I don't know whether it's down to the fact that he's said a few things since retiring that weren't entirely complimentary to the Arse, or (far more likely) that he's just spent the next 10 years in Henry's shadow, or maybe it's because most American Arsenal fans came around too late to have seen much of him ... but Ian Wright doesn't get nearly enough love from you lot. He was fooking good. I hated him. those two against Wednesday (around 11:00) in the FA Cup finals (& replay) ... and crikey, how he seemed to love scoring against us. Henry may have been (ok, was) better ... but not all that damn much. did I mention that I hated him?
fair shout. I will concede that virtually all of the input I get from gooners is either from folks over here or the few English posters on this forum. and I didn't mean to imply that he was unpopular ... only that the popularity of Henry or Bergkamp seems sooo much stronger than that of Wright that you'd think he wasn't in their league in term of quality - though I would contend that he was. I'd put it down to the Prem coming to American telly too late for most to have seen him, but hell, I hear Charlie George getting more love on this forum than Ian Wright. Again I'm not saying it's not there ... I'm just saying I haven't much seen it. no big deal, though. I was just saying that Wright was really, really good. ... and that I hated him.
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-ar...all?guid=EE4FA7C5-EF5E-E211-8C30-0050568C07EE Walking Football... what a great idea. For old geezers like myself. I'd probably manage to do my knee or my ankle nonetheless. Would love to meet & work with one of my childhood idols. Not living in England might be a slight problem for me though. Oh well, I guess my only question is: why those people Liam is talking to don't look much like pushing 30, let alone 50?!
This seems... difficult to regulate. "You're running!" "No I'm not, this is fast walking." "No, I saw your heel come up!" "No you didn't!"
Yeah that occurred to me when I first hear it. But then I decided that if you're gonna lower yourself to play this way, you're probably doing it so as to cheat/run. I think the spirit of the rules would prevail.
I was popping in to do the same. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-35026367 very sad. RIP, old fella.
Very sad indeed. Not least of which the image of a guy w/ 90YO strength being blown into an oncoming bus. And that he'd promised his son that he'd stopping going to away games. But you know what, he died doing what he loved. Maybe what he loved most? The Arsenal! RIP Ernie.
he saw Champan, Bastin, all the greats until today. Should we win something, League, FA Cup, Europa League, dedicate to his memory, or name the central ring after him.
Thanks for sharing that Darcgun. I just watched it. The interviewer could use a few pointers, but still Wenger did offer some tidbits, such as: * Interested in managing a national team? Not at all, even now. Although he was approached several times by FFF. (Personally I believe that is how he'll end his career) * Regrets he might have? Here he's not as clear. First he said "I have many, in my whole life". Then mins later he said that with the amount of good luck he's had in his career it would be "inappropriate to have regrets". Followed by an admission of a "mistake" he made by honoring his contract to manage Monaco when Bayern came calling... he turned Munich down, then got fired by Monaco a few months later. * His legacy? At the end the show they compared Wenger to Cruyff. And Arsene agreed that he would like to leave the legacy that Cruyff did for football in general and Barca specifically. And you could argue that he's already done that in England with Arsenal.
Thought this was a joke, but it's actually real! lol Flamini FTW! http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/90375
Yeah that was great. When I watched it I noted how Martin Tyler's commentary echoed that of Brian Moore's(?) back in 1971 in another slightly important FA Cup match, where he said "Charlie George who can hit em"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03cwtmg RIP. Better as a coach than as a manager for us, but he more or less made Tony Adams and Keown.
Yes, RIP Don Howe. A funny quote from Keown in this interview, alluding to his defense-mindedness: "the only time he smiled was during the team photo in the summer where he had all 22 players behind the ball". I have a very vague recollection of Don Howe, probably because he wasn't there very long before I moved back to the US in 1977. Today when I heard the news, I kept trying to conjure a memory of him and what I kept coming up with was this physio, sprinting out to help the latest injured player, with his little bag of tricks and the "magic sponge". Finally I figured out who that physio was... Fred Street. Street & Howe shared a bit of a resemblance. They are at the far right side of this photo from 1978 (Terry Neill is 2nd from the left). And check out the other all-time greats in this squad: Brady, MacDonald, Jennings! And then there was Rice, O'Leary, Stapleton, Sunderland, Radford, Rix, etc, etc:
He was also an England coach when we got to 90 and 96 semi finals Obviously a good coach because we haven't come close since
Just watched highlights of our match at Old Trafford last May and seeing our nice yellow away kit reminded me of how awful our current gold diamonds, jester-like shirts are. Here's hoping they correct their error next year!