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El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Surely the real WTF is Maxxi actually predicting > things!!!! Nah - it's just that the PL is so firmly embedded in Bizarro-world right now that results are actually matching my skewed take on things. It's a temporary deal and normal service will soon be resumed* *Arsenal to beat ManC 3-2... you heard it here first :)

Team were boo-ed off when 1-0 up at half-time and boo-ed off at the end. A game of thumpball again with no imagination just lump it upfield - and it still took a penalty (dubious) and a freak own-goal to win. I think it's good to see BFS's boast that 'they'll change their tune when we win a couple of games' and the feeling behind it (that all fans care about is winning at any cost) is shattered. Neither he, nor a lot of the players, pundits, commentators - in fact anyone who earns a living through football and makes money out of it (rather than puts their own money IN) - can grasp the fact that some fans want a bit more for their hard-earned and from the club they love. Ultimately for Gold & Sullivan the fans are the customers and they aint happy and they won't keep paying for what they don't want - and G&S are businessmen. Which is a roundabout way of saying you may be right - and I hope to fuck you are.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...and I am lucky, any West Ham under 40 > presumambly can't remember us winning anything! > (excluding play offs) > > and of course, we are relatively priveliged > compared to most smaller clubs (and Newcastle :)) Agree - I think a lot hangs on your formative years. As a kid the 74-75 season was huge. Billy Jennings and Bobby Gould scoring hat-tricks for fun with Keith Robson scoring if they didn't; Mervyn Day before he lost it; results like 5-2, 5-3 and 6-2 and a memorable 1-1 at Anfield. Then the culmination in a proper 'fairy tale' Cup Final against St Bobby.

The offence would be deliberate handball or unsportsmanlike conduct - both are yellow cards. Intent can't come into it because any time a player commits a deliberate offence (against an attacking side) he does so believing that if he doesn't the opposition may get an advantage which could/may (in his opinion) ultimately/eventually lead to a goal - so he intends to deny them a goal scoring opportunity by his offence or he wouldn't do it*. Simple. Unless he is Roy Kean of course.

I like the seating arrangements downstairs - a group of odd little nooks at different angles and levels - particularly like the seats at the back that face the rear (you can see if another bus you'd rather get is coming up behind without dislocating your neck). - and they're great for hopping on and off when traffic is stop-go like along Oxford St. Just seem less sterile than the other buses.

I always assumed such places were employing a deliberate disguise strategy - playing possum in a domiciliary sense. "A place that looks like shit on the outside aint worth burglaring" - though I may have misremembered this from an episode of Scooby Doo.

That's a huge victory over local rivals! Derby must be delighted.

Agree that Bayern not necessarily a cert - they were dull and tentative and tetchy and could be vulnerable if the mancs can put a barnstorming 'run-at-the-buggers'-type attack. Barca v Atletico 2nd leg could provide the shock of the round.

Jeremiah Clarke's "Trumpet Voluntary"...C1700. I'll get my baton...

I think he earned the backing for the last 500 in the first 500 and agree there are few others who could have seen it through and maintained that top 4 slot. When Arsenal do eventually have to face their 'Moyes Moment' (as I think such future changes may come to be known) they'll have a tough job getting it right. Might be time soon though. ETA: I've said it before and I'll say it again - Big Sam has a lot to offer...

Parkdrive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Love it when fans of other clubs accuse Arsenal > fans of "crowing", especially if they support a > club that haven't won the title in many decades. Ha haaaa ha ha ha! Ouch! Ohhhh you got me! Oooyah! Yaroooo! Oh the unbearable paaaain! The agony, the shame etc etc etc... ha ha ha ha ha ha... oh I need to wipe my eyes... Silly boy. BTW - don't you mean 'haven't won the title ever' you poor sensitive little flower?

StraferJack Wrote: -------------------------------------------------------> > Arsenal were crowing loudly? Like cockerels... or is that not a good simile?

Probably right - but with the two teams who were crowing loudest in the first couple of months of this season both out of the CL - it'd be fun to see.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- If you wanna do some cardio get scrubbing that > oven "?!?" I'll get my coat.

PR stunt for new series of 'Lost'?

Chelsea 3 V 0 Galatasaray Real Madrid 4 V 1 Schalke Wednesday 19th March 2014 Dortmund 3 V 0 Zenit Man Utd 1 V 1 Olympiakos

Nice to see England have a ready-made replacement for dying-swan diver Welbeck - step forward Mr Sturridge. Disgraceful.

An unlikeable force meets an unloveable object - lumpy football at Stoke - while one of our few creative players scores again for QPR.

Sacking AVB looked premature but Spurs fans seemed right behind it at the time. Maybe Glenda can be tempted back into management? ETA: Hey, at least I didn't suggest Tottnum take BFS off our hands. But they should, you know, they really should!

miga Wrote: - > joe strummer's reaction to seeing the sex pistols > for the first time was something along the lines > of "this is the future". ... or more or less what McClaren thought when he saw the New York Dolls.

Well pretty much everyone was a 'chancer' back then but the bandwagon jumping plastic-punk tag was usually saved for w*nkers like The Stranglers. I loved the Pistols (saw them on the SPOTS tour) but they felt pretty elusive pretty quickly and all anyone seemed to care about was where you could get an EMI or A&M version of Anarchy - when White Riot came out, however, it all exploded for me - bands like Chelsea (arty winkers), London (love 'em), Subway Sect and Eater were suddenly everywhere and you could see a different band or two every week. And that first Clash album was a stonker - the Pistols album may be more iconic but it didn't come out until 6 months afterwards and that felt like an AGE back then.

Parkdrive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I thought it was awarded for going unbeaten in a > season. Perhaps you can tell me different? Exactly... awarded (after the fact)... not competed for and then won. This blinged version of the trophy was not already in existence and just waiting to be won by the first team to etc etc... It wasn't actively pursued by all the clubs in the PL - the FA committee men just thought they ought to make a gesture to Arsenal when they looked like going unbeaten. So, as I said, nice AWARD. But you cling on to it old son (like every other Gooner I know - and I know quite a few). Distant memories are to be cherished (as I am all too well aware).

Feeling nostalgic for the dim and distant past PD? Must be nice to have cups like that awarded to you by a committee. Maybe Wenger will get a Champions League Lifetime Achievement Participation Award?

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it is. but the provenance of various chants is > always a bit hit and miss (like Zamora) Reminds me of the Samassi Abou chant - well not really a chant. Was at UP in late 90s when I heard it first as he was brought on as a sub - copied weeks later by Gooners chanting Kanuuuuu! - didn't really have the same impact without the 'B' but soon spread to other clubs who had a player with an 'oo' sound on their surname. Think THAT originated at the Boleyn but could be wrong... ETA: also seem to remember first hearing the "There's a hole in your heart dear Asa..." at a televised West Ham-Man City game in the 70s but that probably started elsewhere.

bob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What happen'd to the Draft house east dulwich > issues local business?? > Bob S Waiting for news bob.. and you must know that if you added up all the threads on this forum that end up bearing little relation to their original title you'd find that swimming pool entrance fees may not be as expensive as gym fees, but they get so crowded with children...