mickydidit89 says:
Lads lads lads
Had an idea for a mini series of posts
- The best Arsenal players NEVER to have won a major trophy with us
- The worst Arsenal player to HAVE won a major trophy with us
- The best player for us who then did jack shit after leaving
- The player who did jackest shitest for us who went on to greater things elsewhere
Wha’d’ya reckon?
While the great hopes of English International Football snuggle up for two weeks, we’re left in the void, picking our noses and scratching our arses. Bloody awful situation.
Things at Arsenal are looking considerably brighter than at the onset of the last ghastly international break, and frankly, while Arsene continues to pick the right players, in the right positions, and we continue winning, there’s bugger all to moan about, so I’m afraid we’re treading water until we play Watford.
Let’s start with No.1 from above and see how we get on. I use the term “major trophy” and by that I’d say League, FA Cup or a European thingy.
courtesy of Stuart MacFarlane
Some of you can be really quite nit-picky and will talk about squad members who don’t really play but get medals and shit like that, so if that’s your bag, then fine. The detail is not my thing.
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Cheers, Micky.
How about Alan Ball since he was featured yesterday?
He was my favourite player when I was at junior school, though I think that maybe Everton had the best of him.
Chas – right foot, left foot, header, from the smallest player on the pitch. Part of the great Everton ball-bearing playing axis Ball, Kendall, Harvey. A team that was a pleasure to watch.
However, he ran our midfield in a period of relative mediocrity.
“Ball-bearing” bollox
Way too early for this crap 🙂
GN5, safe Canada vs dangerous UK:
Anelka and Cesc spring to mind.
Anelka won the Double.
the Russian midget, …..hm…..Arshavin!! what happened to him?
hold on didit, I have just noticed the ‘MAJOR trophy’ bit. So we are talking history, like 14-15 years ago at the earliest
but he moved to bigger things, did well after leaveng ffs
oh, I see, there is no category for players who did better after leaving, sorry 🙂
George Eastham
Charlie Nicholas
Supermac
Guess the moral there is, don’t be short, fast and have chunky thighs, tight shorts and girly hair 🙂
Strewth Steve, are you GN5 in disguise. Great call though 🙂
Can we get a best losers XI by the end of the day?
Goalie?
CHANGE OF PLAN
Let’s deal with all above today as it certainly won’t see us through four days
Now Fred can have his Nasri’s and Adebeyor’s
Kenny Sansom only won the Licklewoods Cup trophy while playing for us.
He was one of the best full backs I’ve ever seen play.
Hi Micky,
I’ll dig into the archives of my brain and find a few worthy candidates from the past.
Eddie,
Different stats – the latest total homicide rates (I could find) are from 2015.
USA = 15,696
England & Wales = 754
Canada = 604
Australia = 413
It’s interesting that the 3 lowest countries all have stringent gun control.
A little perspective on the subject of gun control. Let’s put to bed some of the nonsense currently being bandied about and where the blame, if any, should be apportioned.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/
Thanks Micky … this has got me thinking …. Clive Allen? 😆
The good thing about Clive Allen’s swift departure is that it brought Kenny Sansom to Arsenal
Anyone got a spare for the next Real Madrid Barca game? 😳
I I thought the post would be listing the the players
Fredster
Were you born in December 1966?
Nope
What happened 200 years after the Battle of Hastings?
Chas
Forgot to thank you for getting it up, and for the pics
Only just had the chance to zoom in on the top one. Prince Bendy 🙂
Fred
If I do a post, you do the work. That’s the deal 🙂
Bur
cold?
Joe Baker
We’re struggling to find decent players, especially in the modern era, who haven’t left with a decent gong
The top photo is of the Slovenian national team who England play tomorrow.
There must’ve been a couple of good ones who played in our 9 years without a trophy and who left before 2014.
How about Sagna?
His missus was red hot.
test
Weird. In, as Fred would say.
Bloody internationals. Not even half way
Top – Marinello, Wilson, McNab, Rice, George, Barnett
Bottom – Blockley, Barnett, George, McNab, Wilson, Storey?, Ball.
Correction Top Storey instead of Rice
George was clearly a natural in front of the lens
Cygan (or Sylvestre?) has to be the worst player that won a trophy with us
Nasri did fine with us but his first season at City was outstanding
Evening All,
Carlos Vela?
There are a slew of players who won trophies who were p. poor …. Morrow, Linighan, Martin Hayes ++
Ian Selley won a League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup winners medal and he was seriously mediocre.
Gone on to better things? After Arsenal it is all downhill – ask Vermaelen, Hleb, etc though a couple have done well – Overmars, Clichy, RvP (for a season),
Weren’t Barcelona absolute shite when Overmars was there?
Nasri first season was outstanding, definitely didn’t remember it that way
Nice one Micky.
Agree with chas. For a man who was the Union of a Carrot and some helium, Alan Ball defied all racial prejudice and truely was a great player.
Worst player to win a major and mentioned by Raddy, was Martin Hayes. I went to school with Hayes and despite the fact that as soon as I entered the pitch I suffered from vertigo so spent the entire 90 minutes wrapped around the ref for balance, I was still a better player than him, and at least when I got sent off the ref had to come with me.
I’m not bitter. Hayes is the only man I know who ladies of the night turn down the money and that refuses to become a homosexual for fear of then been rejected by men as well as women, so good luck to him.
As for players that leave through there own volition? There all failures.
Morning All,
No-one who attended my school played pro football. Nearest we got was one of the 6th form sold programmes at Leyton Orient
I was at the Boro game.
Hooray for that Erik.
By the way, I do hope the mountain air has worked 🙂
Good Afternoon, each.
Can I change the subject momentarily? No? Oh, OK – but it is a complaint against the beloved Rasper, so I feel I have no choice but to continue.
Raspy Rasper — I was stuck waiting for a train recently, and something you said, when trying to solve a comment made by GN5 not long ago (which you solved), led me to think I would have another go at a simple Times cryptic crossword to while away the time.
Now I am aware that one of the key tests for someone, during WW2, to be accepted into MI6 o some such was to successfully complete the then Times crossword – an indicator of knowledge and intelligence, and which you would have passed without problem.
I remembered when I started that even when I solved previous cryptic clues they were by way of my own rather circuitous logic, when compared with how others successfully completed the puzzle.
I limbered up with the Quick Cryptic Crossword just to get into the swing of things thinking even being rusty I should have completed it within 20 minutes or so. [others I know can do it in less than 10 mins without breaking sweat]
Suffice to say that simple puzzle took me as long to complete as it took for the train to arrive. [Oh, alright – 25 minutes] and shattered my happy thoughts and ruined my day. I am not sure I will ever forgive you for ruining my self esteem – so that when I then did the extreme fiendish Sudoku, I completed that in a pathetic 40 minutes!
40 minutes!! — No one knew — but I knew — and now some of you know – and I used to like you a lot, Rasper, but now ……….
ha ha RedZee. My 2nd wife is a Sudoku addict. She originally tried getting me involved but when i replied I was not a fan of Japanese anime she never asked again, so would do her Sudoku whilst i watched cartoons. She did however some time after tentatively ask If I could help with her with a cryptic crossword but after answering “is it about horror words?”, I am now an expert on all episodes of Wacky Races.
I was at the Spurs game as well.
Barry Daines was my favourite Spurs keeper closely followed by Bobby Mimms (the clown in the above clip)
Cryptic … Horror. Nice Terry
Terry,
😀 😀
You have cheered me up — so maybe I will forgive the Rasper, after all.
I do not remember if you are still with wife #2 or is it #22 but if it is the former, then memorise the following and you will be a hero when you help her.
１ （一） ichi
２ （二） ni
３ （三） san
４ （四） yon
5 五 go
6 六 roku
7 七 nana
Good luck with that!! 😀
Ospina yesterday smh
Is there anyone in the current team who would get in the Invincibles team? On the bench? carrying the kit bags?
Yes, RA.
Pascal Cygan was an Invincible, so virtually all of the current squad could have been an Invincible if they could have found their own little niche in that 4-4-2 set up. 🙂
Good morning,
The standard of football in the recent Internationals has been dreadful. Why bother?
Why can’t the teams be seeded so France (for example) do not have to play until later into the tournament? Germany have not lost away from home in the WC qualifiers since 1934 – surely this is evidence that the system is not working and only a method by which UEFA/FIFA (whomever) make money.
If teams were seeded many of our players would get more rest
Cygan could not have been an Invincible, Chas, just say it ain’t so!!!!
You will tell me next that Justin Hoyte, Aliadiere and David Bentley were also in the squad and played —- and no one could bekieve that, surely?
The suggestion has given me a headache in my feet!!!
I was thinking that Oleg Lushny might have appeared in the Invincibles squad, and altho I personally thought he was OK, many think he was a horse.
But without bothering to look it up – I think he was transferred out just before the unbeaten season — OK, I am becoming lazy or blasé after so long blogging – but there will be someone here who knows!! 🙂
Arsenal Invincible Squad
Player Apps Subs Total
Ashley Cole 32 32
Denis Bergkamp 21 7 28
Edu 12 17 29
Fredrik Ljungberg 27 3 30
Gael Clichy 7 5 12
Gilberto Silva 29 3 32
Jens Lehmann 38 38
Jose Reyes 7 6 13
Kole Toure 36 1 37
Lauren 30 2 32
Martin Keown 3 7 10
Nwankwo Kanu 3 7 10
Pascal Cygan 10 8 18
Patrick Vieira 29 29
Ray Parlour 12 10 22
Robert Pires 33 3 36
Sol Campbell 35 35
Sylvain Wiltord 8 4 12
Thierry Henry 37 37
Not exactly all individual super stars – but what a SUPER team!!!
What I find incredible is that the crazy German goalkeeper played every minute of every game. I kinda like crazy.
Will Argentina really not be in the world culture
This will probably come out as gobbledygook but let’s see.
Appearances in the 2003/04 Champions League.
Appearances — with ‘off the bench’ in brackets.
Name CL
Jens Lehmann 10
Ashley Cole 9
Patrick Vieira 6 (1)
Martin Keown 1
Robert Pirès 10
Fredrik Ljungberg 8 (1)
Francis Jeffers Left club 0
José Antonio Reyes 2 (2)
Dennis Bergkamp 4 (2)
Sylvain Wiltord 3 (1)
Lauren 8
Thierry Henry 10
Ray Parlour 4 (1)
van Bronckhorst Left club 0
Edu 7 (1)
Pascal Cygan 2 (1)
Gilberto Silva 5 (3)
Gaël Clichy 1
Sol Campbell 9
Nwankwo Kanu 1 (6)
Efstathios Tavlaridis 0
Kolo Touré 10
Jérémie Aliadière (1)
Michal Papadopulos 0
Graham Stack 0
David Bentley (1)
Unbelievably, Alliadiere, and Bentley did come off the bench in the CL, and Cygan made 3 appearances, including 1 off the bench.
[Not that I doubted you, Chas.]
Sorry, GN5,
I was answering my own question, which related to the Invincibles –the appearance as you correctly stated above.
Aliadiere, Hoyt and Bentley made — 3(7); (1); and 1 respectively in the PL :–
I then made the leap to the C/L, (shown above) where Aliadiere (1); Hoyte 0; and Bentley (1) made appearances off the bench.
Sorry again if that has confused things. 😀
There were other players (not shown anywhere) who appeared in other competitions, FA Cup, League Cup because they were probably under 21 y.o.; like Fabregas.
Frank Simek
John Spicer
Jerome Thomas
Quincy Owusu-Abeyie
Ólafur Ingi Skúlason
Ryan Smith
Cesc Fàbregas
Some of them I do not remember at all.
My God Laca can shoot well. Must at all times have our best passers near him ie Mesut, Jack or Santi
Wish I could watch some game tonight but can’t. Miss me footie I does
or Sanchez to scoop to him obviously (as LB would say)
Crikey
Argentina need a result at the 9,000ft altitude of Ecuador. Yikes
Wales Ireland could get fighty
Arsenal.com
Wenger up for September Manager of the Month. Arsène Wenger has been nominated for the Premier League’s Manager of the Month award for September. The boss joins Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and Mauricio Pochettino on the shortlist, after guiding us to two wins and three clean sheets in the league last month.
VP
I always see the Manager of the Month award as a curse.
I think Pep with 4 wins out of 4 and a GD of 17-0 deserves it more than AW. 🙂
VP
Manager of the Month? Impossible, because it’s a fact that if the club had any “ambition” we’d have signed up Koeman or Klopp 🙂
Morning to you, and morning to Chas
Ah Chas, just seen your 7:54 re Pep.s 4/4
Guess it must be equal rights for all managers thing then. Like even the boy who comes last gets a medal
Morning All,
I would make Klopp manager of the month 12 times a year. Love the bloke. Who else in football makes you laugh?
Huge International game down the road tonight (17.00 k.o). Denmark have to beat Romania to have a chance of qualification. Even with my connections it was impossible to buy a ticket.
Watching Eriksen play hurts, the man should be at AFC instead he wastes his talent at the shitkickers up the road.
The turbo dog at 7.46 is brilliant. The cat moving its head like he’s watching Wimbledon..
Erik
While you were away on one of your well earned holidays recently, Chas put up an excellent Klopp looky likey with cheesey wotsits as teeth
Erik
Do a stadium tour. Bingo, free entry
Was Gilberto a Fine Young Cannibal?
Micky. Just found the Klopp look a like 😀 😀
And love the S & G moustache
As it’s Sunday…….
Spot the ex-Arsenal player?
Viv Anderson?
Sol Campbell?
✔
Can we have a clue
Like, for how long had he been an ex Arsenal player when the picture was taken?
Just trying to narrow things down.
Stop taking the piss you two
Picture from 1950
Interesting chas
Fortunately, to make sure both my children were mine, I am an expert on facial recognition and morphology. Oh yes, many times I have interrupted a strangers family pub lunch with the words “That Kid aint yours mate”
I may be wrong, but the boy holding the trophy bears a striking resemblance to the late, great, Geordie Armstrong?
I haven’t got a clue. George Eastham, 2nd from left, top row?
No idea Chas,
The flowers at 1.50pm are a clue
It’s getting cryptic – we need Rasp or Zee.
It’s Robert Primrose Wilson.
Mustafi carried off in Gernany gane. Looks serious
Don’t leave me hanging
6:45
Great start to Monday. Thanks Chas 🙂
NEW POST
Bugger Ireland score