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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.

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76 Responses to “Book Review – Arsène’s Double Double – Dave Seager”

on 12 Oct 2018 at 9:22 pm1bathgooner

First,
Now what to drink,
To slake that thirst?

Nice one Guvna.
on 12 Oct 2018 at 9:33 pm2Goonerholic

Thanks bath,

this glut of new books is saving my interlude. Theo Foley next week. ??
on 12 Oct 2018 at 10:11 pm3bt8

Hey ‘holic.

You’s the dude. 🙂
on 12 Oct 2018 at 10:42 pm4Goonerholic

Cheers bt8,

I wish! ?
on 13 Oct 2018 at 9:29 am5TTG

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
on 13 Oct 2018 at 9:38 am6Goonerholic

Nice one TTG. ?

Good morning bt8.
on 13 Oct 2018 at 10:34 am7Cynic

This blog comes to you courtesy of William McGoonergal.
on 13 Oct 2018 at 2:44 pm8bt8

Mornin’ ‘holic.

If hope springs eternal does autumn spring hope?
on 13 Oct 2018 at 4:45 pm9bt8

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.
on 13 Oct 2018 at 4:47 pm10bt8

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.
on 13 Oct 2018 at 6:27 pm11bt8

Port Vale 2 Lincoln City 6

Come on you Red Imps!!

That is a proper pasting.
on 14 Oct 2018 at 12:08 am12Dexter

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.
on 14 Oct 2018 at 3:22 pm13OsakaMatt

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.
on 14 Oct 2018 at 4:29 pm14bt8

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.
on 14 Oct 2018 at 4:47 pm15bt8

The “managerial type” does not have to conform to just one type, does it?
on 14 Oct 2018 at 10:28 pm16North Bank Ned

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…
on 15 Oct 2018 at 2:11 am17TTG

Welcome from Florida ! I notice our ladies stuffed Chelsea 5-0 on their own ground today . The new manager there is doing very well
on 15 Oct 2018 at 2:12 am18bt8

Looks like the Arsenal Women discarded Chelsea by the slender margin of 0-5. Not good enough. 🙂
on 15 Oct 2018 at 2:15 am19bt8

Hey TTG it looks like you beat me to it. No hurricane damage there, I expect?
on 15 Oct 2018 at 4:13 am20bt8

Poorly Drawn Arsenal looks a lot like Dr. Seuss. Just saying.
on 15 Oct 2018 at 7:04 pm21TTG

Bt8
Plenty but not where I am.
I was in the Everglades yesterday making my mark on the Alligator population!
on 16 Oct 2018 at 4:18 am22bt8

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. 😉
on 16 Oct 2018 at 9:18 am23bathgooner

TTG@21, I’m waiting for the headline, “Man bites alligator”.
on 16 Oct 2018 at 4:07 pm24Gunnersaurus Stunt Double

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.”
on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:20 am25can't be arsed

.
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
on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:23 am26can't be arsed

but
in the the interest
of
fitting in

.
fuck y out
Yeah
you heard

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

ya fuckin blert
on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:27 am27can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUSNVTHoAI
on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:32 am28can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7zL_mJkyI
on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:38 am29can't be arsed

you wonder
don’t ye
or
maybe you don’t

pater arseholius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBCctL88dRk
on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:40 am30can't be arsed

.
.
.
silly
silly
silly
on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:50 am31can't be arsed

.
.
where’s it ending ?
non cake baking cunts with EXTRA thrusts

nope
.
just big cunts keeping jurassic cunts waiting
on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:58 am32can't be arsed

.
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
on 17 Oct 2018 at 2:05 am33can't be arsed

and
you wonder why
drink is taken
.
.
.
fuckin
sectarian
arsehole s
mortifyingly/nosurrenderingly
encountering scrutiny
.
.
god bless their arrogance
on 17 Oct 2018 at 2:10 am34can't be arsed

.
.
yesterday’s men
in inverted entitled commas
are nearly that

and
i revel
on 17 Oct 2018 at 2:14 am35can't be arsed

.
don’t like the orange ones
or the maltesers
love the caramels
on 17 Oct 2018 at 2:29 am36can't be arsed

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/irish-will-shoot-each-other-if-they-want-to-says-stanley-johnson-37426857.html
on 17 Oct 2018 at 2:39 am37can't be arsed

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
on 17 Oct 2018 at 3:04 am38can't be arsed

.
goodnight
from that part of Ireland
on 17 Oct 2018 at 3:11 am39bt8

Did the drinks just get lively or am I imagining things?
on 17 Oct 2018 at 4:03 am40TTG

CBA
Maybe Stanley Johnson might shoot Boris! I’d turn a blind eye to that one in court.
on 17 Oct 2018 at 9:22 am41Goonerholic

Here here. TTG.

We are in need of such a Marvin Gaye moment.
on 17 Oct 2018 at 2:00 pm42bt8

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.
on 17 Oct 2018 at 7:53 pm43can't be arsed

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
on 17 Oct 2018 at 8:29 pm44can't be arsed

pfffttt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8TKitUtr0
on 17 Oct 2018 at 9:24 pm45can't be arsed

any
hoooooooo

go on Dave
ya big Christmas Swindon cunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jii6VtvY73o
on 17 Oct 2018 at 10:07 pm46can't be arsed

.
.

ps

if you hear sideways kuennsberg
.
look contra
.
.
.
twat
on 17 Oct 2018 at 10:13 pm47can't be arsed

floating out fishing in a lake
latent opinions bubble up

.
nitwits
on 17 Oct 2018 at 10:15 pm48can't be arsed

.
ENGLISH PEOPLE— RESIST
STAND UP

RESIST
on 17 Oct 2018 at 10:17 pm49can't be arsed

fuck fuck fuck fuck
on 17 Oct 2018 at 10:22 pm50can't be arsed

RESIST
on 17 Oct 2018 at 10:36 pm51TTG

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
on 17 Oct 2018 at 11:05 pm52TTG

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
on 17 Oct 2018 at 11:53 pm53can't be arsed

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
on 17 Oct 2018 at 11:58 pm54can't be arsed

.
.
i’m currently between jobs
any chance of employment ?

.
I’m smart and handsome and teetotal
on 18 Oct 2018 at 12:01 am55can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YULwbhga18
on 18 Oct 2018 at 12:19 am56can't be arsed

.
.
i’ll take that as a NO then

i can’t say i’m happy
on 18 Oct 2018 at 12:26 am57can't be arsed

dunno how you English bastards can sleep
in yer Engligh bastard bla
an whatever you
huddle yer offspring
shit an
bollix

yeah
?
on 18 Oct 2018 at 12:28 am58can't be arsed

.
.

*****LOUD ALERT*****

.

anyone seen a mouth
?
on 18 Oct 2018 at 12:32 am59can't be arsed

the English baaaaastards
won’t have heard
cos
they’re too busy

being

“D’ye know what , lovely”
on 18 Oct 2018 at 2:26 am60can't be arsed

.
.

i miss Chris

.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfONxAeuOPg&list=PL5L1vQwJDHzfxsK4IZdx_gBO1QtJWsCNB
on 18 Oct 2018 at 3:21 am61can't be arsed

.
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
on 18 Oct 2018 at 3:34 am62can't be arsed

if ye don’t think
Alison Moyet singing that
is a work of simple genius
.
.
.
.

“You sir , are a tit”
on 18 Oct 2018 at 3:58 am63can't be arsed

.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFW00MK6exg
on 18 Oct 2018 at 4:18 am64can't be arsed

.
.
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
on 18 Oct 2018 at 8:17 am65Pangloss

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.
on 18 Oct 2018 at 12:21 pm66Dorset Mick

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
on 18 Oct 2018 at 1:24 pm67Cynic

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!*
on 18 Oct 2018 at 1:54 pm68can't be arsed

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
on 18 Oct 2018 at 1:55 pm69can't be arsed

69

oooooooooh

MUCKY
on 18 Oct 2018 at 2:14 pm70can't be arsed

or
FANCY A BOOOOOGIE ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw&feature=youtu.be
on 18 Oct 2018 at 3:16 pm71Dorset Mick

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
on 18 Oct 2018 at 6:33 pm72TTG

Pangloss,
Sound thinking , I’m very much in agreement.
CBA
You are spot on too, I’m a nasty piece of work me. ???
on 18 Oct 2018 at 7:04 pm73can't be arsed

dorset M
???????????
lads havin a conniption fit
fuckin dynamite
.
thunder T
yer a big darlin
on 18 Oct 2018 at 7:11 pm74can't be arsed

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 ?
on 18 Oct 2018 at 7:19 pm75can't be arsed

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 ………….
on 18 Oct 2018 at 9:15 pm76Goonerholic

Evening cba 🙂

Time for another Irish fella. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>