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Win A Signed Copy Of Dennis Bergkamp’s New Autobiography

Oct 4th, 2013 by 'holic

The long-awaited autobiography of Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp, Stillness and Speed, is now available in all official Club retail outlets and we’ve got our hands on an exclusive copy to give away, signed by the Dutch master (God) himself.

Bergkamp joined Arsenal from Inter Milan in June 1995 and went on to make a total of 423 appearances for the Gunners, scoring 120 goals, during which time he treated supporters to some of the most exhilarating and skilful play by any Arsenal player in history.

During his 11 years with the Club, he played an integral part in Arsenal winning seven major honours, including the Invincibles’ unbeaten Premier League season of 2003/04 and also scored the goal that Gunners fans voted the best in the Club’s history.

In Stillness and Speed, one of football’s most enigmatic stars finally opens up about his life and career, revealing the things that motivate and inspire him. From life as a youngster at Ajax, through to his experiences in Italy and emergence as a major Premier League star, the book tells the story of a player like no other that will inspire football fans everywhere, whatever their allegiance.

To be in with a chance of winning a signed copy of Stillness and Speed, simply answer the following question:

From which Club did Arsenal sign Dennis Bergkamp?

a)      AC Milan

b)     Inter Milan

c)      Lazio

Send your answers with your name and email address to competition@goonerholic.com before the competition closes at midnight UK time on Sunday, 6th October 2013.

Stillness and Speed is available for £20 in official Club retail outlets and at Arsenal Direct (http://arsenaldirect.arsenal.com/books+dvds/dennis-bergkamp-autobiography-stillness-and-speed-my-story/invt/a8182). For a limited period, any supporter that buys a copy of the book will also go into an automatic draw to win an Arsenal shirt signed by Dennis Bergkamp.

Good Luck Ladies

Arsenal Ladies play Lincoln Ladies in the Continental Cup Final at Barnet FC’s The Hive later today. Kick-off is at 7.30pm.

Shelley Kerr’s team will be looking win the trophy for a third year in succession, having beaten Birmingham City in both the 2012 and 2011 finals.

Tickets are £5 adults, £2.50 concessions. Not a bad Friday night out at a cup final, eh?

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119 Responses to “Win A Signed Copy Of Dennis Bergkamp’s New Autobiography”

  1. on 04 Oct 2013 at 12:44 am1Steve T

    First again????????????????

  2. on 04 Oct 2013 at 12:45 am2Steve T

    Two firsts. Surely that gets me a book??????

  3. on 04 Oct 2013 at 12:57 am3scruzgöoner

    steve t, if i could read well i’d have had the right answer. it was 17 goals in 38 matches, 98-99 season. well-remembered.

    and, agreed, you should get the book 🙂

  4. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:51 am4Cent

    Oh Dennis! I’m sending my answer right away!

  5. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:58 am5Cent

    Answer sent!

    No, Steve T, that doesn’t get you the book! 😐

  6. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:27 am6Cannöns of Rhetörik

    Waaaa! I just bought this book on the Kindle app for my Itouch.

    Once again a post that should’ve been brought to my attention YESTERDAY! 😉

  7. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:01 am7NorCal

    CoRs,

    If you win, I’ll take your signed copy. Don’t want you to feel like you misspent your money. 8)

  8. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:09 am8Cent

    CoR, what Norcal said.

  9. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:45 am9lordgunner

    the bible is out .yeeeeeees

  10. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:56 am10bergynj

    Hi, is this a UK only competition or people from other countries can participate..?

  11. on 04 Oct 2013 at 4:45 am11behind the 8 ball but gunning for glory

    Maybe Giggs is the one to blame?

    http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/03/david-moyes-manchester-united-ryan-giggs

  12. on 04 Oct 2013 at 6:22 am12Öskar the dog

    ” I think you are missing an important point here. It’s not retrospect, I was saying as it was happening that we were brilliant ” (Lars #204 last drinks)

    You may well have been saying it at the time, Lars, but not in this forum. No disrespect intended but you could claim you said anything while watching the game at the Ems, but when you commented in here your comments were in retrospect … ie, after the match was over and we had got away with easing off without alarums and excursions.

    All I’m saying is this exciting, but still developing, team should take more care when they decide to shut up shop, 2-0 only halfway through the game is too soon for mine. I remember the Invincibles playing the same tactic – scoring 2 or three in the first 30 minutes and then cruising – but this latest edition is not in their league … yet.

    Öskar

  13. on 04 Oct 2013 at 8:52 am13Goonerholic

    It’s open to all, bergynj.

  14. on 04 Oct 2013 at 9:38 am14Toby

    Oh, I really do feel I’m going to win it this time! I mean, I’m bound to now that there is actually a competition for adults again, right?

  15. on 04 Oct 2013 at 10:47 am15Delia- Block112

    Picked up my copy from Foyles at St Pancras Station on Tuesday for £14.99! Fascinating section on his time at Inter.

  16. on 04 Oct 2013 at 11:05 am16Hazza

    I just hope ‘holic doesn’t use the same RNG thing as Arseblog does… because that one is clearly broken!

  17. on 04 Oct 2013 at 11:05 am17Snir Geuli

    Before anybody goes crazy on the whole JW cig thing.

    He can do whatever the fuck he wants as long as it’s legal and not making him underperform..

    Here is one player who seems to be playing well regardless of the odd smoke.

    http://twitter.com/ScoutReport_TV/status/386067445272018944/photo/1

  18. on 04 Oct 2013 at 12:26 pm18zicoinexile

    Snir,

    I agree with you but the only person whose opinion really matters is Wenger’s.

    I would have thought that at a time when starting positions in the Arsenal midfield were scarce due to squad depth in that position that Wilshere would have wanted to avoid pissing off the boss.

    It’s a disgusting habit anyway, pursued by ne-er do wells like Smallballs etc 😉

  19. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:02 pm19Steve T

    Bergynj. I think what Holic meant to say is that the competition is open only to middle aged fat blokes who live in the Essex area.

    😀

  20. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:03 pm20Holloway2Holland

    Aaaah Steve.

    Well at least I ticked two of the three boxes. 😉

  21. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:16 pm21bstrum

    How’s that, H2H? Surely not as a middle aged fat bloke who lives in a not-so-free-but-still-legit sex area?

  22. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:28 pm22bstrum

    As for smokers, which Wilshere is not one of, by the way, they’re bleeding heroes of society. They pay enormous amounts of taxes and die relatively young before racking up astronomical health and elderly care costs, most of which is usually borne by family and society at large. And not being defensive here – haven’t even had a drag of a cigarette since the day I had a kid though I missed it every day for at least the first five years…

  23. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:38 pm23Holloway2Holland

    Heh bstrum.

    ====

    Oh no, batten down the hatches, we’ve got spammers (not Fat Sam’s kind) in the bar.

  24. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:43 pm24Holloway2Holland

    From the beeb;

    Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has labelled Jack Wilshere’s smoking as totally unacceptable and plans to take up the issue directly with the England midfielder.

    Wilshere was pictured with a cigarette outside a London nightclub in the early hours of Thursday morning as players wound down following Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Napoli earlier in the week, when the 21-year-old had started on the bench.

    “I disagree completely with that behaviour,” Wenger says. “I don’t know really what happened, so I will need to have a chat with him about that.”

  25. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:56 pm25Cannöns of Rhetörik

    Smoking is the dogs bollocks! Everyone would do well to develop lungs that resemble garbage bags 😉

    Couldn’t quit last season due to how dire the footie was but maybe this season I can??? 8)

  26. on 04 Oct 2013 at 1:57 pm26Cannöns of Rhetörik

    Oh, btw NorCal and Cent, if I win the book you guys have to come to Japan and fight me for it!

    http://ipadwallsdepot.com/detail/angry-lion_00044897.jpg

  27. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:13 pm27takeabowson

    Afternoon all,

    Great drinks in the Bar yesterday. Just caught up. Far too many to mention, but it was all a great read.

    NB1 – Fair play to you.

    Decided to smoke instead of eat today, in support of Jack you understand. Got two on the go.

    Dr Z – 🙂

    Right, I’m off to win the Book.

  28. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:14 pm28Wolfgang Smallballs

    Bit gay in the Bar yesterday wasn’t it? 😉

  29. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:16 pm29Porco Rosso

    Can you lot quit the talking about smoking, it’s giving me cravings for that old friend I left behind in January (and occasionally hang out with still)…

  30. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:23 pm30Holloway2Holland

    I only smoke when I drink…….

  31. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:26 pm31Joe

    Holic,

    Not wanting to influence proceedings, but the winner should be someone who appreciates signed first editions…!

    Not like the gobshite who posted a signed fourth edition of Joyce’s Ulysses to a County Cork Library recently just to have it valued. It was one of six in the world worth over 900k……and yes, she actually sent it in the post!

    In that context, the most appropriate one liner that comes to mind is Kiplings: “A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar, is a smoke”..!

  32. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:34 pm32takeabowson

    H2H 🙂

    Joe – Wow. 900k????!!. Serious dough. You don’t happen to know if a First Edition of Fever Pitch (unsigned) is worth anything do you?

  33. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:43 pm33Holloway2Holland

    Maybe values are a little different where I live now, but has smoking become such a heinus crime?

    I don’t get what all the fuss is about, it’s not like he was free bassing or hitting the crack pipe ( a complete no no on a school night).

    Has British society become so lilywhite, that the partake of a legal substance, in a designated area (outside) has become news worthy and a justified reason to get out the best pitch forks and fackles?

    I know he’s an athlete and he really should have known better, but come on ffs, he’s still literaly a kid, he’s gonna make mistakes, shit happens. The worst thing is the whole hypocrisy of it all, the newspaper/vulturous scumbag profession is renowned for it’s smoking and drinking culture.

  34. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:46 pm34Trev

    So Arsene is to speak to Jack about smoking.

    Jack needs to know how to give it up – Arsene will probably give him a few tips ……… or not 😉

    Or he could wait for the England get together and ask Ricky Lambert and Butler.

    Or even Ash-ley Cole.

    It’s all probably down to his injury layoff when he spent so much time on the Weights.

    So Smallballs smokes ? Doubtless rolls his own with a rough shag. 😉

    Ok, time for me to pipe down. Work beckons. 😉

  35. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:49 pm35Trev

    H2H,

    Probably the only negative thing the media could dredge up about the Arsenal this week.

    Are the LWCs still joint top. 😉

    (That wasn’t supposed to be a smoking pun btw)

  36. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:53 pm36Holloway2Holland

    Trust Trev to spark into action with the smoking puns.

    Here to light up our day.

  37. on 04 Oct 2013 at 2:54 pm37Joe

    Tabs,

    You could be pleasantly surprised:

    http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/fever-pitch/author/nick-hornby/first-edition/pics/sortby/3/page-1/

  38. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:03 pm38Bayonne Jean

    H2H @ 31; So that means you’re a chain smoker, right?

    Per AW, Sagna out for three weeks with hamstring. Not dire as it keeps Sagna out of the internationals, and Jenkinson is solid cover. And it further emphasizes the wisdom of resigning Flamini, as I trust him to be more than adequate cover at either halfback slot.

  39. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:09 pm39arsabeatbarca

    Holy smokes! This is just proof holics have become complacent about our Arsenal. Bac out for the game and yet not a care by you all 😉 Saw a graph which showed WBA attack equally on both sides, 34%, so the Corporal should do ok. As for our Jack, a bit of rebellion, nothing more.

  40. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:09 pm40Holloway2Holland

    Chain smoker?

    No, I prefer ciggarettes. 😉

  41. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:15 pm41takeabowson

    “I don’t get what all the fuss is about, it’s not like he was free bassing or hitting the crack pipe ( a complete no no on a school night).”

    Hahahahaha 🙂

    Joe – Many thanks for the link. Pleasantly surprised indeed. Seems to be big discrepancies on those being offered. I knew I should have got it signed! 😉

    Don’t think I have to contact the Insurers just yet but every little bit helps … 🙂

  42. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:16 pm42Wolfgang Smallballs

    Trev – Excellent punning. Somehow I knew I’d be the butt of the jokes … 😉

  43. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:30 pm43Holloway2Holland

    At least he didn’t resort to the old puff on a fag line.

  44. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:33 pm44Wolfgang Smallballs

    Small mercies H2H, small mercies … 🙂

  45. on 04 Oct 2013 at 3:45 pm45Holloway2Holland

    😆

  46. on 04 Oct 2013 at 4:15 pm46True Storey

    Sagna is allegedly going to resort to using the old school method of discipline and will use the cane on Wilshere to help curb his anti-social habits.

    That’s right, he’ll become Wacky Baccy.

    Skin-Up The Arsenal!

  47. on 04 Oct 2013 at 4:17 pm47Trev

    @44, I was going to …….

  48. on 04 Oct 2013 at 4:18 pm48Trev

    Heh, TS. 🙂

  49. on 04 Oct 2013 at 4:29 pm49NorCal

    Morning all.
    Ciggygate. Is that the best they can throw at is in the media. Meh. Next.

    Jack should know better ( than to do it on public). 😉

    Sagna out this weekend is a bit of a worry. His form has really come back this term and don’t want him to have much of a layoff. Maybe a couple weeks will do him good, he’s almost as old as me. 😉

    CoRs,
    Your lion does nothing to scare me. Here in America we use Guns with no regard for their lethality. Lord help us.

    Cheers all

  50. on 04 Oct 2013 at 4:49 pm50thundertinygooner

    Whilst I agree about Jack being a little victimised I think the lad has the capacity to see his career go up in smoke (no pun intended). He will find plenty of people willing to lead him astray. One worries more for Jack than a lad like Aaron Ramsey although this is based purely on perception and a few scrapes that he has had in clubs over the years.
    That said the media is ridiculously intrusive. Poor old Mesut was photographed buying a pizza the other day in graphic detail by the Star. Even being Mesut it wasn’t compelling stuff .
    If Bobby Moore, Jimmy Greaves etc had had this scrutiny back in the day there would have been an awful lot to delve in to!!

  51. on 04 Oct 2013 at 5:14 pm51takeabowson

    SMOKERS XI

    Camus
    H2H, tabs (capt), Socrates, Cole
    Wilshere, Ozil, Zidane, Best
    Cruyff, Maradona.

    Manager : Malcolm Allison

    A couple of weaknesses, especially in the leadership stakes, but I’d still back it.

  52. on 04 Oct 2013 at 5:25 pm52washed up in france

    Tabs

    if it was six a side

    it would surely be Players No 6

  53. on 04 Oct 2013 at 5:29 pm53NorCal

    Tabs,

    No hookah Chamakh?

    Or is his Moroccan to rockan for you? Messi and balotelli have been seen smoking too.

  54. on 04 Oct 2013 at 5:32 pm54takeabowson

    Washed up 🙂

    NorCal – Chamakh’s not good enough to get in (even at centre half!) 🙂

    Doubts about the commitment of Messi and Balotelli. Social smokers only.

  55. on 04 Oct 2013 at 6:33 pm55Holloway2Holland

    Good looking team that tabs, I’m sure that we could take on all comers, or at least cover them in a nasty nicotine induced flem.

    Interesting that you selected Best over Rooney, but I suppose there’s still more life left in the former.

    Hope Maradonna brings the half time refreshments.

  56. on 04 Oct 2013 at 6:37 pm56Holloway2Holland

    You’ll never have to question my commitment, I’ll bust a lung for the team….Literaly *cough, splutter*

  57. on 04 Oct 2013 at 6:45 pm57Holloway2Holland

    From the beeb;

    TUESDAY

    In the Champions League new Arsenal cult hero Memut Ozil got off the mark as the Gunners beat Rafael Benitez’s Napoli 2-0.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/24395202

    Is it really that hard to get his name right?

  58. on 04 Oct 2013 at 6:52 pm58takeabowson

    H2H – Haha, don’t think we’ll have to do much work at the back there. We’ve still got Balotelli and Messi to bring off the bench. If things get really hairy we’ve also got Cholmondley-Warner to send into the fray.

    *Late team news. Koscielny has been drafted in for Cole on account of Cole being a bit of a cunt. *Breaking*

  59. on 04 Oct 2013 at 7:05 pm59behind the 8 bäll but günning for glöry

    They didn’t actually have to be smoking on the field, did they?

    http://goonertalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/gallasmoking1.jpg

  60. on 04 Oct 2013 at 7:15 pm60Holloway2Holland

    That’s sound management, tabs.

  61. on 04 Oct 2013 at 7:22 pm61Cent

    Lurky, please if you’re around I’d like to be enlightened on the playing a wildcard works in FPL. Thanks.
    P.s. If anyone else can help, I’d appreciate.

  62. on 04 Oct 2013 at 7:34 pm62Holloway2Holland

    Cent you get two wildcards per season. The one you have now, plus an extra one that you can utilise in January (in a two or three week window)

    You can use your wildcard at anytime, but once you’ve used it it is gone.

    To use your wildcard, make your changes (transfers) and select the wildcard option. Usualy extra transfers cost 4pts, but when the wildcard is played all your transfers will not be charged.

    You still have to stay within your 100mil budget.

    I hope that helps, good luck,

  63. on 04 Oct 2013 at 7:40 pm63Cent

    Thanks, H2H, your info will definitely help.

  64. on 04 Oct 2013 at 7:55 pm64thundertinygooner

    Cent
    H2H has summed it up very well. The time to use it is when you are struggling and need to make several changes in your side.Don’t use it if you are doing well and can get by well on your one transfer per week.
    Its a chance to do what Spurs did in the summer but hopefully you will make a better job of it!
    Good luck!

  65. on 04 Oct 2013 at 8:01 pm65behind the 8 bäll but günning for glöry

    Abb @39. You used the magic word, complacent, in relation to our attitude toward Arsenal. I just hope it doesn’t extend to the players. And there are many reasons why not but I will mention just one: Berahino. I hope Jenkinson is up for it this weekend.

  66. on 04 Oct 2013 at 8:08 pm66Uplympian

    Tabs / H2H that team selection is smokin’. If one of you 2 ran out of puff, then how about substituting Peter Simpson or Peter Storey at the back – birth were known for their support of the tobacco industry ( the latter PS would stub his fag out on his oppo as he entered the fray).

  67. on 04 Oct 2013 at 8:12 pm67Cent

    Thanks, Ttg.

  68. on 04 Oct 2013 at 8:34 pm68behind the 8 bäll but günning for glöry

    Steve Clarke commenting on Berahino’s contract of 850 (Eight Hundred and Fifty) quid a week: “If Saido continues to do what he’s doing, he’ll be looked after here.” Does that mean they will look after him if he continues to score game winning wonder goals against Manchester United?

    http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11698/8956999/west-brom-boss-steve-clarke-hits-out-at-agent-over-saido-berahinos-wage-leak

  69. on 04 Oct 2013 at 8:55 pm69North Bank Ned

    The only reason sprinters get down in the those blocks at the start of race is that in the old days it made it easier to stub out their cigars at the last minute.

    It’s true, you know…

    Not that I see that Smokers XI back four doing a lot of sprinting….

  70. on 04 Oct 2013 at 9:01 pm70North Bank Ned

    Also no Stan Bowles in that team? He’d probably have smoked during a game.

  71. on 04 Oct 2013 at 9:07 pm71Holloway2Holland

    Why sprint when you can call a cab?

  72. on 04 Oct 2013 at 9:07 pm72North Bank Ned

    Rare picture of team in training:
    http://www.opiummuseum.com/pics/976119_normal.jpg

  73. on 04 Oct 2013 at 9:08 pm73North Bank Ned

    Or get one of your staff to do the sprinting for you, H2H.

  74. on 04 Oct 2013 at 9:21 pm74Holloway2Holland

    That’s the spirit Ned. 🙂

  75. on 04 Oct 2013 at 9:50 pm75zicoinexile

    @ 51

    Robin Friday.

    Pussies by comparison, your lot. 😉

  76. on 04 Oct 2013 at 10:03 pm76North Bank Ned

    Now you’re talking, Zico.

    http://www.superfurry.org/covers.php?q=themandontgiveafuck

  77. on 04 Oct 2013 at 10:05 pm77Holloway2Holland

    Don’t be so sure.

  78. on 04 Oct 2013 at 10:39 pm78Trev

    Just realised today that I’ve had Cazorla and Benteke in my FPL team ever since they’ve been injured – couldn’t change them on the iPad – not very good at this.

    :redfacedthingy:

  79. on 04 Oct 2013 at 11:03 pm79Öskar the dog

    Nice quote Joe (#31), as was that of Mark Twain … “It’s the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking, I’ve done it hundreds of times”.

    Personally I think it’s a disgusting, unhealthy, anti-social habit which I practised religiously through my youth but managed to give up before most of you were born. It also renders potential lovers (or short-term shags) unkissable, but since I have no interest in kissing any of the guys here you need not concern yourselves about that.

    Mind you I believe women smokers should be obliged to carry health warnings emblazoned on their chests in the same way as cigarette packs. Then you can avoid the ones destined to disappoint in the snog stakes.

    Öskar

  80. on 04 Oct 2013 at 11:25 pm80Holloway2Holland

    Well done the ladies;

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24387054

  81. on 04 Oct 2013 at 11:38 pm81Toby

    I really wanted to join in the pun fun, but I think this has been smouldering for far to long so I’ll just say “to the ladies!”.

    Sleep tight ‘holics!

  82. on 05 Oct 2013 at 12:50 am82Homer

    Oskar – I’m hearing you on the smoking.

    Your last post instantly made me think of Sarah. A decade or two ago.
    Wheeww!!! Body to die for. Face of an angle. Smart – but not too. A bit twisted – but not too. Rich father. Did i mention the body to die for? Built like brick shithouse i used to think. She was the kind of woman that made you want to get down on your hands and knees and thank god you are a man.

    Alas … Also a smoker. Truly like kissing an ash tray.
    Serious downer.

    Cheers all.

  83. on 05 Oct 2013 at 12:53 am83North Bank Ned

    Uruguay and Paris St-Germain striker Edinson Cavani, 26, says compatriot Luis Suarez, 26, is waiting for a move to Real Madrid and the Liverpool forward was not keen on joining Arsenal, the Daily Mail says. Well, many in this bar weren’t keen on the idea either.

  84. on 05 Oct 2013 at 12:56 am84Homer

    And i see a nervy one at west brom.

    Corp Jenks is a fine player but there is only one Bac-man.
    3-2 to the Arsenal.

    OG will continue his run. TR7 my main man Rosicky is gonna get one and so will super Aaron – who will also continue kicking ass and taking names.

  85. on 05 Oct 2013 at 2:30 am85behind the 8 ball but gunning for glory

    Homer. Sarah must have been one smokin’ hot babe. 😉

  86. on 05 Oct 2013 at 3:20 am86iBathgooner

    Greetings from SiemReap. Steamy +++. Rain and ruins aplenty.

    Hoping that we can bring professionalism and focus to today’s task and that the old complacency bug has been squashed completely.

    Fingers crossed that at least one of the legion of channels showing football from every European league makes the correct choice at 9pm local time.

    COYGs

    BTW the signed copy of God’s book is MINE!

    Mojitos are the dog’s bollox in this weather.

  87. on 05 Oct 2013 at 3:39 am87behind the 8 bäll but günning for glöry

    Arteta/Flamini impermeable shield to see us through?

  88. on 05 Oct 2013 at 5:30 am88Goonerholic

    Nobody want the ton yet?

    Morning all.

  89. on 05 Oct 2013 at 5:55 am89NorCal

    Holic,

    Does the ton win me the book?
    I’ll stay up if it does.

    If not. Goodnight all

  90. on 05 Oct 2013 at 6:12 am90Goonerholic

    Heh, You need to be lucky N. Very lucky. It’s a huge response.

    Not a surprise.

  91. on 05 Oct 2013 at 6:25 am91NorCal

    H,

    I’ll rub little Poldi’s head. He’s a lucky little dude. Wins stuff all the time.
    Just tell me when you will be pulling the name out of the hat so I can wake him up. 😉

    Cheers

  92. on 05 Oct 2013 at 7:28 am92I-Bath

    Nudges the drinks towards the ton. You are up early Guvna. Bar in need of a rub down?

  93. on 05 Oct 2013 at 7:30 am93Goonerholic

    Not just the bar bath 😉

  94. on 05 Oct 2013 at 9:02 am94Toby

    Been in a wretched mood all day. Woke up after quite a few too many pints this morning (started too early yesterday, so before me nor the clock knew it, I had downed a sizeable amount) only to find that there wasn’t any coffee at home. Just been to the corner shop to sort it, and now I’m ready to discuss me winning the book a bit more.

  95. on 05 Oct 2013 at 9:10 am95zicoinexile

    @ Baff?

    Did I dream that our game is tomorrow afternoon?

  96. on 05 Oct 2013 at 9:11 am96zicoinexile

    Aah, I see the Barman had the same dream….

  97. on 05 Oct 2013 at 9:20 am97Uplympian

    Bath…you won’t see the mighty gunners tonight…..it’s a Sunday 1600 ko here ( unless Cam is more than 24 hrs ahead 😉 ).
    Mojitos…just the job – brings back memories of Hemingway’s bar in Havana many moons ago.
    Feeling unusually confident for tomorrow – flamart defensive shield looks good. Waiting to see the guv’nors ( aka The Predictmeister ) preview before I part with a small wager.

  98. on 05 Oct 2013 at 9:28 am98Pangloss

    Ghosts into the bar, delivers sliderule, ghosts out of bar.

    Returns to deliver sliderule pass before disappearing once more.

  99. on 05 Oct 2013 at 9:35 am99Toby

    Ribona cross (by mistake)

  100. on 05 Oct 2013 at 9:52 am100Cent

    Goal?!

  101. on 05 Oct 2013 at 9:56 am101Cent

    Runs off celebrate like this http://24.media.tumblr.com/857a7a9766c9582cc7087aa0a9695485/tumblr_ms23gzLFYc1r6ibubo1_250.gif

    Thanks for the assist, toby!

  102. on 05 Oct 2013 at 10:07 am102Porco Rosso

    Curses! Just missed the 101.

    I see the smoking discussion has fizzled out. Trust me to turn up late picking up dog ends. It’s for the best, when I get involved in conversations like that I’m usually the butt of the jokes. Then I retreat into my shell and hardly say a word unless someone directly addresses me. Some describe it as ‘passive’ behaviour.

  103. on 05 Oct 2013 at 10:38 am103Cynic

    The smoking thing is not a huge deal, but what makes it bigger (slightly) is that Wilshere all too frequently has the pace of an incontinent pensioner with a zimmer frame.

    And at least one wooden leg.

    Chuffing and puffing cannot help his fitness, so he should be ordered to stop. IMO.

  104. on 05 Oct 2013 at 11:43 am104Lars

    Cent, well in for the century!

    I see West Brom have issued a DVD of their Old Trafford win. I don’t really have a problem with that, on the contrary I think it points to that win being so huge for them that it may very well affect their attitude towards the game tomorrow. Hopefully they will have been so wrapped up in the happiness of it all that they won’t be as prepared for our game as they would otherwise have been.

    Having said that, West Brom are no mugs and have a few quite decent players. Sessegnon is a really good player and what little I’ve seen of that Amalfitano chap has been fairly impressive. While it is a game I undoubtedly think we should win, a draw would be far from a disaster (as always with the caveat that the draw should not come from conceding a late equaliser etc). But if we can get the Arteta/Flamini midfield combo to work anywhere near as well again as it did v Napoil then we should bring the three points with us back to London.

  105. on 05 Oct 2013 at 12:23 pm105North Bank Ned

    Well in, Cent.

    Never understand why footballers slide on their knees like that. Too great a risk of injury. Wasn’t a certain Dutchman once out for several weeks after celebrating a goal that way?

  106. on 05 Oct 2013 at 12:35 pm106North Bank Ned

    Sunday’s game will be a good test of the team’s new attitude. Just the sort of game in the past the side would have turned up for assuming it was game won before a ball was kicked, and then get stuffed. West Brom has some players who can cause damage and their whole team will be on a high after the Man U victory, so zero room for complacency on our part.

  107. on 05 Oct 2013 at 1:08 pm107Lars

    What the hell was Mourinho thinking in letting Lukaku go??? He’s a fucking monster, and just scored a beauty against ManCity (and ManCity made it 1-1 in the following attack as I am typing this!).

    Ned: I have also ben wondering about the knee slides. If I had my way, I’d fine any player who did that. I’m not sure if the Dutch bloke ever did himself in that way, but I remember that chap Lua-Lua who played for Pompey who injured himself several times by cartwheeling after goals. You’d think he’d have learned after the first or at least the second time but no, he kept doing the same celebration and then be out for a couple of games.

  108. on 05 Oct 2013 at 1:19 pm108Cent

    Cheers mates. I personally enjoy seeing them knee-slide celebrations and if I could pull it off I’d do it at least twice a day but I totally understand people who are apprehensive to it because of the possible injuries that might result from it.

  109. on 05 Oct 2013 at 2:16 pm109Trev

    Lars,

    I doubt whether Mourinho did let Lukaku go.

    Abramovich paid his mate at Anzi Mikacacacacacachla a lot of money for Eto’o and also paid £50million for Torres.

    I suspect he is keen to see them succeed and they are clearly his current pet projects, hence the removal of Sturridge and Lukaku.

    No logic in it but since when did that matter to Abramovich. He has a ton of money, wants everyone to know, and has decided to throw the latest installments at his Russian pal.

    Why would he want Willian, from the same source, when he already has Mata languishing on the bench as there are too many small ball players in the squad for Maureen’s liking.

  110. on 05 Oct 2013 at 2:23 pm110Trev

    Knee slides ?

    If you wanted to design an exercise to rupture anterior cruciate ligaments, that would be about the best possible way you could come up with as the femur (thigh bone) is potentially driven forwards over the head of the tibia (shin bone).

    As players now have such developed quads muscles, and pitches are wet enough to allow a slide, they can usually get away with it.

    Any unexpected resistance – dry patch in the grass / edge of a boot catching – and the player could be in for a serious injury.

    Knee sliding while smoking is also not good 😉

  111. on 05 Oct 2013 at 2:26 pm111Lars

    It does look like the hitherto only unbeaten team this season is biting the dust v ManCity. That means it looks like today will be this season’s Invicible’s Day.

    If that is not reason enough to go down the pub I don’t know what is!

  112. on 05 Oct 2013 at 2:27 pm112Lars

    Good point about Lukaku and Abramovic, Trev.

  113. on 05 Oct 2013 at 2:36 pm113Cent

    And that’s how Trev banished all my dreams of doing knee-slides to the bin. I hate* doctors.

    *I actually think doctors are heroes.

  114. on 05 Oct 2013 at 3:41 pm114thundertinygooner

    Patrick Vieira injured himself after scoring against Man U with a knee slide. Homage to Trev for the reason nthat it is a very bad idea. Having said that you don’t always react rationally after scoring (in any sense!)

    Being picky if we were looking for a good striker Negredo doesn’t look too shabby but once Citeh come in they pay stupid money . Jovetic might have been better advised to look elsewhere as he is scarcely getting a look in at the Etihad but he isn’t a main striker-too small. Ba rumours are resurfacing and he would be a decent option but the two big prizes that are possibly attainable are Martinez and Benteke. I’m going to sound all Wengerish and say I’d prefer not to kill Giroud as he has bedded in so well. Ba would be quality back-up and not create the same team disharmony as bringing in a big name striker.

    Blimey! Can’t believe I’ve said that. I’m an AKB.

  115. on 05 Oct 2013 at 6:02 pm115Joe

    Trev,

    I would have thought that considering this is Jose’s second term at Chelski that he would have ensured that the footballing decisions are his responsibility and Abramovich could not intervene? Wasn’t that the basis of the previous split with players like Shevchenko and Ballack being foisted on him (Jose)?

    Whoever is responsible for opting for Eto at the expense of the development of Lukaku needs to have their head examined.
    I hope Lukaku realises what a mistake it was to sign for Chelsea. There’s no way that would happen under Wenger.

  116. on 05 Oct 2013 at 6:51 pm116Trev

    Joe,

    “Abramovich could not intervene ..”

    Do you really believe that for more than one second.

    If you ask me, the current Chelsea squad was assembled for Guardiola to turn them into Barcelona Mk II, but he went to Bayern instead.
    Chelsea then turned to Mourinho who himself had been hoping to get the ManUre job.

    So you have Mourinho at Chelsea as there were no other options left open to him where there would be enough money to spend, with a squad that doesn’t really suit the way he wants to play.

    Evidence ?

    Having spent big money on Luiz, Cahill, Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Willian, Lukaku etc. etc. etc. he still prefers to start with Terry and Lampard.

    Abramovich and Mourinho ?

    Two monster egos that deserve each other.

    Can’t wait for it to all go publicly sour again. 😉

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  118. on 05 Oct 2013 at 7:01 pm118Trev

    Where ? 😉

  119. on 05 Oct 2013 at 10:01 pm119Cent

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