Come Back On Thursday Night
Aug 25th, 2010 by 'holic
Champions League seedings for the group stages.
Pot 1 Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd, Barcelona, Inter, AC Milan, Lyon, Bayern
Pot 2 Werder Bremen, Real Madrid, Roma, Shakhtar Donetsk, Benfica, Valencia, Marseille, Panathinaikos
Pot 3 LWC’s, Rangers, Ajax, Schalke, Basel, Sporting Braga, Kobnhavn, Spartak Moscow
Pot 4 Hapoel Tel Aviv, Twente Enschede, Rubin Kazan, CFR Cluj, Partizan Belgrade, Bursaspor, MSK Zilina, Auxerre
So then, who do you fancy?
Panathinaikos, Basel, MSK Zilina? Me too, but we’ll get Shakhtar, Spartak, and Auxerre, maybe.
I’ll be back in a little under twenty-four hours with views on the draw and anything else that may, or may not, happen tomorrow.
Cheers ‘holics.
78 Responses to “Come Back On Thursday Night”
No one there we can’t take once we have Denilson back, ‘Holic.
Levroji and Squillachi to be unveiled at Arsenal on Friday
You know we’ll end up with Real Madrid…
Who da feck is Levroji??
I’m not worried about the team from pot 2 the banana skins are those in pots 3 and 4
@Mug
Levroji is the Moldovan no. 1
i agree with bergkamp’s the man, and im serious even if he wasnt
Moldovan No. 1? I wish!
we wont get Madrid I reckon manu will get them this whole thing is riged ronnie back at old trafford just wait and see.
Levorji is Moldovan new starting GK – Yep i ve never heard of him or seen him play either- Arsene obviously has more time to scour the world for a keeper – apparently very highly rated – not so sure about AW credentials for recruitng gk K if faianski and alumunia are anything to go by- would have preferred akinfeev but looks like we ‘re shopping in Aldis not Harrods!
Thanks Jetfire
I havent seen anything abiout us signing this Moldovan and to be honest, I dont get it? Doesnt add up at all, considering the expereicned Keepers we’ve been linked to.
Nope, not having that one!
How good would it be to get the LWCs and give them a rogering home and away?
Like all players who currently don the colours of Arsenal, Denilson is awesome. End of.
The Moldovan thing is a wind-up which some people have been trying on for several weeks now. Forget it.
I prefered my “Buffon to Arsenal” rumour-mongering!
Before anybody else suggests the LWC’s, no English teams can meet each other until the quarter-finals.
Sorry ‘Holic – getting carried away – its late. One for the road? 🙂
I drinks a bit.
Madrid aside we’ll be alright.
Fuck Hapoel.
Anyone one else slightly irked that the LWCs not only sneak in the Champions League proper at last, but even get in pot 3 thanks in part to our efforts over the last decade !
I hope we get one of the Dutch teams, due to naving a bar in North Holland so all those games will be here on terristial TV, we got a one in four chance of landing one. For the rest I don’t really care, bring it on!!
Cider please barkeep.
Cheers.
Arsenal have signed John Burridge
I only want Hapoel, to fuck ’em over, HARD!
5-7 nil would be good.
God I hate them.
As for the Round of 16 – Just give me a draw that’ll have some luck into it! No more Barca! I want them in final and TV5 to kick Xavi in the mouth.
For those who are interested, it looks like Silent Stan has a new toy to play with;
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5496516
CT5Gooner,
Deadly serious. Arsenal win every time the Terrific Triumvirate of Triumph (TTT) – Fabregas, Song and Denilson- take the field. We haven’t seen the Sultan of Swing, Samba King for too. too. too long.
Terrific Triumvirate of Triumph, and Eboue is not in it? Blimey!
BtM at 1 and 27
I am gobsmacked.!!
2 Blogs from you totalling 4 measly lines.!!
I’m feeling very deprived.
I assume you are building up to a marathon after the Blackburn game.
I will bring a packed lunch to read that one.!!
best regards
clive
Wikipedia tells me MSK Zilina is located in Slovakia. I guess that’s a better draw than the Russian or Turkish clubs, but maybe not as agreeable as a weekend in Holland, Denmark or France. Bring on MSK and Twente too, just to suit Holloway2Holland’s personal needs.
Sorry it looks like the above plan suffers from Pot 5 duplication syndrome so make that MSK and Ajax to give us a little Dutch treat.
The sign outside the bar says “Come Back Thursday Night” but damned if that will keep me away.
What about my personal needs nasri? 🙂
We’ve had it too easy in the past few years and that had us mellow too much in the later stages: Fake Madrid – Ajax – Rubin Kazan will keep us on our toes until the final.
Other than that I’m 100% behind Btm and CT5Gooner on Denilson.
Vodka tonight bartender, not that I like it that much even if it’s a good one but I love the bottle: http://joephoto.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/29/snow_queen.jpg
@Snir: what’s the deal with Hapoel Tel Aviv, are they the local Spurs?
Matt – You nailed it. They’re Maccabi Tel-Aviv’s Spurs.
Spurs, Yankees, Lakers, Jets, Barca, Hapoel – I can go on all day.
Hahahahahaha… Firstly, lets get Hapoel. Tel Aviv is a great city for a good booze up and its on the beach. And Snir.. If anything, Maccabi are the fucking Spurs of that league.. Hapoel have a proud tradition, actually win things and play in red. Maccabi spend lots of money, have a bunch of delusional fans and always come up short. Like the spuds.
Ideal draw for me.. ( purely for travelling reasons) ..
Valencia, Ajax, Hapoel TA.
Charliegeorge – I don’t know who the fuck you are but you’re obviously not from Israel.
Proud tradition? Maccabi’s the club with the most titles and cups in Israel. Hapoel has always been the small club of Tel-Aviv and every Hapoel fan knows it and will admit it.
Actually win things? How about that last championship was their first in ten years.
They still have a long way to go to match Maccabi’s 19.
I won’t go on with this cause this is an Arsenal blog but please don’t get me started, I had a shitty week as it is already.
Sorry Snir, but ‘lll take the little Israeli girl with the big tits all for myself.
You can have them. I’ll let you know where they’ll be if you make the travel if we draw Hapoel :).
Snir, you are right , this is an Arsenal blog. I love Arsenal, been a season ticket holder for 29 years now.. however, I lived in Tel Aviv for quite a while and know that Maccabi are cunts and all their ‘ultras’ are runners. Hapoel are more like Arsenal.. ya know, huge multi ethnic support, everyone in it together. Maccabi are a bunch of racist baboons who worship some shit player who finished playing years ago. Tel Aviv is red and you know this. Can’t wait to draw Hapoel.. it’ll be one hell of a farkin party.
Back to all things Arsenal.
You seriously believe that I’m gonna let “back to all thing Arsenal” after that comment :)?
It really is beyond me how you “know” Maccabi are cunts if you only lived a couple of years in Israel, who’s the one who told you that?
From the sound of it, you mingled with a whole lot of Hapoel fans so there’s no reason to try and convince you otherwise, but I’ll just say about what you were saying (player who retired several of years ago) – Well, Avi Nimni is the biggest symbol of Israeli football and we have respect for him cause of all the happy moments he gave us during his career, we don’t forget a player the moment he retires. On the other hand, why don’t you go and ask your Hapoel friends what they did to their symbol – Moshe Sinai when he was Hapoel’s manager.
And like I said, Hapoel may be champions and have the upper hand in the last couple of years but they still have to win a whole lot to match Maccabi (it’s just like you’ll say that London is Chelsea’s cause of the last couple of years when in fact they only have 4 championships in their history).
Now if you’d like to go on with this – Snir_Geuli@hotmail.com
You’ll see the other side of the coin and see that things are not always what they seem :).
Bremen,Ajax,Twente
Followed by a new Liver and some downers Happy Days 😉 !!
I agree with CharlieGeorge away tripwise – Bursa would be OK from pot 4 as well, home of the Iskender Kebab, skiing on Uludag, beaches on the Marmaris. Just want to avoid the Russians or Ukrainians.
‘Anyone one else slightly irked that the LWCs not only sneak in the Champions League proper at last, but even get in pot 3 thanks in part to our efforts over the last decade!’
It was almost even worse, if Werder Bremen hadn’t bagged a 93rd minute goal and then won in extra time over Sampdoria, Spurs would have been in Pot 2 (the same as Real Madrid)! Now that would have been insulting.
Budgie, good to see the sense of humour remains intact.
All, the Moldovan rumours are all fakes. Take no notice of them.
Snir, Charlie, best keep off the subject of Israeli football for a while.
…and good morning all 😉
Holic, left you an email, would be very glad if you could take a look at it as soon as possible.
sorry for my ignorance – what does L W C ‘s stand for?
Can’t wait to see the sperz get tonked in the big boys competition..
Duly noted ‘holic about the Israeli stuff// Was just on a bit of a windup. There’s only one team I give a fuck about and thats The Arsenal.
Snir, apologies mate.. I only really mixed with Hapoel boys when I was out there, so a bit of the hate must have rubbed off..
@ HighburyJD Yep.. trips to Russia or the Ukraine would be tough on the support and we don’t have too much luck over there normally. If we draw Shakhtar you just know Dudu will score against us.
Kev,
Lilly White C###S, you can add the missing letters 😉
Please Please Please lets get Ajax again, i love that trip !!!
i would like
Marseille
Ajax
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is an amazing city although now very expensive and depending when the game is should be fantastic weather. Im praying for a cold goldstar down by the beach with hundreds of gooners.
I would have LOVED us kicking out Barce-loan-us at this stage – now that wont happen ( the damn pots).
News at last – now where’s the keeper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/8928237.stm
zicoinexile, Isn’t he older now than if we had signed him last week? What about the rigors of old age?
Bt8bbnn – probably.
He’s got to be better than Agent Silvestre though.
Incidentally if the medical was on Monday anyone speculate why did it take till now to announce the signing?
BREAKING NEWS: English media ignore blatant and deliberate cheating by an English player AGAIN! I refer to Jermain Defoe’s deliberate handball v. YB last night. The same ITV that trashed Eduardo and Henry giggled at Defoe’s cheating and said “well, they were winning anyway.” SO WERE WE AGAINST CELTIC WHEN EDUARDO INVENTED THE DIVE IN OUR CL QUALIFIER!
If the Rumours countryman posted the other day are true we will have to wait a little longer for the story to break as the player has won the right to extend the news black out !!
Thats according to the BBC !!
zicoinexile, Happily, Agent Silvestre is a distant memory, but:
Agent Gallas doing his magic as we speak …
Bt8bbnn – I do hope you are right – big strop, sitting alone, sulking in the centre circle after we put 6 past them 🙂
We just got Shakhtar, it was inevitable really…
Arsenal and Shakhtar Eduardo is back!
The Ukraine girls really knock me out, mostly because they leave the West behind. Shakhtar who?
charliegeorge – Apology accepted, would be glad to tell you all about Israeli football via email, I wrote it on one of the comments.
How obvious was it that we’d get Eduardo? What’s the Holic pound on him scoring at the Emirates? 🙂
Braga next for us, decent draw there (better than Ajax or Schalke who were left anyway)
We just got Braga so Squillaci may get to play against them after all!
Our group is not bad with Shakhtar and Braga
Looks like the LWC’s got the toughest draw of the English clubs, but Group G perhaps the group of death with AC Milan, Real Madrid and Ajax all in there. Arsenal going to scenic northern Portugal so it could have been much worse I’d say.
The LWCs are out !!
It’s Partizan Belgrade
Belgrade that may be tasty !!!!
I was in line for my ticket to Tel Aviv and the seaside hotel room when the news came over about Belgrade. Talk about a letdown. Not even a prolonged massage by a Serbian hot mama will console me now.
bt8bbnn – That should have been homecoming for me!!! AHHHH!!! So close!!
But overall, a nice group, quite similar to last year, I reckon we’ll field Bartley, Cruise et al on the last matchday.
The only tricky fixture would be in Ukraine but I hope to get that out of the way ASAP (maybe in September?).
a chance to see the strange and beautifull braga stadium,freezing Donesk or the crazy Partizan supporter
Lord,
Pretty much sums it up, not the nicest draws we could have got
lordgunner, I saw Braga’s home game against Portsmouth in the Europa league about a year ago and my two impressions were of Harry Redknapp whose mind appeared to be elsewhere (I think it was his last game before joining Spurs), and the giant rock formation behind one of the goals. Barman, a glass of tawny port please to get ready for Braga.
Inter, Werder Bremen and Twente. Twitch on that, Harry.
What’s all this “draw” stuff about ? I thought reading the papers today and listening to the radio this morning, that the LWC’s had already WON the Champions League.