Morning all,
The man, The Arsenal man, the man we all miss……….
Most people on here know I have affinity to Reading so I’m not going to bleat on about yesterdays game.
All I will say though is, how on earth did we allow them to nab a goal?
Reading getting just one goal on the score-sheet was flattering, we battered them from start to finish and had some of our players been able to finish, we would have been into a double figure score-line.
It really was that one sided.
Hopefully though, conceding that one goal though will keep Wenger’s feet on the ground and he’ll realise that our defence, although better of late, is far from perfect!
Gervinho, Cazorla, Giroud, and Arteta were all on the score-sheet on a day when three of them could have easily tripled their own goal tally.
Three points we wanted, three points we got and now I want to wish Reading all the very best and hope, even pray, that they can go on a defy all odds and stay in the Premier League.
For us, well we all know it’s about finishing as high up in the league as we can. We are currently 2 points behind Chelsea in 4th place and four points behind the Totts in 3rd place, but with a game in hand over them.
We just need to keep focussing on us, keep on winning and see what happens as we head towards the end of the season.
Then we need to make a few changes, sign a couple of top top players, and players who have the colour of Arsenal running through their veins to make us much much stronger next season. Players who will show each week that they are prepared to put their bodies on the line for our great club, not bottle a challenge or a tricky situation.
One man who did have that red and white blood running through him was David ‘Rocky’ Rocastle and twelve years ago today, he was cruelly taken from this world having suffered and finally lost the battle against that evil disease, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
He lived Arsenal, he breathed Arsenal and he cried for Arsenal when he found out he days at the club were over….
When he passed away, fans cried. Cried for his loss, cried for his wife, his children and the rest of his family. They’d lost a husband, father, son, brother and a great friend….
We lost our Rocky, one of the best…
At seven minutes past the hour yesterday, Rocky’s face lit up the big screens at The Emirates, fans stood, applause began and all in memory of our old number seven. The Reading fans joined in too, it was one of those moments when football didn’t matter, respecting Rocky’s memory did.
David ‘Rocky’ Rocastle – today and every day, may peace be always with you……
That’s it for another day folks…..
Morning all….
Good luck to the Ladies today when they face Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup. Takes place at Carlton Town FC at 2PM….
A super post befitting a legend… RIP Rocky…
It was a strange tribute, so many just stood and had a minutes applause , some chanted his chant , many seemed perplexed but in all it was well done and respect was shown to a man that always showed respect to the club and it’s fans.
The game was one way and it’s easy to say well just”” Reading”” but it was the way we went about it , the team seemed alive , they were closing down and seemed to be yards faster than of late. All we can do is take points in all the last games and see where we finish . Wherever that may be , we need to strengthen in the next window . But we have been saying that for a long time.
Oh and Adam it wasn’t that cold.
Hackney marshes , rememberance Sunday 10 years old , 2 minutes silence with an easterly wind whipping over the river Lea .
That’s cold :- and then to the cow sheds for an ice cold tap to wash the mud off.
Thanks Ts..
Potter, agree re the closing down, was good to see the players with a lot more go in them.
Could have been a double figure score-line. Hope that doesn’t bite us on the bum at the end of the season…
As the scums and the chavs play each other next one or both of them are bound to drop points…
Personally, I thought the team was very good but I guess from my TV they looked far better than live…
Ts. I thought they were pretty good too, just need to learn to finish 😉
Ah yes, a draw would be best from that game, but can’t see it…
Morning all !
Gervinho was ahead for be the MoTM in arsenal site.
RIP Rocky
Good Easter day for everyone!
Hi JM… i wanted to find out from you what you thought of Rui Patricio… i think at 25 y.o he is a tad younger than what we want…
Hi JM. Happy Easter to you too..
And to all…
Morning Rico. Fine words befitting an Arsenal legend.
Potter. I have had the Marshes experience too and you are right -that was colder. But yesterday had that creeping thing about it and we sit quite high. Kev certainly thought so, but then he did have his full replica kit on, including shorts. He cut a dashing figure though, I must say. 🙂
Good morning fellas. What interested me yesterday was the quality of our bench and to think that that bench is missing the likes of Wilshere and Walcott. .Am i wrong in thinking that the Chavs also have a game in hand… If they do then it changes the whole complexion of the table. It means we must win at West Brom while Everton must get at least a draw at the lane. By the way, did anyone see Mulumbu’s red card yesterday? He won’t be playing against us then. When we won them at the Emirates the media said it was due to the fact that he didnt play hope there would be no excuses this time.
Morning All
Potter,
reading that bit about the cow-sheds,takes me back a bit
I remember we drew Tate & lyle in the london cup,
and in them days T&L were a posh team,own pitch no subs to pay, you know all the fancy trimmings,
Our home pitch was Vicky Park,not bad,
We decided to find the woast pitch we could,and you know on a rainy day well the cow-sheds take some beating.
Cut a long story short,
when the T&L boys see the state of the pitch,
they were beat.
I look at some of these players to-day,
and games like the one above,
pops in to my head,every time.
Morning Adam.. Thank you…
Beautiful post Rico.
Good morning all.
I watched a replay a few hours back and thought we were terrific.
Movement on and off the ball was lively, and really, only our finishing could have been improved on greatly.
Readings goal was a cracker….a sensational ball equalled by the finish.
I had a few mates on FB saying our defence let another soft one in…..well, the must have been a second goal i didn’t see 🙂
Ox seems to be back.
Gervinho is an enigma……we may never really work the guy out.
Fabianski did nothing wrong.
Ramsey is a star, but you all know that lol.
Can’t find much fault, really.
A great result.
They do over the Totts Jeff
Thanks Scott…
I can’t work out Gerv that’s for sure, how he didn’t get 4 goals I don’t know and he looked as if he was going to naff his pass up to Giroud…
I know Rico.
Half the battle is getting into a position to score and he keeps doing it.
That is the killer.
Another great post.
A great result yesterday, but like Rico said – we should have battered them.
We can’t also lose sight of the fact that the team we played is possibly the worst in the Premier League, yet in the three games we have played against them we have conceded 8 goals ….. That is over 2.65 goals per game ….
That is the reality of it all.
Couple that with the fact that possibly the worst forward that Wenger has ever signed grabbed a brace against them earlier in the season after that “poor” team had gone 4-0 up, gives us an even bigger reality check.
Again a great result and 3pts, but ……..
Syg, 4-1 is a battering though….they were never in it.
First game off a break, two of our better payers out…most important was the style of football we played.
Gervinho is a talisman for this particular couple of years of Arsenal history. He is what we seem to have been forced to settle for. Not his fault for sure but an on-field reminder of how much of the team’s potency can be expressed through having world-class strikers. Yes, he will have the odd moment. But this was, as SYG points out, against a really limp Reading team. Arsenal will never win anything with Gervinho and Giroud. Together they cost about the same as Suarez. A dog of a man but the kind of quality we so desperately need.
Some said that about Nikki B Scott 😉
Thanks Syg. My feet are on the ground because of how poor Reading were.
The sides we now have to face will be a lot lot tougher than yesterday and agree, lets see how we fair, especially against the Mancs and Everton.
Away trips to Qpr and Newcastle will be interesting too….
Had we won 10 – 0 I’d be feeling a bit more convinced but….
Hi Scott, SYG…
SYG… I know you and Yao Gerv go way back… lol
Guys one game at a time… when we drew against the saints… the media said we lack bottle, the chavs lose its just a bad day in the office even though they have spent nearly 10x more than we have…
If we had taken the Royals lightly they would have caused us problems… they had power but we looked sharp…
SYG are you referring to Shitemak or Yao…
Go Soton 🙂
Rico, i’d rather we save a few goals for a later date lol
I agree it was nothing to get overly excited about, but it was clinical and never in doubt.
SYG, in two meetings between united and reading this season, mancs scored five and conceded three does that make the mancs an average team…
Why flattering should have been more what game did you watch
SYG, in two meetings between united and reading this season, mancs scored five and conceded three does that make the mancs an average team…
Goodmorning all
tsgh – ditto
Same reading team that caused Manure lots of trouble last week and could have drawn if only the referee had the bottle to award a penalty when vidic fouled one of the reading players in the 18yard.
When manure played them last week, the media said they grind out the result, we played them and the media said reading is not a good team
Hiya Adam, Ginge
I’d take a 4-1 win all day. I’d even have Gervais banging in all four. I’d also take a 1-0 win every game with an opponent O.G. I’m not knocking the result whatsoever. It’s the fact of “Let’s not get too complacent …..”
Tomorrow on dot.com Wenger will be telling you all how right he was all along with certain players, and how much mental strength his team have …
Aaron Ramsey will be saying how much he likes playing in his central position and how easy Arteta makes it for him to express himself. Gervais will be flashing the gnashers saying that his poor form was just tiredness from ACON and that Wenger always believed in him…. etc., etc., etc…..
But the reality is not that we are currently second in the form table after our last six games, the reality IS that we could have won the League Cup but couldn’t dispose of a 3rd Division side and that we could have been looking at a FA Cup Semi-Final but we could not beat a medocre 2nd Division side on our own turf … In those two games alone we scored 1 goal ……
Jwj – yes! Manure are an average team. They have been poor and porous most of the season. They wre the same last year too. The reason, as someone pointed out yesterday is that they bought RvP he contributed and won them more games earlier in the season than any other player.
Had we kept him this year, I wonder what our league position would have been. A little higher than we are now I suspect.
They are little better than any of the top six teams in the Epl. Look at their CL performances and exit. The same round as the Aresnal. A pointer maybe.
The reason manure will win the epl is cos the rest of theteams do not have clinical world class strikers. As a team they are as poor as the rest of us.
Totally agree SYG its the complacency when we are winning and lack of ruthlessness and the ease at which the wheels fall off when the going gets tough which is troubling…
JoySheffWed
The League table does not lie. It never has.
I hate Man Utd as much as the majority on here hate Tottenham, but the fact that they are nearly twenty points clear is no coincidence.
The fact that Reading are bottom of the Premier League is also no coincidence.
History Lesson: From 1964-71 There were a handful of good teams in the old 1st Divison – Man City and Leeds Utd were two of them
Leeds ALWAYS did us over and rarely did we get a result against them out of them… We may have got a draw and we did beat them 4-3 once, the winning goal coming via an own goal… Yet Man City we always turned over…
Both Man City and Leeds were as successful as each other over that period time ….
It is contrasting styles of play that causes different results, but the league table never, ever lies
GC – have you actually read the post?? I suspect not, maybe you should…
Wavy… there ain’t any clinical finishers as compared to the 90’s… remember when there were the likes of Toto Schillachi, Van Basten, Klivert, Voller, Klinsman, Shearer, Wright, Weah, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Raul Gonzalez, Stoichkov, Zamorano, Marcelo Salas, Crespo, Battistuta, DB10, Baggio, Ronaldo, Romario to name a few… now we consider people like Jovetic great finishers…
Hiya SYG. I must say that Foy was awful yesterday. Really awful. In a game that was comparatively easy to referee he cocked up time and time again. Reading got a bit bitchy in the second half but he let tackle after tackle go when a good ref would have seen the pattern developing stepped in. Not Foy though. He is always miles from the play and a dedicated plonker.
Anybody who has watched Man Utd for the past few months knows that they can be very average. Even brain-donor Alan Shearer noticed when he recently said, while sitting on the MOTD couch, that every week he says that MU didn’t play well and every week he sees them win. And if Shearer can see it then it must be writ large. I notice that every week they scrape through by the odd goal,there is always a seriously biased bit of refereeing that denies their opposition a goalscoring opportunity.
Rico. I was personally unable to decipher that post myself. 🙂
Put Luis Suarez into our set up and I think he would knock in 30+ a season. I also think Torres would too.
I don’t think Jovetic is billed as being clinical like Van Persie, he is billed more like Bergkampesque….
Salas – that’s a name I’d fogotten ! He was a spiky bugger
Wavy, they might have average players like the rest of the top six but they have a very good, well oiled and drilled team. They could have knocked Madrid out if not for the referee. And yes i agree that the lack of world class strikers anywhere in the Epl may have just won them the league. It’s the same way Man City won last season and it slightly reduces the quality of Epl teams in europe where they will meet better defences and midfields.
Man Utd have always had the rub of the green, Adam. Especially at Old Trafford.
This Man Utd team is as average as it ever has been. But that says a lot about the league, when they are steaming away with it.
We have the basis for an extremely good side. We need four or five world class players and could run away with the 2014 league…. if the team is managed right that is….
I am with Adam.
GC…wtf??
Hiya Ginge…sorry mate…missed that earlier!!
A lack of clinical finishers…..bad keepers…….modern day balls…..just saying!!
Utd work hard on the pitch..
On and off the ball.
They have no players who bludge and don’t dig in-none that last long, at least.
Every other club has players like this.
The old saying goes “the harder i work, the luckier i get”.
Yes, they get the luck of pathetically biased decisions too often, but they are always in a position to get a result to their work ethic.
Yes SYG, the table does not lie but saying we conceded eight without saying how much we scored is trying to tell half the story. That’s why i brought up the Man u comparism. With Reading it’s never that simple and they they have similar stats when compared with other Epl teams. The other team simply outscores them over two legs but they do score.
I’ll go with that Scotty…
SYG… Suarez knocking in 30 is debatable imho … … not because he is not an excellent player but because he even believes he is not a great finisher… I know he scored 49 goals in 48 matches in 2010 but…he even concedes he was lucky to score goals in the Eredivisie… he is more of a 2nd strike I think…
Personally, I do not want to go back to the days of having a man man team at Arsenal… we need 3 or 4 prolific players who turn up in big matches not the likes of SC19 who turns up against mediocre to poor teams and go missing when the big boys come to down 😉
I think you might like really this old blog…
http://forums.liverpoolfc.com/threads/298208-Luis-Suarez-is-NOT-a-striker-and-is-overrated
All I am saying JoySheffWed is “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves…. “
Just seen that Sunderland have sacked Martin o’Neil. I think that decision is long overdue but the timing is wrong.
Yes SYG… I concur.
I think we all agree that we are sicking of hoping our guys can claw themselves into a top 4 spot at this stage of the season, but realistically, that is where we are at.
Come on Arsene…..lift our expectations and get those 3-4 top flight players.
That’s all it will take.
He should have resigned or run away like he has always done 3 months ago- Joy
One time some so called experts were calling for AW to be replaced by O’Neil…
When a club sacks a manager, i always wonder why the board don’t sack themselves.
If the guy they appointed fails, doesn’t that also reflect on them and the poor decision they made in the first place??
Adam 🙂
The same players that started versus Bradford and Blackburn…
Szczesny
Thomas Vermaelen
Francis Coquelin
Gervinho
Three of them have to some extent been vilified, whilst Coquelin slipped under the radar ….
One question … and I mean no disrespect here… how is it that a lot of people believe Torres can become prolific again at Arsenal where we have a cheaper and inferior team with a dubious manager playing a predictable formation? 😉
Martin O’Neill could be the proof that a manager can get a bit long in the tooth, impotent etc…. or is it that he didn’t have the tools with which to work???
At Leicester and Celtic he was highly successful and seen by the Directors of Leeds United as the “Next Coming” ….. only to be warned off by Celtic….
Because he is french… Ramsey has a Senegalese passport … 😀 reason he is loved by AW…
Same with McDermott Jeff, stupid timing ….
rico
Thanx for the footage of the Rocky Rocastle tributes. It was a privilege for me to stand on the old North Bank each Saturday & watch him ply his trade with his Arsenal team mates, & win the Title 😛
I can’t answer that Ginge apart from the fact that Abramovich sanctioned a £50M transfer for a Liverpool and Spanish International striker who was on fire….. At Chelsea, although the side was extremely successful, and it was … he sort of “bombed” ….
I saw Torres earlier in the season when we lost 2-1. He was a right handful.
Bergkamp went to Inter Milan as Europe’s best player and “failed”. We bought that “failure” and he was the turning point for our success….
I’ve always said that ‘History repeats itself’.
A great player just doesn’t become bad.
Thanks GG,
Not many can say that, I never had that privilege….
emma – just seen your earlier, spot on about Reading and the Mancs. Took a heavy deflection for them to secure 3 points and a dreadful decision to prevent Reading from pinching a deserved point..
I remember, not too long ago, that some people were calling for Martin “t be sure” O’Neil as the next Arsenal manager.
Ts – I have just done tomorrows post and its about strikers 😉 Spooky
SYG. Right on there. He was a handful that day. Lovely thighs though.
Adam. I didn’t want to mention that, I know I was one of them… But he was good back then 😉
LOL Adam …. You’re a card !
Off to walk Fido, back in a bit….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27453474@N02/8604934577/
Two greats…..
Grimsby 3 Arsenal 4
Check out Rocky’s perm ……
Looking forward to it Rico… just then tell me we should buy Michu… 😉 20 goals thus far though
Great minds Rico… 😉
just don’t tell me… I meant
What a perm… Lionel Richie… 😀
and Viv anderson what a traitor
re 12:49 SYG… very good example… I guess sometimes it is just a fit or misfit. And in addition he had just been converted from a right sided forward in the Ajax/Netherlands… 4-3-3 system and at Inter he was not used to playing as part of a front 2 … in a 4-4-2 system just yet… just my 2 penny… 😉
Top guy, Ginge.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-transfer-news-gunners-plan-1794169
ANYONE?
SYG… those 3 will do for me but I will swap Bender for Capoue imho… Bender is very good but more of a box to box Ramsey type than a PV imho… Emma or others may agree or disagree…
Lewandoski works very hard even though he is not a 30 goal striker imho… he is a faster right footed Giroud.
Happy Easter, everyone!!
rico, always a soft spot for Reading. 😉 Break ou that bottle of cava, and enjoy your platter of cheese, lady. 🙂 You know you wanna.
Emma and I briefly touched on Maxime Gonalans yesterday and I have to agree with the lady there… Maxime is no better than what we already have
Thanx SYG for the Grimsby game. That pitch looked like it was in the outback 😆
Hi Agag… treated yourself to something from Bloomingdale’s… 😉
Happy Paschal….
I remember the game well. Back then football or Arsenal rather was my life…..
Spanning three to four generations of Arsenal…Keown the only member of the Invincibles playing with Terry Neill’s two marquee signings along with O’Leary and Rix from the late seventies cup side and Davis and Rocastle who would both form part of one of the best Arsenal sides ever – 1990-91….
Saksfifth online, ginge. 😛 Hi, gnarley. Howdy?
SYG, I always have a laugh watching old vids. Man, those shorts were really weeny. 😀
As my first post, may I say what a wonderful community you appear to have here. Beautiful post, Rocky will always be my favourite player Arsenal ever had/has. As a youngster, just moved to Islington with a United supporting family, the odd time I managed to see the Arsenal live, the guy transfixed me. That nailed my alligience. That and the 89 celebration! David Rocastle. Rocky. What a player. Arsenal fans. What a super group to remember him so fondly!
Terry Neil. A truly world-class pisshead of the old school.
Hi Agag. 🙂
Saks eh? 😉
Welcome, Cjay. 🙂 We have a good bunch, here. Please join.
Hiya, Adam. what’s cooking?
Nothing too pricey, ginge. 🙂
Agag. I am writing some music for a spoof version of My Fair Lady by a London-based comedy theatre group.
I was interested in your comments about that film I watched and would like to chat more but it’s probably a bit heavy for HH.
What are you up to this Easter Sunday? Keeping that credit card in your bag I hope.
Mrs Adam has increased her Maharishi trouser collection as of yesterday. So what’s new? 🙂
Afternoon folks…
Welcome Cjay, and thanks. Hope you stick around and become part of the HH community…
Hi Rico….
Hi agag 🙂
I had a cheese roll for lunch, and have a pizza lined up for dinner, with plenty of cheese topping of course 😉
RIP Rocky………….. Always a very sad day in the Arsenal year…! I saw his debut…. We all saw his passion and love for the club and the shirt, we all saw his fight and commitment and thats why we all loved him so much and of course he was such a talent…!
Never forgotten and a fitting tribute Rico must admit quite a lump in my throat watching those vids….!
Don’t OD on cheese Rico. Bed yourself back in easily. 🙂
Adam, please email me. I do not even remember what I said. 😀
Agag. I have mailed Rico. You should hear soon.
Hi Wath.
Hi Adam. Chilly out on my walk today….
Afternoon Adam hope your well matey… Evening AGAG….
agag/Adam – all done 🙂
Hope you warm up soon Rico. Perhaps cheese on toast might help? 🙂
Hi Wath.
Each year, every year and if I watch those vids in between, I can never keep a dry eye…..
Trust me Adam, I will be OD’ing (is there such a word) on cheese today… 😉
I thought about that Adam, but 😉
Greatt post.
Well done Rico…
I not only wore my full kit to the game yesterday, I also went to bed with it on, clutching my Arsenal Teddy Bear. 😉
Happy Easter, WATH. 🙂 Howdy? GG-ing? 😉
But what has WWII have to do with My Fair Lady? 😀
Careful you don’t shock your tummy, rico. 😛
Agag. Not a lot really. I am interested in WW 11 but am writing for My Fair Lady. 🙂
Hi Kev, thank you…..
Hope you didn’t keep your boots on…. 😉
She won’t listen Agag!
Hi Kev. Nicely thawed I hope.
I won’t be eating too much agag, honest. Although it’s so tempting.
I have a packet of Halloumi in the fridge which I adore and whether that is still there in a few hours I don’t know 😉
Lucky Dippers, but good result for Reading…
Get it on the grill Rico. 🙂
Happy Easter 2u2 AGAG hope all well with you and your enjoying a relaxing weekend. All good here and the GG is nice and chilled
I haven’t got any Cava to wash it down with Adam, nor have I any Asparagus…. 😉
Then you have a major decision to make Rico. To griddle or not to griddle. 🙂
🙂 Adam.
Afternoon all,
A very emotional post Rico brought a lump to my throat. Rocky eh, could do with a couple of his sort now.
A win yesterday but at the end of the day had we managed to lose that game i would have gone mad. Reading was not good and we made tough work of what should have been a double figure scoreline, but without the Rocky’s of the past we have to realise that were lucky to win. 4th place is the only trophyless contest we are still in and if i speak the truth it doesn’t fill me with a warm glow, Yes i want the Arsenal to be in champions league but in my mind i want to feel we have a chance of winning it, until we make that commitment we will be here this time next year as we have for several yeary trying to secure £30 mill.
Mrs Adam, is that the 50th pair of maharishis? Great job!!
rico, GG washes down everything excellently. WATH will send you a crate, I’m sure. 😀 😀
Hi Sp…
Here is another sad tale.
Acer Nethercott, who coxed for Oxford Uni, died back in January. He was just 35 years old. He lost his life to glioblastoma multiforme, one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer.
Today, the day of the Boat Race – the Oxford boat is named Acer…
Acer was a Gooner……
RIP big guy, and Come on Oxford…….
No thanks agag, I hate that kind of beverage…. 😉
Watching it now Rico a Great British traditional event there may even be an Englishman in one of the boats. 🙂
Boo, SSP. You’re a hard one to please. 😛 Happy Easter.
Not many though Sp, a few duel nationalities in there I see
Bit like England’s cricket team 😉
Hi Agag, and a happy Easter to you as well. Sorry Agag this season hasn’t filled me with to much confidence for the Arsenal future. Great Club run by foreigners not for winning just for profit. O for a shake up. 🙂
60 million Englishmen and we cant find 11 to play a game. what is happening in this country.
Sp, have a read of this. Imho, it’s a quality article by Gary Neville….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2301742/Gary-Neville-Its-time-stood-protect-soul-British-game.html
Agag. No, a mere 35 pairs. Most of them different with varying levels of embroidery. 🙂
Didn’t wear my Puma Kings in bed Rico, but my Arsenal socks.
I kept warm with my Arsenal water bottle and snuggled up under my Arsenal duvet…
In the morning I ate my toast, made in my Arsenal toaster, and drunk my tea out of my Arsenal mug.
And when I needed to attend to my toilet, I picked up my Tottenham Hotspur toilet roll… 😀
That’s a true Gooner for you Kev 😉
Happy Easter Shopping Buddy.
Hiya Sir Stevo.
Adam, I am nice and warm thanks.
Standing by the ‘pit’ in Mangels certainly helped me regain my circulation…
I have emailed you, Adam. 🙂
AK, you’re a spiffy dresser, aren’t ya?? I quite like your toilet paper pattern. 😀 Happy Easter!
SSP, not much to be optimistic about, I agree. And we are scrambling to secure fourth place now. Eeeek.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2301860/Arsene-Wenger-eyes-Mario-Gotze-Robert-Lewandowski-Lars-Bender.html#comments
Well, Arsenal were beaten 3-1 by Sporting Lisbon in the NextGen Series.
Rui Patricio was a GK formed at Sporting Lisbon (like as Ronaldo, Figo, Nani, Futre…)
He is not bad. Actually, is the GK of Portuguese national team.
Good piece that Rico, Hiya AK you still working, toilet roll still hanging above us but i hope it will be all over the floor soon 🙂
I have no doubts he’s looking Rico but not at them. 🙂
You mean Chelsea JM 😉
Ladies won 7-0 😛
Sp, I think Neville talks a lot of sense. He’s taken his ‘Manc hat’ off and writing well imno…
We have had a few who may have deserved to get that chance….
Agag. Thank you. I have got it. 🙂
Fourth place? I wonder..
Yeah Stevo, just doing a bit. It’s not bad for an Easter Sunday.
You sitting by some river bank, casting for carp? 😉
Rico. Is that the same Gary Neville who so has so systematically assaulted our players over the years? Or is this the new Gary Neville who has elevated Sky commentary with his profound insight and even-handed, impartial opinion? Perhaps being away from the malign influence of Ferguson has given him a fresh perspective on the world.
No Arsenal lost to Lisbon 3.1 for the third place spot,. apparently the Arsenal coach had the hump with a penalty decision against us he said that he thought the ref had another game to go to and didn’t want extra time or penalties.
Don’t get me wrong Adam.
I can’t stand what he represented as a footballer, he was nothing more than a cheat and a bully…
But, his commentating is better than most on SS’s and I actually believe in what he has written in that article.
Doesn’t mean I like the man though.
I don’t like Suarez, but i’d love to see him up front in our colours.
Oops, sorry JM/Sp…
Burton did have the hump… He’s prob not far wrong with his view….
Yesterday AK sitting in a nice warm living room watching a load of foreigners in a couple of boats and now watching a Scotchman swinging a raquet 🙂
He’s not swinging that racquet very well is he Sp 😉
I agree with you Rico. I find the amount of sense he talks quite irritating. 🙂
Looks a bit to warm for him Rico. he needs a bit of snow 🙂
No probs, Adam. 😉 I sure hope we get fourth. It would be untenable if we were pipped to it by the Spuds/Chavs. Eeeek.
I hate to say it but G. Neville commentating/writing is spot on. Which really makes you wonder what that annoying Jamie Redknapp is on TV for.
Shame about the NextGen players. 🙁 Great for the ladies. 🙂
Happy easter, JM! 🙂
I have never seen a more unprofessional dressed tennis player than this Scotchman, and a decent wash and shave wouldn’t go a miss either.
😆 Adam. I wouldn’t go that far …
I have turned it off now Sp, much better rubbish to catch up on from my planner…. 😉
Grubby is a word I associate with him Sp….
Off to get dinner, and I can’t wait 🙂
Good night, friends!! Have the tummy tablets ready, rico. 😛
Beans on toast…… again? 😛
Nighty agag, I won’t need them 😉
Pizza Kev, yummie…
Followed by half a Cadbury Flake Easter Egg…. 🙂
All quiet here so I’m off for the day too…
Have a good evening all, ’til tomorrow..
Night Night….
Morning all.
Happy Easter one and all
Hiya Oz.
I survived my slol camping trip in one piece.
I came across some feral animals but the Weatherby took care of them.
Glad i got that new scope, because those Chelski fans were bloody hard to find after the weekends game 🙂
Hope everyone had a great Easter.
Morning Scott & Oz
New post is up……