International Round-Up
Sep 7th, 2019 by 'holic
A busy old week ended with The ABW podcast on Thursday (see below), A day on a wonderful golf course at Chipping Norton yesterday, and watching England’s cricket and football teams endure or enjoy mixed fortunes today (Saturday).
Bulgaria didn’t looks too bad a side going forward at Wembley but they were something of a parody of The Arsenal at the back. They were unhinged by a careless moment of attempting to play out from the back, and not one but two carelessly conceded penalties. Gareth Southgate’s England continue to be flat track bullies, but can they now carry their impressive record through, rather than just into, next summer’s Euros?
Those who know of my ‘motherland’ will understand the first result I looked for when returning from the golf course at half past midnight this morning was Scotland’s. Imagine my disappointment when I saw that despite taking an early lead Russia hit back twice to take the points. These are tough times for Scotland. Head coach Steve Clarke, for all that he tried to sound positive after the match, has a thin looking squad. With Belgium up next things don’t look too good.
Ryan Giggs Wales team appear to have suffered a turgid evening with an own goal and a late Gareth Bale winner seeing them past Azerbaijan. They have it all to do if they are to overhaul Croatia and Hungary in Group E. Most eye catching result was the Netherlands 2-4 win in Germany, for whom Serge Gnabry scored a ninth minute opener.
On Thursday evening four current Gunners were involved. Granit Xhaka featured in Switzerland’s 1-1 draw with the Republic of Ireland which saw them remain six points behind the men in green. Dani Ceballos was influential and enjoyed a pre-assist for the winner in Spain’s defeat of Romania. Sead Kolasinac played for Bosnia & Herzegovina who hit five goals past scoreless Liechtenstein. Sokratitis Papastathopoulos represented Greece as they fell to the only goal of the game against Finland.
More to follow in the week before we face Watford at Vicarage Road next Sunday. The bottom of the table Hornets sacked Javi Garcia today and immediately announced that they had re-appointed his predecessor, Quique Sanchez Flores as manager. Bounce back, anyone?
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Thanks Dave. Good reading mate.
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Diagnosis – Sokratitis
I like that
Thanks Holic, the most significant result for Gooners was the England U-21 result with Eddie Nketiah getting two goals and Reiss Nelson a somewhat streaky winner.
And one of the Dutch goals was scored by Donyell Malen who we released to PSV to some surprise a while ago. He is now worth a fair bit. I hope we have a sell-on clause
Inter-meh!
Thanks Guvnor.
Just a week more to wait.
Watford’s manager getting
sacked seems kind of crazy,
but they do have form in
the crazy stakes.
In other news, Auba won player
of the month.
Fair enough as he got the goals
though I might have voted for
Guendouzi.
Nice round-up Guvna. These interlulls are nonetheless somewhat tedious.
OM, Watford’s managerial change does seem kind of needless to me but since that club is only one of 3 or 4 in a multi-league multinational corporation the change might have as much or more to do with the situation at one of its clubs in Italy or Spain as perceived underperformance by Watford. Little or nothing do I know of course.
It looks like multinational should have been binational as the Watford owner Pozzo sold Granada to a Chinese concern in 2016, leaving Pozzo with Watford and Udinese only.
Pity to lose the Ashes to an Australian side so heavily dependent for runs on one man. Great fast bowling attack but so many pricks in that side ( including Smith )
bt8,
Udinese are managed by a guy
having his second go at the job
too – Igor Tudor, who I vaguely
remember
OM. Can’t say I remember Tudor but I do imagine that if he drove a car it would be a small sedan. Not one with four doors though.
🙂
If he was sentimental he
could call his sedan Henry
and cut off its roof.
hello
load a stuff
i’ll not lie i’m doing shite
but
want to say hello
so blaaaaaaaa
like
old Mr Grace
you’ve all done very well
and it is me
hello
the Glasgow shower
have by circumstance grown up
the Glasgow shower
have by circumstance grown up
deary me
how many Scottish people
have i made ?
bye bye
anyway
see ye elsewhere
i’ll be ostentatiously getting in the way
of chris’s exaggerated bullshit
I know words with lots of syllables
i miss chris
i miss Chris
didn’t do him justice
he deserved better
he was brilliant
the dead cunt
he’d enjoy my catching up decline
quick burst o posts
could probably only
mean one thing
the sudden if not
completely unexpected
appearance of can’t be
inimitably arsed
And howdy cba
Hello yourself CBA
Very good to hear from you even if it can’t be easy . You don’t do sentiment ( a bit like Roy Keane) but a lot of people on here care for you ( in a very manly and in my case British stuff-upperlipped way) Slainte
Good to see a much missed contributor here earlier.
I see cba stopped by too.
COYG
PS Is the intelull nearly over?
I wish Mrs Xhaka a completely trouble free pregnancy and deliverinut might suggest she relaxes and has a slow and uncomplicated labour. Anything to keep her husband away from the coal face longer than the month paternity leave we are giving him. I thought this was a wind-up at first but we must be progressive and let our key employees ( and Xhaka) time off to be with their family . In fact maybe Unai could give him leave until next May? This may lead to us insisting that our players only have intercourse without precautions between September and November in future.
Imagine if it were Auba or Lacazette or another useful player
We only collected £3m less in TV revenue than the Totts despite them reaching the CL Final.
http://dailycannon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/tv-revenues.jpg
Mind you we reached a European final too.
Nothing Arsenally happened again
today ho hum.
Mrs Xhaka is having a baby
Auba went to the Italian Grand Prix
Eddie and Reiss Nelson played
for the U21s
I suppose the Watford game is
looking slightly more banana
skinny than before
Midfield could be Guendouzi, Willock
and Ceballos if Torreira isn’t fit.
A few more pointless international
games and we can get our players
back and find out who’s fit.
Somewhat sexistly I forgot
that Arsenal Women had a
winning start to their title
defence. And play Thursday
in Florence.
drums fingers, twiddles thumbs
Just lulling along a bit more …
There’s not much Arsenal news at the moment but there’s news from Harold Kane Esq. Apparently he believes that he is not a diver.
Here’s some evidence to the contrary:
http://7amkickoff.com/index.php/2019/09/10/harry-kane-i-have-never-dived-in-my-career-orly/
Baff @35
Don’t pay any attention to his opinion. He also thinks that he is not a bellend.
If anyone needs video evidence that he is I have not sourced any specifically. Just look at any video he is in. Especially ones in which he talks.
Urghh. Interlulls are so dull.
ha 8ball
howdy fella
herself’s favourite
fuck off
dunno what she sees in ye ?
.
howdy thunder T
i’m glad i didn’t hit you
when my armalite fell outta my pyjamas
when i used to go out to pretend to collect my british intelligence bugged pints of milk of a morning
cos i wouldn’t be able to say thank you
(ya english bastard)
.
the mighty pan G
that’s enough
mighty
oh fuck
baff
just saw there
beyond cool
he’s scottish
so likely
an attendant will wave something shiney
and bless him he’ll send his ear hair round for a look
what all the fuss is about
aaaahhhhhh dino
howdy fella
a good soul
osaka M
jealous of yer funny smarts
so giving you a hard stare
?
yeah
YEAH !
.
take over the late night bullshit
just be half as entertaining
ya cunt
I had a drink today with a friend whose son signed as a professional but didn’t play for the first team . He played in the same teams as Banik Afobe .
I won’t mention his name but he left Arsenal to join another Premier League team. He suffered continual injuries at Arsenal and eventually had to retire , going on to university and now taking his A coaching badge.
His dad , who is a big Arsenal fan and current season ticket holder , feels his injuries and his rehab especially , were very poorly handled by the club. He cited Jack Wilshere as a very similar case . He felt that our injury diagnosis facilities and rehab specialists were some way behind the curve compared with other PL clubs.
That may have changed but he felt that Wenger was slow to gear the club up to the highest standards . Ironic in that when he came there , he apparently astonished the staff with the medical contacts all over the world.
Incidentally he believes I am writing Emery off too quickly although he felt there was no appreciable improvement in the team last season.
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.
.
here ye go
here’s a YouTube song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ
Kane also thinks he is great at penalties.
The bellend.
Wotcher cba. Always lively when you’re in.
You know the best thing about virtual drinks? They take no toll on your liver whatsoever. Have whatever you want on me!
There must be a joke about ‘no appreciable movement’ and the fact that we were crap. But I’m drinking Highland Park and watching England (the one necessary for the other) and I’m too numb to put it together.
The totts stadium is a toilet. A giant toilet bowl filled with crap. No joke.
ha dino
even a virtual one
no
but
in the interest of keeping up hilarity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjXM6x_0KZk
i never understood people
PROUD to be from somewhere
accident of birth
i’m not proud to be Irish
i’m just glad i’m not some of the other options
so
phewwwww thank god i’m Irish
Brexit innit !
cba @46.
That video is brilliant! As a soundtrack to the last few minutes of the England game tonight it was hilarious.
we’re getting off Scot free
cba. Dunno if recent events have had you thinking any new thoughts about life and death?
For those what believes in reincarnation then what are the chances they are born in the same country every time round? Surely they must be slim? Maybe it is one set of racist bastards who keep getting born into different countries and getting equally convinced each time that their new lot is some sort of master race and going to town with the hatemongering and the genocide?
And they have done it so well that more and more of us have decided to get involved. Woohoo!
I hate people who discrimate against others for accidents of their birth.
And the Austrians.
oh fuckin boy
that shaken scarecrow
needs to understand
that he needs to behave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiqwDNbFwNU
The monks may have better info than me but it seems to me that we keep getting Sunday fixtures even when the Europa League does not dictate them. Could we not get some sort of priority allocation for Saturday games at times when they are possible, given the fact we will already be playing a disproportionately high number of Sunday games?
right and yes all over it
just you and and a man
won’t see Christmas dino
pack it in
That’s a bit weird
d’ye smell death over the internet
d’ye like it
honestly !
pffttt !
it’s like ye can’t die in peace nowadays
i remember people dying with impunity
at Highbury . What is it with this new big shithole
no atmosphere?
it’s funereal
cba.
I don’t have a problem with dieing well. But not living well… personally, I couldn’t die after a life I haven’t given my all to.
We will all die. How many of us dare to live?
@59
If you arrange to breathe your last breaths during a home game that you attend I will put you on the pedastal, next to God (Dennis), as you will truly be the Holy Ghost!
i hope in the future
if ‘holic’s genius becomes
a go to tome for gooners
you’ll eventually wish
you’d retrieved yer head from yer hoop
before you pretentiated left right and centre
just there
just now
just nonsense
.
Behave yourself.
I’ve read more hoop centric nonsense from you than anyone else here, ever. No matter how many shame faced apologies you offered none were ever asked for.
Also, what does pretentiated mean?
silly little shit
.
where’s the interesting people who know how to insult
.
i’m guessing i have to apologise
as is the way of here
for calling a spanner a wrench
*beats chest*
honestly
i am seriously considering dying on a different website !
?
handsome BOOOOOM . com
are pestering me
has hemp socks fucked off ?
hope so
don’t have time for pretentiousinasionism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqrQ-ZI29Pk&app=desktop
That’s better cba. ‘Cepting the apology of course. Don’t want none of that shite from you. Call a spanner whatever you want.
Doubt you’ve ever noticed but i have always used very clean language on this website. Not that I think there is any virtue in that- it’s just the way i am here. Probably makes up for the foulness I spew to people’s faces. But don’t expect me to break the habit of years and use a bunch of names just cos you may not be here for another decade.
If you wanna be insulted then get your carcas over to London and let a few Holics lay into you before the big day comes. We’ll be waiting…
Hemp socks?
Do one you pretensiastistianasour.
GSD: The Monks will have to get their abacuses out, but our next Saturday fixture is not until November 2nd.
Hello cba
A miserably hot humid morning
here in Osaka. And a hard stare
to digest with my morning
coffee ?
I’ll send you an innocent smile
in return ?
I’ve read that soft words
turn away wrath. A nice
thought though I’ve seen
precious little evidence of
it the last couple of years.
It’s odd that Kane bothers to
pretend he’s not a cheat and a
liar when it’s so clear that he is.
It’s not a new approach but has
certainly enjoyed a revival
recently.
Good to see it being named by
steadfast Gooners 🙂
#japan
#safepairofhands
#un
keep the midnight bullshit flag flying
sláinte fella
yer a proper goodun
Woulda thought hot humid mornings require drinking tea not coffee but little do I know of current Japanese morning beverage drinking customs. Probably best to stick to sake, the perennial favorite?
Sake for breakfast?
I’ll give it a try one day and let
you know how things go 🙂
Hazily I’d guess
But cold green tea, a bowl of
rice with a raw egg mixed in and
miso soup is the traditional
breakfast of champions just to
share some local colour.
No natto, OM?
That’s more a Kanto thing Ned.
Though some in Kansai eat it.
For me if it looks like shit and
smells like shit I just don’t want
to find out the next step 🙂
It’s the only Japanese food I
won’t eat. Have you tried some?
Anyway enough waffle about
Japan, some actual Arsenal
news is that Holding is fit
again.
The Forest game seems a likely
timing for his return – hopefully
people will remember he’s been
out for 9 months or so and was
still learning his trade at a PL
level before he got injured.
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