Greatest ever memory at Highbury

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:37 pm

Basil, that looks like the mannequin from the film.... errrmm Mannequin

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:37 pm

Basil, that looks like the mannequin from the film.... errrmm Mannequin

Eboue-Why? · Post by **Eboue-Why?** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:57 am

Basil is a Gooner wrote:
Eboue-Why? wrote: What a top man he sounds Bas. (By the way, any chance of a wedding photo?!?!? Tell you what, I'll pm one of mine if you pm one of yours!)
One minute its Tasha, next minute its me......

Thanks for the pm of your photo by the way. Heres mine.....

No, you don't understand Bas. I'm building a female goonerstein......Your brains, Tasha's legs, ds's anger, BT's erm well I don't know enough about her yet to know which bit to use!!

Basil is a Gooner · Post by **Basil is a Gooner** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:51 am

Eboue - why? - I think thats a compliment AND an insult.......

Frank - that IS me (twice) - cant you see the red hair?

And as for BT - shes very pretty, very funny and she knows all about football.......

Eboue-Why? · Post by **Eboue-Why?** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:29 am

I've seen Tasha's legs, felt ds's rapier like tongue and sampled your brains but having not met you how can I include any other part(s) of your anatomy in my creation?
But sounds like it's got to be the face of BT but if you pm me your wedding photo I'll have a chance to review what I can use

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:26 am

God, where to start? So many great memories...

I'll (try) limit it to 3;

My first trip will always hold a special place in my heart (against Liverpool in the 1991 title season) as I had worked hard and saved harder to make the journey (before super cheapo airlines). Just to finally stand on the NB for the first time sent shivers up my spine.

Then, in 1999 I brought my long suffering Football Widow (oops, sorry â€“ then girlfriend, now wife) over for the first time and I was a little nervous about how sheâ€™d react surrounded by football fans going through equal parts rage, elation, frustration and wild joy. The North Bank lower could on occasion (Manure or The Scum) be an intimidating place for the feint hearted; in those days, people tended to loudly and continuously call into question the refereeâ€™s parentage, eyesight and sexual orientation. They singled out certain hated players (long before Eboue) for some pretty shocking abuse. And unfortunately, in a lot of grounds, that abuse tended to have a very distasteful racial undercurrent (something Iâ€™m proud to say Iâ€™ve never heard at Arsenal, possibly because we have a comparatively healthy racial mix in our fan base). I neednâ€™t have worried though; she loved it (sheâ€™s been 4 times since!). She even started a chant when (totally out of character) she jumped up and yelled, â€œFuck off, no mates!â€

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:44 pm

Nice story DB, by the way, are you the most injury prone amateur footballer ever?

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:00 pm

franksav63 wrote:Nice story DB, by the way, are you the most injury prone amateur footballer ever?

Quite probably, Frank.

I've had a few knocks but only a couple of major injuries in over 35 years of playing... that includes a double broken ankle... a torn knee lig and the shoulder dislocation.

And a couple broken noses. And a fractured eye socket.

It's a miracle I can still *****, never mind play footy!

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:11 pm

... and your playing in the Sunderland game... Hmmm....

littlefire · Post by **littlefire** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:12 am

Managing to sneak into every last home game for years

Oh and I'll never forget Geordie Armstrong scoring direct from a corner against Manure...

Or Supermacs FIVE v the barcodes.

Or 6 -1 v the Hammers.

Or the first time I saw PV4.

Or Dennis Bergkamp's first goal

Or TH14 v the y**ds...

Or....

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:49 pm

franksav63 wrote:... and your playing in the Sunderland game... Hmmm....

If you want goals I'll have to play.

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:54 pm

So, as well as the shirts, you're bringing the goals... how about the nets and the corner flags? (The first aid kit for you is a given)

potter · Post by **potter** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:08 pm

So many, Joe Baker trading punches from the north bank to the clock end with Dennis Law when they came back from Italy. McCullogh holding a bit of a shirt he pulled as the winger went round him again to show the crowd that he was trying. Our Irish international fullbacks my only reply to the Spuds at my school as they last won the league in 1961 ( oh how I wish I could meet them now ).The Anderlecht night. First Blood.

no. 1 is Perry Groves.... · Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:40 pm

for me the following games stick in my memory:

-2 nil win against Juve in the champions league 2006

2-2 draw against Man City April 01. We went 2 nil up and threw it away if i remember right. My fisrt time on the North Bank and first night game at Highbury. Absolute quality - feet did not touch the ground much!

-3-1 loss against spurs on the last day of the season in May 93. I remember gg playing steve bould (i think) up front for the last 20 mins!! My first and only time in the clock end. Had to watch the y#ds celebrate afterwards and Teddy Sheringham i think it was threw his boots into the crowd (c#nt)!

-Several years earlier (i would guess 84); my first game at highbury, cannot remeber the date, score or team we played but i remember being in the junior gunners enclosure at the front of the west stand with my grandad and hearing the north bank singing charlie Nicholas name and thinking; yep this is for me!

As for the emirates, well i'm still waiting for a really magic moment (although i think a bit of time has to pass before games fall in this category), but the following sticks out:

-first visit (champions league qualifier in the first year) - it pissed it down and somehow i got lost! walking to the ground

-win against spurs in the cc semi.

-bendtners header coming off the bench aginst spurs for 2-1 win a year or so ago - went crazy he scored - broke my phone, lost my keys, took the skin off my shins on the seat in front of me etc etc

-going out of the CL against psv and henry thumping the ground - shit night!

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:42 pm

no. 1 is Perry Groves.... wrote:for me the following games stick in my memory:

-2 nil win against Juve in the champions league 2006

2-2 draw against Man City April 01. We went 2 nil up and threw it away if i remember right. My fisrt time on the North Bank and first night game at Highbury. Absolute quality - feet did not touch the ground much!

-3-1 loss against spurs on the last day of the season in May 93. I remember gg playing steve bould (i think) up front for the last 20 mins!! My first and only time in the clock end. Had to watch the y#ds celebrate afterwards and Teddy Sheringham i think it was threw his boots into the crowd (c#nt)!

-Several years earlier (i would guess 84); my first game at highbury, cannot remeber the date, score or team we played but i remember being in the junior gunners enclosure at the front of the west stand with my grandad and hearing the north bank singing charlie Nicholas name and thinking; yep this is for me!

As for the emirates, well i'm still waiting for a really magic moment (although i think a bit of time has to pass before games fall in this category), but the following sticks out:

-first visit (champions league qualifier in the first year) - it pissed it down and somehow i got lost! walking to the ground

-win against spurs in the cc semi.

-bendtners header coming off the bench aginst spurs for 2-1 win a year or so ago - went crazy he scored - broke my phone, lost my keys, took the skin off my shins on the seat in front of me etc etc

-going out of the CL against psv and henry thumping the ground - shit night!

A hollow victory for them, I can recall us playing a virtual celebrity 11 against them that day...