Morning all.
The club’s official website has announced the new date for the PSV Eindhoven fixture which will now be played on Thursday 20 October, kicking off at 6:00pm. All tickets purchased for the original date of this fixture remain valid, including tickets purchased via Ticket Exchange or received via Ticket Transfer.
To accommodate the rescheduled PSV Eindhoven fixture, our Premier League home fixture against Manchester City, scheduled for Wednesday 19th October, has been postponed although a date for that match is yet to be confirmed.
One way or another, Arsenal were scheduled to play during the week and who would you rather the team face in between two tricky away fixtures against Leeds and Southampton, Man City, or PSV? Yep, PSV all day long.
I’m sure the Premier League will be disappointed that the City game has been postponed but I’m sure they’ll find another midweek date which is sandwiched between to away fixtures for Mikel Arteta to face his old mate Pep Guardiola.
October is a pretty horrid month as far as Arsenal fixtures go as nine games are to be played including matches against Totts, Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at home and as already said, Southampton and Leeds away. In the Europa League Cup, we play PSV Eindhoven and FK Bodø / Glimt both home and away. Three fixtures in nine days at the beginning of November and then it’s the World Cup.
I think we can assume that we won’t be playing Man City before the World Cup, although I wouldn’t rule out the Premier League of doing anything which will disadvantage Arsenal. The EFL Cup fixtures are pencilled in to take place on the Tuesday 8th November. Ridiculous really.
In the Champions League last night, Liverpool scraped past Ajax but those noisy neighbours of ours were beaten 2-0. I was looking at the groups, wondering who we could potentially face should we progress through to the Europa League knockout stage. Some of the CL groups have some big names in them and one is likely to end up in the Europa League. Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Inter Milan are in the same group. Liverpool, Napoli and Ajax can’t all go through from their group, Real Madrid, one of RB Leipzig and Shakhtar Donetsk will drop down too but with Marseille sitting bottom of their group, and Arsenal old boys reunion at The Emirates is looking unlikely. We might end up facing one of PSG, Benfica and Juventus. Scary eh….
Lastly, what do you make of Todd Boehly and his calls for All-Star game? According to Sky Sports, he’s said:
Ultimately I hope the Premier League takes a little bit of a lesson from American sports, and really starts to figure out, why don’t we do a tournament with the bottom four sports teams, why isn’t there an All-Star game?
Probably because it’s a stupid idea Todd!
See you in the comments.
spurs were away..!!
Who cares, they lost! Lol
Good day Rico, in addition to calling for a bottom four competition to decide relegation and an all-star game, he has said he can see no reason why there shouldn’t be a European Super League. I’m sure he wouldn’t rule out a fancy dress game or a Halloween themed match, in fact he’d go along with any scheme to take more money out of the pockets of football fans all over the World.
Bohely strikes me as nothing more than a greedy, money grubbing sack of s**t.
Afternoon Cicero. He probably wants to get back some of the vast amounts of money he’s spent. I bet he’s desperate for a super league. Buffoon…
Another yank that doesn’t understand, it took the Kroenke s and the Glazers years . He will learn or ship out. Perhaps we will see Chelsea changing owners as often as managers.
It would be hilarious if Chelsea were the first team to be relegated under the Bohely bottom four play off competition.
You’d think these people would do their homework before landing on British footballing soil.
Wouldn’t it just Cicero.
I was at the previous incarnation of the relegation play off final. Guess who lost….Chelsea!
It was way back in 1988 where you could turn up on the day and pay on the gate. I thought it would be nice to see Chelsea relegated and it wasn’t too much bother getting into the Shed end. The mood was lively with plenty of celery being thrown about (anybody remember that odd thing?)
Chelsea played Middlesborough off the park, but couldn’t score enough goals, so they were relegated despite finishing 4th from bottom of the 1st division.
When the game finished it was total mayhem. Chelsea fans spewed onto the pitch and threw whatever they could get their hands on at the police and Middlesborough fans.
We made a sharp exit and I distinctly remember a number of Chelsea fans bawling their eyes out on the stairs out of the home end. Wonderful stuff.
Maybe that’s what Todd wants?
Sadly though, I can’t see it happening. Not unless the Chelsea players really do reject Potter and Chelsea do nothing about it..
Pete that would never happen today the cost of celery is more than the entry ticket
That’s a great story Pete, it really cheered me up. What a disgusting club they are.
I remember the Celery thing too I am meeting a regular Chelsea match goer in a few days time , I will ask him what it was all about although I reckon it was someone pee’d up that dropped his shopping and people took the piss and it caught on.
There were blokes standing outside the entrance to Stamford Bridge selling bunches of celery. The fans would purchase then start to throw them around in the Shed. The terraces would be covered in mashed up celery. They used to sing a tune along to it “Celery Celery, if….”. (I won’t finish it off because it’s pretty rude towards a section of the crowd.
I think that fad went on for a few seasons. One of the stranger ones.
I quite liked the inflatables fad. I remember an away game at Southampton where the terraces were packed with all sorts. Bananas, Champagne bottles, a gorilla, fish. You could hardly see the pitch for all the plastic.
After noon Rico and all
There is a clip on youtube ( 7 funniest football chants ) were the stewards / security take away an inflatable Penis and the crowd start singing we want our D–K back we want our D–K back
We went to a cup final in Cardiff with the legs of a female mannequin sticking out of the boot , to protect her modesty she was wearing a pair of Arsenal socks.
Is it just me but is anyone else experiencing a comments box that has shrunk in half?
Probably because nobody is posting much
My one seems the normal size Kev.
Mine is fine too.
Morning…
Arsenal Women start the season with a four nil thrashing of Brighton.
‘morning all.
New post up Cicero. Lol