” Again can’t see where i indicated offense, “I am telling an anecdote that I have personally lived. I am not sure why you take offense for something that happen to me.” Were you one of the kids Jonker was talking to that afternoon?? Something tells me the answer is no. You never told us you were sharing a life story, the conversation was Jonker and why he failed at Arsenal’s academy. “I don’t remember seeing a lot of people volunteering to… Read more »

MidwestGun

This probably isn’t interesting either but based on availability and fitness and weird off the pitch issues.. I think I might go with this lineup..on Saturday. Need to get Pepe fit and firing regardless.

…………Auba………..Pepe
…………..Ceballos
Willock….Torriera…. Matty G.
Monreal……Papa….. Luiz……. AMN
…………… Leno

Receding Hairline

Midwest i think Lacazette will get a start this weekend

Marko

Did you actually delete those comments?

Bob N16

Close my choice Midwest, if Laca fit I’d have him on the CF position. One less CM.

Graham, surprised you didn’t want to bring back flogging!

MidwestGun

Receding could be.. But I think Laca might come in as a substitute.. second half.. If you fit Laca in there … you have to drop Either Willock or Matty G and I think we would lose some Link up play and energy in the midfield then.. Laca will drop back … and hold up play and defend some but he is not really a midfielder.

Graham62

So, Pierre, that means you are totally clueless.

Just as I thought.

Well done on all those winners medals.

By the way the answers to my two questions were –

1. Hate to lose.
2. React to it positively.

Hence, the reason that you can never compare Arsene Wenger to Sir Alex Ferguson is that although they may have both hated to lose, only one of them was a true “competitor” or should I say winner.

Ferguson reacted to embarrassment in a proactive manner.

Wenger shrugged his shoulders and accepted it.

Simple…. right?

Words on a Blog

Pedro,

Am I allowed to say that all the girls think that Un na nai is pretty fly for a white guy?

Mark

Pierre – what winners medals ? The 4th place trophy ? Yep you must be laden with them .
Good Old Wengo he wears a battered hat
And when he saw Kalltrom’s broken back he said I’m having that !

Receding Hairline

Napoli spend that Pepe money on Hirving Lozano…42m pounds

Graham62

Pierre

Yes, I’m pretty sure I can “walk the walk”.

Just so you know, no one in their right mind would come on a Football blog and start promoting “winners medals” and “player of the year trophies” to a group of posters that have all probably got a background in competitive sport and probably have done from an early age.

Even I know that and I’m only 57!

Marko

Enforce road tax on all cyclists and spend the money generated on repairing all the potholes.
2. Put an end to all disabled bays in residential areas.
3. Stop private parking companies from profiteering from hospital car parks.

Just in case you couldn’t tell Graham is an old fuddy duddy

Cesc Appeal

I’d go with:

—————————Leno
—-Maitland Niles, Luiz, Sokratis, Kolasinac
————-Willock, Torreira, Guendouzi
————-Pepe, Aubameyang, Martinelli

I would give Dani Ceballos and Lacazette 25-30 minutes. Obviously change it up sooner if things aren’t working.

Marko

Napoli spend that Pepe money on Hirving Lozano…42m pounds

They needed a RW more. Him and Insigne will be running into each other making the same runs

Graham62

BobN16

I knew I’d forgotten something.

Graham62

Marko

Yep, that’s me.

Thanks for the compliment.

MidwestGun

Cesc-
That’s a possibility as well.. Although, I think Emery prefers Nelson to Martinelli at the moment.. I still like having the extra midfielder in there and then if we need to chase goals then drop a midfielder for a forward second half.

Versus Pool though I’m all for the 3 forwards as I think it will be a more open match.

Pierre

“Hence, the reason that you can never compare Arsene Wenger to Sir Alex Ferguson is that although they may have both hated to lose, only one of them was a true “competitor” or should I say winner.” Of course Graham, I never compared Ferguson to Wenger because they are incomparable as are 99.9% of all managers I just made the point, after you posted to Charlie George numerous times about the 8-2 defeat, that even ferguson suffered humiliating heavy defeats (which he did) and then you and a few others took exception to it ( there’s a surprise). Its classic… Read more »

Receding Hairline

“They needed a RW more. Him and Insigne will be running into each other making the same runs”

Unsurprisingly not many football coaches think about this when offered the chance to sign a promising forward ..”would he and the one i already have run into each other”???

Cesc Appeal

‘Hand over southern rail to a professionally run rail company’

I feel this one.

Southern are absolutely useless.