DJ_NUFC Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 We need to keep this thread going forever. Let's not let wankers rewrite history and pretend he was given a fair go at the first team here, and treated well. And just reminiscing about his play brings this weird moisture over the eyes. That Bolton goal, what a moment to be a Newcastle fan at that time, a sliver of the sublime within 90mins of turgid bastard of a game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Ben Arfa dumping the referee on his are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 We reminisce a lot. Haven't looked forward to anything in ages with this team, ffs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 I get that non stop fanboyism might annoy some, but to have the opposite opinion or even an overly negative opinion about Hatem still baffles me. Beyond the highlights and memories his legacy is also as a handy tool to identify joyless buggers out there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,92084.msg3630787.html#msg3630787 http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,91227.msg3630849.html#msg3630849 http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,94472.msg4592043.html#msg4592043 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 I miss him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 http://gfycat.com/ScornfulCleverCow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinport53 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 http://gfycat.com/ScornfulCleverCow Still got it like. Wait til he's fit. Miss the tubby git Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Ah ffs, it's areet until you see him running at people. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 His acceleration is still class like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Sign up for the Nice trip people! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Only got one assist? Shit cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 His acceleration is still class like I hope you weren't saying this based on the GIF. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Wasn't he the quickest in our pre season training last summer as well? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 shoud have of passed oh wait Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nattfare Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Wasn't he the quickest in our pre season training last summer as well? Someone has either been lying or it is really embarrassing that our team still were slower than a fat lazy slug. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ads Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Wasn't he the quickest in our pre season training last summer as well? Yeah quickest to the fucking canteen at lunch time, amirite guys!? EDIT: No including Andy Woodman who spent his entire summer camped out in there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Wasn't he the quickest in our pre season training last summer as well? Someone has either been lying or it is really embarrassing that our team still were slower than a fat lazy slug. I'm fairly sure he was quickest over a short distance or something Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ads Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Wasn't he the quickest in our pre season training last summer as well? Someone has either been lying or it is really embarrassing that our team still were slower than a fat lazy slug. I'm fairly sure he was quickest over a short distance or something The short distance between the salad and the chips in the canteen, right!? Guys? Right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nattfare Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliottman Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Chronicle love writing about him They say the camera can put on 10 pounds, but in Hatem Ben Arfa’s case last weekend it looked more like 50. Pictures of Ben Arfa’s pre-season comeback game – well, one pretty grainy snap to be precise – went viral on Saturday evening and let’s put it this way: the mercurial former Newcastle United forward looked twice the man he ever did at St James’ Park. His defenders were quick to point out that it was a particularly baggy red and black Nice shirt that he was sporting. So often the man with a trick, this time Ben Arfa had been the victim of a trick of the light apparently. With Ben Arfa, there’ll always be someone prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. With such a luxurious talent, that’s often the way – but a wasted year and a career on the slide is his fault and no one else’s. It was always a shame. A fit and in-form Ben Arfa might have lifted last season above the dreadful drudgery that eventually curdled into some of the most serious and pressing problems of the Mike Ashley era, and I always felt that – however unpredictable and inconsistent he might have been – there was always the capacity for entertainment when he was around. En signant à Nice, Ben Arfa avait prévenu: il a faim de ballons ! pic.twitter.com/tfKaZxvii8 — qP (@QPerissinotto) July 12, 2015 Newcastle were nothing but dull and dreadful from January last year but given Ben Arfa was drummed out of Hull – where, after one video analysis session, it was put to him that the goalkeeper had covered more ground during the game than him – that was hardly the sole reason. So Pardew was right, then? Well his call has been borne out but at various points Ben Arfa’s career might have gone a different away with a different approach. Why, for example, was Ben Arfa so often allowed to rehabilitate from injuries in France and other exotic locations? Why, indeed, have Newcastle granted so many of their foreign stars such extended leaves of absence when they’re recovering from serious knocks? Fabricio Coloccini, hardly Ben Arfa’s biggest fan, apparently, had long sojourns in Argentina when recuperating. Hopefully Steve McClaren will have been told how damaging that has been for the reputation of the skipper and will be changing things a bit. Ben Arfa was brilliant and bold on his day, but given recent developments I wonder whether we were wrong to hitch such emotional attachment to a player who looks skittish at best. Is it just a reflection of how little entertainment Newcastle has given recently that Ben Arfa’s name can still prompt dewy-eyed reminiscing? McClaren wants to change United’s style, apparently. He might like to absorb all the lessons he can from Ben Arfa’s rise and subsequent fall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Colo's a proper bell like. Glad I changed my surname to a much more popular player Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Can't be fucked with reading more pish like that article man, so bad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Can't be fucked with reading more pish like that article man, so bad Correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 It's such a fucking stupid article. Douglas can fuck off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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