Back To The Future, And Last Chance To Win A Tee
May 30th, 2016 by 'holic
Bank Holiday weekend is drawing to a close. Curses. Tomorrow morning it’s back to the workhouse but with some memories of the winding up of another season of club football.
Real Madrid triumphed over neighbours Atletico to secure the Champions League in the cruellest of penalty shoot-outs. Hull City secured the richest prize in Championship play-off history. The on-loan Gunners made no contribution to their 1-0 defeat of Sheffield Wednesday. Isaac Hayden wasn’t involved and Chuba Akpom was an unused substitute at Wembley.
Then on Sunday and earlier today we went back to the late eighties. Barnsley ended Millwall’s dream of a return to the championship and some of their supporters paid the penalty, attacked by a Millwall mob in the Wembley stands. Such scenes belong in the past, and fair play to the club itself for the quick condemnation of such behaviour.
Monday’s child proved to be the reincarnated version of Wimbledon as they earned promotion to League One and will now face their hated former selves, MK Dons. It was a flashback to the Wimbledon that was pulling off a major upset by beating Liverpool in the FA Cup Final at Wembley in 1988. But wait…
Let’s hope this is a sign, for twelve months after The Wombles triumph Liverpool went into the last match of the season needing to avoid a two goal defeat to win the League. Alan Smith and Michael Thomas plus their team-mates had different ideas. Let this indeed be an omen.
A word too for Hector Bellerin who rounded off a wonderful season with his first cap for Spain. With the European Championship imminent it looks as though he may well be cancelling his summer holiday plans. Thoroughly deserved by the young man, but I hope they send him back to us fit and raring to go next season.
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Número uno?
Now I can put my query to more accomplished football minds (not saying much if you’re familiar with my levels of ‘knowledge’):
Why would we bother buying Kante when we have Elneny and now Xhaka? My stab in the dark intuition makes me think the possible answers are –
A. We wouldn’t. It’s transfer rumour nonsense.
B. Kante, Elneny and Xhaka all play in different positions (I thought they were all defensive mid)
C. Erm…?
Evening Holic,
A few days off in the sunny climes of Norfolk beckon.
Actually, heavy downpours and thunder are forecast but they were last time and it turned out just bootifull.
Have to say I’m enjoying a complete break from football after one of the most frustrating seasons I can remember. Can’t get interested in the Euros thus far, and a break from sports radio has been most welcome while they witter endlessly about Roy’s squad ootions.
Beware, Mr Kroenke, there are other things in life after all.
Not that I’ll think so by August.
And don’t he know it !
Evening PR 🙂
Hello Trev. I hope you have a relaxing break and yes, I have seen the forecast. Like you I hope it is, as usual, inaccurate in the extreme. 😉
Maybe because they all tend to stay fit, Porco.
Maybe they would bring more grit (*deftly avoids syaing granite) and athleticism to our midfield.
Maybe we’ve actually grasped the idea of rotation or cover for injuries.
Maybe it’s a load of old pony ……….
Let me know ??
Cheers, Holic.
All the very best to you, sir ??
Have a good trip to the Broads, Trev. Better take your rubbers with you for ‘the weather’. 😀
In truth, Porco, I would imagine any targets, as Xhaka was, will have been watched for a long time and will have to satisfy AW that they will fit our style of play, rather than be the flavour of last season, however good.
That seems to be the way the manager works. If he thinks Kante is a good fit and he is available, maybe he will do it. He will not have been a surprise to Wenger – that’s almost certain.
Personally, I would think the fact that we didn’t buy him before – at the sort of money he cost – probably means we won’t buy him now.
I gave up guessing our transfer targets a ling time ago.
Maybe that tee shirt on offer should go to anyone who thought, twelve months ago, that by this summer we would have bought Granit Xhaka and Mohamned Elneny.
Counts me out !
Heh bath !
One always needs rubbers on the broads. ?
I will be a little further north – up in Wells next the Sea. A walk amongst the pines with an inexhaustible dog and a boat trip out to see the seals.
Bootifull !
Omens, Hectors, Broads and Rubbers. Just another typical night in the Goonerholic bar. We need to catch up, Professor Bath.
We certainly do. Good to see you back, maestro.
army council meeting in the treehouse
i see
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me
i’m all like
https://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=POvmZvNxtIU
and sometimes like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POvmZvNxtIU
anyhoo
getting late
time flies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVPUIRGthI
Trev,
Enjoy Norfolk-one of my favourite places and perhaps the retirement destination for Mrs TRG and I . I hope you are having better weather than we are in Kent today
I won’t give you any tips on contraception?
Sorry Mrs TTG! Must remember to take the right woman!
Deft fingers there, TTG. I am sure the misses will appreciate. 😉
As they used toast in the Navy, TTG, “To wives and sweethearts; May they never meet”.
So only two of our much-vaunted ‘British core’ will be going to the Euros. So much for that project.
Trev wading into the broads with his rubbers! Ooh, er, nurse.
But he can always go clubbing with the seals.
Cheers, TTG,
drove all the way in a deluge which began to clear as we arrived in Wells. Had a dry walk in the woods but a bit taters – 11°C !
I’ve had quite enough of global warming, thank you !
Could someone tell whoever is upstairs it’s flaming June tomorrow.
Ta !
16
bloody brilliant m’lud
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Hi and Heh! Ned.
and
happy holibobs trev
It’s colder than Cynic’s heart up here ?
Cheers, can’t be arsed !
And you will note I haven’t abbreviated you ???
abbreviate away kind sir
am still in your debt
for the rather brilliant neck advice
so
you can call me anything you bloody well please
?
The neck is still good then ?
Good to hear. ??
posture changed forever
can look behind me without turning my whole self around
and the pain that used to shoot to my eyeball very rare now
so as remote consultations go
ye played a blinder
was gonna apologise for waffling about personal non Arsenal stuff
then i realised i was a coupla years too late in that regard
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Hope you’re enjoying the broads Trev. If global warning is fact (C Rafa ), then I guess it will soon be Wells-In-The-Sea 😉
Here on the Jurassic coast been basking in warm sunshine – normally we get our fair share of the wet stuff here.
cba waffling on about personal stuff – you’ve got some neck 😉
indeed Up
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Can’t be Arsed
I didn’t know this was an Arsenal chat forum!
That explains a lot of the anti- Spuds stuff. ?
Just had a walk along the harbour with the north wind coming straight at us.
It’s like winter.
As for Arsenal, the transfer window pens tomorrow I believe……. ?
Evening, Uply.
Anti-Spuds ….
Do they grow on the dark side of cba’s farm ?
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what was the paul foot joke ?
about the norfolk broads
i know the cornerstone of it but can’t remember the rest
Direct from the archive, rare film footage of Trev’s holiday in the Norfolk Broads. 😀
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/girl-sailors/query/NORFOLK+BROADS
That’s the ticket, bt8 ?
Afraid it feels more like this today –
http://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/polopoly_fs/1.4408545.1454751978!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_490/image.jpg
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Evening Trev, hope the weather improves, it’s indeed a lovely spot when the sun shines. Still you can have some intellectual conversations with the locals 😉
Hi, Trev. Stay (get?) warm. Wells-next-the-sea looks charming from the photos.
http://www.stayinwalsingham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/wells_beach.jpg
So Xakha has changed his shirt number already, from 16 to 29.
That’s about as exciting as Arsenal news gets in the summer.
Apparently 29 is his birth year backwards, which I guess would be as good a reason as any. Mine would be 24, but I’m not saying what the two numbers ahead of it would be…
Hope this is not an omen but the last person to wear 29 was Marouane Chamakh.
In other shirt number news — it really is summer silly season — Iwobi moves up from 45 to 17.
Trev @ a much earlier post
Thanks for the input. As you said it’s probably made up nonsense peddled by hacks trying to justify their paychecks so they still have jobs come the start of the new season!
29? 17? Odd numbers seem to be in.
What’s Ramsey doing, bucking the trend when he had a chance to fall in line?
Nicely done and elegantly put:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/european-letter-to-britain/
thats a list for the everyday man , right there
every undecided will now have the scales fall from their eyes
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only joking joe
just miffed I guess
they clearly must have out of date contact details for me
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who knew john lowe was now a microbiologist
wwTGSTELd ?
Arsenal won all three Fair Play leagues last season .
Here’s proof
http://untold-arsenal.com/archives/53244
Joe@45: AW and Per among those who signed. Blogs, too.
European Union? Another grand scam.
Time will tell.
“You know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker!
You receive a love letter from me, you’re fucked forever!
You understand, fuck? I’ll send you straight to hell, fucker!”
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