It’s Gooner-stic, I say
Sight and sounds of opening day
Red army to the fray
Proud, ambitious, ready to slay.
While pundits babble and predict
Bringing comfort to the pessimist
Gooners remain optimists
Full in knowledge that signings are no mist.
So Palace to be the test
Fully prepped but leaderless
From the south they came
Up for the physical game.
Emirates buzzing
Fans anticipating
Twitter palpitating
Some surprise the gaffer is springing.
Tweet goes the whistle
At last an end to the tattle
Arsenal on the front foot probing
Palace in the trenches, countering.
First blow, set piece comes their way
Hangerland causes dismay
Down in the bottom corner, scoring
Visions of an upset soaring.
But this Arsenal refuses to fade
Making attacks, forcing a foul to break-up the play
Up step Alexis, ball in flight
Around comes Kozzer, neck muscles tight.
So its second half to decide
Substitutes tilting from the side
Chamakh yellow, Puncheon red
Palace clinging, as if ready to bed.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man
A corner won, arcing from right hand
Downward header by Giroud, Debouchy lashes
Never in doubt as Aaron smashes.
Three points bagged, no scapegoat to blame
Gooners are happy, doomers ashamed
Onwards and upwards is the positive claim
As the joy of opening day forever remains.
We are moving up market with Shotta. Poetry now, whatever next?
Positively Arsenal 
More like a rap, George, and great for it.
Great stuff Shotta – it just needs a soundtrack!
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Glad you liked it DC. I had a nursery rhyme in my head. Keep It Simple Stupid.
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Excellent stuff! – put’s the Tinies ‘One Club’ to shame …
Mind the poetic gap!
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Impressed. That was an excellent piece of writing.
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Absolutely love it. Great job shottagunna. I love the creativity. We’ve all seen the match as well as assorted extended highlights, so it’s really cool that you have taken a new and more interesting dimension.
Well done!
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I hope pedantic George doesn’t mind my plugging an article on my blog around here. Anyway, here it is:
If you click and read, please drop a note on what you think. Thanks.
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Well, well, well, what is this place turning into…..great stuff Shotta…even my wife acknowledged your skills in poetry. And she’s a spud….
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thanks shotta for the post. you made my evening melodious.
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Sorry that I am a bit late,
But I just wanted to say that was great!
Thanks Shotta for the rhyming post
Now I am off to eat some cheese on toast…
Erm…
I have nt seen any of the game highlights, but I have read people suggesting Arsenal were poor yesterday…. That wasnt how I or others sat/stood around me saw things… It was a potential banana skin alright and we overcame it and the Palace tenacity and time wasting too.
Job well done.
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Arsenal were not poor. Whoever described the performance that way is a fuckwit…
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GP
Not everyone was, but Santi had a mare.
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DC Steve Stammers had him as our MOTM
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Great that Shotta.Well done sir.
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@ Georgaki-pyrovolitis as far as Hartlepool. Nestled between Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Yum!
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Brilliant Shotts
Thanks for sharing
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Shotta never stuttah
Dismayed Naysayers
Offah no rebutall
man dem got cut like buttah
peturbed by the word but cah
do nuttin but stuttah
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And those other pricks have Pedro with his Toryboy humour.
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Argh. Barred again.
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Okay so that one got through.
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Great that Shotta. Rap or poetry, either way really enjoyable. Well done.
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DC
Interesting comment. I wouldn’t have described Sanchez’s, Wilshere’s or Ramsey’s performances much better than Santi’s.
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Really PG? I’d better find another scapegoat.
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gunner_getcha
Hartlepool monkeys!!! I love that tale…
Well, further north than me. I’m in Chesterfield. My son is at Newcastle University but has digs in Durham. Also, my sister-in-law live in Ovingham, just outside Newcastle.
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George: “I would be very happy if we had Djourou right now.”
I would too. He has been to two world cups and has played against the very best of Europe since he was in his early twenties.
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Georgaki-pyrovolitis hah great. All joking aside I do quite like it here. Nice and friendly.
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At last one of my twitter favorites @RancidPotato comes to have a “lime”, as they say in his beautiful Trinidad and Tobago, with us at PA. One thing about the good folks of TnT is they are the master of lyrics. Thanks Frustrato and everyone for your kind words. I was hoping my labour would entertain.
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Love it, Shotta. Thanks.
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Great poem Shotts – Ode to Victory
Good grief these games are coming fast, barely settled down after Saturday than Besiktas are up – Per to travel apparently which seems sensible and won’t do any harm
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Gains 10:21pm
hush, you’ll wake the …… you know who.
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I see the media has us in an ‘injury crisis’ this morning ! That was quick
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Dc the guy is terrible…i think he does it on purpose to annoy people. Whenever i ask him to explain his bullshit statements he calls people doomers and runs away… (???)…
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Who now ? Gains the useless …calling hunter13 a doomer? … when hunter13 has been ‘holding the fort’ the last 7-8 years you cant say such things. As ridiculous as calling djourou better than hummels.
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And i like to solve problems, address issues…its how ive been taught…not nice letting things stink and pollute the atmosphere but this cretin says one thing and expects to be passed as law. Example1: rodriguez overhyped. Response: 3 years at porto 25 goals from midfield aged 20-23….lol…. 40m to monaco..top scorer of wc with solid performances and now wears the 10 of madrid…lol…not liking a player is not a reason to belittle them unless we are talking chelsea and united players who are utter scum and an obstacle to our domestic supremacy.
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Example 2 : ancelotti cant play tens and ruinned ronaldinho. Responce: this is an outrage . Carlos played with 3!!!!!! Tens ffs…. and won msjor trophies with kaka seedorv pirlo. ronaldinho ended his career prematurely. For me, noone has reached ronaldinho’s two-three year spell at barca. Not cristiano, not messi. But i will recognise that he called an end to it and was mostly motivated by parties in mykonos. Milan was playing sunday and ronnie was in salonika with the jet on friday-saturday. Which manager will ever accept such behaviour?
Example 3: suarez is a diver racist cheat whatever. Responce: besides this being one of my favourite subjects in football to talk about, it would be nice if people read the official statements of the f.a panel who declared suarez non racist as well as evra agreeing !!!!!!. Lol… but lets not this get in the way……
In general whatever i state/claim, i back it up. Others dont do that……they just say something and when you ask them to explain they get angry and burn bridges or call you a doomer…lol…sort it out.
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Hunter13 is now referring to himself in the 3rd person.
A Pro-Wrestling career is on the cards.
Can’t y’all ratchet the shizzle down a notch or two?
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Lol… if i use “i” all the time. they will talk about ego… i try various formations to keep the ball rolling….oh and brain is the stronger muscle…
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Hunter. This comments section is going to shit. No wonder people have stopped joining in the debate because they have to read through your repetitive drivel.
Just about everyone, including me, has asked you to be less aggressive.
I haven’t spent 2 years working on this for you to fuck it up. And make no mistake, thats
exactly what you are doing
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And i dont like ad hominem cliches… if anyone can counter football-wise what i say..the stage is ready….
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hah
Lots of sugar on your cornflakes, Hunter.
This 19yo French kid Rabiot sounds like an Ideal Wenger signing.
As for other rumoured signings – meh, I’m happy with what we’ve got.
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Sorry george but i get annoyed when im right and some clown talks shit. Im not aggressive at all. On the contrary i use a lot of humour.
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Anything than that manolas rumour…even djourou!!!!!!!!!!! …
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As for Hartlepool and the monkey hangers GG I knew it well though I have only been back about twice in 20years. I was the only kid in London who had hiSummer holidays in Horden. A trip to “West” as that town of debauched vice you currently reside in was regarded as the highlight of the week.
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Santi? Mighty mouse!! Look where he delivers the corners… legend. Both sides too.
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It looks like Manolas wants guaranteed 1st team football…
…so we won’t be signing him then.
It is going to be very difficult to find a first rate CB benchwarmer.
TV5 was a luxury many will regret loosing.
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Haha…. 1st team manolas??? Pfffff.. i agree on tv5. Should have kept him. And sagna.
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I cannot help wondering whether, if Tommy Vermaelen was still an Arsenal player, the Groaners would not be rabbiting on about him not being fit to even travel to Istanbul as he has not got over his World Cup injury ?
I reckon the Groaners would be baying for TV to be sold “Deadwood’ etc.
I’d would have been happy to keep Tommy but lets get it clear, he is currently injured and would not be playing in Istanbul. With his record of fitness over the past two years it would be a bold Arsenal (or Barca) fan to put too much reliance on TV.
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Andrew
I don’t begrudge Tommy wanting to move on to new pastures – his chances of getting into the first Xi were very limited once Kos and Per got into the groove.
Even when a chance arose during the season he usually had an unfortunate injury to prevent any chance of a comeback.
He still managed to maintain a dignified face throughout his travails, unlike some former captains.
Good luck to Tommy at Barca. Himself and Song isn’t the worst CB combination they could use.
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But we dont need tommyv only for early season. We would have needed him in those periods where we play every 3 days epl cl and f.a…..too many games for per-kos to play in them all. What disppoints me a bit is how he asked to go now that we are going places…. sagna was waiting for offer. Different story.
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Tommy Vermalen is an sample of a new problem Arsenal may begin to experience more of, now that we are signing more higher quality squad players.
Considering as the boss can only call 11 of them to start, plus a small subs bench – how does he keep 15 or so other players happy in the squad?
I think that is why he is quoted as saying UCL group stages is vital for us this season.
City’s and Chelsea’s answer to that problem is to give ’em so much in wages they are to busy leafing through their Ferrari catalogues to care.
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There are 1st team places ready to walk into at Barcelona, Hunter –
that’s my guess.
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