Random Arsenal Shit (When it's not worth starting a thread)

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Originally Posted by Letters

Younglings probably don't remember or know that when he walked into the club it was in the era of "drinking schools", fried food and foreign players being an exotic luxury.
The effect he had on the Club and the English game in general was revolutionary.
And he took us from "boring boring Arsenal" to playing some of the best club football I've ever seen.
The Invincibles was brilliant but quite honestly it's a bit of a statistical quirk which involved a fairly large slice of luck - not least the last minute pel at OT.
But when I was a kid the Double was spoken about in hushed tones. To deliver it twice, and with all the other silverware and accolades.
He's one of the most important people in our modern history.

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I was 14 when we did the first Wenger double, 18 when we did the second. I was still in sixth form and came in the day after the Old Trafford game

“Are you hungover?” One of the teachers asked me

“Absolutely not sir…I’m still drunk”

How I wasn’t booted to the kerb I don’t know. Though probably would have got better A-Level grades if I’d paid more attention to exams than Arsenal and the subsequent World Cup…but who on earth could resist early pub opening times (because the games were all on early and mid morning) and fry ups and pints

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

who on earth could resist early pub opening times (because the games were all on early and mid morning) and fry ups and pints

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Loved that World Cup. I was working in a small company and we had quite a wide range of nationalities amongst the staff. We set up one of the meeting rooms with a projector. I’d go in early, watch the morning game, go do some work then go back for the lunchtime game. And usually there was someone in the room who had a vested interest in the game :d

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Originally Posted by Letters

Loved that World Cup. I was working in a small company and we had quite a wide range of nationalities amongst the staff. We set up one of the meeting rooms with a projector. I’d go in early, watch the morning game, go do some work then go back for the lunchtime game. And usually there was someone in the room who had a vested interest in the game :d

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I’ll be honest it was great at first but then it petered out and got dull because so many big teams had been knocked out in the group stages - Portugal, Argentina, France.

Still think the best tournaments that I remember were France 98 and the Brazil World Cup (I loved the ridiculously late games)

BTW they seem to have retreated on charging £8 to watch a friendly on video, the match v Monaco tomorrow is £4.99 'early bird' at the moment if you want to watch legally

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

I’ll be honest it was great at first but then it petered out and got dull because so many big teams had been knocked out in the group stages - Portugal, Argentina, France.

Still think the best tournaments that I remember were France 98 and the Brazil World Cup (I loved the ridiculously late games)

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France '98 was amazing. I managed to score tickets for arguably the match of the tournament - Nigeria 3 Spain 2 in Nantes. Left the UK the evening before, got the overnight ferry and drove home after the match. French people were still cheering our Nigerian Flag in Cherbourg. Great times :d:d

Ramsdale’s missus suffered a miscarriage between England going out of the World Cup and the season beginning again post World Cup. That’s absolutely terrible for both of them.

Have to say he comes across as genuine and likeable chap, honest, self-aware and humble…and a decent sense of self-effacing humour.

He’s not a mindless robot like most players are, when you listen to him speak he’s not just talking a load of waffle, he speaks like a fan would. Rice is also the same, just a very relatable and candid guy who I actually look forward to hearing from.

Both are throwbacks.

i love Ramsdale's baiting of the opposition fans, total quality, as long as they don't attack again him of course...

https://www.skysports.com/football/n...10-to-20-years

I genuinely don’t get the obsession with this. It’s not about saying players should stay in the closet. But equally can you blame them for doing so?…given the obsession the media has with their private lives.

For what it’s worth, we clearly have had and still do have gay players in the premier league. I’m utterly convinced Kieran Tierney is in a relationship with the bloke who does the catering on the training ground who he lives with.

Odegaard seems very effeminate as well. But just heedless speculation.