So interlull dullness hits us like a big wet sock just as the season was beginning to look so bright after such magnificent goals at the Cottage.
I’ve learnt a few things looking into these fixtures…………..
Auba, Wobbly and Mo Elneny are involved in home and away fixtures against South Sudan, Libya and Eswatini respectively in the AFCON qualifiers. Seems sensible.
South Sudan is, well, south of the much larger Sudan.
Eswatini is the new name for Swaziland.
Stephan Lichtsteiner will not be called up by the Swiss under a pre-arranged agreement to give the old fella a breather.
Mkhitaryan has long flights to and from Armenia since we now know it’s alongside Azerbaijan.
Terrier has even longer flights buzzing around with Uruguay in the Far East. He’ll feel at home height-wise out there anyway!
Mikhi – Armenia
13th Oct Gibraltar (H) Uefa Nations League (UNL)
16th Oct FYR Macedonia (H) UNL
Auba – Gabon
12th Oct South Sudan (H) AFCON
16th Oct South Sudan (A) AFCON
Terrier – Uruguay (only five foot five)
12th Oct S. Korea (A) Friendly
16th Oct Japan (A) Friendly
Granit – Switzerland
12th Oct – Belgium (A) UNL
15th Oct Iceland (A) UNL
Wobbly – Nigeria
12th Oct Libya (A) AFCON
15th Oct Libya (H) AFCON
Sticking it to Bamidele
Big Sok – Greece
12th Oct – Hungary (H) UNL
15th Oct – Finaland (A) UNL
Rambo – Wales (impending arrivals permitting)
11 Oct – Spain (H) Friendly
16 Oct – Ireland (A) UNL
Welbz – England
12th Oct – Croatia (A) UNL
15th Oct – Spain (A) UNL
Mo Elneny
12th Oct Eswatini (H) AFCON
16th Oct Eswatini (A) AFCON
Hot off the press……..
Bernd Leno has been called up by Germany.
13th Oct – Holland (A) UNL
16th Oct – France (A) UNL
Let’s say a prayer to Dennis that all the boys come through unscathed.
chas
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Kingdom of Eswatini. There’s a new one (Swaziland. Looked it up)
Thanks Chas, although it looks like a terrifying list of potential injuries to me
You didn’t read it, did you? π
Not that I blame you mind.
Wow, that’s spooky. I always read posts, and flipped to new page as soon as you alerted me, and saw only the fixtures but no intro text
And…the Leno bit wasn’t there
Re Sokratis… fit?
I’ve always liked the triple jump.
Big Sok was on the bench Sunday, so who knows?
I did add the Leno bit later but the opening text was there all along.
Nottingham Goose fair (held annually at this time of year) used to be held in the market square.
Here’s what it used to look like.
Now it’s held in a large open parkland space and looks like this from the sky.
(Turn volume down to avoid horrendous music)
Morning All,
Thank you for an interesting post Chas.
So much for important International games instead of friendlies. What a load of bolleaux.
Who knew about Eswatini apart from the the Eswatinians?
Terrier has more than a day in the air!
8.01 I love those early vids you put on the site. Health and safety would have a field day!
A very informative post, thank you for taking the trouble.
Present day Goose Fair looks, errrr, big.
The nearest thing I have to a fair is something in Hyde Park over Christmas, Hyde Park? Can you imagine how expensive it is.
Thanks for the picture, Chas. The Netherlands’ – not Holland’s – finest (with Gullit and of course Johan)! π
Fingers crossed re injuries. Oh how I wish Terre11ra had a Wengury!!
Two interesting bits of news/speculation. Thierry or Arsene as the new Monaco manager? ( Thought Vadim would have been a good fit for us at one time). Hope the Boss man gets it myself.
UEFA rule changes for this season – up to three January transfers will now be able to play for their new clubs if said Clubs are still in Champions League or Europa Cup, is, can play for two Clubs in same competition. One year too late for us but perhaps……..
ie, even!
Apparently the Croatia v England game is being played behind closed doors because of the home fans being naughty in the past.
Ray Parlour @RealRomfordPele
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Happy birthday Skipper @TonyAdams best room partner. Taught me a lot of good habits and 1 or 2 few bad ones. πππ
Something of a triple jump fan myself
I bet you call it Hop, Skip and a Jump, though. π
ha ha
To be fair, my very keen interest in the sport only dates back to around 7:57am this morning
A couple more Goose Fair vids for BR.
“,,,,,went gay at the Goose Fair” π
11:23 Hahahahahahaha
Amen
Not sure if it was mentioned here but heard we signed a player from mls
Atlanta boss says Arsenal bid for Almiron is a βload of rubbishβ
Live the fact, Chas, that your posts are appearing almost daily on Google Arsenal.
Glad it a load of rubbish can’t see how he fitting into our squad at the moment
I want to see guys like MN and Smith rowe given a chance
Yea sometimes I want to go to Arsenal.com but instead redirected to chas post
Fred
The current bid may be “rubbish”, but the player, Almiron, isn’t. Look him up. Plays for Atlanta.
Fred. You are right. We need to get the current youngsters into the team to see if they can flourish. Sink or swim. Nketiah, Nelson, Smith Rowe, AMN, etc need to get play time.
Chas
There is something in drafts should you need, it is not time sensitive.
The player has a superb You Tube profile, I know, who doesn’t but with the possible departure of Ramsey, who knows?
I think we should be more Chelsea about things: they don’t give a rat’s arse about bringing players through, their priority is winning things.
Muchas gracias, LB.
No idea what Google Arsenal is.
And I presume you mean redirected to a post published by chas.
As an android phone, Google throws up items of interest for me on my phone, presumably based on site types I visit. The arsenaarsenl site appears amongst all types of other football ,sport politics etc area of interest.
Best way I can explain it.
Ah, I see.
I think that’s just chucking the site up at you because you already visit it a fair bit.
It’s like YouTube suggesting I go see other videos of briefly clad triple jumpers because I looked at that video of the Greek lady.
Speaking of which, I bet Terry knows a bit about young ladies from Greece who can launch themselves prodigious distances.
Old school football merchandise
Second goal celebrations
Morning All
Love the two balancing acts.
Chas. Are you in the 7.00 pic?
Morning Chas
Ah ha, and Erik
Morning Micky
Morning, both.
BR
Tickets to Craven Cottage are as rare as rocking horse shit.
I put the wrong photo link up for the QPR merchandise.
It’s now corrected and worth a butcher’s.
Morning all
Love the humpback, Chas. So gentle with the tail not turning them over.
No QPR shirts bigger than 40″. The modern supporter would be in trouble!!
I could use a Holdall and at οΏ‘1, it seems very good value
BR
Yours or LB’s post today?
And what about that Rodney Marsh shirt!!
Love the pic at 7.00, especially the beige loner with his back to the pitch, and the double-jointed gorilla arms in dark blue just below and to the right of him!
That 7.00 photo reminded me a bit of that famous one with Thierry celebrating in front of the spuds.
So many individual faces can be seen happy and joyful, quite unlike the snarling and v sign-making spuds. π
I noticed the guy with his back to the pitch, too.
I thought he must have turned to celebrate with one of his mates a few rows back.
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