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Will Unai Treat Naples like A Home From Home?

Apr 17th, 2019 by 'holic

Finally I can settle down. This could take a while. I am starting the preview of our vital trip to Naples as the games at Citeh and Porto kick-off.

Four paragraphs later there is a massive delete going on. How to put something together at half past ten after after half a litre of dubious rehydration? I’m so glad I have been able to watch Ajax at Bayern, Real, and last night at Juve. They really are a brilliant young side who have the ability to win anywhere. Pray they don’t freeze at the pointed end. They have been by far the best team in this season’s Champions League.

Arguably (and certainly at home!) we have been the best team in this season’s Europa League. However, there is quite a question mark hanging over us as we defend a 2-0 lead in Napoli. Our away form, it is not unreasonably argued, is what could do for us. The win at Watford on Monday, whatever you think of the merits of it, must have delivered some degree of belief on top of the desperately unlucky draw with the Nomads at Wembley and the win at Huddersfield (yeah, I know).

Important players got a breather ahead of this game. We are not in a position to write off any Premier League match while the top four is mathematically ours, but the potential for a third European trophy offers us a back-up option that cannot be ignored. And as Arseblog mentioned this morning it is the preferred of the two options if only one were to be achieved.

We know the last time we played Napoli we won 2-0 at our place, and they won 2-0 at theirs. We obviously are keen to avoid a repeat. One goal from us would require them to score four. Under such circumstances Unai Emery has a remit to look for a first-half goal with an attacking line-up. That’s not to say they can’t score, but neither do I believe we couldn’t strike twice these days if required. Emery understands this.

“We want to play thinking to win, thinking to score, thinking to push, thinking to stop them.”

The selection should be as close as we can get to the home leg. No? Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and Alexandre Lacazette were trusted to start together in a formation we rarely employ away from home. Our 3-4-1-2 in a lot of home games switches to 3-4-2-1 away from home too often, and I know Auba can be a great impact substitute, but he could also be a great starter getting us an early goal that would all but kill the tie before Napoli could build a head of steam.

The ‘holic pound

It’s always difficult to predict a game in which a 1-3 scoreline would put us through. Nobody wants that. Will Napoli score? They have to, and they aren’t a bad side. They had their chances at our place and both of us could be said to have been wasteful.

I do still feel there is a spirit in the camp that gives us belief (even if Everton gave the lie to that). I have on occasion plumped for a draw in such circumstances, and I am attracted to the somewhat skinny best of 13/1 against a 2-2 outcome.

With that you have a somewhat abbreviated appreciation of a potentially crucial match for us. The report on the tie itself is likely to follow on Friday. The grand’holics are visiting, which is excellent, and so I will not report live as normally happens when I am not at the game.

Therefore it is already the appropriate moment to wish a very happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it. Thank you for your reading this often nonsense and for your friendship in so many cases.

Have a great one, ‘holics.

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177 Responses to “Will Unai Treat Naples like A Home From Home?”

on 17 Apr 2019 at 11:42 pm1Jth

Accurate depiction I would say. Auba to start is my preference over impact sub. Will have a slice of Parma ham pre match to add sustenance. And a Peroni. God bless.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 12:15 am2North Bank Ned

Between the delete button and the half litre, it came out well, Guv’nor.

I am still of a mind that the first half against Watford was a tactical dress rehearsal for the Napoli game and that Emery will thus favour stopping Napoli scoring early doors over us going for a quick extension to the lead. This implies starting with 3-4-2-1.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 12:17 am3scruzgooner

happy easter, ‘holic. that’s an awfully skinny pound, but it gets us through. i hope for the early goal, and then a second…that would put paid to napoli’s pursuit, as i just can’t see us shipping 6.

i think we should definitely start with the same home leg crew, and just nail the bastards.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 12:20 am4TTG

I think Ned is right and I think 1-1 is the likely outcome. If we score first I will breathe a lot easier!
on 18 Apr 2019 at 12:35 am5Goonersince54

Heresy to say it here,but well done to the Neighbors.
Fantastic result at the Etihad against the billion pound spending oil rich Sheiks,and for what it’s worth i think VAR got both calls right.
I’ve got a few very good Totts mates,and have been fielding friendly texts and calls ever since the final whistle.
We now have all the motivation we need in Naples, with the odious ones in the semi final of the CL for the first time since 1962.
We cannot allow them to strut around North London preening their feathers,while we languish in the EL.
If we are not in the CL next season i will be very very disappointed.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 2:41 am6OsakaMatt

Thanks Guvnor, nice preview
and a Happy Hols to you too.

3-1 to us as we shred them on
the break.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:31 am7DALM

all seemingly very confident this morning – I think we need a strong start and to play to our attacking strengths – everything is crossed and I’ll be having a lucky guinness….now where are my lucky pants ?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:34 am8iBtM

You’ve set it up nicely, Holic. I think we’ll score. I think they’ll score, I expect to be sitting on the edge of my seat for, at least, 90 minutes.

Enjoy the grandkids. Enjoy the game.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:54 am9bathgooner

A very good and carefully measured preview, Guvna.

Frankly, I have no idea what Emery’s plan for this game will be. I hope he will send out the team that you suggest and try to kill their hopes with an early Arsenal goal. I know that I don’t trust our current defence to keep them out and I suspect he feels the same way. At least the return of Sokratis will stiffen the resolve at the back and fingers crossed that Kos is capable of playing another game so soon.

We have to score and deep inside I have a voice telling me, “You know, we might even win this game!”

COYG
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:45 am10Noosa Gooner

Happy Easter Holic and I hope that you’re still mending well.

I can’t recall if you’ve ever put the pound on anything but a win so I’d take a draw but still fancy a 1-0 to the Arsenal.

UTA.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 12:48 pm11Pangloss

I’m very much of the same mins as Bath on this one.

Whisper this, we go into this game on a “run” of two clean sheets. It might just be that our defence is settling in. Of course we might just have been lucky, but even luck tends to come (and go) in streaks.

As ever, there are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic, but frankly I’m bored with that. 1-0 to Arse say I, and shame about the Pound.

Hope your planned return on Sunday is still on, ‘H.

COYG
on 18 Apr 2019 at 1:03 pm12bt8

Happy Easter, ‘holic. A calm, restful one too.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 1:07 pm13bt8

Clive is correct, despite the heresy. Spurs have played very well and are enjoying their moment in the sunshine. May it give them skin cancer.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 1:09 pm14bt8

COYG the pressure is on but we are the Mighty Gunners and they are not.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 6:04 pm15can't be arsed

‘holic
*shakes knowing head*

take a leaf outta my boke

never drink and hard drive
.
.
how many FUCKIN TIMES do i have to say it

P E O P L E

.
.
.
never
on 18 Apr 2019 at 6:13 pm16can't be arsed

.
met some mods today
weather fine
for some reason that stirs a rush to the sea
in the immaculately manicured hard men

.
i wear suits
drainpipe sixties suits
so apparently i was fair game
.
.
turns out
they were lovely
and
my decades long piss taking
is now at
a ‘bet ye iron yer socks’ end
on 18 Apr 2019 at 6:26 pm17can't be arsed

.
.
glazed over
on extreme northern soul obscurities

a hearty long standing knowledgeof Stax
does for me and mine
and
as i used to post youngin no 1
up in the top turret when
Tamla tarts came a-poachin’

i’d a thought we’d a seen off the delicates
once
and

-ba dam bam bam bam bam bam bam-

for all
on 18 Apr 2019 at 6:28 pm18can't be arsed

.
.
.
nope

it seems

hard men who regularly use an iron
still come
still they come
they come still
on 18 Apr 2019 at 6:33 pm19can't be arsed

anyhoo

.
.
Dennis bless all here
in this holy time
on 18 Apr 2019 at 6:52 pm20can't be arsed

.
.
is there a game on ?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 6:56 pm21Cynic

Absolutely devastated to learn that Premier League footballers are going on a social media strike for 24 hours in a protest against racist trolling.

How the hell will I manage to exist without seeing photos of their bling lifestyles, their dogs or hilarious videos about planned goal celebrations with their current bromantic partner?

Have a heart lads. Racism might be evil as this hard hitting response that will really teach all potential KKK members a lesson clearly shows, but seriously? I need those self indulgent posts!

(Does sarcasm work on the internet?)
on 18 Apr 2019 at 6:57 pm22bathgooner

Aye, there is. It’s a bit quiet for a game night, is it not?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 7:00 pm23bathgooner

Cynic @21. No, in my experience, it doesn’t. People just take offence. Though it might be added, that seems to be most peoples default reaction to just about everything these days.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 7:07 pm24Cynic

Fuck off, bath, you offensive bounder.

😉

Ozil not picked. Xhaka in Ozil out is the only change from the first leg..
on 18 Apr 2019 at 7:17 pm25Esso

Cheers H. Come on you fucking Arsenal! Let’s have it sorted for a change.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 7:32 pm26TTG

I’m still bemused by the image of CBA in drainpipe trousers. I bet you look immaculate old chap . I like the look of the team although I’d prefer Van Dijk at CB , De Bruyne instead of Xhaka and Messi upfront . Sarcasm alert***
on 18 Apr 2019 at 7:53 pm27can't be arsed

thunder T
i don’t look a day over 59

ya big ornamental pooove

?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 7:57 pm28can't be arsed

cynic – pansy
bath – brilliant y
esso – great drummer
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:05 pm29gedo

C’mon boys let’s go
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:06 pm30Dorset Mick

Clive@5,

You paint a very scary picture, sir.

They’re effectively a coin toss to make the final, but should receive the “ginger-haired stepchild” treatment if they get there!
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:18 pm31can't be arsed

dorset
where do you stand on
glasgow grandchildren

i try i do
sweet and gentle fuck

every third word i get
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:22 pm32can't be arsed

not that
i’d recommend standing on them

glasgow foments and ferments

.
.
silly wee fucker s
.
can’t see the game here
????
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:27 pm33can't be arsed

sectarianism
a thing i understand
but never understood

some scottish sectarian people
are like packet soup
the more ye stir the thicker it gets
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:29 pm34can't be arsed

rearrange the words there
point still stands though
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:30 pm35ATG

Need to be more switched on, we are slowly showing the away omens again!
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:34 pm36Dorset Mick

CBA@31,

Probably on their throat, sir!
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:36 pm37can't be arsed

dorset
join the orderly queue ?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:37 pm38gedo

Laca BOOM
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:38 pm39Silly Second Yella

Lacaaaaaaaaaaaaa

it’s fucking over
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:39 pm40ATG

Get in Laca what a beauty ??
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:40 pm41can't be arsed

i get lectured on Irish history

by the way
you’re an English bastard
?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:42 pm42Silly Second Yella

…Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli

That’s amooooore
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:43 pm43can't be arsed

apparently
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:44 pm44TTG

Cynic
Don’t let that Jessie call you a pansy!
Is this the last we will see of Ramsey in an Arsenal shirt ?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:49 pm45Silly Second Yella

Mestalla, here – we -come!!!!!!!!!
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:49 pm46can't be arsed

hello silly
Joey Ramones 18 anniversary
just recently monday gone

i know cock sparrer more up yer kilt
but
im guessing you’d understand

.
.
.
i can’t get the game on anything
refreshing to check score on google
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:52 pm47gedo

Good first half. Please chill TF out Sead ffs. No need for anything rash.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:53 pm48can't be arsed

tiny packets of information
.
thunder T
you adorable wee bastard
i dunno where to shoot you to save yer life
????????
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:55 pm49Silly Second Yella

Cock Sparrer & Ramones

same thing, different haircuts

must understand
on 18 Apr 2019 at 8:59 pm50Steve Vallins

Excellent first half played within themselves gave no major chances away and are winning 1 nil couldn’t ask for more
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:04 pm51Delia

Fingers crossed our off side trap holds up in the second half, Laca’s goal was something else but poor positioning by the keeper. Do hope we get to see Rambo again but his hammys aren’t quick to heal.

Feeling more confident , keep it up you Reds.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:27 pm52can't be arsed

skin edddds
were mixed up in Ireland

i saw NF spray painted on a wall
could only have been accessed
by standupsitdownshutuptaigs

goofballs late 70s

.
.
i left for England shortly after
i’m sure the clowns who wrote that
were educated
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:28 pm53Silly Second Yella

non consolidato per insigne

no
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:31 pm54Silly Second Yella

Papasta – fucking – thopoulos!

!
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:34 pm55Silly Second Yella

they all go to one barber?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:47 pm56Silly Second Yella

Luigi
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:52 pm57Gunner_KS

Me like 1:0 to The Arsenal ?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:56 pm58Gunner_KS

Anybody else annoyed of not being on the edge of the sofa the whole game? ?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:57 pm59TTG

That was as easy as could be. Arsenal did very well but in both legs we looked a different class to Napoli. If they are second in the Italian League it speaks volumes about the quality of Italian football.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:58 pm60gedo

Well done boys!
on 18 Apr 2019 at 9:58 pm61ATG

Job done thank you very much, I’m not entirely sure how Napoli got this far. The main thing is we had a really good away outing and didn’t concede.

Hopefully this is a sign of better things to come!
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:01 pm62ATG

Gunner_KS

I really enjoyed this I was literally chilling out ☺️
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:03 pm63North Bank Ned

Two clean sheets over the two legs, and the second game controlled and closed out very professionally. Not much not to like.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:06 pm64scruzgooner

didn’t see the whole thing, but if the last 30 were indicative, we defended well, by and large. whisper it, but 3 clean sheets on the trot…in fact, since we lost to rennes away 3-1 on march 7 we’ve played 7 games and let in 1 goal, losing to everton. and we’ve won the other six games. wow!

COYG!
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:15 pm65OsakaMatt

We looked almost like a professional
defence tonight!
Great effort in fact and going to
Napoli and making it look simple
must be our best defensive effort of
the season
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:19 pm66OsakaMatt

Ramsey off was the only blip on
the night but a muscle injury for
him is one of the great inevitables.

Well done to UE on his game
management since Everton.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:29 pm67Gunner_KS

Valencia will be tough, but playing the first leg at home might be very good.
Just watched the Chelski game’s goals, they were lucky with a couple of theirs, and Kepa is not that good. Frankfurt scored one from clear offside, don’t care much as they are also beatable. One step at a time though.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:31 pm68bt8

Ain’t let in a goal since I don’t know when
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:35 pm69bt8

You can sing that to an old blues melody
on 18 Apr 2019 at 10:49 pm70Cynic

Cynic
Don’t let that Jessie call you a pansy!

Don’t worry, I’ve rung the lads and his back door’s going to get a serious pounding.

Matron.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:02 pm71can't be arsed

?
i love cynic
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:05 pm72can't be arsed

and 8ball

though herself likes him more than me
she’s from bt8
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:07 pm73can't be arsed

me

i think he’s trying to steal my wife

.
(she’s gorgeous -excellent choice)
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:13 pm74can't be arsed

if bananaramas arse cheeks
were
after a particularly chaotic road accident
reconstituted into a single arse
herself would be
the just below the back
custodian of

it
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:15 pm75can't be arsed

.
.
.
.
.
.
she didn’t help me write that
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:17 pm76can't be arsed

.
.
*bounces tins of corned beef of Mary’s accomplished arse*
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:18 pm77Pangloss

Evening, cba.

Just back in. I see the boys did their thing tonight. A game singularly lacking in incident to judge from the drinks above.

COYG
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:21 pm78can't be arsed

.
never short of a comfortable seat my Mary
(god possibly shortly rest her)
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:23 pm79can't be arsed

i like pan G
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:25 pm80Pangloss

and Pan G likes you.

So that’s all right.
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:26 pm81can't be arsed

a complete and utter
fuckin bastard
i can do business with
???
.
top of the range
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:27 pm82can't be arsed

TOP O THE RANGE
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:40 pm83can't be arsed

drunk people today
shot by
jam wine

supermarket jam
BREWED

not just delicious
it’s brutal
.
.
drink it meself
drop cola
callimocho some such
dunno spelling
my Basque friends call it
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:41 pm84Goonerholic

Could be quite late tomorrow. Happy days people. ?
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:48 pm85can't be arsed

? ‘hol

i hope yer bellows are wheeezing back to health big man
proper grown up shite that
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:51 pm86can't be arsed

occasionally i catch meself in the mirror
and
lose my breath

so
i know yer struggle
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:53 pm87can't be arsed

.
.
.

*preens*
on 18 Apr 2019 at 11:59 pm88can't be arsed

but
what can I do

dig my father up outta his grave

“Why ”
“Why…….”

“Why , the looks…”
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:04 am89can't be arsed

.
.
so
spare a thought for the gorgeous among you

we’re a much gawped at
but seldom thought about
slice of society
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:05 am90can't be arsed

.
.
we are people too
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:10 am91Silly Second Yella

i’m a nazi schatze…

johnny lives!
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:16 am92can't be arsed

ye had yer chance shorty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wun5Cg-xr-s
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:20 am93Silly Second Yella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Xae9jsqxU

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaah!!!!!!!
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:25 am94can't be arsed

Off out
Cheerio now
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:32 am95Silly Second Yella

running off, hippie?

it’s joey sinigin’
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:34 am96Pijiu25

Excellent win! Maybe after Hector back next season AMN becomes a top midfielder?
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:39 am97Silly Second Yella

sinigin’?

ya KkK basterd

ya can’t even –
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:42 am98Silly Second Yella

LaKKKazette

and

KKKanuuuuuuuuuuu
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:45 am99bt8

A home
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:45 am100bt8

from home? Guess he did.
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:46 am101bt8

Away from home too.
on 19 Apr 2019 at 12:49 am102Silly Second Yella

stand up and be counted

show the world that you’re a –

william wellman, at least
on 19 Apr 2019 at 1:01 am103bt8

Unai Emery being familiar with the makings of paella valenciana it could help with peeling the langostinos.
on 19 Apr 2019 at 1:13 am104can't be arsed

bottle delivered
so
what are ye sayin then ya watery wee fuck

honestly
ye engage once with
Mr skin edd
in good faith
and whaddya get in return

exactly the reason ye never engaged before

Hard as manicured nails
.
When you’ve walked a mile
in my high heels mr angry wha wha
bla blaaaa

.
rope
.
.
snow still on it ……

ppffttttttttttt
on 19 Apr 2019 at 1:15 am105can't be arsed

in other news
howdy 8ball

ya fucker ?
on 19 Apr 2019 at 1:18 am106ATG

CBA

Keep up the good work fella ?
on 19 Apr 2019 at 1:25 am107can't be arsed

forgot me torch
full moon
thank fuck

if there isn’t
there’s fuckin nothin
fuckin not foot in front of ye
mad
i live in a wee valley
so the general notion of direction
is there when ye get close
house light
but
further away
you are wasting your bastardin time
the noise of the Atlantic helps
but still a foot by foot basis
on 19 Apr 2019 at 1:27 am108can't be arsed

i like Arthur
?
on 19 Apr 2019 at 1:56 am109can't be arsed

if ye can watch this stoned faced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sohc_sOVe74

sweet merciful mother of all that’s good and holy in the world
on 19 Apr 2019 at 2:00 am110can't be arsed

i typed stoney
but
like our resident 5skin wonder
thunder T

ma typing ability occasionally becomes impaired
on 19 Apr 2019 at 2:10 am111can't be arsed

dunno if this is well known ?
steve
dave
ned
?
ive always loved it and him and SHARKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaElQ3pb1GE
on 19 Apr 2019 at 2:13 am112can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlYG2TZxRhQ
on 19 Apr 2019 at 2:32 am113can't be arsed

and
of course
everyone knows i think
the clash were the most original
greatestest band of all angry posh time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLmFOrLrro

i do
.
oh how great they were ?
on 19 Apr 2019 at 2:40 am114can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF8JbsLPupY
on 19 Apr 2019 at 2:43 am115can't be arsed

how many times can i say they weren’t
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIrSXDcn2-U
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:11 am116can't be arsed

‘holic says
that’s enough
you’ve made your point

you’ve made your point well
God
a little bit too well

why were we fooled by the thieving posh clowns
for so long
.
.
.
.
i dunno
some of us weren’t

pub rock with expensive trousers
.
.
pub rock with TROUSERS

here’s some more floppy haired cunts’ opinions
just not getting it
just not getting it
fuckin twats
never liked that quite pleased with himself herbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaybV46MA6E
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:12 am117bt8

Snips song and video @111??
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:16 am118can't be arsed

8ball man
do ye know it ?
i fuckin love that song
did it reach the twin cities?
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:21 am119bt8

A first for me but not unexpectedly seeing as nearly all my exposure to popular music is on Goonerholic
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:24 am120bt8

One thing you don’t want to do is make Pep and his boys mad if you have to play them again in a few days’ time
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:30 am121bt8

Arthur might break out the Wisniowka if we keep doing good. That is incentive right there.
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:33 am122can't be arsed

well
this place is a weird place
i think i’ve asked ‘holic before
did he canvas outside university medical schools
de target the uber brainy ones inhabit here

“Hello , my name is Goonerholic . Join me ”
.
.
i know my root here
through the mighty Arseblog
a man so clever it must hurt

‘holic used to say hello occasionally there
and for reasons of importance to me
i stopped reading blogs’ site and
like a stray mongrel i followed ‘holic home
and i’ve been a fuckin thorn in the noose round his neck since
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:38 am123bt8

Goonerholic
Low tech but high hospitality and high Arsenality
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:42 am124bt8

Not really so low tech truth be told but a charming occasional glitch now and then
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:45 am125can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta3YkTdIQqE
on 19 Apr 2019 at 3:51 am126can't be arsed

‘holic is a gentleman of high regard
and
there’s very few here i wouldn’t hold in that same heft

despite (as another gentleman goonerSD cleverly spotted) my best efforts to annoy everyone
on 19 Apr 2019 at 4:10 am127can't be arsed

i cross the line
too often
i bore meself with the moooooooooooooooooooooo business
but sometimes fifteen different opinions
on a team selection grates
and
i’d say i’d be classified as an elderly gooner here
but
like leaving a concert
i never used to deconstruct Dee Dee or Johnny Ramones playing
in the same way i don’t /can’t/have no interest in doing similar Arsenal wise on my way walking home from the bar after a game

but

what i enjoy about here is – i have been taught so much about tactics . I was and to be honest mostly still am a ROAR AND SHOUT merchant but in the background there’s a wee bit of insight from ‘holic , clive , thunder T and Steve and various others . Proper analysis from people who’ve worn boots . I still think they’re all a big shower of daisies but they’re the kinda daisies i am accustomed to and i would without hesitation buy a pint to – with four straws
on 19 Apr 2019 at 4:13 am128can't be arsed

.
full pint for dorset M
he knows his beer
on 19 Apr 2019 at 4:16 am129can't be arsed

.
sherbet dib dab for cynic
cos
let’s face it

he’s a titan round here
man’s a legend
on 19 Apr 2019 at 4:19 am130can't be arsed

speaking of legends
esso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8lMzAvY8kI
on 19 Apr 2019 at 4:22 am131can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtZxewxXoPc
on 19 Apr 2019 at 5:01 am132can't be arsed

116
posh prick is called david hepworth
music introducer
d’ye remember ?
and latter day music book writer
the kinda fella
like danny baker
“ye had to be there , things were different then”

his fuckin revisionist take on Dr Feelgood Roxette
should really have seen him
ridden outta town on a rail

“musically it’s not that great”

“it was all about the image”
?
.
.
.
we used to have to listen to these berks
we now don’t have to buy their books
on 19 Apr 2019 at 5:09 am133can't be arsed

.
angry twaddle at the end
was not
repeat
not
intentional
on 19 Apr 2019 at 5:14 am134can't be arsed

what i meant to say was

don’t buy that plummy accented twats books
cos he’s a twat

a plummy accented one
on 19 Apr 2019 at 5:18 am135can't be arsed

.
.
.
prick
on 19 Apr 2019 at 5:36 am136can't be arsed

.
i’ve not drunk
SHOUTIN juice this evening

i’ve drunk
GON SHUT THE FUCK UP THINKIN juice
.
.
.
.
[all of theses juices are made by me and can be purchased in the gift shop]
on 19 Apr 2019 at 5:42 am137can't be arsed

normally
i stop
what dave and baff euphemistically call “stuff”
at 5

but i’m on my holidays
so

here’s the greatest song ever written
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-0nWVdBH4
on 19 Apr 2019 at 6:52 am138can't be arsed

and yes
mike love
is every also-ran
who butts into your life
with minimal talent but aggrafuckinvatin impact
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:02 am139can't be arsed

if only there was somewhere
to say that out loud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAD4vF2VfIQ
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:09 am140can't be arsed

.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmenLzDtTXY
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:18 am141can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPC9AcBWovA
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:19 am142North Bank Ned

cba@111: never saw that clip before. Steve Parsons kept some good musical company over the years — Ginger Baker, Steve Marriott, Chris Spedding among others.
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:23 am143can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pdShyBhOU
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:27 am144can't be arsed

ahh
howdy ned
for reasons of one way or t’other
i met a lot of in inverted commas

i stood beside Chris Spedding
i was too embarrassed to even say hello
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:29 am145can't be arsed

i fuckin loved Sharks
still do
.
.
.
posh clash not so much ?
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:32 am146can't be arsed

was in joe strummers company
more than once
i thought he was
just embarrassing
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:35 am147can't be arsed

with an
all things to all people
affected spikey candy coating
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:40 am148can't be arsed

i understand putting on an act
but
no

nice fella i’m sure
god rest him
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:45 am149can't be arsed

The Undertones gave him a water pistol gun
on the american tour with Bo Diddley

as a piss take

oh the oppressed people
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:54 am150can't be arsed

listen to this garbage
the undertones were political
just by being what false name strummer
craved real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmWE2j75_rU
on 19 Apr 2019 at 7:57 am151can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQPMLV2ITs
on 19 Apr 2019 at 8:01 am152can't be arsed

i was “courted” for precisely the same reason
stupid lefty english bastards
as we called them
as were my friends
or “fellow combatants”
as chino wearers would say
on 19 Apr 2019 at 8:04 am153can't be arsed

or
“stupid paddy bastards”
as i think i mighta heard
once or twice
on 19 Apr 2019 at 8:14 am154can't be arsed

anyhoo

moooooooooooooooooooooo
on 19 Apr 2019 at 8:23 am155can't be arsed

150
who is real there
who is what these fake fuckers have contrived punk to be

the answer – those cupla girls

.

if you can watch that shambles
with strummer trying and failing
to set his stall out manifesto wise
then summon some undertones

infinitely smarter
more talented
and not pretend HARD

like they were belongings

.
.
i wonder what his father did
mine was a spark
on 19 Apr 2019 at 8:29 am156can't be arsed

plastic hard men
scared by
just normal men

.
the clash
do me a fuckin favour

music for the quick of adopting
like totally
on 19 Apr 2019 at 8:30 am157can't be arsed

errrr
.
.

totally
on 19 Apr 2019 at 8:33 am158can't be arsed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ZGgAuL7Qo
on 19 Apr 2019 at 8:43 am159can't be arsed

like shite
an ting innit
on 19 Apr 2019 at 8:48 am160can't be arsed

*does youthful mannerism*
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:03 am161bathgooner

A fine performance and an excellent win. That little voice was correct.

An interesting bar chart in this otherwise anodyne BBC report reveals that Unai Emery has achieved the most victories in his first 50 games (32) of any manager in Arsenal’s history. Of recent predecessors, AW achieved 23 and GG 27, as did the great HC with George Allison at 28. I didn’t expect that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47967831
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:36 am162can't be arsed

thanks baff
i tucked me arse cheeks in
and called nobody an oul
fuckin bastard like you told
me not to do and fings
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:39 am163can't be arsed

i can’t take complete credit
for my correct little voice
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:41 am164can't be arsed

though so full props to
your unintelligible instructions
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:43 am165can't be arsed

people die in irish accents too
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:44 am166can't be arsed

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-47985469
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:50 am167can't be arsed

god rest that poor woman
and god love her family
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:51 am168Cynic

The Clash may have been all cba says, but they did do one decent tune in their career. Only one mind.

As for intelligence it is largely over rated. Innit.
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:52 am169can't be arsed

the moronic little turds
that did that have never
seen a british soldier on the streets
on 19 Apr 2019 at 9:55 am170can't be arsed

fuckin stupid wee bastards
on 19 Apr 2019 at 10:01 am171Cynic

Probably had someone ranting and raving in their ear about how evil the Brits are and selling them on the idea of armed struggle since the day they were born.
on 19 Apr 2019 at 10:01 am172can't be arsed

god love that poor woman
RIP Lyra McKee
on 19 Apr 2019 at 10:02 am173Cynic

Bono probably, the yellow bespectacled tax exile swine
on 19 Apr 2019 at 10:03 am174can't be arsed

cynic
don’t you fuckin start

don’t you fuckin dare start
on 19 Apr 2019 at 10:09 am175Goonerholic

Good morning people, and it is.

Sorry to say football is back in the blog >>>>>>>>>>>
on 19 Apr 2019 at 10:18 am176can't be arsed

politics caused me to stop talking on arseblogs site when he brought up the IRA at the exact time the British government was apologising for murdering INNOCENT people on Bloody Sunday . People marching for civil rights for themselves and those unable to march . Goodbye here too
on 19 Apr 2019 at 10:20 am177can't be arsed

and cynic
you are a fuckin slimeball

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