Still Smiling
Mar 18th, 2019 by 'holic
Despite our absence the weekend action gave us encouragement and much to enjoy. It could have been us of course, and not Manchester United, suffering defeat at Molineux had Wolves not reached the FA Cup quarter-final. The much improved Midland outfit reprised our 2-0 defeat of chauffeur Ole’s misfiring vehicle.
There was some Premier League action and we received another boost in the form of Chelsea’s reverse at Everton. That prevented the bus stop from joining us on points from an equal number of fixtures. We have a three points advantage still and their game in hand is gone. If you had said to me at Christmas that we would have been one point behind the Middlesex Nomads, two and three points clear of United and Chelsea respectively, with eight matches to play I would have snatched your hand off.
It seems like longer ago than 2015/16 when we overtook the Nomads to claim second place that we have taken our challenge into the pointed end of the League season. Last season we trailed fourth placed Liverpool by twelve points and Chelsea by eight at this stage. What a difference a year appears to have made.
If the smile was wiped off your face by the news of Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo, or Monchi to you and me, opting for Sevilla rather than coming to us as Technical Director then perhaps you want to consider why you support The Arsenal. I confess that the internal politics behind the departure of Sven Mislintat, and the ensuing search for a replacement, is fascinating. I get that and try to hoover up every snippet of rumour out there myself, but ultimately only to fill in the gaps between watching my team play football.
Come to think of it if you were upset at Monchi’s decision you must have been distraught today when the other rumoured candidate, one of our own, Marc Overmars opted to sign a new deal with Ajax. For whom he is also ‘one of our own’ and rather more a part of his heart in all likelihood.
AST Gives Back To Islington schools
Less glamorous perhaps, but more admirable are the efforts the Gunners and affiliated organisations use to give something back to the young and less advantaged. I have carried before comment on the Arsenal Foundation and a fraction of the great work they are doing both locally and worldwide.
Word reaches me that AST have partnered with Kickaround to donate a six-issue subscription of the magazine to all 47 primary schools in the Borough of Islington. Kickaround, which launched in 2018, is the children’s football magazine from the team behind cult publication When Saturday Comes, and puts literacy and learning through football at its heart.
The donation was made from the AST with the aim to support the school children local community to Arsenal Football Club in north London, giving every primary school and its pupils access to the magazine which has been prized for its quality writing and diverse content. It is hoped the donation will assist schools who are constantly experiencing tighter budgets, whilst encouraging reading for pleasure and a continued love of the beautiful game.
The first issue of that the children will receive, which features an article on Arsenal Women’s Super League title race and a pull-out poster of Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, will arrive at the chosen schools this week along with an illustrated Giant World Football Map to display in classrooms or libraries.
A well done to AST from me, and I suspect most of you too. On to the thrills of another international break.
161 Responses to “Still Smiling”
Cheers H!
Esso! Evening mucker.
Evening H
During this final Arse free interlull i have lined up some re showings of 3 of my fav games at home this season.
Yesterday i watched the Liverpool game,still thoroughly enjoyable 2nd time around.
Next w/end i will watch the Chelsea game,and the following w/end when the EPL resumes,given we don’t play till Monday night,i have saved the best till last,yes you guessed it, the neighbors down the road.
I will have everything crossed that any of our boys on Intl duty,return home safe and well and free of injury.
April promises to be either a massive boost to the managerial stocks of our delightfully eccentric new Coach,or a monumental let down,given that we have come so far this season, to falter now would be so cruel on the Club.
Onward and upward.
I see some season ticket holders at our neighbors,are showing their class by offering their tickets for the opening game at the new stadium for 1200 a pair online.
Clive, is that what they want for them or will pay for not having to go there?
Who knows Ned,who knows.
Thanks for the post Guvnor.
Not too bothered about Monchi or
Overmars as long as we already know
our summer targets and it won’t be
used as an excuse for not getting
players in this summer.
Perhaps Raul doesn’t like rule by
committee after his time at Barca.
1200 a pair for Spud tickets?
They must mean in Yen.
Interesting stuff Guvna. Strikes me there’s one obvious candidate for the senior vacancy, whatever title you want to give it. A certain A. Wenger. One of our own.
Spot the Holic Dad. Clock End 1956
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/22/article-2264693-1714D607000005DC-66_964x961.jpg
The Kroenke effect:
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal/transfer-guru-monchi-confirms-rejecting-arsenal-offer-at-sevilla-unveiling-a4094746.html
Yet more evidence nobody wants to touch our man with a barge-pole.
Greetings from the TTGs in Cyprus!
I had a chance to read the Times properly today !
Ironic that while Sir Jim Ratcliff is touted as a buyer for the Bus Stop boys replacing Abramovich because of his ability and willingness to enable them to finance appropriate teambuilding we are owned by a man whose only objective is to line his pockets! No investment in the future from Stan.
struggling
fuckin shite happens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY
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shite time here
Ooooooooooooooh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOQkwkbnbP0
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mmmmm
Greetings TTG in Cyprus.
Funny that.
My brother and family are in the Canary Islands, my Sister and other half are in Barcelona,and my Nephew and his brood are in Italy.
All diehard Gooners.
There must be an Interlull. !!!
die hard gunners
ha ha ha
and
a
har de har har
im 60 next year
bugger off
posh
fuckin
holiday
affordin
CUNTS
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always on top of my bikini line
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FAGGOTS
60 Cba ??
spring chicken mate,or young heifer,or duckling,or cygnet.
Contact me when you are a Cockerel, a cow,a duck or a swan.
Didn’t you know,60 is the new 40.
As for expensive fucking holidays,my lot got rich off my 50 yrs of hard graft,and still they clean me out regularly.
Especially the Grandkids,they’ve got very long arms now they are growing up,so they can reach even deeper into my pockets,i’ll have to sow the fuckers up soon.
Wolves confirmed as being played
after Palace at home. 8 games in
April after another irritating interlull
in March. Same for everyone so no
excuses, just have to hope we get
lucky with hammys, ankles, knees
and groins.
Auba, Mus and Xhaka have clocked
up most minutes this season but some
good news is Leno, Nacho, Kos, AMN,
Ozil, Laca and Mus will get a break.
Not sure how that compares with our
rivals but at least it gives a rest to a
reasonable nucleus. Perhaps, we’ll
finally see the lesser spotted Suarez
start a game in April.
Player of the season candidates currently including Leno, Laca, Auba Guendouzi and Kolasinac. Ask me tomorrow and I will probably tell you a different five but if not for Holding’s injury I have a feeling he could have been a top candidate. Our late season pairing of Koscielny and Sokratis has pulled us through just when it looked like we were about to go under. Honorable mentions to Nacho and Iwobi, whose first name escapes me at the moment.
Okay, it is Alex, who has had a good season.
Torreira was looking a shoo-in at
the halfway point for player of the
season!
Agree with bt8, could be almost
anyone just now
Says something about what Emery has done with the first team that there are so many candidates for player of the season without one being a standout.
OM, Torreira probably would have gone into my honorable mentions if I had thought about him but it says something about his recent drop in performances that I forgot him. Agreed that his first half of the season was spectacularly good.
Ned, You are correct once again. We do not necessarily possess the most balanced squad in the Premier League, and yet our performances overall give the impression of being balanced enough to be quite effective against almost any Premier League opponent, and I have a feeling that this impression is down in some important ways to Emery’s astute use of the personnel he has available to him.
i heart clive
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class act
classier than me
(who fuckin isn’t though)
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top man
howdy dave
and
UP THE ARSENAL
dave yer
tolerant beyond yer tolerance level
god bless ye
all hail here
and
it’s drunk drinkers
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maybe you’ll like this
and accept this
as small payment for
etc etc and so on as it were an such
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk4n52qwwlI
or
if ye don’t
new levels of unleash shall be …
…as it were
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/19/alan-partridges-irish-lookalike-leaves-viewers-howling-singing-come-ye-black-tans-bbc-8950932/
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stupid english bastards
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30
sorry
who fuckin isn’t COMMA though
i dunno
it’s like a person
could run out of feet
to shoot himself in
on
around or near
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soz
i don’t think it’s right to bring up guns
NOPE
without the mighty JAPAN
or
the mighty TWIN CITIES
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i will never make the half ton
with
what clearly could have been achieved by stretching out this important message from the government
LIAM BRADY
LIAM BRADY
… to half ton
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CBA
Don’t be such a miserable old bastard just because you are very old .
Rejoice in the fact that you have rich cyberchums who are enjoying themselves.
But Money isn’t everything -there’s sex, music , drink and football.
move along moneybags
nothing to see here
*triumphant armpit fart*
honestly
it’s like nobody
pays
a singular solitary sausage
of interest
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TO ME
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I do me old mucker! ?
“th..er……es
own
lee
one
davey holic ”
# ONE
(see above and repeat as and when required)
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god bless ye ‘hol
yer a good soul
and
as a particular favour to me
please tip toe back into non pneumonia life
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you’ve been a good friend to me
despite me having lived in
*spits*
tottenham
mind you dave
i fuckin loved living there
and like many like accents like mine
the tuts and harumphs of
“Jeez , it’s like ye never threw a petrol bomb before”
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anyhoo
GOD BLESS ALL HERE
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so
in case ye missed
tottenham’s rioting was below par
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now
im aware the ton is 45 away
but
in my mind
Clive just about tolerates me
so
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[‘hol , yer last payment didn’t go through]
please advise
i have dignity and socks to buy
ha ha ha
cba is back on the skag
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k3I2fh-8VQ
ps
Only petrol bomb I ever saw in Tottenham was the molotov cocktail launched at the Shelf by one of ours in 1980.
depends whether ye call broadwater farm tottenham or not
and
Dave
I’ll shut up now
perhaps
maybe
bolton
just shit
for the fans
Re: cba @31. Outstanding. Thank you Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye too.
Bill Withers.
***Snags the (previously uncovered) 2/3 ton and wonders if anybody is jealous.***
uncovered = uncoveted
*Kicks the spillchucker again.@
*Assumes that cba must be having a nap after finishing off the home brew.*
Probably dreaming about Liam Brady.
CBA
‘ Nobody pays a single solitary sausage of interest to me ‘
Of course they do….
Er who did you say you were again???
Damn you time difference, damn you
all to hell, I’ve missed out on the
half ton and the coveted 2/3 ton.
Now I’ll just have to invent stuff
for me to win. How about a Fair
Play Post of the Dsy Award?
I think everyone who posts on the
day should be allowed to enter.
That would be very fair.
For that fairness supporting suggestion
I hereby unilaterally and arbitrarily
award myself the very first Fair
Play Post of the Day Award.
And also the 3/4 ton which I think
I’ll call the 6 Furlong Ton in honour
of our long connection with punting.
Two awards in two posts is I
believe unprecedented but
I’m sure award historians will
let me know if I’m wrong.
However. in a late development…
OM. There used to be a house rule against self-assisting but we may need a rule as to whether it extends to self-awarding. Congratulations in the meantime.
I’ve told my old friends unilateralism
and arbitrariness that I decline the
Fair Play award as it’s silly made-up
nonsense.
Though, I still hope we win the
Ropey League this year.
Oh !!
It’s lucky I declined bt8 and
avoided the self-assisting
controversy
In the meantime I’ve inadvertently
breached the 80 barrier
Leaving a miserly few steps to the
ton for my fellow posters
Given as I have to stop now for
breakfast
Perhaps I’ll have waffles in honour
of my early morning efforts
What? No sticky rice with sour plum for breakfast?
17/20 ton surpassed as if it weren’t the milestone we all know it is.
I’m the only sour plum at breakfast
in this house….
And with that the 7/8ths ton is
passed and victory harbingered
*Conjures up a good dream about Liam Brady.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYgPgy1IAbg
Unforgettable stuff though shockingly
the 40th anniversary of the 5 minute
final. A great moment to be a gooner.
Having said unforgettable I had
forgotten how well David Price
did for the first goal.
Pat Rice was a strong one.
Legs firmly planted.
Wouldn’t want to have a collision with that one.
Lotsa Irish names there. Faces too.
6 Irishmen, 4 Englishmen and
Willie Young.
Has such a game of verbal keepy-uppy ever been seen?
Takes a long ball from Ned on the chest in Bergkamp-esque style, bounces it on knee, beats opponent with Vieira-esque chip over his head and lays a killer thru-ball towards the edge of the box with Pires-esque poise.
Picks it up on the edge of the box,
ignores the protesting ref, and throws
it against our recently trusty post….
it bounces out and straight to the
waiting………
poacher at the edge of the box…ka blam…
running around like crazy after scoring his first ton in a while…
Walks over to scruzgooner and shakes hand robustly in a traditional manner of which even TTG would improve. “Well done, scruz.”
shakes bath’s hand, and bows over it, not an original celebration for sure. double-high-five’s matt, hi-low five’s ned, and chucks a salute at bt8 for the excruciatingly wonderful 29-move buildup play.
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no splurge of usual nonsense
from me here
but ?
if a nation looks to the DUP
other than
how to do bigotry
that nation should worry
https://mobile.twitter.com/chrismorrisbits/status/1108449713295114240?s=15
Wise words CBA
Brexit-simultaneously a farce and a tragedy .
What has this country come to ?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonWfTW7jKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonWfTW7jKc
Congratulations to Scruz on the ton. Glad to see robustness abounding in the celebrations and no donning of silly masks . Bad luck OM you know how George Eastham felt in the sixties….all that hard work and no result.
typical crawly bum lick
thunder T
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i think everyone here
wants to know
are you throwing
the more handsome of
your employees
out onto the street
with nothing
but …
… at least let me collect my poor shame
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ell ip sis
yer breaking my heart
yer shaking …
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my heart
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in other news
in other news
IN OTHER NEWS
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i will be accused
occupation is not always a job
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Dave sorry
stuff is serious
as baff said
shut up
it’s a football blog
I dunno
I suspect he’s right
but
he’s Scottish
and
they deep friedly usually aren’t
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“febrile”
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when the fuck have ye heard that word
BEFORE
ye hear it now from plastic cunts
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PATHETIC
(double ellipsis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgnLcrrlorM
chris
the dead fuck
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i miss chris
‘holics – be more like chris
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ooooooooh
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how bossy am i ?
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stupid oul paddy nuisance ?
*limps off into the sunset with a big wheely suitcase of guns*
and handsome ness
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rumours that i look like
a fat John Cooper Clarke
traversing the cow pat lottery
are not only
accurate b
UT
considerably accurate
and
i think you’ll find
you are ugly too
stuff etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBca1ixoEbg
stupid english bastards
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cba@120: Better get on the John Cooper Clarke diet
https://youtu.be/L4OlSQUzkfc
*spits crumbs at judgemental ned*
yeah
i spose
how’s brexit working out for you ned
you’re smarter than the average
it’s ridiculous
but
see above
i go nowhere without ak s
indeed
of a morning i fry my eggs
on the muzzle of my gun nun
Mmmmmmmmmm
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they’re like that
fuckin nuns
guns
nuns
hot
Easy tiger. It ain’t working out we’ll for lots of people. This isn’t another Irish/UK thing, despite what May has contrived. This is just painful, beyond belief. Some may suffer more than others. ?
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MULTI POSTERS are attention seeking CUNTS
CUNTS
paddy CUNTS
Aaaahhhhhh
howdy dave
herself has the dinner on
gnight
ARSENAL
ARSENAL
ARSENAL
ARSENAL
ARSENAL
ARSENAL
ARSENAL
ARSENAL
ARSENAL
ARSENAL
Test
https://streamable.com/lqur3
Ramsey v Tottenham came out brilliantly. Don’t know if you could see it but it came through on my end.
The little Tottenham defenders were saying
[(ellipsis)]
Which way did he go
I could see it, thanks bt8
Great stuff from Aaron, made it
look simple when in fact there
were several things he had to get
just right. Nicely weighted ball to
him as well.
cba@126: We’re well out of it here at Castle Ned, but I wouldn’t particularly want to be in it.
it came through on my end.
Carry On Blog.
beard aff
crew cut refound
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“Who’s askin anyway”
honestly
it’s like theres
NAE FITBA
*urgent message baff – did i sound sufficiently Scotland*
yeah
Celtic are great aren’t they
oh boy
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Ooooooooooooooh overshare
never fuckin had fuckin piles before
in my fuckin life
life
fuck off
i am not happy
i’ve googled
congratulations
you are elderly
(an it’s hangin out yer hole)
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“it is very rare for an ellipsis to occur without a linguistic antecedent”
a set of dots (…) indicating an ellipsis.
i love snooker
Half the second ton is sweeter than both of the first two half tons put together.
And the Oskar goes to …
Brentford, Swansea, Blackburn, Stoke and QPR all move above Birmingham in the Championship table after the Football League deducts 9 points from the Blues total for administrative incompetence and related sins. Serves them right for beating us in the League Cup final a few years ago.
9 points for admin incompetence.
How many should the Nomads lose
for not having a stadium?
Twin Cities
Always
Japan
(occasionally)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPomOqDu3U
if you
like totally
listen
like
way more than
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
you are a bad person
these people exist however
God blurs America
are you cool ?
i suspect not
am i cool ?
i know not
bla blurb l e snrtffle t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qadw2rFiaJc
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i haven’t rocked a quiff for forty near fifty year
de hear yer mockery
i look old and ridiculous
but if you point that out to me
I Will not only OLD you
i’ll RIDICULOUS you too
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(grandchildren should be politer)
Whaddya spect from SCOTLAND though
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stupid un recognisable vowel shouters
what about this
presence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1xPLjvDmac
though
in the north just now
live in the south
don’t feel comfortable
Always did nt
free state bastards
that’s
“PROPER IRISHMEN”
in the north
call them
feel free to adopt that term
for THAT SHOWER
but you’ll only be doing it for yourself
if you do
cos the toura loura crowd
Will hound you
with their accents
and
smug wogan lives
diddley eiddle Woodley dooodly doo
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Ireland isn’t the shower of FREE STATE CUNTS
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Ireland is the horrible accented fuckers who were left behind to be tortured oooooop north
If you have to daily struggle to be what you are
It sturdies yer resolve
ps
(stupid english bastards)
???????
but
as that gold standard
james Twitter blunt said
YOURE BEAUTIFUL
Easy Tiger, you’ll love this one. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>