Back In Control Of Our Destiny
May 8th, 2013 by 'holic
A strange evening that one. There aren’t many occasions I will watch Chelsea play the little club up the road, but so critical was the result to us I would only have worried about what was happening if I blanked it as usual. Of the three possible results only an away win would have taken our fate out of our own hands. The eventual draw keeps a top four berth in our own hands and leaves the door open to finish third if Chelsea take their eye off the ball against Villa or Everton.
Chelsea are at Villa Park on Saturday lunchtime, and 24 hours later the neighbours go to Stoke. The weekend in which we are inactive could be huge for us. Old wisdom says we need only worry about winning our last two matches, but let’s not kid ourselves eyes won’t be cast elsewhere on the penultimate weekend of the season.
My last word on the neighbours? I wonder what the response will be to Glenn Hoddle echoing Wojciech Szczesny’s view that Spurs lack quality in the squad? Just saying…
The other story of the day that you may have missed (yeah, right!) is the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson. Fair play to my friend from Bath who told us in the pub weeks ago but I suspect most were more than a little surprised when the news was confirmed. At the risk of sending regulars blood pressure soaring I have to say there is a reason he is the lead story on all the news bulletins I have seen or heard today. Like you I have found so much of what he has said and done down the years repugnant, but you cannot take away his record of success, or deny he is a football man first and last.
The years before we moved and the new money arrived when ourselves and his club threatened to turn the Premier League into a two horse race were special for all of us. The two matches against United each season became the biggest fixtures on the calendar. We will miss him, one way or the other, and one can only hope United will too. Those of us who remember their rapid decline in the wake of Sir Matt Busby moving upstairs will be praying for a touch of deja vu.
What about Arsenal news, I hear you cry, or maybe I don’t. The expensively assembled team that have been put together to bring new revenue into the club have made some great strides in recent weeks after what has seemed a long period of precious little. The announcement of a very good new kit deal with Puma has to be acknowledged as a very positive step. Commercial income has been an issue for the club for some years now, and although many opportunities remain it is great to see progress being made in providing the sort of money we will need to invest in the team in order to get back to challenging for honours.
The dream scenario would be for us to win our last two matches, Chelsea slip up to allow us into third place, and spend that money early on some quality. Let’s worry about the alternatives if and when they crop up.
Oh, and if anybody wants a cold, I appear to have a belter developing. I’m off to ease my misery with a hot toddy or three.
Keep the faith, ‘holics.
559 Responses to “Back In Control Of Our Destiny”
Welcome to the future.
We have money.
Utd don’t have Fergie.
The LWCs have no bottle (some things never change).
All up to us now
By the way, great stat I was sent earlier: in the 27 years of Fergie’s reign arsenal have a net spend of £58m. Just over £2m a season.
Utd’s is about £350m. Both the oil money teams are significantly higher.
Mind boggling.
Arsenal’s PL position this year
If TaBS is around, and still talking to me after my grudging faint praise for old purple nose, you may care to view #686 on the last drinks (re your earlier tweet).
Top 5 – like a just missed trophy.
6 more points please gentlemen.
Down to us now. No more excuses. Time for 2 more wins from 2 very winnable games. Don’t fail me now boys. Time to step up to the plate and to show what it really means. Once more unto the breach…… Etc.
N7@3. Is that something we should be proud of, or disappointed about?
Nice one ‘holic.
Agree totaly with Fergie sentiments, a bit of a toerag, but wow, what a record, his achievements deserve respect. Talk about a hard act to follow, Moyes (if recent reports are correct) has got some shoes to fill. Reports that the wino will be moved upstairs and still have a say in club affairs make me rub my hands with glee, can you imagine the shadow he will cast over Old Toilet? I can hardly wait for the first slip ups.
Cheers, Holic! Well played summary of all the events of the day… here’s to a touch of deja vu indeed!
Nice observation Holic,
“I wonder what the response will be to Glenn Hoddle echoing Wojciech Szczesny’s view that Spurs lack quality in the squad? Just saying…”
BTW Holic, I only conjectured that SAF might jump. It was the Puma kit deal I was sure of.
Don’t waste your malt in your toddies – it’s the reason blended whisky exists!
I respect Ferguson’s many achievements but I certainly don’t like him, and I think he’s a twat. In that respect I think of him as the John Wayne of the football world.
And it’s in our hands, so let’s finish the job. In the meantime, come on Stoke (ugh).
@ Steve T
A bit of both.
We should shake our heads in wonder that we just about managed to get away with it.
Then resolve to spend substantially more in the next 27 years. If we’ve just about managed to compete on that budget, what might we do wit some proper dough?!
Great post holic, and I had a mind that Chelsea and the scum would draw tonight. Got to bring it home over the next couple of matches.
If Moyes really does go to Old Toilet, are we to assume that they will finish 5th or 6th every season and roll over against Liverpool now?
Graffiti seen in a Glasgow pub john in 1980 (unusual for its political and humorous nature):
1st handwriting:
The only good fascist is a dead fascist,
2nd handwriting:
John Wayne is now a good fascist,
3rd handwriting:
The Hell I am.
🙂
Hoping desparately that we have cured our old habit of fighting our way back into contention only to blow it just when matters are in our own hands.
The two teams we still have to play are where they are in the league, after 36 games, for a reason.
It’s time to finally see the evidence of our much vaunted mental strength. Two more victories in this very up and down season, should make it our last one of ‘make and mend’.
As our “old” kit sponsors say: “Just do it”.
@14. – 🙂
As Saint Alex would have said, “Get oot there and fucking do it and don’t come back in if you don’t!”
Top Post Holic, yes its back in our hands, time to release that hand brake!
It was the mention of John Wayne by Charlie @11 that called it to mind. It has stuck in my mind all these years despite being pissed at the time I read it above the pissoir.
He would actually have said:
“Jusss ge’oo tha ‘n fuckn doo’t’n doont come bak’n’f ya doont”.
Just watching Shitteh vs Manure at OT from 2 years ago – boos all round the ground for Tevez belie SAF’s claim their fans treat their former players to a big welcome.
Heh @20
Scots was an oral rather than written dialect – there’s a book for you in that skill!
Great stuff ‘H.
And @5 – Loved your pic and commented on it at 722 🙂
All in our own hands. It’s going to be a nerve-shredding ride, but at this stage of the Season, and given the season we’ve had, we can’t ask for any more.
Come on the Arsenal! Just two more wins.
Amazing stats from N7. Mind boggling indeed!
Mystic Baff ,eh?
Or Baff knows….
Fergie, good riddance – the best club manager ever, in my opinion, by a distance, but a loathsome hypocritical spunkbubble.
Now then, Totts to drop two at the weekend and the feast of St Totteringham to arrive on Tuesday night…..let the games begin 🙂
Villa will beat Chavsea on Saturday and Stoke will draw with the Spuds – which means when we beat wigan on tuesday we will be 3rd – and 100% guaranteed to finish above the spuds even if we lose to Newcastle on the last day (unless we lose 14-0)
Sweeeet.
i must admit
i haven’t read yer new one ‘hol
you’d understand iffin you wellingtoned a mile in my creepers
all around me is calfing
cows going holy hairy mary
well
to be honest
they go
moo moo moo
in very rapid succession
i saw the size of a wee calf yesterday
as they used to say
in the arabian nights
” size of a cow ” !
in other news
i’ve developed a bit of a man-crush on tabs-e-baby
sorry trevs
.
his dispatch of the man of little wit and many names was impressive
.
when i come over next season – i’ll be the one standing all covered in awe
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yup
(jeez – the shite you have to come out with to get a free jar)
😉
N7. Tabs is right. The stat is very interesting indeed. By my calculations the Mancs have a net spend on average of 13.25 million a season. Many have mocked the deeply indebted etc. But is 13.25 million a season a big ask????? Especially if you win 13 titles, 2 Champions Leagues and a host of cup competitions???
Like many I admire greatly the achievements of old purple nose. As a man I find him quite tiresome, rude and arrogant. However, you have to say that 13.25 million per season for what he managed to achieve has to be considered a wise investment and money very well spent.
Nice write up holic. I have read several reports about the Puma deal but can find nothing official. Has it been officially announced anywhere??
It will seem strange cheering on Villa and Stoke at the weekend. I just hope that Moyes is not distracted by the Manc job sufficiently enough that he ignores his responsibility on the last day of the season.
wha ?
my mee ?
who mee ?
my mee ?
nope !
alphonsus mee
nice guy
more of an introvert
i blame the parents
oooohh
“look at what our bertie is doin”
oy
–
be nice to everyone
that’s my philosophy
*scatters flower-based lies all over t’interwebs*
Haha.
Paddy Crerand gives a radio interview angrily denying Ferguson will retire and slates journalists for running around “with their fingers in their bum” 30 minutes before Ferguson’s retirement is officially announced.
Comedy Gold.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/10044546/Paddy-Crerand-Alex-Ferguson-leaving-Why-do-people-make-this-nonsense-up.html
Cba – Cheers for the kind ones. 🙂 Looking forward to sharing those jars with you.
Well I got the score wrong but the sentiment right. Spurs will never have the bottle to take a CL place without us imploding. We have two games against poor teams in lowly positions. Would we have taken that in August?. Plus Spurs have a tough one at Stoke.
It’s yours if you want it Arsenal
tabs
cheers
but credit where credit is due
you hoisted him on his own fucktard
he was a man on the clapham clunkybus
Good question Wacky.
Never heard anyone give that a thought before.
Do you have any more thought provoking questions like that ?
Ttg – I’m not sure I would have taken it in August. I genuinely thought the Totts wouldn’t get near us this Season.
I would, however, have certainly taken it on my way home from the NLD at the Lane in Feb.
That it is in our own hands is the very best we could have hoped for considering the pickle we got ourselves in to.
trev
you seen my keys ?
you had them in your blouse pocket when you left ?
or where you right
either way
hey – peaches
Cba – ha cheers! Not sure I did very much at all. Don’t think multi name boy needs much help in the “how to look a fucktard” stakes.
nope
tabs
as a man who was surrounded by litigation
i’d give you a go
OOOHHHH MATRON !!!!!!!
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you politely hung him out to dry
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Dream scenario, yes sire and thank you very much, ‘holic meister.
Cold? Pass.
🙂
How’s the leg? I take it gangrene hasn’t set in?
I trust you’re suing for millions?
i don’t do frivolous , tAbs
i have another leg
had i been a hoppy go lightly
you might have seen me on your doorstep
my bottom lip stickin’ out
a small manufactured tear in one of my eyes
a limp that a quadraplegic could only bream of
i said bream
i meant tench
or perch
lotta fishing round the corner
i live two minutes from the atlantic ocean
basking sharks
i shit you not
all aboard thats growing a beard !
Haha 🙂
I’m off.
Steer safely cba. Night Sir.
you too
all the best
sweet mother of all that’s good and holy in the world –
the noise comin off the cookin bacon is ridiculous
.
in non food
me mashes are still bubblin
me stout won’t be ready til the weekend and then i have to keep it in the bottles for a fortnight – bit o conditioning
cider – done with champagne yeast – another wee while –
tastes like prickly apple juice – 9.2% –
watching casualties is interesting
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Last day job for sure, unless we get a wigging next week. How many of we gooners will be thinking more about the next fixture than the other thing.
you said a who in the what now – twix arse ?
R.I.P. Sralex … that’s Rat In Perpetuity for the uneducated (or Rot, if you prefer).
Pity about Moyes, if true. I was hoping ‘Arry would get the job and we could all die laughing as Manure fall slowly through the division … Top 4, Europey League, Top 10, Also-ran, Drop zone, Bottom 3 and GONE.
Oskar
Although, to be fair, if Manure were facing relegation the Glazers would probably fire ‘Arry and appoint Fat Sam. Now there’s a plan!
Oskar
manfuckinbollox
never understood why people even give that cunt and his band of cunts brain time
i’ve said before
all around me when i was young
george best this
george best that
george best your mother
.
my hatred for manutd knows no bounds
Steve T,
No official announcement on the puma deal. I don’t think that will come until probably June/ July when we are officially in our last year with Nike. I am not sure we will actually have any of the puma money this summer but hope we will spend some of our stash knowing we have a guaranteed boost in revenue coming our way next year.
I know the sceptics will say” nothing official, then it’s not true”. I guess they could be right, but this one feels like a done deal. I guess a few more months until we really know.
Cheers all.
A stoke draw or win would just be to good. Come on pulis, poke bale in the eye while you are exchanging baseball hats before the game.
oohh get you
aren’t you precious
i for one
or indeed
i’m guessin
many
don’t agree
–
d’you see what you did now ?
made me talk about football !
–
i come to this fine establishment to read , in my opinion , the best cross-section of gooner opinons goin’
i don’t comment
i talk about cow muck and errant chickens
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i hope you’re proud of yourself smuckface !
Sluralex was/is undoubtably the best manager of the past 20 odd years – but an unmitigated tit as well.
Sorry to hear of your cold Guvn’or – get well soon. Best tonic would of course be Villa and Stoke victories but I fear we may have to rely on ourselves — Many have called for Moyes to Arsenal — and been shouted down amid howls of derision — strange that United apparently rate him as thier number one target? Time will tell of course. Poor old RVP may only get the one trophy now. How sad.
howdy norcal
none of the above was meant for you
ceptin’ maybe for the big squeezy smackeroo on the eyebrow
twas shitely
13 million pounds a season for a quarter of century doesn’t sound like a lot… but it is when you consider the effects of inflation. 25 years ago 13 million would have been a huge amount.
Look at the transfers of Ferdinand, Rooney, Veron, RVP, Anderson, Nani et al. All considerably more than Arsenal’s record transfer fee.
Cheers cba, no worries.
Who looks best in the formal wear? Ramsey gets my vote, with Jenkinson in second. I can’t say Theo’s bow tie does him any favors.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2321658/Arsenal-players-force-foundations-charity-ball.html
And what’s with Wilshire’s brown shoes? Did he have to milk a cow during the photo shoot or something?
Honorable mention to AOC and his space age metallic suit.
Cheers H. Developed a fucking a fucking belter of a cold as well over the last 24 hours. Pissing me off good style. Got a weekend on the piss lined up for first time in ages and at this rate I will be hors de combat.
BANG
hopefully ‘hol’ll do a reverse cull and the ton will be mine
all mine
and take out my previous post
.
wouldn’t wanna look needy
or a dick
#63
+1
oh wow
that was just so unexpected
who’d a thunk
wow
never in my wildest
sheesh
.
but today’s not just about me
cba
Can you please send me a consignment of the mushrooms you have patently ingested.
For research, you understand……
@ 34
Who’s wacky?
Apart from the obvious, of course…..
wilko
i hold no patent on them
they are free for the pickin’
so
gather them as ye may
Poll:
Do you want chelsea lose their 2 games with Arsenal 3rd and spuds 4th?
Or Chelsea 3rd, arsenal 4th?
Lars……
How’s the head?
CBA
Jesus I’m at work please don’t tempt me 😀
Nick
True times were different years ago and that would be loads of dosh back then as well. Sadly you have to give it to him his record is incredible either way, but he’s not leaving just moving upstairs I bet Moyes will be leaving just before Xmas with a plaster on his forehead 🙂
abc
I’d LOVE it if Chelsea got knocked out of the CL spots. It so nearly happened last year.
Spurs are our rivals and all but I like AVB and I think he deserves the chance to finish above Chelsea and stick two fingers up at Abramovich.
Plus if Spurs finish 5th Bale will probably leave and strengthen United or Chelsea and I’m sick of richer clubs asset stripping us challengers! And if Bale left Spurs would get a shed-load of cash to spend which might even result in them being strengthened.
Mourinho wouldn’t return if Chelsea aren’t in the CL and God knows who they’ll get to be their new manager. They’ve hired and fired virtually every big name in Europe already.
Checking my accounts for April (which includes a fair bit of May travel bookings), I have come to the conclusion that I definitely can’t afford to go to all Arsenal home and away games.
Not a surprise really but hey-ho.
Enjoyed the run though, hope the end of the season will be worth it from the footballistical point of view too 😉
ollie
i checked my accounts once and wept in a puddle of my own tears
heh cba 😉
ATG: my head’s actually fine 🙂 Had sobered up quite well before I went to bed so only a slight hint of a *boilk* today.
Nick: “Mourinho wouldn’t return if Chelsea aren’t in the CL and God knows who they’ll get to be their new manager. They’ve hired and fired virtually every big name in Europe already.”
Not at all sure he wouldn’t return if they were out of the CL. His ego would love to be the one who came in and “rescued” Chelsea.
I would be surprised if Gareth Bale goes to Man Utd. Apparently Daniel Levy has more or less sworn not to sell any more Spurs players to Utd – he was royally messed about with Carrick and Berbatov and would face a huge fan backlash if similar were to occur again.
Since there’s a bit of optimism in the bar today are we allowed to indulge in a bit of Champ Manager-style “who I’d bring in” chat?
Here’s my list: Schwarzer, Jagielka, Capoue, Cesc, Jovetic.
I would be over the freaking moon if Fabregas were to come home. Look at the difference it made when he went: we dropped from title challengers to scrapping for 4th spot almost overnight.
I know he’d have to win a lot of people back round, and that his behaviour towards the end is under question, but I think it would work out. He’s got Arsenal DNA, after all. He’d also provide what we’ve badly missed these last few months: a final ball.
N7: still, if Bale wants to go to ManU badly enough there isn’t that much Levy can do about it. What I wonder, however, is how Alex Ferguson leaving affects how badly players want to move to ManUre because I am quite convinced that it is Alex Ferguson much more than Manchester United as such that has attracted most of the players they have bought in later years.
“Henry cycles one home”
Thierry Porn from last night…
http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2013/05/09/forget-beautiful-bicycle-kick-thierry-henry-just-happy-new-york-red-bulls-ea
Catalan
He still has it in him 🙂
Indeed, ATG.
As well as “cycling one home”, he also scored a goal! 🙂
The Trees
The numbers are in.
In total, in the nine daily newspapers published in England, there are 175 pages dedicated to the retirement of Alex Ferguson. That includes five special dedicated ‘pull-outs’ and appearances on every front page.
The full breakdown goes like this: The Daily Mail – 27 pages, The Sun – 26 pages, The Guardian – 26 pages, The Daily Telegraph – 25 pages, The Daily Mirror – 20 pages, The Times – 19 pages, The Independent – 14 pages, The Daily Star – 10 pages and The Daily Express eight pages.
Who knew anecdotes about being given the ‘hairdryer’ could stretch to quite so many trees…
Ollie,
I thought the Queen herself had died yesterday, when I turned on the radio to hear ethereal music playing and eulogies being spouted to – oh, Slur Alex Ferr’sson.
Actually, when you strip away the words ‘passion’ and ‘committment’ from what was being said, you are left with –
“Gave his players the hairdryer treatment”
“Once kicked a boot into David Beckham’s head”
pictures of him showing referees his watch, instructing them to either blow for time or add on more minutes, as suited his needs
refusing to give interviews to the BBC, contrary to his contractual obligations, for over eight years, because they made a remark he didn’t like
his “conditioning” of referees by bringing up their long past “mistakes” made against his team, or querying how they could be allowed to officiate at certain matches due to their previous “performances”
Altogether what you are left with is a bully.
An unprecedentedly successful bully whose longevity had earned him the apparant right to make accusations against all and sundry, which would have landed others in disciplinary proceedings.
The strange thing is that many of the victims of his “hairdryer”, and flying boots, are now quoted as saying that he was like a second father to them. There must be some odd fathers out there.
It’s also interesting that media opinion was instantly that Moyes, rather than Mourinho, would succeed Ferguson because “Man Utd has to be all about Man Utd, but Mourinho is all about Mourinho”.
So how true is that statement in reality ?
Throughout his time at Man Utd, Ferguson seems to have been unable to cope with a super star in his dressing room.
For whatever reason, Stam, Cantona, van Nistelrooy, Beckham, Ronaldo, Rooney have all fallen out with the “great man” and gone. Some of it brought on themselves but, as soon as their individual publicity becomes greater than his, Ferguson gets them gone.
Maybe that is the secret of his success.
Maybe, too, the success has to be all about Alex Ferguson.
Great post, Trev, to go with today’s arseblog too.
Cheers Ollie.
Yep, just read Bloggs. Good stuff.
cba @36,
I left your keys by the phone
Which you won’t be needing.
All the sweet and fruity names under the sun
Are too late
Now I know that Tabs is the plum in your pie.
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.
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(* don’t bloody ask me *)
Afternoon Fergie-haters,
@56 – Have to agree with Nick. Fergie’s spending has always been outlandish in comparison to what other Clubs could afford (other than the recent advent of the oil/gangster millions). In the first 10 years of his reign a £5m a year net spend would have been huge. Roy Keane (spit) was a British Transfer record fee at “just” £3.7m as late as 1993.
I understand why people have been praising him. No I do really! 😉 But that praise does have to be qualified. He’s had every advantage. Even when Abramovich and Mansour appeared, the “pull” of the Club and their commercial acumen ensured that it was very rare for ManUre to miss out on a target, even to Chelsea or Man City. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Mikel, Hazard and … Ramsey!
Still for all that, never a truer word spoken than…
..”never understood why people even give that cunt and his band of cunts brain time
from that man of letters Cba.
Fuck ’em. Hope they all get the plague.
Various other hehs at Cba’s work throughout the night.
Dr Z @67 – “Wacky” was merely the latest nom de jour that our nutty multi-named one used last night.
Abc @69 – Given the choice, I’d go for your first option, primarily because Arsenal always come first, and 3rd is better than 4th, but also because like Nick, I think I would revel in Chelsea’s failure more than I would the Totts.
Taking care of our own destiny is all well and good but I wouldn’t mind if Tottenham did “try the meat loaf next time.” 😉
Oops there’s a link that went with that.
http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/tottenham-stymied-by-poison-lasagna
9 yo daughter now practicing her ukulele version of this song for the upcoming St. Totteringham Day celebration. Little does she know, she thinks she’s practicing it for her ukulele recital. 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reStZf08TRI
Heh 8Ball 🙂
Question: why did they do these announcements now and not, you know, after the end of the season (even if Mancs and Everton have nothing left to play for)?
Isn’t that just a sign of cuntitude?
Ollie @ 91,
I think it’s stock market rules or fear of a further fall in share value due to uncertainty.
….and certainly also cuntitude – goes without saying really. 🙂
Ollie, no clue. Divert attention from the last few Utd-games this season? They don’t seem to be winning them…
Sure is cuntitude. Nice word, btw.
🙂 Zip-a-dee-doo-dah 🙂
I like how me and Bath both come with helpful explanations but in the end just concedes that it, in the end, is cuntitude.
It’s a factor that has to be recognised with Manure.
* sends long curving ball down the right wing and admires it from afar*
He’s had every advantage…
In England perhaps.
But Ferguson proved his credentials long before he came to United.
To take on the Ugly Sisters the way he did, is akin to Fulham usurping the Manchester clubs in England’s top tier just now. The normal response to this is but you can’t take Scottish Football seriously….….the point is not about the quality of the Scottish game, but the disproportionate advantage the big powerful clubs enjoy.
How he managed to win a league title with Doug Rougvie at right back tells you all you need to know about his ability to make his teams exponentially greater than the sum of his parts.
And before you get the wrong idea, I loath(ed) the guy with a passion both at United and before – him and his team of referees were running things in Scotland before he packed his bags for Lancashire – our good friend baff will confirm 😉
Hah – the sum of his parts…… oh very dear!!! 😳
Boom – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBxXAWflQ7k
Cuntitude or cuntery?
Think there was a leak wasn’t there? Once the Media got hold of it, Stock Market rules dictated they had to come clean?
Heads it on …
* dribbles by the byline looks for the perfect pass – crosses it in*
Oh FFS.
Well in Toby. 🙂
too late …. ha ha
Yep that’s all very fair and well balanced Dr Z.
But …
(a) it was all such a very very long time ago.
(b) who’s interested in being fair and balanced when it comes to that old cunt?
😉
Rather pleased that ATG was even later than I was when it came to the assist! 🙂
Well in Toby for a true poacher’s goal and with the ultimate clip attached. 🙂
Hello holics!
Just dropping to comment on Slur Alex’s retirement! Great manager and all that.. But boy am I glad that he retired. Hope those cunts don’t win anything in the coming years
I would have loved to see us win the league when he was still around but I guess that won’t happen.
And Tabs in the Tabs spot with a suitable philosophical debate about cuntitude v. cuntery. It seems cuntitude is a question of a permanent condition whereas cuntery is a particular case or act of cuntliness.
Great finish, Toby!
And superb tabsing at 101: heading backwards? 😉
I like your explanation bt8, makes perfect sense.
I’m behind Behind on that explanation. If you do possess cuntitude you will probably commit acts of cuntery more often.
And cheers for the congratulations. Like most Arsenal forwards, I’m not in the goal scoring business purely for selfish reasons, but rather – to make the whole team happy. That result is more important to me than any individual goals.
May I add, at least four versions of the word are necessary to describe the extent and magnitude of Ferguson’s cuntaculousness.
Indeed tabs, and in any event
Long may he not enjoy his retirement as he watches all that he built dissolve under the weight of expectation from the spoilt Surrey Supporters Club and a resurgent challenge from The Arsenal.
6 year contract for Moyes? Interesting.
zico, you think that’ll drive him to drink?
I mean, to drink even more?
Hehs @ all the cunt discussions above 🙂
Ollie – the backward header is an art that I have perfected 😉
Dr Z – 6 years eh? Blimey. Must be plenty of break clauses in there. Yearly I should imagine.
When did Pardew sign for his 8 years? There’ll be a year difference? Bah, I was thinking Pardew would be next….
Moyes appointment is the lead article on R5L national news. Fucking disgrace.
Presumably Moyes knew that he was wanted and held out for a good long contract, because he can see the likely response to Yanited’s first defeat. I never thought he was daft anyway.
COYG
8ball and Toby, you are both wrong. Cuntitude is obviously a measure of the level of cuntery. Compare it to “magnitude”, for example: “He was several orders of cuntitude worse than that other cunt”
Ollie: apparently that 8-year contract for Pardew has a clause in it that says that if he’s fired he will only get 12 months of wages.
at least manure players won’t have to learn a new language.
sorry for moyes, he’s got nothing but trouble ahead. i saw this with john wooden’s replacements, and now phil jackson’s…its nearly impossible to follow one of the best and not get chewed up and spat out. and fergie was one of the best…douchebag though he was as well.
Not sure Lars, still believe it is closely connected to attitude. Is this what they call a cuntradiction?
@ Ollie
I was thinking more stomach ulcer, so probably, yeah 😉
Oo err missus. Mulit-name boy is in da house.
Or even multi-name boy :blush: I _will_ learn to type one day.
Re 121. Is this an invitation for Trev and his puntradictions?
Heh, bt8bb, that’s nothing to punder, is it? Of course I wouldn’t mind if Trev were to cuntinue down that road.
God, sorry, that was really bad. Got no imagination. Sure, it WORKED, but it just wasn’t that funny.
I need wine. Rednose-style.
I guess the only person at arsenal who would have a hint of sadness with rednose’s departure would be Arsene. How he would have loved to get back to older times of great rivalries. As for me, this is great news.. atleast the refs will have to be fair for a change. Also , im not really sure they can now be attracting the big names unless they pay up a lot. David Moyes is not the name that would make a world class player jump with joy. Lets see how this pans out. It would be a shame if we dont capitalize on this now.
(Scenario: first meeting at Manure with David Moyes and the Glasers to discuss upcoming signings. A fan, Gooner Bart, phones in:)
GB: “Hello, this is Manchester United scouting director. Is this Moe’s?”
DM: “Actually, it’s pronounced Moyes, not Moe’s…What do you have?”
GB: “Surefire 30 goal a year striker; young, fast, strong…”
DM: “Who’s that?”
GB: “Mike Rotch…”
DM: “Mike Rotch!”
(holding hand over phone and turning to the Glasers…)
DM: “You have to sign Mike Rotch!” (chuckles…) “No, if we don’t, Mourinho will sign Mike Rotch!” (giggles….) “At the presser presenting him, could get Sir Alex Ferguson to kiss Mike Rotch?” (ROFLing….) “Could we….(turning redder than SAF hooter)
DM: “Listen, you. When I get a hold of you, I’m going to use your head for a bucket and paint my house with your brains!”
Bart laughs
If ‘holic isn’t around, good luck to anyone who eventually gets 200….
Is muttley/smuttley/cuntly/multi-name
deadly bored?
brainless?
Heh, Ollie. Glad to have someone sane around here still. You are hereby to be rewarded with one of my fav tracks for that – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovgQtbZRfO0
Cheers Toby!
I’ll keep an eye on Eandy’s fellow countryman in Watford’s game tonight.
AZ cup wjnners…
This will get messy!!!!
Evening all. Anyone else bored stiff with all this Fergie bollocks???? Today’s chip papers.
Toby, nice work above.
Puns are supposed to be howlingly bad, if done properly.
If not they wouldnt’ quite be puns, and we don’t any sort of cuntridiction like that round here, do we?
Lookout now, Norcal is pretty lethal with the puns – its his cunterritory you might say. What he could do with this thread wets the appetide.
And after that bit of awfulness … i’ll get my cunt. Er… coat.
Fergie bollocks and now Moyes bollocks Steve T.
Ollie – good thing to do, Vydra had really great season at Watford and hopefully will shoot them up to PL.
Have fun, H2Hic!
Good evening all.
I see you’re all enjoying the news of the past few days as much I am, let’s pray/hope/will the remaining days bring even more better news. Up The Arse.
H2H, why would a cup win make Messi go to AZ? 🙂
Speaking of bad puns, Lars 😉
Heh @137
Oh dear, Lars!
Spot on Ollie. It was news, now I am bored.
Oh dear. I think we need Trev to raise the bar again 🙂
As someone pointed out though, Steve, don’t worry, only a couple of weeks and it’s all about Mourinho.
*punches self*
hey holics .. something to let u guys think over..
talk of rooney to arsenal (pukes) .. but srsly.. would you have him if given a chance?
Steve, so you are saying that the media coverage hasn’t been the best it could have been? 🙂
Toby, was that even a pun? I thought I was just being facetious…
GPN, in one word : no.
GPN: I am not sure. It may just be that he’s stagnated at ManU and would benefit from a change of scenery but I don’t think he is that good anymore – well, compared to how good he used to be anyway – and even though he isn’t that old he has played at the top level for more than ten years and I wonder how motivated he actually is these days. He would command a high transfer fee and a huge wage and that money could probably be better spent on other players.
…and that is of course not even considering his general cuntishness.
Fair enuf ollie.. personally i would not want him here.. given his history.. but from a logical point of view ..erm… maybe.. given our options up front.. but it would def be a hard one to swallow
I can’t wait for that to all go belly up. How funny would that be? The Russian brings back that twat and he ends up mid table???? I think it is quite funny that the mancs clearly had no interested in him.
The special one????? My arse.
Lars. It has had a far too wider coverage for my liking????
I am a window-licking impersonator. So sad and lonely I have to resort to sending idiotic soundbites to people I don’t know every two minutes.
I really am that stupid.
haha Steve.
(the real one)
Haha, nice work in actually replacing the post, Master 🙂
Heh @157. 🙂
Heh@156 & 157!
Steve, I like your scenario@155.
Evening all,
All this ‘c*ntliness’ and ‘c*ntitude’ and ‘c*ntinue’ stuff is hardly paying
lip service to a proper pun. 😉
Sorry to be so critical of the fruits of your labias …… 😉
Good to be back punning again.
Normal cervix is resumed.
Never thought you’d actually go down that road, Trev, but after my last few bad ones, who am I to be clitical?
Where would we be without you Trev? 🙂
Steve T@155: it seems Fergie hand picked his successor. Can’t exactly see the special one working at OT with the purple-nosed one looking over his shoulder.
GPNB@149/Lars@152: I think Lars is on the right side of that argument. Plus big bulky players like Rooney tend to reach the apex of their abilities early and descend more vertiginously. Rooney gives every impression of having reached his plateau.
Right, back to the Fergie-talk apparently, that’s my cue, early day tomorrow. Sleep tight everyone! And nothing personal NBN!
Hehs @163-165. 🙂
Trev, get stuck in.
Is NBN joining in the puns here, or not ?
Talk of reaching plateaus and apexes …… Oo er. 😉
Ollie,
“Where would you be without me” ?
Well, you’re about to find out.
I’m off – to listen to my favourite Urethra Franklin album. 😉
Oh, Toby getting in a flap ? 😉
Hahas, goodnight, Trev.
Sweet dreams, Toby.
Clever Trevor
He ain’t an effin thickie…..
Heh @ Simpleton
To join in or not, Trev. Puts me in a sticky position.
I see we are leaving for bed at the same time, Trev, which almost made me at least think about asking the question vulvae-vous coucher avec moi, ce soi?. Then I decided against it.
Again, I am sorry, that was bad yet again. I really am leaving now. It’s just, we can’t all be cunnusseurs, now can we, Trev?
Hehs to Trev, Toby @ multiple places above. Very fanny.
Oxon, Ned 🙂
Toby, outraged ! 🙁
Great efforts above, Trev is still our undisputed punstar though.
Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan is the itinerary of Arsenal’s summer tour of Asia. I wouldn’t mind that itinerary for my summer vacation, just for the food alone.
“He was several orders of cuntitude worse than that other cunt”
So true, Lars. In fact you could say his level of cuntemptibleness outdid all his cuntemporaries by a cuntry mile. No cuntest really.
Oskar
Oskar, That is quite impressive. I almost went into cuntortions of laughter.
Trev may have to come out of retirement if anyone is going to challenge you.
Mmmm, delicious windows. Gotta lick ’em. Slurp.
Verily veritable, Verity, and you can add my name to the list and even yours plus the entire cast of Coronation Street if you like. Whether any of us could replace AW effectively is, however, another matter entirely.
Oskar
Did you really mean to add Del Bosque?? Lololololololololol…
Oskar
Leicester were one of the clubs I grew up watching in the old Division One, with Frank Worthington, he of the impressive facial hair, the main player. I wouldn’t mind seeing them up in the Premier League next year because they haven’t been around since I starting following things again. Nostalgia would demand they play at Filbert Street though.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22413989
Was that mooning against Derby or Coventry or something?
Arsenal coming to Japan 8ball? Yes! I will make sure to be there carrying a huge banner in tribute to the Tuesday Club or something 😀
As it look like I missed a large pun cuntfest earlier, I will merely thank Homer for the cuntpliment and move on.
Perhaps the wankers up seven sisters road would enjoy some space cake this weekend instead of the usual lasagna?
http://blog.foxsoccer.com/post/50050644347/16-fans-hospitalized-after-eating-space-cake-in
Cheers all.
ah, trev, such the cunning linguist…the rest of us are all wet,, left at rhe base of the mons…
so glad to see a list of potential Arsène replacements. too bad none of them are qualified to carry his hod.
seriously, norcal, you’d figure those Dutch could maintain better than that. they are lucky it was just Dutch space, and not norcal skunk!
Here I thought space cake is something you say you eat when you have no money at all…:D
Anyone hearing these rumours that Rooney is looking to bust out of Old Toilet? Not a big fan of Moyes apparently, libel case might have something to do with it…
Shrek, no thanks. Not for the Arsenal. Diving twat.
Anyone ever notice that one of Shrek’s kids in the movies was named Fergus? Coincidence?
An assist that really isn’t..
Cross from wide left…….
And in?
Should I “tabs it” just to make sure?
It looks like you will need a good ten more posts to be safe CoRs.
Hope all is well in the Far East.
Cheers mate.
Thanks for the assist NorCal! Just making up for lost time so to speak 🙂
The nightshift is as exciting as I left it!
Btw, I’m waiting to see how many gloryhunters in Japan stop “supporting” Manure now that the rednose cock has left the building…maybe around the world they’re buying new shirts for other teams as we speak ?
“Back In Control Of Our Destiny”, ‘holic? More like Normal Service Has Been Resumed, imo. 😉
Oskar
I think you should take the place down for a while mate. Might look like giving in, but this is fucking pointless.
My last word on SAF.
Michael Knighton thought he had bought United for £12 million in 1987. Now it is worth£2 billion plus,the most lucrative franchise ( hate that word ) in football. And his net spend was £13.5 million PA. as the Americans say do the math(what’s happening to me? )
Wenger has done something equally remarkable at Arsenal taking them from a value of say £50 million when he took over to £1 billion plus on a net spend of £2 million PA. And we built the Emirates in that period.
Both remarkable managers whether you like them or not.
Moyes would have pretty good figures at Everton too.
I think you know me better than that E.
No little cock-tucking saddo with no life is going to drive me out of anywhere.
You would think he would work out his best work is not going to be on display for long. He will go back to his home at Le Grove soon enough.
Now, can we hit the ignore button again please people. Thanks.
Before I forget, and I will remind people in the next piece, but Android users will find a link to Arthur’s updated version of the app by clicking on the Android logo in the sidebar.
Huge thanks to Arthur for whom the app is a labour of love, until I can see him again and force a pint or two down his neck!
Morning ‘Holics.
Or I guess I will say goodnight, see you chaps in the morning!
Arsenal TV trying to convince me to look at their new show called “One on One” by telling me this: “Jack Wilshere and Wojciech Szczesny will be drilling each other for your viewing pleasure”
Cheers.
Apparently it was drilling each other with questions and the last big one Wilshere asked Woj was quite good: “How proud were your family to see you play in Euro 2012?”
Then they both burst out laughing.
And there goes my chance at sleep…. Why do people only seem to get appendicitis in the middle of the night? Back to the salt mines….
Looks like you were right NorCal, foiled by the plucking of unwanted follicles it seems!
Hope everyone’s doing fine these days. Getting this new position has destroyed my free time during office hours but have more money now so pints all around!
Gotta to get out of here now, heading to the doctor for him to inspect my broken toe 🙁
Toby, I watched that interview, I couldn’t help laughing at that question too.
COR, congrats on getting the new position and new money, are you Arsenal in disguise?
Norcal, sorry mate, the pleasure/satisfaction of saving people’s lives should keep you going.
And I was almost sure NorCal was trying to get the punfest going again with salt mine…
Well in Oskar!
Slow day, Gooners and Goonerettes. Slow day.
Sitting at the Bluesquare data center in Maidenhead HP are are putting a new SAN in very slow day but at least it’s Friday 😀
Greetings
Happy Birthday Dennis, 44years today.My all time favourite player by a mile.
For those who haven’t seen it: Puma’s latest 😉
http://www.girondins.com/ev%C3%A9nement-maillot-atlantique-d%C3%A9voil%C3%A9.html
Fair play ‘holic. Point taken.
Every day is a slow day……
Is that a Morrissey parody? 😉
Ollie, kind of works, doesn’t it? With a mild degree of paraphrasing:
Trudging slowly over wet grass
Back to the bench where your clothes were changed
Sorting out someold papers I have found some very old Match Programmes I must have been given a while ago FA Cup final 1972, 1975 (not sure why), 1979, 1980
Now I am knee deep in the land of labia. 5am csection. It cunt wait?
Promise that’s it. I’ve douched it all out. 😉
Song dedicated to SAF, to the tune of Chim-Chim-Che-ree:
Cunt cuntery
Cunt cuntery
Cunt cunt-ery
This cunt is as cunty as cunty can be.
(Repeat ad infinitum.)
Afternoon all, from the left side of Boilk Grand Central.
Nice away day yesterday for the cup final, local team (AZ) won it, say no more. Couple that with Ajax, with Ajax (other local team) taking the League title Sunday and this has been quite a week here in Noord Holland, a nice distraction from all that Fergy bollox.
As others have alluded to, I think the timing of the anouncement is very bad, extreamly disrespectful to Everton, not to mention the rest of the league, who still have two games to go. Their squad has always seemed to be a pretty tight knit group, which was always credited to DM, what’s this going to do to team spirit? How will this effect thier last game with Everton and indirectly us? Why was it so important that this was anounced now? Why not when the season was done? Pretty sad really, but in keeping with the man who always reveled in the spotlight, it was always indeed about him and even with Moyes as
his puppethis replacement, it probably still will be. Who among us really believes that he will fade into the background? Me? Meh, not for a second.From the little I’ve been bothered to read about the whole subject, it seems the universal opinion is that Moyes is the perfect replacement for SAF, I personally can’t work out why this is. I’ve never understood the whole love in for a manager who has basicaly achieved fuck all. I mean, honestly, what’s he done? A top 4 finish and an FA Cup final, fuck me, ‘Arry did that too, but he managed to win the FA Cup and actualy get to the CL proper. Take a look at Moyes’ record against the top 4, I think you will be surprised to find that this “astute” manager has never managed to win an away game against any of those teams, not even a jammy one.
The way he’s (DM) been fawned over the last few years you would of thought that he was manager of Barnet and not on of the, at the time of the PL breakaway, so called Big Five, for our younger viewers that was Arsenal, Manure, L’poo, LWC’s and yes you guessed it, Everton. He never punched above his weight, unless you consider finishing above L’poo once or twice as success. Where are the cup wins, where is the european pedigree, where is any evidence that he has what it takes to take over probably the biggest job in English football?
I for one can only see this ending badly and I’m extreamly happy about it. 🙂
To be cuntinued………
Good call ‘holic @ 203.
Can’t let horrible twats dictate terms, I mean it’s not like you’re a ref and he’s SAF. 😉
128 minutes till pub time……
49 minutes till bedtime…..
All nighters without beer…..yup it’s as bad as it sounds.
Cheers all.
Oh and I agree with H2H. Moyes with money better be more aggressive than Moyes without money has been. He has been the epitome of playing for a draw this year.
Chortling at the puns (haven’t ever used that word before, took some courage 😉 ) Now Holic, if you are as underwhelmed by the well wishes at the bar, as I am…these suggestions might help your cold. Get thee a Neti Pot and rinse away (it works!). A scalp massage followed by a hot towel placed over your head, will make you feel better. Won’t help your cold, though 😉
Yes, the puns were almost getting out of cuntrol …
NorCal @190
Funny how stories can change;
http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1040/Den-Haag/article/detail/3436706/2013/05/05/Zestien-mensen-onwel-in-skybox-ADO-Den-Haag.dhtml
The Dutch version of events specificaly states that they were treated for food poisoning. Fox really is a disgusting channel.
Scruz, I’ll do the Pepsi challenge with your NorCal skunk any day of the week. The streets of Amsterdam are strewn with fully baked meerkans any given time and that is from the weak ass shit they sell the tourists. 😉
Good day today…..
Sun is out just checked my email and won 31 squid on Arsenal Lotto so Lars please put CC away 🙂
8ball@229, I thought a lot of them were rather cuntrived.
Fully baked meercans?
How long and at what temperature do we cook? 😉
Same as a meerkat? Them are tasty.
Night all.
About two minutes in a coffee shop with an average tempreture of 19*C. Thre or four good lugs usually does the trick.
Welterusten. 😉
If we persist with this line of punnery I will be forced to call the police:
“Excuse me, Cuntstable…………..”
Those jokes would not translate in this cuntry.
Do I even want to enter this bar? Will I understand anything¿¿¿
Catalan – Would not understanding be a good thing or a bad?
I cunt believe it!
Most certainly.
Victor Meldrew on an arsenal Blog?
One Foot in the Grove.
😉
Speaking of, H2H, this whole punfest has given a whole new meaning to The Grove.
Catalan, you won’t be alone if you don’t understand.
I must confess there are times when I don’t understand what a full paragraph written here is talking about, especially when BTM comes in with his Scottish English (is that what it is?) In times like that I just keep quiet safe in the knowledge that you’re all good men and wait for when the discussion turns to what I understand.
How’s that strategy working out for you Cent?
🙂 🙂
Media on Arsenal (last 8 years): trophies are the bottom line.
Media on Moyes (last 8 years): trophies aren’t everything.
N7 Gooner on media: bunch of strokers.
Oxon, Quite well mate, quite well.
N7, nice analysis.
Heh@241!
Afternoon Holics
First i will give respect were it is due and love him or hate him Fergie is a legend of the game and I doubt we will ever see such a record at one club ever again.
So to the more important matter of Arsenal having their fate totally in their own hands. If Chelski did beat the spuds we would have only needed 4 points from our last 2 games that would have helped me sleep a little better.
However they couldnt manage it and to rub salt and vinager into the wounds they let greedybayour score which brought his tally to 4 goals this season. *what a legend*
No matter if we win both our games there is nothing they can do but watch on a remember the 7 point gap they had over us not that long ago hahahahahaha.
I think against wigan AW should drop the german from leading the line as he just dosent seem to be at the races latley, but please dont replace him with Gervinho. Giroud we need you, were are you ? It wasnt a red card anyway.
looking forward to the Holic season review soon and what other Holic`s think but till then.
COME ON YOU GUNNERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Arsenal 1971 @ 249 knows!
Scruz, I’ll do the Pepsi challenge with your NorCal skunk any day of the week. The streets of Amsterdam are strewn with fully baked meerkans any given time and that is from the weak ass shit they sell the tourists. 😉
h2h, remember, we don’t export the good stuff, so even the better strains of dutch skunk are, shall we say, mid table in comparison 🙂 and baked americans are SO easy to make, you know how it is, they’re pre-mixed. not like baking dutch from scratch.
as for a pepsi challenge, that’s a couple of days worth of time, hard to tell after the sip of the first one, no?
as for a little dutch skunk, i’d rather see him busted by the authorities. he and his little fucking boy inside.
trophies, n7? you’d think the meedja whores cunt think of anything else when it comes to arsene. expectations, i suppose, i wonder how long fungus will wait before calling in his first favor to the pgmol when mancs are in danger of going without a trophy…
It’s like riddles on here sometimes 🙂
Fully baked meerkans? Not a pretty image. 😉
Scruz, personally, I’m counting down to the day Moyes and Fergie will clash because of tactics and team selection, it’s inevitable.
cent, fully agree. as long as fungus is there, the spectre of decline will hover over any manager. happened with busby, and, unless the gods are good to us, would happen with arsene upstairs as well, unless the manager and he were in some sort of telepathic harmony (that’s why i think klopp would be a good candidate…if anyone could get telepathic with arsene, it’d be him, based on dortmund’s style of play and his ability to spot talent). having managerial legends in the team’s closet is hard enough on any managers to follow, but when they’re in a position of higher authority and advising to those with the purse strings, well, it’s a recipe for baked skunk.
how do you like this image of baked meerkans, bt8b?
(sfw, btw)
http://content.clickbooq.com/3358/photos/b1c17491d0.jpg
Heh scruz,
I’ve been looking at that pic for 10 minutes and I still can’t decide.
Just popping back for further consideration. 😉
Agreed Scruz, I believe Arsene’s best position, if he must continue with us, after been our manager would be that of the head of our academy, that way his eyes for a talent will still benefit us immensely.
Heh @ Trev, I don’t think there is a time limit, take your time. Personally, I’d like ’em face south and arse north.
trev, i can believe it. i do appreciate your ability to deliberate. take your time, you cunt make a considered decision without review.
cent, that would be an outstanding position for him, i agree. he could still have input, and work *with* the manager without challenging him for domination.
the mind boggles, moyes-like, at the “discussions” those two scots will have, with no doubt as to who would come out on top. i wonder if beckham’s other boot is still available?
Heh!
One serious word.
Man United announcing Moyes as the bully’s successor two games BEFORE the end of the season, is typical of their complete disregard and disrespect for all the other clubs in the league.
Absolutely no need to do it yet at all, other than to guarantee a bigger send off for the Scottish bloke at his final home game. Bugger everyone else.
As usual, Ferguson must, at all cost, be the main event.
Classy club ?
My Arse.
Scruz. Expecting fully only to mean little more than half, I was wondering where to find some such fully baked meerkans. Not in Minnesota, surely? 🙂
It is a beautiful sight.
Deep black at the bottom , and as the eyes rise toward the top of the glass (ok plastic), the head is forming in what looks like a primordial rusty brown cloud, soon to settle as a striking blonde: a perfectly formed pint of Guinness.
I am in my local, but closing my eyes I see myself sat in the Tollington on Tuesday, heading back to the Grove for the last home game of the season, just as I did the first.
Bookends.
When the team trotted out in August I was full of nervous energy (aka Guinness) and wide-eyed anticipation of what lay ahead. A damp squib in the shape of a goal-less draw against Sunderland set the tone for another frustrating season. The highs have been few and far between, though perhaps understandably so, given we are a side/squad, going through a period of transition. Nevertheless, the pain of going out of the domestic cups to 2 no-mark teams, and the clusterfuck defending at the Lane, is only slowly receding.
With our 3 new signings requiring time to settle, (or play through an injury – Lukas) and youngsters having to step up (or getting over an injury – Jack/Aaron), or losing form (Woj), then the fact that we are still within sight of a Champions League spot suggests a resilience that I might not readily associate with this current version of The Arsenal. The recent sequence of results (post Bayern) might even imply to some that the season is coming to an end at the wrong time.
But not me – I want the 6 points in the bag quickly (however that comes about) so we can concentrate on the rebuild required and source some quality additions to the squad in what could be (another) pivotal Summer. I like the idea that we are being linked with a right back, a goalkeeper and a striker (all with a pedigree of sorts). Tell me we are going to find a new Gilberto and I will be made up. I might even start to get excited about a friendly in Vietnam if you were to tell me that we will have successfully completed our shopping by then.
Ferguson retiring, if it does not act as a catalyst itself, will certainly shine a light on the upcoming transfer activity of Chelsea and Manchester City. I don’t see them paying a blind bit of attention to FFP and I think they will be spending big again this summer whilst gleefully rubbing their hands at Moyes’ appointment. Hopefully we will also see this as an opportunity and free ourselves of our normal conservatism, and buy the players we need and really give it a go next term.
But before then, Wigan on Tuesday.
Business in the Capital, Business at the Tollington.
Bookends.
That, my friend, would have made a quality post 😉
Heh cheers H – just whiling away some time wondering what the hell I can do tomorrow with no football to watch and Roxette being fully aware of that particular fact 🙁
Top work, zico!
Played Dr Z.
Quality.
Great stuff, zico.
Nice post, Zico. What to do this weekend? Go shopping with Roxette, buying new shoes never hurts anyone, at least not Roxette. 😉
That zico knows how to use a pen then. For a jambo.
Haha Esso 🙂
You guys…… 🙂
Cent, keep your voice down….. 😉
Bohs lose. Bah.
But deh bohses fans sang dere hearts out for deh lads
In a Traveller Stylee?
Fine stuff, zico.
nicely penned, z. perhaps buying shoes with roxette (whispered) would get you a bit more freedom when you need it? or is she more like a boat?
Finally the Daily Mail is good for something.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322228/How-Stephen-Hawking-boycott-Israel-makes-microchip-enables-talk-By-DOUGLAS-MURRAY.html
That description of guiness just made me regeet my choice of Jever Pilsener. Hot a d sticky here In The city of brotherly love and its only fucking may 10.
A nkce crisp pils is like summer in a glass. But my blood thpe is Type Guiness positivr. Oh the conflict!
Got me a new fangle iphone 5.
Supposedly rhe keys are a little larger due to the bigger screen so one commits fewer typos.
I can report, however , that is total crap.
Shouldn’t really take up the bandwidth for such a frivolous drink as this but I hadn’t heard it before and found it interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUOO148S5lU
been ‘forced to listen to paul simon’ by herself
jeez louize
strange one
–
was never a fan
nor was i indeed ever – a – to be as eloquent as tabs – one
.
jeez
.
*swoons*
.
you had your chance trev
–
you tried
and
you failed
8ball.
That post … Odd and oddly magnetic. Found myself watching neay the while thing.
Internet and tume wasting – blood brothers!
Cheers sir!
Well done Stephen Hawking, no politician but something better – a man of principle.
Oskar
i spent the sundown
in the hollow
.
to the left
miles away
huge mountain – wee red lights twitching atop
.
to the front
wee lights twitching red also
.
to the right
just a wee while ago
in cinematic style
cows – times 3 – silhouetted against the atlantic sky – came into view
i’m guessin they’ve scorcesed
.
no wee red lights
as
one of the greatest living livers said
i’m just beginning to live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4CFDvjPiM&noredirect=1
aww
sweet mother
didn’t watch it
turn the pictures off
and just listen
fuck a diddle dumpling
–
what a blunder
i’m too idle to wait til the 3 ton
so
i’ll retrospectively congratulate myself for the ton and
the soon to be
3 ton
.
*hits long low hard one*
*waits*
a pox on anyone who three tons !
a pox
a pox i tells ya !
i bet it’s ollie
go on
deny me
i’ve got a sore big toe
*bats eyelids*
yup
Cheers, Homer. 🙂
And cheers, can’t be arsed, you have a great poetic gift. 🙂
proper sore
throb
knocks one in for bt8 !
wall pass for Homer?
I’ll take a swing of the leg and a hope in my heart.
BANG
feckin typical !
heh cba, unlucky. Well in NorCal.
So, will they have a minute of silence before the FA Cup final for Funguscunt?
Nutter.
Lovely, lovely nutter 😉
Morning all!
Well in Norcal.
Cba, unlucky but absolutely great effort, try again for the 4 Ton.
Stupid kick-off times. If I go out to watch the FA Cup game, I’ll miss most at least one half of the Bordeaux game (with the new shirt 😉 )
CBA
You must if been at it all night you deserved it poet… 🙂
Cousin invited me to go and watch the game with him probably not a very good idea?
Cuntski Cuntski Cuntski…..
This could get really ugly for a lot of people….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/may/10/spanish-doping-doctor-reveal-sports
cba – Hahahaha. 🙂
Wang
a
dang
a
dang
doo
dang
dang.
Spring in my step.
Thank you – brilliant.
ATG, do you think they could give us the 2006 Champions League trophy as a result? 😉
Anything is possible Ollie 🙂
Well in NorCal. Think you benefited from some glorious build-up play there.
Cba rightly claims the glory position at 301 😉
Arthur @307 – Let’s hope so. I’m guessing many people deserve to be named and shamed.
Ollie – If there was any justice in this wicked world of ours …
Come on Wigan (just for one day).
Why isn’t Cba swooning over me?
It’s not fair. 🙁
I knew from the start of this whole melancholy it’s like opening a can of worms…
TABS
Come on Villa too!
Now if Shakespeare wrote about the happenings of the past few weeks he will probably do it like this http://t.co/z3HwAeEkK5
Indeed Arthur!
I was forgetting my priorities there. I’ve pretty much given up on us catching Chelsea. Have always thought it was all about us and the Spuds.
Can’t see a safe Villa getting anything out of the Chavs, but you’re right, you never know.
Come on Villa!
Wonder how much of the Villa game I will get to see before being hauled off on the Saturday shop?
*tightens studs in preparation for the big four tonner*
easy wolfster!
a tight stud is no invitation for vulgarity
About this time last year we needed Villa to take points off the Totts…and they did it. Just saying like.
cba, great stuff as always 🙂
tabs, I have to say I wouldn’t put it past Villa to get something from this game. Chelsea looked totally knackered for the last ten minutes (which was all I saw) on Wednesday and Villa on their day can play some really good stuff. I wouldn’t bet on it, but I think Villa have a significantly better chance of producing a bit of an upset than Stoke do tomorrow. Stoke have been awful for months.
H2H @ 224
Spot fucking on in every single respect.
Respect, heh, as in what you deserve mate 😀
So the eulogies are done: Chewy McPurplenose, best manager ever, can’t deny it of course.
However.
Good. Fucking. Riddance. Best news I’ve heard in AGES, absolutely delighted to see the back of that bullying, cheating, hypocritical cunt.
Good luck Moyes, you’ll need every single bit of it that comes your way. As some mutli-named twat on here the other week said, he’s outperformed Wenger for many years, but omitted to mention by what measure.
Trophies? No.
League position? Wrong again.
Brilliant manager my arse. Solid, definitely, unspectacular, that’s for damn sure.
Happy Saturday all! (Malaga this week was lush, since you ask)
“mutli-named”?
Multi, shurely!
Moyes to Yannited.
Good career move?
Consider this:
All the forces of good are now against him.
BENTEKE!
Bentekeeeeee!!!!
Camberwell. What happened when the cash ran out in Malaga? 😉
Come on Villa!
That was a rather brilliant goal. Completely wrong-footed first Cahill and then Cech.
Not at my cousins I would jump with joy now 😉
Benteke! Lovely goal. Felt quite a bit like a Walcott-goal, when it all clicks for him.
Chelski under kosh come on Villa
No Toby, that’s no Walcott goal at all.
I agree CB , Walcott just smashes it…. this was well placed!
I do feel for Petrov though! Stay healthy fella!
Wrong phrasing Cent. What I would like from Walcott. Running at the defender, no silly dribbling, wrong foot, get around and one of those clinical finishes they always talk about (and what he does more and more!)
See what I mean? Directness, speed, calmness. If I where to describe how I want Walcott to evolve, it is into those three words.
Don’t agree that Walcott smashes it though. He really has started placing his shots, more often than not towards the far post though. He just hasn’t scored that many of those tries yet :p
Toby
Semi smash then 🙂
Heh. Fair enough.
These polish commentators on Canal+ Sport are bunch of cunts….
Always dissing my Arsenal!
According to the Beeb:
Top goalscorers in Europe’s top five Leagues in 2013 to date:
1 – Messi (20)
2 – Ronaldo (19)
3 – Benteke (14)
And oh, remember this, from last november?
‘Arsenal are the club I love,’ Benteke said. ‘I like their philosophy of selecting young players and, besides, they had Thierry Henry.
‘For me he is the best player in the world and was my boyhood idol. I’m not afraid of making enemies at Villa by saying I love Arsenal.’
Toby, I agree with your 335. Did you see how Benteke plucked that ball from the sky with his chest? The moment he did that, laid it off and made his run, he was already half-way towards scoring that goal, Theo will do well to learn those other IMPORTANT things.
Phew, Guzan almost gifted Chelsea a goal there…
Toby I remember reading that article too.
Lars he did save it that’s two massive saves for him so far…let’s hope it continues for the rest of the game!
Benteke would certainly add quality and goals to our front line.
Fergie never won the Champions League, with the richest club in the world, yet everyone goes on how great a manager he was.
I wouldn’t mind him at Arsenal tbh
Bath and ATG agreed.
I see Benteke wants to add ‘Cunt’ to his C.V.
Bennett just saved Aston Villa big time.
That elbow was rather cheeky 🙂
The only think you’d have to wonder about Benteke is how he would cope with having less space than he generally gets at Villa. But I think he would handle that quite well, he is a rather big and strong lad after all.
Not just by the tackle but by the way he made the cutback a hard option to attempt. Well done.
That should indeed have been a red, Toby.
I’m sure this polish commentator is “CUNTSKI”
Oooh, that could very well have been a red for DoGSO for Cunterry…
Well, that first ‘o’ should of course also have been capitalised.
How is that dangerous play when a player dives in?
Ramires sent off!
Ramires is offfffffffffffffffffffffff
Red for Ramires…
Yeah. Could have gone either way for Terry there. Ah, I don’t mind him being on the pitch when they have lost after 90 minutes.
Heh, and now we’ve got another Chelsea player off anyway.
bt8 @ 326
It was tough going I tell you. I had to do a fire sale of some of my finest assets: San Miguel, paella and gambas a la plancha!
I also sold the rights to my unborn daughter.
#sustainablyrunfamily
ATG, Ramires got there late and was a bit out of control.
Terry pushing it…
Very good first half by Villa there, more of that in the second half, please.
Come on Villa, GET IN!
Lars
I was meaning Cahil’s diving header in cuntski’s box Benteke raised his foot that was all and they got the free kick!
Must say I’m really glad we’re not facing Aston Villa right now. I won’t heap praise on them being the best team in the world or anything, but they really seem to be what I would like to call “a handful”. Some dirty tricks, a power+skillful forward, lots of speed on the flanks, a calmness through the entire team, a seemingly good understanding for when to retain possession and when to counter. Not in any way shape or form the best performance I’ve seen from a team this season, but that kind of performance that is really hard to tackle.
Well, Villa 1-0 up and Chelsea a player down. Chelsea have, apart from a few minutes around the half-hour mark, look very lethargic and I’m starting to wonder if their rather relentless playing schedule is starting to take it’s toll.
I am not, however, in any way banking on Villa to win this game at this moment. What they absolutely must not do is start to fall back and just try to defend their lead. Chelsea are struggling badly to build their game from the back so Villa must not let them take half the pitch uncontested because then Mata will eventually find Ba or someone and they’ll score.
Heh @363.
*warms up on the touchline*
*celebratory alan sunderland perm and tache combo in place*
fans go wild
*stretches*
*jogs on the spot*
*waits for the nod*
“Surely the boy cba can make it this time”
“Surely”
.
“He’s on !”
Spot on Lars. Good half time team talk for Villa.
Lars
Dont jinx it please you’re spoiling all the fun 🙂
CBA
Almost for the 4th ton mate getting ready…..
Nearly there….
Lars, I’ve watched Villa a few times this season and I not seen them park the bus when they go ahead, I don’t think they will start doing that today.
ATG @307
I wouldn’t hold your breath concerning Puerta’s revelations.
If paying him will make him tell all,paying him will also provide a selective memory.
ATG, not jinxing anything here, that’s why I am trying to tell Villa what they need to do to hold on to the points 🙂
45 minutes from third place being ou…
No, can’t say it. Wait for it…
COME
ON
VILLA
Cent, I agree they don’t usually park the bus and I don’t think they’ll deliberately set out to do that but it’s easy to start becoming scared of losing the lead. They are at this point safe from relegation, are one man up and all of a sudden have something to lose so if they start becoming scared of dropping points they may retreat too far.
washed up in france @377
I think everyone should know the truth!
Of course he wants to be paid well but it was the athletes who came to him to start with. I’m sure he wasn’t waving his magic drugs on his door step.
Come on I think if one goes down those who contributed should be punished too!
*high fives ATG ,toby ,gloomy lars and cent*
*waves to north bank and re-sticks loose tache*
*prepares for glory*
Agreed lars.
Zico, ‘Bookends’ , enjoyed that very much. Not convinced by the Villains clearing thus far…and yes Benteke should have bent sent off. Ramires unlucky with that 2nd yellow. Fingers crossed Villa doesn’t blow this …
Lars
Are you coming around for the ORANGE JUICE?
*smiles and shakes head in disbelief at cba*
At this moment we’re just a Giroud hat trick and two wins away from BtMs premonition. Oh, and a trophy, but we’ll just have to win an extra one next season.
Agbonlahor’s selfishness is turning into plain stupidity.
Wasting too many opportunities to kill this.
Hehs @363 and 372 (Camberwell and cba)
Villa about to do one on Chelski??
Cent’Berry
Should have crossed it !
But MF work rate fantastic.
They’re all trying to win the MoTM by been selfish.
CBA
Are you around for the nod in?
Careless idiot!
Fuck, Benteke sent off. Really stupid thing to do. Chelsea now very much back in it.
Oh dear what a div it has to be said!
I knew it. Loose cannon.
Heh, Benteke off. And really deserved it by now. Even if the challenge was on Terry.
might knock me tache off but i’ll give it a go
*Goes for the rebound if Holic has to delete previous drinks*
It has to be said Terry made a meal out of it
Hopefully he will learn from that.
Orange juice, ATG? Well, who am I to say no? 🙂
Bollocks.
Benteke you stupid idiot.
It was coming 🙁
And now Lampard scores…
Of course this was the way it would go.
Right, back to work for me. Have fun ‘holics!
Lars
I meant blood transfusion you nutter! (fuentes in disguise)
And it was a deflection, of course. Lampard must be the luckiest fucker ever to play in the Premier League. Has he ever scored a goal (except for penalties perhaps) that wasn’t deflected???
This would be a great training video. On what NOT to do. Will no team do us a favour. 🙁
He was bound to score at some point.
Cba that is. Lampard was for fucks sake not bound to score at all. Sillyvilla.
and Villa have fucked it!
Come on Villa.
Dig deep.
ATG, I did get that, I was just trying to be funny 🙂
ATG re Puerta
What I am saying is that if Barca and Real were to turn up with a suitcase of dosh,he would still tell his story but forget everything concerning Real and Barca players.
I’m all for the truth coming out but have huge doubts over Puerta’s integrity.
shine somewhat taken off glory by events elsewhere
feckin lampard hoor
Oh, well in cba!
Arsene said sometime this season that Villa’s main problem this season will be/is having too many kids in the starting eleven; they spend most of the game doing good stuffs then a mistake from one of the kids ruins it all.
WUIF
Too right you certainly have a point in all of this but I think he will be killed before that happens!
Can they bribe him just like that again?
416 Fuentes not Puerta
I should be shown the door for that blunder
Got to be off in a few minutes so won’t be able to see the whole game. But after Benteke got himself sent off Chelsea have looked far more confident so that may be just as well.
It crossed the line.
Right, not watching anymore of this. Don’t want to see chelscunts score the winner. Laters, lovers of the Arse!
have a good one Lars………….
Villa sitting deep just like Lars predicted. Not looking good here.
Very Well in Cba!
Have a good day Lars.
“exactly cent , is there anything this young lad can’t do”
.
*finishes pint bottle of milk*
*drives off in fur seated mark iv cortina*
lars nose
It’s not over yet. Going to be some long stoppage time after people on the pitch and Terry’s injury. But yeah, that was third place. Probably. Definitely. Maybe.
Bugger!
Rushed to put the telly on having skimmed through from 280 expecting to see Villa ahead and …… 1-2 Chavs. 🙁 🙁
Yep. Villa threw it away really.
F#$king Fat Frank 🙁
Ah well, hopefully we can get a favour tomorrow. And if not, it’s up to us anyway.
Lars jinxed it
Lars jinxed it
and someone followed they unbelievable!
Anyways still in our hand hope shreks will do the business tomorrow than again it could be a hat fest at The Britannia tomorrow!
Time to get some tyskie in me!
Toby I can’t believe it mate…come on move along now!
Cambs@whatever, way up – surely mulit-name boy? Anyway, he’s back with a brand new, amusing (not) monniker. Do go away old chap. Pretty please?
COYG
@ 440 who ever you are!
FUCK OFF! Have you not got anything better to do? Suck a lolly or your thumb but do fuck off please!
Jesus these bloody pests! 😉
Well, that was expected, the Chavs have made sure that they can’t be caught be the LWC’s and we have to do the same. Simple really.
Right I’m off to The Hague, got a reunion gig from a club I used to do. Time to suck the gut in and do my thang.
Enjoy your day ‘holics.
Well unlike those classless manc cunts, at least Villa gave it a proper go.
And I can already give you the red-top headlines fir tomorrow: “From hero to Villain”.
But now some beer in the sunny weather!
@ 446 of course I wouldn’t have it any other way!
ATG@444:
i) Well in for the quadruple-Nelson;
ii) You’ve spoiled my scientific experiment to see whether MNB would, err, as you put it, fuck off if asked nicely – I did, you didn’t and he didn’t. However, it’s completely impossible to isolate cause from effect. Sigh, I’ll have to set up a completely new trial.
OG
I have given up now please do try out your trial now the sooner the better…..
Now the beer is calling!!!!!!
its bloody tippin it down here lars
trip to pub for beer gonna be a wet one
.
a huge convoy of bikes just went past my window
the sound of noisy spluttering exhausts brought me to look out past the curtain
not the up for a fight hells angels i was expecting
despite being astride fat-wheeled low slung laid back hogs
many were wearing hi-vis jackets over their leathers
.
altamont woulda been a much safer operation had these tearaways been in charge
446 – How original. You must have racked your brains for ages to come up with that gem.
Run along now junior, you’ve got algebra homework to finish off and we don’t want your milk getting warm.
Oh dear, they’ve left the asylum door unlocked again.
@457 and various…
Your posts are becoming quite pedestrian…jog on fella.
Shouldn’t fall for it, but what the hell, this day hasn’t gone exactly as planned anyways, so I might as well frolic about with the troll(s?)
MNB, talk about being an armchair general falling for an “article” that included the line “I don’t pay taxes, so I already have more money than I know what to do with.”
Hey people, I think you should stop quoting numbers 😉
Although well in at 400 cba this time, seems legit!
Heh, sadly enough for me, Ollie. Was hoping that going for the rebound would net me the goal in the end, but I looked back and yes, that goal seems legit.
Oh, and MNB, not to mention: “The team we built is simply too good,” he continued. “This is why we are bringing in Pep Guardiola next season. Hopefully with a manager less experienced than Jupp Heynckes who cares more about possession than scoring hundreds of goals, there will be closer matches and more drama on the pitch. If not, we will have the players do actual work by cleaning the homes of ticket holders after matches.”
Mmmm, that’s window-lickin good
*wants to say it was a team effort but knows it was all about me and me alone*
*takes garland from bikini clad supermodel and throws it down to lessers from the open top bus*
*gloats and gloats well*
I don’t want to reach the half millenium of posts this way…
Dont feed the trolls!
Right, I’m off to the pub (I’ll miss most of the Bordeaux game then, if not all….)
Camberwell, someone whill have to count how many posts to be removed.
Tricky, especially if one is for isntance ‘replaced’ like yesterday :p
Good luck folks, I’ll miss it :p
Whaky and MarbleHall your ip address are now known to me not just your isp but where you really are, any chance of revealing it to us?
one more post and I will infect your pc! For good that is!
Tkae fucking hike big man! 🙂
The power of polish silver! 😀
IF you refuse that implication will occur!
CBA 5th ton is coming along!
Apologies i have taken too many posts!
S’oroite
Ollie enjoy the pub mate!
CBA are you near for the 5th ton?
Drinking, Arthur? 😉
Good to see Ollie here for les Girondins updates.
Yes Holic… 🙁
😀
By the how did you know heh?
I’m Polish come on …………..
One weekend in a while it’s good for the soul they say….. 🙂
Coom-onn-Weeegan.
Apologies mate should have said the app will in Polish next time around!
:):):):)
You know apologies aren’t necessary mate. I’m trying to catch you up now…
Holics please ignore me please
Holic wisniowka is waiting for you toooooooooooooo
So the big question is: Watch the live feed of a few ‘nauts (not sure where they hail from) repairing the ISS which is very soothing (watching people work always is, watching people work in giant suits in apparent slow motion even more so) or watch the FA-cup final?
Third option: Try to make sense of ATG. Have one on me mate!
Yum Arthur 🙂
Congratulations the FA with Budweiser for taking all of the emotion out of Abide With Me. That was utter gash.
You heard it then did you Holic?
Americanised it – offensive even for a Scot.
At least that broad flashed her tits.
This sounds wrong, but we kind of need a man city win.
If they can come back from a losing position to take it to extra time, then beat Wigan on pens, Wigan will be physically tired and emotionally drained. Just how we want them on Tuesday.
It does sound wrong but you are probably correct – that would be the best scenario for us. However exhausting et and pen shoot out win with anticlimax of having to fight for survival might do just as well.
On the other hand, seeing that filthy band of mercenaries getting showed up for the gold diggers they are would be deeply, deeply satisfying.
Also true Bath, in fact the way I see it, most outcomes are reasonably desirable today.
The left breast in close up threatened to save the abomination, that is true bath 😉
Come on Wigan. I won’t be supporting you twice this week so reap the benefits now. Martinez seems to be a decent bloke, too. I wish some of the football announcers would at least make an attempt to pronounce his name correctly.
It is a downgrade of the FA Cup Final to kick off at 17.00 even had there been no competing Prem games. Presumably this is for the Merkan TV market?
Wigan not playing that bad are they?
We don’t need another left back but Espinoza of Wigan looks a good player.
Except for the defending. Doesn’t look at all like they will keep a clean one.
Might well be down to the Mancs having quite a formidable attack though.
They’re doing all right so far. Need to work harder – get tireder.
Boom – http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/17/article-0-16FDE2D8000005DC-128_306x423.jpg
well in Toby
Toby @ 500
Aw
Sweet
Looks like a midget – oh!
Now you’re just posting several posts for the eventuality that ‘Holic has do do some cleaning. Poacher.
Never crossed my mind TBH.
Looks like I’m the only one not watching the FA cup.
This mcmanaman for Wigan is tearing clichy a new one.
I hate to sound like a doom mongrel but if we play with the hand brake on on Tues Wigan will do us.
Lets hope the players are watching this game and have noticed how shite Shitty were in he first half and the problems it was causing.
Come on Wigan and make make sure you pour Holic the best polish vodka in the house!
If we win on Tuesday that’s all that matters, handbrake on or no.
Hopefully Wigan now go all the way and win after an energy sapping extra time and penalties. Then party til the small hours of Monday. Then have Lasagne as a hangover lunch.
Wigan up!
If they play like this against us, I fear the worst.
And goodbye Mancini, of course.
Man City – hahahahaha. That is all.
Well I’ll be fecked – it wuz Wigan wot won it!
So, will this make them more confident on Tuesday or will they be so mentally drained they will have nothing to offer? The answer will be given in about 72 hours, I guess.
Man City – a collection of players, not a team.
Most of the City players look like they’re thinking “well, now that’s over, can we go home now?” as if it was a kickabout in a park and not a final they’ve just lost.
The onus is, as always, on us to win the game against Wigan. On our day we can beat any team in the whole world, we just have to make that day our day.
TAXI FOR NASRI.
Have that you oily cunts.
Way to go Latics but on tuesday – It’s relegation time!
Pelligrini must have just contacted his bank manager about that overdraft he’s been running….
Is it still mathematically possible for Wigan to lose against us and stay up?
Fuck what it means for Tuesday night, If you can’t enjoy Wigan beating the oil twats in a cup final then where’s the joy in life?
Now come on you Orc bas’tids.
I am still a window-licking saddo with nothing better to do all day than share my limited intellect with you.
Oh, do fuck of MNB you boring little man.
off, even
Arsene please replay this match before training tomorrow so the lads know what await them on Tues. especially the first half if they don’t get their arse into gear quickly enough.
No slacking. No hand brake.
Congrats Wigan.
Fuck off Shitty and Mankini
N7 Gooner speaks truth.
So does Oxon.
Wigan need at least 4 points so they, or we, are kind of screwed. Sadly.
So true N7!
Wigan are one of a few clubs in the PL that I do not hate, and always thought that they play the right way with Martinez in charge.
As for Shitty, what a season for them. Lots of money spent in the summer but no real quality reinforcements in, early exit from the CL, Mancini fights with Balloteli, lost the title in mid April, and now lost the FA Final to Wigan.
I am sure Nasri enjoyed their season. In front of his TV.
No they don’t need 4 points. They simply need to beat Villa by 2 and reverse the goal difference disadvantage.
Clichy ripped to spreads. Nasri hooked off because he believes is own hype.
I have made two trips to Wigan over the years for away games with the kids. Always been good trips, always been good people, always very hospitable. Good luck to them. Let’s hope we turn them over on Tuesday and they beat villa on the last day to stay up.
Taxi for mankini??????
Maureen to Manciti? Truly a marriage not made in heaven.
COYG
Proper football team, Steve T.
Mancini has been a dead man walking since Xmas, and the players know it.
It’s written all over them.
Shame, as he’s a pony manager who could start a fight in an empty dressing room and I was hoping the Mancs hadn’t noticed.
Hm, looks like it may be true Bath. Looks like it might well be true.
Somebody confirm if Ryo Miyachi will get an FA Cup winners medal.
…and for those of you who didn’t feel sufficiently queasy hoping for Chelski to win on Wednesday… Please charge your glasses and drink to the Orcs.
FOYS
I didn’t see him in the group going up for medals. If he wasn’t in the squad, he will not get a medal.
Well said Oxon.
Come on you nasty, mutant, knuckle dragging thugs.
“Last three managers to win the FA Cup all called Roberto”
I better apply for the Everton job then 🙂
Well done Wigan. Now off you go and celebrate.
Forget Lasanga. Lars wallet + celebrating Wigan players could be a deadly combination.
And is there perchance any possibility for Wenger to add a Roberto to his name?
Heh @521
Congratulations to Wigan! Well deserved.
Their injury depleted squad had started to show signs of running out of steam when Zabaleta got the second yellow. They have put in some hard work today and even though they will carry the confidence and some adrenaline getting into the match against us, as long as we put in a disciplined high pressing game we should be able to create enough chances especially as the game progresses and they start tiring.
After their performance today, Arsenal players should have no complacency and some extra motivation (if any more motivation was needed).
Not the most brilliant day for a Gooner. Wigan were brilliant in the first half at the Emirates last year. This will lift them enormously . we need to get at them early doors. No pratting around with a half-fit Podolski. Theo down the middle and Ox on the wing. Its going to be a tough night and any sort of win will do. We may regret not having a proper defensive midfield player -as several have said no handbrake and a high tempo early doors.
Didn’t think Villa would hold on but then I’m a pessimist. I just hope the Orcish scum can do the decent thing tomorrow.If they did win we would only need two points from our last two games….but that really is wishful thinking!
Bath, I think they will send him his medal, apparently he made a five minute cameo in the third round.
Next season: Utd – new manager, Chelsea – new manager, City – new manager.
Love it. Starting from the scratch.
A day in which Man City are made to look stupid is a decent one in my book.
Not to forget Everton that will get somewhat of a fresh start as well after so many years with Moyes. In fact, as it looks now, 4 of the current top 6 teams will change manager for the next season.
Really looking forward to next season, actually. Whatever happens things will have changed a bit and that’s always fun. Me and MNB are both on the HT!
The game – the Potters’ last of the season at home – has been designated as the Club’s 150th Anniversary Celebration match.
A host of events, culminating in a parade of more than 80 ex-Stoke stars, will take place ahead of kick-off when Tony Pulis’ men will look to secure their second successive home win and a third victory in four Premier League outings.
Oh, boy.
Nope
Yes. Money is the key to prolonged success. Without money – no football club. I agree. So let us use our money wisely so that we are still here in 50 years, and let us look for opportunities to bring more money in. Let us also, preferably, not use money that do not have anything to do with football, i.e. money that comes from rich people using the blood, sweat and lives of poor people working under hazardous circumstances, in countries without working democracies, to bring themselves wealth. In other words, can we please, as far as possible, refrain from having the blood of russian or arab workers on our (possible) trophies and instead win them with, you know, blood and sweat on the pitch.
I’m very, very aware of the importance of money in football. I am also very, very aware of the importance of money in society, and I just can’t take it so lightly as to want to waste money, made by people working outside of unions, on something so pitiful as a fucking peace of big ears for a trophy cabinet in London.
Lets.
‘Let the spending do the talking for us’ yea! You know like it just did for City.
i’m too idle to wait til the 3 ton
so
i’ll retrospectively congratulate myself for the ton and
the soon to be
3 ton
.
*hits long low hard one*
*waits*
cut and oops paste
‘
the 6 is mine
you scurvy dogs
(in the politest non- vitamin based way)
so
toby
or
should i call you
.
toby
–
big 500 man , eh
.
its good but it’s no
(whatever the hundred i did earlier)
.
that’s you schooled boyo
.
sorry i had to unleash the full heft of my intellect on you
i just felt it needed it
–
although i wouldn’t recommend kneading felt
you’ll end up with a most unsatisfactory loaf
Lads, lasses and village idiot, there is a new blog. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
I have just been out and had the radio on in the car. Citeh fans on the radio moaning and whinging. Not an ounce of humility. All moaning about the strength of their squad and how they need to spend. “We need to buy Cavani, Bale and Wilshire.” What an arrogant bunch of tossers. Deluded ignorant twats.
Spot on Bath. The victors today were the proper football club. The spoilt brats have been sent packing.
All my love goes out to you cba.
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