Tee-Hee As Matty Beats Sorry Spurs
Sep 23rd, 2015 by 'holic
Arsene made ten changes from the side that started at the bus stop in Fulham but the side was packed with experience. Per Mertesacker was joined by Calum Chambers in the middle of the back four, protected by Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini.
The early jousting went to and fro with Joel Campbell featuring on the right hand side of the visitors attack on his first competitive start for the club. It was a remarkably low-key opening lacking in the urgency and occasional spite normally associated with the North London derby.
The first meaningful opportunity fell Campbell’s way in the thirteenth minute but his header from Aaron Ramsey’s deflected cross was just over. Thirteen minutes later however we got the breakthrough from an unlikely source. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s long range effort was parried by Vorm only as far as Mathieu Flamini, and the experienced midfielder lashed it high into the net with his left foot before celebrating withย the home support behind the goal. Good lad!
Tottenham’ response saw Rose cut inside and shoot wide on the half-hour.The left-back was the most likely to equalise at this point, and Ospina had to be quick and brave to foil him once more. The Columbian ‘keeper looked in good nick despite his recent inactivity.
A thrilling solo effort from the Ox six minutes before the break finished with him curling his effort wide of the far post. Rose again galloped forward and was upended by Mathieu Debuchy who followed Mikel Arteta and Flamini into the book for minor offences. As the half drew to a close Kane and Eriksen were denied by a resolute Gunners defence.
Spurs were quickest out of the blocks in the second-half and when Ospina superbly turned an Eriksen drive onto the post Kane put the ball in the net, fortunately for us from a clear offside position. Ten minutes after the break Chadli drove in a cross from the left which the unfortunate Chambers deflected in at the near post. Given the hosts remarkably poor finishing it was an extraordinary act of charity and neighbourliness by the Gunners.
The equaliser lifted the home team who pinned Arsenal into their own half and Kane was again denied by a magnificent goal-line header by Keiran Gibbs. It was the trigger for a key substitution. Alexis was introduced for Campbell who will consider himself unlucky given the lack of service to him after the break. The Chilean almost immediately galloped clear in the inside-left channel but hit a tame effort straight at Vorm.
Ramsey slotted Olivier Giroud in and the Frenchman was denied at the near post by Vorm as the Gunners sought to get back into the game. In our next break Ramsey just failed to pick out the Ox beyond the far post, but in the middle we had a reasonable penalty appeal denied as Alexis was bundled to the ground. It mattered little when man-of-the-match Flamini smashed a remarkable volley from twenty yards for a second of the night for him and Arsenal with just thirteen minutes remaining.
The Ox was next to try his luck again but fired wide of the far post from the right hand side of the box. To help the clock tick down we sent on Theo Walcott for the Ox. He fired narrowly wide in the last of the three added minutes.
The magnificent travelling faithful roared out their songs of triumph. Then it was done.
A solid performance, and a sensational display from the sometimes-maligned Flamini.
Have it!
139 Responses to “Tee-Hee As Matty Beats Sorry Spurs”
Did you write that at minute 79? ๐
That was fun, and just what we needed.
I blame it all on the Pope.
BMBD
Pretty much Tim. ๐
Very fast off the block and a great match report as usual, Sir.
Flaming has more composure in front of the goal than any of our regular forwards. Was very worried that both Arteta and Flamini were starting. However, both played well. The majority of the first team members are now properly rested for Leicester. A similar result there would be great.
I could only dream of typing as fast as ‘Holic ๐
Much better defensively although Debuchy’s clearly not the player he was last season yet. Chambers had a good game shame it was tainted by the goal, he was so relieved in the end. Gibbs took a while to warm up but had a great second half I thought.
Ox is a great player in the making but today’s all Flamini!
Also hats off to Arsene, it was another gamble and the knives would have been sharpened if it went the other way.
I was rude about Matty before the game. Sorry Matty a great professional. Chambers ain’t a centre back
Flamini in the final year of his contract .. so thats why Wenger chose to postpone the striker/dm hunt
Goddamit, Arsene Knows
Curses, missed the obvious Matt Finish headline.
Away to Sheffield Wednesday next.
Sheff Wed away next round
Typical bloody glory hunter H.
At the end of a shit week you can always count on them cunts putting a smile on your face. ๐
Can’t smile without you indeed ๐ !!
Pics on Express website of crowd trouble as Arsenal fans fight with Stewards and rip signs off walls.
Not a good look.
Nice trip that.haven’t been since the Di Canio push,which was a rather amusing day for all manor of reasons,
LOL Holic, Matt Finish would have been simply genius!
Flamini has hardly played this season so it has been amusing to read fan opinions saying Flamini (and Arteta) are over. Tim Stillman wrote a very good article on Arseblog a few weeks back about Flamini and how some of the criticism coming his way was unjustified. He correctly pinpointed that rout we had at Anfield the season before last as the turning point for Flamsters reputation.
He certainly plays with a passion and an all action style which is always good to watch. . Arsebloggers prediction of him having a blinder of a season might just be starting to come true!!
Cheers H! Brilliant you spotted The Flamster’s magnificent celebration of the first right in front of the swampies. Was roaring here. Brought back memories of Liam running the length of The Shelf in 78, giving them a cheery wave as he went.
Haven’t had a good night out in Sheffield for many a long year. Will need to compare diaries with Bath, could be a worthy wayward venture for two ‘gay’ blades. (When and why did that fine word become so terribly corrupted?)
“Sometimes”-maligned, Holic? You’re having a laugh, or perhaps the definition of ‘sometimes’ in my Oxford English is sometimes somewhat imprecise.
Didn’t see the game but I thoroughly enjoyed the report. Well worth a pre-match pasta before Manure I reckon. ๐
Fast out of the blocks, again, ‘Holic. Sure you are not doping? Not on the performance-enhancing single malts?
Spurs so dire we had to score for them. But all hail to the Flamster, the Robert Lewandowski of the over 30s.
Count me in for that BtM ๐
Looks like I backed the wrong defensive midfielder with the ‘holic pound(s) tonight…
Too right ‘holic (#8) … Matt Finish would have put the gloss on it. ๐
รskar
…you need to brush up on your puns!
Well deserved win. We weren’t spectacular in any way but much better than them. We should have won by a bigger margin.
I realised tonight that our major footballing rivalry is now with the Chavs. We will always have a mutual loathing between us and the Spuds but they were at home with an ostensibly stronger side and stuffed up! Pochettino is a much nicer man than Mourinho, hell Harry Kane is nicer than Costa and really they are not a side that are ever going on to great things. United were our big rivals in the late nineties and early years of this century but now it’s the loathsome Chavs.
Cheers, Holic.
I’m not criticising your puns – oh no, treading on egg-shells here.
Good result tonight – sets us on the way to a semi-vinyl.
* pass me ny undercoat *
Looks like the Flamster could be our new striker. ๐
And the under 18 side completed the double today,beating the Spuds
5-3 at London Colney.
What’s not to like.
3 big games coming up in 7 days which will go a long way to setting up our season.
Leicester/Olympiacos/and Utd.
Win those 3 to make it 4 on the bounce going into the next Interlull,and even the most miserable Arse follower would have to have a Spring in their step.
Or would they. ?
Thanks for the report ‘holic. Helpful because no TV and no streams made me go fix dinner at halftime and check back later. At last we have found a striker!
Should be up on .com shortly after midnight, bt8. ๐
Well I guess we have found our striker. Who needs Benzenma when you have got the Flamsterrrrrrrr. Nice to finally win again. COYG
Cheers H. I liked the headline. It painted a real picture…
I was out and recorded it. Just finished watching it.
Fantastic stuff all round. Although if Theo had buried that golden chance at the end then my Prehistoric Pound would’ve come in. Oh well.
Great result. I am thrilled for Flamini- top man!
Smashing highlights, ‘H. Gibbs seems to have mastered the goal-line clearance, between this one and the one against Wigan in the FA Cup final a couple of seasons ago. Flamini pure class. Never doubted him. ๐
Looking back at my 38 on22nd I got 10 of the starting11 right.
That’s not bad but I never had a clue that the Flamster would notch twice! On Saturday we will revert to
Cech
Bellerin
Monreal
Gabriel( unless suspended for improper conduct )
Kos
Coq
Cazorla
Ramsey
Ozil
Sanchez
Theo
TTG: I think the boss will bring back Mert even if Gabriel is available, for the calming influence he provides after such a crazy week. I think he’ll leave out Gabriel this weekend to allow the storm to blow over. Also, Coq might be a big doubt for Saturday. Other than those two, your team looks on point.
If Coq is not fit, the boss has decisions to make in central midfield as Arteta and Cazorla partnership doesn’t work in my eyes. If Arteta plays, he needs Rambo beside him.
Before NBN has a chance to look it up, that makes 21 career goals for Flamini, 13 of them (61%) for Arsenal and 8 for Milan. What a guy.
He’s Matthieu Flamini. He scores when he wants.
How does it feel to be Tottenham?
How does it feel to be small?
You sold Bale
We signed Mathieu Flamini!
No, I don’t care that it doesn’t come close to rhyming. We won. Drink up!
..when we have 11 players on the field, we usually win games”.
Spuds are half baked… !
Up The Arse!
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Impec1: Not sure the BFG will be ready to play two games in fairly quick succession after having been ill for so long (he was in bed for almost three weeks iirc) and only been in training for a little over a week. But in any case yesterday showed once again that we have three really good central defenders and that Chambers is starting to find his feet as well. The own goal was unlucky and nothing I would blame him (or Ospina for that matter – though I will get back to him!) for, as a central defender you simply have to try to stop a cross in that area if you can. That it went in was unlucky but 99 times out of a 100 it would have gone out for a corner and we’d all have said “well done, son”.
But the one player which really put the heebie jeebies in me was Ospina. He dropped a cross to almost gift a Totnum player an empty net, he was slow off his line to collect overhit through balls (which at one point could have cost us a goal if the BFG hadn’t been on his toes and saved Ospina’s bacon) and while he absolutely did some good stuff too he mixes and matches far too much for my liking.
Right, drinks on the bar for everyone. Tea and coffee available for those of us in time zones where beer might be a bit much this early in the day.
Good morning,
Another Spud bashing.
More importantly, we played with two defensive midfielders and it worked.
Cancelled out the threat of Kane and chucked little Rose around. The rest was a formality.
Right, need to transform our ‘cup formโ into our โleague formโ and we should be alright. Leicester next!
UTA!
How do you like those apples?
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Mourinho at it again.
Jose Mourinho says ‘retaliation now allowed’ after Gabriel decision
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34344048
Costa was, I assume, just getting his retaliation in first…
Trev@25: painting yourself into a corner, there.
too right lars
beer ?
at this o’clock ?
why , how the very could ye ?
.
*pffffsssstttttt*
*fizzzzzzzzzzz*
.
“aaaah , apfelwein – ye made a loser outta me”
bt8b@35: that is one goal for every 3.43 yellow cards he has picked up over his career.
NBN. A most revealing statistic. (?)
Goals divided by yellow cards equals the hypotenuse of Mike Dean’s nose by the way. ๐
Suppose Flamini has been in the team at times just to “make up the numbers” but how to measure his, or any defensive midfielder’s, value in numbers is harder than it is for a striker, say.
btb8@46: Flamini actually played in one more game last season than Le Coq so he was doing a bit more than making up the numbers, not like Pascal Cygan who had the immortal song, “He’s bald; He’s shit. He only plays when no one’s fit.”
There are a ton of numbers that measure defenders’ work, but the only one that really counted yesterday was 2: number of goals scored to dump the Swampies out of a cup.
One more flaminitistic cited by Arseblog today has a particularly nice sound to it:
Mathieu Flamini has scored more goals at White Hart Lane than Harry Kane so far this season.
Flamini scoring twice, Arsenal fans acting like kids tearing apart billboards at the lane and spurs being spurs, shit. What a night it was.
Flamini gets the due where it needs to be given. His second goal was a delight and he played the whole game in the kind of spirit and endeavour that every game demands, specially a derby.
Our away fans who have long been our pride acted very immaturely by tearing apart the sign boards at the lane. What provoked that is unknown but was totally unnecessary. We are far classier than that.
Spurs are just a poor team, i will wish them good for sat against city but honestly they are a mid table team and it showed. We should have won the game comfortably but then we being we, made the game far closer than needed.
Momentum is crucial in sport and we should take that from yesterday’s game. Worry was debuchy, he has lost a yard of pace, looked completely out of position and made Danny Rose look like Messi. He is no longer first choice for the right back position but yesterday was the final stamp on it.
Leicester saturday, the form team in the league wont give up, least of all at their own stadium. Vardy, Maharez and co would definitely fancy their chances but if we need to put the season back on track, we need to win these games.
P.S. Alexis you need a goal, we need a goal, Arsenal needs a goal from you, so you get the point right, score a hat trick sat and a brace against united, now i am not asking for too much am i.
BBC picture caption on this page http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34344048:
“Diego Costa, who did not commit any fouls against Arsenal, pushed Laurent Koscielny in the face before knocking him to the ground with a chest bump.”
The caption contradicts itself twice and omits at least one critical incident.
Suggested edit: “Diego Costa who was not called for any fouls against Arsenal by discredited referee Mike Dean, pushed Laurent Koscielny in the face and forearmed him in the face again, before knocking him to the ground with a chest bump.”
The Daily Fail on its namesake North London football club’s latest (apart from last evening’s result) embarrassing moment:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3246932/Tottenham-sorry-Wayne-Gretzky-spelling-ice-hockey-great-s-incorrectly.html#i-1e7909b006ccf364
There’s a very miserable video company up the Seven Sisters Road who saw their dreams of a new production go up in Flam(ini) eps last night.
Moral;
Never depend on Spurs they will always let you down
The vandalism at the swamp is appalling and a dreadful stain on our great club’s reputation. I have heard Arsenal fans trying to justify it because of similar behaviour by Spurs fans at the Emirates.
That is no excuse whatsoever.
We should be bigger than that and unwilling to sink to that level. It’s very disappointing
m’lud
i met some right spanners o gooners
my time at highbury
most dead on
many less than doris day-like
assholes at every club
so please don’t paint us as
moral overlords
.
.
.
mind you
“my successa should be a pwopa stunna”
(the dalai llama innit)
eastern mystics ain’t what they used to be , eh ?
ask oskar
he met him
mind you
so did i
media hoor oul lama baby ๐
me compass is fucked
strangely
a wee baldy man
in a bed sheet
hurling niceties
failed to stop us noisy northerners
having our pesky little squabbles
who’d a thunk ?
mind you bono did try
and he’s a
short act to follow !
mind you
๐
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-yz5jvR9_Jo
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cheerio
Agreed that the vandals must be stopped, and they have no place to represent Arsenal with such despicable behavior.
Cba Knows. Good and bad everywhere. We’ve had our share of herberts over the years, some of whom I cordially avoided like the plague. Smashing up The Swamp generates no kudos in my book, but at the same time, I aint ascending the moral high ground either. These things happen.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=JjyQkt04Urc
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howdy esso
In other moral high horse news, the use of the word “despicable” is reportedly higher than average in the vicinity of Swindon, present company excluded of course. ๐
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2015/06/12/ordnance-survey-produces-first-map-of-moral-high-ground-139/
Vandalism is counter-productive anyway as the club will no doubt end up footing the bill for repairs.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ZkKnnAK7E-U
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god rest
TOP TOP MAN
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Which one do you think will be sacked before November, Rogers, McClaren or Mourinho? All these teams have tough games until then although less so for Chelsea but with 2 far away games in the CL.
Newcastle:
Chelsea away
Man City home
Norwich home
Sunderland away
Stoke home
Liverpool:
Aston Villa home
FC Sion home
Everton away
Tottenham away
Rubin Kazan home
Southampton home
Bournemouth home
Chelsea away
Chelsea:
Newcastle away
FC Porto away
Southampton home
Aston Villa home
Dynamo Kiev away
West Ham away
Stoke away
Liverpool home
My money is on Rodgers and McClaren getting sacked before November. Still hoping for a Mourinho meltdown too but he looks cornered at the moment and that’s when he’s at his best…
boooooooooooooo
boooooooooooooooooooooo
football matty baby
FOOTBALL ?
apparently nobody here cares anymore ๐
Trying to keep the fire lit until Saturday ๐
CBA indeed does know! ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6EhZaFZ-Dc
Ok maybe a better way to make my point heard ๐
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIOV0GKoFxo
top man cynic
matt
fuckin can’t stand slf
back drink
i’m sure i musta been
an annoying smartarse twonk about them
somewhere
๐
i’m normally pissed when i’m here
well
i say normal ๐
slainte m’lud
๐
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9b7wknY3jU
Should be much better known than he is.
Excellent account of an excellent victory, Guvna. You picked the wrong midfielder for your wager.
No time to back-drink. I will read the pearls from the regulars later.
Props to the away Gooners. Fine performance there also chaps.
This is my favourite song of his though and you can’t beat the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpIpplKYtDE
Looks like Tottnumb need to knock their slum down before it falls down completely. ๐
aye cynic
saw him a few times
decent fella
good tunes
nowt original
can’t stand his accent
striving for the coat tails of tom
but
tom waits for no man
80 isn’t really the new ton
*has word with Mrs*
fuck a diddle duck
keepy bastardin uppys
to the ton
my feckin cliched arse i will
.
*lurks*
Worried about your links, cba. Both #62 and #65 linked to “The Game Starts Here”, a vid about Kiwi rugby captain Richie McCaw (with beats by Dr Dre) who, as of this morning was very much alive. Or is there some interference going on in Youtube over here?
You (#55) met my my Lama mucka? Nice guy the DL (as I know him, though me name’s not Pascoe). But have you played frisbee with him on his back lawn? One of the more curious episodes of my life!
รskar
yup oskar
met the lama fella
wasn’t transported to a higher plane
still stayed feet planted on the same shite ground
but he seemed happy
to be imparting cereal box wonder
to them that was there
civil fella
good luck to him
anyhoo
good evening
I hope the real oskar is well
.
knackered here
snooze time
see ya gooners
go on
steal me ton
ya feckless hoors ๐
The ‘real’ Oskar is fulla beans, well recovered from his latest debilitation and scoffin’ like a trencherdog. He thanks you for your concern.
This Oskar (you can call me Chris, though not Christopher – only me mum ever called me that) is on a diet, so not in the best of humour. I can’t find the beer or wine quota on my diet sheet. So don’t know by how much I can exceed it without dire consequences (staying sober at all times, eg).
รskar
Good luck with yer ton…
รskar
Diet no good without exercise Oskar.
Find some nice big hills and go walking for at least an hour a day whatever the weather.
Will change your life
Walking the dog doesn’t count. !!
Thank you Dr Clive…
I’ve heard about this walking idea, it sounds a bit too demanding for my liking. I’ve shed a stone in the last couple of months by cutting out the worst dietary excesses and doing something called the 5:2 diet (recommended by the medics), so will stay with that regime for now.
Walking the dog? No, I drive him to the dog park, where he exercises himself while my ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ group of grumpy old men debate what’s gone wrong with the world since the ’60s and what should be done about it. Starting with putting all politicians, lawyers, journos and Gooner critics up against a wall…
รskar
Actually Clive, I’m a member of AA … Athletics Anonymous. When I feel the need for exercise I ring another member and we get together over a bottle of HP18 to exorcise the feeling. ๐
รskar
AA โฆ Athletics Anonymous. Heh!
More’s the pity Oscar.
I venture to suggest there wouldn’t be too many members of the bar that exercise further than raising their arm.
They say “cleanliness is next to Godliness,”well for me in my mid 60’s and fit as Hades can get me,daily exercise in moderation, is right up there with it.
Be interesting to hear Trev’s view on the subject.
Slainte all.
Just realised #ff means fuck Friday.
Clive @91
Just received my assessment at the gym and my new exercise program. My trainer is a Gooner which helps. Having said that I can’t claim I’m in the best physical shape but at least I’m still trying. My wife thinks I’m very trying?
Slainte Holic.
Friday โค๏ธ
I experience a great sense of fellow feeling when a man confesses his love of Arsenal and HP18 (the price of that lovely nectar has gone through the roof here, much like what happened at the Arsenal) and his dislike of exercise.
A bottle of the cratur is on the bar for the cogniscenti. Draw up an armchair.
Slainte
Ah, bath, I spent a happy 50 mins last night watching the annual Laphroaig live telecast. Celebrating as they were their 200th legal ๐ anniversary it was filmed in the distillery. Islay is definitely second on my bucket list, although I fear I will get there before we lift Big Ears.
“Anyone who’s got the balls to stand there and tell me that a handjob isn’t exercise just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I almost had a heart-attack during number three. I take all kinds of other exercise too. I walk up and down the stairs. I climb into cabs and restaurant booths. I hike to the Butcher’s Arms and the London Apprentice. I cough a lot. I throw up pretty frequently which really takes it out of you. I sneeze, and hit the tub and the can. I get in and out of bed, often several times a day.”
Martin Amis, Money.
It would be great to celebrate the lifting of Big Ears with a visit to Islay, H! It’s on my bucket list too though more for Bruichladdich and Bunnahabhain and the landscape than for the typical Islay flavours. It always takes me a full glass of Laphroaig or Ardbeg to get ‘tuned in’ and fully enjoy the rest of the bottle.
He, Joe @97. A fine quote. And slainte to another ‘chiel fa kens the cratur’.
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Cracking early response so far.
Although i must admit Joe’s post is a standout.[ dirty little devil. !! ]
Useless from a fitness point of view,but a standout [ like his appendage ] nevertheless.!!
Kudos to TTG,the rest can please themselves.
Looks like my post might help pass the time on a quiet news day so far.
Martin Amis that is,not you Joe.!!
Perish the thought.!!
Well in Clive, though I suspect a yellow card will be forthcoming.
Only a yellow Bath. ?? Match Review Panel might disagree.
Only other 100 i ever scored was in Cricket,unfortunately it was runs conceded when Bowling. !!
commiserations on yer diet oskar
cheers joe for a good big smile
trust yer holibobs went well bath
and 100% clive on the walking
and 100% the rest on the drinking
.
morning all
and see ya
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UP THE ARSENAL
Frisbee on the back lawn the same as walking the dog? Only Trev can sort this one out.
Unlike Joe, Coq is rested tomorrow.
Sounds like it is not a major injury ( haha)
Step up goal scoring hero Matty Flamini!
If he plays I would wager the Holic Pound ( I’m good at spending others money) on him notching again.
Tough game tomorrow but Im quite confident
โAnyone whoโs got the balls to stand there and tell me that a handjob isnโt exercise just doesnโt know what heโs talking about.”
Is that the closing argument in the court case to class wanking as a sport?
cynic
if it’s run over a steeplechase course ๐
going to the bookies to check the going
would be uncomfortable though
Clive, bt8,
has to be pro-exercise for me.
It’s all about interdependancy in my book. No use having blood circulation like Niagra Falls if the digestive system can’t process your scoff in order to have it passed round. Equally, it’s no good having a brilliany digestive and circulatory system if the lungs are polluted, knackered or otherwise weakened so that a proper supply of oxygen is not available to mix with said blood and nutrient, ‘cos you won’t be able to create any energy, without which none of your cells can function.
All relative of course.
Hope you wanted a serious answer. ๐
The going is likely to be “firm” cba.
Left out the rather important note that exercise improves all of those things.
Even massages the bowels so that the house-keeping isn’t neglacted either.
I feared the bowels would come into sooner or later. Good answer though, Trev. Wouldn’t want a medical professional arguing against the daily taking of a nice long walk, with or without attached dog. ๐
Clive @99, you have shamed me into digging out the Canadian Airforce Exercise Programme book I used in the 70s and starting the programme again this morning. ๐ฎ
However I did have a pint of Wainwright with my lunch as a reward. ๐
cba @103
They went extremely well until the final day when I had my wallet ‘lifted’ by a Romanian pickpocket in Venice, our flight that evening was delayed and I had to change a flat tyre in the rain at 3.00am on the way home. I felt I was a lightening rod for misfortune but that it was perhaps worth it for the boys to win at SHL.
Furthermore I was treated to a personalised Montalbano experience with the Carabinieri in the Piazza San Lorenzo HQ. The detective who produced within a few minutes a picture on his phone of the two guys I suspected was very, very impressive, not to mention as smooth as Al Pacino.
I hope the Carabinieri catch the sly little fuckers, kick the shit out of them and do the traditional thing of dropping them into the wells of the Doge’s Palace (not the drinking water wells).
Moaninho today:
“Every other manager is (under pressure). I am under pressure, Steve (McClaren) is under pressure, Pellegrini is under pressure, Brendan (Rodgers) too. We cannot be below par. We have to meet the objectives.
‘I have sympathy with all of them, because it’s a difficult job. There’s one outside that list, but good for him. I have sympathy for Steve.’
Asked which manager he was referring to, Mourinho said: ‘You know. The one who can speak about the referees before the game, after the game, can push people in the technical area, can moan, can cry in the morning in the afternoon, nothing happens.
‘He can not achieve, keep his job, still be the king. I say just one.’
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ๐
*goes to wring out sox*
pickpocket maureen
maureen pickpocket
neck and neck in the cunt stakes
Too right cba.
Slainte, chiel.
slainte
Sorry to hear that bath. Hope the thieving gits get what is coming to them.
Could be a six pint preview later, the way I’m feeling. Apologies in advance. This first pint appears to be evaporating apace.
Thanks H. BTW, BtM suggested you were up for lunch before Manure?
Moaninho’s agony is Gooner ecstasy
Bad luck on your holiday Bath. I had a very pleasant trip to Venice recently but was warned about the pickpockets who are such a common problem throughout Italy. Naples is particularly bad.
Gabriel suspended for one game and fined ยฃ10k. Protesting at a red card that wasn’t !
Seems illogical doesn’t it? However I suppose if one resisted wrongful arrest, one might expect a sanction for resisting the ‘law officer’ however mistaken he was.
TTG @121. I knew about the problem but was distracted from my own bag hanging on my shoulder by seeing the back pocket on my wife’s backpack wide open (guess why?) with her i-phone just begging to be lifted and no sign of her wallet which turned out to be in another zipped pocket. It was at that moment that i think my wallet which I had just returned to my bag after a purchase was lifted as I failed to secure the clip on the bag because I was dealing with my wife’s backpack. Reluctantly I have to admire the opportunism and balls of the felon.
That made me laugh: https://imgur.com/a/YM79K
@Clive: Actually you inspired me to change my lifestyle way back then, took a while to get going but my excesses are curbed and although not a gym rat I’m getting there.
Yes to lunch next week bath. Will email over the weekend. ๐
“this first pint appears to be evaporating apace”
what a brilliant sentence ‘hol
reads out a like a treat in yer head
slainte big man
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Problem is cba that this fifth one seems to be no harder to swallow. I had better start scribbling now.
I’ve got you covered H.
This week the Holic Pound is going on…
…beer number six!
Description of pints 2 through 5?
Sorry. 2 through 4, of course. ๐
As Oscar Wilde said, ‘Holic, โWork is the curse of the drinking classes.โ
Time to turn the screw and give the moaner some substantive things to moan about.
Bath glad to hear of the lovely Italian sojourn despite the last day difficulties. Great story to tell though. ๐
Yeah Bath. Great story. Although I’m really tired and I think I lost the thread somewhere… How did it end up with you reluctantly admiring his balls?
Or you could follow Hemingway’s advice, “Write drunk; edit sober”.
Oh, and Trev… 108 was plausible enough but 110 was a just a load of crap!
My reading of the preview will be at least a gallon old if you don’t hurry up……. ๐
NBN @135. There are different ways to a unique voice.
That might have worked for Hemingway. But not for cba.
Write drunk. What’s editing?
Have it, I’m claiming a five and a half. Next up, malt ๐ >>>>>>>>>>