Morning all,
Tongue in cheek of course, who really listens to what he spouts any more?
In any case when he does speak, the opposite so often happens, certainly when it comes to saying we won’t be selling …. (insert who you like here from Nasri, Cesc, RvP and any others you are still seething about)
So when he say’s:
I have heard nothing and I don’t think anybody knows anything about it at the club.
It all seems a bit of a waste of time. If there is this consortium, they can’t make any progress unless they attempt to get in touch.
So I can’t say if there is anything to it or not.
But even if they did make an approach, my understanding is our two major shareholders do not want to sell.
Maybe what he’s really saying is, ‘come on, make an offer, Kroenke is ready to talk’
One can only hope.
There is little news around today, Benik Afobe has torn his anterior cruciate ligament whilst on loan with Milwall which will have course ended his season. Some believe that this latest setback could cost him his Arsenal career which would be a great shame.
Just a couple of years ago, Afobe, Frimpong and Henderson all looked destined for a long and successful career with us, but now it seems that any football career they have, will be at a different club.
One who the newspapers think might be in line for a career with us is Auxerre striker Yaya Sanogo.
The 20-year-old French youth international has scored seven goals in one week last month, four against Laval and a hat-trick against Tours.
He has represented his country at under-16, under-17, and under-19 level. Sanogo formerly served as captain of the under-17 team. He plays as a striker and possesses a very tall and lanky frame, despite being only 19 years of age. Sanogo is known for his technical ability and goal-scoring with France’s youth international teams having scored a team-high 18 goals in 18 games with the under-16 team during the 2008–09 season.
Oh, and he’s out of contract in the summer and we all know Wenger likes a freebie, especially if he’s French!
But that’s just something made up no doubt. We need a striker, Wenger is French and known for grabbing players for free so 2+2 makes a good story.
They’ll be many many more, there so often is……
Just like the one about the return of Alex Song. Not a chance….
That’s it for today, Have a good one.
Snow is back tomorrow!!
I know English cricket is taking a hiding in New Zealand …….. But Jon Snow really.
Morning Rico and anyone else up.
PHW….Pig Headed Wanker!!
Morning Potter, Scott and all..
:lol; re Jon Snow, there’s a name from the past….
Back in around half and hour…
half an hour 😉
Good morning all..
Yaya on the way…nearly fell off my chair then realised -ITS NOT TOURE lol
PHW, in it for the wonga. Hasn’t got the best interests of the club at heart. Bring back DD, Lady NBS, get the fat man in (even if he is dodgy), tell the supporters the truth, and pension off the old board …They can have the seats at the top stand where people bang the wall ..
Once he clears the deadwood, allow no one a holiday till they are quicker and stronger.
Sack the chef there, fitness coaches as well for being too soft, and get Wenger a few coaches.
Oh, keep DD son away from the transfer dealings. …Conflict of interest. You dont see Darren ferguson working with Dad..
just a thought….
When phw talks I reach for the toilet paper……………
Morning All…..!
Did I miss him talking shit in a Daily Star exclusive this morning…?
Hillwood is such a dick, im sorry I just cant stand the man, if there is this consortium they cant make any progress unless they get in touch! Well peter since you don’t own any shares why would they contact you! They quite simply will contact kronke/ usmanov…. Rant over :/
Exactly Kel, as if that old fart would be in the loop… he’s sold his shares left us down the swanny and then waffles like he is the all powerful one.
Salt of the earth that PHW…..
Talking of cricket history:
In 1979, Willey caught Dennis Lillee off the bowling of Graham Dilley, resulting in a scorecard entry of: “Lillee c Willey b Dilley
According to an urban myth, it was during a Test match between the West Indies and England when Michael Holding was about to bowl to Willey, that the radio commentator Brian Johnston said: “The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey”.
Perhaps he protests too much. It will take more than a newspaper quote before the rumours go away. We don’t believe him 95% of the time so why should we now ?
Not surprised to hear that Wenger is planning to bring in another player from League 1. Didier Drogba was an exceptional striker. Strikers from that league are cheaper, they shine in their first season, but end up flopping. The manager should first offload Chamakh and the company before he thinks of bringing in another lazy wage earner. We all know Arsenal need a striker but that must not be just another striker. We cannot continue gambling like this le professuer.
Bnsb, i have heard that commentary…no urban myth, it happened mate.
Absolute classic.
yes wath, he talks as if his opinion matters lol fs if piers morgan came out with this statement, i’d probably half believe it considering he owns more shares than all the board members lol (excluding kronke)
Whats everyone slagging PHW for,
He got one thing right,
We don’t want his sort here ,Thank You
Hill-Woods reaction on hearing stan the man wants to buy shares in the….Arsenal
Morning all, nice one Rico,
What are we an orphanage, Ya Ya Youngster.Sonogo Has Tec ability we have a team of them and were losing. tall and lanky. Get me a couple of animals guys who walk through walls guys who shave with a grinder guys who will turn a sherman over tough hardmen that love a fight guys who hate losing and guys who will tell our Tec Ability players what to do then were talking
Steve
Men like that don’t take sh-t from no one.
Wenger the control freak.
bnsb
Lillee c Willey b Dilley, in the gulley!
Morning FN we need a spine and we need it soon or we will end up like Gallas and cry our eyes out
Hello again all…
George, I knew someone would think Toure 😉
beautiful another unproven french import – i love Wenger 🙂
fred – was a huge part of why Dein got sacked was it not the Stan intro – bad move that one Dein me old Bean but at least he tried to get it right with the more competitive AU
hi Rico..
Potter, I am hoping his comments turn out reverse, they usually do…
Thanks Sp and agree re the new spine. From Gk to striker, four/five better than what we have…
But he scores goals Oz 😉
rico – how many times? how many times does Arsene have to tell you its so difficult to buy any better than our world beaters – we just have to believe how good we are is all – forget the results they don’t matter
Morning Steve Rico and All
Wenger wants to play in a style(Barcy) springs to mind,
the problem is,
wenger forgets to tell each player,when you lose the the ball,
Don’t look around for effing help and throw your effing arms in the air like I do.
Get Back behind the…………………….BALL
PHW – there simply to make up the nodding numbers and they know he won’t interfere with anything so he’s good value for the 3 musketeers = they can live with his silly little blips every now and then haha
and the standard response to that fred is… “i know what i am doing” as we have heard three times this year and countless times over the last 3-4. Bit like the ‘if you sat with me i could show you the stats of how we are progressing” uummm
Oz
Who knows what,
HH has over 4million idea’s of whats going on at our club.
Morning all
bugger the snow .. off to Cyprus on Sunday
https://twitter.com/wayneveysey/status/309938173348306944
I’m sure Wenger actually believes that these days Oz.. However, he’s alone there….
PHW also represents a link to the past, 1930’s teams, through his forebears, I think. The past anyway, and we all know how the yanks luv the gud ol’ English histtry and surchin’ for their roots. Cos the have none, well, 350 years max.
The fact that the old etonian has absolutely nothing to offer is totally irrelevant. His old school tie is enough!
I reckon the asylum is running the club. All the rest is madness, if there is a plot or plan I’m blessed if I can follow it, so what hope is there for the witless one?
syg – you should come mate, plenty of sunshine 🙂
Hi fred, Syg..
Lucky you re Cyprus…
Surely we could get more than that from Psg.
Morning all.
Wayne Veysey? I’d rather believe Joseph Stalin.
Hiya Ozzie …. and as I said to Scott a few months ago – The wife has relations over in Elermore Vale near Newcastle …….
We go over there and that means we’ll have to go visit them …. Her uncle is the worlds biggest skank (a.k.a Parasite) …. a total ‘owt for nowt’ merchant and he’ll take off you until he bleeds you dry …
And all the does when he’s over in the UK is slag it off …
Watch “Cuckoo in the nest” – Steptoe and Son…. and you’ll get like for like insight
Come on Adam – Stalin was our ally in the 2nd World War…. without him beating back the Nazi’s we’d all be wearing leather shorts and braces and goosestepping to work …
Morning Adam
Agreed SYG. He was also a genocidal nut job and could have been a great Arsenal manager. Do you think anything of note is going to change at Arsenal next season?
Morning Rico.
Enjoy this cool vid: cazorla v spurs at shit hart lane
was a huge part of why Dein got sacked was it not the Stan intro –
Fiszman and Dein were at daggers drawn over share dealings , stories of which I have heard but cannot verify so I will not repeat suffice it to say that it involved broken promises.As I read it :- Dein realised that with the new stadium etc the club would be in need of capital to underwrite the loans and approached Kroenke to be that financial security. At first the board declined and the famous PHW quote was uttered. Fiszman used it to make his play against Dein and further undermined him and he was gone. In retrospect however the board members reconsidered the situation and concluded that there was money available and opened their own dialogue. Unfortunately however they further concluded that the money available could be diverted away from the club and into their own pockets and they sold the club into the situation we now find ourselves.
As I said earlier this is purely the way I read it from the various sources that I have contact with. I believe Dein sold his shares in an attempt to get back into the club which he has been unable to do mainly due to the spite of those that he argued with and certainly PHW who originally sold some of his shares to Dein in the first place and it would appear feels that perhaps he was injudicious in doing so and lost out financially..
ah ah but syg…… we like 5 hours away by plane from that lot, so you’d be safe here mate 🙂 I love steptoe and son, dry as a kangaroos jock strap cobber haha
In other news red face banned 2 journos who published the rooney exit story. Imagine the furore if wenger had done that
Hi emma..
Off to find my way home, back shortly
potter – wonder were we’d be now had Wenger not agreed with Fizz to stay on if they sacked DD – never know i guess
yaya=greek for granny. We definately chasing older players than those 16 yr olds that end up at Millwall lol
yaya=greek for granny.
Colloquial use in Catalan also I believe.
No, the mans a cnut
Fergie says Wooney is going nowhere…. Didn’t he once say that about Ronaldo?
HI Rico …
Red nose will swap shrek with stepovers..
@potter/…Colloquial, now thats a flash word I had to look up lol
Thing is George would Real want Shrek…??
Emma – Hello Emma, so pleased to see a positive person on here finding fault in something other than our club. I like you.
Yes,Rednose gets away with murder, impossible to ask him a difficult question, he throws the toys out.
So lets discuss Ferguson and his treatment of the press and how badly Wenger gets treated in comparison.
Lets discuss Bale diving and getting his fourth yellow for cheating.
Let us discuss the record for the most yellow cards in a season for diving which Spurs have achieved (4 for Bale, Defoe, Walker and Naughton), 7 in total.
Lets discuss the great teams we have had and the great players over the years.
Lets discuss the invincibles and if they were the best.
Lets discuss…………..
Boring, Boring, Boring…(ala George Graham era)
…lets just regurgitate the boring financial stuff, much of what is utter nonsense if anyone bothered to check the facts.Seriously, it is constantly the same comments being repeated almost daily.
Some people love to whinge, I bet they were complaining about something when we had the Invincibles.
Good job we hadn’t been waiting 52 years for a title, the suicide rate would go through the roof 🙂
WATH, Real might take him as well as Cash to appease supporters. If the winker says he misses sunny manchester, then what? humble pie. Also “yaya” lovin Shrek might think the sun will aid his hair growth…
Im sure Coleen would like a few weekends in Marbella..
Kevin: Spot on
@Chris both are, with a capital C
@Rico, Red nose has always been a liar
George, he can’t speak english, let alone learn spanish 😉
between titles – 18 years a piece and leaving it to the wire … not 8, 18 …
1953 Title win, Arsenal needed to beat Burnley in the last game of the season, a draw wasn’t good enough
01 May 1953
Arsenal 3-2 Burnley
18 years on
1971 Title win, Arsenal needed to beat Tottenham in the last game of the season, a 1-1 draw wasn’t good enough
03 May 1971
Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Arsenal
18 years on …
1989 Title win, Arsenal needed to beat Liverpool in the last game of the season, a draw wasn’t good enough
26 May 1989
Liverpool 0-2 Arsenal
Is your dig about boring discussion on here aimed at anyone in particular Kj??
You know what they say don’t you??
Now now Rico , Catalan’s not Spanish. Anyway I have to be more positive apparently. So I will go away , contemplate my navel and try to find something to smile about. What Fergie , AVB Pulis or any of the others do or say with the press doesn’t interest me. I have been around far too long and remember the treatment we got over Billy Wright . it hasn’t changed it never will we set ourselves up as the club with moral standards and throw in the Old Etonian connection for good measure and make ourselves a target for the snide journos remarks. It has always been and probably always will be. Any way I am off now to get a new thesaurus to improve the English that needs brushing up.
( Now where is that tongue in cheek smiley ?)
😆 Potter…
Real Madrid is Spanish though….
The Billy Wright “thing” is really intriguing, Potter …. I’d love to hear more on that as there is very little in the history books as we were shite … How a club can go from having 69,000 on a Saturday afternoon v’s Blackpool in 1948 to just over 4,000 for a midweek match v’s Leeds in 1966, and at a time when London was in full flow of the “swingin’ sixties” …..
FACTOID …. not amazing – but a FACTOID
On 20 April 1971
Arsenal 1-0 Burnley
George (p)
Att: 47,484
On 20 December 1975
Arsenal 1-0 Burnley
Radford
Attendance: 16,459
In four years and for and for the exact same fixture we had lost 31,025 glory hunting chavs at the gate…..
Cross purposes I think, thought your barb was aimed in my direction.
not 1948, but 1953 …. sorry …. 13 years difference
SYG :- Seriously I do have to go out now, but I will compose something and try to convey the North Bank reaction to the events of that period. But don’t hold your breath.
I look forward to it Potter …. Rico has my email if you fancy emailing it …. History – especially ours, is great …..
If Arsene leaves this summer, then Stalin must be in the frame…
Mind you i’m leaning more towards Gary Megson myself…
Mine Potter, not at all….
Rico….re shrek learning a language looooooooooool
more chance of him growing a ponytail like seaman ..
SYG say hello to Cyprus for me
Now there’s a name Kev …..
Gary Megson …..
I used to watch him play for SWFC when I was a kid …
…..His dad played for Wednesday as well …
AMAZING FACTOID
He was the first captain of a losing side in the FA Cup (1966) to do a lap of honour for the fans …
I will do George – eastern Cyprus – Vrysoulles
Or Owen Coyle Ak… Hello 😉
Not sure he’s got much chance of that though George, it’s not growing that well is it 😉
Nice place Vrysoulles…I had a bird from there many moons ago when i used to live there…if memory serves me correct they have an excellent bakery SYG
Rico, being shrek, the hair is probably growing on his back …lol
That bakery is straight across the road from my local next to the village/town square, George ….
…A large bottle of Keo and large white wine eur.4.50 …. and the third round is free ….. A great guy who owns it ….
….A pint of Lal toofan at my “local” in the UK is over £4.20 …. and this month we spent over £1000 in my said local (curry house) … and we get absolutely nothing free …
It tells you a lot about the different cultures, doesn’t it ….
Rico – “Is your dig about boring discussion on here aimed at anyone in particular Kj?? You know what they say don’t you??”
Hm, it is never personal, it was a generalisation. I did not name anyone and neither would I. No need for anyone to be paranoid,
As I said it was a generalisation based on too much of the same negative content, which has been done to death. It seesm as if every day te same stuff is being regurgitated.
If I want to read/hear how useless Arsenal is, I can listen to Adrian Durham.
Lets find something else to talk about was what i was saying, not just the board, eg: Kroenke, Wenger is an idiot, spend the money, takeovers etc. Perhaps we could put one day a week aside for positive stuff or have an interesting feature on something or other.
I thought we agreed yesterday that was the difference between this and LG, no abuse. Let’s keep it that way.
After all, Highbury House is where it is okay to disagree. 🙂
SYG, its a small world…
Local curry house 1K?!?!? thats alot of curry mate. And we wonder why there is a recession. Cultures …defo…I opened the Blackburn Rovers acct , told the Venkys what i thought.. look what happened there..You never know…its buy 6 get 7th free isnt it?
Great Bakery…Do they still do a halloumi and lounza toastie?
Will aim to get there in the summer.
SYG – £4.20, what on earth is it you are drinking? I paid £3.80 last night and nearly had a heart attack. The Chavs get a deal £2.20 for a carling, so I may go buy a burberry baseball cap, wear it back to front and get some ugly chavette in leggins pregnant
In Norway 3 months ago i paid £9.50 for a beer, so I suppose the Cypriot stuff is half price. All Inclusive is okay but the beer you get included is the local stuff that rips your insides apart.
Hiya George – They do the small Halloumi pies …. They fry the Halloumi and Lountza down the road at “the Shack” as a starter …. If you’re over in summer gives us a shout .. we should be there or thereabouts …
“KJ and the Chavs” – a good name for a band LOL…. Scandanavia is all mega expensive when it comes to alcohol …. it’s a cracking deterrent …..
…. not as though they are any bands out there, KJ…
.. it’s all that boy/girl band aka X-factor shite ….
… or some angry would-be-mugger aggressively rapping shite with his face in da camera telling you while he works ten hours a day his bitch is on heat waiting for him to come home .. whilst he pisses about doing sideways finger signage ….
.
… or our fomer No. 9 Park Chu-Young dancing Gangam style whilst wearing a yellow suit, walking bow-legged and doing “pancakes” with his hands …
The Internet as bollocksed our music industry up big style …….
SYG – Behave! Does have a ring to it, perhaps it will be the headline in a Newspaper one day when I go mad in a social housing development. they do badger culling after all, this would be much more worthy.
SYG – Can’t say I disagree.
What is the point of a Girls Band, A Soap Opera or giving free houses to a SMOC?
SYG, definately…
… SMOC ….. ???? sounds intriguing, Kev
What were you doing over in Norway ??? You can’t have been scouting for players ……
A Billy Wright anecdote. He was a shite manager! He did very little that was positive and the club sunk further and further down the 1 st division table, as I recall. But his greatest act of folly was to sell the two most influential players of that time, way before their sell by date, they both went on to good things after leaving. Joe Baker went to Nottingham Forest and scored a shed load of goals and George Eastham went to Stoke City and continued his twinkling career there. They too were quite successful. They won the League Cup around 1972/3? ,can’t remember exactly when and can’t be arsed to look it up.
Bertie Mee followed him and the rest is history.
I was convinced at the time that Wolves had sent him deliberately, to sabotage any progress Arsenal were likely to make. In fact I thought his mission was to get us relegated. That”s how marvellous he was. Another ex England captain who had no idea how to manage. History is littered with them!
On relection the situation was not too far removed from the recent sales made by our illustrious club! And There was a Hill Wood on the Board then, too. It mat have been PHW pr it may have been his father. Coincidence or what?
Sorry about the last paragraph.
My flinger sheem to be hilting the wrong klees!
SYG SMOC (Single Mother of Choice) You know the one, half a dozen kids taken care of by yours truly. usually seen sporting a Spurs or Chelsea tattoo.
Went over there for a weekend break. Cheap flights but spent an absolute fortune and good job I wasn’t a brass monkey!! Trying to see if we can organise a football tour/trip to Barcelona or somewhere the spending money goes bit futher.
Don’t know what happened there 🙁
Nowhere parts you from your money like the inhabitants of Cyprus in my experience, apart from AFC of course.
Kev. Uncle Joe Stalin for me every time. 🙂
SYG As you like the intellectually challenged chav:
A Chav girl from the Tottenham area is forced by the benefits office to apply for a job and so she fills out an application form.
She takes it up to the man who tells her she has forgotton to fill in three blanks.
He asks her, ‘How old are you?’
She counts on her fingers and finally reaches 20.
“What ethnic origin are you?”
She pulls out her Compact mirror ans answers “White British”
The final blank was where her name was supposed to go:
So he asks her: ‘What is your name?’
She suddenly starts nodding her head for side to side, and continues for about 30 seconds before replying, ‘My name is Jennifer.’
Stunned, the interviewer ask her if she is okay and why she had started swinging her head like that before giving him her name. ” “Oh, stupid”, she said, “‘I was singing “Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Jennifer”.
Kj, re your 2.44, yes, HH is a place for free speech. Why not stop moaning about other people wanting to talk about the past, and what is going on right now.
It maybe boring to you, but it’s reality, it’s what sits right in front of our faces….
And it hurts some of us to see what is going on….
Afternoon all, Good Joke Kev 🙂
Always willing to be positive Kev. What you heard mate, who we buying what tactics are we going to use . Is there talk of a new manager or is Stan selling his shares to Usmanov. Has sagna decided his future is here or Persie asking to come back, has Cesc had enough and wants to come home or has United been docked 20 points for fiddling tell me the details just can’t wait to be positive
Steve. All that you mention is happening – honest. 🙂
i agree with KJ Rico you really need to get positive. I mean Wenger has hold everyone he knows what he’s doing and we basically have no right to question him and further more… you should be satisfied to judge him in may, yes i hear you moaning ‘which may’ but as the players say “we are so good, we just don’t realise it’. Stop looking at performances, results and tables and start listening to the professor!! We’ve had a top four trophy every season, i mean come on girl
Rico That was a bit uneccessary
You lost more than your money yesterday Adam. 🙂
Oz, could you stop by and do a bit of grouting for me? 🙂
Steve. It’s true. During the walk home through Hoxton I was accosted by a spaced out Guru who took me into his stinking hovel and hypnotised me into believing that 4th place is better than a trophy. Last night Mrs Adam and myself feasted on Goji berries and decided to start our own religion. I was rather hoping that you and Kev might be our first converts. 🙂
no risk Adam – i need a bed and food please haha
Got to get some of them Goji berries
Oz. Do you enjoy multigrains and Goji berries? If so I would like you to join the HillWoodites, a new, forward thinking religion who worship effigies of Vintage Port and Cuban cigars. To qualify you must be able to sit with your foot in your mouth for an hour while simultaneously chanting “We don’t want his sort here” to the tune of My Sweet Lord or He’s So Fine, by The Chiffons.
Adam, can you include a rendition of ‘show me the way home’ and i’m a convert
Not at all Kj!!
Sp 🙂
Oz, I am so glad I know you have your tongue firmly in your cheek there …..
When Wenger/SK finally carry out some of these so far, empty promises, I’ll get positive. Until then, I will remain a realist, and with with head above the sand….
Adam – i do believe in the not so obvious powers that surround us and have heard the Goji Berry might further my chance to understand the more advanced thinkers just like the potential world leaders that seem to have gathered at the Emirates. As they say we are so fortunate in so many way and the words “you will miss me when i am gone” had me in tears. If the movement allows me to better understand all that is wonderful about our founding father and his incredible team, i would be forever in your debt. I think even a small contribution weekly from our flock might assist us deal with the hoads of followers i can see heading towards our shrines. In fact in his honour might i suggest a fee equal to the highest charged by some of the more prominent world orders, after all its not like any of them know anything anyway.
🙂 rico
right then nearly 1am and i hear the pillows calling my name, the worlds finest grouter needs his sleep. Hoping for a reds win tomorrow as i really do think if Spuds win that, that is one place closed off to our ECL efforts, such as they are anyway. Night all
Goji-berries all round then my brothers. 😉
Night Oz, sleep well..
Adam, what about the sisters too 😉
Adam @ 4:47 pm
You’re on form young man …..Great sense of humour
Cracking songs – both of them, but how George Harrison got done for copyright infringement or whatever, is beyond me …… similar yes, same, no …
Oasis never got lumped for their T-Rex, Beatles take off”s nor did Brian Jonestown Massacre with half the songs they’ve done ….
‘My Sweet Lord’ was one of the first records I bought..
Apple label I believe??
Half a big green one in the middle of the ’45’….
Wavy re: Joe Baker & George Eastham. Yes they were both great players and heroes to our generation. The club gambled in selling them because they wanted to improve discipline and give youth a chance. They were proved right on this occasion as the club went on to European and domestic triumph a few years later.
Although Billy Wright failed miserably as our Manager, he deserves huge credit for helping bring through youth players, such as Storey, Simpson, Armstrong, Sammels and Radford. He also signed Frank Mclintock. Of course these players were all very influential to our Double success.
@ Martin 5.37, you could say all failed mgrs sign a star or 2 …
My generations Pony was Bruce Rioch and he signed possibly the most gifted player the club has ever seen …Dennis Bergkamp
Brothers AND sisters of the HillWoodites. Naturally Rico. 🙂
SYG. The chord sequence E minor to A to D to B minor cooked George’s goose as far as copyright infringement went. Sing He’s So Fine to My Sweet Lord or vice versa and you can see how he lost. Not that they were the only songs written around that progression. It was the melody I think.
Steve. Show me the way to go home
I’m tired and I want to go to bed
I had some Goji berries an hour ago
And they’ve gone right to my head. 🙂
Something else about the Wright era , He came to us as a celebrity ,105 England caps and married to Joy Beverley the Posh Spice of his time. He was perceived to have spent most of his time at showbiz parties and was portrayed by the papers as a bit of a playboy. Remember at the time there was little coverage of football on anything but the back pages of the papers but he, due to the Beverley Sisters connection, often appeared on the front of the red Tops. Arsenal went into sharp decline and the fans grew restless as Spurs were doing doubles and protests were held inside the ground culminating with the infamous burning of pictures of the Beverley Sisters on the North Bank. The board at the time had members of the Bracewell-Smith family , I believe Lady Nina’s father in law was chairman at the time. It is actually surprising the number of coincidences in the final demise of Wright :- “” Arsenal finished 14th and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Blackburn Rovers (who finished bottom of the First Division) — Wright was dismissed by the Arsenal board in the summer of 1966″”. ( the last comment taken from Wiki ).
Bertie Mee took over and it took him 5 years to turn it round and we subsequently got our first double in 1971, satisfyingly at Right Tart Lane.
Flippin’ heck Adam …. I never knew you were musical ….
I thought the only banjo-strummer on here was Stan …..
… and George
SYG. In my yoof I was lead guitarist with SidCup and The Saucers. 🙂
SYG Bird of Paradise by Snowy White. They say Dire Straits ripped that off but I am not so sure, although similarities. Know it?
Would that be in Brothers In Arms?
Rico Always let a women have the last laugh; I am a gentleman and it is Mothers Day Sunday 🙂
Adam Yes, spot on. Some think it was a rip off.
I remember it Kev … there’s loads of em out there ….
Mmm. Similar feel and of course both played on vintage Gibson Les Paul guitars playing those minor 7, blues-derived licks, so the guitar sound is a common factor too. But, there are many songs “a bit” like that. Actually I think that is the best I have heard Knopfler play. I like his touch and phrasing. Snowy played some nice stuff too. Mrs Adam is a big fan of that sort of guitar playing.
SYG You are so right, loads. I can’t make my mind up about that one. Good music though. I tried to get a load of funny poems published, used to do a bit of writing (nothing great) but the hoops regrading copyright.
Morning all.
Kj, Its not about having the last laugh – it’s about respecting others!!
Potter,sorry about recognizing his achievements, such as they were. Storey et al were excellent players subsequently! I’m not sure Wright had too much influence over them, their real development came when the physiotherapist took command. However, I concede he was instrumental in buying McLintock, one of the finest players ever to grace an Arsenal shirt, and arguably the best ever captain.
I wish we had his sort now!
They were dark times though and no mistake.
Irrelavantly:
I thought Goji Berry was a young DM from The Ivory Coast and had been coached by Eboueberry!
😆 Adam….
Wavy :- Nothing to be sorry about . They were dark times but there is always some light and the players coming in were to be an improvement. Strange how the pattern repeats itself. Even Bertie Mee broke up his double team too quickly, Wenger did it with the invincibles, maybe it’s something in the water.
Money Potter, all comes down to money…
As someone here has often said, think it was Ts, we have always been a selling club..
I blame PHW and his fellow cronies. Once they have all gone, maybe we will stop selling….
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Good!
Rico. What? I hope you are not accusing me of disrespecting others. I did no such thing and that is not fair. I never mentioned a persons name, I was not rude to any one.
All I said was there was too many of the same old negative posts . A couple of members made some sarcastic responses, that’s fine I accepted that, I didn’t go accussing them of being disrespectful.
We can all disagree doesn’t mean anyone is being disrespectful.
Then stop moaning about stuff people want to discuss which doesn’t suit your agenda Kj..
You remain positive, fine, crack on.. No-one says you can’t
Just let others do the same without your bleedin moaning all the time….
KJ don’t worry about it, if you think discussing the board and the actions in the club wrong then I apologise. I don’t actually find too much to be positive about the way the club is going. But if you wish to find positives and discuss them that’s fine. It’s a broad church ,one we can all participate in.
The trouble is there is only so much we can about Arsenal before we are recycling our own comments.
We all jokingly suggest how we hate the transfer windows, but it does give us new topics on an hourly basis.
Thank goodness we have very, very few that ever jump on here and are unwilling to discuss anything but their own opinion.
Except Rico of course 🙂
Hi Scott…
It’s the same when we are winning too, how many times can we comment about Ramsey having a cracking game 😉
Of course we will reflect back on how we were in better times, especially when things aren’t going well…
What else do we do, make stuff up so everyone thinks everything is all fab….
You Scott. make me chuckle some times! 🙂
Ramsay on the left for me. Every time.
Off for the evening. Nite all.
Night Adam…
I too am off for the day…
Night all and stay safe….
Scott where are ya…? seems your the only one around…? Grandad AK will be busy earning a few quid off the tourists and make a hoot every now and then but apart from that all is quiet… Hows the we fella doing with his footie..?
Oh and for the record I’m all for Aaron at right back….
Is that right back behind the goal ?
SYG, some great vids and stats…
Adam, if Megson isn’t available and Stalin is too busy fighting the German 6th Army, then I suppose that Phil ‘Tango’ Brown could be an interesting alternative…
Failing that, we could employ Brown to lead the half-time sing-song…
Morning …
New Post up… Finally!