Written by MickyDidIt89
The moment has arrived. Its gloomy, it is Saturday, and the transfer news is slow. What to do? I popped out for a thoughtful cigarette, and I believe, came up with a brilliant idea.
Most of us will know of Desert Island Discs. For those who don’t, it is a radio show where guests are invited to take one or two things to keep them company on said desert island. The idea is to focus the mind.
So, I give you my version: Desert Island Arsenal.
1. Which ten minutes of your Arsenal existence would you most like to relive?
2. You can have ANY one piece of Arsenal memorabilia. What would that be?
3. An hour with anyone from any era associated with Arsenal. Who and Why?
Well then, to get the ball rolling, here are my three:
1. Here we have a straight fight between my first game with my Dad. Arsenal Leeds, evening game, August 1973, and the moment the majestic arena unfolded before my eyes two minutes before Kick Off. The full house, the emerald green surface and the rest you know. In the other corner is the Mickey Thomas goal. The Long Ball Forward, and again you all know the rest. This is very tough, but I will opt for ’73.
2. It would be The Marble Halls. Yip, the whole thing. What would I do with it? My dream is to one day build my own classic English Garden. Big style. I like trees, water and follies, so we are talking Stourhead. My folly, Palladian Style, would be set high on a hill overlooking my work and within it would be The Marble Halls, where I could contemplate the Great Arsenal Moments, The Meaning of Life and other stuff.
3. Again, mighty tough this one. I have always wanted to ask John Lukic what the bloody hell he was playing at when, a minute into extra time at Anfield, he thought it would be a good idea to roll the ball out to Dixon rather than “hoof” the thing. However, this would not take an hour, so for me, I would opt for an hour with whoever came up with the idea of binning our Club Crest, a length of rope and a blunt knife!
Frankly, change the questions, and we could play this game every time some tool fails to deliver on a quality postage!
Arsenal News 24/7
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Ha Ha Peaches,
You edited out the last line 🙂
Bang on schedule for record hits, I reckon 🙂
😳 I thought that was for my eyes only, I’ll put it back in 🙂
For record hits I reckon you need something like …………
‘Wenger dumped in the desert’
Arsenal BoD send Wenger to scrape the barrel
There’s money – now spend it!!!
Wenger’s job on the line
Eboue wants to be Arsenal manager someday
Almunia promoted to goalkeeping coach
Actually we could have a lot of fun with this – maybe next Saturday 😆
Almunia gets England call up.
Morning all, well Micky 😀
So to answer your three:
1) For me it would be the last minute of the 1993 FA Cup final, Andy Linighan rising to head in the winner from Merse’s cross and Adams bringing the much maligned Linighan down to the gathered masses and raising his arm triumphantly. I was there so it probably sits higher than the probably more fashionable Anfield 89.
2) Memorabilia would be that of a player, is that allowed? David Seaman’s right glove that he used to save that Lombardo penalty in the CWC, actually would it be ok to just cut off both his hands? I just remembered that save against Sheff Utd in the FA Cup semi final at Wembley.
3) Maybe unfashionable again here, i would like to sit down with Bruce Rioch to find out exactly why it would be a good idea to tell Ian Wright that John McGinlay would have finished a chance in that he missed in the game they had just played. I’d like to ask him two things, why did he think it would be a good idea to say that to Wrighty and just how scared was he when Wrighty reared up at him.
Sitting next to Jack Kelsey on a charter flight to Brussels for our first leg against Anderlecht in the Fairs Cup Final.
I was in awe of the man and suddenly when he put his hand on my leg I started to think HELP.
GiE,
Wow. Some selection. Cutting both Seaman hands off is well within the rules as far as I’m concerned. Sickish, but above board 🙂
I hate to jump ship but its chucking it down and my son is about to put on his “100 Greatest Arsenal Goals” DVD!
So many magic moments for me but alas a long time ago.
Ray Kennedy scoring at WHL in the last few minutes to win the league in 1971.
Charlie George scoring the winner at Wembley a few days later to secure the double.
Alan Sunderland scoring the winner in the 1979 Cup Final known as the 10 minute final
But most of all George Graham being at my wedding.
Not been to a live game in thirty years but one game sticks out for me being 1-3 down to middlesborough and then winning 5-3 (I think that was the unbeaten year.)
Kelsey,
“George Graham being at my wedding” on top of Jack Kelsey making a move on you. We may as well all give up right now!
I think he was being fatherly Micky 😉
1. I too loved the moment that the Highbury turf opened out in front of me when I was taken to a game in 1998. An evening game, in early April I think, against Derby which we won on our route to becoming champions. I’d grown up around spuds and had never found anyone to take me to Highbury but this memory will live long and I thank Simon for taking me and Alastair for not being able to go that night 🙂 Got lots of other 10 minutes’ though …….. loved Cesc’s goal that followed van Persies against the scummers a couple of years ago – oh how we laughed 🙂 Nasri’s heavenly second goal against the manks after the 25 passes at the Ems 🙂
2. I love my Arsenal DVD’s but to own footage of an open bus parade would be extra special. Any era would do, I’m just a soppy sentimentalist. When I took my daughter to one we decided that we had to own a flat above any of the shops in Upper st for such an occasion.
3. Thierry, has to be Thierry, although Sol Campbell comes a close second and I’m pretty sure an hour wouldn’t be enough 😳
Micky
Now that’s what I call a close-season, no-hard-news-around Post!
Sheer genius idea.
My answers (while I’m at the airport):
1) Despite all the rival contenders it has to be the last 10 mins of the ’79 FA Cup final versus ManUre. I was there with a ManUre friend (who had got me the ticket). The reason it’s the best 10 minutes is that it encapsulates in microcosm all the emotions of being an Arsenal supporter. From superiority and satisfaction with a hint of smugness to horror, despair and pain… back to euphoria again. All in 10 minutes. Wow.
2) Micky Thomas’s underpants from May 26th 1989. Was he really as cool as he looked when putting away that last minute goal? Or would closer examination of said garment reveal… the dreaded skiddies.
3) Dennis Bergkamp. Wouldn’t really want to ask him much – I would just gaze.
kelsey – is that really you? Where have you been? I’ve missed you 🙂
You definiteley take the gold medal there for the best everything 😆
Watching that Mickey Thomas goal go in at Anfield,i was exstatic for an entire summer i remember.I filled my scrap book with all Arsenal that summer and it took a lot of spending because in 89 there were no internet and the Danish newspapers didnt really cover the old English First dvision like they cover the pl,so i had to buy every issue of goal and match and there were damned hard to get hold of in Denmark………Ohhhh the memories.
Micky – great idea, I need to think about it, so many to chose from..
I wanted to buy a seat from Highbury, but the sale had fallen through because some idiotic safety issues. I still think I’d love a chair
Best moment – Nic comes as a sub, first touch and he scores a brill header against You-know-who and We Are Top the League, We Are Top the League
One hour with TH14, he can talk about anything he wishes to talk, silence would be fine too
Welcome back Kelsey – where the hell have you been?
Rocky – you’re gonna need a Bergkamp shrine one day if you haven’t already got one 😉 Fancy a foursome – you, me Thierry and Dennis 😳
Peaches
If I could do the blushy emoticon I would…
But how would Thierry and Dennis kill the time?
1 = Liverpool v Arsenal, Anfield 89.
2 = Herbert Chapmans bust.
3 = Arsene Wenger…..Questions… why do you persevere with obvious donkeys…. ala…. Stepenovs/Senderos/Bendtner/Denilson etc…AND why O why didn’t you spend good money on players that would definately have improved our chances of winning the league last year?
IMO the money spent on say Samba and Cahill would have been recouped with the prize money won ?????
He he he Rocky 😆
The blushy one goes like this : oops : but with no space between them
Peaches 😳
Hi Kelsey, my friend, 🙂
I told you everyone had missed you!!
Your memories have won the prize right there and then. 🙂
Got to admit tho’ that your sentence, — “I was in awe of the man and suddenly when he put his hand on my leg I started to think HELP.” — images of Evonne and 26 May sprang to mind!! 🙂
You must tell us how Stroller came to be a guest at your wedding. What a memory to have and a fantastic Arsenal connection.
Right that’s it.
I’m off on hols now. Will check in when I can and will look forward to catching up with all the amazing posts and comments on the best Arsenal blog in the world.
Adios amigos 🙂 🙂 🙂
Hi and Hasta la Vista, amigo, Rocky! 🙂
I have been house hunting, well actually my wife has.
My favorite all time player will always be DB10, as opposed to peaches I am not looking for someone who is pretty but an all round genius.
RL and I share one of our favorite moments of which there have been many.
RA,
It’s a long story but the friendship with GG lasted a lot longer than my marriage.
Walking on the Highbury Pitch after the Fairs cup victory.
The lump of Highbury mud Joe Baker threw at Ron Yeats before whacking him and walking off,
Dinner with Arsene, DB10 and Geordie Armstrong 3 men supreme at their jobs Arsenal personified.
Just an update on cesc (which yogi mentioned the other day.)
If barca pay the right price as stipulated by our club he is off ,otherwise he stays with us .It’s as simple as that.
Hi Dandan, 🙂
You are another fascinating character, with such a wealth of experience, just like Kelsey, and I am just so envious! 🙂
Kelsey,
I know football is a hard nosed and sometimes tacky business, but if we get a half decent offer for Cesc, I think it would be morally right to let him go.
He signed that 8 year contract with Arsenal when he was still a kid, and I know he got a lot of money from it, but it is now becoming cruel to keep him against his wishes, and anyway the long running saga is going to drive us Gooners bonkers if it keeps running!
It’s an age thing.Folk like dandan,BR and myself it has to be the Fairs Cup Final after being through so many barren years,closely followed by the double a year later.
Those 10 years younger had the ups and downs of three FA Cup finals as mentioned befoe.Still can’t believe brooking scored with a header in 1980/
Those ten years even younger than the above it has to be Anfield 1989
And to all of us the 1998 to 2006 era which had more highlights than ever seen before in such a short space of time.
RA,
my understanding that the club will stand firm as Cesc is under contract for another 4 years.I agree with you that it appears the player wants to go home,but we can’t let Barca walk allover usand dictate their terms.
it isn’t a very satisfacory solution for the moment.
kelsey – while you were out hunting, I’ve been buying. It must be genetic 😉
Rocky – have a great holiday 🙂
something wrong with wordpress kelsey went from blue to black and then to kelsey the psychiatrist.
maybe the record number of hits you had the other day has sent the server into confusion.
You seem to have lost the psychiatrist now kelsey but you have been a psychiatrist before haven’t you?
Kelsey,
There has been some minor probs with WordPress, as some of us have had our comments left in the ‘Reply’ box for example.
I have noticed that my ‘Red Arse’ went from ‘black’ to ‘blue’ recently and, altho’ it isn’t painful, it has remained that color since.
I know ‘blue’ is supposed to mean something important, so hopefully, I will be relegated back to ‘unimportant’ black pronto! 🙂
Kelsey, Dandan,
With regard to Micky’s excellent Post, (well done Micky), I have absolutely nothing to compare with any of your memories.
However, at one remove, my father had an old tape of Arsenal in the Bertie Mee era, (i think) and a player I just loved to watch on it was Alan Skirton.
The tape like my dad is long gone, but Alan was a big winger who played at the same time as Danny Clapton a very different type of winger, and I think both were eventually superceded by the fantastic Geordie Armstrong.
It’s hard to say why Skirton so caught my attention, other than he was gutsy, big, fast and had a bullet shot, and always seemed to be scoring goals. I may have confused things in my memory, but a fast, goalscoring winger seems to be just what we need nowadays! 🙂
Did you see him play in the flesh?
Very clever idea for a post Micky.
I have so many favourite goals but the one above all is probably Tony Adams against spuds at Wembley in the semi. Merson floated a free kick in and Big Tone ghosted in at the far post. I really don’t like spuds and had we lost it would have been two Wembley semis in a row.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toKReg2dgTw
Relative newcomer to the Gooner world, supporting seriously since 2001:
1. The end of the 2002 United game with Wiltord’s goal and the final whistle. Sitting at uni in S.Africa, surrounded by mancs, pool supporters and a smattering of Gooners, with Utd kicking lumps out of us, and the Pool supporters shaking my hand at the whistle because our win gave them 2nd.
2. The match programme for the above game.
3. Easy, I’d love to talk match tactics for an hour with Wenger. That would be an awesome conversation … the merits of 433, the complications of crosses and the theory of shooting from distance. Brilliant.
Best comment London – ‘I really don’t like spuds’ 😛
I am about to change my answer to 3. I think an hour with dandan.
Dinner with Arsene and DB10!!!!!!
Fun post Micky. 🙂
1) My ten minutes would be the 70th to 80th minutes at the 2002 FA cup final against Chelsea. We had wonderful seats behind the Chelsea goal and a glorious view of both Razor’s and Freddie’s goals. My older bro had made a “We love you Freddie, cos you’ve got red hair” banner which got us on telly. The whole trip was magnificent. Definitely one of my favourite all-time Arsenal days.
2) I’d like the pair of boots Dennis was wearing when he scored that goal against Newcastle.
3) Perhaps an hour on the lash with Tony Adams when he was in his (drinking) prime would have been fun. 🙂
Evonne talking about that Bendy goal reminded me that I made a small presentation of it at the time for my brothers which I’ve just spent an enjoyable 20 mins transferring to youtube. Weird seeing players in red and white of whom I now have less than fond memories. It was on 22nd Dec 2007, hence the music. 🙂
Fine idea Micky.
Welcome back Kelsey.
1. Kelsey is right. It would definitely be the Fairs Cup Final at Highbury – the final whistle and running onto the pitch. It would be very interesting to feel what it is like to be a young man again!
2. The Clock. With my eyesight diminishing it would function perfectly in my living room
3. An hour chatting to Pat Rice. In fact a few hours and a couple of jars. He has seen and done everything at AFC over my lifetime. I would even buy the beers.
I was so ill the day of that spud game, I’d bought myself a ticket in Club Level, was on the second day of antibiotics for a kidney infection. I got to my seat, sat down and thought ‘well at least I’m here, I’ll worry how I get home later’
Worryingly when the scum scored there seemed to be an awful lot of them sitting near me but when Nik scored the noise was amazing. I practically crawled back to Finsbury Pk station, got home and went straight to bed. Was about to be admitted to hospital during the evening when suddenly the antibios kicked in. Feeling much better I spent the rest of the evening texting gooners from my bed 🙂
Peaches. No-one to look after you?? If it happens again, just post your problem in the comments and you will have a host of nurses.
I expect all the 800 people who have clicked on the post are spending time deciding on their three before they write their comment – quality posts coming up 🙂
1. 10 min summary of Milan – Arsenal, March 2008 CL
2. Thierry Henry boots from Invincibles area
3. Meal with Arsene Wenger talking about Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance (40 min), Penalty shoot out against Lehman with TH and DB (20 min).
Gotta be –
1. The last 10 minutes of the 1979 FACup Final v ManU … from almost certain elation to misery, to over-abundant joy … my whole Arsenal life summed up in 5 minutes.
2. The 5 seats my family used to sit in at Highbury. The row behind the WestStand Directors box. They were supposed to be for the Players Wives and GirlFriends, but in those far off days the women couldn’t care less about going and the players sold them to my Grandfather via the chap who ran the Avenel Road club shop.
3. Arsene W … Just to ask why he changed from a highly successful formula to the one of the past 4 years … is it really just down to money? or does he really, really believe in the philosophy of youth ….
OkOk DanDan, I meant era not area.
Raddy – I couldn’t let anyone know how bad I was feeling in the morning cos there’d have been no sympathy later on. I was in so much pain I thought I was going to pass out on the train going to the ground. I just sat very quietly – most unusual for me 😀 In fact the aforementioned Simon and Alistair were on the train with me and thought I was hung over.
I got a bit cross with Rasp later on who was telling me we were lucky to get a point whereas I felt I was lucky to be alive and we didn’t lose. Great pics from chas, fantastic header from Nik.
Hi all, great idea micky, really gets you thinking…….so difficult…….
1. 10mins of Arsenal existence|: (I’ve cheated a little)
a. Last 60secs of 26 may 1989…..
b. 60 secs when Bergkamp scored that goal against Newcastle
c. The 60secs of when Perlour scored that goal against Chelsea in the fa cup 2002….
d. The 60secs of when bergkamp and reyes scored against boro during the unbeaten run…..
e. 60 secs when sunderland scored the winner against united in 79.
f. 60secs of when wiltord scored away at old trafford in 2001-02…..
g. 60 secs of when Henry scored that goal against spurs when he run the length of the pitch……
h. 60secs of when vieira rounded the leicester keeper to win the match to win the league unbeaten in 2004…….
i. The 60secs when Adams scored against everton in 1998…..
j. My last 60 secs would be the moment the whistle blew against wigan in the last ever game at highbury……..
2. Arsenal memoribilia:- The arsenal clock!!
3. one hour is very difficult so much to ask arsene, although I would love an hour with Bergkamp, but arsene’s gets the nod…….
But we won, 2-1, Peaches…..you must have been ill.
So we did chas, of course we did ……………Nik’s amazing header, Almunia being a hero for saving the pen, Ade scoring again against them – Rasp just moaning then 😀
Harry – you big cheat, that’s really not fair 😛
Being a bit of an armchair fan and a plastic my one is actaully old traffoerd opening up before me and beating the mancs 1 nil (my fiirst live game).
The bust of Herbert Capman
I’d like an hour with Arsene Wenger to discuss the last 6 seasons and the reasons behind our transfer policy.
RA,
saw all of them play.Danny Clapton on the wing and then he was overtaken by Alan Skirton who eventually made way to George Armstrong.
In that period we had Billy Wright and then Bertie Mee as manager.
Skirton was very tall for a winger though scored about one in three appearances.It was not a great era 1960-65 for the Arsenal.
RA Alan Skirton would cross an old leather T Panel ball loaded with water and dubbin at 100mph and expect people to put there heads on it, if you happened to get the lace, god help you, it was like being hit by Henry Cooper.
Billy wright was too nice a guy for the job, the establishment mob on our board were much more in tune with Bertie Mee an ex army man a disciplinarian and latterly the clubs physio. No wonder the likes of Charlie George a product of Highbury Grove comprehensive school and the North Bank, couldn’t stand this little martinet of a man, who sold him much to soon.
Would suggest RA/TA an hour with Charlie and a pint would be a sound investment you would remember for ever
Chas @12:18 – thank you!!! I was there you know, shouting ‘come my Nick, do it for me!’ And he did 🙂
Only a little cheating peaches, play on words, which ten minutes, didnt say concurrent………….
If I had to pick 10mins as a whole, probably the last ten mins against Barca last season when we showed that we can mix it with the best, I know it is only a match and no trophy was gained but the ground was rocking, the players believed and we took them apart…..Bottled that 10mins and inject it into the players, then watch us go………
We are not miles away, a tweak here and there…….
You gotta love Jack haven’t you
jack_wilshere Jack Wilshere
Don’t see all the fuss about Modric wanting a move..he has done welll at #Spurs but he needs to play #champions league! #inmyopinion
1. Best ten minutes? In the 2003-2004 Season Henry beat three players to score in front of the north bank against Liverpool. It just about made us champions after a terrible week in which we lost to Man Utd in the cup semi and Chelsea in the Champs League. The relief was so great and then I think Henry scored again. I think I went on a two day bender that ended up watching Essex playing 20:20. Great days.
2. I had two things that I no longer have in my possession due to family issues. 1 was an old 70s style Arsenal shirt which my mother bought at a church jumble sale, wearing which I kicked a football for the first time. I had a mop of curly hair and looked like Brady in the photo. I didn’t play like him. Next doors conservatory roof was constantly in danger right through my youth. The other a signed photo of Charlie Nicholas, my first hero, Bono style mullet and all.
3. I would like an hour with either Arsene Wenger or George Graham. To find out under all that pressure how they did it. I think we sometimes forget that Arsenal were exciting in the early George years scoring more goals than we do now.
I have so many great memories of AFC but three that stick out for me are;
November 22nd 1947, the first game I watched at Highbury, we beat Huddersfield town 2-0
May 1st 1948, final game of the season against Grimsby Town we won 8-0. We’d already won the title and Highbury was over flowing – I manged to sneak in at half time – a huge thrill for a ten year old. My first season supporting the Gunners and we won the league!
November 26th 1958 – Arsenal vs Juventus. I was under the clock, it was a foggy night at Highbury, five minutes into the game John Charles came out of the fog and popped one past Jack Kelsey – we went on to win 3-1 Barnwell, Goulden and Bloomfield were the scorers and Tommy Docherty also played.
I would have to write a book to list all of my memories – Henry waltzing through the Spurs team to score is high on my list as well.
Great comment Jamie – that game against L’pool is one of my favourite games ever, actually it was my favourite until the Barca game at the Emirates this season.
Hi gunnerN5 – don’t worry you’ll probably get another chance to re-live some memories as I’m certain we’ll use this post again during the summer. You could do yours through the decades 🙂
Forgive me,how could I forget GunnerN5 🙂
Expect the first signing to be announced on Monday.
Here’s an idea Kelsey,
Give us the hardest crossword style clue wrapped up in a surreal cloak that will keeps us ummming throughout the weekend.
Peaches,
Run the same post again? Oh no, but then you have not heard my new improved idea for a wet day post. Log on to your weather station and let me know when the next gloomy saturday is expected 🙂
Hovering around Tuskan shoreline for Londoners. (8)
he’s under six foot tall and not playng in the PL and surprise surprise not english.
Fantastic idea and post BTW Mickey
Thought I would settle in to watch a stream of the cricket stupidly forgetting the English summer.
So reminiscing – that Liverpool game was so great after the disaster of the Chelsea match. It remains the only time I left the ground prior to the final whistle. The goal from Bridge late in the second half was a kick in the kischkers, particularly as he celebrated right in front of me.
3 days later – smashing L’pool with TH14 on great form was just wonderful,
“was a kick in the kischkers,” hahaha.
Kelsey. Could the man in question be a forward?
http://twitpic.com/5dbz15
Kelsey,
A stooping Eto?
Chas 🙂
To answer both the above…Defoe could answer you both, but No.
I will not be drawn any further as I am not guessing here, it’s just my Worcester told me this morning.
Kelsey,
Well at least tell us where we can get a Worcester of our own?
1st) The euphoria after the Arshavin goal vs Barcelona, Was my favorite match to be at and the atmosphere was second to none
2) The Boots which Thierry wore when he scored that majestic goal against Madrid
3) Would probably have to be with Eboue! Imagine the Laughs!
For wet days, I highly recomend “Everest: Beyond The Limit”. About 5 hours on three DVD’s at around £14 from Amazon. Brilliant. Made for Discovery and follows one expedition in 2006 with cameras mounted on Sherpa’s headgear. Its the expedition where they past, and left, a dying climber on the descent.
R.Evans,
Now I never thought we would get an Eboue answer to No3 🙂
Micky – your wet day viewing sounds marvelous.
R.Evans93 – thanks for the reminder of the Thierry goal against Madrid
kischkers 🙂 Did anyone notice the mention of schmackel the other week, he must have been a yank I reckoned so I just smirked to myself as no-one else seemed to notice 😀
You said he didn’t play in the prem Kelsey so not defoe. I thought madonna bought him anyway.
Monday you say kelsey? What this Monday coming?
We need a post for tomorrow btw …………………
Mamas and Papas;
Monday Monday.
……….. and are we all going to be so excited about him that the spuds will be crying into their morning tea 🙂
Peaches just a suggestion for a post [b]i am not offering to write it[/b] but anyone watching the England U21 tonight (I won’t be) could compare the differences of youngsters produced at Arsenal compared to the rest of the English talent.
Or just a match report.
😀
Over and out to twist my brain watching Inception (finally getting round to it)
hmmm the bit in between [b] and [/b] was supposed to be bold….ho hum
[bold] test [/bold]
okay something else i have forgotten how to do or new WordPress gizmos have made work another way.
Bold ho hum 😆
Anyone want to write something about the under 21’s game tonight – GiE can’t even though he thought it might be a good idea 🙂
Peaches,
You want another Wet One?
My feeling is that you will lose all serious Footballistas if you ran consecutive Micky posts, but if you are running on empty, let me know by 7am and I will try and put my latest idea into short words.
GIE, it’s not [ and ] I think.
England u21 is tomorrow eve, Peaches.
GIE, well that didn’t work, so I think I’m right. It’s the greater than and less than type of brackets rather than the square ones.
antidisestablismentarianism
Chas – what happened to you? your writing has gone all funny, no spaces between words 🙂
Micky – don’t be silly, your posts are GREAT and such fun
Peaches, check your inbox, tomorrows post is in cyber space en route………….
Harry – I think Peaches with new haircut is partying tonight
Ok cheers, well I have emailed and text her……so you might all be subjected to another load of waffle tomorrow……..
lovely jabbly
Mickey, brilliant. I read this at about 3pm on the train to the dentists, and it gave me much food for some truly wonderful thoughts and memories throughout the rest of the day as I went about my business, Many many thanks.
Chas. On my mobile I couldn’t t even see that you’d posted a video, let alone watch it. Heartwarming stuff, when ordinarily, I find a collection of stills on YouTube to be a bit of an oxymoron. In this case, I feel the stills tell the tale in a much more dramatic fashion. The shot of St Niklas im mid air…with his arse level with Spuds heads. Toure’s joy alongside Nik..etc etc. As always with your pics and vids Chas, sterling sterling work my friend*.
(Wonderman often ends his sentences with ‘my friend’ – so blame him !!
Night all
Ps. I should have started with an evening all really ;oops: (cheers Peaches, if it works!)
Chas well done for spotting my deliberate mistake re U21’s 😳
😳 !!!
Oh and Chas, that song was annoying me right up until all it all started to make perfect sense towards the end. Top quality.
Have to ask though, do you play that song a lot…. all year round..?? Honest answer please.
“The shot of St Niklas im mid air…with his arse level with Spuds heads.”
Were Spuds players a lot shorter then? Or did Nik wear his Jordan Air that day?
Alright GiE
Neither, it was just the sort of towering header that Frothing used to regularly predict we’d see from Arshavin.
He’s not in a secure facility without good reason !
😀 Sharkey
Sharkey, I don’t even play it at Christmas!
Happy Fathers’ Day, one and all. I sit here in bed, Radio 6 on the go and breakfast having been delivered to me. Oh the luxury.
Not having had the chance to chip in yesterday, I wanted to answer mickey’s fine clarion call:
Which ten minutes of your Arsenal existence would you most like to relive?
Tough one, but I think I’ll go for the ten minutes starting with the 89th minute of Arse v Everton on 3 May 1998: Tony Adams rifles a crisp left foot shot into the net in front of the North Bank at Highbury, sealing our title and prompting the astonishing satisfaction of finishing as champions. Avenell Road has never looked as fantastic as in the aftermath of that game, pure unadulturated joy.
You can have ANY one piece of Arsenal memorabilia. What would that be?
That would have to be my homemade score display for the 1979 Ten Minute Final. I was 10 years old and in the middle of my first wave of obsessional love for all things Arsenal, and in Blue Peter style I made a card device for recording all the facts of the game, including twirling wheels for following the scores. Seemed mostly a wasted effort until it all went mental when McQueen, Greenhoff and then wonderfully, beautifully, Alan Sunderland did their business.
An hour with anyone from any era associated with Arsenal. Who and Why?
That one is easy: despite having enormous admiration for lots of legends at the club, an hour with Arsene Wenger would be an honour and a privilege. The topic could be almost anything, but I would want to understand a little of how he has managed to take a malfunctioning and midranking to big-ish and quintessentially British club with a reputation for dull football and badly behaved players to an established member of the elite known for creativity and skill, and which has played some of the best football ever to be seen in England.
Just re-read that: should have been sealing not selling….
26th Good Morning. You said
You can have ANY one piece of Arsenal memorabilia. What would that be?
Well I may have mentioned it before but I was lucky to attend the private party after the 1971 Cup Final(the double year) at the then Portman Hotel and have to this day the invitation with all the teams signatures on it, dated. priceless.
Now I have heard everything. Joey Barton to Arsenal. Whatever next.
Although I was only two years old at the time of that party, Kelsey, I still wish I’d been there!
Your party invitation reminds me of another artefact from my early years: I didn’t grow up in a football family, so was picking up my cues through the 1970s from various, random sources. And one came from a derelict house in Stoke Newington, that my brother and I were exploring (no X Box in those days….). Amongst the detritus, I found a battered clippings album, in which someone had stuck newspaper articles about Arsenal from 1970 to about 1976. It started with all the glory of the Double and the battles with Leeds, but started in the last couple of seasons it covered to become progressively more depressing, as it all slipped away from Arsenal as the coming dominant force, Liverpool, emerged.
I guess the album was abandoned because it all got too depressing for the collector. But it was a fascinating, captivating insight for the little me.
26,
I absolutely love your Blue Peter style scoring device. Loo rolls and sticky back plastic?
My daughter does similar things, and I think it is so cute, however I am not calling you cute or sweet. 🙂
Barton? Who next? Father Christmas?
Alongside AFC, music has been my lifelong obsession and it was with heavy heart that I read of the passing of Bruce Springsteen’s sax player Clarence Clemons this morning. Many, many hours have been spent in the company of his brilliant sax playing and the best live band ever will not be the same without him. Thanks Clarence.
Kelsey. If you were there it couldn’t have been THAT private 😉
Micky. Are you calling 26 effeminate just because he was handy with sticky back plastic?
Morning BR,
I’m not a Springsteen fan, however last year I was watching Glastnbury on the box and caught his mighty impressive set. In particular I noticed a mountain of a man playing sax. Would that have been Clemons. As a very-ex sax player, he really took my breath away.
Kelsey,
Joey Barton? Wow, haven’t we Gooners all been rather rude about him in the past? Just scanned Sky, and yip, the rumour is there.
That was him Micky. The quintessential rock sax player.
Morning all
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Actually ten minutes of my Arsenal existence to relive I think I would now change.
I’ve probably mentioned before that my brother was once mascot at Arsenal, Coventry home. We went into the players lounge after to get autographs. Altho I got a few I only really remember the dark wood walls. My memory is so vague of those moments as I was all too nervous and shy to enjoy it (and probably only 8 or 9 years old). How I would have loved to have been a couple of years older and taken it all in.
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