I'm all for an end to these tours, or at best no more than 2 games abroad. Players need rest, and these things only exacerbate the gulf between the haves and the have-nots of the sport. Also seems to encourage those folks driving things toward a huge club world cup or Super League or whatever. None of this truly helps anyone but the biggest clubs pulling in plastic fans. Grumpy old man rant over.
Reasonable points but you may be tilting at windmills. Interestingly there are precisely 2 games in Orlando that are advertised, at least at this point. So unless you consider them playing Scotland this summer as being "abroad", they very well might be listening to you.
Oh ffs. This wouldn’t have happened if Wenger was still alive. You asked. We heard you.#AllOrNothingArsenalComing to @PrimeVideoSport in 2022 ⏳— Arsenal (@Arsenal) July 9, 2021
For those of you who are interested in the history of Highbury, I came across this recently, when trying to confirm who performed at our farewell match 7MAY06. It's got some really nice photos, some of which were familiar and some which were not. Enjoy... https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/feat...d-photographic-centenary-celebration-highbury
Time to bump the old shizzle thread, with this... Elliot Smith gets a feather in his cap today for interviewing Lee Dixon at 4am this morning and getting it right out on the podverse (if that's a word). I've always liked Dicko, even if he doesn't always offer the most brilliantly insightful punditry with every single word that comes out of his mouth. Elliot (@YankeeGunner) has grown on me as I've listened to his deft, agile, intelligent comments as owner/moderator of the AV pod. And even if he scored today's interview partly because of his Arse Foundation fund-raising efforts, it's still a coup and a bucket-list moment for him, which he handled calmly and well... at an ungodly hour. https://www.arsenalvisionpodcast.com/episodes/episode-509
I already listened to it as well. It's definitley worth the listen What impressed me most about Dixon was that I felt he came across as being relatively open, honest, and reasonably humble about his assessment of the way the game is played today than when he was on the pitch. It made me think that he is told or feels compelled to call games differently. Don't know if that's factually/literally true, but it was a clear impression I took away.
Lee Dixon is ok for me as a concomentator or pundit most arsenal Players are actually good pundits bar the old English drunks like parlour and Merson
And Adams maybe? (he certainly fit with the old drunks group, but as a pundit the sample size is a bit small, at least for me) I always liked the way Winterburn did cocoms... I love his accent and enthusiasm, but it's been many a year since I've heard him.
Being somewhat of an underrated player, Nigel has a kind of skimpy wikipedia page, but it says he was born in Arley, Warwickshire, and the first stop on his playing career was Birmingham City.
I don't know why, but whenever I hear him speak, I'm struck by how deep his voice is. Would've been a great bass in a barbershop quartet.
Shout out to the first 2 inductees to the WSL Hall of Fame... Gooners both! * Fara Williams * Rachel Yankey I don't know a ton about Fara who was only with us for 1 year? But I must say that Rachel was pretty amazing. She was one of the most valuable pieces of Arsenal furniture when I woke up to the fact that we had a ladies team and started paying attention. We were so dominant back then that she won 22 trophies at Arsenal. 22! That's ridiculous. And from the bits I've seen of her in player interviews and subsequent punditry, she seems like a class act. I expect quite a few more Arsenal gals to follow in subsequent inductions, starting with Kelly Smith perhaps. But the list could be long
not sure where else this goes: apparently, FIFA brought charges against us in january 2020 for the sales of akpom and campbell. we had variable on-sale clauses in their sale: if PAOK sold akpom to UK-based club, our on-sale would be 40% whereas if it was to a club outside of the UK, it would be 30% with campbell's being 30% vs 25%. their apparently logic being: (i like how our on-sale clauses triggers this but all of the joorabchian and mendes transfers are just shiny.) happily, instead of just accepting the relatively minor fine of 40K swiss francs and "a warning as to their future conduct", the club fought it. unsurprisingly, FIFA rejected out appeal so we took it to CAS on september 28 and won the decision. the award came without cost, though apparently we were order to pay FIFA 1000 swiss francs (not sure why) while FIFA were ordered to pay us 4000 "as a contribution towards the expenses for the proceedings". good times, good times.
I stumbled upon this little article on Arsenal.com about our FA Cup Semi w/ Stoke which led to our first double in 1971: https://www.arsenal.com/news/storey-book-ending So then I looked up the match on Youtube, because I couldn't honestly remember anything about it, not too surprising since we didn't move to London until 74. Anyway, might be worth a watch for any of y'all. Brian Moore is the iconic host and he does a nice little interview with the hero Peter Storey at the end:
on a recent arsecast, andrew was chatting with a writer who was looking into/wrote a book about what fans with disabilities deal with and, where the league requires clubs to provide commentary service for visually impaired fans, most clubs either hook into a local cast or just use their normal commentary teams. arsenal apparently have a 10-person staff - 5 on/5 off every game - where 2 people are responsible for the above mentioned "audio description commentary service" and 2 deal with technical matters. the last? there is apparently a long-time season ticket holder who is visually impaired but also has tinnitus so he is unable to use the headsets normally provided. the last person is assigned to sit with this fan and just provide commentary service to him in-person. that's just . . . . awesome. https://www.arsenal.com/news/blind-and-partially-sighted-supporters-information
and also this popped up on twitter today. Last night I took my son to Arsenal for his first match. He was buzzing all day for it. I wasn’t sure if it he’d ever go as he has autism. Once we were in the ground he struggled with about 50,000 people shouting and was having a hard time. Halfway through the 1st half >— Dave (@TheresYourDC) October 27, 2021 I could see he wasn’t going to get used to it so we had to leave. When we left the stadium, a steward (blonde lady, wish i got her name), asked why we were leaving and I told her. She asked me to hold on and contacted someone else. Next thing I know, we’re being walked towards >— Dave (@TheresYourDC) October 27, 2021 club level. They’ve got a sensory room there where we could watch the rest of the match. The bloke running the room, Luke Howard, was fantastic with everyone in there & between him & the stewards that helped, turned the night into a great memory. Thank you @Arsenal— Dave (@TheresYourDC) October 27, 2021 that's pretty awesome.
Absolutely awesome. And I listened to the Arsecast you mentioned. We all have gripes with how the KSE runs the club. But this, and the ad campaigns for local businesses, etc., show that at the ground level, so to speak, the club seems to be a good member of the community.
Sensory rooms are becoming more and more common. I've heard of many other clubs, including NYRB, which have them. I just don't know if they generally operate 100% of the time or if the clubs pick & choose certain matches where they're available. I supposed it varies club to club.
I couldn't find a general ownership thread, so I'm putting this here... the Jeff Shreves interview of Josh Kroenke from this past weekend. The most I've ever heard him speak and without editorializing too much about it, I'd say it was very useful to hear him expound on his adopted club (it seems like it's his baby now, not Stan's)...