Re: Arsenal Lobby

by SamuelJayC Tue 13 Aug - 10:59

Writing an Arsenal season preview which should be online by Friday. Writing it for GFN (Get Football News) on twitter.

Will post it in the lobby so you can have a :coffee:

if you want Thumbs up

Arsenal-Villa preview will be on forum on Thur/Fri too.

New season getting closer. No signings (yet) but the butterflies in the stomach are still there!

You're all legends :bow:

by Raptorgunner Tue 13 Aug - 14:55

Samuelj29060 wrote:Writing an Arsenal season preview which should be online by Friday. Writing it for GFN (Get Football News) on twitter.

Will post it in the lobby so you can have a if you want

Arsenal-Villa preview will be on forum on Thur/Fri too.

New season getting closer. No signings (yet) but the butterflies in the stomach are still there!

You're all legends

by El Gunner Thu 15 Aug - 0:24

So will we have a prediction game this season.

by Sina Thu 15 Aug - 3:58

On This Day 2009: Arsenal began season in devastating style thrashing Everton 6-1
Arsenal Lobby - Page 22 BRr4pHpCcAAbuEI

by EL Patron Thu 15 Aug - 7:13

I remember that game, Dean nilson long range and Bendy playing right mid cheers

by Sina Thu 15 Aug - 7:19

AlJazeera showing review of that City-QPR game by Richard keys,Martin Tyler and Andy Gray
i want our last day of The season being like that ffs Sad

and yet we will be there scrambling for 4th place trophy Arsenal Lobby - Page 22 2276801876

by SamuelJayC Thu 15 Aug - 14:50

Arsenal v Villa preview will be online tomorrow night. Wenger press conference on Friday.

by Sri Sun 18 Aug - 23:56

Surprised this hasn't found its way here earlier. Even Arseblog reported it this morning.

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Former board member Nina Bracewell-Smith has publicly said he regrets selling her shares to Stan Kroenke.

In the wake of Arsenal’s 3-1 defeat to Aston Villa on Saturday, she used her Twitter account to say, “What a shame the board recommended a Kroenke takeover and paid Rothchilds 3m fee.”

“And how deeply I regret selling to Kroenke. Bring David Dein and give Usmanov representation on the board if we are to have success going forward.”

The Tweets have since been deleted. Bracewell-Smith, who sold a 15.9% share in the club to the American for around £120m, was given a position of Honorary Vice President at the club, and has a seat in the Director’s Box.

It remains to be seen how things will play out after being so openly critical of the majority shareholder.

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http://news.arseblog.com/2013/08/bracewell-smith-regrets-kroenke-sale/

by Sina Mon 19 Aug - 7:05

Spoiler:

by MJ Mon 19 Aug - 8:04

Brilliant post Sina. Spot on.

by Sina Tue 20 Aug - 5:05

by SamuelJayC Tue 20 Aug - 11:25

Who is doing Fernbahce preview? I did Villa one. RG away.

by urbaNRoots Tue 20 Aug - 11:34

I will do RG's share, will post it later.

by SamuelJayC Tue 20 Aug - 13:41

urbaNRoots wrote:I will do RG's share, will post it later.

:-)

by Sina Wed 21 Aug - 4:20

watched Arsene Press conference
not as cool as usual,him and Journos getting fed up at each other same questions and answers each time Laughing

but Man it can get ugly if God forbid we have another defeat
Pray tonight game Goes well

by REWB Wed 21 Aug - 18:41

we look soo sexy with the dark blue shorts.

by Wilson37 Wed 21 Aug - 18:46

Gary Neville tweet for Arsenal
"Do you know something? When great clubs are in trouble they shut everyone up!! And I respect that!"

Gary Neville to succeed Wenger.. Razz

by Wilson37 Wed 21 Aug - 20:34

Giroud on Instagram

http://instagram.com/p/dSud1uOZ5g/#

Some news from Lolo... He's ok no worries HE WILL BE BAAACK!

by Chumlum Thu 22 Aug - 4:48

Another great column for Arseblog - he's been really solid this whole frustrating summer. I endorse his stance here.

There’s a great bit of stand-up from Chris Rock in which he talks about the polarisation of opinion, from a political point of view.

Everybody’s so busy wanting to be down with the gang. “I’m liberal”, “I’m conservative”. Bullshit! No normal, decent person is one thing, okay? I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about, I’ve got some shit I’m liberal about.

The same could apply to football, or specifically to Arsenal. Too many positions are utterly fixed nowadays. There were people complaining last night that winning was bad for Arsenal because it interrupts the narrative of misery. There were others saying that a win justified the manager’s decisions this summer and provided a big can of shut up juice to those who had been complaining.

Position A, Position Z. Nothing in-between, no thought that it’s possible to be more nuanced than that.

It’s certainly possible to believe that Arsenal’s work this summer has been sub-par yet enjoy what was a good performance and a very important win. Doing so does not mean you think everything’s ok with the squad and we should just carry on as we have been. Conversely, this win and that performance is no justification for having a squad so threadbare that Arsenal fans across the world almost pooed themselves when, having already lost Laurent Koscielny, our only other centre-half went down writhing on the floor in pain.

That’s a ludicrous situation for any football club, let alone one with the power and resources of Arsenal to be in. We have one fit centre-half. One. It’s nonsensical and it impacts very strongly on our ability to win football matches. But beating Fenerbahce last night was, whether you like to think so or not, a good thing. A very good thing.

I have never understood wanting your team to lose. Some of the people who were so relieved and, dare I say it, happy, that we’d finished 4th last season now wanted us to crash out of the competition that was so important back then. For what? So the manager might get sacked? If you think that’s what it would take you’re mistaken, and in the meantime your team suffers. You want us to sign players? We’re already finding it as difficult as licking our own elbow, this would only have made it worse.

http://arseblog.com/2013/08/fenerbahce-0-3-arsenal-this-is-a-good-thing/

by SamuelJayC Thu 22 Aug - 13:27

Arsenal record away to Fulham in Premier League: P12 W8 D1 L3 F21 A8.

Preview online tomorrow. Thumbs up

by El Gunner Thu 22 Aug - 16:54

Good record that, but our last few trips to Craven Cottage have been a little tricky. Or let's rather say, the team haven't performed so well in them.