Job Swap Good News For Two Great Gunners
Jun 17th, 2019 by 'holic
The announcement of what is in effect a job swap for Steve Bould and Freddie Ljungberg is not entirely surprising. It is clear from the article in arsenal.com that both men are happy with the switch. Steve has been a bit part player in the first team coaching set-up and makes no secret of enjoying a return to a similar role he has already held for eleven years at the club.
“I have always had a deep commitment to developing young players and am delighted to be back working in an area which is so important to the future of our club. We have great young players and my job will be to help them maximise their potential.”
The Arsenal Head of football, Raul Sanllehi, explained the thinking behind the switch and revealed clear thinking about helping to develop the talent rolling off the academy production line.
“Identifying, recruiting and developing young players is a key part of our strategy. We have some great talent coming through our younger age groups and, like all top clubs, the challenge is to help them make the most of their abilities. The hardest part is always the transition from academy football to senior football. We already have good programmes in place but these staff changes will ensure our plans are even more robust and clear for every single player. I’m confident it will make a significant difference to our ability to bring players through to the first team.”
For Freddie too this gives him experience of working with the first team, an ambition he has harboured for a while I believe. This would appear to be a clear sign that we will have to utilise some of our young talent in the coming seasons if Champions League money continues to be absent from our bottom line. Freddie is the ideal choice to continue to help the players he himself has been developing.
“I’m really excited by this opportunity to continue helping develop and work with some of the great young players we have coming through in the first-team environment and to work alongside Unai and his coaching team to help Arsenal win trophies.”
Good luck to both men in their new roles. I’m sure both will be happier as a result, and look forward to Steve producing more young players for Freddie to inject into the first team set up.
Off to watch France women in the so far largely excellent Womens World Cup. They have been a great watch in their two opening fixtures.
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Holic,
I think you are right about Bouldy. He has never appeared comfortable in the more senior role and I have often wondered what he actually does. His job will be to stamp Arsenal DNA 1989-1994 on the psyches of the up and coming lads .
Hopefully Freddie will be grand in his role
You know I saw a full session in the flesh this year TTG, and he was literally just moving cones and goalposts about. Subsequent videos and photos from the Training Ground suggest that wasn’t unusual. Absurd given the state of our defending.
It will be interesting to see if Freddie enjoys his new role once he has been doing whatever they have in mind for him at the time.
Word is this was neither Sanllehi or Emery’s idea.
I think it’s a good move for all concerned, Freddie and Bould, and the young players.
Hopefully as well as the players that have been mentioned on here, we will get a couple more who come through.
despite yer love for margeret thatcher
i honestly think we could
dave
enjoy a jar
i’d say
she was a two c s cunt
you’d have yer own opinion
?
It’s an opinion the young fuckwit that WAS me held, cba. The me of today would think very differently. We all change with experience.
I fear under this Tory fucking shower we are about to commit national suicide. It’s merely an extension of the work that Duncan-Smith started with the disabled.
They’ve got enough money. They don’t need any more, so the unemployed, disabled, and aged are no longer required.
The swap of roles for Freddie and Bouldie may or may not work but it’s certainly worth a try as Bouldie has looked very unhappy for the last couple of years and Freddie’s energy is sure to rub off on a somewhat lethargic group. If it wasn’t Emery’s or Sanhelli’s idea, H, whose was it?
never understood
the conservative ideology
.
well
i did
.
lived through it
arrested cos of it
.
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though as trev said
shut up
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.
is supremo
homebrew
an excuse
for exposing hypocrisy ?
dave
IDS
is a cunt beyond cunts
.
despicable
He speaks very highly of you, cba @ 11. ?
right o
baff
heads up taken
IBS
is what i meant
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my arse is like a japanese flag
Colpermin is helpful for IBS flare-ups.
baff
are all you Scottish people smartarses
my grandchildren are cocky as fuck
.
apparently
blaaa blaaa vowels
are an excuse for
piggybacking
IDS is a Spurs season ticket holder. Says it all.
I met him at a dinner many years ago. I was the guest of a disabled charity. Didn’t get a good vibe from him at all.
I’d be interested in whose idea this was. Possibly Bouldy’s?
There are some very cocky Scots and there are some very unconfident Scots. At the risk of being condemned for generalisations, Scots do not generally have the confidence that their English peers have. Whether this is genetic or cultural is unclear to me but it does seem genuine. I suspect it is conditioned as the cocky little squirt Rory Stewart is presumably genetically at least part Scot but clearly culturally an upper class English twit.
The late Hugh McIlvanny made the observation that Scots who stay in Scotland generally congratulate each other on their superiority to their southern neighbours (Wha’s like us? etc…)but achieve little as a result of the complacency engendered by their self-congratulation. Most of the Scots who have achieved great things have moved to England and upon being isolated from their countrymen but surrounded by Englishmen who have exuded superiority, have thought, “I’ll show you!” and the result has been the discoveries of Fleming, MacAdam, Logie Baird etc. He observed that Argentina 1978 proved that the critical concentration of Scots that determines failure rather than success is 11 Scots in an area the size of a football pitch.
whatevs
so i’m currently sitting in the britannia arms pub in capitola, ca, with another half dozen assorted south bay gooners, eating and drinking (guinnii for me) while waiting for rob holding to finish his lunch. our club’s leader told us about it yesterday, and we are the ones who showed up.
when rob came in with his girlfriend we all clapped him in, he shook hands all around, and we chatted a bit. turns out he’s expecting to play preseason, at least a few minutes at the start. his rehab is going really well (his knee has a really tiny 2” scar on it). i told him he and hector going down was what detailed our season, he said it was tough for the defense after that. he and said girlfriend paige were at the game when hector went down, and rob gave him his wheelchair (recently vacated). i suggested they sign it to keep track of who used it…though i dare say they should pass it along to spuds, rather.
smaller than i assumed from the television (not having chris’s new zealand special at home). actually pretty slight, but has a toughness about him. i look forward to his return to the side.
the coach who brought him here, who coached paige for more than a decade, said rob told him he learned more tactically in 8 days under unai than in the final two years of arsene’s reign; take that for what you will.
hopefully some photos and autographs are coming when he’s having his digestivo…
derailed, not detailed.
see 18
We appear to have agreed to sign Claude- Maurice and Martinelli and the Saliba deal requires clarification. We are following the sort of recruitment model that Dortmund have operated for years and it depends on great scouting and willingness to promote young talent rather than doing a Chelsea and peppering Europe with loan players.
While I’m much more agnostic on Guendouzi than most Gooners ( his stats were very poor for a lad who played in 48 games he is clearly a talent.
This is going back to the days when Wenger was ahead of the game in France and we found players like Anelka and Petit who weren’t known by everyone…but we are going younger still !
At least it’s a strategy. Maybe Edu is already pulling the strings ?
Great stuff Scruz!
thunder T
i’m not a violent man
?
IDS
he’s a character
many people find him
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.
.
unfortunately
without a sharp spade
These Tory politicianscians would sell their grannies to further their own ends.
The fact like a lying deceitful amoral twat like Johnson is about to be their new leader says it all.
Bunch of corrupt counts…
But good news about Holdong! 🙂
politics dexter
IS what happens outside
your front door
inside yer front door
or
the end of next street
depending on yer level
of
giving a fuck
.
.
.
good people are in short supply
.
.
i really despair
i dunno fella
it was only in recent years
bla WHAT Etc
it’s fuckin 30 odd years
probably more
.
fuckin 30 ye,ars ago
I’m fuckin/
and
40 years AGO doesn’t sound ……..
Best of luck to Freddie and Bouldy.
It’s good we’ve found a way for
both of them. Hopefully, Freddie
will be more involved – if it wasn’t
UE’s idea, it will be important that
he is supportive at least. He and
the other 1st team coaches must
be clear on their respective roles.
It’s nonsense if a guy like
Build is just moving cones around
– that is a failure in management
though to be fair I don’t really
know what else he may be doing.
right an arseholed here japan
mind you
dunno whether
i need a shit or a haircut
so
and/but
big heavy woman
looked in my window
FINE !
big heavy woman
looked in the fuckin rest
NOT FINE
.
.
my house looks chocolate box toura loura
but don t stick yer big face
agin my windows
and be shocked as fuck
that
horror of horrors
someone lives there
ya aggravating canadian shitheads
so, further to our little drink with rob holding.
when he finished his lunch (with his girlfriend paige almendariz, her twin sister, and paige’s club soccer coach from her growing up), he left them to their own devices and came and sat with us at table, and we 7 chatted while we drank a beer or two.
his scars: definitely not small. i only saw the little one from the meniscus repair, the big one where they pulled the patellar tendon inside and made it his new ACL was six inches long, and the one where they repaired his damaged MCL was four inches long.
he says he’s feeling great, the arsenal rehab staff trust him to continue what he needs to do while he is here in california on vacation, and to that end he’s working out at sacramento state university until he returns to london at the end of june to travel to portugal with chambo for a short pre-preseason camp with one of the arsenal workout staff. (chambo is his best friend on the team, he says, they do everything together when they can.) then they return to london and start preseason on july 5, in preparation for the usa tour. he told us all (who are going to be in los angeles for the game july 17 v. bayern) to yell out “capitola, ca” when we see him, and he’d come over and say hi again 😀
he said he was in tears when he saw hector go down (he and paige were at that game), he knew exactly what had happened and what he would be going through. while rob did his early december, hector did his five-six weeks later, but has taken a little less intense route to recovery. he spent a couple of months with his family in spain, so is on a “normal” curve of recovery; rob’s injury was to a degree worse, and he therefore worked harder to recover ahead of the normal 9 month curve.
of course, remember the thing he did when he tackled costa in the fa cup final, costa straddled his head, and holding went hard verbally at him, and pointed to his head like costa was nuts? rob told us it’s actually something his *dad* used to do to him when he was a teenager, we were all laughing so hard when he told us. we all congratulated him for pocketing costa that day.
when i asked him “who is going to come in second, after arsenal” this coming season, he laughed, then shook his head, and said unless something really drastic happened it was going to be liverpool and city again at the front, because of their strength in depth (and their money). he didn’t express anything about united or chelski, but said they (as a team) thought spurs were going to fall off this season, or next, because of player fatigue and them not having a lot of money due to the new stadium. we all agreed that was just fine.
we talked of ownership, and he was very diplomatic, but honest. he said he’d only met stan once, but that josh kroenke was at baku and after the game was over and everyone was around on the field and in the clubhouse, he thanked all the family members and friends for coming to support the team. and that he’s actually the one running the show, not really stan.
one thing about the baku game, at half time they *opened up the gates to the general public* because they’d sold so few tickets it was a half-empty stadium. opened the gates, for free. well-played, uefa, you idiots.
we were talking about his travel while he has been on rehab, and he’s been all over. he does NOT use a secretary or a personal assistant (he says almost no one on the team does for personal stuff), but said “when i look for tickets, yeah, i just get on booking.com like everyone else.
one last story. we asked i he was ever recognized in the states, and said just once. he and paige were in nashville, and in a taxi, and when they arrived he asked the taxi driver how much. he repeated “$26?”, and the cab driver asked him where he was from. “england”, rob said. the cabbie asked him his name, “rob”, he said. the cabbie said “holding?”, and rob nodded. the cabbie asked “arsenal?”, his voice rising in pitch. rob nodded and the cabbie went nuts. he was screaming and chanting, so happy rob was in his cab. pictures were taken, etc.
he said he didn’t know we’d be there as a group, that when he walked into the pub he’d seen the son of one of our number wearing an alexis 7 shirt, and he thought “oh, cool, a gooner”. then he saw another, and another, and realized that we’d been told about him. he was just so gracious about it, showed such class.
we spent an hour or longer chatting with him, he was never rushed, never “all that”, just as humble and nice a guy as you could imagine. i’d love to see him slot back in where he left off, and in three years we have a new captain. i can’t wait to see him again in los angeles, and watch him partnered with sokratis in the center of a tenacious and miserly arsenal defense this coming season.
apologies for this being such a long post (feeling a bit verklempt for wind, wherever he is these days…). if i had a way to post pics, i would, but that’s not an option, here…
That was brilliant! Thanks scruz
Great stuff scruz. It sounds like an excellent experience and Rob sounds like a good guy.
Absolutely brilliant report scruzgooner. Future Arsenal captain indeed. Let’s hope For an injury free season from him.
Quite the day in the capitola metropolis. Thank you scruzgooner, the Goonerholic roving reporter of the week, if not longer. ?
cheers, all. woke up this morning, still buzzing!
Amidst all the recent Arsenal doom and gloom, your report about RH really gave me some optimism, Scruzgooner. Cheers.
Scruz,
Really enjoyed your post.
He has always struck me as a fine young man. This confirms he actually is!
Interested to hear about Josh. Let’s hope he does commit to the club and do a proper job of trying to get us close to the top again.
Thanks
Cheers, Holic !
Can those French women win ? Oh yes they can can ?
If Emery wasn’t involved in the job swap, I’d say he better make sure to include and cooperate with Freddie, or his tenure might be a bit shorter than he imagined.
I did say some while back in here, that it would be truly revolutionary to have someone alongside Emery who really knows the young players and their abilities, so that they can be integrated and encouraged into the first team at the right times. Life is never that convenient, but it is a good plan and I hope Freddie is given a lot more say and respect than Steve Bould was for a number of years.
cba – i said ‘shut up’ ? I don’t think so !
Scruz – off to read Part 2 ??
Nice one, scruz ??
Saw your pics on Fb ??
Great story Scruz. If anything similar happens for anyone just email it to me and i will happily make it a guest post. ?? What is your Facebook handle, Scruz?
So Atleti will try and sign Xhaka once Man city have bought Rodri with the loose change found down the back of Mansoors office couch…
Oh I do hope that one has some truth to it.
I’m watching the under 21s… some decent approach play but the finishing from England has been shocking. Nelson and Guendouzi both on the bench, sadly.
According to the uber accurate transfer ITKs, here is a sneak preview of next season’s line up…
Martinez
Jenkinson Mustafi Sokratis Kolasinac
Elneny Guendouzi
Iwobi Ozil Mhkitaryan
Asano
Pretty decent, huh???
devon stu, glad to fill your pint with optimism. i was nearly a giddy schoolgirl talking to him, you can’t imagine the patience it took… it, and the LA game in july, are filling mine to overflowing.
ttg, one thing he said is that everyone at the club was pulling for the rams to win the superbowl…so stan would have some dosh to throw at arsenal 😀 rob really was complimentary about josh, it’s clear he respects him.
cheers, trev. if you visit the britannia arms of capitola page you can see more pics soon, we’re all sending them in and i imagine they’re going to post a bunch of them.
and cheers, holic. i am glad to be able to contribute, a small candle among posts from the luminaries here! i might send you something for the game in july, if i end up with anything to say (highly unlikely, eh? lol). check your email for the fb info.
and as for freddie, if he enables esr, reiss, eddie, and joe to move into full first-team integration, i’ll be happy as hell. if he brings sako and the defenders (medley and ballard) along, even better…
sorry dexter, i just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
😀
Sorry!
scruz ?
champion
and
ye got the nod from c100
THE greatest away day reporter here
brilliant stuff fella
Scruz
I never thought of Rams success in that way. I resented what Stan spent on them but wouldn’t invest in Arsenal. That’s a different perspective.
The craziest transfer rumour is that Simeone wants to sign…..Xhaka. Yeah right a match made in heaven that !
Watching bits of the U21s . Next season we will see a handball penalty per game with the stupid new rules.
no worries, dexter, the locally-brewed uncle dave’s rye ipa washed it right back down.
cheers, cba, thanks. while i don’t hold a candle to real writers like c100 and the boss, i appreciate the encouragement.
ttg, yeah, i was surprised rob even knew who the rams *were*. we asked him his favorite american sports teams (seeing as his girlfriend is american), and he said for basketball the sacramento kings, and for football, of course, the rams. all of us gave him stick about the kings (they’ve never been a good team, certainly not for a long time), especially when he could have claimed the warriors, even from sacramento 🙂 he hopes they win this year, and thinks they can, and maybe that’ll lead to more arsenal spending…
let’s hope xhaka is on his way!
as for VAR, the dumbest, most unfair thing i’ve seen so far with that was in the france-nigeria game in the WC, yesterday. france put up a defender to shoot a correctly-called penalty (plus red card, also correct), and the gal shanked it wide. the keeper’s foot was off the line less than two inches, and they called VAR, which gave them another penalty. naturally, she made the second. nigeria lost 0-1, though even a draw wouldn’t have helped them advance.
we’ll see a LOT of that, then, since all keepers currently behave one way…the same way as the nigeria keeper. there needs to be some leeway given, and some “blending in” when it comes to these things. give her 6″ this year, 3″ next year, and none the next. that’s time to get the body memory for penalty-saving on track with the new rules…
ahhh bullshit scruz
i fuckin love stories told well
front and centre
now is not the time for modesty
wear yer applause proudly
.
top shelf
i can tell a tale (too verbosely at times), but not at that level. i take the applause fully and wholeheartedly, in full recognition of my limitations of pen…
thanks. 🙂
scruz sir
you’ll fuckin do fer me
.
TOP MAN
U21 France 2 England 1. French miss two PKs; Phil Foden gives England a second half lead. England down to ten men, hold out to very end, concede two very late goals, last on OG by Wan-Bisaka on a corner.
No Nelson, no Guendouzi, but Reine-Adelaide (the Jeff!) plays all ninety. Where is he now?
my arse is like a japanese flag
It could be worse, it could be like a scale model of the Himalayas.
Won’t go into the political stuff except to say that as a life long Labour voter, until Corbyn came along, Boris as PM scares the shit out of me. I’d consider voting Tory if Rory Stewart was leading the party, if only for his expert manspreading abilities. 🙂
met the night time Canadian peepers
just now
bullshit about history and heritage
.
fuckin fuck off
i’m as polite as the next cunt
.
.
congratulations
but
by cursory inspection
.
.
the good look gene circumnavigate d
.
as indeed did the
don t eat loads of stuff
Great post, SCG. I’ve liked the cut of Holding’s jib since Day 1.
thanks, ned, agreed. he has the same calm clarity in person he has on the pitch. i asked him if he felt the post-surgical fear on the pitch, and he said no, but he hadn’t seen a game yet. said the only thing he feels anything other than normal with is passing with his left foot, that’s not quite as comfortable. i said one of the things i liked about him passing out of defense was how it always seemed the weight on his passes were what the recipient needed, and the side. he said his dad taught him that, and to sip the ball in so they don’t have to break stride…but never too hard so they lose control.
zip, not sip. sigh.
Cynic
That’s the saddest thing I’ve read on here. You USED to vote Labour, but don’t because of Jezzer? What the fuck has he done? As far as I can tell, the mainstream media have orchestrated a massive smear job on him since day one….
And it’s worked! I speak to loads of people who say similar things… and when I ask them what it is about the man, they usually say shit like, oh yes a terrorist sympathiser (lie), or he had tea with Hitler, or some such bullshit.
It’s so fucking sad the political landscape has been manipulated by a select few far right elitist twats and we’ve been robbed of a viable opposition, mainly thanks to the lies and smears. I’ve never known an opposition leader be so targeted, it’s like what the yanks so in south America and the middle east.
I’m appalled by what is going on in this country and others. Its shameful and disgusting…
The fact that we are about to get our 2nd invited for prime minister, whose even more arrogant, corrupt and inept than the previous incumbent is utterly mind boggling and depressing.
Shit, I hope Xhaka fucks off to Madrid though!
You USED to vote Labour, but don’t because of Jezzer? What the fuck has he done?
Have you not been reading the news for the last 30+ years?
It’s not just him though, the thought of the likes of Diane Abbott and John McDonnell in power makes me shit kittens.
I was proper old Labour too, none of this Labour Lite rubbish (although I voted for Blair’s lot with a heavy heart).
Last GE I voted Green, as futile as it was. I won’t vote Labour as it currently stands though. I don’t think of myself as a This Party voter any more, I’ll look at what’s on offer, look at who is offering it and vote with my head (I know, most people use a pencil 🙂 )
Cynic. But, just look at what is in power now! Look what they are doing and plan to do…
Get rid of the NHS, ensure their rich mates pay no tax while ripping the heart out of the country, strangling public services, while demonising the poor, disabled and foreign.
The pixies are what it’s about, or should be…
Corbyn ain’t my cup of tea, but he has stuck to his guns politically and ethically.
This bunch of tory twats, this cabal of counts have no morals, consciences or principles.
Get em out! By any means necessary!!!
Power to the people!!! 🙂
Thanks your reply mate.
Pixies??? What the actual!!??
Policies!!!
Sorry for getting all political H!
I’m just very very depressed by the current state of the planet. Hearing that pompous racist twat Trump this morning has only added to my malaise!
If it was all about the pixies we’d be fine.
I never thought I would consider voting Conservative but if Rory Stewart was to fluke it somehow, I would think about it. He’d have to be as fresh and communicative in power as he has been in this campaign to make me do it though.
I’ll probably just write THEY ARE ALL CUNTS on my ballot paper next time though.
Don’t want to turn this into a political blog but seeing as we can’t attract a Ligue 2 winger more than a very average Bundesliga club football is depressing me.
I tend to look at the world now as a grandfather . I’ve largely run my race and I will pop off when Arsenal win the Cup with big ears ?. That should ensure I live about another 70 years. I want a better world for my grandchildren than I grew up in.
I fear for a world where two scumbag populists can ride to power in America and UK, impervious of any of the problems that afflict other more sincere and capable politicians. Both are amoral, Trump cheats at everything, he can’t string a proper ,articulate sentence together when speaking and he lies repeatedly and unrepentantly.
Johnson is much more intelligent, but then so is my cat, but shares a disregard for the truth and an ability to galvanise the less attractive elements of society .What sort of legacy will these cunts leave ?
i support the mighty baths rather eloquent deconstruction of rory stewart
Speaking from an American perspective the most frightening thing about Trump is how much his supporters enjoy the theater of being lied to. Being lied to blatantly, continuously, and without shame.
astonishing isn’t it 8ball
and
AMEN dexter
and
AMEN thunder T
and a round of applause
for cynics pencil joke
which sent my chuckle muscles a-flex
The FA displaying themselves for the amateurs they are for all the world to see on their website for the England women.
http://www.thefa.com/england/womens-seniors/squad
Lucy Bronze (listed at 5’8″) towers above Leah Williamson (listed at 5’7″) as if she were twice her size. I would expect they could at least invest enough in technology and staff to standardize the size of the images. Jeez.
That is not to impugn the professionalism of the England women themselves, who I expect to put in an excellent performance against Japan today, and to do well throughout the remainder of the tournament. Despite the FA, not particularly because of it.
and
apologies trev
‘shut up’ wasn’t what you said
i got that wrong
it was bath
who actually didn’t say it
his without a doubt
genuine inference that direction to me
was more polite
far too polite
as i rarely do myself any favours here
he suggested perhaps here wasn’t the appropriate arena
for my mission
breaking down the stereotype
of the drunken paddy
workin through every one
of the
ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED
chips on his shoulder
over
and
over
and
over
again
?
[insert youtube video here]
[and here]
[and vertically stacked full stops]
.
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[here]
but
enough of this false self deprecation
walkin boots on
a journey for to have
a scotch egg
and two boiled eggs in the pocket
all being well
Arthur in an hour
and not shiteing till christmas
Great posts all… thanks
TTG
Yep, still slim pickings with regard any positive transfer talk…
I’m surprised we ain’t looking more at signing young players from the lower leagues? Are we actually scouting there any more? .
(The 80,000 chant enthusiastically, “Give cba a job.”)
I on the other hand would be happy to settle for the $6000 proceeds of the auction of Pep Guardiola’s cardigan.
And from the Department of Pedantry, the most egregious of several examples of bad writing in that BBC story.
“The winner of the auction was City fan James Hodge, who lives in the USA, with the money used to support families in Manchester during school holidays.”
At least it took me a long time to figure out why the second half of that sentence was joined to the first, and I still don’t like it. Needs splitting into two sentence and I’m sure my 5th grade English teacher would agree.
Subordinate conjunctions list does not include “with”
after
although
as
because
before
even if
even though
if
in order that
once
provided that
rather than
since
so that
than
that
though
unless
until
when
whenever
where
whereas
wherever
whether
while
why
If the rumors about Arsenal trying to sell Auba this summer are true, it is an interesting marketing strategy on the dot.con where Auba is plastered all over it today.
evening othered
different kettle o ball games
got a lift home
big john sean
off the beer
doesn’t look better for it
but
lift much welcomed
.
.
save me traipsing
gave the big man the scotch egg
and
cynic
no
smart arse
i LITERALLY just gave someone a warm scotch egg
i fuckin love walkin down the road
fuckin mad
i’m not a fuckin farmer
the beasts interrupt their chewing life
with looks of and or disgust
there’s nowt cuts to the core
more
than the withering look
of an unaware cow
the long tongue
slurping the snotters
outta their own snouts
etc
it’s like that here
transparent cunts aspire
WHERE ?
moo.
scruz boldly taken
CBA
All build-up no finish.
well
gather yerselves
cos
you can all start
by fuckin RIGHT off
pansies to the left of me
paddys to the right
and
not just
special kenny
who
i suspect
flys in the face of conventional politics
Donegal turnip
Shit, how heart breaking for the Scotland womens team….
dex
i think that
every time a grandchild
brings home a girlfriend
i LITERALLY just gave someone a warm scotch egg
Before 1967 that would have been worth a jail sentence.
long oul walk
fuckin strugglin
strugglin
sittin down
fuckin knackered
fuckin wet arse
FUCK
don’t care
i’m fuckin exhausted
i’ve three-quarters of an hour walk
fuckin can’t be arsed
20 /30 / 40 years ago
i’d just shouted at air
but
today
no
i can inform people
of the moisture level of
the arse o my trousers
If every penalty is going to get a VAR review for the keeper not having a foot on the line, you might as well just award the goal directly and not bother with the kick as there will never be a penalty saved again.
bt8@tabs’, cheers. i was moooved to the cheek.
ned@116, exactly to my point at the end of 55.
Talking of keepers, The Grauniad
is reporting the deal for Osp has
gone through for 3.5m
Seems Napoli stiffed us for us
0.5m after exploiting the 25 game
clause. We should remember that
revenge is best served cold.
Regardless, I wish Osp all the best
for the future. I think he was a
little better than Almunia.
Not the most generous of comments
I know, but I have a hangover 🙁
Ned, Scruz
Completely agree, together with
a digital eye on players encroaching
some penalties may take all day.
If it’s applied consistently then
no one can complain I think.
Though of course they will and
anyway there’s fuck all chance of
a consistent application.
Hmmmm, I’m ungenerous and
pessimistic today.
To be positive the Laphroaig
I was drinking last night was
far, far better than Almunia.
🙂
i’m afraid i fell asleep
last night
by hugh brians
ridiculous oul carry on
i was knackered
but still
fuckin ridiculous
bizarre day altogether
there was a bit o bad news
then a lock o beer
mental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7M3EEHYkJ0
dunno who or what
i’m talking to or about
but it helps me
straighten my head
writing it down
apologies
please disregard
proper fuckin goose egg
above my eye too
she’ll fuckin go bananas
no sign of the scotch egg
don’t remember eatin it
fuckin raging
i fuckin made it meself too
like as not i fuckin fed it to one o hugh brians beasts
i haven’t covered meself in glory
at all here
and i’ve fuckin split the sole
on my creepers
she’ll proper fuckin go bananas
they were me good ones too
cox’s
fuck this
Almunia???
Oh thanks for reminding me Matt!!
I remember one of his 1st games. It was vs the chavs and he was getting ironic cheers from Gooners after about 25 minutes!
That was when I first really questioning Wengers judgement. Hed been pretty impervious until then.
I could never understand how hed have such an amazing knack of unearthing attacking gems, yet with keepers and defenders he just seemed to have a complete laise faire attitude…
Almunia was shocking. Wed probably have won something if Wenger had bought a decent keeper!
People always slg off Cygan as a centre back, but it wasnt his fault. He was a good defender, but like John Terry, he wasnt suited to a kamikaze high line defence as he didn’t have any pace.
Kolo and Sol was my favourite Arsenal CB pairing. They were fantastic. I loved em especially as we knocked Sol off the spuds and Kolo was just thrown in as a desperation measure and worked out brilliantly!
There you go, I started off on a negative moan and finished on a high!
Up the Arse!
serious fuckin bump on me head too
fuckin bad lookin
today’s only fuckin gonna get worse
i fuckin don’t remember coming home
apparently i came home and went out again
creepers are fuckin expensive
no way i can afford another pair
i think i’ll just fuckin hermit like a cunt
from now the fuck on
made a right holy show of meself i’m sure
don’t know if i want to know
fuckin ridiculous
and i’m not fuckin young
and i’m fuckin jibberjabberin on the internet now
jesus fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpN_TOP9hg8
fuckin £250
https://www.britboot.co.uk/george-cox-navy-suede-creeper37053-eyelet-c2x22659590
sweet mother of god
Jeez cba take it easy mate! Take that lump on the head down the docs and have it seen to.
Inside our heads we’re all the 23 year old athlete we used to be. Only it ain’t so. I’m 62 and already dreading the 12 flights of stairs at St James Park in August!
No negativity
+
Oodles of positivity
=
Freddie Ljungberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQG2GZKjh5Y
c100
THE greatest away day scribe
If William Saliba is so good that we are willing to sacrifice half of a very limited budget to get him in a year’s time , he must be a helluva player. Matthias de Ligt lite. It’s a stupid decision and if I were Emery I’d wonder if I’d ever have him playing for me .
But I read the Ospina news and am amazed that anyone would pay £3.5 million for him. He can’t catch crosses, he drops corners in the net and as we saw at Wembley he flaps at shots like Wayne Sleep hailing a taxi . Almunia was useless but be had some fine games for us (eg, CL semi- Final at Old Trafford). Ospina never got near that level for us.
Fingers Furnell, Malcolm Webster and Ospina. The Fumble Triplets
Some short memories here. Almunia had a great season, 2007/8, when we got 83 points and nearly won the league. We haven’t bettered that since. Almunia was brilliant that season, but crap the rest of the time.
Brilliant??? That’s a stretch! Not sure it was him that ALMOST won us the league… it was more to do with the players in front of him. He should never have been anywhere near the number one shirt. The fact Wenger persisted with him for so long was frustrating as fuck.
Never ever ever ever a number one keeper for a supposed big club.
Just my opinion of course… Ospina likewise, but he was never signed as numero uno
Almunia was never as bad as the revisionists like to claim.
If Almunia were as bad as they say how was he able to take us to the Champions League final? (One might reasonably ask.)
Fortunately I’m not a
revisionist so I can say
confidently that he was
not a top quality keeper.
One might reasonably ask
why no other top level club
ever wanted him and he was
never chosen at a national
level.
@137
But Almunia was signed originally
as a back up to Jens if memory
serves. Similar to Osp in that way.
Matt
Yes he was back up, but ended up being number one for ages!
He, like most keepers could have a decent game, but he was way too prone for poor mistakes. I cant believe people actually think he was a good keeper???
I guess it shows how easily pleased we’ve become and how familiar we are with mediocrity these days!!! 😉
And fuck me! Even Cynic is bugging him up???
What is going on? Am I in a parallel universe???
Bigging obvs!
BtM
My only memories of Manuel playing in the CL campaign were early on against Thun (conceded a ludicrous lob) and the final after replacing Jens, where he conceded a soft goal!
And I’m not a revisionist, I’m just a very naughty boy!
I fucking hated Almunia, but I do remember him having some decent games. But they were far outweighed but the dire ones. I’m sure we played Barca when Zlatan played for them. Almunia had an amazing first half, looked a world beater, then second half gifted them two goals? Scored by the big Swede. I was at the game and drunk, so perhaps my recall ain’t its usual 20/20!
I’m not bigging him up but he wasn’t the calamity most people seem to assume he was. Not even close.
I’ve been racking what brains I have trying to list our really good goalies, and it’s a short list in my lifetime (so far):
Jack Kelsey
Bob Wilson
Pat Jennings
David Seaman
No Jens, Mick?
Dexter @145, Almunia was outstanding in the OT first leg of our CL QF against Manure and kept us in the tie. It sticks in my memory because I’d already decided that he was a clown and had to be replaced before that game. The tie was eminently winnable when they came to our place but our defence conspired to leak three goals in 20 minutes. I can’t recall whether he was at fault for any but he promptly reverted to his mean level thereafter.
However, although at OT he put in an excellent performance, I do recall that his career was littered with other occasional moments of brilliance that are obscured by the morass of unreliability and at least as many moments of calamity. He just wasn’t good enough.
Most golden bit of blundering tv commentary ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smSde-dqBXg
And we won that game. 😉
Hahaha! I remember that!
new kits? looking good, if so.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JSully325/status/1142017254579744768?fbclid=IwAR1gUF6-fS2sdxQEgiR7nukYnAlJZMFUGksklstqcw_TAII_EW5EMnJ4NhI
Dexter@149,
No, I couldn’t put mad Jens in that group. However highly you might rate him, the fucking idiot cost us dearly in the most important game in our wonderful club’s history. The dickhead.
When you put it like that… 😉
Almunia played in 6 matches in our Champions League run that year. Source:
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=422981.html
Dorset Mick,
That’s a good list with a high threshold ( as is right)
I was a fan of Jimmy Rimmer who played behind an awful defence and I suppose as an Invincible you have to rate Mad Jens. Although he played behind a brilliant defence . He won us a Cup Final off his own bat in 2005.
approché = tapped up?
https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Transferts-laurent-koscielny-arsenal-approche-par-lyon/1032351
I suppose it’s a moot
argument from a long
time ago but Rimmer
was excellent and TTG
is exactly right
I think Jimmy Rimmer was the main reason we stayed up in the dark days of the Seventies.
Bad day for English sport today . Awful batting display and two defenders in the U21s we definitely don’t want to sign . I hoped our age group sides would dominate over the next few years but we lack quality defenders as a nation
That England Under-21 CB makes Mustafi look like Franco Baresi.
hurt me face
.
man i’m pretty
fuckin ridiculous
fell asleep up the road
fuckin me eye
.
just stupid
broke stuff
.
kids
just grow up
stupid old man
All the political posts in recent times and nobody has yet mentioned the best political tweet of the year, if not decade.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9iLXGBX4AIoqBb.png
Politics broadens the vocabulary.
You wankspangles. 🙂
.
.
gonna shoot off
get a wee nip
can’t stand any collection of words cynic that contain a really not hilarious at all jamming together . The sturdy CUNT never failed me . No . And I’ll wager it will never shall
.
off down Michael’s
like a walking butcher’s shop
bath and ttg re u-21, that starting squad was comprised of five from chelsea, three from everton, two from leicester, and the goalie. no wonder they were wank. three of the back four (excepting the right back) were chelsea….bodes well for us, i guess.
I’m not a fan of Boothroyd. His team selections were weird and he has a bit of the old school Howard Wilkinsons about him!
Have the sheikhs, oligarchs and their corrupt cronies been arrested yet?
We’ve made a bid for an injury prone young left back and told think we had offered 3 quid for him, judging by some of the hyperbolic reactions!
Fuck me, he ain’t Cafu! Hes certainly not Cashley quality…. yet anyway.
How ironic that the Scots have two world class left backs and bugger all else at international level. It doesn’t seem fair. If Tierney can stay fit for a season I’d be happy to sign him.
TTG,
I liked Rimmer, but would rate him nearer to Mad Jens and John Lukic, very good but not great. Definitely ranks above Geoff Barnett though!
We had some good keepers
in the 70s, though Barnett
wasn’t one of them.
Personally, I thought Lukic was
a bit overrated but a lot of friends
I used to go with at the time had
a high opinion of him.
Today’s game at the WWC brought up issues of sexism, racism and technophobia but we also saw the folly of tinkering with rules and the chaos wreaked by poor referees. There appear to be a lot of poor lady referees on the international stage.
You could write a book about today’s game but if this is VAR it will kill football.It must be slicker – much slicker. Apart from that at evening games a lot of people will miss the last train given the delays . I deplored much about todays game but I particularly deplored Cameroon accusing FIFA of racism . Firstly FIFA can be accused of a lot but today was about Cameroon not knowing the rules. In fact they were guilty of some diabolical challenges which should have produced at least two red cards.
As for England all I can say is they defend like Arsenal. They have absolutely no chance of winning the trophy. Watching the last three games they just make so many mistakes, some trivial, some fundamental . USA or France will murder them
According to Celtic fans I’ve been chatting with, Tierneys well over rated. So I hope we don’t get mugged due to the ridiculous media responses to us dating to bid for him.
Simple thing with VAR to improve it would be to get rid of it 🙂
But if it’s here to stay then it should be used for one thing only. If a goal is scored, it should be reviewed to see if there was an offside ot handball, but for no other reason. I don’t want refs being told someone else’s opinion of a foul to rule out a goal.
It shouldn’t be used for penalties, red cards or any of that rubbish (goal line system is not VAR and works perfectly because there’s nobody to get in the ref’s earhole, it’s all automatic)
Using it to see if a red card is a red card is a joke. If a ref needs that kind of help they should not be doing the job. Likewise with off the ball stuff. Review it post match and punish retrospectively.
VAR could be fine if used very very sparingly. It’s when you let it run every aspect of the game, as they are doing now, that it will destroy the game.
A bad system plus incompetent referees ends up in the mess we have seen in this WC.
Spitting, nosepicking and touching of awkward body parts might as well be VAR-mandatory if they are allowing some of these delays we have seen.
Didn’t see the Cameroon game
but I read that VAR stopped
two incorrect offside decisions.
That is a plus compared to
before. Everyone needs help
sometimes- why not refs?
Didn’t see the Cameroon game either and also missed the big controversial call in France-Brazil but can’t pass up a chance to rant against VAR. 🙂
bt8,
🙂
I think there’ll be plenty
more chances in the coming
season.
Ahh I remember the good old days when Arsene Wenger got slated for his dithering in the transfer market…All those missed opportunities that were entirely his fault…
Who to blame now???
I didn’t see it. 😉
Ha!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Arsenal. Regards