Arsenal Ladies Are Back, And Sign For Life
Mar 22nd, 2016 by 'holic
For those seeking the perfect distraction from the international break Arsenal Ladies open their 2016 WSL campaign on Wednesday evening with a home match against Reading Ladies, at Meadow Park in Borehamwood, kick-off at 7.45pm.
The Arsenal kicked off their FA Cup campaign with a victory at Birmingham on penalties at the weekend and will host Notts County Ladies in a tough looking quarter-final.
The Gunners have strengthened significantly during the winter, signing record England cap holder Fara Williams, Dutch international Danielle Van de Donk, Republic of Ireland international Katie McCabe, German international Josephine Henning and Nigerian international Asisat Oshoala.
The Arsenal will be bidding for their first title since 2012. Fara Williams was a member of the Liverpool team who wrestled the title from our grasp in 2013 and 2014 and her signing has lifted the squad as explained by another Gunners England international, Jordan Nobbs, to Press Association Sport.
“When I was told we were adding her to our team I was very pleased to have a player as experienced as that. Last season we didn’t have the strength in our overall squad, whereas now we might be leaving big players out of our team, international players, so we have the competitive side and have to keep everyone happy. I believe in myself and the team that we can do very well.”
The Arsenal Ladies captain, Alex Scott, flew to Iraq last week to see for herself the results of a project funded by the Arsenal Foundation in partnership with Save the Children. If you haven’t already watched the video below, which launched on YouTube this week, please take time to see what the provision of two new football pitches means to children and families who have been forced to flee their homes to Khanaqeen.
“The impact that football is having on these children’s lives is incredible.” said Alex. “Having escaped violence and war with only the clothes on their back, football is giving them back a childhood and some normality after everything they’ve been through.”
The Arsenal Foundation, to which players and supporters alike make valuable contributions, has been supporting Save the Children as their global partner since 2011 and has raised more than £1.5million to support the charity’s life-saving work.
Sign for Life
You may have missed news of NHS Blood and Transplant’s Sign for Life campaign which has just concluded for another year. This nation-wide event encouraged football fans and clubs to engage with and spread the word about organ donation and its importance. It’s all about joining a vital team and signing up to the Organ Donor Register, as well as sharing your wishes with your family.
One person can save or greatly improve the lives of many other people through organ donation. However, the reality is that every day three people die waiting for organs simply because there aren’t enough donors. Many people don’t realise how organ donation works, or how you can express your wishes.
To become a donor you have to be signed up to the Organ Donor Register, as well let your family know. Your family have to give consent before your organs can be used to save lives after you’ve gone, which is why it’s so important that they know your wishes. The NHS is seeking to harness the passion of football fans to add momentum to the ongoing campaign for organ donors, to really make a difference to thousands of people’s lives.
Getting involved is easy. You can sign the Organ Donor Register here: www.organdonation.nhs.uk/register-to-donate .
Please get involved if you are UK based and not already carrying a donor card. Thank you.
91 Responses to “Arsenal Ladies Are Back, And Sign For Life”
Good cause.
The organ donor program too.
Good stuff Guvna.
Funny how the number of drinks drops after a win
And when we lose it’s all (NSFW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8ekv1Y4gk
Good to read some uplifting news from Iraq, and especially against the background of today’s bombings in Brussels. Kudos to The Arsenal Foundation.
it’s all gone quiet up the here
yes
it’s all gone quiet up the here
yes
it’s all g blaaaa
stuff
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lurkinurkers
I appear to have forgotten to change moniker at 4. Schoolboy error.
7
ye were four
expect ye wouldn’t a been allowed to anyway
chocolate alien gooner invader from space
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yeaaahhhh
that’s a name
but
cynic is good too
I quite like that cba. Makes a nice change.
but
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=igr3HOebFtk
woulda been fooba wooba better
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lyrics also a word for word btsport commentary transcript
ha ? ?
harping on
on the same toot
gets nobody nowhere
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qv7DBHnOLrw
?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8_ByqQA3Q
presenter turd shoulda been squashed like a
a sad strange time
.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=iXy4dDJz-60
but
oldies are goodies
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=_Heygg3esSg
yes i do
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=OJrGVKol1xk
lux brilliant
didn’t care
what small minded brain he offended
.
long as he did
but
enough
.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PV8eoV5pQAk
special request for baff there
.
and
.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=56dxJjXbnjg
don’t care who i offend ?
cept of course for ‘holic
NUTTER!
?
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here is here and hopefully here it stays
esso
dunno
i may be wrong
walls and a roof ?
.
big stuff
seriously the
best of luck wi the whole carry on fella
.
and
in nobody’s interest
babylons burning
is the tune i sing in me head when i see a post from esso
the jam – steve T
strange town
trev
dem bones
and
‘hol
champion the wonder horse
i will not be drawn on who
this is
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iN45OjB-cCU
ned is this
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=rZSU7bdSGVU
bt8
bt8 belfast postcode
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-pIEWA572A
gonna shut up bout that now
all the tunes are obvious
but
it helps me guide my brain
when i see a name
.
answers on a postcard
what the feelgood tune is
ye’ll never get it
ye think ye will
but
ye won’t
go on
have a go
.
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.
.
(ok – it is roxette – FUCK OFF)
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=tFLaVOKzQPc
pffft
pansies
I LIED !
have a go
these did
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W8aSbaANyn8
and
bloody well too
anyhoo
must fuck off
before malcolm owen and weller show up
.
big pair o girl’s blouses that they are
.
.
(hides)
?
right
which one
o you supposed hard men
wanna hear
the cocteau twins ?
anyone ?
oi
daisies a question !
.
.
etc
with ohh jaysus
Ah
sssppflshhhh
.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=s-5Xgw6d3h0
only saw that video very recently
its a big pile o shite
but
a point that i’m digging out
is
i bought that record 30+ years ago
but
couldn’t receive any tv music channels
or even channel 4
cos of you english bully boys
with your tooled up foot soldiers
i
and the rest of my downtrodden people
woulda bounced off the ceiling
to have been awarded the opportunity
to watch it
.
me mates two streets up
got it all though
.
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COLLABORATORS !!!!!
*raspberry*
cheerio
?
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=JQsg6XXGxXQ
the cocteau twins did
fair play to them
despite the noise
come over an play a concert
around then
but
sure why wouldn’t they – they’re scottish
and as every scottish child
wasn’t taught at school
scotland is named after the scoti
an irish tribe
.
*anticipates the nit-picting*
Ivo 🙂
right
which one
o you supposed hard men
wanna hear
the cocteau twins ?
I don’t even want to hear one of them
cba,
Mamamamamama we’re all crazy now
?
Superimposed Suppositories Supplanted Schlupp’s Din-Din. Something to think about if you’re a Leicester fan.
Can I have what some of you chaps are smoking? A surreal interlude like the Interlull itself?
I noted with interest ( season tickets renewals about to be organised) that the press are speculating on huge expenditure by us this summer- complete and utter bollocks
They don’t have to try so hard, they should know by now that if we have a ten bob signing or a ten gazillion bob one, season ticket holders will renew. And if they don’t, some other rich poor sod will take up the ticket.
Inhales more deeply. 😀
Schlupp supper supplement stuffed in the stovepipe. Chile con carne, apparently. Leicester camp cook about to get the sack?
Twins?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOEjlSGSFBY
This interlull is really going to draaaaaaaaaag. 🙁
On the subject of the article, which was very good as ever, I’m delighted to see us trying to develop a competitive ladies team in a rapidly improving league. We’ve got an excellent team on paper and let’s hope we can take that title back.
These twins?
https://youtu.be/oXPNCdltGp8
Sad tale here about the decline and fall of Spain’s oldest club, Recreativo de Huelva, a team that Santi Cazorla used to play for.
But also a heartening tale of fans really getting behind their club in a time of trouble.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35884725
And Santi played in Recre’s legendary 3-0 win over Real Madrid in the Bernabeu in December 2006, described as ‘one of the biggest shocks in La Liga history’.
???????
twins ?
howzabout
the doobie brothers thunder T
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speaking of a who whom
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3hIcKkKID8k
is my internal noise for yer good self , m’lud
.
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One toke over the line, sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sitting downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
.
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suppositories ?
Spot on CBA. A man of impeccable knowledge and taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omJZ3z5PYSY
Actually got the wife to watch most of the video of Alex Scott visiting the camp in Iraq. Quite unusual for her to watch anything at all Arsenal related so job well done. 😉
It also had one of the best B sides ever.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdFZSF_LmVo&list=RDVdFZSF_LmVo
100% big man
and howdy
fuckin brilliant record
remember buying it
but
me mate in the shop
put sound of the suburbs
into the bag
knowing i thought it was shite
for badness
i was back at the counter sharpish
the cheeky bollix ?
Same old boring Sunday morning ……
In The Members bar of course.
Howdy yerself big man. Hope yours are all good.
Strange Town entered the UK charts 37 years ago this week funny enough.
Not that we’re getting all nostalgic.
i got my grandfather to buy it for me , steve
?
yup
oy yoy yoy
though
the mighty
chris and Up
would probably chortle
at our
(what really is moderate)
march of time
oul buggers ?
anyhoo
cheerio
.
UP THE ARSENAL !
Johan Cruyff (1947-2016)
R.I.P.
Johan Cruyff was quite likely the most enterraining player I ever watched play the game. A legend and no stretch. RIP.
Adam Johnson sentenced to six years in prison. If Sunderland stay up it will be tainted by this.
Only time I saw the great man play in the flesh was at DB10’s testimonial. Middle aged, post coronary artery bypass graft his short cameo still epitomised the term, “Class is permanent’.
Fond memories of the stick insect thin genius leaving the cloggers in his wake playing for Ajax and Nederlands in the 70s.
His interview at the WC in 1974 demonstrated an intelligence and deep analysis of the game at an early age. Not to mention the subsequent interview with Billy Bremner demonstrating his far greater knowledge of the English language as well as his deeper analysis of the game.
RIP Johan Cruyff, one of the greatest ever.
I saw both Cruyff’s games at Highbury in the early 70s for Ajax. I think he also brought Barcelona to George Armstrong’s testimonial and I saw him play for Holland. A real innovator in football terms, lavishly gifted and the focal point of a memorable generation of footballers. I remember expecting him to be named our new manager in 1996. They went with some Arsene bloke.
RIP to a magnificent player
CBA
Thanks for the music- very apt!
First saw Cruyff when Peter Storey kept him quiet as we whupped Ajax 3-0 in the Fairs Cup semi-final in 1970. A measure of that performance is that they went on to win the next three European Cups, including revenge against us in 1972. We did well out there and got an away goal , losing 1-2. At Highbury we were favourites to go through, even against the holders, and indeed George Graham did score the only goal of the night, which would have been enough to put us through if only he had headed it past the Ajax ‘keeper and not Bob Wilson!
I had a huge Le Coq Sportif poster of Cruyff when I was about ten. It was weird because with no real live tv or even foreign football on telly, everybody knew who he was even though we’d never seen him play. Then the World Cup happened and I actually saw him for the first time.
Thought he was rubbish 😉
RIP
The real mods;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rLF-QAS67I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-7t_IRxqY
Cryuff was simply the greatest. RIP.
Cryuff no doubt the greatest European player of my lifetime. The true meaning of legend! Rip Johan.
Surprisingly, as the guv’na testifies above, Ajax & Cryuff were totally subdued by a dominant Arsenal in the first leg semi final of the Inter Cities Fairs Cup at Highbury in April 1970. Our team included the exciting recent big name signing dubbed the “New George Best”. ( Yes newspapers were subject to hyperbole even in those days of 46 years ago). Sadly his normal disappointing night left him subbed by a true Arsenal legend Geordie Armstrong. Our new super signing turned out to be a massive damp squid who sadly never matched reputation with performance and eventually left for Portsmouth. For those still wondering who is the player referred to above, it was Peter Marinello.
I can only echo the comments above about Johan Cryuff. An incredible player and one who epitomises true greatness. The man was a genius. I look at old footage of Cryuff playing and then look at some of the prima donnas of today and can’t help but think that there’s more than a few who could learn a thing or two from the great man. A sad day for the world of football.
Esso @73. An unbelievable tune.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1k7DGqRF5g
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8cWbkWTYwTw
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Ned,
John Cross on Iwobi:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/arsenal-hand-alex-iwobi-new-7624379
For me John Cross should be nailed up on a fucking cross. The cunt.
Upply: http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/peter-marinello-what-happened-next#:j9_011RCOaldOA
Joe: I would still wager that that Iwobi has been being paid more than £800 a week since getting into the first team squad.
Esso: 🙂
Cruyff profile:
https://youtu.be/Srx8rZc1jcs
Morning all,
some good tributes to Johan Cruyff above.
I can only add that he is responsible for the modern Barcelona, in that it was his philosophy that “if you control (keep) the ball, you will win the game”. It won him the European Cup as a coach, following three straight wins with Ajax as a player, and became the basis for the tika-taka Barcelona we all know and don’t love !
By contrast, when asked why he decided not to manage in England, Cruyff replied that “they have their kick and rush and seem quite happy with it”.
Wonderful player who has immortalised the “Cruyff turn” which we all still love to see today – unless it’s being performed by Wojciech Szczesny !
Again the history books, youtube and a lot of references make up my admiration of Johan Cryuff. Yet there is a sense of awe and respect to the man who till time stands still, will be held in high esteem. The cryuff turn will forever be remembered, along with the orangee, barca, that loss to milan in the euro finals, his appearance in God’s testimonial etc. The man was charismatic, brilliant, had an attitude that could kill and leaves behind a profound influence on the game.
Talking of the beautiful game, the unwanted friendlies do have some crackers lined up, germany england for starters. Mesut will play the whole game and i am certain most other Arsenal players in both the teams will do so as well. Alexis played the whole game yesterday.
When there is not much of the premier league, a lot of tv shows keep showering their praises on leicester and spurs which is now getting annoying. They have won it still and spurs still have a tough end to the season. So it is even more annoying that the post mortem of us in particular is already being conducted. Can we somehow win the league please. God, please be kind on us, 12 years is fairly long.
Esso,
never tire of seeing that video @74.
Spuds 0 – 5 Arsenal, and we hit the woodwork twice.
Liam Brady, together with Dennis Bergkamp, still my favourite Arsenal player ever.
Ned @82,
great profile of a fantastic player. If you love football, watch it.
Interesting quote from Cruyff, near the end of the video, on winning the European Cup with Barcelona. He says, “we didn’t just win the game, no, people enjoyed watching it and that is much more important than just winning”.
I wonder what the reaction would be to Arsene Wenger speaking the same words now ……
I guess it’s easier to say things like that when you have won anyway but … food for thought.
Trev @86, I think AW epitomises the Cruyff philosophy. I have certainly read somewhere that he said that Moaninho was the embodiment of anti-football. I fully agree that the statement carries much more force after you’ve won the damn thing.
Excellent short review of Cruyff the man @ 82. Thanks for posting that Ned.
Ned,
Your probably right my friend. The monks, in fairness, are rarely wrong!
Bath, Trev,
Great comments and appropriate respect for Cruyff and its really great to see the links between his philosophy and Wengers. I think Cruyff was also instrumental in making sure that Pep and not Mourinho got the job at Barca even if, at the time, Pep had no management pedigree whatsoever. It proved to be the right decision – because that team, in my lifetime, produced the most amazing football I have ever seen.
Thank you Ned for that wonderful profile of Johan Cruyff @82, which filled in a lot of gaps in his footballing history for me. It was a great and memorable pleasure to see him on TV at the 1974 World Cup when his play and the entire Holland team were absolutely extraordinary in their attacking flair and positive approach to the game; and when I got to see him play for the Los Angeles Aztecs in the late 1970s. His entire time at Barcelona, as player and manager, was a mystery to me until I saw that profile, which puts the “modern” era of the last 20 years of European football in its proper context. What a huge impact he had on Ajax, Barcelona and the development of the next generation of Dutch footballers such as Bergkamp, Rijkaard, Van Basten, Koeman and so many more.
He’s one of our own… >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>