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

[Ollie the Optimist]

Stoke fans reacting with predictable fury on Oatcake.

Glad we get that utter craphole out of the way early this season.

best time to play them, we seem to get some shit fixtures out the way early on, anfireld, this, city. quite happy with that

[Joker]

Even if he does hold a grudge, that's his business IMO although I think it would be somewhat petty if he tried to stop him getting a call-up to the Welsh team (not that he's done that). They seem to have more sympathy with the perpetrator than the victim.

[Master Splinter]

They see Arsenal as epitomising metropolitan, middle class London, who have made football into a bourgeois artform, while Stoke see themselves as traditional, industrial working class who represent "real" football. Personally I think that's bollocks but having spent time reading that forum in the past (don't wish to look again) that's the general viewpoint. That's the only way I can understand their extremely hostile reaction to us. Because if you look at only what has happened on the pitch, their hostility is extremely irrational.

You're over-thinking this.

It's football. It's tribal. And they are the cave man in it's most evolved (or devolved, more accurately) form.

[Marc Overmars]

Stoke.

Awful pondlife.

[GP]

If Stoke were an ice cream flavour, they would be pralines and dick.

[Ollie the Optimist]

as im really bored, here are some more quotes from stoke fans

My memory was that at all times Shawcross was nearer the ball and that it was Ramsey who jumped in. Do we still have the staggered pictures to show it on this board?

Read more:http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/...#ixzz20Jy1WytB

Ramsay, i am sorry to say, did what i dont think any other professional has done in the past and not accepted the honesty of the comments of a fellow professional re the tackle and its intent.

Read more:http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/...#ixzz20JyHBALs

I would challenge anyone to do some youtube/google images research on the actual tackle, and conclude anything other than an unfortunate accident. Shawcross didn't deserve a red card.

Read more:http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/...#ixzz20JymA8Iu

I wonder if Ramsey and Bendtner have played together at all since 'the incident' ??

Just, with it being Bendtner's fault, that's all. If he hadn't have held Ryan, he would have gotten to the ball first.

Read more:http://oatcakefanzine.proboards.com/...#ixzz20JzCnBD1

[Joker]

You're over-thinking this.

It's football. It's tribal. And they are the cave man in it's most evolved (or devolved, more accurately) form.

Maybe; they really do need to calm down, in the buildup to the Arsenal match last season they had countless threads in reaction to some random Arsenal fans on twitter said something negative about Stoke's football, and you ended up with 100+ posts criticising everything about Arsenal just because of a few negative comments by people on twitter. For such "hardmen" they're incredibly precious.

[Unai Tea]

If Stoke were an ice cream flavour, they would be pralines and dick.

[Kano]

oh ffs tomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7kn...layer_embedded

[LDG]

Bouldy is not all smiles anymore. It's day two of training, and he's not standing for any of that shit.