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Rosicky Saves The Day! (watch the goal) 2007-02-11 20:45:53 Lucky Arsenal beat Plucky Wigan. As the final whistle blew at the end of a game that was a little dull, I was left thinking that we could easily have lost 2 or 3 nil, but by some stroke of luck and frankly poor refereeing we somehow ran out winners in a game that was quite surprisingly open.
It is not easy to win when your two best and most influential players have poor games and today Henry and Fabregas were well below par; Henry’s touch having deserted him and the young Spaniard seemed unable to take hold of the midfield.
Arsenal’s defense were a little edgy and the communication was lacking, with Toure wanting to leave too much for Lehmann. It was a surprise not to see Arsenal go into an early lead, and had our finishing not been so woeful we surely would have edge the first half by a couple of goals. Wigan got what they deserved and could easily have gone in two up, had Heskey not started celebrating before the ball hit the post. Read more:Saves
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Sky's the Limit (of stupidity) 2007-02-13 00:04:15 Andy Gray is the most biased twat this side of North London and Richard Keys is hanging onto his coat tails.
How someone could be leaning offside I don’t know. Adebayor was onside, there is no advantage to your body being offside and your feet onside. The biggest pile of crap I’ve heard in a long time. Heskey’s "challenge" - he had his eyes on the ball - but so did Sol Campbell some years ago with OGS and he was sent off - which Andy Gray surprisingly agreed with. Then he managed to fall like a lead balloon under Flamini’s absolutely disgraceful challenge. How he stayed on the pitch I don’t know - touching another player on the shoulder should be a straight red card.
Phil Dowd is pants, though the hypnotic way his fat jiggles is enough entertainment for 90 minutes.
Jens was stupid, I’ll admit that - but seeing Kirkland et al wasted an enormous amount of time trying to remember what happens when the ball Read more:Limit
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So Many Imbalances. 2007-02-12 19:40:00 This, and many other sites have recently expressed the aggravation of Arsenal fans to the coverage afforded our team for our game against Wigan. In light of this I thought i would just leave it and let myself cool off for a while. But this plan was rendered impossible last night. I usually fall asleep to the radio, usually radio five live but last night what was being said made me so angry I could not sleep.
Of course the BBC is not perfect as us Arsenal fans have learnt over the years but recently they have hit a new low. The show i was listening was Stephen Nolan’s. He is an ignorant and petulant presenter but it is usually tolerable as the issues are not as close to my heart as football. Last night however we had to listen to the "outrage" that happened at the Emirates, and just like Arsene Wenger’s "Bust Up" with Alan Pardew I was left wondering why the media had tried to make such a big deal out of this now?
Wigan, Bolton, Mad Jens etc… 2007-02-12 18:17:26 Afternoon all; a short post regarding Wigan
& Bolton
.
So, another comeback is needed at the Emirates stadium to ensure we stay unbeaten at our new home and to keep the pressure on Liverpool who are now just 1 point ahead of us. We also have a game in hand.
A couple of quick points regarding yesterday’s game:
1) Henry was out of order - I know that Wigan were time-wasting but there was no need for Henry to do what he did after the first goal. He’s the Captain and should lead by example.
2) Mad Jens was also in the wrong but wasn’t it funny?! And how many keepers have managed to get 5 cards in season before?! I can’t think of any off the top of my head. It rather conveniently keeps him out of the Carling cup final….
3) Flamini is a very lucky boy. You only have to look at the Senderos incident last weekend to see how another ref could have reacted to the little ‘tug’. But saying that why didn’t Heskey stay on his feet and try and pu
Reyes and Baptista saga continues; Eto'o gets amorous; Parlour sticks around 2007-02-12 17:31:28 It’s hard work being an Arsenal supporter. YET AGAIN we went one goal behind and had to perform an amazing comeback to grab all three points against Wigan.
It seems like a lifetime ago when the Gunners used to go two or three up within the first 20 minutes and try to act like the Harlem Globetrotters for the next seventy.
My television screen came extremely close to getting smashed with a boot as Richard Keyes’ and Andy Gray’s anti-Arsenal bias reached new proportions yesterday. See the ‘Plonkers’ article below for an excellent rant on this.
Since Arsenal are in the business of football, you can’t really expect me to have much news for you on the day after a game. You do? Ok, let me see….
Skysports.com reports that there are question marks over whether Real Madrid want to make the Reyes
loan deal permanent especially given a reported price-tag of £20 million on the Spanish winger.
This may have ramifications on the permanency of Baptist Read more:Baptista
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, Parlour
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Plonkers! 2007-02-12 13:51:18
Having read this morning’s blogs, I am glad it’s not just me who is still fuming from the biased comments on Sky by those pratts Platt, Richard Keys and Andy Gray. First it was Gray telling us all that there was ‘absolutely nothing’ in the clash between Heskey and Djourou. Its funny that Johan had to go off with a broken nose then don’t you think Andy? Then there was the ‘it was a definite penalty for me’ from all of them. I really don’t know what they are looking at some of the time! Just look at the incident again you muppets and you will see that, yes, little lightweight Flamini did put his arm on big heavyweight Heskey’s shoulder, but for that to make a massive lump like him collapse to the ground in a heap is simply beyond the laws of physics. Open your eyes you load of ignorant tossers! They should instead have been talking about the total disgrace of penalty seeking cheating from players who haven’t the ability to stay
Jewell's in Trouble, Bob Returns and Bolton Loom 2007-02-13 20:51:11
Blimey there’s been plenty of fallout over the Wigan game after Phil Dowd’s horror show at the Emirates. A lot has been written about his numerous balls ups on this site but leaving both sets of fans irate at the end of the game speaks volumes for his incompetence and inconsistency. Fellow fatty and Wigan boss Paul Jewell
has landed himself in hot water with the FA following his post-game rant regarding Dowd’s performance and faces an improper conduct charge.
After our 2-1 victory Jewell said: "Dowd has cost our team the points - it could cost us £50m."
Nothing to do with the run of eight consecutive defeats before the victory over Pompey a couple of weeks ago then that’s left you a relegation dog-fight then Paul? There’s also been a barrage of vitriol aimed at hairy cnut Richard Keys and his cronies at Sky. I was at the game Sunday and haven’t seen any of the footage but going on what’s been written and what I have seen on Sk Read more:Trouble
, Returns
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Zen Lehmann and an Emotional Hoyte 2007-02-13 19:38:45 Due to a very slow Arsenal news day and a lack of time, it’s going to be a ‘Micro’ Daily Diary today. In other words, I’m using business jargon to cover my laziness. I also thought of using phrases like ‘Interim’, ‘Key notes’ etc.
Anyway, The Daily Telegraph reports that Arsenal may make a move for Liverpool’s Scott Carson who is currently on loan at Charlton Athletic. Apparently he has put in some good performances during his spell at the Valley.
I haven’t seen too much of the guy in action myself but I often do wonder about goalkeepers putting in good performances at relegation battling clubs. Saving 22 out of 25 shots is a completely different skill than goalkeeping at a bigger club where you may only have to deal with two or three shots at goal.
I’ve always believed that maintaining concentration to pull of world-class saves for so few shots in 90 minutes requires Zen
-like abilities. Something Richard Wright – Read more:Lehmann
, Emotional
I Hate Bolton!!!! 2007-02-13 18:33:28 I lived with a Bolton
fan at university, after getting on at first we found that there was a massive culture difference between the two of us. I didn’t get him and he didn’t get me. At the time one of the biggest debates in the Premiership concerned who was a better striker TH14 or Ruud Van Horseface…now with the benefit of hindsight we can safely say that unless all of football is played in the 6 yard box there is only one winner of that debate. However my Bolton chum wouldn’t see this and I think that’s what started the decline in our relationship, I just couldn’t respect someone who was clearly blind to the overwhelming genius of Thierry.
The final nail in the coffin came when he criticised Highbury. He’d never actually been you understand but he said it was a shithole, yes this shithole with listed architecture and Marble Halls, he much preferred the plastic bowl of the Reebok. Bolton people hate London
Stuff you lot! 2007-02-13 10:20:53 A quick thought for the day before the build up to tomorrow’s game up at the Reebok.
I was still angry last night about the unfair treatment dished out to us by the TV and radio over the weekend, but this morning the more I think about it the less and less bothered I am. In fact I am beginning to quite like the idea that everyone is critical of us and that the media are all against us.
Do we really care what others think? Do we really care what they write about us? Whilst it may be gratifying to hear and read the many pundits eulogising over the brilliant football we play, such as after a 4-0 win at Reading, we all know those same pundits will be just as happy for us to lose the next game so that they can knock us down and have a good go at us as usual.
Did we really care when under George Graham everyone called us boring whilst we were nicking games 1-0? For me it was most gratifying to read that no one liked our brand of football - yet they still respected how strong and resolu
How the team gets announced…opinions wanted! 2007-02-13 08:41:42 I may be wide of the mark here, folks, but I’d like to canvass opinion on what for me has been an unfortunate blot on a remarkable first season at our new home, and a bit of a misjudgement on behalf of the club. Anyone recognise this little scene:
[3 minutes to go until kick off, Ashburton Grove nearly full, Arsenal players making final preparations on the pitch, atmosphere building nicely, until…]
OVERLOUD ANNOUNCER: "OK Arsenal fans, here we go with the Arsenal line up! Shout them back to me! In goal! Number one!… JENS!….."
FANS: "LEHMAN!"
[Embarrassing, deafening silence around the ground as we have no choice but to wait ages for the next name…]
OVERLOUD ANNOUNCER: "Number thirty one, JUSTIN…"
FANS: "Hoyte"
…[and so it continues, causing awful silent pauses when there should be player songs, until the game begins with a slightly odd feeling of anti-climax, and the Arsenal players struggle to fi Read more:wanted
Arsenal face ultimate test of their abilities against Bolton 2007-02-14 16:47:13
Tonight will see if this Arsenal
team has come of age when it takes on Bolton
in the Reebok Stadium. This is an FA Cup 4th Round Replay so there has to be a winner.
In a recent interview, Wenger admitted that Bolton are Arsenal’s bogey side. Make no mistake about it, Fat Allardyce’s side can play a bit but they will also be up to their usual dirty tricks, pushing the laws of the game to its absolute limits – and beyond. They will try to make Arsenal crack.
Too often in the past, Arsenal were out-muscled by Bolton. The fundamental flaw of the young Gunners was exposed for all to see. The technical genius of the side was not backed up by mental strength.
But things have changed in recent months. We’ve seen thrilling fight-backs against
Spurs, Manchester United, Wigan and we’ve demolished Liverpool at Anfield… twice. The Arsenal have shown that they have metal strength.
Tonight, however, will be the true test of whether they have enough m Read more:abilities
Good Sport Requires Good Sportsmen 2007-02-14 14:59:11
It’s been a few days since Wigan were ‘robbed’ of honour of being the first team to come away from the Emirates with all three points and while the game itself didn’t get my blood up the aftermath certainly did.
Listening to Andy Gray and that other Richard idiot during the game and then yet more fools on the You On Sky Sports section later that evening you would swear that Henry had committed murder. I’m not going to say that Henry was right in what he did and with hindsight I think he’s admitted himself that in the heat of the moment his emotions got the better of him. But I do see where his frustration stemmed from. Kirkland was time wasting from pretty much the first minute. Any ref who claims to be a professional would have spoken to him after the first few times he took a minute to take a goal kick. It would only have required a warning but an early warning means that Kirkland knows that the next time he does it he gets a yel
Bolton? Are we "up' for it? 2007-02-14 13:35:10
How much do Arsenal fans dislike Bolton
?! Was it really Bolton along with Big Sam who sussed out how to play against Arsenal? Or does that honour go to Manchester United when they stopped our unbeaten run?
What exactly happens when Arsenal go to the Reebok Stadium, or play Bolton come to think of it? Is it a case of psychology being pitted against us - is it a case of mentally not being prepared enough?
And Bolton fans - do you enjoy playing Arsenal? Or are you afraid that one day, just maybe that you may get beaten soundly by Arsenal? And what do you predict tomorrow night? Will Big Sam play a full strength team or will there be some rotating? What will the score be?
Anyway… I think both sets of fans will be a bit nervous as the FA Cup may just be a little bit more unpredictable than the league. Arsene is almost certain to rest a couple of players (Fabregas for starters) and this may allow one of the fringe players to shine. Looking at our Carling Cup r
A very important game 2007-02-14 08:49:08
Tonight’s visit to the theatre of nightmares (reebok stadium) could possibly be the game that is the making of this team and start a run that ends this season with more than one piece of silverware. This is a very important game for several reasons;
It is the FA Cup and the first final back at Wembley (unions permitting)
We have not won a game against Bolton for far too long.
Wenger needs to see his third team bloom. (By third team I mean the third that he has grown at Arsenal)
Defeat could be very destuctive over the coming weeks, winning is a habit that we need to keep.
We all hate Bolton!
It is also an interesting match up in some ways; this game sees the two teams with the fewest number of English first team players, the two teams that are challenging Liverpool for third place and probably the two most unalike managers in the premiership go head to head in a game neither will accept anything less than victory.
Wenger needs to steel his players for
Freddie the 14th Returns 2007-02-15 09:58:20
Ten-time winners Arsenal are through to the Fifth Round of this season’s FA Cup after an extra-time victory over Premiership rivals Bolton Wanderers in a Fourth Round Replay at the Reebok Stadium. The two sides were inseparable in their 1-1 draw at the Emirates Stadium two and a half weeks ago, and this was the case again after the first 90 minutes on this occasion.
Visitors Arsenal were looking for their first victory over Bolton in nearly two years and got off to a flying start.
They were ahead after just 13 minutes when Emmanuel Adebayor scored his ninth goal of the season with a deflected shot from the edge of the penalty area.
Bolton had a great chance to level the scores two minutes before half-time when Stelios Giannakopoulos hit the bar from inside the box, but Arsenal rode their luck.
And they went on to have two more great chances within normal time to make the tie safe.
On 63 minutes, Julio Baptista was brought down in the area by Tal Ben Haim for a penalty which Read more:Freddie
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The Truth About Henry and Kirkland 2007-02-15 19:15:03
Much has been said (mainly by Sky) and written about Thierry Henry
’s altercation with Chris Kirkland
after Arsenal’s equalising goal on Sunday. In response to the lies/ignorance of this country’s footballing media here is an account from somebody who had an 8th row view of
Kirkland in the first half.
The routine for Chris Kirkland’s goal kicks in the first half was as follows. Firstly he would pretend he did not know where the ball was, facing away in the opposite direction making it difficult for the ball boys to return it to him. Once he had finally bothered to look for the ball he insisted on retrieving it from the ball boy rather than having it thrown to him. He would then walk along the back of the goal and place the ball on the ground. To my amazement, and this happened before all but one of his first half goal kicks he got out a bottle of water, had a little drink and put the bottle back in his bag.
Ready to take yo Read more:Truth
Take that fatty! 2007-02-15 17:46:28
A few comments and observations following our great win at the Reebok yesterday.
Firstly my view on some of the player’s performances.
Once again I thought Basil’s handling was faultless, and the defence in general were superb. A special mention must be made of Gael Clichy, who was brilliant - bombing up the wing at every opportunity. Gilberto slotted in seamlessly in the middle and it was a canny bit of team selection from Arsene to put Djourou at right back.
Abou Diaby and Denilson were excellent as was Rosicky, but my own personal man of the match was Alex Hleb. I think it was his best ever performance for us to date. Adey worked his balls of again and in fact was many people’s man of the match. Jeremie Aliadiere produced a great little cameo at the end, and Freddie scored a fabulous winner. I must admit to thinking at the time that we weren’t likely to get the winner with him on the field - his last goal for us was probably against Bolton a hundred years a
Hoodoo You Think You Are? 2007-02-15 11:57:51
Bloody hell what a bizarre but thoroughly compelling game!! Great football, two penalty misses, an injury-time equaliser and a sending off! In the first half we were immaculate, passing the ball with aplomb, only taking one or two touches and leaving Kevin Nolan et al chasing shadows for the first forty five minutes. An Arsenal team forged by Wenger with an all Brazilian spine of Gilberto, in unaccustomed role as centre-back, Denilson and Baptista kept the ball fantastically and created some scintillating football.
Rosicky and Adebayor looked perfectly in tune down the left during the opening exchanges with the “little Mozart” orchestrating much of the play from out wide, narrowly over hitting a one-two with the Togolese hitman, which would’ve put him clean through. Then the Czech stepped inside Nolan’s challenge and lashed his shot half a yard wide.
Hleb was asserting himself on the game down the right as our midfield dominated and he played a huge role in t
The end of hoodoo, the beginning of a beautiful friendship and some things in between 2007-02-16 17:33:42
3-1, a fitting reply to a loss by the same score at the Reebok earlier in the season. One hopes that the win marked the burial of a long standing hoodoo. Ever since we blew our title chances in 2002 at the same ground, the ugly northern cloggers from Bolton have been our nemesis. Though their success may initially have been built on defensive stability, long-balls, thrown ins and set pieces, of late they have developed into a formidable side who come at you hard and from all angles, constantly pressuring the opposition defenses, looking to play diagonal balls behind full backs and looking to throw up favorable matchups. The likes of Diouf, Anelka and Stelios are tricky customers at the very least and do very well in “one on ones”, the point being that despite all their critics and their stereotype, they are a “decent” football side capable of excellent football at times (their goal at emirates in the first leg). One hopes that this defeat exorcises all ghosts o Read more:things
Bolton, Blackburn & Happy Birthday Denilson! 2007-02-16 11:52:21
How good was it to end our ‘hoodoo’ at The Reebok Stadium? How good was it to see Big Sam spitting blood at the side of the pitch because one of our players had the audacity to go in hard on one of his players? I was laughing out loud at this point as we were every bit as physical as Bolton
and giving as good as we got. Brilliant. Arsenal were not shirked off the ball once the entire night and Wenger must have been extremely proud at how his team were playing - especially in the first half when the football was bordering on the stupidly sublime.
And Wenger must have been extremely proud of the midfield pairing that contained young Diaby and the extraordinary Denilson. It is heart-warmingly good to see Diaby back in the team and he had a very solid, if unspectacular, game. He will undoubtedly improve and there were a couple of Vieiresque moments when us Arsenal fans held our breath at the similarity between the 2 players. I’m convinced he has a future at A Read more:Blackburn
, Happy
, Birthday
, Happy Birthday
Reclaiming Arsenal Stadium 2007-02-16 09:03:07
We’re the Blue Quadrant, we’re the Blue Quadrant, we’re the Blue Quadrant; EMIRATES. Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue does it? I seem to remember about a year ago there being a big vote on the Arsenal
website about naming every part of the stadium from hotdog stalls to programme stands. I so far haven’t come accross a single thing named after a former player or coach. There is the ’Unbeatables’ Bar among others but I would suggest that we can do better than that. We sit in a branded stadium which i can cope with as the club needed the income but unless we are recieving a lot of cash from 4 colours i struggle to comprehend why we haven’t at least named the quadrants after luminaries from the past, or at least just renamed them after the stands at Highbury.
The stadium is beginning to feel like home but at Highbury there used to be numerous songs about our former home, the North Bank and the East Stand feeding off each o Read more:Reclaiming
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Arsenal 0-0 Blackburn - Bore At The Emirates 2007-02-17 16:51:16
It will take a replay at Ewood Park to decide who will go through to the F.A. Cup quarter finals after Arsenal
and Blackburn
played out a very boring draw that failed to capture the imagination in any way at all. After the 6-2 defeat earlier in the season Mark Hughes was determined his Blackburn side would sit on the edge of the area for the whole game and deny Arsenal any space to help avoid anything near a repeat score line. It set up an attack versus defence type training match that was dull, slow and lacked any of the imagination, pace or excitement produced in the last game at Bolton. Arsenal should have had a penalty in the last fifteen minutes of the game when Jeremie Aliadiere was fouled in the box but the referee made a poor decision
Wenger promised to rotate his squad and that was exactly what he did by making nine changes to the team that beat Bolton in mid week. The biggest and most encouraging surprise was the inclusion on William Gallas at left back. Thiery H Read more:Emirates
Arsenal V Blackburn - Match Preview 2007-02-17 11:59:18
During the mid-week game I was kinda torn as to how I wanted it to go. Part of me wouldn’t have been all that upset if we had lost. I had worries about how the squad, (which has been looking pretty stretched over the past few weeks) would stand up to a trip to Bolton, early kick-off at home to Blackburn
, followed by a Champions League match away to an underrated Dutch team and then topped off with a cup Final against Chelsea. But on the other hand I can’t stand their manager and the thoughts of him going on once again about how Arsenal
don’t like it up them won over and I was cheering the boys on from the start.
As it happens even if I’d only been vaguely interested in game before kick off what I saw in the first forty-five convinced me that this team has what it takes to perhaps pursue glory on a few fronts. We no longer have a youth team – we just have a young (but very bloody good) first squad.
Anyway, Blackburn at h Read more:Match
, Preview
Friendly at the Emirates! 2007-02-18 10:55:27
What a woeful game! Don’t think I have seen such a crap side as Blackburn for a long time – they looked like a division 2 side - and we played against them as if we were playing a pre-season friendly.
Blackburn really were abysmal – they managed just two goal attempts the whole game (we only had 12 plus 4 blocked shots) and won one corner (we only had 7), and as if we weren’t expecting it, they committed 18 fouls (to our 9).
Apart from Kolo, no-one in our team looked capable of grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck and doing something – it had the look of a nil-nil written all over it after the first ten minutes.
Full marks to Cesc though for the way he told Hughes what he thought of their team. Beautifully sarcastic - the man’s a genius!
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Thierry is not the player he was last season? Where’s that fight and desire we saw when he came on against the Spuds last season to earn us a vital point?
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Barcelona they ain't and we don't need to see them twice to prove it 2007-02-18 18:56:51
Cesc was right - Blackburn played nothing like Barcelona
. Maybe the absence of playmaker Robinho Savage played a part in Hughes’ decision to pack 11 men behind the ball and treat us to another thriller at Ewood Park. But then he admitted that he doesn’t have Barcalona’s players. On that showing they’ve all got the talent of Gus Caesar. If Hughes uses the same tactics for the replay watching the match will be like watching Gigli twice.
Not that we didn’t have enough opportunities to bury the game, but sometimes it goes like that. Theo played his best game in ages and Friedel made some great saves. None our players had a bad game, although none of them played their best. We should have had a penalty, though my heart would have given out at that point. It’s great to see Freddie Ljungberg back and playing well, I certainly hope he stays for at least another season.
But, the biggest talking po
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How important is Henry? 2007-02-19 15:23:01
A few weeks back when we were away to Blackburn in the league and defending a one goal lead with only ten men something special happened. A Blackburn corner of free kick into our box was intercepted and the ball ended up at Henry
’s feet deep inside his own half close to the touch line. He started to run at the Blackburn players. With only little Cesc in support Henry took on maybe five or six Blackburn defenders with only his pace as a weapon and they look terrified. So mesmerising is Henry in full flow that the Blackburn players were almost afraid to challenge him and when they did try it they missed both the ball and his legs. The end result was the ball in the Blackburn net and all three points coming back home. It was a fantastic goal, a great run and a faultless finish. But unfortunately this type of goals, what we once called the typical Henry goal, is becoming a bit of a rarity.
There was a time, not more than a season or two back when it seemed Henry wo
What's in a name? 2007-02-19 11:43:05
A sober Monday morning, dull & damp and I’m not looking forward to listening to all those jubilant Spuds fans bragging about how they are going to win the cup this year. When they get drawn against (hopefully) Chelski or ManUSA today they won’t be quite so cocky!
A bit of a nothing to report day until we get the team news for tomorrow’s game later, so as I’ve nothing better to talk about, I thought I would have a quick ramble about our stadium name.
What should we gooners call it? Some refuse to acknowledge the commercial name of Emirates, which is fair enough. After all, the sponsorship is only for 10 years and the stadium will be Arsenal’s home till long after that company has gone - and of course long after all of us have popped our clogs.
The alternative for most people is Ashburton Grove, or simply the Grove. More acceptable than the Emirates I guess, but it sounds a bit too twee and soapy (Albert
Youth Stars Pass Cup Test 2007-02-20 19:59:20
Nearly 12,000 people came to the Emirates last night to see the next generation of Carling Cup superstars attempt to win their own trophy. Kick off was delayed because of the numbers trying to buy a ticket and the youthful composition of the crowd meant there was good news both in terms of the playing staff but also the future of the clubs support.
In truth it wasn’t a great game, not helped by the standard of officiating which was dreadful, however the youth side showed they haven’t been training too much with the Seniors and scored in the first half, Jay Simpson making it 1-0 early on. As the crowd settled back to enjoy a nice easy game at the Emirates for once; Cardiff almost immediately replied with what seemed a suspiciously offside goal.
Meanwhile there seemed to be some crowd trouble developing behind the South goal which is unfotunate when considering the context of the game. The rest of the first half was reasonably end to end but with no clear cut chances, Nace
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