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As the ref signals for the game to kick off, over the speakers comes the dulcet tones of Lemmy. "Time to play the game! "

I'll add Podolski to the other two before I take leave. That's a quarter of the Arsenal team that Arsenal have purchased despite not being players that fit trollemache's vision of their transfer policy.

Im out.

Arsenal's transfer policy is nowt like ours. For instance, there is no way we'd have bought someone like Mertesacker or Arteta due to their age stopping them from being a profitable sale.

It's a balance sheet orientated transfer policy, not one that benefits the football. That is if ,as Bimpy says we will have gone 18 months without buying anybody come the summer, we have a transfer policy.

Fear for Gareth Bale here. He is facing Get Taffy.

I know it was forever ago, but he did very well at Swindon first time at bat, and pretty well at a pre-Abramovich Chelsea (who at the time were almost as success-starved as us!). "Slight upgrade on Kinnear" is ridiculous hyperbole, and I notice there is no mention whatsoever as to the galactic gulf between their respective playing styles, either. Just what I was about to post. Had the audicity to get Swindon into the Premier league. Then built the base of Gullit's Chelsea side. All by playing a style of football totally different to Pardew's.

Hoddle. The finest player I ever saw. Seriously fucking good.

Id take Bertie Masson over Pardypooper tbh.

You know even as a very young kid, maybe 5 or 6 ish I appreciated what a proper football legend that Bill Shankly was too. A very under rated manager in the scheme of the all time greats.

Grand old man....one whom my old Dad and Grandad waxed lyrical about, they couldn't praise him highly enough and therefore in my eyes a real legend of the game. RIP Sir Tom.

Or more to the point Shaka. He was horrendous at Blackburn. They were both shite. Indeed.

If that wanker Woan hadn't equalised we'd have beaten Spurs no question. We all knew Bryan Robson's Boro were always going to lie down for Taggart so the draw at Forest fucked it good and proper.

Or more to the point Shaka. He was horrendous at Blackburn.

Tbh a couple of drawers in that run would have won us the title. But on the other hand it was a an all or nothing charge to the title Was just referring to Pardew's ethos on playing to not lose. Oh i know, just sayng if we had f drew Liverpool away , Blackburn away and Forest away, we might have won that title. We did draw with Forest away.

There used to be a genuine shocked silence whenever anybody dared to score against us at SJP. Contrast that to now when you're just waiting for it to happen. You don't know when but you know it's coming. It's one of the reasons I mock fans of other clubs when they say Keegan didn't know how to organise a side defensively.

You're so right.

I think it's fair to say that Kevin Keegan and Sir Bobby are the two best English managers of the Premier League era. By some distance.

Happy birthday to a real footballing hero, boils my piss how Trevor Brooking has a knighthood and wor Kev hasn't.

Except when Benteke scored when he was marking nobody. That isn't how I saw it He did have a very good game apart from the goal to be fair. He was marking somebody else on that goal. Somehow the chap he'd been marking in open play got switched to Sissoko iirc. Im not a fan of midfielders marking forwards at corners I must confess. It should be a centre-back doing it. Alreet Ronaldo. I'd have him in the side tbf. I wouldn't have dropped him for Colo way back when. He didn't deserve that treatment at all after the run of good games he'd had.

Except when Benteke scored when he was marking nobody. That isn't how I saw it He did have a very good game apart from the goal to be fair. He was marking somebody else on that goal. Somehow the chap he'd been marking in open play got switched to Sissoko iirc. Im not a fan of midfielders marking forwards at corners I must confess. It should be a centre-back doing it.

Except when Benteke scored when he was marking nobody. That isn't how I saw it He did have a very good game apart from the goal to be fair.

Yeah but that was to the chip shop.

Except when Benteke scored when he was marking nobody.

You would expect a manager not to have a go at the players after three consecutive buggerings? Ian, stop it. That is blatant man. The discussion is the recipient of the bollockings and not whether the manager should be having a go at the players. Every single time you twist the debate just to get some Pardew support in. I don't give a shit what you think TBH, I'm saying that Pardew having a go at the players (including HBA and Marveaux and anyone else) is absolutely normal. No shit Sherlock. Manager tells players off when they keep losing shocker. Even a pre school infant would know that so there was no need to even say it even with it not being the actual point, TBH.