Morning guys.
Just want to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas.
Christmas is a time for peace and goodwill to all but for some of us, it can be sad too as we face the first one without someone who touched our hearts.
For me personally, Highbury House hasn’t quite been the same since the passing of Adam. Not his real name I know. His humour, knowledge about Arsenal along with his general naughtiness is something I greatly miss. In real life he was just the same. A caring, kind and all round decent man. So this year my thoughts, prayers and well wishes are with his wife, Mrs Adam, as he used to refer to her here. The first is always the hardest.
Arsenal football club will spend another Christmas at the top of the Premier League table but as we know so well, it means nothing. Being top at the end of the season is what counts so if Santa hasn’t brought you what you’d hoped for today, maybe he’s saving the best gift for May.
Merry Christmas all. 🎄🥂
A Good and merry morning to you Rico and all of the Highbury House persuasion.
Luckily I can sit and look around our Christmas lunch table today and there will be no empty chairs.
Enjoy the day.
Merry Christmas to all !
Merry Christmas Rico and all.
Hardly ever comment but always read thanks for all the hard work you must do.
Thanks Rico.
Merry Christmas, Rico and everyone 🎅 Hope everyone has a lovely day.
I’m so sorry to hear about Adam.
Great ending the year on top, let’s hope we’re still there come May!
Commiserations to Mrs Adam and family , We too have all the close ones here ,but all the previous generations have gone and they are remembered in many ways with family traditions etc .
However it’s bacon sandwich time before we head to the local and back for dinner later.
As for Arsenal , I got David Dein’s book to read later or maybe I will save it for the plane as we head for carnaval in February depends if Grandkids get us playing board games all after noon .
Merry Christmas one and all .
Potter and family.
Merry Christmas rico and all here on the world’s friendliest Arsenal blog. 5k parkrun done at 9am, a windy and rainy Chalkwell seafront but great atmosphere with so many dressed as Santa. I went as far as a red Santa hat! Now for drinks and a mince pie with both children visiting soon. And ask my season-ticket owning son for a few more borrows😃
Morning Rico and all.
It must be hard for Mrs Adam and her family, hopefully they managed along with you Rico and everyone else on this site had a nice Christmas. Our Christmas this year has been mixed as my dad’s cancer has come back with revenge and last week we found out that he has between 6 to 12 left.
Santa didn’t give me any of the presents I asked for so hopefully, he will bring us some silverware this year or buy a true striker.
Very happy Christmas to Rico and all HH-ers.
Pressy of the year must be the £1.25Bn Radcliffe has given to the Glazers – for 25% of very little!
Brilliant post Rico and a Merry Christmas to you, yours and all on HH.
This is so sad to read about Adam’s demise.
I’ve always respected him from the first day I started commenting on HH.
May God grant the family and friends he left behind the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
Hi guys, thanks for the Christmas wishes.
Hope you’ve all had a lovely day..
Andrew, Kev, thank you…
According to reports the premier league are going to drop playing matches on Chrismas eve and Boxing day, starting next season, not sure about new year eve, sounds a good idea to me, as the players need time with there family over Christmas
Christmas Day was brilliant at my son’s, he also confirmed that I’ve got a ticket for the Liverpool FACup tie, so that was very nice.
Everyone was pretty much knackered at the end of the day so today it’s a quiet day in with my other son who’s visiting – a footie on TV day to come.
Sorry to hear about your Dads recurring condition Geoff, my thoughts are with you.
Have a great Boxing Day everyone.
Thanks Kev.
The FA cup tie should be a good match, hope you enjoy it,
Happy Boxing Day all.
Geoff, that’s cruel on your dad and you, his family..
Good idea re the festive fixtures, they’re a travel nightmare.
Enjoying watching Newcastle v forest, 1 all half time could easily have been more, hoping for Forest to win.
Thanks Rico
The Premiership are not going to stop playing games on Boxing Day. Not while they can sell a complete weeks fixtures to Amazon to broadcast live. The Newcastle v Nottingham game looked to being a full house and I rather suspect the others will be just as well attended. Money money money.
Well done Forest. Now for Burnley to beat Liverpool…
Hope springs eternal Rico, but Liverpool are 1 – 0 up.
That one went as expected, Liverpool won, but United came from two nil down to win three two against Villa. 🎵🎶
Fun to watch Villa come unstuck .
I just read about Leno pushing a ball boy out the way for being too slow and his manager claiming the ball boys done it all game against his team, Does any one know what rules these kids undertake as my understanding is that the ball boys have a ball next to them at all times for which they through it to the player then go and get the ball put out of play or is it time the FA looked at changing the ball boys for paid officials or making clubs more countable for the time wasting of ball boys.
New post up.