One Cockerel does not a summer make

So here we go folks, the final North London Derby at WHL. This occasion really should have called for the daddy of pre-matches, but unfortunately there are some trees that need a hug…..so you are stuck with me.

I need to say in advance that I have a superstition about being too condescending ahead of these games so if you are expecting lots of belittlement and ridicule then disappointment will be the order of the day. Having said that the rest of you can fill yer boots.

I strangely feel a degree of sadness that this is the last outing at their place, as WHL holds some fond memories for us. I am normally very nervous about these games. On reflection I think this is because we have pretty much been the favourites in games against them since some fellow called Newton had an apple fall on his head. As such I think the expectancy to win adds more angst to the occasion. This time however I have them down as favourites. Spurs are the form team this season while we have struggled.

Stating this actually doesn’t cause me any issues because this aberration can be redressed in readiness for next season. A shift in the balance of power?……pffft (he expectorates on the floor in distaste). As Lord Wenger intimated the other day, one cockerel does not a summer make. If anything Spurs form versus ours this season may be the main proverbial kick up the derriere that we needed. If it turns out to be the catalyst for action that sees us awaken from our slumber and head into next season a different animal, then I will doff my cap to those white lillies and say thank-you. I may even resort to a chicken on a beach ball as my screen saver……ok maybe not….still a few white wine spritzers clouding my judgement this morning.

I am reconciled with the fact it is now near impossible for us to celebrate St. Tott’s day this year. If you gave me a choice between winning the F.A cup and finishing below them or finishing above them with no silverware then I would take the former all day. This is a real possibility for us so it could be that in a few weeks time we are actually celebrating a more successful season than them. How galling would that be for them?

Onto team matters. I am not sure if a mere stand in for the pre-match is allowed to mutter these sacred words, but here goes………..

my team (ooh it does make one feel powerful) :

 

Cech

Holding Koscielny Gabriel

Ox Coquelin Ramsey Monreal

Ozil Sanchez

Welbeck

Why change the formation that has revived our fortunes recently. I would also like to stick largely with the same players with a couple of proviso’s. I think the pace of Welbeck with Ozil and Sanchez flitting about behind him would suit this game more. Giroud and Walcott are useful impact subs. I think we need the defensive graft of Coquelin in a disciplined role front of the defence. They are dangerous in that area and a big game from him could be a deciding factor. If he is able to largely stifle them in this area and free up the rest of our team in attack then I will be very hopeful. Xhaka has played well recently but is more reckless and we can’t afford to be down to 10 men in this game. Other than that it is as you were.

As I said, based on form and them being at home they are the favourites…….but I have a feeling in me bones. Being favourites carries that extra psychological burden. Also our new system will be far less easy for them to predict than when we were labouring with the 4-3-3 system. Even we don’t yet fully know what Arsenal will turn up in this system, so it should create some doubt and uncertainty in their minds.

All this should mean that for once, us rather than them, can approach the game with less to lose and can literally just go out and play without burden. There is one final consideration. This is a historic day for them. There must be a few nerves in their camp that the final NLD at old WHL could go down as an Arsenal win. WHL holds some fond memories for the Arsenal. Who can forget the 3rd May 1971 or the 25th April 2004? Let the record books show that Sunday 30th April 2017 saw Spurs title bid crash down around them as the good guys in red and white registered a historic final win at WHL.

COYRRG’S

Written by GoonerB

 

206 Responses to One Cockerel does not a summer make

  1. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    That’s great GB, thank you very much.

    I knew you’d go with Danny and have Ollie as the impact sub. I agree.

    Interesting choice of Coq and Ramsey. For me Granit was our best player last time out so I would stick with him and Coq to combat Spuds being strong in that area and I fear Ramsey will get caught to far upfield and they’re well equipped to exploit the space.

    Having said that, Ramsey was disciplined against City, so maybe the Granit/Ramsey combo again. Mmm, can’t decide

  2. fred1266's avatar fred1266 says:

    Hope Wenger tells Ramsey he is or CDM and shouldn’t be trying to dribble through the opposition team

    Would hope wall starts over welbeck also

  3. Rasp's avatar Rasp says:

    Excellent thank you GB. Another dimension to today’s game is that it gives us the opportunity to pretty much kill off their title hopes if we win. Like you I’m not too stressed as we are underdogs .. the pressure is on the tiny totts and we all know how ‘spursy’ they can be.

    I can sense a red card today ..let’s hope its Alli and not Xhaka.

    Hopefully our newly found defensive solidity will mean that if we go ahead, we don’t get over confident and concede almost immediately which was a problem earlier in the season. We can win as long as we aren’t carrying any passengers. The battle will be fought in the midfield and I’m sorry to say, theirs is pretty good, we will have to work hard and use the full width of the pitch when attacking.

    Let’s play like the away team and not worry if they have lots of possession, we have the pace and ability to hit them on the break as long as we get the ball forward quickly.

    Let’s not take any risks in defence, but be prepared to take risks and lose possession on the counter. We can’t have any ‘they want it more than us’ moments today.

  4. Thank you so much GoonerB for stepping up to write a very entertaining pre-match. Where is everyone, can’t be hiding behind the sofa already 😉

    Very nice of Swansea to hold manu to a draw 🙂 Now we really do need the chavs to get three points this afternoon, we can’t have spuds going into our game looking to close the gap to 1 point eeeek. Be back at game time.

  5. fred1266's avatar fred1266 says:

    Am I the only one hear want chelsea to lose, longer the stay to win the league the less the can concentrate on fa

    Come on lukaku

  6. Fred the FA cup isn’t until after the season is over

  7. fatgingergooner's avatar fatgingergooner says:

    Chambers just put Boro back in front! Could be a very good day if we get a result.

  8. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Cech, Gabriel, Koscielny, Monreal, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Xhaka, Gibbs, Ozil, Sanchez, Giroud.

    Subs: Ospina, Holding, Bellerin, Coquelin, Iwobi, Walcott, Welbeck

    🙄

  9. Rasp's avatar Rasp says:

    Giroud starting, just don’t understand that, he was a passenger against City.

  10. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Other results…wow. Back door wide open

    back for ko

  11. Top stuff GB

    I’m well up for this. With the current state of affairs I’m not saying we will win the game, but I do think we will get three points

    Totnumb ain’t all that. They have developed a not very interesting way of playing that suits men who lack personality. In this respect they are underachieving, should be 20 bloody points clear.

    I like the line up. Gibbs always play well against them. He fully understands that turning them over will dampen there spirits so reduce the chance of been cornered at a party by a boring Git wanting to talk about Jimmy Greaves and Windows 10

    The Ghosts of the Thirties are Stirring

  12. JanMan's avatar JanMan says:

    I have a bad feeling for this game.

  13. Rasp's avatar Rasp says:

    Are we playing a back 3 with Monreal instead of Holding? That’s the way some of the pitch graphics are showing it?

  14. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    then go away janman 🙂

    Come on you Gunnnnnners

  15. chas's avatar chas says:

    Superb pre-match, GoonerB.
    Cheers.
    Let it be so.

  16. fred1266's avatar fred1266 says:

    No Rasp Monreal playing CB,why holding drop though

  17. Rasp's avatar Rasp says:

    I have no problem with Nacho in the back 3 although Holding does add more height to the defence

  18. fred1266's avatar fred1266 says:

    Is Per still an Arsenal player

  19. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Ok half. Reckon we’ll score a few second half as they get edgy. They must win and that’ll get to them the longer the game goes on.

  20. JanMan's avatar JanMan says:

    Mickey. You are one friendly bastard!

  21. Ok, my heart isn’t enjoying this but we had some good possession towards the end of that half.

    And that nice referee didn’t give Xhaka a yellow 🙂

  22. JanMan's avatar JanMan says:

    Mickey. Sorry, forgot the smiley face. 🙂

  23. Tea or more Peroni?

  24. JanMan's avatar JanMan says:

    Rode out the 1st half storm okay I guess, we should be 2-0 down but we are still in with a shout.

  25. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Janman ha ha 🙂

    It’s too nervy to have any negative vibrations on the sofa

  26. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Let’s hope we tear into them first ten minutes of this half.
    Take control. Score two and bury their title ambitions.

  27. Rasp's avatar Rasp says:

    Did we come out for the second half in a coma as usual?

  28. JanMan's avatar JanMan says:

    Mickey 🙂 🙂

  29. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    come on Arsenal, let’s get a goal and see what happens then

  30. chas's avatar chas says:

  31. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    They are the better team 2016-17
    That’s all
    Life will go merrily on

  32. JanMan's avatar JanMan says:

    Tottenham wanted it more than we did!! They had the desire, heart and passion. We didn’t. Nothing more to discuss.

  33. Well that’s all rather deflating and we’ve still got important points to try and gather 😦

  34. Jjgsol's avatar Jjgsol says:

    The pro scum commentators on sky made me sick. I include Alan Smith in that as he always seems to be pro our opponents.

    On truth the scum were the better team throughout and we were pretty poor. How we are going to get more points out of our last 5 games, if we play like this I have no idea.

    We had no attack and our passing in their half was abysmal.

  35. I don’t think they wanted it more I just think our defending let us down again

  36. chas's avatar chas says:

    My perspective through brilliant crimson spectacles. 😆

    We only dropped one point to both Manc teams when playing our hardest fxture left.

    Chavs won in their hardest fixture left.

    Anymore and I’d be gilding the lily. 🙂

    Match report from Janman, Wally or Fred??????????

  37. Jjgsol's avatar Jjgsol says:

    The game was lost with the first goal. It was defensive pantomime to allow Ali to take that shot and the ox wiggled his foot at it when he should have done better.

    The 2nd goal was just symptomatic of the loss of concentration after a goal.

    Kane dived but was tapped and took the fall despite the fact that he had already kicked the ball too far away.

    That was the 9th penalty given away this season. Simply unacceptable.

  38. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Micky – not if they fecking go and win the league

  39. chas's avatar chas says:

    Eddie
    Chavs won their hardest fixture left.
    Their fixtures remaining are Boro, Watford and Sunderland at home plus West Brom away.

    It isn’t all about the spudulikas. though in Cuffley it may seem that way.

  40. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    GB. Fine PM, much more temperate than I could manage.

    Didn’t watch the game which seems to be a good thing.

    Form is temporary, class is permanent

  41. It may seem like a dark day but remember how we laughed at their 5-1 defeat to relegated Newcastle on the last day of last season, gifting us 2nd place 🙂 ……………………. they will bring us laughs like that again, I am certain 🙂

  42. chas's avatar chas says:

    100%, BR.

    If I can’t take them finishing above us once in two decades, I have a serious problem.

    In a way St Totteringhams was an expression of the astonishing repitition of an unlikely superiority.

  43. They had more of the ball, ran more distance, had more shots, and won more chalanges. But, I still think we’re better than them.

    Next year we will batter the knobs, and I’m looking forward to it.

  44. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    I’m in warsaw and the outlook is still bleak. Or dismal if you like.

  45. GunnerN5's avatar GunnerN5 says:

    Good lord only in Islington !!!!!You will not believe what just happened… I went to a petrol station to get a drink, as I walked up, I noticed 2 police officers watching some bloke who was smoking while refuelling (really?!) I saw him and thought, Is he really that stupid? Anyway, I went in and got my drink and as I was paying, I heard screaming and looked outside… the guy’s arm was on fire! He was swinging his arm and running around going crazy!! I ran outside and watched the police put him on the floor and were putting the fire out with their coffees! LOL, YES, THEIR COFFEES 😂. They then handcuffed him and threw him in the back of the police car. I thought what an absolute dumb ass.. shouldn’t have been smoking near the pump while getting petrol!!! So being the nosey person I am, I asked the police officers why they were arresting him… the police man looked me dead in my eyes and said “FOR WAVING A FIREARM!!!”.
    😂

  46. chas's avatar chas says:

    Warsaw sounds depressing.

  47. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    And that’s from someone who lives in Nottingham! Ha ha ha that was a good one

  48. chas's avatar chas says:

    Nottingham is never dismal when I’m here.

  49. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    And why is that?
    Actually, you are probably right – cuffley is probably the place to party tonight

  50. chas's avatar chas says:

    Shame you’re in Warsaw.

  51. fatgingergooner's avatar fatgingergooner says:

    Chelsea have won the league after today’s result so I don’t really care where Spurs finish. They have 2 seasons now in 2 different stadiums so their form will suffer badly. I expect us to be back above them next year.

    We were poor first half but no worse than we were against City. Only difference was second half we never came out whereas against City we were pretty decent. That’s probably a rest from CL next season so it will be interesting to see how we get on in EL. We definitely need more legs in midfield and a better CF. I’d also like to see us get someone who can play LWB as neither Gibbs nor Monreal are good enough for that position. Fingers crossed we buy well in the summer and come back stronger next season.

    A shocking trend of terrible penalties being given lately. The FA need to sort it out because it’s becoming embarrassing to watch.

  52. Jjgsol's avatar Jjgsol says:

    The truth is that in order to any result today we had to play exceptionally well as the scum are on a hig
    However with our form patchy at best and confidence low it was always going to be a hard if not impossible task. So it proved.

    When you give away silly goals like the first one what dies one expect.

  53. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Chas
    How was the night in Glasgow and were the other attendees a pleasant looking bunch?

  54. Rasp's avatar Rasp says:

    Totnum ran 10k more than us today …. no excuses, we don’t have the work ethic. Ramsey and the Ox put in the effort, I don’t care how silky Ozil’s ball control is, he doesn’t have the heart for a fight

  55. Jjgsol's avatar Jjgsol says:

    I hope that you will all forgive me if I do not go into mourning because the scum will finish above us for the first time in 20 years. Frankly I will also not do so were they to win the league.

    We have had 20 fabulous years with 3 league titles, 7 fa cups, including 2 doubles.

    We have gone through a whole season unbeaten and have lost 4 cup finals.

    Most importantly we have built up a wonderful reputation as great players of entertaining football.

    But the atmosphere is changing.

    The game is now about pressing and stopping the opponents playing, with players running around like lunatics and, in truth, we have been left behind.

    Our best ever manager wants us to play entertaining beautiful football but the current attitude out there is that entertaining football is no longer wanted. It is now the pressing game which our players have little aptitude for .

    We will, undoubtedly, get a new manager sooner or later who will try to take us and our players to the next stage and to develop us into the sort if team that can play as equals with our rivals.

    This season has been a wake up call after last season when the new style succeeded with Leicester.

    I reckon aw has been let down by the players but that, in the end, he will carry the can for their inability or unwillingness to adapt.

  56. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    jjgsol

    Agreed. Mein Gott im Himmel I’ve watched some rubbish games recently and assuming you’re right and the only way to beat the system is to join it, then I need to consider my options

    In the meantime Arsene, buy an effing striker of eff off, and let’s go score goals 🙂

  57. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    He is not going to fuck off or buy a striker. He will rebuild the team again and fight for the 4th spot. I really cannot stand it any more, it’s simply no fun in it any more.

  58. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Morning All,

    May Day celebrations ahead. No-one to annoy me with stupid talk about formations and high-press.

    Just a major piss-up.

  59. Jjgsol's avatar Jjgsol says:

    Perhaps it’s no fun any more because we take it too seriously and always look at the result as the only thing to consider.

    Undoubtedly aw has found it hard to adapt to the new sort if game which is an anathema to him and all he has worked for.

    It also does not suit a lot if the players he has brought it to play it his way.

    It looks like he is beginning to change and to try to adapt. It remains to be seen whether his players can.

    If the scum finishing before is for the first time for 20 years is a cause for cekebraruob, should we not even more so celebrate the 20 consecutive years they did not?

  60. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    JJ. Terrific. especially the use of the word “cekebraruob”.

    We expected to lose and we did. Why all the angst?

  61. chas's avatar chas says:

  62. Jjgsol's avatar Jjgsol says:

    Good spot there. The word should have been celebration.

    I also expected us to lose but after the first half I had hope of a draw until the usual defensive howler.

  63. Jjgsol's avatar Jjgsol says:

    So Kane says that as he was touched he was entitled to go down. So he us admitting that he dived. Being touched is not necessarily as foul.

    Yes if he us tripped and falls, but surely not if he doesn’t fall.

    His logic is thus that any time a defender touched an attacker is has a right to fall down and claim a penalty.

    If that was correct is there a reason why that touch has to be on the leg?

    We see so many times that a player who gets a penalty us already on the way down before contact. That is a dive as well.

  64. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Chas

    If we had Hard Brexit, would Giroud be sent home? 🙂

    People go on about our defence, and with reason, but if you have players like Mesut and Sanchez who try anything but to pass to the forward who wouldn’t get there anyway, you’re buggered.

  65. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Hands up all who were googling cekebraruob. I was.

  66. VP of cekebraruob's avatar VP of cekebraruob says:

    Amazingly, we still have Wembley ahead of us. I also still think we’ll make top 4
    Onwards and Upwards

  67. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:
  68. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

  69. Jjgsol's avatar Jjgsol says:

    Does that mean that I am now famous for having invented a new word? If so i had better invent a meaning as well.

    My apologies for the repeated typos. I have predictive texting and do not check properly.

  70. VP of Oz's avatar VP of Oz says:

    All I know JJ, is that if Arsenal win the FA Cup, then I’ll cekebraruob my arse off

  71. fred1266's avatar fred1266 says:

    Why was Gabriel taken off

  72. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    10.51. One of my first recordings. It was a great day and heralded the ’71 Cup Final victory or was it the ’68 or ’69 LC losses?.

    I wonder if the current team will release a single for the Chelsea game.

  73. chas's avatar chas says:

    1971 recording Good Old Arsenal apparently.

  74. chas's avatar chas says:

    Beware exceedingly bad language.

  75. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    How was Glasgow? As awful as I imagine?

  76. chas's avatar chas says:

    Superb.
    One really minor incident with a pisshead.
    Punks are generally lovely, friendly people.
    Well they are when they’re all in their 50s and 60s!!!!!!

  77. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    But the music must have been horrendous …

  78. chas's avatar chas says:

    A couple of weekend faves…..

  79. chas's avatar chas says:

    Horrendous for you because you like all that hippy shit.
    Manna from heaven for two lads who were 17 and 15 when punk landed.

  80. chas's avatar chas says:

    Jack “The Hat” McChurchill………

  81. Red Arnie's avatar Red Arnie says:

    Thank you GoonerB. Late to the funeral party, have we been relegated yet?

    Onwards and sideways.

  82. Red Arnie's avatar Red Arnie says:

    Saint Shitfloats! 😆

  83. Aaron's avatar Aaron says:

    Question for all: spuds come second by 1 point to chavs, and Arsenal win FA cup.
    Will it all matter then?
    Just askin’…

  84. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

  85. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    32 hrs at sea..brrrrrr

    Thank goodness we don’t have shit sharks and stuff like that

  86. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    As you get older, is it entirely natural to find virtually everything more and more tiresome?

  87. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:
  88. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    “But the music must have been horrendous”

    Yellow Submarine to you Erik 🙂

  89. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Chas

    Do you have a fall back sport, a B sport so to speak, as in Arnie, Rasp and Erik like cricket, to help cushion the blow when Arsenal world gets dull?

  90. chas's avatar chas says:

    Not really, Micky, do you?
    Surfing, I suppose.

  91. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    I only occasionally watch the surfing and other than that, nothing

    Looking forward to CL games, but that’ll be football done for this season

    Just cannot get engaged with anything else

  92. chas's avatar chas says:

    The mancs in Europey on Thurs 1st leg. Second leg is after we play them Sunday.
    Might watch the Cup Final.

  93. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    I wish I had another sport to focus on, but I don’t. I have a few hobbies but nothing as intensive as supporting arsenal. Let’s face it – it’s hard to get excited about perfect lawn of to start blogging about runner beans…

  94. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Morning All,

    Have to admit that Yellow Submarine is one the the worst noises ever made. Have to leave the room if I hear it.

    If you loved cricket, you could have watched Ben Stokes last night – fantastic entertainment and proper sporting tension resulting in triumph.

  95. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Eddie

    I’d find both considerably easier and more exciting and I don’t even grow runner beans

    You have bees, not that that is a sport as such, although…

  96. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Eddie. You have to be mellow to love cricket. Micky and chas (and you) are not wired that way 😀

  97. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    About tottenham. Who are their world class players now? Lloris is the French keeper, I know that. Harry Kane was great last season and Alli is good this year. Other than that? Any outstanding footballers?

    What I’m trying to establish is how come they are so good? Players, manager, team spirit? Defo not the fans, than what?

  98. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Ganja helps the mellowing process☺

    I’m glad I’m not mellow, I hate cricket

  99. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Erik

    I rate Love Love Me Do even lower. Always thought it was written by 8 year olds for 4 year olds

  100. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Micky – what about James Arthur, the new kid with a guitar. Don’t look at him or you’d be put off, just listen to his voice. I love him

  101. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Erik

    I think I am actually scared of cricket because being quite an addictive personality I’m afraid that five day sporting events would ruin my life

  102. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Micky. True. Not my favourite either but they were babies when they wrote it. And don’t refer to Mozart!

  103. chas mobile's avatar chas mobile says:

    That caterwauling bollix?
    Jaysus.

  104. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    I’m reading the definite Mozart biography.

  105. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    definitive

  106. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Eddie. I hate gardening but I am not proud of it 😀

  107. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Addictive personality ☺☺ I’ll ways thank my lucky stars that drugs were not around when I was growing up. Otherwise I am certain I’d be infecting the hard stuff

  108. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Raddy – that’s you off my and peaches xmas list
    we love gardening. When I visit her she asks if I want a coffee or a walk round the garden ☺ garden always wins. She showers me with long Latin names I instantly forget, I knick some plants, we chop or dig, or trim things together – magic!!

  109. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Not I’ll ways but I always

  110. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Eddie
    What do the little yellow faces with eyes shut and red cheeks mean?

  111. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Micky – no idea ☺ on my tablet they are regular grins with no teeth protruding

  112. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Never heard of James Arthur before. Listened to a couple … like it. Thanks Eddie.

  113. Zed's avatar Zed says:

    Good Morning,

    Bit late to applaud my man – GoonerB an Author – for his pre-match, which was very well done — so belated thanks. 🙂

    Also, reading the comments pre and post the game was very enlightening and a little sad, but the world hasn’t shifted in its orbit and,,,,,,,,, oh, my gawd, what was that wobble — whooo no probs it was just big Brenda getting up and knocking her coffee over.

    Me like cricket, tennis, rugby and the snooker last night was excellent — so football ends and life carries on.

  114. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Raddy – did you really like it? Fantastic!! I know nothing about music but I know what I like and this kid is defo my type of guy. Young, self tought, unemployed riff rough. I hope he’ll go a long way

  115. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Morning Zed,

    I forgot rugger. Love the Internationals.

    Used to like Formula One and still watch because it is the soundtrack to my Sunday afternoon post-lunch snooze

  116. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    I like boxing, but with age I grew to hate seeing suffering. I’m weak , cannot watch fighting aymore

  117. Zed's avatar Zed says:

    Hi Raddy,

    Back from your bi-monthly holiday I see. 🙂

    England playing Argentina, and The Lions playing the Kiwis (see – I am becoming more English by the second) so the summer will be taken care of, and I too love F1, altho the FIA messing about with the engines puts too much financial pressure on the small teams – much like the PL money barons who are distorting the game.

  118. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Zed. Jealous??

  119. cekebraruob's avatar cekebraruob says:

    cekebraruob

  120. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    This made me giggle – the EU delegates became increasingly angry with Theresa May’s repeated phrase ‘successful Brexit’. I guess the EU leaders want anything but successful Brexit

  121. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    RC. Great idea.

    I have taken out your comments for tomorrow’s post

  122. RC78's avatar RC78 says:

    BR 🙂

  123. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Give us a sneak preview RC

    The upside of brexit for the arsenal 🙂

  124. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Is Real v Athletico going to be a goal fest or a bore?

  125. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Bale isn’t playing, so that won’t help the goal tally

  126. chas's avatar chas says:

    Bore fest – Atletico are efficient but boring under Simeone.

  127. chas's avatar chas says:

    Monaco v Juve tomorrow, on the other hand.

  128. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Efficient 🙂

    You’re saying he’s another Maureen aren’t you.

    Thanks for the advice. I shall heed.

  129. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Is that badge from the ’82 (?) season with blue green away

  130. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Chas
    When you said you “might” watch the final, does that mean you’re not going?

  131. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Ahhhhhhh, you meant CL final, right?

  132. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    6.37 A cash crop. Proper gardening 🙂

  133. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Erik

    I knew a bloke who grew up knowing he’d inherit 20k when he was 21. Decided he was never going to work and throw everything into one slightly risky venture involving chartering a big sailing boat for a month and a return journey to Morocco

    He’d either spend the next 20 yrs in prison getting buggered or be set up for life. Left school at 18. Laid low, plotted and learnt to sail.

    He’s never worked since 🙂

  134. chas mobile's avatar chas mobile says:

    Haha, I was completely wrong about Atletico and Simeone.
    I still know dick all about football fifty years on.

  135. chas mobile's avatar chas mobile says:

    Mmmmmmm, red seal and gold seal black, mmmmmmm.

  136. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Haha ditto, Chas

    I saw the result and then thought shit, what do I know, as well

    Then I realized…more than Arsene. Strikers win games 🙂

  137. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Mmmmmmmmm, memories 🙂

  138. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    You mean strikers like Antoine Griezmann. 🙂

  139. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Yes
    I think them getting to two CL finals underlines shit like that 🙂

  140. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    What are you mmmmmmooming about now?

    Atletico as efficient as us

  141. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    You’re now going to tell me Tony Griezmann missed some sitters last night aren’t you?

  142. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    The blue and green badge is new.

  143. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

  144. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    No, Griezmann didn’t have a sniff all night.

    Illustrating the point that a striker is pretty redundant unless chances are created for him (by wingers/midfield) and there is a stable defence not conceding many chances backing the striker’s efforts.

    Football – a team game – never let it be said. 🙂

  145. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    Eddie
    You had to have been there…………….

    Any photos of Peaches’ garden for us?

  146. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Beginning of the end indeed
    I gave up my season ticket the following season
    Not the only reason, but I certainly didn’t want to sit near the same cretins game in game out, year in.. people simply annoy me too much for that kind of thing

  147. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Hang on, a moment ago you said something about dick all, now you’re a bloody expert again when it’s convenient 🙂

  148. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Micky – I cannot travel on underground in case someone sits next to me with short sleeves and hairy arms. Vomiting guaranteed.

    I have list of pictures of peaches’ garden but it’s private 😂😂

    It is the most beautiful garden I’ve seen, all year round colour, structure and movement, truly magic. I’m trying to replicate it in Cuffley but I think j like peonies and roses too much

  149. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Is the naked woman carrying a cannabis tree? No wonder she’s smiling

  150. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Call them Roger’s Garden Pics and slip them under the radar

  151. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Oh Chas, onto more important matters, I think I’ve mastered posting pics on here. About a year ago, you told me about phootbucket, which I joined, then found it yesterday.

    I go get and try

  152. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    Peonies too short-lived and roses too prickly to base your whole garden on.

    What colour is dominant in Peaches’ garden? Mine’s gone from white to purpley mauve.

  153. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Mrs Didit gave me one hour flying lesson for Christmas
    Went last Sunday
    Hate heights but superb flying over our local beaches and surf spots

    Here we go. Fingers crossed

    http://s1077.photobucket.com/user/MDidit/media/IMG_2179_zpschtixihg.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1

  154. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

  155. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    oh bollocks

  156. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    You forgot the link had to end with ‘.jpg’ 🙂

  157. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

  158. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    So how did you change it on the photobucket page?

    Must go in a sec as doing school run. Back 20 mins

  159. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    If I can master this, I’ll take a photo of a rhodo in flower from our garden

  160. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    Did you get to hold the controls?

  161. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Peaches hates rhodos, azaleas, camelias and magnolias, I’m not allowed to have more than 1 bed of those ☺

    Chas – green of course.! It’s a flipping garden

  162. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Chas – you and peaches have a lot in common, you would get on like a house on fire. All the cooking, gardening, arsenal…..made for each other 😂😂😂

  163. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
    Pedantry does not become you.

  164. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Morning All,

    6.12. Happy Daze

  165. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    Just down the road from me, there’s a roundabout (they call them ‘islands’ up here).
    It has three mature magnolia trees on it.
    For three weeks in the year it is just the most glorious sight.

  166. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    Lovely garden pic. We only have a terrace as we live in an apartment but we do have a blueberry plant and some green stuff. Nothing brash like tulips or daffs.

  167. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    I like trees the most. Again, I’m not allowed many but I sneaked in a dozen or so

    I will post a couple of pics of Capability Peaches’ garden when I get back to civilization

  168. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Rhodo

    And yes, I got to drive the plane

  169. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    [URL=http://s1077.photobucket.com/user/MDidit/media/IMG_2240_zps0eouk3og.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w475/MDidit/IMG_2240_zps0eouk3og.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

  170. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    So you got flying lessons and not leather trousers, how very posh

  171. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Wow, stunning well established garden. And the Spaniards? Are they all gone?

  172. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    Micky
    Right click on photo, left click on Copy Image Location.
    Right click is your friend. 🙂

  173. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    Superb rhodie.
    Which part of the estate is that photo from?

  174. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    No, I’ll never win that battle

    Planted 1000 natives but everywhere you go you see hybrids even in hedgerows miles from a village

    Still plenty of unspoilt bluebell carpeted woodlands, but they will all be gone in 50 years

  175. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    …but you won’t see it. Look on the bright side 😂😂

  176. chas cekebraruob's avatar chas cekebraruob says:

    [URL=http://s1077.photobucket.com/user/MDidit/media/IMG_2240_zps0eouk3og.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w475/MDidit/IMG_2240_zps0eouk3og.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    In the above, you want the bit starting http://i1077. and finishing zps0eouk3og.jpg

    So in total but without the double quotes I’ve added.
    “http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/w475/MDidit/IMG_2240_zps0eouk3og.jpg”

  177. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Copy image location doesn’t appear after right click

    Bollocks to it 🙂

    It was a big beautiful rhodo in cerise 🙂

  178. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

  179. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    bollocks shitballs never again

  180. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    Lovely white square, very art noveou

  181. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    How many of these do you grow in your garden?

  182. chas's avatar chas says:

    The link you copied “http://s1077.photobucket.com/user/MDidit/media/DSCN2479_zpsxm5k0zwf.jpg”
    is the one used for sorting the photos, hence the ‘s’ before 1077, you needed the one with ‘i’ there – i for image.

    Simples. Hahahahaha

  183. chas's avatar chas says:

    Art crappeau garden design. 🙂

  184. chas's avatar chas says:

    Right, off to do some strimming, hedge trimming, brimming and rimming.

  185. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Yeah right, and photofuckit make it so easy to find the one beginning with an i. Wankers

    Where’s the bloody post so I can have a topic to pick on 🙂

  186. mickydidit89's avatar mickydidit89 says:

    Good idea. Fresh air needed.

  187. Eddie's avatar Eddie says:

    You seem to care a lot about what peaches likes or not likes 😂😂

    I like the owl, does that matter to you? Does it fuck

  188. Erik the Red's avatar Big Raddy says:

    There is a New Post

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