Following the post from anicoll5, here is one from our resident Spud, Yido6061 . Don’t forget to read Andrew’s if this is your first visit today.
You spend half a season moaning about the state of football and then when you actually sit down to try and think of how we, as supporters, can change it, you find yourself staring into space for the best part of a week. It’s easy to complain, far harder to find solutions and I can certainly testify to that, Spurs have a manager we can finally get behind after all these years of griping and grumbling. Arsenal have on their books my favourite player from the World Cup. Manchester United have a compelling maniac in charge and are still going through a period of transition, QPR have gone bonkers. I even enjoyed this week’s Match of the Day for the first time in a long time. Yes, even Alan Shearer. This is going to be a great second half to the season, and hopefully 3 point’s in the eagerly awaited North London Derby. Chelsea are classless in every sense of the word, there’s something hollow about Manchester City and Arsenal are for obvious tribal reasons, never going to feature highly in my ‘support for a day’ stakes.
Arsenal were phenomenal with the high speed passing that bamboozled Aston Villa, I’ve spent years seething at Arsenal, I’ve said it before and I’ll say again, I never got past the inherent arrogance of the so-called Invincibles, and last season the arrival of Mesut Özil, a player I’ve have admired for many seasons now. It’s led to me questioning whether I can summon the required levels of pantomimic hatred for someone I would love to have playing for my team. And if the rumours are to be believed and Jürgen Klopp (another football man who I hugely respect) is Wenger’s natural heir at The Emirates, but the job will come with extremely big shoes to fill, Wenger I cannot think what life would be like with out him. The Premiership would never have seen the genius of Henry, Bergkamp, Fabregas or Pires. The reason Arsenal did so well in the earlier years is because he was ahead of his time. However once the billionaire owners started wanting new toys it was inevitable that he couldn’t sustain the success, but he turned unknown players into world class players and revolutionised the way players train and eat which is now the standard across the Premiership and beyond. His only downfall is his faith in players when everyone else Could see that their time was up, Chamakh, Arshavin, Bendtner, Gervinho etc. etc. Arsene has always said he would never leave the club in a poor position financially and by securing the club’s future he will secure his status as a legend. His legacy has changed the style of that formerly ugly football club forever.
Anyway back to the NLD, In my more immature fantasies, I have become a multi-gazillion-squillionaire. What’s the first thing I do with my new-found imaginary wealth? Buy a football club, of course. But I don’t spend my Monopoly money gobbling up Tottenham Hotspur. Oh no, I’m far more devious than that. I become the majority shareholder at Arsenal and proceed to sell all their prized assets to their rivals up the road. With immediate effect, I announce that the club will now play in blue and white and that the crest will be that of a cockerel crowing abreast a dismantled cannon. I can hear the protests getting more vociferous from my headquarters somewhere on the Seven Sisters road. For one time and one time only, I’m happy to play the big, bad, baddie, as I swivel in my chair and stroke my white cat wrapped as it is in a Spurs scarf. Altogether now: Arsene Wenger’s Blue and White Army!
Seriously the pain from 89 will last my life time. I actually locked myself in my bedroom and stayed there for 5 days after the game. That was the first time I saw Arsenal win the league. Boxing day games at Highbury were always so exciting. There is not the same steel in the team, no Adams to marshal the defence, no Vieira or Gilberto Silva to sit and protect the back four, both teams are more evenly matched these days, but it does depend upon which Spurs team shows up, I hope it will be the attacking, fluent passing side that swept aside Chelsea, but remember one thing…….True satisfaction comes from your team’s achievements, not your enemy’s failings, but if you take a minute to think about it, Chelsea are the true enemy’s COYS
Positively Arsenal 
Good God there are a lot of fools out there
talk about Arsenal fans always having a scapegoat, this is beyond belief, but at least for once they are leaving Ramsey alone
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56 minutes gone, poor defending and Newcastle U21’s are level 1-1
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Austin Lipman just back from a difficult loan spell at boreham wood, makes it 2-1 to AFC U21’s in the 90th minute
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Arsenal FC @Arsenal · 36s 36 seconds ago
Full-time: Newcastle United Under-21s 1-2 @Arsenal Under-21s
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Neither do I it was just a thought.
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http://player.arsenal.com/player/5962-the-breakdown-tottenham-a
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“There was one potential red via Rose on Giroud but I can’t help but feel Giroud brings it upon himself with his whining and protesting of EVERY call. That kind of stuff doesn’t help his cause.”
I really cannot agree with this. OG takes a massive battering game after game and I can’t say that I’ve noticed him “whining and protesting EVERY call”. Mostly he just gets on with it apart from the reaction against QPR.
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Mike Jones has been appointed the referee for tomorrow’s home match against Leicester City.
Mike Dean has been appointed the Referee for Sunday’s FA Cup 5th Round tie against Middlesborough.
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£30 for a ticket for a football match. And that’s regarded as cheap.
Strewth.
4 or 5 times the cost of a cinema ticket (@Danish prices).
That’s why I’m just a fan and will never again be a supporter.
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DK
In context it’d cost about half that amount to go to a cinema near the new arsenal stadium that would not be as nice and as comfy as say a cinema in an old building in Berlin with sofas instead of seats. So: double the cost of the trip to the flicks.
And is not that much more expensive when compared with lower league prices etc.
long term readers know my thoughts on pricing in football. And that logically fan groups should’ve been discussing safe standing etc over these past few in order to bring prices down over the years instead of groaning at their reflections – some have only now begun to discuss these topics…
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I don’t go to the flicks very often!
Computer and an old projector do the job.
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Yeah fins – you can watch films on a tv but I still have my old Sony 25″ – big as a bus and twice the weight. Keep hoping the speakers will go so I can justify buying one of those big flat screen thingees. But maybe it should hang in there a while until the smallest screen is 40″ – wife and I not entirely in agreement.
But I still enjoy films more in the cinema. I enjoy football more in the flesh too but my limit was reached when the price went up to about £9 sometime during GG’s reign and that lot certainly wasn’t worth 9 quid. Yes, I know he won stuff and was manager that famous night in 1989 but most of the time it was tedious stuff – that’s my memory anyway – notorious liar of course, my memory.
So I watch films in the cinema and football on a free stream. Something’s got to give.
Enjoy this evening anyway – I’ll be here searching for a stream – no guarantee there’ll be one of course on a Tuesday evening. Give us a wave.
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And yes, another reason I stopped paying to watch – miss the terraces.
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Good Gawd – it is the old codgers corner of the Curmudgeonly Arms !
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I have no doubt that throughout my life the unambiguous aim of the owners of Arsenal football club, whoever that was or is, has been to part me from my cash in whatever painless and profitable way possible. The methods may have changed, the size of the cash transfer certainly has, but fundamentally that is why they own a football club.
I am not up in arms about it, I don’t resent it.
Because throughout my life I have been determined to ensure that the owners of Arsenal football club are able to acquire as little of the paltry financial surplus I have available, and that every penny they receive will be hard earned.
Should I feel the price they ask is too high for what they sell, then they will receive no more funds from me until they adjust their expectations.
It is a perfect balance, it has endured, I see it as mutually sustainable.
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All very quiet on here in anticipation of this evening’s game.
Our opponents arrive not in the best state of health on or off the pitch and yet ,on their last visit to the Lane, they swept the neighbours out of the FA Cup quite easily from the highlights I saw.
A home game for Gabriel to cut his teeth on and for our passing game to get back into gear.
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They were the stand out side in the championship last year which probably makes them one of the better promoted squads in recent times? Recent events may help their players to find their focus tonight but I’d expect a tricky game regardless.
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Day off today and pretty much did all has happened of interest. Day dragging due to pending football, only one thing for it, setting off now! Drag out an extra pint or two rather than drag out sitting on my arse waiting to go.
Expecting a comfortable win and last time I said similar on here was pre villa game, so I’m on a streak! Aiming for coronet today if anyone in area.
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Sod all not did, in previous
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Gnabry played last night for U21’s for an hour. No set backs reported.
Oddly – Beilik wasn’t on the team, so rumours suggest he may be in tonight’s squad.
If that’s true – it’s a hell of a vote in confidence in him from the Boss.
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I wonder if our resident Spud is feeling confident tonight, ahead of their trip to Anfield?
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Hello positivistas……
Sorry dc, can’t see Bielik in the squad tonight.
Even though its a home game, not after a loss.
I doubt he’ll be making any appearances any time soon
Its business end time.
I expect:
Ospina
Bellerin- Mert – Kos – Nacho
Rambo – LeCoq – Rosicky
Alexis – OG – Ozil
+Szcz, Gibbs, Gabriel, Flamini, Santi, Theo, Welbeck.
We need to jettison the NLD immediately…and impressively.
COYG!
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I stopped going to the flicks since they invented HD televisions. You get the best seat, you have the fridge two steps away and you can pause the movie in order to go to the toilette.
As far as tonight’s game, I’m hoping to see Alexis, Theo and Santi in the midfield.
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Arsenal under 17s were attacked by River Plate players after defeating them 1-0 in a Qatar tournament today, some Arsenal fans tried to go to their aid and were attacked by the stewards. Unbelievable in this day and age that players can be attacked merely for winning a game.
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Interesting line up tonight. Looks like we plan to overrun them with short fast players.
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TEAM NEWS: Alexis starts
Arsène Wenger has made three changes to the side that lost 2-1 at Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.
Alexis Sanchez returns from injury to replace Olivier Giroud up front while Tomas Rosicky partners Francis Coquelin in midfield.
Theo Walcott also comes back into the team at the expense of Danny Welbeck, who starts the game on the bench.
Team: Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Rosicky, Walcott, Cazorla, Ozil, Alexis
Subs: Szczesny, Gibbs, Gabriel, Flamini, Ramsey, Welbeck, Giroud
Copyright 2015 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to http://www.arsenal.com as the source
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thought gabriel would have started
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I see some complaining that Akpom is not in the squad tonight, laughable, of those whinging I did not see any of them say who should have been left out for him
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Liking the team selection. I could easily see us putting four past em
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rsenal Fixture News @AFCFixtureNews · 3h 3 hours ago
Al Kass Cup news; Chris Willock & the River Plate goalkeeper both received red cards for the post match brawl; Chris will now miss the S/F.
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louis van genius making a fool of himself at his press call today
http://sport.bt.com/sport-football/news/van-gaal-hits-back-at-allardyce-S11363960876332?
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This is the first time that Walcott, Alexis and Özil have all started a game together
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Walcott really should have scored there, it was a good chance, great ball in by Ozil
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koscielny with a header from a corner makes it 1-0, the corner came from a fine bit a play by ozil
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sorry it was not a header, it was a cool finish by Koscielny, poor quality stream
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liverpool 1-0 tottom after 16 minutes
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leicester getting far too many chances for my liking, Bellerin needs to stop going centrally to cover Mert, and instead stay wide to stop their attacks.
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walcott scores after the goalie parries a long range pile driver from Ozil, not sure if that counts as a second assist from Ozil
2-0 with five minutes of first half left, one more goal and we go third
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HT Arsenal 2-0 leicester
32 minutes liverpool 1-1 totnum
arsenal been a bit raggy at the back, and ospina been shaky
Alexis has come in for some rough treatment, Cazorla and Rosicky been a bit on the edges of things, leicester have a packed defense. If we score the next goal we could put up a big score
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StevieArsenal @GoonersPage · 17m 17 minutes ago
Book them for god sake. Bad challenges from Huth and Upson, no motive but to injure Alexis and Santi
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Skertl was just booked for a softer version of the foul the former Orc committed on Santi.
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arsenal denied a stone wall penalty again, its so blatant from the refs
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leicester causing our defense an awful lot of problems
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fucks sake 2-1, an hour gone, defense all over the place at a corner and the follow up phase of play.
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alexis off Giroud on 66 minutes
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this is not good by Arsenal, they are having far more and far better scoring chances than we are. Arsenal need to step it up
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Ramsey on Walcott off 72 minutes
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56 mins lfc 2-1 thfc
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ramsey off injured, flamini on – abut 10 minutes left
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lfc 2-2 thfc – 67 minutes gone
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