Up the Arse! Goons Thread

[glenferry23]

That’s alright, when I first started following Arsenal I had a Walcott one

No shorts though

I have a strong affinity with Saka, he’s already joined my favourites along with Wright, Henry and Rosicky. There’s something about him, seems a wonderful and humble young man who represents the club so well. So I felt the need to get the kit.

It’s just for wearing around the house, at my age cannot get away with wearing it public haha. Although last weekend I was wearing the top for a quick Sunday morning Coles run, passed a bloke in an aisle who said to me “8 ****ing points clear!“

 

[charcoalchicken]

I like the black kit too.. although I just can’t bring myself to buy one let alone wear it around, might be able to get away with it if your wore it the beach I guess

But yeah once you are over 18, I think you lose those privileges tbf

 

[Cruyff14]

19/20

Big fan of that purple top. One of the rare times I’ve purchased one.

The current season black away shirt I also bought. With Saka printed on the shirt and shorts. Yes I’ve gone full kit w***er.

I have had many over the years. 19/20 home has been my favourite. Also have 21/22. Beautiful kit as well.

 

[Cruyff14]

I have a strong affinity with Saka, he’s already joined my favourites along with Wright, Henry and Rosicky. There’s something about him, seems a wonderful and humble young man who represents the club so well. So I felt the need to get the kit.

It’s just for wearing around the house, at my age cannot get away with wearing it public haha. Although last weekend I was wearing the top for a quick Sunday morning Coles run, passed a bloke in an aisle who said to me “8 ******* points clear!“

Recently had a casual clothes day at my school and wore my jersey.

Got many comments from the kids!

 

[Genesis67]

One of the Arsenal girls have my last name... Would be tempted to get her name and number on my back

 

[windyhill]

AFL jumpers for men of an older age ? **** no. Arsenal shirts for men of an older age ? **** yes. Especially the Dreamcast sponsor with Sol Campbell smashed across the back. Love it. Brought many a comment that one.

 

[windyhill]

 

[bok_party]

You lads care way too much what others think. Wear whatever you want!

 

[dirty2]

Love my black Arsenal Guernsey...

Mrs dirty2 is great at buying me bday presents lol

Pity I'm not

 

[glenferry23]

You lads care way too much what others think. Wear whatever you want!

Done.

 

[andana]

March player of the month

Trossardino


Arsenal
arsenal
Presenting our March Player of the Month…


@LTrossard


@BukayoSaka87


@gabimartinelli


Congratulations, Leo

 

[Genesis67]

March player of the month

Trossardino


Arsenal
arsenal
Presenting our March Player of the Month…


@LTrossard


@BukayoSaka87


@gabimartinelli


Congratulations, Leo

Jeez that £27m looks like money well spent right now, doesn't it.

 

[andana]

Bad news, football: The Insufferable Arsenal Fan is back
Few could deny supporters the joy of a first league title since 2004, but Arsenal's success does come with a smug tone of moral superiority

THOM GIBBS
SENIOR SPORTS WRITER telegraph.co

There is a rumbling in north London. An evil has stirred and an awed hush sweeps down Upper Street, from Pret a Manger all the way to the other Pret a Manger. After years in exile we are witnessing the re-emergence of the insufferable Arsenal fan.

Like most volcanoes or Roy Hodgon’s managerial career they are never truly extinct, only dormant. Newcastle United's Jacob Murphy appeared on Rio Ferdinand’s Vibe with Five show this week and was asked about the toughest team he had faced this season, tragically not by any members of boyband Five who are presumably vibing elsewhere.

Murphy named Arsenal and was interrupted by Arsenal fan and presenter Joel Beya, asking him to repeat it “for those who didn’t hear it at the back.” Co-presenter Ste Howson wheeled back in his chair and groaned “Why?!” before putting his head in his hands as Beya repeated the question. Je suis Ste.

Following their 4-1 win against Leeds a well-spoken young chap on AFTV (née Arsenal Fan TV) said “We never got out of second gear. We knew it was a comfortable game, we knew we didn’t have to put everything into it.” Piers Morgan is ending his Arsenal tweets with fist bump emoji.

None of this is egregious in isolation, but there is a certain collective tone when Arsenal supporters are crowing. It is woven into the fabric of their smugly impeccable retro remake shirts, it bleeds through Louis Dunford’s The Angel, the mawkish dirge now adopted as the club’s pre-match anthem. The honourable member for Talksport Neil Ruddock summed it up: “Don’t let Arsenal win the Premier League, please… Arsenal fans think they invented football.”

How did they earn this reputation? Like most London clubs, Arsenal have been over-represented in media and were fawned over to the point of sycophancy when doing well. Then they monopolised phone-ins for years during Arsene Wenger’s painful final act. But it was the implied moral superiority of a team who played football “the right way” which rubbed many of us up “the wrong way”. Give over.

Until Wenger arrived and invented pasta, the club had enjoyed success under George Graham. If you can not remember outcry over his tactics after six trophies in nine years it is because there was none. This makes the supposed Arsenal DNA of ornate passing football about as original as Dolly the sheep’s.

For a while the cockiness continued even as success dried up. Teams like Bolton and Stoke, who dared to play directly and tackle vigorously, were dismissed as philistines. As the years without glory continued the mood shifted. The banter era, as fans have posthumously christened it, was anything but. These were bleak and angry times and any claim to Arsenal’s unique ‘properness’ died with the unedifying vitriol towards Wenger, even if his final years were less enjoyable than 14 car-bound hours with screaming children waiting to board a Dover ferry.

Now no one can deny Arsenal fans another taste of glory, with nineteen years since the invincible season. Just do not expect neutrals to be happy. When are they ever, for league winners? In the past 30 years I can only remember feeling entirely positive about Leicester City. Blackburn '95 looks miraculous in retrospect, but they were the moneybags of their day. £2m on Stuart Ripley, how crass.

Yet if you put down your phone and step back into the real world, going to watch Arsenal has become fun. The profile of the typical fan has changed, with a “use or lose it” rule on season tickets creating a noticeably youthful and more diverse fanbase than most in London. You cannot even roll your eyes about the style of football any more, with Mikel Arteta’s team joyous to watch. They are quick and cutting in attack where Wenger’s and Unai Emery’s sides became ponderous. In Bukayo Saka they also have a talisman who it is impossible to dislike, much like Thierry Henry before him. Unless you are Irish.

Of course, if you ignore the YouTube brigade, most reasonable Arsenal fans are taking nothing for granted. They are enjoying it. And if you support any other football team at this time of the season, that is absolutely infuriating.

 

[Cruyff14]

What a rubbish article aside from the final six lines.

 

[dirty2]

Working tomorrow night will watch it when I get home.

**** I want 3 points... Massive danger game.

 

[dirty2]

should be finished around 3:30/4

So I'll stay off any and all socials and watch when I get home.

Come on lads make it a good night!/morning!

 

[tigs2010]

Get In!!! Martinelliiiii

 

[bok_party]

Nice to get an early goal

 

[tigs2010]

Beautiful. Martinelli and Saka are just sublime

 

[tigs2010]

Crowd back into it now. Need half time

 

[tigs2010]

Looks inevitable that they equalise at this point

Edit: on cue they get a pen

 

[tigs2010]

Bahahahahahahaha

File that under things I didn’t expect to see tonight

 

[tigs2010]

Oh ffs terrible pass

 

[windyhill]

Offer me a draw pre match, I’m taking it.

 

[dirty2]

First 20m ****in great.... After that... Lucky to hold on to a 2-2 draw....

This could hurt.

Ramsdale take a bow son...4/5 great saves.

**** man City.... Screw them... I want the league title!!!!