Champions of England!

Kroenke

There used to be a banner to the left of where I sat hanging from the upper tier with a quote from Rocky “Remember who you are, what you are and who you represent”.

A class act and a class player.

Marc, you’re comparing us spending money we earn to progress the team in the World’s hardest league to PSG spunking oil money to win a farmers’ league and a solitary UCL like you think they’re some beacon of FFP. Even PSG fans accept they’ve been deeply unserious until very recently.
And you’re not serious.

We’re the fifth largest spenders in the prem over Tets management. I can only assume, you think acting like PSG is a model to follow. Mate, they play in a league where they can start Dembele in only 9 games, Kvara 12 and you think that’s comparable to what we’ve just done?
I imagine, despite your bleating about winning the league the ‘wrong’ way that you’ll renew your imaginary ST and bleat more because being wrong about Tets hurts your fragile feelings

Remember, under Tets, we have our record goals tally in the Prem. Were you not entertained? Or did you find something else to whinge about?
You’re all over the place like that fat old plastic who supports Spuds when we play them. Give it up man, even your stats ain’t statting.

KP, precisely, black players, French players, Asian players, like your mate Jimmy Carter, we’ve always been a cultured club. It’s in our DNA
Even the Herd had a black guy, Denton (or Dainton) RIP, as a top man. I only knew Denton peripherally, he was a bit older than me and my peers. For some reason they used to let him do stand-up, of sorts in our local community club. Of course everyone laughed, some might even have found him genuinely funny
What he did do well though was ensuring that Arsenal’s firm wasn’t a hotbed of NF sympathisers like many others. Football culture, gatekept in many ways by the likes of the ‘stale, pale and male’ often has the capacity to become Tommy Robinson adjacent but not our club
There’s quite a few YT vids about blacks at Arsenal and Denton and I recall a book a few years back called simply ‘Black Arsenal’.

I expect it wasn’t just the French angle that pissed people off under Wenger but and undercurrent of racism where there was still a suspicion of blacks being anything other than wingers or strikers, playing midfield, defence or in goal was too much for their mental capacity.

Talking of keepers, a friend of mine’s a Fifa match agent, he’s part of the ‘Unity Cup’ agent and sorted tix for Nigeria Zimababwe last night. Arthur Okonkwo was in goal for Nigeria and Femi Azeez bro of Miguel scored two for Nigeria.
Pleased for Arthur, thought he was decent in our youths and might go on with us. At the time, him moving so far down the ladder to Wrexham, seemed odd but he’s landed on his feet and they invested wisely.
Miguel’s probably looking at Femi and wondering where he went wrong. India were playing Jamaica this eve. I declined, it’s a work night and I have to pace myself. That game promised to be one for the committed consumers of spirits.

Good news for the parade. The route’s been opened right up, taking in N5, N4, N16, N1 and N7.

It covers much more of the Borough than the usual parade and is actually a smart move. I don’t anticipate the mad scramble I initially feared. Over a million people crammed into the usual route would have been mayhem

I’ve met quite a few non Arsenal who plan on going too. They’re welcome. Apart from the old miseries, one thing we do these days is bring the vibes.

Apologies Marc, it wasn’t you hyping Carrick it was Fartso

By the same token, I’ve not once said.we spent no money, in fact, I wholly welcome us spending money. We get nowhere if we don’t. But we spent less than many of our rivals over the Tets era and we spend money we earn. That’s why the progress had to be incremental
88522 and 1, progress to me. Like no Europe, EL, UCL, quarters, semis and final, the same
Obviously, you the view it’s ‘disastrous’ but I struggle to see how that’s logical. Perhaps peak Wengaball, not spending and winning fuck all is more your thing

Fartso just wants to.go back, right back, to pissing on his feet in the North Bank, doing monkey or homphobic chants and 20p bags of peanuts for half time refreshments and is baffled why nobody wants to listen to him

AF—Achoo’s the fucking poster boy for why other fanbases haved viewed us as entitled arrogant pricks, which speaks to just how unlikeable he and his kind truly are considering the fact that we haven’t won anything of consequence for 2+ decades …not sure about over there, but in these parts he’s what we would refer to as a piece of shit homer, which is likely why he’s convinced that when we win it’s a fundamentally different experience…so much so that he actually believes that opposing fanbases will eagerly set aside their differences and join the celebration…for someone who spends a lot of time having a go about your age he’s surely showing his, as he’s been duped by the hordes of FOMO dickwads who will rush to any large gathering like fucking lemmings

he even went so far as to suggest that it was more satisfying that we won in “increments”, as if he would have been disappointed if we had skipped the whole cocking up gig…this revisionist history-loving cunt claims we did things the “right” way, which makes me wonder what this soulless Kool-Aid drinking cunt would have thought if City had won out and we were gazumped again…would the “right” way still apply or would he secretly bristle at the notion

the shit cherry on top this fucktard sundae is the whole “family” narrative…now this applied in simpler times, especially once “outside” ownership crept in, but this is little more than a marketing ploy nowadays…the family-like atmosphere of the Wenger/Dein years was a vastly different proposition, in that their version was a natural outgrowth of the total buy-in they required from the players…the lifestyle changes were such that if they hadn’t packaged it in a more family-oriented positive light it could have easily descended into a negative snitch-based operation (which somewhat transpired during Wenger’s latter years when our present manager was one of his locker room cops)

whereas Arteta’s version is contrived and parochial in nature, as he would do just about anything to fortify his position of dominance, regardless of the organizational consequences…from his using of the club’s “friends” in the press to oust players to his post-Palace photo-op with the 3 kids, this cake and eat it too imposter fuck doesn’t so anything without HIS best interests in mind…in fact the most family-oriented elements within our present club emanate from players who were already rostered prior to his arrival, minus maybe Rice

in my opinion, neither he nor Pricksy are “serious” fans…they’re cultish fucktards who need this club to validate their otherwise meaningless lives, regardless of Achoo’s man about town nonsense, which is why they hold us in such disdain…what would it say about them if they allowed our views to go unchecked…just think about the countless hours that almost-man Achoo has spent on here cutting and pasting his life away…when you think about it, it’s really quite sad…so maybe you should follow my lead and take it easy on them…Cheers

The new parade route is vastly bigger than the last plan. I’m planning to drive from w Wales as usual to Potters Bar in Herts and get down to F Park on the train. I doubt I’ll get a Jimmy Carter moment, not least because I won’t be e’d off my tits but also because there are people living in my flat these days, but you live in hope. Back in Pembrokeshire before midnight.

As Hibees supporting Craig and Charlie might have ‘Proclaimed’, I will drive 500 miles…exactly the distance from our place to THOF.

Josh Kroenke: “For me personally, there’s one name I want to mention – Sir Chips Keswick, our previous chairman. I wish he was here to see this day. He was a mentor of mine & a big part of my knowledge & thinking about how to run the club

Pass the mega popcorn sick bucket…Sir Chips was little more than a parody from a PG Wodehouse novel, an ineffectual blunderer who did fuck all for the club. For Kroenke junior to offer his revisionist hagiography shows how absolutely pointless he was in Arsenal’s history. Sir fucking Chips…

Normally when a team has won the league and is going into a final the starting 11 more or less picks itself, not this time,when I analyse the team selection for the final there are only 5 players that I would regard as certain starters …Raya, saliba , Gabriel , Rice and saka.
These are Arteta’s options
Right back … Mosquera, zubimendi or Timber.
Left back : calafiori or Hincape.
CM: zubimendi or skelly .
No.10 : Eze or Odegard.
Striker: Havertz Gyokeres
Left wing :Martinelli ,Eze or trossard.

This is who l think Arteta will start if he is looking to take the game to PSG and not just contain.

Raya
Timber (if fit)or Mosquera
Saliba
Gabriel
Calafiori
Rice
Skelly
Eze
Saka
Havertz
Trossard

This starting X1 could be a mile away from Arteta’s as he may look to contain, meaning Hincape, Zubimendi, Odegard and Gyokeres could start or he may put Eze on the left and then we will have the usual dick on here spouting on about “shoe-horning”.
A settled side going into a final is usually preferable but we shall see.

KP
You could write a comedy about the Arsenal board – they were all old school and next to useless. The step Father of a friend was the match day manager at AFC. He managed stewards, programme sales etc. Freddy retired at 76 (now dead) but the only one he respected was Ken Friar who he reported to. According to him the board had no idea how to run the club – they were good at providing waffle washed down with a stiff drink.

Fartso just wants to.go back, right back, to pissing on his feet in the North Bank, doing monkey or homphobic chants

You out and out lying cunt.

Stop lying, you cunt.

Fucking apologize.

Apologies Marc, it wasn’t you hyping Carrick it was Fartso

And I was not hyping Carrick , you lying cunt.

I was simply comparing Carrick in his first fucking season in taking Manchester United from 15th to 3rd in half a season compared to the moronic cunt we have, who took us down to 8th in his first two seasons.

And who should have been fucked off, never to be seen or heard again. Cunt!

Like I am now going to compare him to Glasner who has won more trophies than the cunt , in much less time and without spending a fucking billion.

Art

No problem mate – the guys a cretin. I make a point about our squad being worth more than PSG’s and all he can do is talk about where the money came from – if we were having a conversation about FFP then its valid but we’re talking about a team with a lower squad value playing some of the best football on the planet versus our pass it side to side for 30 minutes then hope to win a corner tactic.

He won’t engage on the facts because they don’t support the narrative – I’m beginning to wonder if Pedro is trolling the blog.

Marc

I may be a miserable old cunt, but since when I have uttered anything fucking racist or sexist.

I ve seen Caesar, Davis, Meade play and never had a problem.
Paul Davis was a classy cultured player and I enjoyed his style.

if he was a tad quicker, he would been an England regular

Rocky was another great Arsenal player RIP.

that cunt owes me a fucking apology for these slurs.

Real People
You write keywords on Gemini ‘, maybe vignettes to product the flow and voila
one has 2-3 options to cut and paste.
Vignettes sounds like a warm old wine and is good to impress too.
Just saying.
Maybe just ignoring the repeated stools might be the best way for the virus to go away.
But do keep hydrated with a good chilled beer.
Cheers like TRVL would say

You too Art
cunts ,
Is close to the arsehole .
You been close legend

I’ll happily speak up too in order to support Art. I have never read anything remotely dodgy or which could be interpreted as containing one of the ‘isms’.

https://youtube.com/shorts/g3dsD-c1gio?si=vi-vOEIPhdVl8yKf

Rocastle was a truly fantastic player, and an equally brilliant human being. I used to position myself on the north bank on the left hand side so that I could watch him in complete awe as he’d come bombing down the right hand side taking anyone on and putting in some perfect crosses. And it always felt that extra bit special when he scored. You know me as an implacable GG devotee but I was not happy when Rocky was sold to Leeds and he clearly didn’t want to go. The transfer made no sense to me whatsoever. Seeing the man in the clip getting emotion about David’s memory was heartwarming. He had an immense impact on so many of us.

Younger fans should look Rocky up on YT.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6UO7-Kcl_xs?si=beVKXkLfYqvB1uut

Sorry, I’m being an indulgent old bastard but this goal sums up the way Rocky played. Not his best goal by any stretch, but it exemplifies the way he’d willingly take people on and finish with powerful, accurate shooting.

Arsenal were a hard physical team in those years and Rocky could always be counted on to be in there scrapping for the cause and sticking up for teammates.

Fartso just wants to.go back, right back, to pissing on his feet in the North Bank, doing monkey or homphobic chants

Not only, you lying cunt implying me of being a racist cunt.

You are also implying old school North Bankers were something akin to Old Cold Blow Lane and doing monkey noises during that era.

I have sat, stood in every part of Highbury.

Clock End, North Bank, East and fucking West Stand, and I have never seen or heard one fuckin monkey chant from our support.

Do me a favour cunt, dont apologize
Just fuck off to another KSE propaganda noshing site instead.

Cunt.