WIN A PAIR OF VIP TICKETS TO SEE ARSENAL LEGENDS V REAL MADRID LEGENDS
Aug 28th, 2018 by 'holic
Arsenal Legends are preparing for the return leg of their match against Real Madrid Legends at Emirates Stadium on Saturday 8 September (kick-off at 2pm).
We’ve teamed up with The Gunners to offer a lucky reader a pair of VIP tickets to this unique game, at Emirates Stadium.
The match, which sees net proceeds from ticket sales donated to The Arsenal Foundation for a ground breaking new football project, is the second leg of this charity fixture which ended 2-1 at the Santiago Bernabéu, on Sunday 3 June 2018.
With David O’Leary, alongside Assistant Coach Pat Rice at the helm, a number of Arsenal Legends including Robert Pires, David Seaman and Fredrik Ljungberg will put on the Arsenal shirt once again for a great cause. Real Madrid Legends’ travelling squad, will include Brazil’s World Cup winners, Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos amongst others.
For the opportunity to enjoy a day out in style at Emirates Stadium during the September international break, just answer the following question:
Which Arsenal Legend made 564 overall appearances at their time at Arsenal?
A) Robert Pires
B) David Seaman
C) Ray Parlour
Please send your entries to competition@goonerholic.com by midnight UK time on Sunday, 2nd September. Include your name and email address so you can be contacted in the event of you winning the tickets. There is no cash alternative for this prize. Please do not enter if you are unable to attend. You will have to make your own way to the stadium on the day.
Tickets are still available, from £20 adults and £10 concessions. Visit Arsenal.com
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Looks like Reiss Nelson is off to Hoffenheim. Goal say it’s a permanent move others a loan after signing a new contract. It would be an own goal from the contracts team at Arsenal if he naffs off…especially with no fee paid. A loan deal on the other hand might do him some good. But where are our wingers Unai?
BtM and TTG @ the previous drinks: Thank you. You are most welcome.
bt8b: Don’t give all the secrets away…
Good competition Guvna. Can’t say I know the answer.
Can I add my thanks to Ned and his enslaved clerics. ’tis a fine monastic tradition to preserve knowledge from ancient times. I do hope the illuminations are as fine as the facts are illuminating.
hi i want to see emirates stadium live and arsenal legends
I hear that Nelson is going on loan to Hoffenheim AFTER he signs a new contract and someone else has 5old me Ramsey has agreed a new contract. Apparently his wife is 30 weeks pregnant with twins so he might want some stability and not move his family abroad .
TTG@5: That would make a lot of sense for Reiss Nelson. Far more chance of continuing his development in the Bundesliga than in the U23s, and certainly better than having lumps kicked out of him in the Championship or League Division One.
As for Ramsey, he might want to clear off to somewhere with decent childcare and paternity leave…
bath@3: 🙂
Looks like a good opportunity for Reiss Nelson
to me. Best of luck to him.
Not too bothered either way on Ramsey.
It seems UE doesn’t see him in a CM role
and Ozil is a better AM so he’s more a nice
to have than essential going forward. If
he doesn’t sign I’d take what we can get
in January and replace him.
Ned from last drinks – thanks for the stats re Lacazette and all your other contributions.
12 full games from 41 appearances confirms my bemusement at how he has been used given his status and the fee paid for him. It is hard to believe that this has been a fitness issue but until such times as he starts regularly and completes 90 minutes regularly then I wonder what the real issue may be.
Laca and Auba to start together please Mr Emery.
UTA.
Noosa@8: Laca seems to believe he is not in Emery’s plans as a starter, so he is considering leaving before the European window closes, according to this French report.
https://le10sport.com/football/mercato/exclu-mercato-arsenal-lacazette-sinterroge-sur-son-avenir-398863
Thanks Ned – disappointing news if true as far as I’m concerned.
If Laca goes and Auba suffers an injury we’re left with ….. Danny Welbeck. Blimey.
UTA.
Emile Smith Rowe, Eddie Nketiah, Joe Willock and Julio Pleguezuelo all trained with the first team yesterday, with ESR being featured in the set of pictures the club released.
https://www.arsenal.com/news/pictures-behind-scenes-training
Notable absentee: Reiss Nelson. Make of that what you will.
Noosa
We are also left with the immensely promising Eddie Nketiah
For the first time in tye life of any Holic on here we are to play Brentford in the Carabao Cup- at home
Depending on their team it may be a tough game .Maybe our team might be
Leno
Lich Holding Mavropanos Osei- Tutu
Elneny Willock
Welbeck Smith – Rowe Iwobi
Nketiah
That’s a decent side
Tomorrow we learn our Europa League opponents. Our co-efficient is higher than Chelsea and anyone in the competition but Seville.
Is it right that Danny Welbeck is fast approaching the rather weird landmark (for a striker) of having more England caps than career club goals?
Dave
D’ye give Chris a message ?
Don’t mean to be cunt
but
***it comes natural like***
I’m sure he’s floating on a boat of unreconstructed cunts oblivious to best intention nosiness only to reappear to find TWAT a four letter word appropriate for me .
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call me a cunt
but
i worry about people
and
if you think
i’ve come out of hiding just for this
you’re completely right
so
FUCK OFF
eejits
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i might look like a MALE MODEL
but
i have emotions like everyone else
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(obviously ugly emotions )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ViwvgtvbA
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Whaddya call them apples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yz5jvR9_Jo
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come on
it rights itself
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_UgHbWutjc
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this place
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxQQkKgo5sc
Well
from Belfast to Dublin
stiff little fingers were always shite
and
many a fool who likes them
is really reading Daily Mail shite
listening to them
corny Crap written by a hack journalist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBRQM0vErH8
so
oooh ah – terrible times
oooh ah – land mines
BUT
are those terrible times ?
*reverential pause*
yours or minez
DICKHEADS
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I wrote 25
minutes ago
OK
just so stiff little fingers don’t steal it
Cynic@13: Bit of a way to go. Welbeck has 66 career club goals and 40 England caps. He is more prolific, if that is the right word, with us than he was with United: 28 goals in 113 games for the Arsenal; 29 goals in 142 games for ManU.
And cba in the house.
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this is how you write a song
ya mickey mouse clowns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_K0KTU1CZ8
ned
whoop whoop whoop
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I really am only here and as I said I’m probably making a fool of myself but I haven’t heard from Chris in a while and I had absolutely no intention of speaking on here till Christmas to wish you all one ? but I worry about people .
I hate people worrying about me
I understand
herself said
if ye want to find out if he’s ok / alive/ dead
just ask
so
what say you ned ?
just shut my face ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4NRTks2M50
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i got nuthin
TTG@12: And that game was only our third win in 13 games against Brentford. Amazingly, between 1935 and 1938, generally considered a golden age for the club, we went seven consecutive games in the old First Division without a win against them.
The 1947 game was Brentford’s last game in the top-flight. They had been consigned to relegation two days before by a defeat at Sunderland. Our visit to Griffin Park was the final game of their season.
Paddy Sloan scored the only goal of the game (and the only goal of his Arsenal career). He had turned out for Brentford in the wartime Football League South, scoring four goals in six appearances.
Sloan was both a Northern Ireland and Republic international, as at least four Northern Ireland-born players of that era were as the FAI claimed jurisdiction over the whole island. He was also the first Irishman to play in Serie A, joining Milan in the season after leaving Highbury, and subsequently playing for Torino, Udinese and Brescia.
cba: right to ask. It is odd Chris is not back now the season has started. I hope all is well with him.
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and in way of putting a few bob in the Arsenal meter
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i was shoulder charged by Dave o’Leary 1978
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i really was . The fuckin moose
he was a big fucker
I was standing sideline
He flattened me
I was a man big teenager then
****WALLOP *]]]**
charity Irish game
fuckin big cunt ?
hate english paddys
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hate people call PADDYS paddys
or
vice versa
hate generic waffling just till the greatest 45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKpVQm41f8Y
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how come I’m not on Tuesday etc or a Brighter wonderland
I’ve been to Highbury
I
*clears throat*
FACKIN LAVVD IT
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“Is it cos i’s handsome”
‘holic and ‘holics
I’m really sorry to have to give you this news but Chris’s brother just messaged me to say that Chris has passed away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-YMpYbRqY
i feel so vulgar for my earlier inquiries
as to his his health
but
in retrospect he’d a loved it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3JHWlSRzc&list=RD7tf1wzg4rdE&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIatg4vxic
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So sorry to hear about Chris. I hope he is resting peacefully with his beloved Oscar.
RIP Chris
that is sad news but thank you for letting us
know cba.
I’d never met him but it felt like I knew him,
through this bar. Whatever else he was, and it
seems he’d lived a rich life, he was certainly a stalwart
gooner and I’ll miss him. RIP Chris.
RIP Chris. Thanks for keeping us company these last few years. Your superior down under perspective thanks to your extra large TV, the tales of your blighty rock n roll club, and remembrances of Oskar the dog are a few of the ways you kept us entertained. Sorry to see you go.
Very sad to hear the news of Chris. Echo everything bt8b said @55. Rest in peace.
sorry to hear that, cba. chris was a good one, always (well, mostly) taking the teases about the size of his tv in good spirits. he doesn’t need one now, he has the best seat for every game. rest in peace.
Really sad news about Chris. As he had become such a regular, his absence meant that I had feared that all was well. We often disagreed with our views but always respected each other’s opinion. I do miss his ramblings. Another big and sad loss from this fine establishment. Rest in peace dear fellow.
CBA. Thanks for your persistence and for delivering the sad news.
Sorry to hear the sad news about Chris.
Dreadful news about Chris. The prolonged silence was increasingly concerning.
RIP, Chris. A toast to your colourful life, fine tastes and fond memory. ?
Thanks for your persistent enquiries, cba.
RIP to a fellow THEO-logist…
🙁
RIP Chris, you will be very much missed.
He was a very committed old Gooner and although we rarely agreed that is what this place was all about.
Sometimes you get instincts about things and not surprisingly when a regular contributor is silent for months you fear the worst. CBA obviously had the same fears and I thank him for finding out what had happened. He has a better seat now. God bless you mate.
CBA
David O’Leary said you were a soft nelly .
‘Worst shoulder charge I ever had’ ?
Sad to hear that Chris has bought the farm, I enjoyed his sometimes outspoken contributions here, and he’ll be missed.
On a much brighter note, it’s great to hear that Mr CBA is alive and kicking, and I particularly liked your Ivor Cutler link – he’s always good for a slightly weird laugh!
Just been shopping and found, of all things, a copy of Tom Watt’s “The End” in a charity shop, that had been signed by ….. someone whose autograph I do not recognise at all 😀
It had UP THE GUNNERS! in capitals, then the scrawl.
Didn’t buy it though, it was tatty as arseholes.
So sorry to hear of Chris’ passing. He was a stubborn old dog, and I loved his contributions to this bar. His humour and passion were a pleasure to share in. I wish him all the best on the next leg of his journey, whatever that may be.
There is one more gooner looking down from the stars.
The earlier post about Welbeck and his caps/goals ratio is erroneous. It was meant to be more England caps than Premier League goals (40/42) not career goals.
It’s getting close… 42 Premier League goals in a ten year career
cba alive
sounds like an extravaganza
a good one, i mean
Very sorry to hear about the passing away of Chris, probably, the senior most member of this bar. RIP.
Nice that CBA cared so much about someone he had never met. Thanks.
Sporting Lisbon of Portugal, Qarabag of Azerbaijan and Vorskla Poltava of Ukraine in Arsenal’s Europa Cup group. Very winnable group, but a couple of banana skins in Europe’s eastern and far eastern reaches.
Reiss Nelson long-term contract and season-long loan to Hoffenheim officially confirmed.
https://www.arsenal.com/news/emery-very-big-chance-nelson
The Europa League draw leaves me unable to see two of the three games at home( the first two) ..and I’m definitely not going to Azerbaijan and Ukraine! Interesting that Mkhitaryan won’t be granted a visa for Azerbaijan as they have a longstanding feud with Armenia. That’s a pity because the final is in Baku!
I took the Champions League for granted but you do miss it when you aren’t in it. Hopefully next year!
thanks Chris xx
Ned@70
Well, Emery did say he wanted to go far in the
Europa League this season 🙂
He also said we’d be using a lot more players
in the next couple of months, which answers
the question about whether the first XI will
play in the Ropey League.
Given that, I don’t mind the travelling so much,
though Qarabag got a couple of draws against
Athletico last season I think and should be a
good test for the B team.
And I expect Mkhi to get an exemption to the
visa ban if we make the final – if not then UEFA
should not have allowed the final to be played
there grump grump grump
cba, hoping you’re doing ok tonight. finding out that kind of information, that’s hard. i appreciate you took the hit for the bar. a couple of pints of moose drool await your pleasure on the back bar.
slainte, ya auld buggah.
I’m so sorry to hear about Chris’s passing. I recall him from his Oskar the Dog days on here. He often seemed to have a different or alternative view of things but was a true life-long Gunner. He will be sadly missed.
Just watching Podolski and Iniesta playing
for Vissel Kobe. Pod is captain.
Pod’s poor defending cost Vissel the first
goal, it looked so familiar. Then he was
sent off for a studs up lunge before half-time.
Very sad to hear of the passing of Chris. He was cantankerous at times, a privilege of age, but he took peoples alternative views in good spirit, never once made it personal. A true gent & a real gooner. He will be much missed. RIP.
Well said, Uply.
Thanks for that, cba. Sad news indeed, but good to see so many tributes to Chris here. He will be missed. RIP.
Sad to hear about Chris. He followed his beloved Oskar. To have nurtured such a passionate and well informed following for the club from such a distance through all these decades before the global broadcasting and internet is a testament to his great love for Arsenal.
I loved his stories from the days of running a rock club in London to organizing events for IBM, including one involving Dalai Lama and (I believe) volleyball.
Talking about Arsenal history, I took my six year old to the Emirates tour when we were in London for the last couple of weeks. It was his first London visit. Charlie George was the tour guide and he was just a wonderful gentleman, full of humor and joy. The first team’s dressing room and the ground itself were the highlights, after the Q&A session with him. There were a few other club employees with him who explained the differences since the Arsene era, including a large video setup in the dressing room. Apparently Arsene used to like to finish the tactical discussions before the match day. Emery continues those in the halftime and immediately after the game. On the sidelines Arsene’s old seat now occupied by Bould and Emery himself seats on the one after that. 🙂
In Q&A I asked Charlie a couple of questions: his favorite team was the Invincibles, the best player he played against was Cruyff. He mentioned how he never really collects things but a signed Cruyff shirt that Cruyff himself gave to him after a game against Ajax where Arsenal beat Ajax is one of his most cherished possession.
At the end he mentioned rather ruefully that he really hopes to see Arsenal lift the Champions League before he dies.
My son still cannot believe he sat in the dressing room exactly where his favorite player Ramsey sits. 🙂
Dr.F
What lovely memories you and your son will have. Charlie was my host when I did the tour a few years ago. I was astonished that he felt none of the current team would know him or his part in Arsenal history. If true shame on them.
I saw the game Charlie was referring to as I wager did Holic, Clive and possibly Chris, God bless him. We won 3-0 in the Fairs Cup semi and Charlie got two goals. Storey and Mclintock nearly throttled Cruyff right in front of me. He looked a trifle concerned!
I caught a little bit of the Liverpool game today and saw them concede a preposterous goal when one of the new breed of sweeper keepers , Alisson , tried to beat a man on the byline and was robbed thereby conceding a goal. He looked an utter prat, it needed to be welted into the stand. I really think we will see this more and more as other keepers try to play ‘Rush goalie’.
Really sad to hear about the passing of Chris. I don’t remember a more devout fan of Theo in this bar although Cynic too likes Theo a lot. RIP Chris – was great sharing drinks with you in this virtual bar…we didn’t always agree but that made it all the more fun.
TTG – I wouldn’t be at all surprised if none of the players knew the older generation. I remember Alan Smith did an article once where he interviewed Jens Lehmann, and he mentioned he’d played for Arsenal and scored a hundred goals for the club and he said Lehmann looked at him with a totally blank expression, as he obviously hadn’t a clue who Smith was.
And that’s an older player who you’d expect to have a bit of respect for his club and its history.
Lovely stories about Charlie George Dr F. By coincidence I was watching a game today with a 12 year old girl (United fan) and her dad, and we got to chatting about favourite teams. She wanted to know why I was an Arsenal fan, “because they’re rubbish”, so I told her to Google Charlie George as it is all his fault.
She won’t bother though haha.
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