tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83281011064945986652024-03-17T07:31:01.521+00:00Another Arsenal Blog1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.comBlogger970125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-88866152325799256202013-10-22T21:49:00.000+01:002013-10-22T21:49:00.704+01:00Ignore the unfortunate defeat and laugh at Sir Alex
I don't want to dwell on tonight's defeat, it was unfortunate, Dortmund took their chances and were typically efficient, we just didn't quite have the rub of the green in front of goal, a draw would have been a fair enough result but it was not to be.
Watch the above interview by Jon Snow with Sir Alex Ferguson. It shows what can happen when a decent non-corrupt journalist asks some fair 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com174tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-48070158979199524892013-09-03T08:51:00.001+01:002013-09-03T08:51:32.469+01:00Ozil - no more to say
Mesut Ozil - I am speechless that we have signed one of the world's finest players in his absolute prime. It is even more staggering that Real Madrid have let such a player leave for about half of the fee they paid for Gareth Bale, history will judge this one but I suspect Madrid may have made a blunder of immense magnitude.
Ozil will roam and be someone who can link the1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-420971689615009252013-08-18T13:07:00.001+01:002013-08-18T13:07:05.443+01:00NorthBankBen - the worst side of Twitter
1- Chamberlain has done his cruciate ligaments. Minimum of 3 months out.
2- Either way, bottom line is Ox is out for 3+ months.
3 - It's suspected to be his cruciates. Very serious injury either way for Chamberlain.
4- Don't know exactly the injury to Chamberlain something to do with his "ligaments."
The above tweets are from @NorthBankBen yesterday afternoon. I shall fill you in 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-41790119785940027432013-08-16T13:30:00.001+01:002013-08-16T13:30:39.159+01:00Top down system failure
It has been a fantastic summer of sport, we have some truly excellent cricket, golf and athletics most recently. It is just crushingly frustrating that the club have been so inactive and seemingly disorganised in bringing players in.
The clearing out of useless deadwood has been the one positive piece of work. However we have brought in just one player to counterbalance this huge 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-23202047038417718172013-06-17T16:02:00.001+01:002013-06-17T16:03:02.015+01:00Mike Riley demonstrates a complete lack of insight or......
"The balance between physicality and player protection is right.........Fewer free-kicks result in things such as an increase in average goals per game and average shots in the game.........Everything in the Premier League is moving towards an exciting game that people want to see."
This is the stuff of the Premier League (PL) propaganda ministry. Mike Riley is head of the PGMOL, the 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-27538338846648642802013-06-16T14:28:00.000+01:002013-06-16T14:28:00.743+01:00Mike Riley continues to lie
It is really sad that the richest league in the world has such a biased and useless body in charge of its refereeing, the PGMOL, and it is led by the yes-man Mike Riley. Untold Arsenal have run some cracking stories recently and the way in which PL referees allow violence to prosper is definitely something that holds the English game back. It results in too many career threatening1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-87198362452914067792013-06-09T17:40:00.002+01:002013-06-09T17:40:51.024+01:00Keep calm and don't read the tabloids
The summer is too nice to waste it getting worried over stories that have been made up by some sad, bitter and often vindictive Fleet street hack. What happens in the close season happens and we can do precisely nothing to affect it. Therefore I suggest everyone rises above the dross that is created to draw readers to tabloids and shoddy websites like Goal.com.
Sadly there are 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com65tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-13447849590334033962013-05-08T20:24:00.005+01:002013-05-08T20:24:57.313+01:00Sir Alex retiring - the loss of an unpleasant bully
As much of the biased Manu-luvvie media sings the praises of the retiring Sir Alex Ferguson, it is worth remembering just how unpleasant and nasty a human being Sir Alex is. No one should forget the bullying and intimidation of officials, the control of the 'free'press and his nasty side in bullying his own players. I also thought this was a good moment to educate a few people on1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-11064105117524308172013-04-13T19:16:00.001+01:002013-04-13T19:16:44.233+01:00Lucky Arsenal? Not at all
It looked like being another Blackburn, although we did not deserve to go behind, the domination in the first half had not been converted into clear cut chances and goals, albeit we did have two decent half chances which were narrowly missed by Giroud and Gervinho. Norwich were pretty well organised on the whole and then took the lead completely against the run of play mid way through 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-57212152282712784392013-04-05T11:24:00.001+01:002013-04-05T11:24:33.626+01:00Mike Riley has his head up his own derriere
I was casually reading through the newspapers last weekend when I stumbled upon this interview involving the PL's refereeing chief Mike Riley and fellow referee Martin Atkinson. I was absolutely flabbergasted at some of the ignorance, delusion and complete denial shown by these men. This was especially true as regards the 'respect' or lack of it for officials on the football1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-30493051841686858322013-03-03T19:26:00.002+00:002013-03-03T19:51:27.374+00:00Predictably depressing
Sadly this was just what many of us feared. We were not outplayed, far from it, we controlled long periods of the game and dominated possession for the most part, the problem was that we didn't quite have enough cutting edge going forward to turn this into goals, and Tottenham, like many sides in the last few seasons, realised they could kill us on the break, our defensive vulnerability 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-56437634136828337232013-02-24T13:47:00.001+00:002013-02-24T13:47:45.018+00:00Negativity of a nasty minority is not helping
Firstly as I know some rather small minded individuals will be reading this and looking for another needless fight, I shall explain myself clearly and simply. Yesterday saw us win a game of football against an Aston Villa side that were on a fairly reasonable run of form. I know it was far from perfect, and yes, several of our recurrent problems, most notably our defensively 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-40454712682769340992013-02-20T19:24:00.002+00:002013-02-20T19:24:34.682+00:00Brilliant Bayern deserve applause and Arsene doesn't deserve ignorant abuse
I had a feeling that we were going to lose, Bayern are simply a fantastic football side, packed full of classy athletes, so cohesive as an attacking and defensive unit, they were simply a class above us on the night. Sometimes one simply has to hold up one's hands and give immense credit to the opposition, and I think last night was one of those nights. Bayern were top notch and 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-77211540721308879582013-01-21T13:30:00.001+00:002013-01-21T13:30:45.873+00:00Alex Ferguson abuses with impunity (again)
"The stand-side linesman [Beck] didn’t give us a thing all day. For me it was a
poor performance by him. Why he never saw the penalty kick from Wayne Rooney,
some other decisions, we remember him well from his time at the Chelsea game
when Drogba was three yards offside and he gave onside."
“He had a shocking game. I’m disappointed in his performance, I really am. He
had a1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-11173477033862035602013-01-20T17:15:00.000+00:002013-01-20T17:15:05.877+00:00Schizophrenic Arsenal the victims of cheating Chelsea
Ultimately we couldn't recover from a terrible, an utterly terrible, start to the game. Chelsea hammered us for the first twenty minutes and we were lucky that we came in only 2 nil down at half time. Defensively we were shambolic, Bacary Sagna was caught badly out of position for both Chelsea goals, admittedly Diaby's loss of possession for the second was also woeful. 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-42118075485602513412013-01-18T19:10:00.000+00:002013-01-18T19:10:38.107+00:00FA charge Allardyce for daring to speak truth
'The one difference between Rafael’s handball and Spence’s was that Jordan plays for West Ham away against Manchester United and Rafael plays at home at Old Trafford........'It's got to be that simple. Phil Dowd was in the perfect position. Rafael pushes the ball away with his left arm. No penalty. Go to the other end and the ball hits Jordan’s hand. If you give one you have to give both,1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-73317335107452705512013-01-16T21:50:00.000+00:002013-01-16T21:53:03.122+00:00A 1-0 battering
That was more like it, although the game remained on a knife edge for most of the second half, it was as relaxing a 1-0 win as you will see. There was a brief moment in the first half when we could have gone behind, Bartley drifted in behind Per, and hit the bar with a free header, a real let off. However after that scare Swansea created very little, Szczesny was was forced into 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-5184640412068036582013-01-13T19:15:00.000+00:002013-01-13T19:19:42.930+00:00Dean the destroyer
Firstly I don't deny we have our problems, of course we do, our squad is not strong enough, we have some gaping holes that need filling in this regard and City's squad is miles ahead of us at the moment. Secondly I don't deny our defending was sloppy for the two first half goals we conceded today. The problem was that Mike Dean killed the game today by a ridiculous decision to send1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-91799185830349125352013-01-13T10:24:00.000+00:002013-01-13T10:28:57.071+00:00The Premier League is getting less and less competitive
I have done some very simple graphs and statistical tests in order to test the theory that the Premier League is becoming increasingly dominated by the rich elite. The first graph above shows the adjusted relative points difference between the top two in the Premier League and the bottom two; by 'adjusting' I have simply zeroed the points to make the graph easier to look at. The 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-69768901513625532072012-12-29T10:29:00.000+00:002012-12-29T10:29:13.353+00:00Villas-Boas hinted at corruption in Premier League
The Ferguson influence story is going to run and run, and I thought it was a good time to delve back into the archives to examine some words of the Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas from earlier this year:
"'It would be brilliant to be able to talk about this, but I paid a very high fine last season and I don't want to do it again.....In this country, it is impossible to respond1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-12539604464954995882012-12-28T19:17:00.002+00:002012-12-28T19:26:08.441+00:00Pardew spot on as Ferguson shows his nasty colours
The fallout from the Manchester United - Newcastle game continues. Alan Pardew said some very reasonable things in very reasonable fashion including:
"I think Mike Dean might feel slightly disappointed he didn't do something about it, I think the pressure that was on him was tough for a referee to take......Sometimes when you reflect on a game you think you might have acted 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-55237995990660067882012-12-27T09:53:00.002+00:002012-12-27T09:56:28.299+00:00Ferguson intimidating his way to another title
How much longer can the pathetic footballing authorities allow this to go on? The disgraceful abuse and intimidation dished out to the match officials yesterday at Old Trafford was typical of the bully who has built his success on fear. Even Gary Lineker commented on Ferguson's disgusting behaviour yesterday, although MOTD stopped short of really dealing with the issue properly.
1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-90173496717496752832012-12-12T08:59:00.000+00:002012-12-12T08:59:25.839+00:00Massive problems but keep your heads
Last night was a night that summed up many of the manager's and the club's failings. Great credit to League 2 side Bradford for a true battling performance and congratulations to their supporters. We played a strong side but in truth we were not at the races for much of the first half and most of the second, although Vermaelen equalised late on, we could not make our complete 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-39385356428781092722012-12-09T10:20:00.002+00:002012-12-09T13:56:03.567+00:00Diving and our pathetic biased xenophobic media
I have absolutely no problem with anyone criticising Santi Cazorla's dive yesterday against West Brom. There was minimal contact and it was not a penalty. Reid did get nowhere near the ball and try to kick him though. It was also rather evident that despite being a dive, there are far worse dives every week which are routinely ignored by out pathetic media.
The problem I do 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8328101106494598665.post-4733700186907499292012-12-09T07:30:00.000+00:002012-12-09T07:30:00.287+00:00Back at the races
This was just what the doctor ordered after the terrible display at home to Swansea. Although the victory was clouded in a smidgeon of controversy, nothing could really take away from the fact that West Brom were distinctly second best to an Arsenal side that had rediscovered a bit of attacking zest. Steve Clarke may have tried to blame the defeat on the ref but this was merely to 1979goonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783799499006052572noreply@blogger.com0