Arsenal v Liverpool – big test for the lads

Just thinking of gooner posters I enjoyed reading from the past and now MIA where Valentine from LG’s past was at the top of the list.

If you’re reading Val come here and post where your opinions are happily read and discussed. I know it distressed you on LG where people with your intelligence working in your fields can be troubled by the trolls. My wife and daughter are savant like and see and measure life through different lens.

When you understand that trolls are just that in life:Trolls. Now to be a troll you have to have a low IQ that looks much higher. The masking can only last for so long and then stupid is as stupid does.

Take Markeymark for instance. A one star troll who doesn’t understand what IQ stands for let along have one. Well, Val, he posted from the south west on holiday a month ago saying how he had 2 weeks of swimming and beach with the fantastic weather. Sadly, he didn’t read the papers for days before and at the time that the beaches in the south west had millions of raw sewage being pumped especially in MM’s holiday area.

His kids couldn’t understand why the sand castles once dried, broke their feet if you kicked it.

The BBQ must have been a riot with used condoms used for sausages and shit sliders between tampons. Drinking piss & vinegar. You couldn’t make it up.

Val, you’d enjoy it here, devoid of the village idiots and troglodytes.

LG is the spit and sawdust place where you leave morals outside and take in your guns. It was the best Arsenal blog, but once balance was lost so was LG.

Hope to see you here.

Reported that Martinelli wants £200k a week. I’d say he’s worth it and shows the club’s ambition not stupidity, such as Ozil’s, Auba’s and Willian’s deals.

Saka the same and Saliba. Make their talent be the guide/level for the £200K a week club for 5 years with option for 1 more for us. Buyouts for £150m. Make part of the income realistic, personal results related with no ceiling.

Why cap their earnings? Keep them hungry with banter in the squad.

Only do it now so these incredibly important and gifted players can focus on their work and not thinking about their agents’ foraging for improved deals.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11300457/Arsenal-make-Gabriel-Martinelli-one-earners-new-talks-started.html

Herb I couldn’t believe JohnnyGunner attacking you for your parting with knowledge. It made me sick with the lack of respect given. It was unnecessary and uncouth.

It got me to thinking about the puerile policing of the blog and someone saying you never know who is who moniker wise. With your comment on how I put up with the abuse I realised you were right.

I’ll not add to LG’s traffic any further, which I’m sure many will be happy to hear. I’ll leave comments here or just not bother. Junior’s 14 now and a fully fledged Gooner.

Father and son watching and bantering about The Arsenal. Things don’t get much better than that, Herb.

Agree Tony
LIR has become a top class blog because of the quality of posters. It was so pleasant to see you all guys, won’t name the favourite though , because it is difficult.
And yes, if Valentin surfaces that will be the icing. That guy seems to have good information on unsaid happenings at the Club.
So Valentin do come over where all your kinds are.
Finally thank you Ambarish for all the trouble you are taking . Feel free to let us know if patrons are required.

Hi Tony

Yeah, I agree, and it’s part of human nature to appreciate and enjoy your child’s development and achievements.
There’s a lot of jealousy and bile out there, everyone is angry, they’re either inventing things to be angry about, or they jump on someone else’s anger like a diseased parroting parasite.
It’s a bit concerning that these schisms and splits still exists and thrives within the Arsenal fan base, but in general, since the days of Thatcher, our society has been driven by aggressive capitalism at the expense of respect and good manners. That and technology driving humans further and further apart.

Tony
You’re right in my view to give LG a swerve. It’s got more shit-stained arseholes than an ethical but busy abattoir at the end of a shift. I know if I was in a room with some of them, there’d soon be, shall we say, a contretemps. A lot of them are angry Johnny come latelys talking angrily in order to sound hard. They’d last 5 minutes in The Gunners Pub.

Not having watched Arsenal in the flesh that often should never dis-bar someone from expressing themselves as a fan, far from it, but nor should the likes of plastic fans like Zacharse go the other way and be holier than thou because they worship Arteta who, to me, is the falsest of false idols. There are too many under 30s on LG whose sole points of reference are chihuahua head, Emery and the latest incumbent who leaves me cold. The other fucking idiots are humourless extensions of Pedro’s underwhelming imagination.

Herb that’s why your material is so readable because, like many, you’ve witnessed pre-Wenger Arsenal. The contrast on here is the people who don’t have that deep experience are willing to read and absorb people’s views. The guys on here who like me these days largely follow avidly from a distance are just as big Arsenal fans as ST holder Marc in my view.

By the way Hoopah, I’d love to hear what your Gooner mate think about the team so the more the merrier.

Have to agree with the posts above – Pedro always had a streak of holier than thou and played the “I’ve got contacts” card but he’s just become a complete cunt.

On a personal front I enjoy the banter of different views – it’s what reinforces my own. I always thought there’s one basic rule – don’t tell other people how to support their club but that goes both ways. No one gets to tell me what I should think or how within reason to act when I invest the time and money attending matches – I don’t do away matches but I’ve only got the highest respect for those that do.

All in all this place has become a very easy place to visit and comment on – when was the last time anyone could say that about Le Grove?

Hi Marc
Spot on. Really well put. Not sure if you were at the Bodo game but the last two league games must have been a blast. The only thing that spoiled Sunday for me was Mr Designer Knitwear doing that sideways skipping thing waving his arms about and shouting in the last 20 minutes. What a twat! I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that it makes the players feel intensely embarrassed and that it slightly undermines their confidence. You’d think they’d offer him some body-language coaching. He needs to exude calm and control but instead, he comes across as an injured 22 year old acting as a manager on Hackney marshes because the real manager has a slipped disc. Klopp and Conte do it as well. It’s not a good look. They should save it for afterwards.

GG’s reaction to beating Liverpool in 89 was a masterclass in restraint, self-control and belief in his team and our tactics. He also knew that the occasion called for class and decorum after Hillsborough and boy did he deliver.

Whether to watch home or away games is an interesting dichotomy (although many get to do both of course). I love away games – the defeats aren’t so difficult to swallow and the wins are often sweeter. I experienced Nirvana in that regard at Wigan’s DW stadium last Saturday!

Thank’s K’phobe both you and Marc are spot on. We can banter here when the times right and respect each other enough not to take it too far.

Sitting at my iMac this morning reading the overnight sports news and news headlines from various Dallies and once learning Putin is still only playing chicken with the nukes, I took my daily morning meds and Mighty X. Some thoughts permeated I thought I’d commit to print.

Last 2 days I’ve had occasion to ponder the Wenger-coming-back-to-The-Arsenal quandary where my mind wasn’t on whether he should return, (he shouldn’t in any capacity I say), but what would Mikel’s agenda be in supporting such a footballing, political statement?

The good times are here again Wenger will add to Mikels admiring ranks?

Who would be riding whose tail coats?

What could Wenger know and practice now better than when he was rightly fired?

Nothing ever becomes good when you give a narcissist an audience where in this case: global millions. We’d be giving 2 elite narcissists keys to the Arsenal empire. Then once they had decided who would keep the keys with Xhaka firmly not in the equation, would we realise how much BS, Lies and disrespect we fans would have to endure in stereo for the foreseeable future.

He’s worth a statue for his first 10 years, just not a living breathing and talking one who would have to be involved in decision making. Mikel would quickly become the Gazidis to the dithering leader grabbing helplessly to power before KSE realised that Wenger would far more enjoy an enforced long stay at a secret, reclusive health farm and put out to graze with GG, Bruce Rioch and other major influencers of The Arsenal’s history.

There’s a satire there Almunia somewhere or the bones of one.

So it’s a hard no from me with Wenger being anywhere near the club unless it’s a metal statue.

Marc I envy you being at the games, but in a positive way of being happy for you making it possible to enjoy your Arsenal experience up front and personal. Being at home games has to be the ultimate experience. If junior ends up at Edinburgh Uni in a few years time, he’ll be down for games for sure.

When you post post games it’s a small vicarious window in which to see what you did. I’m grateful for the insight as it wouldn’t surprise me if others felt the same.

I agree with you about Pedro. His arrogant attitudes and decision making felt more like something like recreational overload over a period of time, which would fit in with the sharp decline of the blog. My time in the music industry taught me all I needed to know about the negatives of such life’s choices. New York is full of “Bright lights, Big City” trap doors to fall into.

Still, to finish on a high we’re sitting on the top of the table with a squad that with the right addition(s) January could make this a break out season to remember. I’m far from convinced about Arteta but he’s just as likely to get a 2nd finish as a 4th, 5th or 6th. February will give us a far clearer picture for the run in.

All or Nothing was for an American audience made by an American company. All fist bumping and elaborate high 5s hands cracking sounds.

Mikels machine gun patter in a deep Catalonian accent and eccentric, reverse thinking talks did Mikel’s credentials little good. I said at the time Mikel needs to go to a speech therapist first before worrying what his body language is telling those who understand and read such things.

For our season at this point it’s difficult to read past the World Cup. Though, right now only 2 things really concern me:

The vulnerable lulls in games after the initial full on front foot pressing

The use of Xhaka missing gilt edge chances are as bad as giving penalties away.

Remedy these concerns and 1st is ours to lose even if we lose to City twice. We just have to win more of the other games than City.

Interesting equation, Yes?

Have a good day chaps. Look forward to reading your thoughts.

I’d imagine all but the most blinkered and delusional of AKBs would be horrified were the chihuahua francais to start pissing against the lampposts of N7 again. I also think Artetapologists would even blanche at the thought of his return for fear that the diminutive basque bantamweight would be upstaged. Imagine Sir Laurence Olivier playing buttons in Cinderella in pantomime at Blackpool when the role had been promised to Norman Wisdom…

Here’s 5 reasons why it shouldn’t happen. There are many more…

He signed Mesut Ozil (our worst ever cost to benefit ratio signing there will ever be). Oh, and GX, Shkodran, Cygan, Stepanovs, Schillaci and… Almunia.

8-2 at Old Trafford.

At a conservative estimate, he was on 9 million a year at the end. He’d doubtless ask for even more were he ever to return, essentially for doing the square root of fuck all.

Arrogance – ‘you’ve never worked a day in football’ and the legendary, ‘I built the new stadium’.

And is it too fucking much to expect to have a figurehead that can zip up his touchline anorak?

A perspective

https://www.football365.com/news/pearce-reveals-jesus-only-reason-arsenal-top-premier-league

Kroenkephobe

“ At a conservative estimate, he was on 9 million a year at the end. He’d doubtless ask for even more were he ever to return, essentially for doing the square root of fuck all. “
So mathematically precise.

By the way would give credit to Kroenke for the heavy investment, of course secured by Arsenal assets . With earlier results anyone would have kicked out the upstart , but looks he is being put some blinkers seeing there is much less aggressive micro management during games. An expensively assembled squad and well coached academy graduates are now freely expressing themselves , and it shows in the goals. Saliba with his intelligent positional play is securing the back .
Credit to Kroenke Sr to remove the phobias ?

Tony,
There’s some great material there alright,just need to find the time and energy! Had an idea for one but am ridiculously lazy lately.
Trying to decide whether to watch the scousers or the spuds tonight. Will probably flick between the 2. Napoli have qualified after beating Ajax earlier,they are a really enjoyable watch. Great to see someone outside of the usual suspects emerging. Do you guys remember when European competitions were so open that teams you hadn’t even heard of could beat you?
Red star, steau, hamburg,parma,you never knew what you were up against. That type of mystique is gone now,victim of a technological age. Did you guys avoid the results to sit up late on a Wednesday night to watch ‘Midweek sports special’ on itv? Ah,the memories…..

Spuds one down at home to frankfurt,pool trailing at ibrox. I think it suits us if these two teams go deeper in the champs lge and stretch their squads further. Also would prefer if neither dropped into europa lge,all-english euro ties are coin tosses.
Son has just equalised. Gotta say,for all the abuse Conte’s football gets, this is a far better watch than the fare on offer at Ibrox. Such a pity we didn’t finish top 4,our football this season is better than most of what I’ve watched in the group stages so far.

Spuds 2 1 up now. Liverpool level. Think it’s good news for us really, European runs tend to take a lot of focus.
Would really like to see Arteta pull a peak Wenger team selection tomorrow and pick an 11 that won’t be starting at the weekend. So many exciting players that we’d all like to see.
In other news the cheek of sky sports news to hijack the Irish women’s team’s qualification for the world cup and turn it into another condescending lecture on political correctness. They sang a song that references the IRA and sky turned it into a political drama. Asking them if they needed educating on irish history and sensibilities,Christ almighty, sky offering to educate irish people. This from the company who broadcast Teddy Sheringham explaining that Roy Keane’s great strength was knowing the English game inside out as he was British! No need of education there?

Always best to look on the funny side of these things,I hand you over to the great Alan Partridge.
https://twitter.com/Trickstersworld/status/1580214638142103553?t=bM1caEer_LejXSKXhMHPNw&s=08

The game to watch was Inter v Barca, super exciting with the result being very much to my liking. The mafioso run Barca club them asking their players to take pay cuts and defer them with no intention of ever paying them back so that they can spend 150m in the summer TW was a stupid decision because they are back where they were 12 months ago but with an even bigger hole in their finances.

They couldn’t handle because of their arrogance to rebuild with academy graduates and young players like Arsenal did, because of the weakness of La Liga Barca would easily finish in the top 4, may they rot in bankruptcy hell once Inter beats Pilzen in two weeks at home that job is done.

Just catching up with the aftermath of that second half incident between Henderson and Gabriel. I think we probably all have a reasonably clear idea of what happened and what was said but it’s best not to speculate. The photo image that shows Firmino’s facial reaction is intriguing.

But as a side issue, Arteta’s comments have been truly disappointing when he suggested at first that there was nothing to see and that it should stay on the pitch, to now saying he backs his players 100% but that it is something he doesn’t want to touch.

MAKE YOUR FUCKING MIND UP LITTLE MAN! He’s made a real mess of what might turn out to be something quite serious.

I think that idea of him being cerebral, thoughtful, strategic and accomplished with the media has taken a hit to be honest. He and Gonnella are not covering themselves in glory. To my mind, the chief criterion is to protect and respect anyone who’s been affected by what happened.

In essence, I’d hate to have Arteta in my corner if I needed back-up. That’s the problem when you’re perceived to have favourites.

Tonight should be fun. Plastic pitch, weather could be frigid but we’ll have more than enough.

Early signs that the bin dippers might be turning a corner. It’d cap a perfect week if they beat Citeh…

Hoopah,
I’m amazed everytime I hear stories about how badly run Barcelona has been. They’ve made a farce of every attempt to ensure the fair and equitable governance of the sport. Rapidly they have become despised within the footballing industry. Would love to know if this impacts their global brand or if(as I suspect may be true) most people don’t give a shite about their immorality and support them regardless. Anecdotally a lot of people I know now rejoice in their failings. I find it all pretty sad myself,confirmation (as if it was needed) that football has long lost it’s soul and the connection with the fans that had made it such a special sport to me when I was young.
Kroenkephobe,
You are( like me) struggling with Arteta the man v Arteta the manager. I’d imagine that (again like me) you’ve met several people with similar personalities,all of whom you’ve disliked. Is that clouding your judgement of him as a manager? Maybe. But,and I’m speaking for myself this time, it’s very difficult, if not impossible to stop that from happening. Loads of people I know are able to separate the character of the person they are dealing with from the role they perform but I’ve never been good at that. If the mechanic is a dick,I’ll go elsewhere even if he’s the best mechanic around. I’m not claiming this is good practice btw,and often it can prove costly,but that’s how it is with me.

Almunia
I agree with your thoughts about the Irish women’s team. The reaction in various quarters but particularly in the English media is extraordinary and, not to mention, extremely biased. They say zilch when Ingerland fans sing rule brittania, jerusalem, land of hope and glory and all the other shite.

There was a similar clutching of pearls when Declan Rice did it and all the fake outrage about James McClean’s decision to proclaim his heritage. There are far worse problems in the North of the island of Ireland, most of which are (still) being perpetrated by the British Government. I think its worse than merely ignorance – it’s centuries-old bigotry rising up.

I hope Irish people let their displeasure be known to Sky and the others – it’s grim, and women who have just qualified for the WC should be allowed to sing whatever they want.

I think the English media also have a problem with Wales and Scotland singing their own anthems. Fuck ’em. All this narrow mindedness is thankfully helping to bring about the demise of the UK so there is an upside.

PS
I like the mechanic analogy. I can imagine him in pristine, pressed overalls (with a polo neck underneath!) and maybe wearing a do-rag or a hairnet in case a drop of castrol gtx lands on his napper. Twirling his arms around shouting ‘antifockingclockwise’ while his apprentice in the shape of Granit Xhaka tries to remove the wheel from Kieran Tierney’s dacia sendero.

Sorry slow afternoon. Daft question but you watching tonight? Do you get EL live on terrestrial TV over there too? Early kickoff in case you hadn’t checked. 5.45. I guess the lads in India will be good for this one too.

Kroenkephobe,
El matches on terrestrial TV also,will catch two tonight,Arsenal,then Shamrock Rovers in the conference . Jesus,when you write it down it looks sad!! Need to get a hobby.

Rambinho,
You are loved,x.

I should have made moves to emigrate to Ireland rather than Catalunya.

Almunia God bless the TV executives in your country! Not sure if I’m near enough, but I should try to get Irish telly over here. We certainly get all the RTE radio stations…

Rampedro – you’re back. Fanny-tastic. Now fuck off again for a few months. Real Arsenal fans on here talking about football. Not your thing, you miserable little prick.

Team-wise, it looks like he’s replicated last week’s overall strategy of a first team comprising some first and second stringers and the same on the bench. I think he’s starting the first teamers that didn’t start last week on the whole so some indication that he’s grasping the concept of rotation. I’d have liked to see Marquinhos start, but let’s see how he fares as an impact sub.

Top of the morning to you Almunia and K’Phobe when you wake up that is. It’s a fine 29*C as we head to our winter late next month.

https://privateiptvaccess.com

A pass on from a mate who said it cover’s very TV channel in the world, so thought of you K’phobe and Almunia.

Can’t claim to have used it, as we have HD Prime here which is a pirate similar streamer, but you buy cards from 7/11 shops all over Thailand. Sounds like it’s run by True Visions our version of Sky, but who knows?

Almunia, Laziitus, is a real condition my friend often followed by extreme Guinness episodes or exposure to THC virulent (20 to 28+%) strains or forgotten how many dabs you had of grannie’s CBD oil.

Almunia, a true genius/artist cannot be rushed or the results will be tainted. The words will flow when you feel them erupting in your mind.Then you will be compelled to your canvas (PC screen) and trusty keyboard (brush). It will be long in writing and tedious rewrites, but then your labour of love will come to the fore and the words will flow and I estimate 1000s globally will be better for reading them.

Your many admirers will quickly tap out the words to your waiting audience worldwide, which is very true. I do not jest in such matters. They will pass on to their sporting friends and so on.

Never a truer word said in jest, Almunia; you do have a global audience. Deservedly so. When you’re ready, we will be, too. Your satire humoring words can make any person’s day and feel cathartic, as they do me. Hard to be anything, but happy when you’re pissing yourself when one’s imagination runs riot from the images your words procure of people so familiar.

Only read the reports of last night’s game and sounds like we made hard work of it, so I’m hoping it’s a blip. Saka saved our bacon in a scrappy game on a plastic pitch. Game and points won, so time to get back to prepare for Leeds who are decent on the ball, at pace; just not for 90 minutes.

A good away test for us where I see us rolling them over 1:3 after wanting to make good on last night’s under-par performance.

Don Rabihino you may find the chat too intelligent, but you’re welcome to try to add value to this chat. If you can’t, then please do as K’phobe directed.

Sorry Hoopah if it seems I’ve ignored you, it’s not the case. Are you from AK’s (MB’s) part of the world? Do you have any thoughts about the Jan TW? Where we will finish? Where Mikel is at now in your thinking.

K’phobe, Almunia, Marc are all of the same thinking as is MD Gunner and Kilroy and myself.

The jury is still out but the sings are promising, but we’ve been here before, such as last season. Mikel has a nasty habit of being a repeat offender of his own mistakes.

I’m guessing Mikel will pick up fastest speaking PL manager, but nowhere near the most unintelligible Kenny Dalglish back on the Div 1 days. Kane sounds eloquent compared to old Glasweigin Kenny.

Shankly was the most intimating in the tunnels where he would tell each opposing player what his player was going to do him in some detail before they ran out onto the pitch with Liverpool firmly entrenched in their heads before killing a ball.

Funny old game Football.

kicking a ball*