About 2nd leg with Celtic — u have only come to see Eboue, who got booked btw coz his inner-tee contained some scriblings.

Btw,
I’m converting to Arsenism, which is basically devout religious following of the Supreme Exalted All-Knowing being that is Arsene Wenger. Anyone else wanna join?

this is the same tactic they have used at the mayday protests in london every year. it is a tactic learned throughout the miners strike and then the newspaper strikes. there was a great series on bravo called ‘i predict a riot’ that goes through the whole history of protests/riots in the uk. one of the episodes concentrated on footy violence.

i will happily take 5-1 tonight, although as my lad keeps telling me, all we have to do is not let a goal in.

whatever else, we’ve got 90 minutes of class football ahead. a nice warm up fro the utd game at the weekend.

Everyone – at 3.55pm I shut down the computer and start out for the match. Comments continue without me of course but if you have not commented before on Untold Arsenal, your post will be held until tomorrow morning. Likewise if you include a live link in your post, it will be held in moderation – and I suspect the same is true if you include at (at) symbol.

Let’s hope it is a jolly discussion tomorrow eh?

Now, no being naughty while the teacher is out of the room.
Tony

But in competitions like CL and PL there should be a way to make things correct. I dove have some strong thoughts about it and maybe I can ask Tony if I can write them down so we could see if us fans could agree on those problems ?

It would take me to long to write it here in a reply.

I must admit that tonight’s match fills me with jitters. I know that we can & will win, but the Celtic guys may cause too much injury to our boys. I hope that we can win with a minimum of fuss. Another 2 – 0 win will do me nicely; though I am not averted to a bigger goal margin.

The football authorities are always afraid of something when it comes to acting against football misdemeanours. When I was young, my parents drum it into me So many times that “A stitch in time saves nine.” It would seem to me that the football rulling bodies never heard of this. They almost always wait for things to escalate before taking inadequate actions.

Not only have the Governing Bodies left room for all sorts of atrocities, they have also paved the way for cheating, especially with their stance on referees. Why do they often say that “referees are, after all, only human”? Does it mean that footballers are monkeys? Or that the huge number of fans are animals? If referees’ only excuse for spoiling the game and costing clubs unnecessary points and money, and causing so much heartache to the fans, whose money and support help ensure that the authorities have games to administer, is simply that they are human, one could then argue that monkeys will do a better job. Why is it so difficult to hold referees (and their assistants) accountable for their decisions on the football field? How can we hope to achieve respect for them when many of them earn none? Mark my words, the fans will get fed up one day and boycot all matches. Then the authorities will suddenly have a mess on their hands. You may say it will never happen but many things in life have happened despite people saying they will never happen.

West Iceland is chosen because the club is owned by the Administrators of one of the bankrupt banks in Iceland, and they are desperately trying to get rid of it. Also known as “Two Stops From Barking”.

Others are

The Tiny Totts (Tottingham)
Manchester IOU (Man U)
The Insolvents (Liverpool)
The KGB in Fulham (Chelsea)
The Zebras (Newcastle)
Manchester Arab (Man City)
Hold Your Head (Aston Villa, on account of their tendency to get an ankle injury, and go down holding their head to get the match stopped when Arsenal are attacking).
Notlob (Bolton)
Rotational Fouling (Blackburn)
Harrods (Fulham)
Everton Anti-Gravity (after the way they threw things at the upper tier at the Ems and then got annoyed when they came down and hit them on the head)
West Bromwich Wobbleyou

Did I miss someone? Any other suggestions?

I guess I am just saying what I do, and being very big-headed and thinking others ought to do this as well.

As for the Russian thing… what is happening is that thanks to the astonishingly high readership that this blog and the commentaries around it are now getting, I am starting to receive requests from people to reprint it on their sites, with acknowledgement. There have been several – but I was rather intrigued by the Russian one, because I can’t read a single word of it. Three of us in my office spent half an hour trying to guess words (without cheating and going back to the original).

You can see just how our site has grown by looking at the counters on the right hand side. One of them started us out at number 120 or something, and we are now in the 20s, on another we are 12 and the one at the bottom has us in the top 5.

Much of this is due to the high level of correspondence. While other blogs get loads of one liners, we get detailed argument and debate. That’s what brings people in.

I agree with you on the punishments that west ham should recieve. This kind of thing needs to be dealt with quite aggressively.

Police cant please anybody. If they go in hard on this type of behavior. they get told they are to rough and are told they are thugs themselves by Guardian/observer journo’s. if they’re not seen doing anything they get the blame for that too.

is there a clue or hidden meaning as to why the site is being translated into Russian, or is it because the Americans prefer soccer,tomatos,color etc.

With regards to the disturbance at Upton Park, one should remember it started well outside the ground,pre meditated for sure,and not by teenagers.Is this not just the sign of the times that we now unfortunately live in, and the history of rivalry between the two clubs is just being used as an excuse

As for the tonight’s result – I’m quite nervous and hence find it hard to concentrate on my work right now (that’s why I’m writing this post, not working, ehem!), but am certain of a place in the CL, where we deservedly belong, at 21.30 tonight.

Now I can understand 4 goals out of 5 – 3 from forwards and 1 from Diaby – but any reason behind predicting Denilson’s goal? I hope he scores as I want to see his dance move once again, but this time with a health warning of “do not follow” attached – some (gooner) friends of mine tried doing that and they got some headache afterwards!

Have a good day all.