As The Beatles Sang, I’ve Got A Feeling
Oct 28th, 2016 by 'holic
So, you have listened to this week’s Arsecast, right? So I don’t really need to do a preview of the trip to Sunderland, do I? So I can just let you know what the ‘holic pound is on and carry on drinking this wonderful Guinness?
I have to say I seem to be in the minority being quite bullish about tomorrow. Arseblogger is by no means the only person I know who ‘has a feeling’ about the Saturday lunchtime match, and I understand totally. We are going into the game without Granit Xhaka and possibly Santi Cazorla, and the back four has been exposed to a number of speed merchants in the last ten days or so.
My blind optimism is based on that front four who are playing so well. What? Theo needed a fitness test as well as Santi? So now you are making my faith conditional. If we can’t get Santi and Theo out there I may ‘have a feeling’ too. Not to worry, at least the back five pick themselves. Eh? You’re kidding me? Nacho had to have a fitness test too? Dearie me, it’s not easy to stay confident tonight, is it?
Right, I ‘have a feeling’ right now that the fitness tests will have gone well, none of the three wake up tomorrow seized up, and we go with what Arsene seems to believe is his strongest eleven right now. Cech; Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal; Coquelin, Cazorla; Walcott, Ozil, Iwobi; Alexis. Sorry monsieur Giroud, but I think you are on the bench picking up match fitness in twenty-five minute chunks for a week or two yet.
David Moyes and Sunderland are, by the law of averages, due a point or three. They have managed just two draws in nine starts, at Southampton and at home to West Bromwich Albion. The law of averages isn’t the best barometer of the likely outcome. If we are being honest if we don’t come back from the Stadium of Light with a result it will cast a dark shadow over our aspirations. It is still October, too early to get overly optimistic or the opposite, but the improved atmosphere around the club would be threatened by a negative result.
It will be interesting to see who will be the talisman for the Wearsiders. Seb Larsson is definitely out andย Lee Cattermole is a doubt so we may avoid further injuries. That also reduces the chance of an early yellow card being brandished. Yes, I do know Coquelin is a likely starter!
The ‘holic pound
Last season’s goal-less draw gave Sunderland their first point against us at home since 2010. It has been a happy hunting ground for us over the years and I have to believe that our front four will swing this match our way. 0-2 is my fancy, and unfortunately the bookies favourite too at around sevens. It might get us a nice bottle of wine, if nothing else.
As ever, to those going please have a great trip and roar the boys on to three points.
Have a good one. ‘holics.
132 Responses to “As The Beatles Sang, I’ve Got A Feeling”
sorry
today
tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNQRtmIMxk
You’re alright cba. Hope your painful bit is less painful tonight. I’m whacking back the anaesthetic now ๐
in for a penny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjOiUSB9XHk
‘hol
me nut is brutal
but i think the fine Dr Scotland
fed my knowledge needs
and sorry again big man
for laying my spud out on the table
.
.
sorry for sorrying but
ye seen up above
.
how you , ya mad hoor ?
Off to the SoL at 7am tomorrow, stopping for Little Chef breakfast at Doncaster. 415 mile round trip. Made the same journey last April for a grim 0-0. At least we’ll have the cricket to listen to as we trundle up the A1.
Bit worried about the injuries especially Santi. Ox and Gibbo can fill in for Theo and Nacho but Santi is irreplaceable.
Come on you Gunners!
guessing no e in yer anaesthesia
Testicles, testiclesโฆ one โฆ. two…
mad scots abound
now
come on cynic
that’s below the belt
I know, it was bollocks wasn’t it.
c100
fuckin champion
Seriously though, get to a GP but make him wear woolly gloves for 9.5 minutes of your 10 minute appointment, then give him 30 seconds at the end to examine the offending gooly.
If his hands are still cold after that, tell the tight bastard to get the heating on next time.
*arranges offending ball near camera*
right ya fuckin bunch o big girls blouses daisies
.
who’s for a Skype ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clkjlWeic20
14
???
Holic
I think 2-0 is spot on . I have a very positive vibe about it because there is enormous pressure on Moyes and his team. But I think Theo, Santi and Nacho will sit it out. We have a game in Bulgaria on Tuesday and Theo especially is an injury waiting to happen. He won’t take any chances with him. If Theo is out we can replace him with the Ox or put Alexis out wide and bring in Giroud. If Theo had been fit I would have rested Iwobi as he has had a lot of games recently and is still developing as a player. We are less well off for options in midfield. Xhaka is back next week but Coquelin and Elneny will do a good job away from home. Gibbs is playing well, arguably better than Nacho at present.
I suspect we will be
Cech
Bellerin Mustafi Koscielny Gibbs
Coquelin Elneny
Ox. Ozil Iwobi
Sanchez
Subs: Ospina, Gabriel, Holding , Giroud, Ramsey, Maitland- Niles, The Jeff
I wrote the possible subs out because it shows that as we always see at this time of year the options are thinner because of injuries.
I have assumed Ramsey might be fit for the bench but we have out
Nacho, Mertesacker, Cazorla, Walcott, Xhaka , Akpom, Perez. Too many but it’s nearly November! ‘ ?? ??
16
????
*hides*
it was like that when i found it m’lud
I’m good, thank you cba. Sorry the plum is still less than ripe!
Evening Cynic, good to see you.
TTG, c100, good evening. Good to see you two too, obviously. ๐
go on ‘holic
bitta funkadelic
bitta isley brothers
post a tune
i won’t tell on you
Love my away games Landlord. Will need oxygen (and beer) after climbing to top of SoL but looking forward to singing non stop with away team. Love the Mackems – one of my best drinking buddies is of that ilk (but has been doing missionary work down South for 30 years). Club coaches leave The Grove at 5.30!
Couple more brandies then it will be bedtime!
Will report back late tomorrow or Sunday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-KtG6CGOgI
fuck
what a tune and the album cover is a work of genius
lads going down to sign on
*STOP*
pose
continue about yer business
c100
shut the fuck up
making me beyond jealous
god bless ye fella
cba
LOL! I’ll give a shout out for you.
I’m very lucky.
no you wont
but i am humbled by your lies
have a goodun chief
proper gooner
Good one H,
Title aspirations ??
Then with or without the late fitness tests,we should put this sorry lot to the sword.
They will kick the shit out of us given the chance,as was their esteemed manager’s game plan when he was at the blue half of Merseyside.
Stick 3 or 4 past them,as more punishment for one of their neanderthals ruining Abou’s career.
Common sense says leave Wally/Nacho/Santi out for bigger fish to fry next month.
Just for you, cba.
This got the young ‘hol ‘throwing some shapes’ as I believe da yoot say today. ๐
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2ebiuV3hU
Good stuff, Guvna.
Love the positive vibes.
Let’s ‘ave ’em.
i know the mighty Chris
says his big telly speaks better
in some ways it does
but
it’s not just the atmosphere
it’s yer eyes darting everywhere
an yer brain putting together
a picture completely different
from a telly broadcast
telly is fuckin brilliant
but
ye can appreciate a team
struggle or chuckle
when ye are there
aaaaaaahhhhh
‘hol
ya fuckin good thing
?????????
cba, I hope you’ve had a professional assessment.
Or found something to provide relief.
cba @28
There is no better praise than proper gooner.
Thank you – I’ll be honest – I didn’t get you for ages.
I do now – you too are a proper gooner.
Virtual drink on the bar from me.
Glengoyne 15 is at the bar for you Bath. Goodman..!
Heard your dulcet tones this am on the arseblog H – common sense as usual – my very favourite type of arsecast.!! Apologies for the absence of late – just very busy. Heart and soul here though.
Thank you bath, ๐
Joe, apologies never necessary, and particularly from you sir. ๐
bath my ball hurts less
just slightly less
but i am a big girls blouse
when it comes to health
perhaps i perversely want to know
the cause
and have the worst possible scenario ready to guide me below
.
i find it very difficult to go to a doctor
as i said before
fear and death circle
and
i know i am not alone
i’d rather ride out whatever symptoms
than talk to one of you
and sorry baff
cos you and trev did
change my day to day living
for the absolute better
and that of me wee fat friend , Sean.
He has recovered from his discomfuckitude
and is hale and hearty
c100
i don’t get me either
most people are un-gettable
iffin people get each other straight away
it would be a meeting of
dopes
slรกinte buddy
and godspeed for the journey
UP THE ARSENAL
The Guardian’s match preview lists the referee as A Name. I kid you not, and I hope Mr. Name is on his game. Thanks for your preview, ‘holic, and may a bottle of wine be the result. ๐
*goes behind counter *
*turns up antiquated amp *
o fuckin yesssss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6h5yQVkntA
Bolloxed.
Seems apt.
Roxette is abroad (well of course she is) so its been pub all the way tonight and tomorrow for me.
Hair of the hound at 12 and a 12 :30 kick off, and hopefully a Gooner-goalfest.
UTA!
cba, fear not the big C; it does not cause pain in the testicle; classically it is a painless enlargement; get thee down to your local quack and get a proper diagnosis ya big bollox.
Joe, Glengoyne 15 yo?…now that’s a cratur with whom I huvnae hitherto made acquaintance. Slรกinte, my friend.
6:30am kickoff here and I will be watching but will have to have a late fitness to see if I can handle the 6am hair of the dog, zico.
cba, glad to hear the news of wee Sean. Now do as you’re told!
the mighty feelgood
mighty
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH3ntW_T3IE
yes sir
i will
fuck me
i will
god bless ye baff
don’t believe in God
just assumed you would
cos
the Scottish people over here love their religion
love it
they really love it
when i see a saltire wafting atop a flagpost
i know that on my super-accelerated exit
i think the israel flags look good too
from a distance
i
Sorry H I went offline to watch The Professionals. Good evening.
I may be pain free in the nuts but I have a suspiciously painful lump on me knee…
is it wrong to pick a favourite ?
cynic you are a fuckin genius !
zico-esque in yer wonderfultudinousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUf7Is4zAQQ
Zico? Not on your Nelinho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNrc3TejOyI
My internet connection is dropping out so I am offski.
Hope you feel better soon cba, and you haven’t got a testicular Manitou.
must admit cynic
my playing days were agricultural
no-where near the ramblers i’m sure
played gaelic same time as football
so
i am not a centre half
but a predeliction for violence
bedded me in rightly
ye ran towards me with knees and ankles
i will let you leave with one
keep the other
*flounces*
cba, i have been focusing on this to try to understand you ๐
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiqmEibSY0I
well, that plus drinking some really good willett 3 year old rye on many occasion.
oh, bt8, quitchyer bitchin…430 am kickoff here. and no little chef to stop off at, a la countryman.
Did nobody tell you to dip your plums in Ballygowan CBA and then a double Bushmills for the pain. Or is it the other way round? That’s my excuse for sucking my own scrotum. Can’t get any volunteers to do it anymore . Actually I didn’t do very well at the best of times. But it’s a neat trick to learn and allows you to enjoy your own company …very much. You do need treatment on your cervical and lumbar spine afterwards but it’s a small price to pay. And it keeps lads like Trev and Bath in business . It’s an ill wind as they say.
if you can get down and lave your own plums, ttg, we’ll just have to call you call you “mr. fantastic”. and put a double ballygowan AND a double bushmills on the bar for your secondary pleasure.
scruz
you’ve always been cool
always
-i’m cool also a fuckin patiently
nowhere near clive and chris
but that’s cos
just top of the range
i really just being allowed back in here
U23s beat Sunderland 4-0 tonight. Maitland – Niles and Jenkinson weren’t in the squad so they may be at the SOL tomorrow .
Sorry to mention football?
Scruz- that’s a kind offer which I’ll accept. Only Mrs TTG usually calls me that but seeing as you’re a Gooner!
the mighty thunder T
?
if I drank
I think you’d be cracking bar enliveature
thunder T
and
yeah
i fuckin made up enliveature
PROBLEM !
cheers, cba, just trying to get by here amongst my elders and betters. i’ll never even try to match, either yours or ttg’s tonguewagging… ๐
ttg, i can imagine mrsttg calls you all sorts of amazing things, if you can get into those sort of positions ๐
and i expect to see jenks on the bench, certainly, especially if we’re tonking them…gotta give hecate the quick little bandicoot some rest.
scruz
cool
can’t help it
just is
if ye need a reference
i’d be shite
i wrote for most of the big ones
and bit my tongue trying to work for the BBC
turgid rigid uninspiring twats
Nice one, Holic.
The squad is starting to look as injured as cba – and October is not yet out ?
cba – glad to hear that Mrs Tess Tickle-Wright is not quite so uncomfortable – did you try any of those stretches , just in case the problem is rooted in the muscle … ?
As bath said though, you need a professional diagnosis.
Get yourself to the doctor on Monday –
It will be October 31st, a day specially set aside for ghoulies. ?
TTG – that is an image I could have done without especially in a ballgown.
What ? A ballygowan ?
Oh, that’s much better.
Ta.
So, on to Sunderland it is.
The place was discovered by a boatload of Swedish pilgrim fathers who were on the high seas heading westwards in search of America.
On arriving by accident on Wearside, the captain uttered the words,
“Soon da loond”, which translates as
“Who’s supposed to be reading the bloody map ?”
* i reluctantly have to give credit for that to the inimitable Humph from episode gawdknowswhat of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.*
*wonderful stuff*
Time I was gone. Night all !
Pondering sculpting a statue of ttg…
scruz, with the kid away at college and facing a 4:30am kickoff time all-night wild turkey shots can be the only solution. ๐
The statue is probably not worth the effort. Not sure about the pose.
Any team in the PL can beat any other team but if we want to fight for the title we better not drop any points today. This is one of those games where it is more or less all up to us and about the attitude with which we approach the game. If we are focused, we are almost guaranteed to win.
The injury scares are worrying, so I hope Arsene doesn’t gamble on any of them. The Ox for Theo and Gibbs for Monreal should still be more than enough to win, and even if Santi is very important to us and almost irreplaceable I don’t want to risk him in a game we definitely can win without him. If we have to be without him for one game to have him in many more then I’m alright with that.
Bt8
What a humbling thought I could join TA, Thierry and Dennis on a plinth outside the ground. In my famous scrotum licking pose.,,…wearing a ball gown . Let me write to Ivan immediately. When could you have it finished?
Very sound thinking Lars. Spot on
I see Trev as the statue and more of an interactive one, standing straight with his hand out behind him, as if taking a backhander to let someone into an exclusive club. Then chaps could approach, put their bollocks in his interactive palm and get a free checkup on the spot.
Obviously you’d get some who’d abuse it and get a fondle for kicks, but it would be a massive step forward in bollock cancer detection and a ground breaking initiative by the club.
The Test Tickler.
Where’s me patent application form?
Early kick off…and I have an industrial sized hangover c/o a night out watching excellent Norwegian Punk band Dangerman.
A couple of early goals and a nice easy win please…my body and brain cannot handle anything else at the moment.
Enjoy your early drinks ; tea and biscuits for me today.
Gibbs comes in for Monreal and Ox for Theo, otherwise the same team which played Boro.
So all three failed their fitness tests. ?
11/11 again. I must have a hotline to Arsene
Proper televised.
Proper excited here.
Proper squad test.
Proper response PLEASE.
Ttg legend. ๐
Come on.
Come oNNNNNN!
Hello Holic. Hello Holics.
I hope you’re all fine and dandy. I assume that the current look Arsenal are keeping everyone’s spirits up. What with their apparent aptitude for playing attractively, scoring goals and winning football matches.
Typical. A soon as I’m not looking we start to be good again. I heard a whisper that we even scored 6 in a game. It’s been a while since we were regularly doing that (by which i mean at least twice a season) and I always feel it’s a sign of a team that has a good chance of winning things. We won’t always be 100%, but when we are, and if the opposition switch off, then we will DESTROY them. I like that.
Today i will be watching at least the second half of the game. I saw highlights of one match so far this season, and that’s it. So i am mightily looking forwards to seeing our boys in real time. I am quite excited indeed.
I’m going 4-0, with the Ox to score first.
With a cheeky side bet on us to win 5-1 after Jermaine ‘Jermaine Defoe’ Defoe gets the opener.
I will say before I sign off that the quality of posting in this bar is not what I remember. These days it seems to be a load of old balls…?
So all three failed their fitness tests.
You sound surprised ๐
Sanchez!!!!
So.. Alexis can head too!
๐
GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!
Electric Sanchez baby!
Beautiful cross by Ox and Sanchez heads it in.
The ref is a Sunderland fan.
Sanchez is feeling his hamstring. Hope it is nothing major. Can’t afford to lose Sanchez at this stage.
Wot a goal !?
Yellow card ffs
India and South Korea are in a penalty shootout in the semi final of the Asian Champions Trophy. For those of you not in the know this a men’s hockey competition.I mention it only because it is only AFTER this finishes that the TV channel will switch over to our match.
HURRY UP!
Oh good. A video referral. That should eat up some time.
Ooh. Even better. It has to be retaken.
INDIA WIN! INDIA WIN! INDIA WIN!
Now. The football please.
Pretty please.
Or post match player intreviews. They’d also be great.
A nice chance for me to see the opinions of a top international hockey player. That is not something I do often. A chance to broaden my horizons. Lucky me.
HIGHLIGHTS!
Woop Woop!
The highlights are over. And it’s halftime in the footy.
Why couldn’t someone just win in normal time?
Penalty shootouts have never been good to me. But this has been an unusual variation of their awfulness. I just didn’t see it coming.
GSD I think you are referring to a different game. ๐
Nice century though, if a little against the hackneyed rules.
Solid half in attack and defense. Let’s play another one and keep those concentration levels where they need to be.
I am watching Arsenal! ???
Are sunderland the new stoke?
Bloody bunch of orcs…!
COme On!!
We need another goal, this is very tense.
So a penalty for them then…
How ironic.
Penalty for Sunderland converted by Defoe.
Come on Arsenal.
After the blatant tug on Alexis.. and not given one.
I am inclined to believe you KSN.. ref is a C…!
COME ON!!!!!!!!
Our wasteful finishing ( Ox) leaves us very vulnerable to any team who put pressure on us. Even one ad limited as Sunderland
C’mon boys
Lazy play by OX, terrible defending. Oh dear.
Oh Giroud u beauty
Yes!
Giroud,!!!!’ Great first touch.
A few more please.
Gibbs to Giroud…!
GET IN!!!!!!!!!
Rotation rotation rotation!
Oh Giroud u beauty x 2
Giroud again!!!!
Girouddddddddddddddd!
GET IN!!!!!
How do we ever leave him out?
Sunderland ladies are happy to see Giroud from close up.
Rout is on
Get in!
Alexissssssssssssssssssssss!
I can’t type fast enough..get in!!!
Sanchez again, this is turning into a rout.
Ramsey ready right in time for internationals.
Top again!
Lovely.
And there is the whistle. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Rest some of them for Ludo…
And full compliment against the spuds!
๐