Book Review – Arsène’s Double Double – Dave Seager
Oct 12th, 2018 by 'holic
It’s a review of a book that I’d like to write, to keep myself busy on this Friday night.
How better to do so than writing in rhyme, for that’s how the author has done it this time.
Dave Seager’s the writer, it is his third book, and in my opinion it’s well worth a look.
Let me quote you a piece from the preface as a sample, a very small part but a perfect example.
“In a style you may have guessed, I have taken the trouble
To relive, in detail and with some humour, Wenger’s Double Double
Two seasons of historic moments to sit in Arsenal’s rich folklore
Achieved playing the game we love in way we had never seen before.”
Now Dave has had help with this excellent tome, cartoons done by Poorly Drawn Arsenal at home.
These excellent sketches just add to the pleasure, I’m sure you will get when you read at your leisure.
So if the Gooner in your life is in need of a lift, consider this as an unusual gift.
For an introductory price of just fifteen pound, you get a book, prints, and badge – how does that sound?
So if it’s a deal you think you should get, see the good folk at legends publishing.net
You’ll be relieved to read it’s the end of these frolics, just one thing remains…
Have a good one, ‘holics.
76 Responses to “Book Review – Arsène’s Double Double – Dave Seager”
First,
Now what to drink,
To slake that thirst?
Nice one Guvna.
Thanks bath,
this glut of new books is saving my interlude. Theo Foley next week. ??
Hey ‘holic.
You’s the dude. 🙂
Cheers bt8,
I wish! ?
Holic thanks for this look
At a very interesting book.
I find it hard to rhyme
Almost all the time
Yet Seager is eager to do it here
And has approached the project without fear.
I will put this on my list
If I can avoid being pissed
It looks a real stunner
From a very high-class Gunner
Er that’s it ?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nice one TTG. ?
Good morning bt8.
This blog comes to you courtesy of William McGoonergal.
Mornin’ ‘holic.
If hope springs eternal does autumn spring hope?
Thierry Henry officially appointed head
coach of Monaco. Congratulations young man and I expect to see you soon in the Champions League. Hope so, anyway. Bonne chance and Allez Allez Allez.
Interesting the names of his two assistants, which mean nothing to me.
Patrick Kwame Ampadu, a coach at Arsenal’s academy and father of Chelsea and Wales player Ethan Ampadu, will join Henry’s coaching staff, alongside Benfica Under-23 coach Joao Carlos Valado Tralhao.
Port Vale 2 Lincoln City 6
Come on you Red Imps!!
That is a proper pasting.
Ccan
Can you believe that the BBC has somehow managed to contrive a so called debate about the best PL team in history and the Invincibles managed to end up as runners up?
What a crock of utter shite.
Funnily enough I can easily believe
that of the BBC. As you say utter shite.
Best of luck to Thierry at Monaco as
he is a legend after all, but I’ve
never really thought he was the
type to be a good manager. Of
course if he is successful he’ll be
linked with the Arsenal job every
time we lose 2 in a row.
Did they used to say Zinedine Zidane was the type to be a good manager? Not really, and certainly not after his infamous head butt. Now he seems to be about the hottest managerial commodity in Europe, so go figure.
The “managerial type” does not have to conform to just one type, does it?
Dexter@12 and OM@13. Arsenal played the 1998-99 ManU side that came top of its best PL team five times that season. Man U won just one game (the cup final replay). We beat them in the Charity Shield, at home in the League and drew away in the league. Just saying…
Welcome from Florida ! I notice our ladies stuffed Chelsea 5-0 on their own ground today . The new manager there is doing very well
Looks like the Arsenal Women discarded Chelsea by the slender margin of 0-5. Not good enough. 🙂
Hey TTG it looks like you beat me to it. No hurricane damage there, I expect?
Poorly Drawn Arsenal looks a lot like Dr. Seuss. Just saying.
Bt8
Plenty but not where I am.
I was in the Everglades yesterday making my mark on the Alligator population!
Sounds a bit dangerous for my taste. In New Orleans my dog almost got swallowed by a gator once but he managed to swim clear just in time. I suppose it made him feel alive though. 😉
TTG@21, I’m waiting for the headline, “Man bites alligator”.
In the Everglades a rifle shot is heard. A reptilian body thrashes and slowly stills.
A man walks towards it. His gait is casual but his eyes are full of fire. He stares down at the dying beast and softly speaks the last sounds it will ever hear.
“Feel my Thunder, Tiny Gator.”
.
i dunno
christmas
fuckin blaa bollocks
.
.
herself
(who oooh just came into a small inheritance)
oooooooooooooooooooh
isn’t good company
just now or if i’m honest ever honest ever
.
.
she’s a galloping unreconstructed cunt
(who now has a few bob)
.
it’s my fuckin house so she can fuckin start paying fuckin rent
*covers children’s ears*
fuckin in their 30s the cunts
they can cover their own etc s
but
in the the interest
of
fitting in
.
fuck y out
Yeah
you heard
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
ya fuckin blert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUSNVTHoAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7zL_mJkyI
you wonder
don’t ye
or
maybe you don’t
pater arseholius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBCctL88dRk
.
.
.
silly
silly
silly
.
.
where’s it ending ?
non cake baking cunts with EXTRA thrusts
nope
.
just big cunts keeping jurassic cunts waiting
.
these fuckin lunatics have run the show here
ALL MY LIFE
.
dunno how to extricate
but here’s a Google search
https://mobile.twitter.com/davidmcw/status/873297355604447235
and
you wonder why
drink is taken
.
.
.
fuckin
sectarian
arsehole s
mortifyingly/nosurrenderingly
encountering scrutiny
.
.
god bless their arrogance
.
.
yesterday’s men
in inverted entitled commas
are nearly that
and
i revel
.
don’t like the orange ones
or the maltesers
love the caramels
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/irish-will-shoot-each-other-if-they-want-to-says-stanley-johnson-37426857.html
interesting isn’t it
.
if any of you would like a close up personal opinion
just ask here
Chris -god rest him -didn’t get it
but please
if ye think yer smarter than a dead smarter man than you
fire away
.
goodnight
from that part of Ireland
Did the drinks just get lively or am I imagining things?
CBA
Maybe Stanley Johnson might shoot Boris! I’d turn a blind eye to that one in court.
Here here. TTG.
We are in need of such a Marvin Gaye moment.
Well it looks like we are finally approaching the last quarter of the interlull, something that should be able to please everyone. What’s this Monday night football? I guess we are still stuck in the third quarter so never mind.
well
thunder T and bt and the mighty HIMSELF
it’s a strange one
.
what I take away from bigger boris
is what the people of the north of Ireland
have two halvedly known
for ages
(one side more than the other)
blondey senior represents the establishment
in his opinions
despite what the dup think
they have always been just thought of as
one side of the crazy paddys
shooting each other
-not British
just an inconvenient tiny flag waving bulldog
riding their leg
.
teenager with loyalist tattoos
goes to that there London
does a bit o labouring
(sssh – I’ve heard it happened)
opens their mouth
“PADDY”
.
fer fucks sake
the 10MPs will
despite being born in the north of Ireland
never say they are in anyway Irish
no
they’ll say they are British
despite a swift nosey
at their passports
reminding them that
they are from great britain and northern Ireland
not british
according to their deeply held beliefs nonsense etc s and indeed facts
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
the dup are cunts
(unbowed by long overdue righteous scrutiny)
.
They’re still BRITISH and proud despite geography
and the gardener mown grassroots British establishment and passports telling them otherwise
.
.
.
politics here now
is still orange and green
a terrible terrible shame
.
it should be about righting wrongs , injustice and bin collection
pfffttt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8TKitUtr0
any
hoooooooo
go on Dave
ya big Christmas Swindon cunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jii6VtvY73o
.
.
ps
if you hear sideways kuennsberg
.
look contra
.
.
.
twat
floating out fishing in a lake
latent opinions bubble up
.
nitwits
.
ENGLISH PEOPLE— RESIST
STAND UP
RESIST
fuck fuck fuck fuck
RESIST
Goonerholic is not a political blog but a no deal Brexit would be a fucking disaster for the UK the like of which we have not seen before . As a Grandad I want my grandsons to grow up in a country that is not paralysed by an economic downturn the like of which we will never have seen before. If you think we just start trading with the rest of the world and bollocks to Europe you have been paying far too much attention to Boris and not enough to what is really happening.
Political rant over sorry Holic
The AST have produced this considered estimate of the club’s finances . We would be preparing or have just had one of the old AGMs if Kroenke had not acquired our club.
https://www.arsenaltrust.org/news/2017/arsenals-financial-position-for-201718-assessed
It looks a sensibly constructed estimate to me and shows we have very little wriggle room financially next summer and can ill- afford to let assets like Ramsey and Welbeck walk away in the summer for nothing.
We can expect to see Smith- Rowe, Nelson, Nketiah and Amaechi playing a big role next season ( no bad thing) we would probably just be able to sign one world class player or two up and comers.
I don’t know what we do in January. If we could sell Ramsey and Welbeck then we might add a further £35 m to the coffers. Gazidis leaves with questions asked about his stewardship
I can’t believe you talked politics here
thunder T
here is a place of calm post match reflection
etc
an shit
an stuff
an fings
.
.
TYPICAL ENGLISH BULLY BOY
.
.
i’m currently between jobs
any chance of employment ?
.
I’m smart and handsome and teetotal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YULwbhga18
.
.
i’ll take that as a NO then
i can’t say i’m happy
dunno how you English bastards can sleep
in yer Engligh bastard bla
an whatever you
huddle yer offspring
shit an
bollix
yeah
?
.
.
*****LOUD ALERT*****
.
anyone seen a mouth
?
the English baaaaastards
won’t have heard
cos
they’re too busy
being
“D’ye know what , lovely”
.
.
i miss Chris
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfONxAeuOPg&list=PL5L1vQwJDHzfxsK4IZdx_gBO1QtJWsCNB
.
sorry ‘hol
Sorry
.
.
selfishly i miss being called a twat
in not those words
Jeez
I fuckin can’t be on ma own here
.
said it before
sorry japan
Nightlife here now. is shite
if ye don’t think
Alison Moyet singing that
is a work of simple genius
.
.
.
.
“You sir , are a tit”
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFW00MK6exg
.
.
when you can walk home
pitch black
that playing
pitch absolute black
cattle staring at you
o
up close
hedge pass hedge pass hedge
you have lived , my son
as the pretentious counts chime
CBA, old bean. You are a bit of a twat. I’m sorry I can’t match Cgris’s eloquence at this time of the morning (or indeed at any other time of the day).
TTG (it’s always been an ambition of mine to communicate pricipally with trigraphs), I am not a grandfather nor am I a nationallist but, somewhat to my surprise, am sufficient of a patriot not to want the economy handicapped by a massive self-inflicted injury. Sadly it’s almost certainly too late for that.
All I find left to hope for is that we will learn the lesson. To me, that lesson is that things that seem complicated usually are and that people who tell you that they aren’t probably have motives that are worth examining.
CBA,
Perhaps the recordings on this link will make you think more kindly of us baaaaastards, I know it does for me.
https://archive.org/details/S01E02ChristmasAtRawlinsonEndParts1To3
i’m currently between jobs
any chance of employment ?
What with you being Irish, I’ll let you know when I have some peat wants digging.
Stereotyping over 😉
I hate stereotyping.
The keys make twice as much noise.
*baddum-TISH!*
pan G
BIG hugs
.
dorset M
you sir – effortlessly cool as ever
.
cynic
are a genius
.
.
.
GOD BLESS ALL HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKT59deKcRQ
69
oooooooooh
MUCKY
or
FANCY A BOOOOOGIE ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw&feature=youtu.be
I prefer my dancing even sillier than that, CBA. Please note the weirdo kneeling next to Barry Ryan. Compelling viewing, whilst making me want to gouge my eyes out at the same time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9md5oW00q4
Pangloss,
Sound thinking , I’m very much in agreement.
CBA
You are spot on too, I’m a nasty piece of work me. ???
dorset M
???????????
lads havin a conniption fit
fuckin dynamite
.
thunder T
yer a big darlin
i’m not a violent man dorset M
but
in the circumstances
i’d a dragged that twat off his ego
and clubbed him headwise
with his stacked footwear
but
as i say
i’m not a violent man
so
yeah ?
the cunt is mesmerizing
i’m guessing he now runs a dance studio
bringing contemporary movement
EU funded
to retirement villages
CLOWN !
.
.
interestingly
his best mate Oliver
is ………….
Evening cba 🙂
Time for another Irish fella. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>