Unless Freddie Ljungberg, Stefan Schwarz, Anders Limpar, Zlatan Ibrahimovich, Bjorn Borg, or any of the members of Abba have gone into politics, I must admit I’d be struggling.

EDIT: Once heard from a source I trust that Arteta sacked Ljungberg. At the time of him leaving his coaching role at Arsenal, I recall the press release said he was leaving to further his coaching career. But as far as I’m aware he’s never had a job in coaching since. So I guess Arteta having him sacked may fit in with that?

Harold Wilson was a big Huddersfield fan.

There's a statue of him outside Huddersfield train station. I had to go there for work a few years ago and it's slap bang in the middle of the square as you leave the station.

Yes - I did some work up there and I've seen it too. He's wearing his famous Gannex mac as I recall.

Edit - I got the Gannex bit wrong.

He was on the tip of my tongue.. Didn't think of Home or Eden

The only reason I find Anthony Eden easy to remember is once seeing a programme about the Suiz Crisis. The reason I can recall Alex Douglas-Home is that the last bit of his surname is pronounced Hume but spelled Home.

Next weekend likely to be called off too because of the funeral. Looking like our next league game will be Tottenham on Oct 1st.

Not 'round our house.

My old man never referred to him as anything other than hOme - usually prefaced by something colourful. For him, hOme was the absolute epitome of privilege.

I remenber he looked more dead then alive. He was some sort of Lord and he had to relinquish his title to take the PM office.

Lucky there’s not a World Cup as well to interrupt the season even further then!

It’s turning into a covid like season.

Torygraph reckon the funeral will be Monday 20th. We play Brentford the day before.

There is some previous here. The last actual State Funeral was Winston Churchill which was on Saturday 30th Jan 1960 - and there was a full program of FA Cup 4th round games played that day.

Edit - we never made it to the 4th round that year having been beaten 2-0 in a replayed tie by Rotherham.

1965?

So, he'll be Charles III? Wow! Even though it would be impossible for her to outlive me naturally, I never envisioned another monarch on the throne. Some people lived and died under Queen Victoria I suppose.
And what will Prince William be? How many Williams preceding him? 4? Not sure.

All surreal.

Yes, as a young teenager I recall he did seem to be an anachronism in those early 60s radical days - a rather skeletal Tory toff who just did not have the common touch of the Labour leader Harold Wilson, who was not working-class at all. Home took over the Conservatives at their lowest ebb since 1945, but only narrowly lost the 1964 General Election. As so often is the case perception is all in politics - Douglas Home in fact had great personal resolve, was far more experienced in government than Wilson, and was one of those old-fashioned principled politicians - he certainly wasn't in it for the money. And he was a very good cricketer!

Correct Old Man - my mistake. Sat 30 Jan 1965

I now know exactly where I was on that day - and it wasn’t watching a funeral.

Unfortunately, I was watching us get stuffed in the 4th Round at Peterborough.

They say her Maj was a gooner. I read we were top of the league the day of her coronation and we were top of the league when she passed on.

All sporting events postponed or canceled this weekend. And next weekend as well depending on the funeral date.

It will be fascinating now just how and when all these game postponements will be wedged back into the calendar. Read that some may have to wait till 2023, due to the WC.

Aside from our game, was really wanting to see how much City could thrash Spurs.

This is increasingly looking like an overreaction.

My sons kids football match is cancelled Sunday too, plus his training this evening. He’s not happy

This is increasingly looking like an overreaction.[/quote]Far from being a reaction, it was all planned years ago.

A shocking deprivation. Where will it all end?

Far from being a reaction, it was all planned years ago.[/quote]

It wasn't as it was made clear earlier on that it was up to each sporting body to decide whether or not they went ahead. They could have played on. The thing is an already crowded season has just got worse.

So the Everton game is off, the PSV one is likely to go ahead, and the Brentford game may be postponed as it’s so close to the funeral…..so our next league game could be Spurs

Jesus, Martinelli and Gabriel not included in the latest Brazil squad. Certainly in Jesus case he’s a certainty for the World Cup and the Brazil manager is using these games to decide on the rest of his squad.

For us it means all 3 are nicely rested before the NLD

As to a few of the other postponed matches for this weekend....fast forward to Jan 2023.

As for Fulham vs Chelsea, Liverpool vs Wolves, Man City vs Tottenham, Arsenal vs Everton, West Ham vs Newcastle and Crystal Palace vs Man United, these fixtures will likely have to wait until the new year to find a new date on which to play, with the earliest being w/c January 16, 2023.

Is this good Rich ? I think so. I would’ve rather played Everton and Brentford but…..
Gives Thomas time to recover to play Spurs.
Also allows a full first team to play PSV. I hate to tempt fate but we should be too strong. 6 point start in the group would be great.

Bit sloshed so forgive me. Very agreeable bottle of Williamette Pinot Noir in the rear view mirror.

Curious as to the age range of the forumites… I think I’m in the senior age group with such other luminaries as OMOH, DHD, Parkerknoll Gooner, TG and Long Time. Mee sadly passed. Please excuse me if I have mis categorized you
I was born December 1953 in London. Makes me 68. ( Supported the Arse forever. First game I really remember is beating Spurs at Highbury after Terry
Venables got married in the morning with GG as his best man)

Don’t think that makes me the oldest….certainly not the youngest. I’m not prying individually just intrigued by the demographics of this terrific group of world wide supporters of a great club.
I think that currently it is 100 per cent male ….

Curiosity killed the cat so please ignore this if it causes offence. Apologies in advance ….I’m an open book…I think I’m the only poster who uses his real full name. My London addresses before I moved to Philly were
20 Trinder Road N.19
1 The Woodlands Crouch Hill N.8
44 Gallants Farm Road East Barnet Herts EN48ES
12 Orpington Road London N.21
8 Old Park Ridings Grange Park,N.21

Any of you know North London my family are from the Bunk.
Campbell Bunk ….it’s gone now ….was a tough street ….near Playford Road in Finsbury Park. My Dad and his siblings were raised there

I think I’ll stop here as I am now well into the Nocino and this probably all reads like a lot of bollocks. Sorry. Night all.

Hi Andy. There definitely is at least one female on the forum. But as she’s never revealed her gender, I’m never going to.

Of the red grape varieties, I prefer the fuller, more robust ones. So pinot noir doesn’t really do it for me. But we all have our own taste and if you like it, that’s what counts.

I won’t give the addresses where I’ve lived but started off in Muswell Hill, then Barnet (Totteridge), then Edmonton for a few years when I married my first wife, then New Barnet when we split up. I then started work in Chichester where I met who was to be my second and current wife and we lived in a village close by until we moved to South Hertfordshire. Worked in various places including (but not only) Worthing, South London, the Stoke area, Manchester and Plymouth without ever moving there.

Chose to go to university at the LSE to make it easier to get to Arsenal matches when a student. Firmly consider myself a North Londoner (both an Arsenal fan in football and a somewhat less enthusiastic Middlesex fan in cricket) and know everywhere north of the Thames pretty well. But have also regularly socialised countless times all over Greater London. Particularly Central London but also South, West and East London. Basically there’s nowhere in London I don’t know pretty damn well.

Isn’t it obvious that Long Time Gooner is a female?

I know Fish Bar was…cannot guess a current female…not that it matters….I enjoy reading all posts…..

Anyhow I’d like my post back if I could…..I think I crossed the line.Too nosy. This, rightly, should be a forum for people ….Arsenal supporters ….to express their views in private. Male female young old all welcome.

Not going near that one

Bernard ….since living over here (Philly) my wine drinking has changed a bit. I love the great French burgundies ….Puligny,Montrachet and St Auban…but they’re getting so expensive now. Even a decent Chablis is ridiculously over priced. I’ve started drinking a few more modest wines…Gavi de Gavi, Albariño etc..

With reds the greater selection here is indigenous…..but some of the Californian Cabernet Sauvignon bottles are 14.5% and more which is too strong for me….the Oregon Pinot Noirs are 12.5 and easy drinking.
I’m far from a connoisseur though….my taste buds ain’t what they were!

I've heard Babu doxed me so I'm an open book too.

More than one Arsenal fan have told me that the Royal family were gooners since the 30s at least as we were the first London club to be the best continually.

It's also been amazing to me how one city can support so many clubs comfortably. We maxed at out 3 in one sport (baseball in NY up to the 50s). But I guess if you take all sports into consideration as well as university teams we kinda, sorta do.

65 yo and lived most of my life around 9500 miles from London.

It wasn't as it was made clear earlier on that it was up to each sporting body to decide whether or not they went ahead. They could have played on. The thing is an already crowded season has just got worse.[/quote]
The core elements were planned, as they should be. The rest is everyone else trying not to appear insensitive.