International break continues.

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A real lack of news out in the woods of Footballdom today. Things are so dull, I bought a FIFA20, and actually played it.

So many buttons to learn.

I make this sound like less of a problem than it is. I worked on a pitch for a gaming console, I bought the said console so I could understand the machine and the community around it, now I’m hooked on games.

‘Just one dab of meth, it’ll be alright’

It is not. I am really into this fantasy game. It’s the absolute best thing that has happened to me. I’m so addicted, I watch Youtube videos in the gym for hints and tips. It is unhealthy.

The first 9 months of the year, I was crushing through books like a powerhouse, now I’m out on the street taking hits of Tetris whenever the coast is clear. What a shambles.

Raul had a little chat with some fans. He defended the managers’ decision to ditch Mesut Ozil. The manager picks players based on their effort in training. Makes sense on paper, but worth noting that Patrick Vieira wasn’t a very good trainer, but he was a monster on the pitch.

Not that Mesut is a monster on the pitch.

Key issue here: If Mesut doesn’t train well, which one would assume is a statement garnered from watching him for an entire 15 months… why the captains armband?

I am going to ask this question every day until I land an answer.

There’s a story doing the rounds that Saka doesn’t get changed with the first team, to keep him grounded. Love how football works so hard to keep these kids on a stable footing, then they give them £50k a week and send them on their merry way.

I’ve been told that Emery took the changing room tradition a step further and created dividers in the canteen. You can’t eat lunch with the first-teamers. Very clubbish. Imagine having to earn your right to eat a cheese sandwich next to Granit Xhaka? Goals my friends, goals.

Finally, sink your teeth and your heart into this video. Bergkamp and Wrighty, my childhood heroes!

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Eduardo

Your comment here

ADKB

top 10?

Eduardo

2nd

ADKB

ha

Eduardo

Tr4phy

ADKB

Nice try! And I read bits of the post before commenting 🙂

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Wenger

The gift that just keeps giving…

Donyell malen off to Barca for 50m

What a cunt he was in the last 10:years…

No way should he ever be allowed back at the club…

Certified cunt .

Un na naai

Bug up muthafuckers

vickingz

I caught ozil reading legrove

sid

good ebening

vickingz

Am I the only one reading that laca was offered to zenith during TW?

Un na naai

Get out and watch the Joker
Seriously good

Guns of Hackney

Apparently Ozil is selling up his house in London. Read into that what you will.

Emery still out. This won’t change. The man is troubling to me.

Guns of Hackney

Un

I plan to see this ASAP. Is it really good or just, Oscar good? Gotta ditch the missus and tyke first. Or I’ll be seeing joker in 2021.

Un na naai

Vickingz

What???? Why? He’s our player of the bloody year. Our attack is significantly worse without him.

Un na naai

Guns

It’s like an old school film. It would have been considered good in the 70s or 80s even though they were producing films of this quality regularly but compared to today’s offerings it’s top drawers, best film of the year.

It’s horrible to watch, tragic, disconcerting and depressing.
Don’t want to say any more but yeah. They just don’t do proper character studies like this any more. The acting is superb. Phoenix is phenomenal. I’d actually say better than Ledger but different. Less comic-y

Un na naai

My only criticism is that it ended too soon or abruptly but on second viewing it’s probably a better fit for the film

McBright is Wright

So Aubumayang is player of the month of september in the EPL.
And Matteo G. was voted Arsenal player of september?
Lol!

Nelson

Typical Xhaka’s weakness. The middle is all open Xhaka is chasing shadows

HillWood

Un
I was thinking about going to see it today as the weather was so shit but the reviews weren’t great
Might give it a go some other time ?

McBright is Wright

We never learn, do we?
We fans are MOSTLY irrational, divisive, blamers, emotional, forgetters, hypers, and impatient.

Guns of Hackney

Un

Thanks for the time to write that up. I wanted to see it anyway but now I REALLY want to see it.

I’ve heard good things about his take on it. Glad to see you agree.

Un na naai

Hill wood

Forget the reviews. They are from hard left critics who are trying to make the film political when it’s more a social commentary on oppressing people with mental illness and just being nicer to people in general.

95% of the time films should leave politics at the door

Un na naai

Guns

No worries.

Un na naai

Guns

It’s not bombastic and action packed. Nothing like the dark knight. It’s a personal intimate film.

Guns of Hackney

Un

Right up my street. I’m a fan of the joker in graphic novels.

HillWood

Un
Righto. Cheers

Micheal

Un na
“…critics are from the hard left…”

What utter bollocks. What you mean is that critics do not agree with your warped opinions.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

So

None of you give a fuck that wenger fucked up yet again… in letting malen go…

It’s weird what yall lot get vexed about… this blunder will hurt bad.

Steve

Football is evolving. Plain truth. All the traditional number 10 are all struggling in their clubs. James Rodriguez, Mesut Ozil, even the guy that was the soul of Liverpool before he was sold to Barcelona has been loaned to Bayern. Ozil needs to adapt to new reality. It was not only Emery he had problem with. It was the way Arsene indulged him that created problem between Arsene and the supporters especially his lack of effort when we are overwhelmed and losing. Arsene may have the patience to deal with him. Emery does not have that because while Arsene is… Read more »

HillWood

Fuck me
Le Grove can’t even agree if I should go to the pictures or not

Un na naai

Michael.

Nope. Not unless you think the film is dangerous, overly violent and encourages murder

93% of audience reviews agree with me.

Un na naai

Guns

Never read them. Did love batman comics as a kid though. And Spider-Man. And wolverine

I didn’t even know there were joker comics until the last 10 years

TheLegendaryDB10

Guns & Un Saw Joker on opening day. Guns, as Un said this film is a real masterpiece. To see the transformation of Arthur Flack into the Joker is mesmerizing. Joaquin Phoenix has definitively nailed the role. Makes J. Leto’ s take on Joker even crappier than it already is. Phoenix must be awarded an Oscar for his performance, there is no doubt about this. As I can see that you are a film buff, you cannot miss it. The 2nd great film to come out this year. The other film I really loved is QT’s Once upon a time… Read more »

Guns of Hackney

Un

Ha ha ha. Sorry.

The graphic novels are excellent. Very dark and violent. The Killing Joke and the court of owls storylines are brilliant. The illustration is incredible.

You can pick them up on amazon for a few quid brand new or used. Worth a read as a juxtaposition from the movies.

TheLegendaryDB10

Un

If you have to read one graphic novel; it’s Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke. The film loosely uses that book for parts of the story.

And now I have decided to rewatch (for the nth time) Tim Burton’s Barman.

Un na naai

DB10

Really? Once upon a time in Hollywood
It was a fun watch and very cool in a signature Tarentino way but it was a bit of an anti climax

Maybe I went in with expectations too high. Best performance from brad Pitt since fight club though. Robbie and Di Captrio are always on song bu Pitt was quality. Glad to see him back to his cool self. Seems like getting rid of that nutty cow he was with has brought some vitality back to him.

Bob N16

Ceballos starting for Spain

Guns of Hackney

DB10

Jackie Brown is my fav Tarantino movie. But I do want to see OUATIH.

Jared Leto was an abomination. Awful is a awful movie. His best role: the robber in Panic Room.

Un na naai

DB10

Yeah been thinking about it. I’ve got too many good books on the list right now though. Or books that i really want to read. Also, think I’m a bit old for the graphic novels. Tried with a couple a year ago and just couldn’t get into the zone with them like I could when I was a teenager.

Un na naai

Goh

Have you not seen Requiem for a dream? He was good in Dallas Byers Club too as the tranny.

TheLegendaryDB10

Un OUATIH is a special film in the sense that it gives you an insight in the filming industry itself. How everyone knows everyone and how they watch each other. I think that most people failed to realise that what QT did was to show that litterally nothing has changed in the film industry. This is why I liked how he chose to have as main characters a has-been and a stunt double. Hollywood was and still is littered with these people. The ending was QT’s Fuck you to the Manson family and the atrocities they commited. GoH My fav… Read more »

HillWood

I used to watch a band called Killing Joke

Guns of Hackney

Lolz. Tranny.

Redtruth

QT is ths most unoriginal filmmaker of all time. Lol

Guns of Brixton

I actually thought Jared Leto was a real life tranny bcos of Dallas buyers Club.

😂😂😂

Never heard of him before and he played it well so i put 2 and 2 together 😂🤣

Un na naai

DB10

Yeah I get that about the ending and it was satisfying to see but the Manson family were dispatched with far too easily. They didn’t offer enough of a threat to make it compelling.

Loved the Bruce Lee scene though. Apparently that was based in reality. Obviously hammed up but he really did have a fight with a stunt man on set but apparently this bloke was a fucking monster.

Un na naai

Rt

Really? So before Pulp Fiction and Reservoir dogs who was telling stories with non linear time lines? Nobody

Who was writing dialogue like him?
Nobody

His films are distinctive and have been copied for nearly 30 years

Redtruth

Does Quentin Tarantino steal all his best ideas and present them as something new and original? And, if so, does that make him a con-man, or an artist? Take Kill Bill (which many wrongly consider his masterpiece). The yellow suit Uma Thurman wears is lifted straight from a Bruce Lee film, Game of Death, in which (like Thurman) he rides a motorbike and has a fight in a paper house. The fight in silhouette, against the single-colour background, that’s taken from a film called Samurai Fiction, as is the idea of having a fight shot entirely in black and white.… Read more »

Graham62

Pedro

Thanks for the Bergkamp/Wrighty video.

A great watch to see two heroes still show the same love and respect that they showed each other all those years back.

Dennis loved our club with a passion and we all know that Arsenal FC runs through Ian’s veins.

A wonderful watch.

Will keep it in my archives.

Cheers.

Redtruth

The color-coded names of the robbers in “Reservoir Dogs” comes from the original “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three”; “Jackie Brown” begins with the title tune from the soundtrack of “Across 110th Street”; and “Pulp Fiction” was preceded by the first glimpse of the logo of Tarantino’s production company, A Band Apart, an anglicized version of the French title of Godard’s “Band of Outsiders” (which is also quoted in “Pulp”‘s Uma Thurman/John Travolta dance scene).

TheLegendaryDB10

RT What you fail to get is that AT is a serious film buff who has always loved showing it off through overt or subtle references. Like all goid artists, he uses what has inspired him and builds on it. He references a lot if films within his films but hus stories still remain original in their own right. Un Re graphic novels. As much as I understand where you come from, Alan Moore stands apart. His stories are extremely well written. I am sure you must have watched Watchmen. Read his graphic novel, it is 10 times better. The… Read more »

Graham62

I implore you all to watch Foster Brooks doing his classic drunken roasts on YouTube.

Frank Sinatra/ Don Rickles/Sammy Davis Jnr etc

Brilliant!

TheLegendaryDB10

Red

You are one hell of a film buff! This is a hidden side of you!!

Un na naai

So you’ve listed 5 things which were inspired by other films….
Big deal

All inspiration comes from somewhere.

HillWood
Un na naai

DB10

Ok

Bob N16

Hillwood, Used to use Killing Joke as a pre rugby match psyche up music, first album – Bloodsports I seem to remember.

Un na naai

Wow red

You really do have a deep knowledge of the movie business.

Redtruth

Un na naai The plot and many of the visuals of Tarantino’s 1992 debut film Reservoir Dogs are lifted wholesale from the Hong Kong crime film City on Fire, released five years earlier. Cracked.com aptly describes the similarities in plotting, saying that both films feature a gang of jewel thieves conducting a heist on orders from an older crime boss. Things go wrong during the heist, and one of the thieves snaps and kills every stranger in the store. Eventually the tension surrounding the botched heist culminates in a Mexican standoff wherein next to no one survives. Tarantino has acknowledged… Read more »

Un na naai

Wow wow wow

Red!!!
Wtf

How do you know so much about global cinema

azed

“Am I the only one reading that laca was offered to zenith during TW?”

I’m pretty sure the story said an agent probably a Lacazette’s agent was the one hawking him around and not the club.

UTarse

RSPC

I’m with you mate, but at some point we just have to let go.

Redtruth

Cracked.com: Reservoir Dogs

Tarantino didn’t just borrow a character or a scene or a subplot, he ripped off the whole story. And then replaced all the dialogue with pop-culture trivia, as if he was doing some kind of Pop-Up Video version of the same movie, but with white guys.

If you need a visual aid, director Mike White put together a handy 10-minute documentary in 1994 showing the similarities between the two films, titled Who Do You Think You’re Fooling?

Danialtos

Slightly embarrassing being an Arsenal supporter these days .We had years of childish abuse aimed at our previous manager, and now he’s departed the obsession has turned to Ozil , and when he’s departed I’m sure they will up the anti on xhaka Pretty sad if you ask me …

Pierre of course you wont mention the abuse that the current manager gets

Emiratesstroller

Pedro I watched last night the Dennis Bergkamp and Ian Wright interview, which was sent to me. These are the type of players that Arsenal should be recruiting not only for their talent, but for the commitment they made to the club. What was interesting also is that Bergkamp has no ambition to be manager or head coach, but he wants to coach in a ‘system’ either with first team or academy. Surely there is a place for him at Arsenal within that framework. Watching England play yesterday I thought that the football was both disjointed and insipid. The only… Read more »

HillWood

Bob
We seem to be of the same era

Nelson

Santi is getting ready to play

Nelson

Santi replacing Ceballos.

Bob N16

1965 Hillwood

TheLegendaryDB10

ES These are the type of players that Arsenal should be recruiting not only for their talent, but for the commitment they made to the club. Exactly what I was saying earlier. We are genuinely lacking that type of players at our club. Commited and ready to fight for the cause. We are not seeing that, in particular from our midfield. Re England’s performance last night I agree with ES and CA. We were dire to say the least. The fact that out only goal came from a pen says it all really. We were outplayed, in particular during the… Read more »

HillWood

Bob
You young whippersnapper
1964

Bob N16

Old git Hillwood!

TheLegendaryDB10

Re Joker

When you see the the message in make up in Murray Franklin’s backstage room where Joker is waiting saying “Put on a Happy Face” is a direct reference to the first Batman where The Joker in the add for Smilex says “So Remember: Put on a Happy Face!”. What an Easter egg!

5am

Rail said they don’t treat players differently….so why are they on different salaries and as it’s recognised that each bring different qualities, how is it actually possible to treat all the same??

For starters, 31yr olds should have a different training regiment than an 18yr old, which should probably include more time spent tactically so the seniors and captains take the lead in directing that on the pitch as well.

Maybe Raul is trying to run a communist ship 🤔

Kay

So you talk about classics and we get to see Red type more than “2 sentences” without “lol” and makes us go WOW
😊

salparadisenyc

Red never disappoints barring that moment he changed his handle, then changed it again but all was forgiven as the voice never faltered.

Like it or not Tarantino has created his own genre which is one of the most difficult things to do in film in my opinion.

Top three for me:

Inglorious Bastards
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction

As good as it was, shame he didn’t direct his True Romance script. That would likely top out.

Valentin

Stroller, “These are the type of players that Arsenal should be recruiting not only for their talent, but for the commitment they made to the club.” I think that you see things with rose tinted glass. DB10 ended up a magnificent servant of the club, but let not kid ourselves. He joined Arsenal out of desperation. We were pretty much the only club willing to take a punt on him. We should be concentrated on players who show commitment on the pitch. Football has changed. Footballers are much more individualistic. Mid level footballers may be happy to find a club… Read more »

Valentin

Tarentino does more than just copy old film scenes. He enhances their best scene and add some genial dialogue. Despite keeping the same style he has been able to reinvent himself with each new movie. On the other hand directors like John Woo have become caricatures. Their new offering look like pastiches of their best movies. After spending years working in a video store, Tarentino has a much more eclectic movie knowledge that he is being given credit for. Also he kept his focus on the character and the story rather being consumed by the technological aspect of movie making.… Read more »

Eduardo

Mourinho said at the beginning of the season that Luiz was a good signing because of his character. And Gary Neville agreed that he is the kind of signing arsenal need to bring in, big personalities not wet blankets and losers. We are still without the likes of Dennis and Wrighty but steps in the right direction.

Emiratesstroller

Valentin You should listen to the interview. Bergkamp made it clear that he wanted to leave Italy and come to England, but more importantly when he did so and became a star he was offered the opportunity to go to major clubs on Continent, but he declined to do so first and foremost because he wanted a stable life for his young family and he liked the lifestyle in England. Second Arsenal were a club on the way up winning trophies and recruiting world class players like Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry and Robert Pires. He made the point that Arsenal… Read more »

TheLegendaryDB10

ES I was going to reply to Val but you said it best. I’ll just add that there was no desperation in his wish to come to us. As said in the interview, the football that was being played at Inter did not suit him. As he said, when he read about us in that Dutch football magazine he immediately identified that our style of football and the identity we were trying to create back then (to play good expansive football) would suit him better. Like anyone looking to make the best of their career, he was happy to move… Read more »

Bojangles

It’s a subjective call but for me Bergkamp was the greatest player the pl has seen to date.

Tony

Bojangles
I’m with you on Bergkamp as the best PL player.

Also been advocating him to be a coach at Arsenal since before Wenger got sacked.

Recently I’ve said I’d want PV, FL and DB as the new management/coach set up to take over from Emery. However, Charlie made sense about getting Alegri first and then there aforementioned PV team take over from Allegri.

Keown? For defensive and specific man marking coach?

What are your thoughts on that, Bojangles?

China1

I’ve no idea how good bergkamp actually is as a coach but I guess the good thing is he said he’s happy with relatively sidelined roles and he’s such a super star that he brings xfactor to any coaching staff he’s in

Would dream of having him back with the kids or whatever

Tony

Rugby Good morning Graham/Bob/ES Looks like the Scotland/Japan game is on, and should be a belter. Both Japan and Scotland have fast line speeds and mobile packs so we should see some free flowing & expansive rugby unless Scotland try to slow the game down in the rucks/mauls. I fancy Japan to win after watching them beat Ireland albeit without the game changing J Sexton being fit for that game. England: If we play Australia in the quarters, we should be too much for them and their current ill discipline. Jones has a good record against the cry-babies – sorry… Read more »

Tony
Tony

Not wanting to rekindle the Ozil debate, but this is a balanced view of Ozil from the DM:

“Mesut Ozil has cost Arsenal an incredible £19,718 a MINUTE this season as £350,000-a-week forgotten man is now out of the picture for club and country

Mesut Ozil has played 142 minutes for Arsenal this season, in two appearances

He is out in the cold at the club and they are happy for him to depart in January

Ozil has not featured in Arsenal’s last three matchday squads under Unai Emery”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7549825/Mesut-Ozil-cost-Arsenal-19-718-MINUTE-season-fold-club-country.html

China1

Very interesting to see bergkamp say in our great arsenal teams there would be players squaring up in training about 4 times a week.

You see all that quality and harmony on the pitch but it was underpinned by a ruthless expectation off the field. None of this nicey nicey crap now where we’re worried about upsetting bad players on huge wages who aren’t willing to leave when told to (mustafi)

Bojangles

Tony I watched the Wrighty- Bergkamp interview a couple of days ago. He was quite categorical on not wanting the head coach position. Sounds like he wants to work with the kids and/or as a specialist coach. As for Keown, it’s just a personal thing with me but I do not like the man and would prefer not to see him around the Emirates other than as a fan. I like having Freddie around, not sure he can step up to head coach or not. I would be open to Vieira coming in. My choice for head coach would be… Read more »

TheLegendaryDB10

Tony Rugby Do you think England will go far in the tournament? I have my reservations. In particular with Farrell. As much as he is a good player he has always been very inconsistent with his kicking. And I was in particular furious with his really poor kicking performance in the first half of the Argentina game. I have a feeling that this could come back to bite us. From what I have seen, I genuinely think that the All Blacks will win it. Their performance so far has been practically flawless. Glad to see that the Scotland v Japan… Read more »

Bojangles

There were warnings here earlier in the week that the “super” typhoon was headed for VN. Fortunately for us, though not so for Japan, it veered North a couple of days back.

KAY Boss

RSPC, Doyen Mallen is not a miss. I don’t get arsenal fans with their nostalgia for players who many don’t remember. Good for him if he’s truly headed for Barça. But he isn’t a miss. Maybe, just maybe, he wasn’t good enough for the Arsenal setup. Get over it I’ve personally not seen him play enough for arsenal to warrant any hype.

Bojangles

According to The Star, Arsenal are looking at Pau Torres a young Villareal CD after a tip off from Santi Carzorla.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-plotting-beat-chelsea-pau-20565898

Tony

DB10 That’s a good question. I’ve always tipped England to make the semis where I would consider it an upset against form if Australia beat England. Like you the All Blacks have to be my favorites. The training manager for my wife’s company (a rugby mad jock) was doing training in NZ when they drew with South Africa recently. He said those on the training course and in the pub where he watched the game saw that draw as a loss and the media were super unimpressed. With the AB’s only a win is good enough. Martin Johnson’s auto biography… Read more »

Tony

Bojangles
Bergkamp was never in my mind as head coach, more as you say for the kids and attacking midfield coach.

He would be excellent for Ceballos, Willock, Saka and Guendouzi as well as probably getting a little more from Xhaka, but not enough to retain Xhaka after this season.

Any experienced CAM/10 we buy would also love the chance to work with DB10.

Tony

I watched a program on Tommy Cooper last night with my son who loved Tommy’s humour and magic tricks.

Very few if any comedians today can make people laugh just by looking at them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTY6TxXsK-o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiWUmC046O4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Eq5Xn23h8

Emiratesstroller

Tony I have just finished watching Grand Prix . Amazing how the Japanese have managed to get everything back to normal after the Tornado. Most efficient and well organised nation!! On the basis of what I have seen sofar in the Rugby World Cup I think that New Zealand are streets ahead of everyone else in performance. England will have a tight game against Australia and my guess is that Wales will win comfortably against France who are too up and down in their performance. Ireland have become far too predictable in the way they play to make an impact… Read more »

Emiratesstroller

The fact that Bergkamp is not ambitious to become Manager or Head Coach may well suit Arsenal. I don’t think that he would be considered for First Team especially whilst Emery is at Club. Bergkamp more or less indicated that in his interview and also suggested that he will stay in Holland until his children finish school. However, I do think that he would be ideal in the Academy. If Arsenal are to focus in developing talent then I would certainly choose someone like him to run a programme there. What a role model and consummate professional!! Josh Kronke made… Read more »

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