Comments on: Wolverhampton: beat the bookies with Billy The Dog’s pre-match result service

By: haho

haho — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:08:54 +0000

Tony, was that you reacting on the Guardian’s liveblog?

By: walter

walter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:20:21 +0000

And Cesc was not pleased with our performance. That’s the spirit we like to see in fact. If the players are always looking to do better the we are in for a great season.
Don’t forget we played a CL game on wednesday and if you go away after a CL match it’s always difficult.
In fact credit to Wolverhampton who gave us half an hour hard work. After our first goal and certainly after the second you could see they feared a spanking…

By: LRV

LRV — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:56:06 +0000

A good away win from the boys. Great! We had chances to score plenty more if we had wanted to.

By: walter

walter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:31:42 +0000

We are averaging a 3,27 goal per match in the PL. This is stunning after 11 games. And far better then the rest with the same games played.
What a great team we have.

By: don't believe the hype

don't believe the hype — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:27:12 +0000

I hope Diaby will recover within those 2 weeks because he will be useful against Chelsea.

I don’t think Song was just being rested – he is one card away from a ban, so don’t be surprised to see him saved for Chelsea if we have cover for him.

Time to turn our minds to prayers that our players return in one piece from the international break and that we can pick up where we left off domestically.

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:00:25 +0000

So there we are, I am considerably wetter, and everyone is considerably richer by following Billy the Dogs perfect prediction of Wolverhampton W 1 Arsenal 4.

One more injury, but at least two weeks to recover.

Tony

By: walter

walter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:56:07 +0000

And now hope for a draw tomorrow ? The we have Chelsea in our reach with our game in hand. In fact I personnaly think that every result is good as long as Chelsea dont win. In that case we can be top if we win our game in hand.
And now….. I was going to moan about the internationals but I’m in a too good mood to moan about them now.

By: walter

walter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:53:28 +0000

I don’t know about you but the away fans looked to totaly outsing the home fans. Or did the chinese station only gave the sound of our supporters.
My final thoughts on my match report for the Benelux fans was something like this : “The away game to Wolverhampton, defined as dangerous, looked like a walk in the park.”
And then to think we wasted at least another 5 o 6 great chances.
Hope Diaby is not out long. The plan to rest Song for this game was soon over. Great game from Ramsey, sometimes you could see a little bit unexpierence but this will get better when he plays more games.

By: steww

steww — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:40:19 +0000

**** to the moaners that was a complete away performance, wonderful stuff. Hope Diaby recovers soon and well done young Ramsay for such a great display of composure and skill.

By: walter

walter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:37:26 +0000

You got the result like it happened Tony.
Even the Wolves goal was in injury time because the link we had, a chinese station, run a few minutes behind. So for us it was injurytime.
Great result once again. We really look great.

By: IndianGooner

IndianGooner — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:32:09 +0000

Another wonderful performance from the Boys.. They really mean business this season..

Sad about Diaby though.. He was really getting better and was showing a lot of his promises. Hope it is not serious..

The strangest part is that our boys DO want to give the Moaners something to moan about. Today it was again the late goal conceded. I would take a 4-1 or 5-2 anyday rather than a 1-0 or a 2-0..

By: IndianGooner

IndianGooner — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:31:27 +0000

3-0 to The Arsenal and its only Half-way through.. Are we looking at a new record scoreline for an Away game?? By the way the match is getting along, there are indications of few more goals..

Come on you Gooners, Lets make it 8-0 and score 40 goals in the first 11 games..

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:03:03 +0000

Forget all that rugby stuff – it is all wrong. The news is

Ramsey replaces Song
Sagna replaces Eboue
Eduardo replaces Nasri

Didn’t see the first one, but more or less got the other two.

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:33:04 +0000

Relief , relief. It seems the big darts match is between England and New Zealand and not Wales, so I might be ok at finding a pub.

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:08:29 +0000

“Dont Believe…” yes I know everything is speculation – but on a day when I am not at the match (and that includes today) the time before the game can be difficult, so I try and spend it doing something, like reading everyone’s speculation.

Today is really tough. I am in Wales – and Wales is playing the Green and Blues (or is it Black and Black, I forget) at hockey or something, and everyone is going mad about it.

Worse, I am staying in a house where there is no Ever So Pointless Nothingness TV channel, so I have to go to the pub. Nothing wrong there, except that I know from past experience I am going to have to run from pub to pub to find one that has just one of its 10 screens not showing the the croquet, or whatever the game is they follow here but watch the football instead.

So, its edgy here. And what makes it worse is that because of the anti-biotics I am on I can’t drink any alcohol, so it is going to be a couple of hours in a pub with a load of huge gentlemen of the rugby persuasion talking in a foreign tongue while I sit on my own in a corner shouting at a totally different match.

Life is tough.

Tell you something though – if you are in the UK and you have bought a copy of MAKING THE ARSENAL go and buy a Guardian. There is a supplement of 100 Years of Photography and there are two pictures in it which are directly related to scenes in MAKING THE ARSENAL. I’ll do a piece on it in a day or two; I was knocked out when I looked at it today, because I have never seen those pics before but they fit 100% with the scenes in the book as I imagined them. Take a look at the picture on the bottom of page 4 – which relates to the end of the story, and then the main picture on page 6 which is directly related to the very first page of the story (the page in italics).

Cheers
Tony

By: walter

walter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:01:14 +0000

I know the games was a few days ago but had not found the time to react to it.

By: walter

walter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:00:07 +0000

Off topic, sorry.
Just saw West Ham beat Villa in the last minute. The Hammers seem to have a habit in scoring late. And it looks like Villa is not living up to the expectations of the pundits. Remember real contender for our spot in the top 4. What a surprise, the pundit are wrong….

Must say I’m a bit dissapointed with the points Bill the dog gave. Only 10 out of 10 for all. What a moaner.

By: LRV

LRV — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:43:22 +0000

Thanks Tony! I got my book today. Cheers mate!

By: don't believe the hype

don't believe the hype — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:10:17 +0000

Tony, all those line ups are mere speculation based on who is in the squad as the actual team is not announced until much closer to kick off. Why would you want to give the opposition that much ammo so early on?

I suspect Rosicky will play on the right of the front 3 as he does help out defensively and he adds a lot creatively – he seems to bring out the best in Cesc as well.

It’s also important for Diaby to keep playing and improving so that when Denilson is back to replace Song, Diaby can offer the physical strength and height that would otherwise be missing in midfield.

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:01:23 +0000

Sky Sports News has just flashed up that Rosicky and Eduardo could start.