The Arsenal today in 1940 featuring in Picturegoer magazine.

Bonus points if you can name two earlier films which heavily featured The Arsenal...

Agnes? Behave.

Not sure when I started posting but I do know that your posts were often very useful in figuring out how far you could go before Steve banned you...

We don't, but thanks anyway.

The Arsenal stadium mystery & The Poseidon Adventure.

When I became a fan there were few billionaires anywhere in the world. A millionaire was something astonishing, certainly in the UK anyway. It is most likely that the cumulative total of Arsenal spend in the transfer market in the first 100 years of the club was less than one month of Özil's current salary.

Shame US Martin w as banned. Others were Chippys Chisler, Eskimo, Manoj, Ragahav, Spencer, Vince Ordinaire....etc.

I remember all those Zed. Andreas XavT Odysseus Truegooner Juliano Gaz (BWood) Spencer (tosser) Babu(s) and of course Fishbar.

No idea when I first posted but I'd stalked this place for a while before diving in. I used to post as DonHowesDad because I thought t'internet was the sole prerogative of the young - and I wasn't. Didn't realise most on here were as old as Methuselah and that relatively speaking, I was a slip of a lad. Later I took East End Gooner's cue (EEG) and shortened to DHD. Got banned several times too.

Lurked for quite a while. Joined in late 2000 I think. Other names from the time were Cannon Balls and Chocolate Gooner and Singapore Gooner.

Does anyone remember Nico? And how about Noggin? They both became close friends of mine. As did Gaz (Borehamwood), Truegooner and the sadly deceased Fish Bar who have already been mentioned. There was also Sabir, N5er as well.

Pete in N5 was another excellent poster, who later became Pete by the sea. He was firstly Kingston Pete. Tells me he still occasionally looks at the forum. Has anyone mentioned the famous Harlow Gooner?

We haven't seen John's dancing leprechaun in quite some time.

Some memories there with the old names. Daz vs Choccy was always good for a laugh. Been some debates on here as well. I remember well the great 'mesh' debate.

Wow...so many memories. Met one or two on that list.
Chocolate Gooner invited issues. Daz trolled him merciliessly (I know trolling...lol) and it can be argued CG deserved it but still....there is some point you can just ignore the posts and posters you don't like Cannon Balls, well...less said the better, but I miss him actually and the only poster I feared getting on the wrong side of, no one else. haha

Then there are those who have passed on. RIP.

Same here DHD. I looked in for awhile as well before joining. I liked the the Arsenal info and the rollicking banter. I remember Spencer not being very well received on here. Mee had passed away. Same as Fishbar. Oh well. I do miss some of them.

Last visited: Sat Jun 01, 2019

Really?! Why? Did you claim RvP was a decent header?

I stayed for the stories. At the time as far as I know had the oldest support. I spent a lot of time on youtube and bought a shed load of DVDs because of this forum. Who do I send the bill to?

Unai Emery blasted for leaving Arsenal 'sick and weak' before Mikel Arteta arrival

Former Arsenal star Emmanuel Petit has let rip at Unai Emery, for the state he left the Gunners in before his dismissal back in December

https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer ... l-21466599

Saw this on Twitter And found it the perfect example of what we are missing right now

https://twitter.com/thearseneview/statu ... 16704?s=21

It’s not even a striker running on to it but Özil who isn’t the quickest. I can’t recall when the last time I saw a ball like this from one of our current players. Feel free to correct me

I honestly didn't think calling Steve Gleiber a great effeminate poofter would cause offence ...but obviously he did

From the mists of time vault ....... Trish XXX , Mickey Sloane , Geoff from Budapest , BMurph .... the latter annoyed me at one stage , I tried to give him a kick in the nuts , he skillfully avoided the jibe , I laughed , we became good mates , his sister lived in NZ ,

Later he PM'd me said he was terminally ill so sadly I'd say he has passed on .

Shakespearean Pedant he had Daz's number big time .

Get real you pony tailed fairyfloss ........ your ponsy anorexic zip challenged countryman is more to blame for this current shower of sh**t than the speaking with a mouthful of marbles Spaniard .

Every year we hear of players being touted around for £100m+. It got me wondering actually how many of these absolute blockbuster signings are ever a true success? Also, any player going for £100m is likely to be the highest earner at your club with wages north of £250k per week minimum on a 4 year deal minimum I'd guess. More and more we are seeing huge money signings being loaned out, or clubs wanting to get them off their books asap.

I'd bet there are very few £100m players that would prove better value for money than the correctly scouted player, or number of players for a fraction of the cost.

There are some interesting players out there with gettable release clauses.
Werner from Leipzig at £50m
Pellegrini looks like the creative box to box we need - available for £25-30m
Hwang Hee-Chan from Salzburg available for £20m
Grealish £45m

Even Haaland who's just signed for Dortmund looks like he has a cheap release clause of £65m considering what he's done this season and is still only 19

If we lose Aubamayang this summer (which I think we have to if he won't sign, and it actually makes more sense to sell him now than sign him on a £300k per week 4 year deal) then I'd go all out for Werner. Pretty much a goal per game in Germany, very quick good all round striker.

as soon as someone leaves he suddenly becomes indispensible to our cause ...are you kidding .

For getting rid of that pile of sh**t he should be praised , only one of that lot I'd like back would be Iwobi .

I’m agreeing with you again. Apart from the bit where you’d take back Iwobi. Not a bad player at all but considering the price we got for him, in my view the right decision to sell. I thought Čech retired from playing to take his new job at Chelsea.

Koscielny was awful as well as being injury prone towards the end. I still remember him making Giroud look like Ronaldo at his peak in the Europa League final against Chelsea. The same Giroud who may well have played less minutes at Stamford Bridge this season than David Luiz. Mkhitaryan? I can remember everyone moaning about him. And Juventus presumably want to see the back of Ramsey because he hardly ever plays and when he does is apparently garbage.

I really liked the unmentioned Welbeck but seeing how much he plays at Watford he’s another who had to go. I think you’re right that as soon as players go it’s easy to start overstating how much we’re missing them. It’s similar to what DHD said about Holding, who of course is still here. When he was injured people used to make out he was better than he is.

Sad to hear that about BMurph.

I think the decision to move Iwobi on was correct and a friend who follows Everton says he only impresses in dribs and drabs for them however I think if we had hung on to him this season he would have played an awful lot of games so far.

You have Özil producing one assist all year and Iwobi always looked more comfortable centrally than wide. I think our lack of options would have meant he featured heavily

You can forget about Werner. He's going to Liverpool.

and I in turn agree with what you are saying Bernard

... I did micro analyse each player pretty much the same way you did , came to the same conclusions ; then chopped it back .

I only mentioned Iwobi in the sense ..... that of that pile of rubble he would be the one I'd have least problem with returning . .

Think you've got that one wrong Goonie

I wouldn't want to upset John 1 who has a life sized statue of Aaron in his lounge but I think there is a tendency on your part and others to remember Ramsay
for his bursting runs , goals and work ethic from way back . He was a very good player ONCE .

but he could frequently produce passes straight to the opposition that Xhaka and Mustafi would drool over , was AWOL in a lot of matches he played , and was as injury prone as Diaby .

Hanging on to him far too long letting his contract ran down thus not getting a fee was the only loss for the Club I can see

I've often thought Ramsey would thrive in Arteta's system. Hate to think of the 'what ifs' had he stayed with us. But oh well.

I do too ..... hand forced he would be the one I'd have back

I will always the hold the opinion until I'm six feet under .... modern footballers earn far too much money for what they produce . As a consequence people like

Walcott and Oxlade are propelled forward before they have learnt the basics , crossing , shooting , ball control .

People like Özil can fluff around contributing next to nothing and earn in a week five times what some ordinary Joe Bloggs earns in a year .

Someone said to me today Lewis Hamilton has the snots with Mercedes , he is on 65 million a year and they have now offered him 90 million to stay .

How gross , people struggling to find food and clean water and some prat is offered 90 million to drive a poxy Formula One race car for a year.

Anyone been to Florence in the last twelve months? If so recommendations of restaurants at the medium price to low level range if you have any. One of our stops in April when we head off over that way.

On the whole we've been much better at selling and moving players on recently. One of Wenger's best attributes but also one of his weakest was his loyalty to players. We've had so many injury prone players who kept getting new deals.
If you look at all those injury prone players, Wilshere, Ramsey, Welbeck, Ox - every single one of them has had injury problems since leaving us. Whilst it may be true that we'd be a better team with them in the squad that is wholly reliant on them actually being fit. Of that group it'll probably be Ox who we regret the most but he's only played about 1/3 of the games for Liverpool than he could of if fully fit and at least we got a decent fee for him. Welbeck, Ramsey, Wilshere if sold at the right times could have earned us £60-70m

Iwobi we sold for £30m odd, if he hadn't played for us before would anyone be looking at what he's done for Everton this season and think that we should be signing Iwobi for £30m? or even £15m? Again we would probably be a better squad with him but that isn't the point, we weren't likely to get where we want to be with Iwobi so it is better to sell him and invest in players who can take us where we want to be ie: Martinelli.

Last summer we sold or released 11 players who were part of the first team squad, that is a huge turnover in players and it was much needed. I think we need to do something similarly as drastic this summer. Start with players on loan such as Elneny and Mkhitaryan and then go down through the first team squad with ruthlessness and you'd pick off a fair few, maybe not as many as 11 but easily 6-7 should go out the door and replaced.

Gossip columns saying Man U sniffing around Saka. I’d quote them £80M since they paid £50M for Wan-Bissaka.

Wonder how long a contract he’s on?

EDIT: Just checked. Apparently it expires in the summer of next year, so June 2021.

Blimey that’s interesting, that could be a pretty big call this summer for the club.

Considering the club’s intention to stop losing players for nothing, you may well be right.

Seems like a no brainer, sign him up on a long term deal. I can’t think why he’d want to leave. He’s only just broken through.
I think if Arsenal somehow let Saka slip through our fingers to a rival club it would say more about the state of the club than any of ramsey, sanchez etc