The cover photo is the first picture I took when I visited Emirates 3 years back against Burnley. Dani Ceballos played brilliantly that day, I was saving this for the big day!
We are almost there for the biggest game of this season. It’s going to be even sweeter if we win today and retain our ‘top of the league’ position against Conte’s side.
Line up is out and we have Partey and Zinchenko back in playing XI. That’s good news for us, we need Partey’s brilliance in the midfield and Zinchenko’s link up with Martinelli.
Arteta has specifically asked the supporters to UP the game in stadium. If you are reading this while in the queue at Emirates, make sure to return back after the game with a sore throat. This is what he had to say for the Derby.
“I can’t wait to see the atmosphere, I am so excited about it. We experienced an incredible game and atmosphere last time we played them at home and I encourage everyone to do the same.”
source: Arsenal.com
Odegaard talked about his first goal against Spu*s at Emirates, he didn’t really like the empty stadium at that time but go on lad, score one today and you will see how much you are loved in North London. Gabriel Jesus is playing his first North London Derby and he is as excited as anyone else.
I should appreciate Mikel’s attempt to rebuild the culture at club. The excitements are at all time high, fans are loudest and we, fans, are buzzing before every game. The negativity of last two seasons has gone a bit (at least for me) and we can all see the players are buying it now. Everyone wants to prove a point and contribute in Arsenal win.
Talk about proving a point and you can’t ignore Martinelli. At the age of 21, he is a starter for one of the biggest club in the world, in one of the toughest leagues. He is a machine, he never tires and you leave him unattended for a minute and he will make you regret.
Hear me out, Martinelli and Jesus are better than Son and Kane. Fu*k the Spu*s, all of them.
About time now, only some 30 minutes left for the game. Enjoy it from whichever part of the world you are from, lets beat them 4-0 today and show who owns the London!
P.S. – Thank you for all your support, LiR is approved for Google News now (I might have to stop cussing now, lol). It couldn’t have been possible without you.
Cardiff headed an equaliser against Burnley in the 90th minute. Your man Robinson doing the damage Almunia. Championship version of Burnley even worse than their PL guise last year.
Really poor game but Arsenal winning is the main thing. The table looks very pleasing.
Yeah,I don’t think ‘kompany ball’ is taking the championship, or even the Burnley fans, by storm. I like Robinson,should make a difference for Cardiff.
Was looking for the snooker on itv 4 and found a rerun of the ’87 cup final. That was probably as big a shock as Wimbledon the following year. Spuds had clemence,mabbut,hoddle,waddle, ardiles and an on fire Clive Allen. Coventry had big Oggie in goal,kilcline in defence and Cyril Regis up front. The crazy gang were a lot better in fairness. Hope no spuds fans made the same mistake as I did,day was depressing enough for them.
With the spuds put away,the city game moved and Liverpool stuttering this month might not be the nightmare it seemed on first imaginings. Martinelli is the player who excites me most, just how high is his ceiling??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw
Just move on up is appropriate for our current trajectory.
Long may the happy days continue and Mikel continually improving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_j_dzkaVE
Continuing with the music happiness another appropriate song.
People get ready the Arsenal are coming
Walking over all in front of them
Always keeping them scoring less than us
So we faithful keep signing all the way to the top.
Ah Tony
Curtis Mayfield – delightful.
I was a Molyneux last season and loved it when Wolves fans burst into song with their version of Hi Ho silver lining. Junior was amazed that I knew the words!
I know it’s later in the day where you are but it feels good to wake up knowing there’s a bit of fun and relaxation to be had watching les mancs tear each other apart later. A draw (followed by an insane high scoring game from Elland) will be just the ticket.
Whisper it but I think other teams and fans might just be starting to worry about playing Arsenal these days.
Almunia – That 87 defeat was almost as sweet as if we’d done it. Keith Houchen and that diving header. One of my mates was at university at Warwick (and lived in Cov). He had this Alan Sugar-esque (hope you know who AS is – he’s a money grubbing spurs supporting bastard of the highest order) wheeze of selling dark and light blue ribbons for Cov fans to tie on their car’s wire aerials (remember them? Always got snapped off at football grounds if you parked too close). Well he made a pile of cash which added to the pleasure of Spurs losing.
I’m thinking of driving up to Wigan for another dose of bluebird mediocrity next Saturday. I think I need help.
Almunia
We’re becoming master prognosticators aren’t we? You got the score, I got the red card. I think I went for 2 nil because I just couldn’t countenance another fucking Kane penalty. I should’ve known better.
Watching Manure, it seems unreal that they beat us.
I’d characterise this game as: sports washing oil kleptocracy team whose fans used to come from Manchester and are now the top ticket in football less countries in the middle East vs a poorly run, over resourced rag tag of a squad that never had local fans and are now only admired in SW Asia and the stock broker belt in the English Home counties. They deserve each other. At least the bin dippers represent. 4 nil before h-t. It’d be fun if they scored another 4.
Ferguson looks like he’s popped too many tramadol /temazepam pills. Fans leaving already – oh dear!
Haaland is NOT human.
What a great humiliation for Fergie and Manure. Goes without saying City is the team to beat this season. L’pool are off their stride and a great time to play them next Sunday. I fancy us getting points from that game, and it’s a fair shout to getting 3 points is a chance. VVD is struggling this season and TA isn’t playing well either.
Very happy with the way things are progressing and just hoping we buy a quality, mobile, 2 footed CM.
Said it before Ambarish Haarland is football’s Jonah Lumu of All Blacks fame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKoTGdIhO-U
Tony
I once met the late Jonah Lomu at a work thing in Paris in my office about 12 years ago. I thought he’d be quite a bit taller than me but we met almost eye to eye. I’m 6ft 3 (or I was til I started the geriatric shrinking thing…). Anyway I think he thought he needed to get one up on me. No word of a lie, he tried to crush my hand when we shook to say hello. I think I got the better of him because I laughed in face. I fared better than Rory Underwood anyway.
Fergo almost looked like the lights had gone off in his eyes. He must’ve reduced his red wine addiction though because he looked pasty and no longer ruddy. Swings and roundabouts.
Those Manure trashings are a gift that continues to give. I just wish we’d provided one too.
@Tony
The story of Jonah Lomu is actually told pretty well in a two part series on TV3-NZ aired on 2019-08-18 and the actor playing him is doing an excellent job. Amazon picked it up and if you search for it it is available at your usual NZB download places as:
onah.S01E01.Part1.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-TEPES
The defeat of Manure was made sweater when Bruno FuckAll got yellow carded for mouthing off at the referee.
Just found these images of the All Blacks meeting AC Milan in their training center December 4th, 2008.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/36130fy.jpg[/img]
Lets try this again
December 4th ABs and AC Milan
Ronaldinho looking a little bit confused
https://imgur.com/36130fy
Dan Carter meets Kaka
https://imgur.com/BRCBJ5p
Shevchenko looks terrified
https://imgur.com/Thn4Pek
No wonder he doesn’t get into the scrum
https://imgur.com/DccblSc
Kilroy my son and I watched that series and loved it. Thought it brought the urban side of him much more less of the myth. I’ve mentioned my wanting to do a trip round the south islands before and my son is eager to absorb the sheer enormity of the Passion for the All Blacks.
K’phobe Never had you for shying away from an alpha challenge and being 6′ 3″ confirms that thinking. That and all your secret squirrel forensic shit. Sorry, I meant meaningful work clandestine or not.
I struggle at times to understand how your hearing has deteriorated in one so young.
Blindness, however, I’ve heard is somewhat rampant with sock sales on the up. More rampant, though, in the 50s apparently, in fact John Kellogs said he invented Kellogg’s corn crispies to keep the little wankers hands’ busy. Some marketing tool that, if true.
Not very smart if you ask me, I mean the poor young lads just got fueled up on the carbs and were at it at least twice a day. If your dad calls your granddad a wanker, you know what he’s on about.
Back to the hearing loss, I’ve heard that a swift kick in the nuts expends wax from both ears at some pace with only none kick needed, I’m reliably told. Fortunately, my ears are fine but do let me know if it works.
Anyway, whatever is afflicting your hearing the answer may well be Line Source speakers. At the very top of the totem pole is Wisdom Audio. https://www.wisdomaudio.com
Although elite speakers come at elite prices, Wisdom doesn’t compromise quality with their more reasonably priced speakers. After all it’s the same tech.
It’s a never ending changing world is audio and visual where Barco is probably the best projector where their top model is around £180K+.
Meyer and other elite brands do Line Source speakers and you’re not limited to Wisdom electrics, but …..
Worth investigating for Barcelona if you ever decide to build your own Reference room. Sound proofing is the key to a good room.
When my mate surfaces I’ll get the details of his little condo quad system.
K’phobe, Very easy to set up and a great sound for a small space for sound emersion. Schiit Audio are also very good for DACs.
Something easy to pack up with you when you Viva Espania that would suit a terrace nicely, if you were to go for the Reference room experience.
“topping dx7 pro dac, mini dsp / 4 channel processor,
yamaha hs7 active monitors x4,
mac mini 2012 – 16gb ram, i7 quad core 2.2 ghz processor,
500gb ssd.
JHA Roxannes IEMs for Late night loud pure sound and keeping the neighbors happy.
After reliability issues with the dac i would go for the German rme/ad1 or 2. also you need a directional mic to set up the processor – its the processor that makes the sound work well with the 4 speaker set up”
Hi Almunia, Kroenkephobe, Tony, Mb and all.
Thank you for the warm welcome and generous words, I should return the compliment because I enjoy your contributions too, there is a lot of deep untapped knowledge of football and many topics outside of football.
Kroenkephobe – Did you see Kier Starmer start his Conference speech with a reference to Arsenal being top of the PL. As for your long term pain with Cardiff (good fight back to earn a point against Burnley), at least you have 1927! I think you’d get away with celebrating and enjoying it because it was so long ago, and it was just prior to Arsenal becoming a Superpower – (which was incredibly short, and has never been seen again since the end of WWII).
Hi Tony, you disagreed with something I posted on Le Grove regarding Arsenal’s historical character, I wasn’t deliberately ignoring you, but wasn’t prepared to discuss it on a forum that has become a toxic dictatorship. Why you put up with the disgusting disrespectful insults from some empty-headed sheep is beyond me.
Whether I post there again is up in the air, because while there are some decent people on there, I don’t appreciate being told how I should feel about a club I’ve supported for almost 60 years.
Great result Saturday, but we’ve never had an inferiority complex with Tottenham, and the bigger tests are coming.
Erling Haaland is scary.
Almunia – After our epic Lge Cup semi with them, I loved it when Coventry beat them. They finished above us in the league that year, but we finished with silverware, which was all that mattered back then.
Quickly on the subject of Clive Allen, does anyone have any clue as to why we signed him in 1980* (could be 81?), and 41 days later (before the season had started), swapped him for Kenny Sansom?
Couldn’t the club afford both?
Great stuff lads. Some really good issues to get into.
Tony – I cannot swear to it (because doctors have relatively little knowledge about deafness) but I had a shocking cough about 5/6 years ago that simply wouldn’t abate. They both started going down hill after that and my Doctor said loss of hearing can be brought on by certain viruses. It’s a shit thing to happen and it now severely limits my social life (no one likes spending time talking in a pub to someone who keeps asking the speaker to repeat themselves). I also find it dull.
Oh, and thanks mate – I’ll never eat cornflakes again. Anyway, look after your lugholes lads! I’m going to research your hi fi suggestions butcare you sure there’s a brand of speaker called schiit? 💩😏