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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.

Posted in book reviews | 76 Drinks

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

  1. on 12 Oct 2018 at 9:22 pm1bathgooner

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

    Nice one Guvna.

  2. on 12 Oct 2018 at 9:33 pm2Goonerholic

    Thanks bath,

    this glut of new books is saving my interlude. Theo Foley next week. ??

  3. on 12 Oct 2018 at 10:11 pm3bt8

    Hey ‘holic.

    You’s the dude. 🙂

  4. on 12 Oct 2018 at 10:42 pm4Goonerholic

    Cheers bt8,

    I wish! ?

  5. 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

  6. on 13 Oct 2018 at 9:38 am6Goonerholic

    Nice one TTG. ?

    Good morning bt8.

  7. on 13 Oct 2018 at 10:34 am7Cynic

    This blog comes to you courtesy of William McGoonergal.

  8. on 13 Oct 2018 at 2:44 pm8bt8

    Mornin’ ‘holic.

    If hope springs eternal does autumn spring hope?

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. on 13 Oct 2018 at 6:27 pm11bt8

    Port Vale 2 Lincoln City 6

    Come on you Red Imps!!

    That is a proper pasting.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. on 14 Oct 2018 at 4:47 pm15bt8

    The “managerial type” does not have to conform to just one type, does it?

  16. 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…

  17. 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

  18. 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. 🙂

  19. on 15 Oct 2018 at 2:15 am19bt8

    Hey TTG it looks like you beat me to it. No hurricane damage there, I expect?

  20. on 15 Oct 2018 at 4:13 am20bt8

    Poorly Drawn Arsenal looks a lot like Dr. Seuss. Just saying.

  21. 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!

  22. 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. 😉

  23. on 16 Oct 2018 at 9:18 am23bathgooner

    TTG@21, I’m waiting for the headline, “Man bites alligator”.

  24. 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.”

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:27 am27can't be arsed

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUSNVTHoAI

  28. on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:32 am28can't be arsed

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7zL_mJkyI

  29. 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

  30. on 17 Oct 2018 at 1:40 am30can't be arsed

    .
    .
    .
    silly
    silly
    silly

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. on 17 Oct 2018 at 2:10 am34can't be arsed

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

    and
    i revel

  35. on 17 Oct 2018 at 2:14 am35can't be arsed

    .
    don’t like the orange ones
    or the maltesers
    love the caramels

  36. 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

  37. 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

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

    .
    goodnight
    from that part of Ireland

  39. on 17 Oct 2018 at 3:11 am39bt8

    Did the drinks just get lively or am I imagining things?

  40. 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.

  41. on 17 Oct 2018 at 9:22 am41Goonerholic

    Here here. TTG.

    We are in need of such a Marvin Gaye moment.

  42. 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.

  43. 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

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

    pfffttt

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8TKitUtr0

  45. 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

  46. on 17 Oct 2018 at 10:07 pm46can't be arsed

    .
    .

    ps

    if you hear sideways kuennsberg
    .
    look contra
    .
    .
    .
    twat

  47. on 17 Oct 2018 at 10:13 pm47can't be arsed

    floating out fishing in a lake
    latent opinions bubble up

    .
    nitwits

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

    .
    ENGLISH PEOPLE— RESIST
    STAND UP

    RESIST

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

    fuck fuck fuck fuck

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

    RESIST

  51. 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

  52. 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

  53. 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

  54. 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

  55. on 18 Oct 2018 at 12:01 am55can't be arsed

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YULwbhga18

  56. 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

  57. 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
    ?

  58. on 18 Oct 2018 at 12:28 am58can't be arsed

    .
    .

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

    .

    anyone seen a mouth
    ?

  59. 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”

  60. on 18 Oct 2018 at 2:26 am60can't be arsed

    .
    .

    i miss Chris

    .
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfONxAeuOPg&list=PL5L1vQwJDHzfxsK4IZdx_gBO1QtJWsCNB

  61. 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

  62. 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”

  63. on 18 Oct 2018 at 3:58 am63can't be arsed

    .
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFW00MK6exg

  64. 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

  65. 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.

  66. 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

  67. 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!*

  68. 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

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

    69

    oooooooooh

    MUCKY

  70. 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

  71. 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

  72. 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. ???

  73. 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

  74. 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 ?

  75. 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 ………….

  76. on 18 Oct 2018 at 9:15 pm76Goonerholic

    Evening cba 🙂

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

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