Stoke It Up
Sunday, 24 January 10, 12:00 AM · Comments(25)
Morning all. Seeing as I did my match preview yesterday, I'm going to scramble around to find something to fill some paragraphs. Should be interesting. At least I hope it will.
So what shall I talk about? Injuries and press paranoia seem very tedious today, an ongoing theme to our season that I think we are just going to have to learn to accept somehow lest it drive
us insane.
Schadenfreude was the order of the week last week and it returned with aplomb yesterday courtesy of the Spuds once again. Leading 2-1 against Leeds in the FA Cup they conceded a 95th minute
penalty which Beckford blasted home. Twitter was a hoot.
Man united leapt over ourselves and Chelsea by way of their home banker against Hull. Sorry, should that be Wayne Rooney leapt over us? And they call Arsenal a one-man team!
With news that they are to reduce debt by paying loans with £500m through bonds which will leave them somehow paying £45m per year in interest as opposed to the £41m they currently pay, they
are somehow supposed to be out of immediate trouble. The bonds will run until 2017. Now, I'm no merchant banker, but I did decide I quite wanted to know just what the fuck bonds where. I'm not
going to try and describe it, Google 'what are bonds' if you have a spare five minutes of your life to throw away, but I understand what's going on. I think.
In seven years time United will have to pay back £500 million, while paying £4m a year extra for the pleasure. Leaving aside that their debt currently peaks at £716m, that doesn't even clear
that. To me, it seems like nothing more than life-support, because if Man U are only able to turn a profit by selling £80m players, and that's when they're winning most things, how can they
expect to make more? Even if they did have an £80m player to sell every year, at current profit levels, taking in the extra interest, they will only have made £272m and I'm sure the share
holders will be wanting their dividends. That's a mighty big shortfall. Old Trafford may yet be up for sale. What odds Man City's owner buying it for his kids to play in?
Blurgh. Why am I taking about United? My own fault for getting ahead of myself yesterday I suppose.
So Stoke today and we all have a pretty good idea of what squad we should expect. While the press are bleating about out total lack of respect for the FA Cup no doubt they will completely miss
how many English kids are starting for us. Bartley, Eastmond, JET, Wilshere, Walcott, Campbell (ok, so not a kid, but you know what I mean). By my reckoning, that's more than 50% of the
starting line-up. Not that we'll get any credit for five of them being future England wonder-stars.
I know, I know, I said I wouldn't moan about the press. They just make it so fucking hard not to.
You won't often getting me going in to an Arsenal match wanting a defeat, and I don't in this instance. But I think I would, at the minute, prefer a defeat to a draw. Ask me again should we
lose. That being said, there will be some 'fans' who go a bit mental should we exit at the hands of Stoke, screaming at Wenger for not risking the three fit first-teamers we have left. I
suppose we can deal with them when and if it happens.
The team we are sending to Stoke should have more than enough to hold their own, and I can't imagine too many of the Stoke players kicking Campbell, Bartley, or the JET. I wonder has Ricardo
Fuller seen the size of Sol lately when he made his comments about kicking us? And will his comments make any difference to the way the match is refereed? Why would it? It hasn't in the
past.
And that's all I have to say today. If you're about, join us in the LadyArse chatroom where you should find quite a few other like-minded Gooners.
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25 Comments · Add yours
i also want a result today....i want sylvester to score an own goal in injury time if the scores r tied after 90...so that v dont hv 2 play another 90 min..also bcoz v all can hv a go at sylvester....
I see the commenst STILL aren't fixed
ffs
where's today's uproar about
Rio swinging an arm at Fagan?
O..he's English..and Man U so there
won't be one...forgot abou that
straight red if ever I saw one...
and as for United's second, the ref played
one while the Hull player was down in the
box with a HEAD injury
LMFAO Sky commentators said "Hull might complain that United didn't put the ball out,
but it's down to the ref" don't quite
remember that being how the discussion
went when it was us
Award for stuidest article of the
Millenium goes to...the Daily Star for this:
"CESC FABREGAS KNOWS HE
WON'T WIN OVER ARSENAL FANS" LINK
WTF WTF WTF
I honestly didn't think the Star could
go down in my estimations...
I was wrong
"Rio clashed off the ball"
WTF He swung his arm as hard as he
could across Fagan's face
@ RezNuk comment #8
Do you REALLY think we will? lol
If you do you need more coffee lol
09.13 The News of the World claims
lol
Nicolas Anelka's Chelsea future
could be in doubt after talks
over a new big-money contract
at Stamford Bridge stalled.
He wants to come home
@Ladyarse We don't need him.
Is anyone else surprised by the
length of time it took for us to be
linked with Ryan Babel?
yes indeed....4 me he is worth consideration....as a swap with theo....
@11
D'you mean Bolton?
@8 & @10
I think
'honest'
'passionate'
'committed'
'English game'
are terms will be used a lot today.
@16 shall we see you in the chatroom?
Are you there currently?
Oh... and I expect to hear:
'he got a piece of the ball first'
I am, just hovering about in
case anyone comes in early
I shall be there in a min.
I can't get in because 'Clownshoe'
has already been taken.
Who's taken my name.
Grrr....
Can you kick em off, LA?
wheres the link to the chat room
Clown you get me in and i'll throw the imposter out ?
Oh i forgot ole is fecked up
You get me in
and i will throw the
Imposter out
what imposter?
what are you going on about?
The link is in the blog
and on ladyarse.com
and down the side of the blog lol
All aboard the chat room
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i also want a result today....i want sylvester to score an own goal in injury time if the scores r tied after 90...so that v dont hv 2 play another 90 min..also bcoz v all can hv a go at sylvester....
I see the commenst STILL aren't fixed
ffs
where's today's uproar about
Rio swinging an arm at Fagan?
O..he's English..and Man U so there
won't be one...forgot abou that
straight red if ever I saw one...
and as for United's second, the ref played
one while the Hull player was down in the
box with a HEAD injury
LMFAO Sky commentators said "Hull might complain that United didn't put the ball out,
but it's down to the ref" don't quite
remember that being how the discussion
went when it was us
Award for stuidest article of the
Millenium goes to...the Daily Star for this:
"CESC FABREGAS KNOWS HE
WON'T WIN OVER ARSENAL FANS" LINK
WTF WTF WTF
I honestly didn't think the Star could
go down in my estimations...
I was wrong
"Rio clashed off the ball"
WTF He swung his arm as hard as he
could across Fagan's face
@ RezNuk comment #8
Do you REALLY think we will? lol
If you do you need more coffee lol
09.13 The News of the World claims
lol
Nicolas Anelka's Chelsea future
could be in doubt after talks
over a new big-money contract
at Stamford Bridge stalled.
He wants to come home
@Ladyarse We don't need him.
Is anyone else surprised by the
length of time it took for us to be
linked with Ryan Babel?
yes indeed....4 me he is worth consideration....as a swap with theo....
@11
D'you mean Bolton?
@8 & @10
I think
'honest'
'passionate'
'committed'
'English game'
are terms will be used a lot today.
@16 shall we see you in the chatroom?
Are you there currently?
Oh... and I expect to hear:
'he got a piece of the ball first'
I am, just hovering about in
case anyone comes in early
I shall be there in a min.
I can't get in because 'Clownshoe'
has already been taken.
Who's taken my name.
Grrr....
Can you kick em off, LA?
wheres the link to the chat room
Clown you get me in and i'll throw the imposter out ?
Oh i forgot ole is fecked up
You get me in
and i will throw the
Imposter out
what imposter?
what are you going on about?
The link is in the blog
and on ladyarse.com
and down the side of the blog lol
All aboard the chat room
Anyone experience anything about the easy google profit kit? I discovered a lot of advertisements around it. I also found a site that is supposedly a review of the program, but the whole thing seems kind of sketchy to me. However, the cost is low so I’m going to go ahead and try it out, unless any of you have experience with this system first hand?
www.onlineuniversalwork