tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23512760089686624972024-03-13T10:23:36.487-07:00The Highbury LibraryA blog on all things related to The Arsenal both current and past - written by Gooners for fellow Gooners.Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-38977815536733548172015-12-31T01:43:00.002-08:002015-12-31T03:58:55.130-08:00Pep, Arsene, Ferguson and Mourinho<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So what will Arsene do at the end of the season? Will he
take a job upstairs? Will he retire gracefully? Or will he see out his contract
in the faint hope that now he’s seen Arsenal through some barren years, he can
reap the benefits of the new revenues to win that elusive champions league
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am neither an AKB or a WOB. I see Wenger as an elderly
relative, for all their frustrating stubborn habits you don’t kick them out on
the street, stick with what you know and who you love (mostly). Wenger has been
consistent, top four finishes. But frustratingly consistent, because we never
kick on and win the title when a savvy signing at the right time might have
done that (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/aug/04/arsenal.liverpool">take
Alonso in 2008 for instance</a>, we haggled, procrastinated and lost out). But,
the main point is, he has built a legacy, to build from, a sustainable one. His
successor wont have an easy task, but it will be sweetened by the heritage, the
team, the youth system, the staff, the truly global fan base and the massive
potential to make Arsenal a world powerhouse. That is Wenger’s biggest gift to
us as fans. Because, sadly, Arsenal is big business and the board see us fans
as commodities not customers or more emotively, stakeholders in a special
heritage. Not a surprising observation I know!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So let’s look at some parables on two other managers to see
why we should give thanks for what we have. And then a quick gander at what Pep
Guardiola might do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ferguson’s legacy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When Ferguson left United, he left a magnificent history,
but a team waning, relying on game old timers like Carrick and the mercurial
talents of Wayne Rooney. Watching the floundering Rooney, out of form, out of
shape and wasting energy foaming at the mouth at officials is great panto. The
once happy prince has been shod with horseshoes and now looks like he’s
carrying his steed around the pitch as a punishment. It all started to unravel
for Moyes (and United) when he panic signed Fellaini on deadline day, what a
monstrous biffa of a player. He looked good on highlights shows, because he
looked good playing for Everton behind the striker, a decent goal here and
there, putting himself about. But, he’s a fouler, not a tackler, in defensive
midfield he’s slow in the tackle, gets involved in feuds and picks up yellow
cards. He’s not a quick movement player, he needs to control, steady and
release, slowing down play and crippling counter attacks. Basically he’s not a
United player, at least not a player United fans are used to. There were a
number of Arsenal fans who wanted him signed, I’m glad we didn’t, he wouldn’t
have solved our eternal grail quest for the holy Defensive Midfielder!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The fact that after spending a quarter of a billion pounds,
Louis Van Gaal still starts him is testament to how far United have unravelled.
But they could still win the title! That’s how mad this season has been. Van
Gaal is a showman, a pseudo-sociopath who inexplicably seems to love to fall
out with his stars. His “tactical genius” by subbing on Tim Krul during
penalties at the World Cup was a big sham which paid off. Of course LvG
revelled in it, but his luck has run out at United. And he plays Daley Blind..
who is in no way world class. At left back he’s slow off the mark and a quick
witted winger will own him. In central defence he’s got no physicality, tidy,
but no recovery pace, meaning Smalling (who is a success story for United) has
to do two lots of work. United’s boxing day game against Stoke was astonishing
to watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Stoke are transformed, a giddy mix of filth and flair, I
feel dirty saying it, but I quite like watching them this season. Shaqiri,
Bojan, Affelay are classy operators, but the player who epitomises the “new”
Stoke City most of all is Marko Arnautovic, he’s a Minotaur, both matador and
bull, guile and brute force. A snide villain but a great player when his head
is on the game. Mark Hughes deserves credit for the transformation of his team
and what a player Jack Butland is for someone so young.</span></div>
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United. Rooney playing matches with a horse on his back being one of them. Picture
source, the author.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mourinho</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Compare Wenger to Mourinho. And look at the sustainability
aspect of their last decade or so. Wenger is, sometimes unfortunately, risk
averse, but he’s maintained consistent (and frustrating!) achievement* to bring
revenues in whilst we paid off our huge stadium loan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">*I daren’t <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>use the word success, because success in
football, is based on trophies and other than the last two FA cups, success has
been absent for a number of years. Don’t let Uncle Arsene convince you
otherwise.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mourinho on the other hand, has taken a scorched earth
approach to success and as has been observed by many before me, he normally
burns out within three seasons at any one club. I’m careful to use historical
analogies because it can trivialise terrible things against what is only the
act of a football manager.. but through history there are examples of defeating
your enemies, but simultaneously destroying your critical infrastructure and the
ability to feed the people after you literally burn your own bridges and grain.
Chelsea as a club are now wallowing in moral poverty, they are hungry for
principles and decency and I wish them luck in finding it. Mourinho has fallen
out with his players, with some fans and most importantly made himself a pariah
with the medical profession, match officials and the FA. Chelsea have to
somehow claw back some dignity now he’s gone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you polled Arsenal fans and ask them if they’d take
Mourinho as their manager, most would be horrified at contemplating that
concept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So United appointing Mourinho should LvG go (and he is still
in situ at time of writing), would be an unmitigated disaster (after 3 seasons
of relative high performance). Decent United fans wouldn’t stand for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With the announcement Guardiola is leaving Bayern Munich at
the end of the season, there are potentially four suitors in England for his
services. City, United, Chelsea... and Arsenal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But how real or credible is the Arsenal link?</span></div>
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touch with Pep Guardiola, to ask him if he would be keen on replacing him at
the end of the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story
originated from Bild, the German tabloid and then subsequently picked up by the
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Arsene, for all his selfless love and sacrifice for Arsenal,
would only step aside for someone he himself has chosen, who would worship at
his shrine, who would canonise his memory, dedicate every victory to what
Arsene has provided him and play angelic music whenever his name was mentioned.
If Arsenal were to go for Guardiola, the board would have to do something they
never usually (at least publically!) do, be decisive, be brave, risk upsetting
Wenger. Could we get him? I think it’s unlikely, very unlikely, but look at the
facts, Pep likes a challenge and here is a club with something missing on their
CV, a European Champions cup... a club with a huge fan base, huge revenues and
no debt. If the deal is right, Guardiola would make Arsenal great. </span></div>
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patriarchal fatherly way, looks like a fantasy to my cynical logic. And the
concept of the arch control freak Arsene taking an upstairs job while a new
manager does it his way, does not seem feasible (unless he can pull the strings
himself – whilst sitting in the aforementioned shrine listening to specially
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Guardiola might look like managing Arsenal, if he had a massive head. Would he
want to change everything about the club though? Including the manager’s
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Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-66110348553261798552015-07-05T10:18:00.002-07:002015-07-05T10:42:03.364-07:00A pox on the 9 shirt<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Highbury legends often wore the number 9 shirt because its
what center forwards do, or at least did. Great players including the likes of
Ted Drake, Reg Lewis, David Herd, Joe Baker, John Radford, Frank Stapleton and
right through to Alan Smith all graced the number 9 shirt and banged in the
goals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That is up until the 1994-95 season when under Premiership
rules it became just another squad number. Since then it has had a rather
chequered history. The incumbent in 1994-5, who had worn the shirt quite
heroically for no less than eight seasons, was Alan Smith. However in the one
season he wore it as a squad number he had a miserable injury prone time and
netted just four goals. When Smudger retired through injury the following season
he was replaced by another legend. But Dennis Bergkamp didn’t want the 9 shirt;
he wanted and got the number 10, which rather forced the Merse to take over
Smudger’s old number.</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smudge celebrates his most famous goal</span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now Merse is a much beloved Gooner and rightly so, but he
certainly wasn’t without his problems and most of us, I imagine, still regard
him as a number 10 which was his allotted number for so many seasons. After his
addiction problems he had a resurrected career at Highbury but the 9 shirt did
him no favours. Had it done so he wouldn’t be permanently stuck on his
tantalisingly annoying 99-goal tally with the Arsenal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were surprised to see a young French kid handed the 9
shirt next, however Arsene quite often 'knows' and for a couple of seasons
Nicholas Anelka was challenging Wrighty for his place in the team. Anelka was
an ace footballer but was also a totally miserable shit. Surely the only player
in the history of the Premiership to sport a longer face than Van Nistelrooy
and certainly the sourest-faced moaner to ever wear Arsenal’s 9 shirt. In all
fairness it has to be said he top-scored for us with nineteen goals in a season
wearing the 9 shirt, but as despised ex-Arsenal men go he’s well up there with
the Cashleys of this world. Real Madrid were welcome to him and if there was a
consolation for Arsenal it was the huge profit margin on a youngster Arsene had
stolen from France. Two seasons in the 9 shirt at least paid for a state of the
art training facility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To replace the Horse Le Boss landed us Davor Suker, seen as
a short-term purchase due to his somewhat advanced years. Suker was a world
class striker in his time, but that time was not with us. He’d been the darling
of the Bernabeu and top scored in a World Cup tournament but he couldn’t hold
down a regular place at Arsenal. His 11 goals in thirty-nine outings can best
be described as meagre. One season at Highbury was more than enough before he
departed to West Ham. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hardly surprising really since the squad number remained vacant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next up we got the ‘Fox in the box’, or at least we thought
we had. Franny 'Glass ankles' Jeffers came along to adorn our treatment table
and pick up a few medals by virtue of being a squad member. He was a calculated
gamble that didn’t come off and so was shipped out on loan before being moved
on. To replace him we picked up an expensive grinning Spaniard who looked the
part but flattered to deceive. Jose Antonio Reyes who when he was good was
brilliant, but unfortunately the Premiership was not for him. His family
couldn't settle, plus either he couldn’t be bothered or he was too thick to
learn English. His desire to return to the Spanish sunshine and not be kicked
by the Neville brothers was obvious despite his signing an extended contract.
So Real Madrid did a deal on the eve of the transfer deadline and although
technically only on loan to the Gallaticos no one seriously believed that Jose
Antonio would ever return.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the swap deal for Reyes saw a
new number 9 appear on loan with a view to purchase. Julio Baptista a.k.a. 'The
Beast'. Quite why anyone would call this pussycat a beast is beyond me. His
party piece as I recall was trundling along like a runaway steamroller before
crashing to the ground and damaging the turf. One decent game at Anfield was
his lot for us and we can only be thankful that he was only on loan and not
another failed over-priced purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next up we got a sprightly and
much loved centre-forward with a massive smile and the ability to find the net
with all the instincts of a natural poacher. Unfortunately this number 9 was
the unluckiest of them all and had his career wrecked by a vicious Brummie
thug. As horrific injuries go this one was seriously career threatening and he
was out for well over a season. Eduardo was never the same again and so he too
unfortunately departed. His departure saw yet another fallow season for the 9
shirt with no one deemed worthy enough to wear it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So who did we get next? I wouldn’t
be surprised if you’ve already forgotten about this player. He was less an
individual than the captain of Korea namely Ju-Young Park, so you would think
all might be well this time around. Well it might well have been if he was
actually any good. It seemed as if he was with us to sell shirts rather than
contribute to the team. A total waste of space and money, so our number 9 shirt
still had still not found the perfect fit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our last incumbent was the
cheery faced Lukas Podolski. He came and he scored with some really stunning thunderbolts
unleashed from his left foot. But he wasn’t a centre forward because he couldn’t
play as you’d want a centre forward to play – bringing other players into play
or making runs off the shoulder of defenders or making runs at all unless the
ball was imminent. Nor was he a left sided winger, he wouldn’t work back, often
lost the man he was supposed to be marking and his work rate was on a par with
that fat kid at school who wore out an area of the field about 3 yards square
The Pod is a really likeable character but we didn’t need a left sided
goal-hanger who just hung around up front and wouldn’t/couldn’t. Great smile,
superb exponent of social media, a really good laugh. Sadly he wasn’t quite the
player Wenger thought he could turn him into.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will a real number nine please
take the shirt this season? No not you Sanogo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Thanks for reading - If this article looks familiar it is because an earlier version appeared in The Gooner Fanzine. Obviously I've decided to revamp it on Podolski's departure.</i> <i>Here's hoping we can find a top quality number 9 this time around.</i></span><br />
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Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-559800484543324562014-11-17T09:00:00.000-08:002014-11-17T09:13:21.651-08:00Red Letter Days - an Arsenal book review <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jon Spurling is not new to writing about the Arsenal and his
past works have all been great reads, so I looked forward to devouring his latest
work and wasn’t disappointed. This one is called ‘Red Letter Days’ and it is a book,
which to quote the sub title, pinpoints 14 dramatic events that shook Arsenal
Football Club. These are milestones which have grossly impacted on the Arsenal
history line and which have been absolutely fundamental, if not crucial to our
Club’s development. If you’re an Arsenal fan and are not yet fully aware of them
all I’d regard it as somewhat remiss of you, but entirely forgiveable because
Jon doesn’t stick to just the obvious trophy winning highlights. Rather he
concentrates on the key events that lead up to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The chapter headings are clever if not always obvious and
point us towards such major characters as Henry Norris, Charlie Buchan to begin
the journey which takes us through to George Graham and Wenger in the later years.
Having followed the club myself over land and sea, and Leicester for many
decades <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can personally attest to the
quality of detail in such sections as that which described the Fairs Cup semi-finals
against the emerging Cruyff’s Ajax and more importantly the classic Stoke City FA
Cup semi-final and replay which lead to our first Double. These are but two
examples which include so many quoted gems from the likes of Frank McLintock, Peter
Storey, Geordie Armstrong which make the pages alive with insight and descriptions
from key characters within the events. Although the book gives the likes of Henry
Norris, Joe Mercer, Bertie Mee, Frank McLintock or George Graham the credit
they richly deserve it also suggests that others such as Ronnie Rooke, Dave
Sexton and Bruce Rioch, to name but three, should receive wider recognition for
their contributions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apart from the many delightful quotes it’s the almost
throwaway asides that I like best. For example would any current manager order
a player, about to play his last 45 minutes of football for the Club, to down a
large glass of whiskey at half time? Certainly not Mr Wenger. And almost as
amazingly the very same manager late on in the most crucial game of a
particular season: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘walked down the
tunnel and poured himself a double brandy.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(to quote the text)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>because
he couldn’t stand the tension.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>I’ve
not told you the names involved because I’ve no <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wish to spoil what I can guarantee to be
really good read for all Arsenal fans even vaguely interested in our Club’s
history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One particular paragraph I will share however, in order to
illustrate that some things just never change over the years was is one: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The occasionally negative headlines
irritated George Swindon so much that he went to see Whittaker about it.
Whittaker’s response was, ‘I’m surprised at you George, worrying about things
like that. It’s part and parcel of playing for Arsenal – always was, always is,
and always will be George. I’d ignore it if I were you.’</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One of Jon’s previous books, ‘Rebels for the Cause’ is, in
my opinion, one of the best Arsenal books ever written so it’s no surprise to
me that Red Letter days which is yet another immaculately researched volume
containing many fabulous quotes and well-considered viewpoints has provided us
with yet another fabulous Arsenal related title to both learn from and enjoy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ISBN: 9781909626393 </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Available from all your favourite online sources and decent
booksellers everywhere. But for a really good price this title is currently being offered at 30% discount by Pitch
Publishing. <a href="http://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/content/save-30-sports-books">http://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/content/save-30-sports-books</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Waterstones book signings by Jon Spurling in the near future are on November 22nd at
St Albans from 11am -1pm, November 29th at Enfield from11-1 and on December 6th
at Chelmsford 11-1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I can’t stand meaningless pre-season friendlies but I’m
prepared to make an exception for Saturday's game. Our team was: Martinez in the 50 shirt, Hector Bellerin who is a better
winger than defender but played well, new boy Callam Chambers who looked
seriously cool calm and collected, Monreal who is no centre back and Gibbs at
the back. Ramsey, Rosicky and Flamini in midfield. YaYa Sanogo upfront with the
Ox and Joel Campbell as the widemen who work back. But this wasn’t a 4-4-3 maybe
a 4-1-4-1 and in effect something of a rather more fluid interchangeable
formation. Two banks of four when required were also the order of our day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Flamini, who else, with our first foul. Referee Lee Mason
and his white stick fail to award Campbell a penalty, he then awards Benfica a
corner with the lino’s flag up for offside – he hasn’t improved. Sanogo makes
it 1-0 on 26 minutes from a sweet low Ramsey cross. Bellerin lays down a marker
with a great run down the right. Monreal confirms he’s out of position as a
centre back. Bellerin and Sanogo combine well with a decent cross finding Campbell
who hits great volley to make it 2-0 to the Arsenal on 40 minutes. The Ox takes
them apart before Ramsey to Campbell to Sanogo leaves Yaya with a tap in for 3-0
on 44 minutes. One minute later Sanogo completes his hat trick, this time from
a Gibbs cross. We go in at half time with a 4-0 lead having totally blitzed a
bewildered Benfica in a five-minute spell.</span></div>
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ok in his first game back from injury. The 48<sup>th</sup> minute sees a decent
Ramsey shot saved low and the man many fools had written off as hopeless is
once again in the right place at the right to prod it home. Yaya celebrates our
fifth with the home crowd. Arsenel replace Ramsey, Flamani and Rosicky with Wilshere,
Arteta and Coquelin on 59 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Benfica revert to Stoke tactics and score from a long throw
which was flicked on to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>start and end
their comeback at 5-1, a Nico Gaitan header on 61 minutes. A decent save from
Martinez, and a couple more followed from our current third choice keeper. A Sanogo
slalom ends in a tweak that sees him limp off with what looks like a hammy. Arsenal
have gone to sleep this half having won the game before the break. Alexis changes
into kit and looks a seriously powerful geezer in the tight Puma outfit. Both
teams made seven substitutions but I won’t bore you with Benfica’s – mainly because
I haven’t a clue who subbed who when other than there being two batches of
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Lima misses easy chance. Multi-subs Miguel for Monreal, Akpom for Campbell
and Alexis for the already departed Sanogo. Huge roars as Alexis opens with
some fine showboating. We’ve closed well all the game and been good at falling
back when required. Bebe (the ex-Manure failure) had two decent free kicks.
Benito picked up a yellow card as he stopped a break away near the half way
line. Monreal had also been carded in the first half for exactly the same
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Miguel hit his header against their bar from a corner. Jack
limping. Coquelin hits the post with a shot as Sanchez, sorry that should read Alexis,
finds him from the right. Final score 5-1. That'll do me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Nearly forgot: our crowd were guilty of performing Mexican waves - something which indicated the type of crowd in attendance. No thank you, not for me.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With a Forward by Tony Adams, a Preface by Gordon Taylor and
contributions from Ken Friar, Terry Neill, Sammy Nelson, Fred Street, Liam
Brady, Kenny Sansom, Brian Talbot, John Divine and many others.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Arsenal fans of a certain age will be familiar with the name
because the then 18 year-old Paul Vaessen scored a very famous goal for the
Arsenal. It was in Turin on 23<sup>rd</sup> April 1980 against Juventus with
seconds remaining in the second leg the European Cup-Winners' Cup semi-final. At that time Juventus
had never been beaten at home by a British Club and were intent on reaching the
final with a goalless draw thanks to their away goal in a score draw at
Highbury. The enormity of Paul's fine headed goal was to have lasting repercussions.<span style="color: red; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>Nothing was ever again to provide Paul Vaessen with the buzz to match
that brief experience as a goal-scoring substitute. This was essentially his 15
minutes of fame because his short career in his beloved football was to be
cruelly curtailed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Although the long-term build up to this goal from street
kick-abouts to professional footballer is well dealt with here thanks to some assiduous
research this volume is way more than just a football tale. It is an important account
of addiction which ruined more than one life and seriously effected many
others. It is a tale of how one young top quality footballer did not anticipate
and could not begin to cope with life without football. Paul’s career at
Arsenal was very brief due to unfortunate circumstances and ended even sooner
than most due to serious knee injury. His connections with the wrong kind of
people and a drug habits that surfaced in his early teens accelerated this particular
decline and fall saga. Make no mistake, this is certainly no happily ever after
fairy tale ending type book, but rather a heart-breaking and tragic story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What makes this particular title special is the caring way in which
Stewart Taylor has been able to get so close to the truth of Paul’s addiction
by earning the confidence of Vaessen’s close family, especially his mum, dad
and brother and then relaying their take on Paul’s decline with honesty and
sensitivity. Early friends, girl-friends and work colleagues have also contributed
to the warts and all commentary. While well-known fellow players, coaches and management
staff, including many from his time with Arsenal, have contributed quite freely.
The tale which unfolds is not a pretty one because it exposes character flaws
which couldn’t be overcome. It has an almost inevitably sad ending and confirms
Paul’s own predictions to those close to him that he’d never live to be 40. He
didn’t, he died aged 39 and the painful description of his accelerated demise is
a sorrowful read, but essential in the understanding of Paul’s decline and
battle to survive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hopefully because this well written work helps to confirm
through the experiences of others that more needs to be done for the many young
players who'll fail to make the grade, others will take up that baton and act
upon it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The general impression given is that Football Clubs are
certainly far more aware of the psychological effects on the dismissal of young
players than they were in the early 80’s, but this doesn’t really mean they’re necessarily
doing enough today to combat the problems for such players. If this tragedy of
one specific individual helps to enlighten the footballing community it can
only be a good thing and makes this a book of real importance worthy of widespread
reading within the industry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Although Tony Adams book ‘Addicted’ was a real eye opener, this
title manages to convey a far sadder story with meaningful sensitivity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stuck in a Moment:
The Ballard of Paul Vaessen </b>by<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Stewart Taylor</b> £18.99 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Hardback</b> published by <b>GCR Books</b> - ISBN 978 1 9090500 6 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Official Publication date is 8<sup>th</sup> August 2014, although
it is on general release as at the beginning of June. Available through any decent
bookshop or your favourite on-line bookseller. Or for the best deal I’ve found
it is available <a href="http://www.gcrbooks.co.uk/shop_3252/prod_3316477-Stuck-in-a-Moment-The-Ballad-of-Paul-Vaessen.html" target="_blank">here</a> for £13.99. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Book review by Brian Dawes @Gooner48 </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The FA Cup has been written off by many fans as something of
a dead duck in recent years, myself included. Not even the romance of Wigan
beating the obscenely over-spending Citeh could seemingly revive its one time dominance
on the English Football calendar although in truth nothing probably ever will. Especially
so given that even the Football Association themselves have devalued it by
selling its soul to the corporate wannabes and mega brewery shite larger salesmen.
The Super-hyped Sky dominant Premiership and Champions League have reduced this
once much loved trophy to the back-waters of the English football calendar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Or so I thought until Saturday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <i>If you've had many footballing moments as good as this then you're very lucky and it has to be said we are extremely lucky to support a Club such as Arsenal</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When I was a kid, way back when, the F A Cup was one of the
few live games to be seen on black and white television and as such it helped the Cup stand head and shoulders above the League as a national footballing event. A whole
nation would watch it before a second TV channel arrived with adverts to offer
alternative viewing. In those days of course only real football fans got
tickets for the game. And Wembley’s emergence as a world footballing centre probably came
about largely because of the FA Cup Final going international on the airwaves. And thus
it became the internationally renowned stadium it never deserved to be. The
pitch was always good, except for the odd League Cup debacle, but it’s always been an
over-rated over-hyped stadium on an Industrial Estate. Still is. That said you just can't top
seeing your team play there for the big one in the merry month of May.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Many players are remembered for one specific final</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Because the FA Cup has been such a very English institution
since its inception in 1872 it has acquired some very English traits over the
past 142 years. Not least of which is the whole giant killing thing. The whole
point of the FA Cup for many is the possibility of a Cup minnow getting the
better of a Cup giant. That’s a given. The Ronnie Radford Trophy came about for good
reason. We all love footballing underdogs, because every season almost without
fail one of them will best a footballing giant. Ideally that will be a team
that we just happen to despise. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The Cup is so big some claim goals they never scored</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That’s why almost the entire English footballing fraternity was
rooting for Hull this season, Wigan last season and no one gave a toss the year
before. I mean when the Chavs play Pool who other than London fans and
Evertonians gives a shit who wins?</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Even rather average players can become all time heroes</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I believe Arsenal inadvertently did the Cup proud this
season because ours was an exciting final for the neutrals to enjoy. We
defended poorly so the underdogs were able to set about getting everyone’s
hopes up, there was some piss poor refereeing decisions where penalties were
not awarded to the amusement of football enthusiasts everywhere other than Arsenal fans, extra time was an added bonus for most, there was a classic 0-2 down
3-2 up comeback, there was the spectacle of the underdog hanging on for grim
death and there was a brilliant winning goal by a potentially world class
player of the future, set up by a delightful back-heeled flick. What more could
anyone want of a Final? Perhaps a mad keeper flying off his line in an attempt
to blow it late on. No good for the Arsenal nerves but absolutely fine for everyone else.</span></div>
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FA Cup as much as the Champions League and Premiership and quite frankly nor
should he. But having won an amazing 5 FA Cups now it is somewhat difficult to
claim he doesn’t give a toss, even if he insists on playing his second choice
keeper on such occasions. Mind you that could have quite simply been a ploy to
retain the old one, or attract a new one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What I learned this season was that the Cup doesn’t matter
if you’re not there but matters enormously if you are. I most definitely was there for yet another FA Cup Final with
Arsenal and despite thinking the FA Cup was becoming as dead as a dodo my guts
still churned pre-match as they did in 1971. Plus I was as deliriously ecstatic
as everyone else when Aaron Ramsey blagged the winner. If your team is actually
there, partaking in the Final, it still means absolutely everything, as the
250,000+ confirmed in Islington on the Sunday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe even Kroenke has now figured it out,
because I doubt very much he’s ever attended a sporting occasion to match that
one. Surely that passion and pure joy must have come across even in such a
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8th attendance at a winning Cup Final with the mighty Arsenal. To put that in perspective
that’s as many as Spurs have won in their entire 120 year history of FA cup
football. And they used to reckon they’re a Cup team... well they’re certainly not a
league winning team are they?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">No. The premature demise of FA Cup football is a mere rumour
denied by the 40,000 or so Gooners inside Wembley on May 17<sup>th</sup> this
year. Their absolute extremes of agony and ecstasy was testament to a footballing intuition still being very
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And so the moaning begins....from fans who
haven't had the good fortune for a Cup Final ticket fall into their lap.
Its been the same for every Final I've ever been to and I've now got
tickets for 12 Arsenal Cup Finals plus a replay so it can't be that
difficult if you are a serious fan and apply all means at your disposal
to get one. It used to be that we queued for 3-4 hours around Highbury
early on a Sunday morning to get them. In later years we had to collect
programme vouchers to ensure a ticket - a full set guaranteed you a
ticket. A much fairer method but still not perfect, and it also had the
downside of wrecked a set of programmes by cutting them up.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For this Final the programme was 10p and my standing ticket cost £1</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Its my opinion that fans who travel away and support the team
all around the country and all around Europe are the most deserving
because they make the time and put in the effort to support Arsenal
away. Arsenal gave away season ticket holders priority so no beef there
surely. Anyone who doesn't think these fans are the most deserving has
clearly never travelled away and doesn't really understand what being a
fan is all about. So why would they want to travel across North London
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />Season ticket holders with a away credits got priority this
season and deserved to. Building away credits is difficult and in order
to do so you have to initially go to games others don't want to travel
to. When we started building away credits we did so by going to places
like Boro, Sunderland, Toon, Blackburn and the likes because they were
never sold out and fewer fans wanted to go because these are the
difficult trips. If you can't be arsed and only ever want to travel to
Old Trafford, The Bridge or WHL then tough. Those who've put in the
time and effort are more deserving. Many fans who've been happy to use
away season ticket holders tickets will now see the value in this. 9
years without a Cup Final sorts the men from the boys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Being an old git on a pension I can no longer afford to travel
so despite having had over 40 away credits at one time which guaranteed
me tickets I now have no away credits. So I have a vested interest in
long term fans getting priority, long term season ticket holders
especially. But if anything there is a far strong argument for those
newer fans who've never had the chance previously to go. Just because
I've been a fan for longer and seen many more games than most doesn't
make me any more of a fan than someone 50 years younger. So a ballot of
season ticket holders was as fair as the Club could get in my opinion.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Three Cup Final in three seasons, those were the days</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'd like to see Arsenal FC take it further by prioritising
those season ticket holders who could be arsed to fill their seat every
game. We know there are some who can afford tickets and then only come along to the big games. So priority in the future should be given to season
tickets that have been used for every game. And that obviously includes
those who've sold tickets on to friends, the point being that they've
made an effort to sell their seats and given someone else an opportunity to
go to a game. Such fans are way more deserving than someone who can afford not to use a
season ticket.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That
said I got lucky in the Gold Member ballot and there is no way I'm
giving up my ticket to anyone I think might be more deserving because I
love FA Cup Finals. I feel sorry for those fans who are not going
because being there is everything. Being at a game that millions are
watching live is always a really big deal.</span>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cup Finals should be sunny days and this one was</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Whatever
you do - do not despair of a ticket, if you try hard enough you might
yet get one if you really care enough and use all means at your
disposal. My nephew has already paid over £400 for a ticket via a
Wembley Club Level Member, but you've already missed your chance there.
Wembley Club Level will be red, full of rich buggers but Arsenal
supporting rich buggers. I got a spare 1971 Final ticket for a friend
via Fulham Football Club. I got some spares for another Final via
Wembley Greyhounds. That channel was closed years ago of course, but
many others have opened since. We picked up a ticket from a referee on
the Friday night before the game so my father-in-law could see his
beloved Sunderland beat Leeds in 1973. I got a ticket for Newcastle v
United for a friend when I applied for tickets via a Youth Football team
when I happened to be their Club Secretary. My kids saw us beat
Newcastle because a friend who had tickets got offered a pair of
hospitality tickets for that Final. The best ever was at a Arsenal
Internet List Meet Up before one of Cardiff Finals, a fellow listee, Nige,
approached me about half an hour before the game and advised that his
friend couldn't make it and so he had a spare available for someone
deserving - did I know anyone in the pub without a ticket? Indeed I did
and it went to Karsten and his mates over from Germany, who were in Cardiff on a wing
and a prayer. How they chose which of them should see the game I don't recall. But the pint is don't just give up on a ticket yet, work you rollocks
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The closed roof Final</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hull will have 25,000 fans at Wembley
and no more. My guess is that Arsenal fans have probably already
sourced between 3-10,000 tickets in addition to those supplied by the
Club. Your chances of getting one via Gold Members who don't want to go
are minuscule but the neutral tickets are all up for grabs if you can
track them down. There will be loads of people, neutrals, with a Cup
Final ticket who'd quite like to go, but they will probably have to go
alone, they won't be supporting their team, the journey might be
difficult and at the end of the day money talks when it comes right down to it.
You may even be able to persuade them that Cup Finals should really be
for the supporters of the two teams involved. These tickets are
currently all over the country waiting for you to track them down and
make an offer that cannot be refused.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All about the penalties</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I've even heard stories of touts being beaten up and having their tickets stolen. I don't condone such violence but I find it somewhat difficult to feel in the least bit sorry for such individuals....please don't take that as a suggested way of acquiring tickets by the way.</span></div>
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</span>Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-38878244770937848692014-04-01T00:33:00.000-07:002014-04-01T01:55:54.866-07:00Old Big Head. And Brian Clough too.<div style="margin: 1ex;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Growing up as a kid in the 1970’s, football was
sparse and for an Arsenal fan, the period from 1974 to 77 was pretty
hard going. Bertie Mee broke up the double winning team and struggled
to emulate his earlier success, especially without Don Howe’s assistance.
My main memories were of Brian Kidd and Jimmy Rimmer helping us fight
relegation, finishing 16<span style="font-size: smaller; vertical-align: super;">th</span> and 17<span style="font-size: smaller; vertical-align: super;">th</span> in 75 and 76. The bright spots were the emergence of some
younger players in Stapleton, Brady and O’Leary and the purchase of
my first real hero; Malcolm Macdonald for a fee of £333,333.34p. The
future looked bright and 4 cup finals in 3 seasons ushered in a bright
new decade. At least that’s what we thought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I made it £333,333.33p</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There were not many live games during those years;
the domestic cup finals and European Cup games were about it, so The
Big Match and MOTD were how you watched other sides except when they
played the Arsenal. I remember particular teams from that era nowadays.
Liverpool of course were the main draw, a midfield of Kennedy, Souness
& McDermott feeding Keegan/Dalglish. I enjoyed the Villa side from
the end of the decade as they played attacking football and always admired
Gary Shaw and his perfect wedge haircut (it’s a soulboy/casual thing).
But one character loomed large throughout the decade and that was Brian
Clough.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cloughie had been a prolific goal scorer in his youth,
for his hometown club Middlesborough, then their rivals Sunderland,
scoring 251 goals in just 274 games. His career was ended by an ACL
injury and he decided to give management a go. In 72 he took Derby to
their first ever title (Arsenal holding Liverpool to a draw in the last
game of the season to deny them the title!) and the following year to
the European Cup semis where they lost to Juventus. In 1975 he then
spectacularly failed in just 44 days as manager of dirty Leeds, a club
he had done nothing but bad mouth for the preceding years. Imagine Mourinho
taking over at AFC and that is the modern day equivalent.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He then joined Forest and within 2 seasons got them
promoted to the first division, only just though as they finished 3<span style="font-size: smaller; vertical-align: super;">rd</span>. No one could have foreseen what happened next. In their
first season back in Division One, Forest won the title and the League
Cup. They remain the last team to manage to win the league at the first
attempt after promotion. Better was to follow, in the next 2 seasons
they won and then retained the European Cup and Clough’s legend was
firmly established. His Forest team set an unbeaten league record of
42 games across the 78 & 79 seasons, which stood until a certain
team surpassed it, adding another 7 games to the record in 2004! They
won the League Cup a few times in the following years, but Clough’s
time in charge came to an inglorious end when they were relegated in
1993. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Clough was undoubtedly a football genius. He was uber
opinionated and Mourinho is the closest I have ever seen to him in terms
of mouthing off, but Clough did it with humour and tongue in cheek as
opposed to graceless bullying and talking bollocks. He has statues at
Middlesbrough, Derby and in Nottingham. He should have been England
manager, but the FA were scared of him and opted for Ron Greenwood instead. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But with genius, more often than not comes other flaws.
Apart from his supreme confidence in his own ability and talk of ‘bungs’,
Clough’s biggest battle was with alcoholism. His time in charge at
Forest blighted not only by their relegation, but by the increasingly
strange behaviour he exhibited. My abiding memory of him nowadays is
that bloody green sweatshirt he always wore, a puce complexion that
would put Fergie to shame and him going on to the pitch to slap a fan
around the head following a pitch invasion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Before and after</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">His reputation was tarnished in the end and it was
only after his death in 2004 that his former clubs and fans were galvanised
in to action, recognising what he had achieved to a greater extent than
they had when he was alive. Having won so much for these clubs you have
to wonder why it was so, and hence my reason for writing this seemingly
strange piece eulogising Brian Clough for an Arsenal blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My Cup's bigger than your Cup</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The reason is my biggest fear for Arsene Wenger is
that the tide of support continues to turn against him and the bile
that we see thrown at him from some of our fans gets even more vitriolic
and spiteful with each disappointing result. I am on record as saying
that he is on the verge of exhausting my patience and belief that he
can still lead us to glory. Unlike others though, that does not blind
me to the amazing job he has done for this club, but that praise is
for another day. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For now I just want him to end his time at Arsenal,
be that this May or in a few more seasons, rightly lauded for what he
achieved and for leaving the club in much better shape than when he
arrived and ready to take the next step up the global football ladder.
I do not want his reputation and legacy tarnished. I do not want to
see Clough’s sweatshirt transposed to Arsene and that ridiculous coat
with the sabotaged zip. I want to see a statue erected to him outside
the Emirates, a ground that would never have been built without him
and for the fans to greet it as they have those of Chapman, Adams, Henry
& Bergkamp. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Which way will it go?</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are currently 2 ways his time at the club can
play out. I hope and pray that it will end well, but I really fear the
worst. Please Arsene, win the FA Cup in May and then think about walking
away with your head held high, because I’m no longer confident that
you can adapt your outlook and techniques in the way now required to
push us on. If we don’t reach/win the FA Cup final, Twitter will melt!
If you get a new contract and we have 2 more seasons of glorious failure
I dread to think what shape our fan base will be in. It is just too painful
to see you being turned upon in the way currently happening, the impact
it must be having on your health and you’re not getting any younger.
The terrible fear I have is that if things don’t get better then they’re
going to get a hell of a lot worse. Regardless of what camp you’re
currently in, Arsene Wenger does not deserve that to happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Given the ignominy of last Saturday’s 20 minute defeat and
the gnashing of teeth that followed, mainly mine, I set about the masochistic
task of compiling the Dirty Dozen of games/losses (with 2 draws sneakily thrown
in) that have hurt the most since the last time losing a game made me cry. For
the record, this was as a 13 year old, when a team comprising Jennings,
O’Leary, Brady, Hudson, MacDonald, Stapleton & Sunderland contrived to lose
to an up and coming Ipswich Town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I’m sure some Gooners will agree with certain games below
and some will disagree completely with certain choices, but I will explain why
I have picked them. There may be some that I have forgotten, possibly even so
painful that they have been erased from the memory banks, but these are the
ones that have hurt me the most.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">#1 2006 Champions League Final Paris</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have seen my team win every trophy available during my
lifetime (I’m counting the 70 ICF Cup though I wasn’t present) bar 1. The Holy
Grail itself and what will always be the European Cup to me. Forest have won it
twice, Villa once. Utd 3 times, once when a goal down with only injury time
left! Liverpool even managed to win on pens having been 3 down at HT to Milan.
Is it so much to ask that we could manage it? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Why couldn’t that twat of a ref have let Barca have the goal
and left Jens on the pitch? Anyway, my abiding memory, apart from getting
wetter than ever before (bar a league cup game at Barnsley in 95) is that at
1-0 up and 20 minutes left, the greatest striker to ever play for us bears down
on goal, 1 on 1 with Valdes. The rest is history. Unfortunately.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">#2 2004 Champions League Quarter Final<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>H to Chelsea</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The greatest Arsenal team I have ever seen should have added
the European Cup to our roll of honour 2 years before falling at the final
hurdle. A creditable 1-1 draw at the Bates Motel left us in the box seat, but
then we had to play Man Utd in the FA Cup Semi Final just 3 days before the 2<sup>nd</sup>
leg. Arsene rested Cole, Henry & Reyes, although he was forced to bring the
latter 2 on as we were chasing the game. With Sunderland or Millwall in the
other semi I guess it was seen as the winner of the semi would win the final.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A tight game ensued, with Reyes giving us the lead only for
FFL to equalise and make the tie all square shortly after. Main memory was of
Paddy, who looked like he was running through treacle as the game went on; he
simply had nothing left in the tank. With 3 minutes left, John Terry’s best
mate scored and the team and fans were drained of all hope and energy. Such a
missed opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">#<b>3 1999 FA Cup Semi v Man Utd</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What can you say? The game from hell for Gooners. We are
challenging them for the title; 6 games left. They are mid way through their
Champions League semi with Juve. Newcastle await once more in the FA Cup Final.
A turgid 0-0 was played and now the replay. Beckham gave them an early goal,
Anelka had one chalked off for offside and then Bergkamp equalised. Shortly
after, Keane’s favourite ref Ellerey sent him off for 2 yellows and he had to
come off right by the Gooners, which was hilarious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Injury time at the end of 90 and Phil Chuckle brings down
Parlour for a pen! This is it surely. Dennis steps up. Schmeichel saved it. I
think it took Dennis a long time to get over it. As the mancs never tire or
reminding us, in extra time Paddy played a loose ball across midfield and it
was picked up by Giggs. He beat about 9 of our players. Twice. Found a cure for
the common cold. Ended world famine and oh yeah, scored. The sight of him
running back waving his shirt round his head, baring Snowdonia National Park on
his chest will haunt me forever. Twat.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">#4 2004 Game 50 Away to Man Utd </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What can I say? For this brilliant team to have gone an
entire season unbeaten was a modern miracle of sport. There were dodgy moments
along the way, but to have that glorious run ended in such fashion was hard to
take. An incorrect offside call, the thickness of a post, an individual error,
any of these could have contributed to the run ending. What did we get? Mike
Fucking Riley! To go to Old Trafford and play our greatest rivals for the 50<sup>th</sup>
game was written in the stars. What weasel Mike decided to add was a free pass
for the mancs to kick the fuck out of us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Freddie gets taken out by Rio, who as last man had to go,
but apparently it wasn’t even a foul! The Chuckle Bros took it in turns to
disembowel Reyes and Horse Face studded Cole’s knee, yet Riley deemed all this
to be within the laws of the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
final insult was that Rooney dived during a Sol tackle to win a penalty and the
gig was over. An insult for that team to lose that record in such a manner.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">#5 1991 FA Cup Semi Final v Spurs</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I’m not old enough to remember the 69 LC Semi, where over 2
legs we beat the scum, Raddy getting a goal in each game to see us through 2-1.
I was at all 3 semi games in 87, still one of my best AFC memories to this day
& offering to buy Rocky and Adams a drink in the Camden Palace after the
replay win was quite a laugh, which they politely declined. So to the 91 semi
and Wembley beckoned. In my humble opinion, the semi was lost 5 days previously
at The Dell, where Jimmy Case, obviously embittered at his career coming to an
inglorious end put David Hillier out of the game and the ensuing semi-final;
scouse twat. Hillier had been playing a holding midfield role in as much as
anyone did back in those days and had been performing well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mickey Thomas, who had basically lost his place to Hillier
late on in the season came back into the side. His natural instinct was more
attacking so therefore any defensive work was slightly harder for him,
especially after several games out of the team. His main opponent that day was
Gazza and so it was that Gazza beat us up badly that day. The free kick? I’ve
always thought Seaman could have done better, but it was a brilliant strike.
End of the day, we didn’t play well at all first half, better 2<sup>nd</sup>,
but had left ourselves too much to do and whilst attacking they caught us on
the break and the JEC made it 3-1. At least we only had to wait 2 seasons for
revenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Who, I hear you ask. Not exactly a powerhouse of Spanish
football, but they did boast the Higuain of his day in Juan Esnaider, plus a
youthful Gus Poyet and some fella whose name escapes me for the moment. Our run
to the final had been steady, the highlight being a 1-0 win in Auxerre where my
mate got his arse bitten by a police dog. Then the semis, where Zaragoza edged
out Chelsea (Bet Paris breathed a sigh of relief over them not being our
opponents) and we played Sampdoria. A tight 3-2 win at Highbury was followed by
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">30 mins left and 1-0 down Wrighty equalises and we are going
through. On 82 and 85 Monica Bellucci scored and we were heartbroken, only for
Stefan Schwarz to score on 88 with a long range free kick. So to penalties!
Seaman was the hero, saving 3 spot kicks, the last a brilliant save from shiny
headed to be Crystal Palace player Lombardo. What a night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That I have enthused over the semi is an indication of how
poor the final was. We lost our midfield anchor Martin Keown (yes I know!)
after he clashed heads with Ray Parlour (only Arsenal) and then Nutty went off
injured. They took the lead, we scrappily equalised through Ginger John
Hartson. The game was heading for penalties and of course we all remembered
what a hero Big Dave had been so were confident. Then in the last minute, some
nasty little ex scummer took a speculative punt from 50 yards having seen
Seaman off his line. Boy did we get some stick off the scum for that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After the disappointment of losing that semi replay to the
mancs, we won 4 straight games on the bounce to keep our title hopes alive and
for the last but one game we travelled to Leeds, who were seeing out a
disappointing season and had not a lot to play for and were managed by O’Leary,
our one time hero. A tight scrappy game was heading to HT when Leeds won a
penalty, which they duly missed! Second half saw Kanu and Kaba Diawara come on
as we looked for the goal we needed to keep our challenge alive, Martyn made
some saves, Woodgate headed one off the line from Diawara who was possibly the
unluckiest striker we have ever had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then disaster struck. Nutty took a Leeds boot to the face
and with plenty of claret on display he left the pitch, to be replaced by
Nelson Vivas. With 5 minutes left, Kewell crossed from the right and Vivas
seemed out of position and JFH sneaked in to head in at the far post. They
celebrated like they’d won the league. We cried like we’d lost it. Utd drew the
following day, a result which left them a point ahead and both teams won on the
last day, Utd beating the scum, to win the league by 1 point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">OK, not a defeat, but to be honest it felt like one and as
far as I’m concerned finished off our chances of winning the league that season
let alone a double having already reached the FA Cup Final. We have never
retained a title since the 1930’s and this was one of our best chances, also of
adding the unbeaten season as a hat trick. We never enjoyed playing at Bolton
as Fat Sam managed to raise his shower of orcs into playing at 100% above their
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This time looked different, we played solidly and by 55
minutes had taken a 2-0 lead courtesy of Wiltord and Bobby. Then the wheels
fell off with injuries; first Freddie was taken out by a nasty Okocha foul and
then Cygan (Yes, I know) pulled a hammy. On came Keown. It was backs to the
wall stuff and Bolton pulled one back. With 7 minutes left, a long free kick
into the box took a nick off Keown’s bonce and Bolton were level. It left us 2
points behind Utd with just 3 games left. We’d blown it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Where to start? We were challenging properly for the title
for the first time in several seasons and had a team that looked like it could
maintain a challenge. Then we went to Birmingham. In the 3<sup>rd</sup> minute
of the game, on TV what looked like an innocuous challenge turned out to be a
horrific one, so much so that Sky would not show it. Eduardo had his leg
snapped by a journeyman thug and it has seemed to have prevented him ever
reaching the heights he should have. We were rocked and went in at HT 1 down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We looked<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more like
ourselves after the break and 2 goals from Theo gave us the lead. We had a
chance for 3-1 but either Bendtner didn’t square a simple finish to Adebayor or
vice versa. Then in the last minute, Flamini hoiked a ball up in the air near
our box, when it came down Clichy made an error of judgement and although he
nicked the ball first, he made it easy for Mike fucking Dean to give them a
pen. They equalised. Gallas held a sit down protest in the box, the big tart.
We took 7 out of the next 21 points and lost the European Cup SF to Liverpool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We seem to make a habit of finding somewhere to have a happy
memory of in a European game and then going back there so we can completely
wipe that out with a clusterfuck of a performance. The joy of Copenhagen in 94
was definitely counterpointed with the visit in 2000. I only arrived in Denmark
on the day of the game, due to Brussels airport fire crews going on strike,
which really is a story for another day, but if anyone remembers Dmitri the
Brussels Gooner it involves him! What this did mean was that when I arrived at
7am on match day at the hotel my mates were in I had no idea of how much fun I
had missed as the Gooners and the Turks had sang songs, bought each other beers
and swapped tales of their grandfathers heroics during the First World War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So a pretty shitty time was had by all and resentment quite
rightly lingers today and so to the match. Yet again, an Arsenal team which had
shone en route to the final, demolishing Deportivo and Werder Bremen (Romford
Pele away hat trick!) and playing some lovely football, failed to turn up to
for the final. Gala had Hagi and Hakan Sukur, with Taffarel in goal. Not much
happened in the 90 mins other than Keown skying a shot from 6 yards out. Early
in ET Adams wound Hagi up, who retaliated and got a red. We played v 10 for 30
mins and had chances, but either missed them or found the Brasilian in great
form. So to pens and Suker and Paddy both missed. In another European final an
ex scummer came back to haunt us by scoring the winning pen. I swear we could
get to the Champions League final this year against Barcelona, to find they
have re-signed Dos Santos who will score with his arse from the changing room
with 12 seconds on the clock! This was the last game for Petit and Overmars at
Arsenal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What started off so well ended so badly. I took my son to
his first NLD as we beat Spurs 4-1; my how we laughed. A semi 1<sup>st</sup>
leg shock defeat 1-0 at Ipswich was a blip but in the 2<sup>nd</sup> leg, in
what I believe is the coldest game of football I have ever attended, 3 late-ish
goals saw us through and another chance to end the “x number of years since
Arsenal won a trophy” bollocks. Then came the snow & a home game v Stoke
was postponed. It was rescheduled to just 4 days before the final. In that game
we lost both Fabregas and Theo to injury and also the final in my opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I could not get my son a ticket for the final, so told him I
had and we went up to Wembley with my mates & I gave him my ticket and said
I would watch from the bar opposite the Arena. We were pony, again in a big
game. They went 1 up then some cutch dunt equalised and we should have scored
more but Foster decided to have the game of his life and saved them several
times. Extra time loomed as we got to 89 minutes. A header in to the box looked
meat & drink for Chesney until Koscielny intervened and the pair fucked it
all up. The ball rolled to 53 year old Obafemi Martins to tap into an empty
net. For fuck sake Arsenal, why do you do this to us? Repeatedly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not much to say about this. We’d been beaten heavily by them
a few times before. 4-1 on the opening day of 90 season when we went there as
the new champions, the 6-1 in 2001, the 6-2 at home in the LC in 91. None of
those come close to this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I don’t care about our injuries. I do care about our lack of
transfer activity. But one thing I know is that no team that considers itself a
top 4 side with pretensions to challenge for the title should ever, and I mean
never ever in a million years ship 8 goals. No excuses. This was the team that
won the Battle of Old Trafford at the cost of 2 points, that threw pizza at
SAF, that had been cheated out of a 50<sup>th</sup> unbeaten game. You do not
go to Old Trafford and let in 8 goals. Scandalous!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There were of course others I could have included: 0-5 at
the lane in 83, 1-5 there in 08, 0-5 at home to Chelsea in 99 LC SF, 2-4 at
home to Mancs in LC SF 83 with Stapleton scoring, the 1980 cup final. Losing 2
LC Finals in a row after so many years without a trophy, the 2<sup>nd</sup> one
to Swindon! The semi in 73 to Sunderland, the LC Final to Luton in 88, the 1980
ECWC final loss on pens. Losing 3-2 to Spurs after leading 2-0 at HT, doing the
same at Wigan! I’m getting depressed now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyway, I sincerely hope you have enjoyed this trip down
Nightmare Lane. I hope that these few reminders will make you realise how sweet
it will be when Per lifts 3 trophies in May, although when you recall the above
you have to think we will somehow conspire to shoot ourselves in both feet if
we get to the business end of the competitions we are left in. Let’s hope not
eh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">By the way, someone write something about us snatching
victory from the jaws of defeat please and be quick about it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highbury legends often wore the number 9 shirt because it is
what centre forwards do, or at least did. Great players including the likes of
Ted Drake, Reg Lewis, David Herd, Joe Baker, John Radford, Frank Stapleton and
right through to Alan Smith all graced the number 9 shirt and banged in the
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That is up until the 1994-95 season when under Premiership
rules it became just another squad number. Since then it has had a seriously chequered
history. The incumbent in 1994-5, who had worn the shirt quite heroically for
no less than eight seasons, was Alan Smith. However in the one season he wore
it as a squad number he had a miserable injury prone time and netted just four
goals. When Smudger retired through injury the following season he was replaced
by another legend. But Dennis Bergkamp didn’t want the 9 shirt; he wanted and
got the number 10, which rather forced the Merse to take over Smudger’s old
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now Merse is a much beloved Gooner and rightly so, but he
certainly wasn’t without his problems and most of us, I imagine, still regard
him as a number 10 which was his allotted number for so many seasons. After his
addiction problems he had a resurrected career at Highbury but the 9 shirt did
him no favours. Had it done so he wouldn’t be permanently stuck on his
tantalisingly annoying 99-goal tally with the Arsenal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We were surprised to see a young French kid handed the 9
shirt next, however Arsene quite often 'knows' and for a couple of seasons
Nicholas Anelka was challenging Wrighty for his place in the team. Anelka was
an acefootballer but was also a totally miserable shit. Surely the
only player in the history of the Premiership to sport a longer face than Van
Nistelrooy and certainly the sourest-faced moaner to ever wear Arsenal’s 9
shirt. In all fairness it has to be said he top-scored for us with nineteen
goals in a season wearing the 9 shirt, but as despised ex-Arsenal men go he’s
well up there with the Cashleys of this world. Real Madrid were welcome to him
and if there was a consolation for Arsenal it was the huge profit margin on a
youngster Arsene had stolen from France. Two seasons in the 9 shirt at least
paid for a state of the art training facility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To replace the Horse Le Boss landed us Davor Suker, seen as
a short-term purchase due to his somewhat advanced years. Suker was a world
class striker in his time, but not for us. He’d been the darling of the
Bernabeu and top scored in a World Cup tournament but he couldn’t hold down a
regular place at Arsenal. His 11 goals in thirty-nine outings can best be
described as meagre. One season at Highbury was more than enough before he
departed to West Ham. A fallow season for the nine shirt followed, which was
hardly surprising really since the squad number remained vacant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Next up we got the ‘Fox in the box’, or at least we thought
we had. Franny 'Glass ankles' Jeffers came along to adorn our treatment table
and pick up a few medals by virtue of being a squad member. He was a calculated
gamble that didn’t come off and so was shipped out on loan before being moved
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To replace him we picked up an expensive grinning Spaniard who looked the
part but flattered to deceive. Jose Antonio Reyes who when he was good was
brilliant, but unfortunately the Premiership was not for him. His family
couldn't settle, plus either he couldn’t be bothered or he was too thick to
learn English. His desire to return to the Spanish sunshine was obvious despite
his signing an extended contract. So Real Madrid did a deal on the eve of the
transfer deadline and although technically only on loan to the Gallaticos no
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new number 9 appear on loan with a view to purchase. Julio Battista a.k.a. 'The
Beast'. Quite why anyone would call this pussycat a beast is beyond me. His
party piece as I recall was trundling along like a runaway steamroller before
crashing to the ground and damaging the turf. One decent game at Anfield was
his lot and we can only be thankful that he was only on loan and not another
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much loved centre-forward with a massive smile and the ability to find the net
with all the instincts of a natural poacher. Unfortunately this number 9 was
the unluckiest of them all and had his career wrecked by a vicious Brummie
thug. As horrific injuries go this one was seriously career threatening and he
was out for well over a season. Eduardo was never the same again and so he too
unfortunately departed. His departure saw yet another fallow season for the 9
shirt with no one deemed worthy enough to wear it, or maybe no-one was actually
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person than the captain of Korea namely Ju-Young Park, so you would think all
might be well this time around. Well no actually he’s hardly set the world on
fire has he, fact is he couldn’t even get the match to light. In fact he was so
crap they took the nine shirt off him and gave it to someone with shed loads of
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ever benched or injured Lukas Podolski. Even with Giroud out he couldn’t get a
game and has failed to make it through to the 90<sup>th</sup> minute in almost
every game he’s started for us. Even Bendtner (WGS) gets the centre forward
slot ahead of Lukas. Why is a mystery because he’s scored some great goals and come
closer than anyone else to breaking the net at Das Grove. Fitness seems to be his
issue, but who really knows? Maybe changing shirt numbers would sort it for
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Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-11201690390981780292014-01-14T02:08:00.002-08:002014-01-16T06:54:10.739-08:00The Cann table<div>
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sight this, I love the league table when we're sat on the very top, it never fails to please. And not just
because in this more visual version it suggests the top two or three might pull away, but it's also
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is not so much a gap that's developed in the middle
of the table as a huge chasm. And would you say that is two or three
clubs marooned in nowhere-land, where the gap is a massive 13 points
between 7th and 10th places? Added to which if you cast your eyes down the table where everything has tightened up there's also going to be some great brown trouser
moments down there at the end of the season. It's so tight at the bottom with only a mere six points covering
the bottom eleven clubs, which as it happens reads rather like a demented nature
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Cann Tables were devised by Jenny Cann. Jenny was a lovely lady and serious Arsenal fan who died before her time. Quite rightly she felt that by showing the actual gap between all the teams the actual state of the league could be better conveyed. And she was absolutely right. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">48 The Arsenal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As the much appreciated comment below shows the Cann Tables can currently be seen in the link below for numerous leagues and are themselves linked to the BBC table. <br /><br /><b>http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/iane/cannyclubs.php</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Please let us not get too deluded by some fine football by
the Gunners. And please let’s not get carried away just yet just because we’re
top of the pile right now. Because if Arsenal go on to win the league this
season it will be the biggest miracle to happen in British football since five
loaves, two fishes and ten goals fed a crowd of starving Scottish fans at the
1960 European Cup Final at Hampton Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It would be the longest against-the-odds achievement since 300 Spartans
took on the might of the Persian Army who at the time were throwing megabucks
at the middle eastern transfer market back in 400 and whatever it was BC. The
odds of us winning the league are still massive, just ask the bookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Since the start of this season the odds, gods, bookies and
every single pundit together with his dog have written us off. They wrote us
off as inconsequential. They are still not with us, never have been and never
will be. They don’t rate us. We are not worthy. Only mega bucks can win the
league with a minimum squad of 24 full international regulars because let’s
face it Financial Fair Play is as believable as the Loch Ness Monster, or
Adrian Chiles to give it it’s full Latin name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I’ll tell you how extreme it would be to see Arsenal finish
as Premiership Champions: it would be far more likely for Prince Charles to be
King Charles, Sepp Blatter to have resigned as FIFA supremo and Newcastle to
have fulfilled Sugar’s tweet by drawing level with Arsenal before our season
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Citeh have probably the strongest squad ever to be assembled
in the history of English football’s financial skull-duggery. Their ridiculous
financial backing by a supremely rich nation who so generously sponsor their
own team is at the very least surreal. They don’t give a toss about developing
players or slinging proven internationals into oblivion so how can they
possibly fail and how can anyone compete? Especially so given their four killer
front men. Tragically this is still the way English football is going,
steamrollered by money men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Chavs we’re told have the greatest manager since
pre-sliced bread and he’s certainly the greatest self-publicist since Brian
Clough. I know this because their PR media stranglehold, a.k.a. Chav-Sky
propaganda tells us this all the time. Added to which they have a squad that is
the absolute pride of racists, nouveau footie fans, mega rich Russian Oligarchs
and mobile phone abusers everywhere. No attempt at playing football will
interfere with their non-historical club because their football<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has become more tedious and boring than Stoke
could ever dream of. And their manager has become a parody of a parody of
parody. Only money can beat money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Pool have the only squad who take a relaxing break each and
every European week. Siestas are the European norm for a squad that carries
more bite than a great white shark, a captain in need of sub-titles and no
European commitments whatsoever other than to possibly view the European song contest
at some point in the year. Having the world’s most obnoxious and in form
forward is usually enough to win a title. I cite Manure 2012-13 as irrefutable
evidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This season Manure will come back strongly, we know this
because the Fergusmoan trained media jerks repeat this mantra endlessly. They
have an even madder looking Jock in charge of injuring both Rooney and Van
Persie this season whilst continuing to play their ageing Welsh midfield man
who is now even older than one of Rooney’s playthings. All there new manager is
missing is a blue nose, a team capable of contending for the title and a P45.
They can’t fail we’re told because the pundits say they can’t fail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Having blown a 100 million squid the Tiny Totts should be in
contention to, at the very least, overtake their nearest and very dearest local
rivals. But the Orient are still way too good for them. With Defoe out the door
they now have no plan D once plans A, B & C fail. Laugh at them, that’s our
job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A battered old stadium, a battling old team and the loss of
their most expensive Afro hairdo has not slowed down Everton’s tilt at the top.
With the most likeable manager in the Premiership you can only wish them well.
But actually I don’t because at the end of the day they’re still Scousers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Should Arsenal have the temerity to pull this one off it
will be a more outlandish win than when Greece in 2004, or Denmark in 1992 won
the European Nations Cup. But I actually think we can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can, because as Greavsie said ‘it’s a
funny old game’. But I don’t think we will because City have such a
ridiculously strong squad where even the loss of Sergio Aguero, David Silva,
Vincent Kompany or Ya Ya Toure appears to have gone unnoticed. As does the
changing of their managers almost as often as that pile of dross from the wrong
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Right now we shouldn’t be in with a shout, but when I last
looked at our team slowly leaving the field to rapturous applause after their
latest victory they were very clearly just so up for it. As were all of us who
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">League trophies arrive when managers and coaches believe it
is possible, when the players believe it is possible and when the fans know it
is possible. Momentum and belief are everything. Right now there are I believe
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lot of noise for 90 plus minutes. My hearing may be going but the following was
all very loud and clear:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We won the league, we won the league at White Hart lane, we
won the league, we won the league at the sh*thole, we won the league at white
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hillarious side-bursting laughter aimed at Danny Rose on 62
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Adebayor, what's the score Adebayor? </span><i>(aimed at the twat who fell over with
the ball at his feet in our box)</i></span></div>
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you'll always be sh*t, Tottenham Hotspur you'll always be sh*t</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">...but I suspect
there were other chants I have either forgotten about or missed during the
game. Most enjoyable <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wasn’t it?</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Brian Dawes @gooner48 </span></b></div>
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Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-10110733731224434572013-11-29T02:31:00.001-08:002013-11-29T02:31:51.201-08:00Rooting for Pat Rice <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Like most Gooners I was deeply saddened to hear that Pat is battling with the big C. Nothing much I can do to help in that respect but I can pay tribute to a truly great Arsenal man. So today I'm repeating an article I wrote that first appeared in Issue 211 of The Gooner fanzine. Hope you like it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em>Originally penned at time when Pat was still working with Arsene Wenger</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">To
some Pat Rice is simply that bloke who sits next to Wenger, but Pat is also
numbered amongst that very rare breed of players who has lifted a major trophy
as captain of his team. His team of course being the Arsenal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">As a
kid Pat lived nearer Highbury Stadium than any player before or since, in
Gillespie Road to be precise, where he once also worked in a green grocers.
Although born in Belfast and thus subsequently gaining 49 caps for Northern
Ireland Pat's parents had moved to London while he was very young. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pat
only ever wanted to be a footballer but as a player he was never a gifted
natural. So he simply worked his rocks off to earn his place as an apprentice
in 1964.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rice signed as a professional
in 1966 and matured into a solid, dependable and quite excellent right back.
Relentless training and the will to succeed always played a larger part in his
career than pure talent, but his drive, work ethic and will to win have been of
paramount importance to the Club ever since his debut as an 18-year-old. He was
21 when he finally established a regular first team birth. This at the same
time Mee and Howe moved Peter Storey, our then right back, into midfield. Pat
took over the fullback slot and stayed there for a decade. That fabulous season
in which he established himself just so happened to be our 1970-71 Double
winning season, a season in which Pat Rice played a staggering 63 of our 64
competitive matches. He went on to total 528 games for the Club, bagging just
13 goals. </span></div>
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is one of just three Arsenal players to have played in five FA Cup Finals, his
first being on May 8th 1971 when he won his second major winners medal that
week. Apart from Sammy Nelson, his fellow Northern Ireland full back, Pat was
the only long-term survivor from our first double team and having been made
captain in 1977 it was Pat who got to lift the trophy when we next won the Cup
by beating United in 1979. By which time Rice was one of a core of Irish
players at the Club that included himself, Nelson, Brady, O'Leary, Stapleton
and Devine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rice
finally left Arsenal in 1980 at the age of 31 and went on to play some137 games
for Watford under Graham Taylor. Returning to Arsenal as a coach on retiring as
a player Pat has thus far amassed an incredible 42 years at the Club as player,
youth team coach, caretaker manager and assistant manger. Apart from his four
years at Watford this accounts for his entire footballing career. Probably
uniquely Pat managed to win all three of the league games played whilst he was
in charge at Arsenal. He also has the distinction, alongside Bob Wilson, of
having taken part, as player or coach, in all three of Arsenal's Doubles.</span></div>
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Pat Rice was voted 17th in the Gunners' Greatest Players poll in 2008 and his
reaction was one of shock. "I could run off 30-odd players who were better
players than me," he proclaimed. Maybe so, but players don't only get
remembered for their silky skills at Arsenal. Honesty, dedication, the will to
win and pure hard graft also count for a great deal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-25158696386586450532013-11-07T02:29:00.001-08:002013-11-07T02:31:20.875-08:00From Momentum to Momentous<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span>Our season started with a dickhead of a ref, namely Anthony
Taylor, gifting our first game of the season to a mediocre Villa side, not that
we looked anything special at the time either. In some respects Taylor may have
done us a favour because since then we’ve learned how to stay in a game even
when things are not going our way and even when it feels like all the soccer
gods are against us. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The Arsenal are on a roll right now and a succession of wins
against minor Clubs, such as Tottenham, has gradually moved us on from being merely
carrying some forward momentum towards the cusp of mounting a serious title
challenge. Now talking of title challenges in November might be considered
premature or even just plain dumb. And I’d agree, but let’s face it there are
times when you just know the team are onto something that’s a shade beyond just
good football and a few decent results. You can’t quite explain it but you know
it’s there because there’s just something slightly different about the team on
the pitch and it actually doesn’t even matter which eleven players are on the
pitch to get the result. The absence of Walcott, Wilshere, Podolski,
Chamberlain, Sanogo, Flamini and the long lost Diaby mattered not a jot. Last
season it would have done.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>Trust me. I’ve been there and got a multiplicity of the t-shirts
to prove it. This season the squad are onto something. It might be a cliché or
even a Clichy but matches are won by teams and not individuals. This season we
have a team no matter who is on the pitch. Last season we learned how to do
without Van Persie and Wilshere. We learned to play collective football again.
We learned to defend as a team again and we learned how to ignore the know-all
pricks that are collectively referred to as pundits. This season we’ve taken it
a stage further and learned how to win when the opposition are just as good as
us and when we don’t have the players we thought we needed to win games.
Dortmund capitalised on our over eagerness to win at our gaff and we
capitalised on their near misses in Germany. In both matches we ‘lost’ the
first half and yet that didn’t stop us playing our football and it didn’t cause
us to fall to pieces. Just the opposite in fact. There were times when we were
being pummelled by Dortmund but the collective mentality of never say die did
just that, it kept us alive and in the game. The players almost seemed to know
that given half a chance one of them, and it didn’t matter who, would sneak a
goal. Far more importantly they believed it. It might be a brilliant goal it
might be a scrappy goal but all it would take would be one goal and we could
see it out for a great result at a point where your average Gooner would have
settled for a draw. I certainly would have.<br />
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</span>As it happens it was a battling goal. Rosicky hit a pass
that went astray but a tired defender miss hit a clearance and Mozart got it
back and made good use of it. It reached Özil took his time with the cross
because he’s cleaver enough to make the time and space to make a cross count.
The ball to Giroud wasn’t perfect but Olivier made it so by straining his jump
backwards in order to nudge it forwards into the killer zone. Rambo killed it
by anticipating well, timing his run well and being brave rather than
brilliant. It was a goal with rough edges that said more about last night’s Arsenal
than any of the 180 degree turn platitudes from know-it-all pundits such as
Redknapp. After that we had the confidence to see off the shell-shocked
Dortmund.<o:p></o:p><br />
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We have progressed via serious momentum into a runaway train
mode and it is now steaming up to run away with us like an Avalanche Express. I’ve
no idea if we’ll become unstoppable but I ‘m looking forward to a seriously hairy
ride.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>We’re currently top of two major leagues and as any know-all
git will happily tell you we have yet to play anyone above us in either of
them. Quite. For my money there are there are about nine or ten teams left who
can win the Champions League. Four English, three Spanish, two German and one
Italian. I don’t make us favourites by any means but the fact is we are in
there with a serious shout. Likewise in the Premiership I see it as a three
horse race with three teams capable of edging ahead of Manure, the Totts and
Pool. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Am I getting carried away? Tell you what – I don’t care if I
am or not. I’m watching great football, fabulous players and a real team again.
And their my team. We may not win a thing but we’re certainly going in the
right direction again and it will be season to really enjoy the challenge and
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Incidentally it was the third game in back in 1970 against
Machester United at home, where we spanked them 4-0 that I knew the 1970-71 season could well
be a long awaited classic. This season it was our 10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> game in
during the first half against Napoli that I knew this season had a similar feel
as the momentum ramping its way up. We're now on a serious roll. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>I’m feeling really good about things right now. How about
you?<br />
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</span>Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-34933437367541371432013-10-04T07:33:00.002-07:002013-10-04T07:33:27.364-07:00Still purring after the Napoli game<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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</span>It’s gone, done and dusted now but I’m still purring after that
Napoli game. To put this latest win into some sort of context Napoli were 2<sup>nd</sup>
in Serie ‘A’ with a won 5, drawn 1 record which included an away win at A C
Milano. They still are 2<sup>nd</sup> in Serie ‘A’ of course, it’s just that
they’ve now received a serious footballing lesson before their 7<sup>th</sup> Serie
‘A’ game. <o:p></o:p><br />
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In the Champions League they’d already beaten Borussia
Dortmund which currently looks pretty good on any Club’s CV. So surely Raffa
and his boys were not exactly expecting to suffer such a total spanking during
the opening fifteen minutes at The Grove. Then again neither was I expecting
such scintillating football given that Wenger was playing an almost unheard of pair
of holding midfield players and we were looking for all intents and purposes like
we had a line-up set to finish the first half at nil-nil. Were we Chelski in
disguise perhaps? Well obviously not, none of the crowd dozed off and what
appeared to be a defensive line-up proved to be anything but. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>Before the game began Arsenal had shown some very fine form
against a bunch of fairly classless Premiership teams plus that mob from the
wrong end of Seven Sisters. However we had yet to show what we had to offer
against a really decent outfit and Napoli were for me the first real acid test.
If we could scrape a win from this one I felt our momentum would continue to
build and we’d gain yet more confidence in what is after all had been an injury
depleted squad of late. Instead of which we chewed Napoli up and spat them out
and really looked to be serious contenders despite still being light the odd
decent back-up centre forward so.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The Italians were restricted, in the main, to long range pot
shots and we absolutely tore them a new one. So much so that all the rent-a-gob-two-bob
TV pundits were reduced to turning a complete 180 with regard to their opinions
on what they’d all been proclaiming to be a team in crisis only a few weeks
back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>Just quite how Özil was already interchanging positions with
other players in a squad he’d only met just a few days previously was all
rather surreal. Probably only under Wenger could such interchanging even be
considered at this stage of any player’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>introduction to his new Club. Then again quite
probably only under a manager such as Wenger would such a class act even
consider moving to a Club that wasn’t dripping in new money. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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It’s always seemed fairly obvious to me that the long-term
plan was for a multi-functional and interchangeable midfield to emerge at
Arsenal. But that will now be the norm I suspect. And with the new Ramsey
currently emerging as the best British midfield player around anything is
possible. Clearly our latest German was player of the match against Napoli, but
not by a massive margin in my opinion, Ramsey ran him very close and Giroud was
mega. Dennis only knows what it’ll be like if when we get both Özil and Cazorla
playing together. Cazorla is probably the most two-footed Arsenal player I’ve
ever seen bulge the old onion bag for The Arsenal, while Özil can play keepie-upsie
with a piece of partially used chewing gum and nutmeg linesman for fun. His
passing is clearly as good as Cesc, Dennis or Bobby. His left foot is as good
as Liam’s and his vision is the sort of thing our next new centre forward can
only currently dream about.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>So we only won 2-0 against Napoli. But the fact is we made
them chase the game throughout whilst controlling it almost totally, only very rarely
on the back foot. They passed quite a lot but mainly backwards and sideways
because we denied them the space. When we passed backwards or sideways it was
because we had a two-goal lead and were effectively saying ‘If you want the
f*cking thing come and get it you pussies’.<br />
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Not since the days of Bergkamp and Henry have I got
depressed about having to actually wait to see the next Arsenal game. I’m
currently depressed because right here and now we’re better than good, way
better than good and I want the next game to be immediately after the last one.
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</span>Momentum is the key. Trust me it really is. It can be argued
that we’ve still not played anyone worthwhile, that Napoli were over-rated,
that Marseille are not all that and that the result of any game against the
Spuds can go any-which-way. Which of course they can. But do I give a toss? No
way Pedro. We have momentum. We have a real team that clearly enjoys playing
together and all of whom are quite happy to work their rocks off in the cause.
In fact if they don’t work their rocks off they probably won’t even make the
team right now. We have a work ethic. We have a good mix of experience and
youngsters plus those yet to peak such as Ramsey, Wilshere, Szczczczesny, Gibbs,
Walcott and Özil, yes <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Özil. His
best is yet to come. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Madrid you
stupid tossers, what have you done?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>We currently have serious competition for places in all bar
two positions, and we need a steady keeper in any case. We have a manager that
world class players want to play for and learn from. We have Germans. We have
an Assistant Manager who has been there and got the t-shirts, lots of t-shirts.
We have a home crowd who in my experience bear little or no relation to the vociferous
and sometimes mindless minority on the internet. We have ignition. We have
lift-off and in my humble opinion we don’t have a problem Houston.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Try not to laugh, but way, way back in December 1970 I
already knew that it would be a truly momentous season, I knew from what I was
witnessing and enjoying on the pitch. I knew that my team, the one I’d always
supported forever but only seen win one trophy was once again the real McCoy at
last or the real McLintock as we called him. Now I know it’s only early October
in 2013 but this current batch really are the real deal believe me, and if you
can’t enjoy what you’re seeing right now and don’t share the faith, then are
you really, really sure you’re an Arsenal fan? There’s more competition from
rich Clubs these days for sure and we may not win the double as we did back in
’71, but what’s not to enjoy? This current team, whatever their format or
line-up really are 'the dog's proverbials’. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>Believe me. Good times are coming. Trust me. I may be a
boring old git but I’ve been there, seen it and got way more Arsenal t-shirts
than Uncle Bouldie. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Enjoy this. Right here and now. Because if you can’t, or
don’t I’ve really not got the faintest idea why you claim to support The Arsenal
or even bother watching them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-25491859630772334012013-10-01T00:18:00.004-07:002013-10-01T00:48:38.713-07:00The Adventures of Baron Bendtner - Mel Melis @melmelis<div>
I read Nicklas Bendtner is our longest serving player. You might not believe it (I didn’t) but he bloody well is. If<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/21/arsenal-mesut-ozil-arsene-wenger" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;"> Amy Lawrence says it’s true, then it must be true</span></a>. </div>
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Strangely he’s only 25 but it feels like he’s been around forever, he had an astonishing partnership in the youth team with Arturo Lupoli, but since then, including several stop-start loan moves, he has flattered to deceive. Why? </div>
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In 2010 after stacking his Aston Martin on the A1(M), he declared that he would become one of the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1268407/Nicklas-Bendtner-Am-I-best-strikers-world-Yes-Ill-prove-season.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">greatest strikers the world</span></a>. Perhaps he got a bump on the head, to add to the one when the odious Adebayor nutted him, perhaps he’s just been unlucky? </div>
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Despite his undoubted talent and self confidence, where his <a href="http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Nicklas-Bendtner-has-stunned-Arsenal-s-sports-psychologist-with-the-highest-self-confidence-rating-ever-recorded-article690591.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">psychological profile results broke the methodology and made Pat Rice’s cherubic face red with laughter</span></a> he hasn’t quite managed to fulfil the talent he has, latent as it is. I have no beef with Bendtner, in fact, when he’s on form and playing in the right position, i.e. as a centre forward, he can provide reasonable cover. He’s no Giroud in terms of playing with his back to goal or in terms of intelligent running, but he’s strong, his link play is good, has a great shot and attacks the ball when there’s a chance to do so. His international return is pretty impressive too with 22 in 55 games, many of those goals in big games. So what’s the problem? Why isn’t he “the greatest striker that ever lived”? - It’s just he’s had so many distractions in his life.... here are just a few of them... <br />
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Bendtner played a key role in unearthing the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/euro2012/article-2161082/Euro-2012-Nicklas-Bendtner-fined-80k-banned-UEFA-showing-pants.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">cynical commercialism</span></a> of UEFA when he was fined a staggering €100,000 for wearing his lucky green Paddy Power sponsored boxer shorts which he unveiled with a deft drop of the shorts after scoring for Denmark. <br />
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This was significantly more than fines for crowd trouble and racism dished out by UEFA. Was Bendtner a cynical toy of Paddy Power? Happy to take their money? Of course not, he wanted to unearth the stink inside UEFA and FIFA, the cartel of power hungry individuals running the world game. </div>
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Don’t believe me? Well, he’s been training for the pants moment for some years, as <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1177834/PICTURE-SPECIAL-Late-night-Bendtner-sees-Arsenal-star-drop-trousers.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">this incident proves, in Boujis of all places</span></a>. Nicklas Bendtner, social avenger and investigate journalist. </div>
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It almost happened. When <a href="http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-meet-the-queen-at-buckingham-palace" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Arsenal visited Buckingham Palace in 2007</span></a>, the Bendtner plot was uncovered prior to the visit. The teenage Bendtner was shackled in the Tower of London following torture (by Jens Lehmann) after he admitted to looking for an opportunity to usurp the Duke of Edinburgh and marry her majesty himself. Since then he has learnt his lesson and dated a minor Danish Royal to get some practice in on matters of state. There is plenty of time to be a monarch once his playing career is over. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1353963/Nicklas-Bendtner-splits-wealthy-Danish-fiancee-Caroline-Luel-Brockdorff.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">They have since split</span></a>, but Lady Caroline has had his baby, which means House Bendtner is on the heraldic ladder. Tsar, Emperor, King... one day *gleeful Blackadder wringing of hands*</div>
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For this photo Bendtner inexplicably wore a very sensible woolly grey cardigan, perfect for those long winter evenings of perpetual dark when you are staking out the forest shack of a murderer whilst being haunted with regrets of the past. He looks every inch the plain clothes detective trying to blend in (unsuccessfully). Essentially he is a very shit Wallander (I know Wallander is Swedish). <br />
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Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-59475189151866291822013-07-02T01:14:00.002-07:002013-07-03T04:31:41.714-07:00Special Agent #ITK<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love Twitter, I find you can follow the people you want
and you can soon learn if they have a similar interest and if you trust their
writing, even just 140 characters of it. Most of the people I follow are based
around The Arsenal; couple of players, mainly Mikel and Bac, purely for the
pics of their respective wives, but mostly ordinary fans like me.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This close season though has become quite fascinating for
one particular phenomenon. The tweeter who is #ITK. For those unfamiliar, ITK is
In The Know, although I loved one guy who tweeted he was always #ITK at
parties!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now, we have all seen the growth of the internet and how if
your first site visit is the Arsenal NewsNow page you will be bombarded with
links to various sites all proclaiming that AFC have reached an agreement with
Barcelona to sign Messi etc. Now, I don’t click on their bullshit anymore,
having learnt some time ago that they were just “Click Whores” who only wanted
hits on their site because it generated revenue for them. But I can see the
reasoning in their method; they are making money and to be honest, they are not
harming anyone, so if there are still lots of gullible fans out there clicking
away, prepared to read their nonsense then so be it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But this is what intrigues me about Twitter and the #ITK
situation. What’s in it for someone who isn’t genuinely providing accurate
information? So let’s have a look at the possibilities. Firstly, you have the
genuine fan, someone who may have an ‘in’ at the club, so they may get snippets
of info from their source that can be released into the general fan base. Their
source may be acting without the club’s consent, so they will have to judge how
much they can leak, without getting caught in a compromising situation that
will risk their future. Alternatively, the club may realise what they can gain
from spinning some stories out to the masses at certain times so it could be
that the info is leaked with their consent and to their timeline (‘scuse the
Twitter pun!) Question here is whether the tweeter knows which of the above is
their supply line situation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In both of the above, it always brings me to one big
question. If you are genuinely told some info, that you know will be huge news
to AFC fans, but by releasing it you could endanger a deal the club is working
on; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the selling club may ask for more
money or AFC could get gazumped and lose out altogether, then why would you
release it? I don’t think you would if you really are a fan, but it would be
really hard for me to not tell a few select mates if I knew Fab4 was at Colney
on the treadmill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now the problem is that this also provides an out for any
#ITK to use. It starts to remind me of mediums and psychics, who start to ask
vague questions that will bring someone out of the audience for them to work
with. You can hint at prospective signings by keeping an eye on reliable media
outlets and journos known to be AFC friendly and those accounts on Twitter who
you are generally considered to be reliable and not fantasists and then just
adapting your words. When someone eventually signs you can reveal that this was
what you were hinting at all along, but obviously you did not want to risk
harming the deal by being too specific. #Clever.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then there are those who are maybe just on a bit of a trip
to Ego Central. Most of the top Arsenal #ITK accounts have thousands of
followers and I would imagine a lot of that following is based on their
reputation for providing reasonably solid (well as much as it can be on
Twitter) info on player movements and commercial deals etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if they are just bullshitters, why? What
is there to be gained? There’s no pay per read of your tweets, so is it
something to do with having large numbers of followers, some kind of kudos in
that. As the old Twitter saying goes, “Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then I guess there will be those who are just out to cause a
bit of bother, stir things up and cause some friction. Strangely enough, I
think these are the easiest ones to understand as we’ve all seen how ‘trolling’
works and have probably poked the tiger through the bars of the cage ourselves
from time to time. Let’s be honest, with how things have developed amongst
Arsenal fans over the past 3 or 4 years and the divides we have seen created,
it is a fertile ground for those who could prey on our desire for top signings
or proof that Arsene really is a parsimonious old fool who is ruining our club.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It must be said that a lot of these accounts come in for
some dogs abuse due to their ‘inside knowledge’, so it’s not without its
perils. It really does seem that a certain section of our fans are some of the
most impatient people I have ever come across. There was a tranche of fans who
gave it until at least noon on July 1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup> before they claimed that
Arsene, Ivan and Stan are not interested in spending any of the ‘warchest’ and
we have been lied to yet again, which was obviously proof that the #ITK’s are
all liars or worse still, tools of the state! Surely it is easy for us to just
make our own mind up, after all we are supposed to be responsible adults. You
don’t like what you read, you simply unfollow, it’s really as easy as that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I would just like to finish by saying that I am as hungry
for positive news on our club as anyone else. I yearn for us to sign Higuain,
Rooney, Fellaini, Cesar and Williams and that desire leads me to being somewhat
more gullible than I should be; it’s the hope that kills you! I follow probably
a dozen Gooner accounts that mainly fall into the categories above, i.e. they
provide snippets of information to the masses, with varying degrees of openness
about their reliability. I don’t hang on their every word, but I do find it
interesting to see what they hint at and I am keeping a very close eye on what
transpires this Summer in comparison to what each of them is suggesting is in
the pipeline. Come the close of the window I think I will be making my mind up
about who is #ITK and who is #FOS.</span></div>
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</span>Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-42012759055867203512013-05-20T01:18:00.002-07:002013-05-20T01:18:21.203-07:00STRESS: Arsenal induced stress, de-stressing this summer and stressed out Totts.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span>Stressful game football isn't it? Especially so if you're a
hard-core fan which I suspect most of you are. And anyone who still thinks 4th
place or qualifying for the Champions League is not important or doesn't really
matter too much should consider their own personal stress levels on Sunday 19th May. If
you were really not stressed about qualifying for the qualifiers in the
Champions League or finishing above the Tiny Totts then let's face it you're
not a serious fan are you? Even our most negative Arsenal fans found it seriously
difficult to handle, and so they should or they wouldn't be fans. But if anyone
out there wasn't able to enjoy the outcome then I just feel really very sorry
for you. All things are relative and being up against the Tiny Totts for 4th on the final day simply
upped the anti.<br />
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I believe that the worst of our new stadium induced
financial tribulations are now finally over and I believe this summer will see
us kick on with about three major signings. But I doubt that these will include
a mega name such as a Ronaldo, Bale or Rooney (a granny-shagging blob I don't
want in any case). Just who would buy Rooney is big, big problem for United
altogether should they really want to ditch him, and if they don't he'll be a
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Before that even starts however we must firstly out <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">all</b> the dead wood - this would appear
to be in hand with Arshavin and Chamakh but will be a difficult and protracted
process with regards to the likes of Bendtner, Squillachi, Djourou, Park, Denilson
and other long forgotten on loan players. Is Coquelin worthy of a squad place?
Is Fabianski? Is Frimpong? Is Gervinho? All questions to be answered this
summer. And what about Diaby you ask - yet another imponderable. Ruthlessness
and expedience will be much in demand this June, July and August in moving
players on, sometimes against their will, and will be far harder to expedite
than moving any in. That said we still won't have CL football till we qualify
which may mean yet more late arrivals making them more difficult to get up to
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Difficult to know the real answer when you consider how many
Arsenal fans initially got their answers wrong regarding their thoughts on the
long written off Rosicky, the vastly under-rated Arteta, the clearly not-good
enough Koscielny and Metesacker (their opinions not mind). The Ox was initially
touted as just another too young youngster purchased when experience was
required. Well he’s looking good to me as are the others mentioned above. Our
squad is coming together, seems unlikely to be losing any quality other than
perhaps Sagna and we have positive chances of added quality.</div>
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Stress has been the order of our season and its been another
tough one, but I sense an increasing mood of optimism in the Gooner Nation and
mounting despair at the wrong end of Seven Sisters Road. Should we show some compassion
and spare a thought for all the overly distressed Totts smashing their heads
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only note of caution in the current North London is red euphoria is that we
have only qualified for the qualifiers which doesn't as yet guarantee us a
place in the Champions League. Will a pre-season tour on the other side of the
world help our preparations? Certainly not. But such cautions are absolutely minimal
in comparison to Thursday football and a summer of discontent, such as they
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Arsenal.con have a promotion on their website at the moment which implies that becoming a fan somehow requires that you become a paid up Member. What abject <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">rollocks</span>. I've been a fan for about 56 years now and it has never required me becoming a paid up member of anything. <br />
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Being a Football fan is the one few things you can do from any part of the world for whatever reason at zero cost and become part of a greater family of like minded people across the globe. As it happens I became a fan because as a kid I was brought up less than two miles from the ground and because my Granddad was a <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gooner</span> long before that word was even coined. Some do it for family heritage reasons, others do it because they are introduced by friends, others just start to support their local team. It becomes a life long love affair between a man or woman and his or her Club. But it matters not why you are an Arsenal fan or from where you support our Club.</div>
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I get the marketing concept due to the perceived need for massive international funding but it bugs me You don't have to purchase branded goods, attend games, pay for live televised matches or study daily updates from various media resources to be a fan. These are all optional extras and let's face it most of us suckers own replica shirts, or pin-badges, have a hoard of programmes, books, dvd's, t-shirts and all the rest. But you don't have to be a hard-core mental supporter and travel to every away game or go to every home game to consider yourself a fan. Although that said many of us do at some time in their lives if it is physically and financially possible to do so.</div>
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So how do you know if you're a fan or not? Well if you're at all stressed about tonight's match and will be either at the match, following the match or looking for the result in near panic mode as soon as you're able you are part of our Great Gooner Nation. This even applies to all those Gooners who irritate you on the internet no matter how much crap they spout on websites, Arsenal groups or social media.</div>
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If you can't be at the game in person tonight for whatever reason I'll be there encouraging the team and going horse on your behalf. It's what fans do.</div>
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COME ON YOU GUNNERS - LETS HAVE 'EM<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #6600cc;">Brian Dawes @gooner48 </span></strong></div>
Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-49491381123399579002013-05-13T06:55:00.002-07:002013-05-13T06:57:47.610-07:00Cybury GoonersAt the zenith of the last Millennium, scrolls were found that told the tale of a brave band of men, men who fought to preserve the honour of The Arsenal. In the year of our Lord 1995, from the humble beginnings of the Arsenal e-mail list, sprung a brave group of men who wanted to battle the hordes from other tribes; tribes whose inhabitants were still struggling with fire and wheels!<br />
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In November of 95, a battle was agreed between the tribe of Arsenal and the local neanderthals of Middlesex hotscum, and neutral ground was set as the arena. On that sunny day, superior tactics and calibre of soldier triumphed and the hordes from Middlesex were repelled, scurrying over the hills in retreat to their hovels to find some bins to dip.<br />
From this first triumph, there came many more challenges, especially from the frozen wastelands of the North, as word spread of a tribe from Londinium, who were renowned for their skills in haute couture, wit and rapscallion cocksmanship. Pathfinders were sent forth, to evaluate enemy weaknesses and tactical acumen, before the invasion was launched.<br />
Several attacks were repelled by the Northern hordes who held advantage of the terrain and knowledge of its secrets, but these were temporary victories, a mere flicker of light in the darkness. In 1999, The Arsenal launched a full on attack, assembling its finest collection of warriors, all skilled in the areas of combat required to defeat any enemy it came across.<br />
At the end of 2 days of fighting, they stood alone on the plains of Leicestershire, unvanquished, victorious, as one!<br />
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The scrolls read of heroes called Melis and Richmond, Cohen and Lowry, names that even now the children of The Arsenal tribe are told of at night before they sleep, tales of bravery and comradeship!<br />
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They fought on, winning battles throughout the land, for several years, until at last they found that other tribes learnt from their skills and expertise and took advantage of their lack of refuelling points, until they were forced back.<br />
They all returned to their families, tired and scarred, assuming false identities in order to protect those they loved. Taking up new professions as Blacksmiths or farmers, trying to forget their violent pasts, pretending the rage had died inside.<br />
But there lingered a spark.<br />
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A tiny ember.<br />
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In each one of them.<br />
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Until the years had passed and each had forgotten past lives and glories. Or so they thought.<br />
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Then one day, a message came to them. Delivered by various means. From where it came, they were not sure, but the sender knew each and every one of them, knew what would add fuel to the fire, what would turn a spark into a flame, a flame in to a fire and a fire to an inferno!<br />
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So they trained, each of them in isolation, remembering past lives, skills thought long forgotten, feelings thought buried for eternity. How soon they remembered the old ways, the ease with which an opponent could be beaten, the pride taken at wielding their weapon of choice, besting any man sent to test their mettle.<br />
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They gathered. It was time they were told. Time to remind the world of their glory. Their time.<br />
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A few weeks from now, on a ragged patch of earth called Leeds, the Northern hordes will face obliteration!<br />
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Just there the barbarians will huddle, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers... knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 11 men. Yet they will now stare across the pitch at twenty Gooners, commanding two gazillion social media Arsenal fans!<br />
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The enemy may outnumber us a paltry two to one, good odds for any Gooner. But on that day we rescue a world from Fergusonism and tyranny and usher in a future brighter than anything we can imagine.<br />
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Give thanks men, to the legend of Cybury and the brave 11! TO VICTORY!<br />
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If you have been raised to fight for the cause of The Arsenal and possess the required battle skills and can march to the wastelands of Leeds for Sat and Sun 15th/16th June and have reached your 35th birthday without losing any important limbs, then join our band of brothers in a quest for glory.<br />
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If you are yet to reach 35 years, then we are assembling an army of younger warriors to train for an assault in 2014 on a secondary but larger target and will receive any interested applicants now, for advance planning based on this year's reconnaissance of the enemy and their younger armies!<br />
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For further tales from the Bard of Cybury or just to seek enlightenment on how to fight for The Arsenal, send your missive to <a href="mailto:internetgoonersfc@yahoo.co.uk">internetgoonersfc@yahoo.co.uk</a><br />
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Join us and taste the glory of victory and wine drunk in remembrance of friends and team mates once more!<br />
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Keepers of the faith, never forget. We are The Arsenal.<br />
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Mark KingGooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-30309879136826559762013-04-23T01:17:00.000-07:002013-04-23T01:26:55.996-07:00Manchester United South East Asia Supporters Club<div>
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As I write, Manchester United are powering to their twentieth league title, led by our once fragile enigma of a centre forward. These humbling moments remind me of why football, even for a fully grown human, can make the heart sink or the joy burst within us.</div>
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I will take my seat on Sunday, I wont hide. If we give them the guard of honour I’ll watch our squad closely, see if they feel the shame I feel. Will they embrace their erstwhile captain, will they wish him the best? Or will they stand stoic, save their platitudes for the end of the game. Who will dare take his shirt?</div>
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The new season begins on Sunday. There’s a lot broken in this squad, we don’t seem to have many bad losers anymore. Ferguson doesn’t see us as a threat so patronises us with faint praise. I want him to hate us again. This is the way it should be. But sad to say, we are not at their level yet. Let’s be clear, this is a pretty poor Manchester United team, but their manager sets them apart. You might loathe him, but he can get the best out of an average clogger (look at how lame the John O’Shea’s are when they leave) and he isn’t afraid to chop a superstar’s legs away and sell him. He always maintains a high standard.</div>
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And we’ll have to hear it from those cockney reds, who’ve been to Old Trafford less times than you, who don’t really know what it’s like. But this sense of superiority wont be a solace. We can only hope that next season we really will get rid of all the dead wood, the disgraceful high earners like Squillaci, who even refused to go on loan to Brighton because, I assume, he didn’t want to abandon his chic cafe culture in Hampstead. Or will they all go out on loan again and come back like dog farts infesting the curtains (N.b – I don’t own a dog, so I’m not sure if this is a realistic metaphor). Good riddance to them and their comfy chairs and silken drapes. Go. Leave us. Gel your hair and bleach your bum’ole somewhere else.</div>
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In recent memory, two other defeats sit heavy in my gut. Losing the David Rocastle FA cup final against Liverpool in 2001. There was a lump in many a throat as Ryan Rocastle led out the Arsenal squad. But football is cruel. The Henchoz handball, the Michael Owen winner after we’d absolutely battered them. That night was so tragic nearly a dozen of us barricaded ourselves in a hotel room with a crate of beer and played Who Wants to Be A (Fucking) Millionaire on a laptop as the bar was full of dancing scousers. It feels embarrassing even writing that. But we did it. Oh the shame! </div>
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And more recently, the champions league final. We were in the first few rows, the rain pelted us the whole game. For an Arsenal fan, and it’s all relative of course, other teams have never been to any cup final – it was a lesson in humility. Almunia played like a terrified newly born calf, his big dead mackerel eyes, dull and staring, his Ronald McDonald hands throwing shapes in front of his face and his sullen jowls floundering as he tried to communicate to his defence. Oh and Eto’o was offside. But what can you do. This is football.</div>
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When we got back to the hotel bar that night, we watched the highlights on the telly and recreated the scene where Wiltord celebrated his goal. Mark King (@mzk90) was the leaping <var></var>Kanu and I was Wiltord. Wiltord on the telly watches on. It’s one of my favourite photos. It was taken on a piece of crap disposable camera as well so the photographer (I think it was Danny) deserves praise for capturing the moment.</div>
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Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-30626356227502941042013-03-28T10:23:00.000-07:002013-03-28T10:23:01.470-07:00Show me the money!<div style="line-height: 14pt;">
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Bizarrely, due to circumstances beyond my control, I ended up listening to last night’s match on the radio <em>(Bayern v Arsenal)</em>, whilst getting the opinions of those Twitter Gooners I trust, as opposed to just the meanderings of Alan Green and Lawro! It was quite surreal and took me back to being a 15 year old, jumping up and down on my bed as I realised that yes, Paul Vaessen had just scored to help Arsenal become the only English team to have ever beaten Juve in their own backyard.</div>
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So I am only basing my comments on the commentary and the 140 character updates provided by my social media ‘buddies’. However, in as much as the pre match comments were doom and gloom and in the main wrote off our chances completely, I would like to temper the post match back slapping and putting down of the AWOB nation with the following:<br />
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Pertaining to, or <wbr></wbr>characteristic of a <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hero" target="_blank">hero </a>or <wbr></wbr>heroine.</div>
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Much like a turd can be shiny if you polish it enough, it is still a turd with an adjective thrown in front of it! Descriptions like ‘Heroic Failure’ are generally used by 2 sets of people; those who have done the failing and those sympathetic to them. How did you feel about Jose last week and his “The best team lost” comments? Patronising was my opinion, but as attributed to various names including Churchill, history is written by the victors!<br />
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There are positives to be taken from the game certainly; the defence performed well with Corporal Jenkinson and Gibbs particularly to the fore with their ability to get up and down. Kos showed what I believe, which is that he is a better natural defender than our current skipper and Fabianksi at least showed that there is an option to Chesney! The main thing is that a clean sheet in Bayern is something even the Invincibles could not manage, so there should be definite benefits in terms of our confidence levels as we now start our 10 Cup Final games run. The biggest positive to me is the fact that it made the trip far more palatable for the travelling Gooners who had invested their hard earned cash in the journey long before our tame surrender at THOF. Once more they did us proud and having been to Munich for the football I am sure that it meant they had an even better night in the Augustiner Beer Keller!<br />
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That said, let’s not forget that this is the same manager and a lot of the same players who contrived to lose this tie in the first leg at home. A manager who has seen a virtually full strength team lose to a side in the 4<sup>th</sup> division, and at home to a struggling Championship team, now despatched from the cup by Millwall!<br />
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Which brings me to the real question. Does some Middle East consortium from the UAE or Qatar really want to buy AFC and if so, what do the fans think? Well, the opinions on the veracity of the story vary from pie in the sky to having been discussed for some time. Peter HW says Arsenal have heard nothing. Well 3 things Pete, You wouldn’t tell us if you had as we are just an inconvenient but necessary evil don’t forget (well how could you after thanking us so nicely for our interest in the affairs of the club). Second, what on earth would it have to do with you anyway as you are a token ‘old Etonian’ figurehead and lastly, I’m not sure you really know what day it is unless you are reading it from the top of the Daily Star, your favourite mouthpiece to the fans.<br />
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For arguments sake I am going to assume there is genuine interest. Reasons being that AFC is the biggest sleeping giant in Europe; Huge brand, massive global fanbase, history and tradition, playing in the most watched league in the world, respected manager, excellent training facilities and even better stadium. Lastly, we are based in one of the world’s most vibrant and exciting cities. Basically, we are the hot girl in your last year at school, when at the prom (school disco in my day) everyone wanted to chat up; in essence, we are Megan Fox in Transformers!<br />
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So, no surprise that we are one of the major attractions for anyone looking to become a player in world football and that is certainly what seems to be the case with the Qataris or the Saudis. Throw in rumours of Usmanov, owner of the world’s largest steel company and the amount of building work going on in the area and you can see how allegiances can be formed.<br />
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The rumoured bid was a great share price for Stan to be offered. I think the shares are approx. 16k at present, so 20k is a great offer, meaning he could walk away with almost half a billion dollar profit on what he has paid for his shares. Why does Stan want to keep us in his portfolio? What is he gaining at the moment? There is no glory, only pain. Yes he can sit in his ivory tower and not care about what the fans say, but he will find that English football fans will be a little different to disgruntled US sports fans. I’m no expert, but I am not aware that any of his US teams are exactly tearing it up with bulging trophy cabinets, so while he may be an ideal proponent of ‘self sustainability’ which the AFC board and AW love, has everyone forgotten that we are a football club and first and foremost should be the results on the pitch. Whilst we were all aware that the stadium move would mean austerity measures and AW has done a great job in keeping us in the top pack of clubs during that period, we are now supposed to have entered the land of milk and honey promised to us by the board, which could only be achieved by the move!<br />
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So there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth over this situation. “We don’t want to sell our soul to the highest bidder” some fans shout, “We don’t want to be like Chelsea or Citeh” etc etc etc. Well hold on a minute, we sold our soul to the highest bidder in the 80’s, when PHW sold his shares for what was then a huge profit to David Dein, Hill-Wood thinking that Double D was mad to be investing in football. Dein then sold some of his shares to Danny Fiszman. The proposed saviour of our club every time his name gets mentioned then got Koenke involved, who rapidly distanced himself from Dein as soon as he realised that if he wanted to stay friendly with Fiszman it was the necessary thing to do. Dein then sells out to Usmanov and the last play was Danny Fiszman selling to Stan. <br />
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A lot of what our club stands for in terms of tradition comes from the 1930’s, when we were the most successful club in the country and strangely enough were nicknamed ‘The Bank of England’ club, due to the fact we had a few bob and spent it on players and infrastructure. So in effect this has been going on for years, anyone with enough money has been buying our shares. All out of some altruistic ideal of what is good for AFC? Hardly. Every seller made a huge profit on what they had originally paid. Altruism would be to give the shares to a fan’s group, but there’s no money in that is there? There is always a big deal made out of the fact that they don’t get dividends. Well excuse me, but I think that I could do without some annual interest being paid if I was assured of an extremely healthy return at the end of my investment and Stan refused to say that this was not an option he would look to use in the future. Yet our board has our best interests at heart according to many. That must explain the season ticket price rises and the inflexibility around payments, the pricing for food and beverages inside the stadium, the sale of our best players and worst of all, their continued inactivity when it comes to getting the manager to do what needs to be done in terms of recruitment. The last few seasons of inactivity from all concerned has to be a worry. I might not buy into the whole 8 years without a trophy line peddled by the media and the more fundamentalist arm of the AWOB, but I do not buy the argument about waiting 17 years between 53 and 70 for a trophy being any kind of argument to keep sitting on our hands either!<br />
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One thing that puzzles me, why do people use Chelsea as an example of how this will be the end of the world as we know it? They were a two bob club before Roman arrived and despite the trophies it pretty much still is. This is mainly due to 3 things. Jose did a brilliant job there, but unfortunately his demeanour made the club pretty unpopular and he engendered a spirit which has stayed long after he was dismissed. Roman and his trigger happy recruiting and firing of managers is just ridiculous, plus his alleged interference in the playing side of things. Lastly, the fact that they appear to have tried to recruit the same % of unsavoury human beings on the playing side as they have within their fanbase. I realise that all clubs, ourselves included have their fair share of morons, racists and thugs, but I do feel that Chelsea do rather abuse the quota and seem to be depriving an entire country of its share of idiots per village. The likes of Terry and Cole have really summed up their personal standards, add to it the transfer fees and wages paid, the recruitment and disposal of mercenary footballers and you can see a blueprint for how not to buy a football club and run it respectfully.<br />
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But then there is Citeh. Never really had a problem with them to be honest, or their fans who must have suffered more than most over the last 20 years of United dominance. So they have loads of money, which they spend on huge transfer fees and wages, often just as unnecessarily as Chelsea; Scott Sinclair anyone! But apart from sacking Hughes (not something to be criticised really) they have stuck with Mancini and he has delivered an FA Cup in his first year and the league, if only just, in his 2<sup>nd</sup>. Two disastrous ECL campaigns aside, both in terrible groups which we would not have escaped from, he is not doing a terrible job and apart from a couple of unfortunate incidents brought on by substandard executives, they seem fairly organised and unChelsea like.<br />
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So here is the scenario. Usmanov, in league with the Middle East buys Stan out, after he decides that it is more trouble than it is worth to stick with a non US sport he knows little about in terms of the cultural gap between the MSL and EPL. Usmanov is installed as the Chairman/owner and he starts to make some changes. First, he explains to AW that he still has faith in his ability and is going to make huge funds available to him for transfers and wages. However, it is made clear that AW must be shopping at Harrods from now on and not Lidl, as the club and its fans demand and are owed the quality of player that befits our intentions. Time will be given, but results will be expected. The board members are in the main dispensed with and replaced with younger (not difficult) business savvy executives with a UK sports background. Respected ex Arsenal professionals are brought in to deal with various aspects of the club, the likes of Bergkamp and Overmars from Ajax, Paddy from Citeh and others can all play a part in the off field activities.<br />
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For the fans, there is movement on ST prices and how they are paid, with some of Black Scarf and other fan’s group suggestions coming in to play. Measures are taken to enhance the match day experience in terms of pricing and atmosphere. Home kits are red & white and away kits are yellow!<br />
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The team is finally able to challenge once more for the top trophies and has a squad equipped to do this on all fronts and wins its first silverware in 9 seasons, finally removing the monkey from its back. Yes the club is being financed by big money from Uzbekistan and the Middle East, but as we dance and sing in The Bailey on Holloway Road, does anyone really care? Is there a pocket of Gooners somewhere sitting in a quiet corner of a pub bemoaning the fact that we didn’t do it through self sustainability and longing for the days of Gervinho and Santos! The tradition of the club has remained, we still do our bit for the community, we still wave the flag for equality and fair play and best of all, Arsene Wenger is allowed to prove that given a level playing field with the rest of the ‘financially doped’ clubs he is still able to compete. <br />
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Then, in Berlin 2015, he finally adds the European Champions League to his CV as Jack Wilshere lifts the trophy after goals from Falcao and Isco see off the challenge of Messi’s Barcelona. AW takes this opportunity to retire as Manager, moving on to the board. The opening day of the 2015/16 season sees another statue unveiled outside the stadium as Arsene Wenger rightly takes his place alongside the existing 4 AFC icons.<br />
Now I appreciate that there is quite a bit of fantasy about that scenario, but in all honesty a lot of the foundations for it to actually happen are already in place, so it may not be a complete stretch to picture. <br />
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So does selling out in terms of shares really have to equate with selling out in terms of your soul?<br />
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">I say show me the money!</span><br />
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<span style="text-decoration: none;"><strong>Mark King</strong> </span>Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-44673917382524933502013-03-26T04:16:00.001-07:002013-03-26T04:16:12.815-07:00NextGen at Arsenal<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span>Many Gooners got to enjoy the Arsenal v CSKA under 19’s
NextGen game played out at our Stadium on Monday night or watched it, as I did,
on Arsenal Live. So I’m guessing many will now be speculating as to which of
the players they enjoyed seeing perform will maybe make it through to our first
team and how many will come through to achieve it as professional footballers. <o:p></o:p><br />
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It’s a fun game to play but one where speculation can be
little more than a guess at this stage given who is already in our current first
team squad, which out on loan players will return and which current under 21
players are going to claim first team berths. The above listed groups are those
which our current batch of NextGen kids must aspire to outdo in the footballing
stakes. No easy task.</div>
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Also much depends on what you mean by 'come through'. These
young men all want to be professional footballers but if they have any sense of
realism they’ll know that the odds of actually doing that as an Arsenal first
team squad player are still very much stacked against them. So if we mean ‘come
through’ to Arsenal's first team as a regular first team player then the odds
against any youth player achieving <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that
are considerable. Quite possibly with odds that are maybe more than a 1 in 20 chance
for even our best aspiring 'young professionals'. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When you think about it just to get an occasional game in
Arsenal's first team as a squad player means you have to be International
standard at the very least, but players such as Jack are obviously very much
more than that. But then Jack was a notable exception to the run of the mill
youth player. Did we see any such players play against CSKA? Or where they all flattering
to deceive?</div>
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It is my perception that Arsenal's youth set up has always
been about an attempt at producing well rounded kids who can cope with the
outside world and make a career at football if they are very lucky. In that
respect the Club do an incredibly good job given that there are dozens and
dozens of professional players out there who've come through Arsenal's youth
system. Very many ex-Arsenal kids make a very decent living from the game
despite being considered crap in the eyes of some Arsenal fans because they
failed to make our first team. Such kids are not crap; they simply do not have
that extra something that it takes to be an International /Premiership player
at a very top club. Getting players through to our first team squad is just one
goal of the youth setup, but it’s not quite the be all and end all of our youth
system. What's happened in recent years appears to be the overall raising of
technical standards which helps players such as the Jacks of this world to
thrive within that environment and become classier players much quicker. </div>
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Being a technical brilliant player used to be enough, being
a technically brilliant player now is only part of making it big time. These
days pretty well every youth player we have is technically first class. The
difference between them and those who make the first team are a number of
factors which I'd suggest includes dedication, ambition, dedication, hard work,
dedication, sensible life style, dedication, concentration, family support, good
friends, decent attitude to life, physicality, speed of thought, strength,
natural ability, personality, conditioning, stamina, luck with injuries, more
luck with who bars your progress to first team football and dedication. Just
being a fast or technically gifted player is no longer enough and hasn't been
for some time now - just ask tossers such as Pennant, Bothroyd, Bentley et al.</div>
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Our current under 19’s are certainly all in with a real crack
at first team football. They all probably feel they've already made the big
time. They would however all be wrong because all they've done up to now is put
themselves on the starting grid and how they react to the challenge of the next
3/4 years will determine if they sink, swim or survive in the big time.</div>
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So who do you think has what it takes: Yennaris, Gnarby, Hajrovic,
Angha? Well let’s face it your guess is as good as mine because I only know how
good I rate them as exciting technical players but I’ve no idea about all the other
stuff which will determine how far they go in the beautiful game, either with
Arsenal or any other Club.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>Gooner 48http://www.blogger.com/profile/17120896846165100041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2351276008968662497.post-10659063647987016002013-03-01T10:06:00.001-08:002013-03-03T01:10:10.497-08:00The cult of the goalkeeper<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>“He vies with the matador and the flying ace as an object of
thrilled adulation. His sweater, his peaked cap, his kneeguards, the gloves
protruding from the hip pocket of his shorts, set him apart from the rest of
the team. He is the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender.
Photographers, reverently bending one knee, snap him in the act of making a
spectacular dive across the goal mouth to deflect with his fingertips a low,
lightning-like shot, and the stadium roars in approval as he remains for a
moment or two lying full length where he fell, his goal still intact.”</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Vladimir Nabakov</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Goalie’s are odd, different…. unique, eccentric. From the
agitated shouter, to the calming and soothing presence of a safe pair of hands,
they are an enigma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yes, we’ve all played in goal, when we take our turn at
school or when we play five a side, but someone who 'chooses' to play in goal,
well, they are different. Aloof, imperious, cool headed (or equally.. mental),
adopting odd mannerisms and hobbies, uncaring what their teammates think of
their precious collection of 18th century scrimshaw or their obsession with
topiary. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most of all though, a good goalkeeper needs to be
brave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the crowd and teammates see
that, their limitations are often overlooked, it inspires you to be brave too,
to protect, close ranks and drive on. Someone whose willing to stick their face
in the flying feet of a clogging centre forward earns respect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>goalkeeper breeds
confidence. He has the power to make average defenders brilliant and brilliant
defenders average. From an Arsenal perspective, we’ve had some serious
contenders amongst our regular custodians (N.b - amazing cameos like Alex
Manninger’s, will not be covered). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Looking at keepers within living memory, let’s start with
the great Jack Kelsey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This was from an era where Jack would lean against his post
watching play in the other half, smoking a tab. He replaced George Swindin the
pre-war veteran of arguably Arsenal’s greatest period of league dominance,
Kelsey won a league medal in 53, sharing duties with the older man. Kelsey
dominated, commanding his area, a big man, who took serious poundings in
defending the net. Brian Dawes wrote a fantastic article about him when
reviewing his autobiography, ghost written by the perennially brilliant Brian
Glanville, the old school football journalist from another era. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.arsenal-world.co.uk/feat/edz3/book_review_over_the_bar__jack_kelsey_691802/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.arsenal-world.co.uk/feat/edz3/book_review_over_the_bar__jack_kelsey_691802/index.shtml</a> (as found here) Glanville still
holds a link to the times when top footballers somehow seemed more accessible
and fragile, their careers earning them modest sums, where an injury would ruin
not just your football career but potentially your life, professional
sportsmen, like today, not being equipped to master the rat race of civilian
life. Kelsey suffered that serious injury, against Brazil, playing for Wales,
but Arsenal look after their own and Kelsey was retained as a commercial
manager, people remember him in the dimly lit club shop, smoking a cigarette
(as always), keeping an eye on the small amount of merchandise that Arsenal
offered at the time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>2nd January, 1954. Jack Kelsey stares into the Smog. This
game vs Aston Villa was abandoned after 23 minutes, Arsenal were 3-0 up at the
time! </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After a few seasons of solid and dependable play by Jim Furnell*, who, like Kelsey was unlucky to play in a team which struggled,
despite many gifted forward players, came this middle class academic lad,
Robert (Bob) Primrose Wilson, who was studying to be a teacher. I’m sure he
raised a few eyebrows when he turned up at the training ground, Frank
McLintock provides an insight in his autobiography. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Bob was so untypical of footballers, with the slightly
refined language he used, and the way he dressed, in a camel duffel coat and
his Loughborough College scarf. It must have been a bit of a disadvantage to
him that he didn’t conform to the footballer stereotype, wasn’t much of a
boozer and was from a conspicuously middle class background. But he never
looked down on the rest of us and we just saw him as a one-off. Later, of
course – and especially when we discovered that his second name was Primrose –
he had to endure the ribbing that everyone gets at football clubs… I would have
expected his academic endeavour to teach him caution. Far from it, as a
goalkeeper he was recklessly brave and often put his head where others would
fear to put their feet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It took him a few seasons to become the regular number one,
but the fans and the players had faith. People talk of his head first bravery,
diving forwards to snatch the ball from oncoming attacks. This led him to being
broken, battered and bruised on many occasions, but he inspired confidence. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Bob Wilson having been knocked out against Spurs in
1969.</em> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From the concerned look on Bobby Gould’s face, it was probably him that
accidently did it.(As Bill Shankly unkindly remarked of Gould – “<em>he couldn’t
trap a bag of cement!”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When selected for Scotland by Tommy Doherty, the English
born and well spoken Bob Wilson had his club captain Frank McClintock as his
minder, he wasn’t having his mate treated with suspicion, and skipper and
goalkeeper brought us both the Fairs Cup (our first trophy since the 50s) and
the Double in the following season. Wilson is a legend, who is still proud of
his involvement with the club. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>“It was the feeling that you were wearing this big gun on
your chest. And my goodness, everywhere you went, you felt proud wearing it”</em> –
Bob Wilson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After Wilson, a brief interlude with Jimmy Rimmer, it’s
arguable that his goalkeeping and Brian Kidd’s goals kept Arsenal in the top
division in those barren years in the mid-70s, saved by two Mancs! And after
Rimmer, Pat Jennings, who joined Arsenal, along with Willie Young, signed from
Tottenham by former Spurs boss and Arsenal player Terry Neill. Terry is
probably underrated for what he did, he managed to pick up and revitalise a
waning team using the tactical knowledge of Don Howe to build a capable squad,
which challenged for honours. One of Neill’s difficult decisions was to ship
out a number of game but ageing players who he himself was a teammate of in the
60s. It couldn’t have been easy for him. The immaculately haired Jennings
seemed a calming presence, gentle voiced but commanding. No way a bawler or
shouter. He did a fantastic job for several seasons and is perhaps the only
player respected by both sets of North London fans. He won a cup winners medal
with Arsenal in 79, but missed out in both the Cup Winners Cup final against Di
Stefano’s Valencia and the FA cup final against West Ham in 1980. The former
match was particularly sad for me, as a 9 year old. Arsenal had reached a
European final, and I was utterly deflated when the winning penalty was struck
home. I had so much faith in Jennings, so I was so despondent when we
ultimately failed. I didn’t cry though, not like football fans today. Adults
and children alike. Pah!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><o:p></o:p></em></span> </div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then John Lukic, lanky, almost cross eyed, with that
ridiculous fringe, he didn’t look like an athlete! He was a no fuss goalie,
unspectacular (who would a goalkeeper need to make TV saves if his positional
sense is spot on), but cerebral and self critical in his concentration and
analysis. Sometimes he’d be furious with his own decision making and you could
see him burn and fume inwardly, trying to put things right. He formed part of
that mean George Graham team which won us the league so spectacularly in 89. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After Lukic, safe hands himself, David Seaman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>What a save! (photo credit – Arsenal.com)</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another goalkeeper of quiet dominance, positionally
immaculate, always in the right place, instilling confidence in a team which
conceded only 18 goals and only lost the once in the league triumph of 1991. A
lot of that was down to the defensive drills Graham forced the team to repeat
and repeat and repeat. He later added the FA Cup in 93 as well as the league
cup in the same year. Under Arsene Wenger, Seaman won two doubles and another
FA Cup. He was a mainstay of the famous back five, a gift from George Graham to
Wenger. The only thing I could criticise him for was his ponytail which was
ridiculous. Seaman joined an illustrious list of goalkeepers. So who could
replace this legend? With allegedly only £2 million to spend, Arsene Wenger took
a punt on an outspoken German keeper with a chequered history of outbursts and
fallings out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jens Lehmann. The Arsenal fans loved him. It’s weird the
media and the pundits picked on his eccentricities and his mistakes, it was his
personality and his determination as well as his constant will to improve which
set him apart. A keeper as part of a team who went unbeaten a whole league
season is not someone to be laughed at or ridiculed. And as Jens Lehmann
himself said, he’s never set out to hurt an opponent, so rightly he felt
aggrieved when snide players set out to injure him. He was an honest (and angry)
man! When we won the league at White Hart Lane (for the second time) he didn’t
want to celebrate, he was so upset at having given away an equalising penalty
against that horrible little yappy dog Robbie Keane after he’d stamped all over
his feet. But his teammates, coaxed <em>“The German”</em> (as Pires affectionately
called him) out of the dressing room to dance and cheer with the crowd.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He was a monster, dominated the area, demanded the best of
his team. He was one of the main reasons that Arsenal’s defence - patched
together when injuries tore the team apart - kept a clean sheet at the Bernabeu
in 2006. Who’d have thought a defence of rookies Eboue – Senderos – Toure –
Flamini could keep out one of the best attacking forces in the world? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zidane and all… Thierry Henry scored the
important goal. Arsenal went through. When we got to that fateful champions
league final, I remember an interview with Eboue, he was asked<em> “is there
anything you fear?”.</em> His answer – a brilliant soundbite - (I paraphrase as I
can’t find the original article) <em>“Nothing, apart from God and Jens Lehmann”.<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>“If I have a lot of adrenaline in my body, that is helpful
because I feel less pain”-</em> Jens Lehmann (this quote makes me laugh, I can
imagine him saying it quietly, peacefully, but with those crazy eyes tearing
you to pieces)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Jens Lehmann and his very good friend Manuel Almunia</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of Wenger’s most perplexing decisions was to freeze out
Lehmann in favour of Manuel Almunia. I liked Almunia as a human being, he
seemed equipped for the lonely role of the goalkeeper. Brave, a family man,
loving stuff like books on the second world war, but he wasn’t up to scratch,
whether it was Arsene’s stubbornness to persist with him, a question of
finances, or something else, remains a mystery. A nice guy, but not good
enough. Unsurprisingly our team dipped, but Almunia was only a contributing
factor, not the cause of this barren spell. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>“When I see Almunia’s performances, I get angry and have to
make a fist in my pocket”</em> – Jens Lehmann.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And now, the unpronounceable, confident and supremely gifted
Wojciech Szczęsny has taken the gloves. He’s got all the attributes,
physicality, the right mental attitude and athleticism. He’d had some unfair
stick recently, in goalkeeping terms he’s still a kid, but I see him being a
top level goalkeeper for at least another 15 years. Hopefully with Arsenal. His
performances at times have been incredible, that save vs Pedro when we played
Barcelona for instance, he kept us in the game when they swarmed all over us.
But people focus on mistakes, only the mistakes. It may be that Chezzer needs
an older goalie to work with, someone to share duties for a couple of seasons,
someone who is willing to share tips and give generously. At the moment, he is
horribly exposed at times, but this says more about our fragile confidence as a
whole. But he will come good. I have faith. We’re in safe hands.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>“I’m number 1!”<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many thanks to the mighty <strong>Mel Melis @</strong><span class="screen-name"><strong>melmelis</strong> </span>for the above article </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>* Great article Mel but sorry to have to break this to you "After a few seasons of solid and dependable play by Jim Furnell" is a long way from the way it was - at least to the eyes of this North Bank regular. 'Fatty' or 'Fingers' Furnell as he was hailed from the North Bank wasn't fit to lace Willow's boots. It can only have been the fact that in his early days at Arsenal Willow was such a twitchy nervous wreck that saw Furnell stay ahead in the pecking order for so long.</em></span><br />
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