As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
usual thread starter… We were sent this near the beginning of the season by a Gooner that runs a bar in Florida. And I have to admit, I really couldn’t see how we could use it. I mean, a lot of the time our website offerings are read at lunchtime by people at work and let’s face facts here, this is one that will be most appreciated by Arsenal fans who weren’t even on the planet when Thierry Henry made his Arsenal debut. The author wrote it for his own son.
Also, as it’s Xmas, I’ve done a speed proof on this with the spell checker, but I know there are still some grammatical errors. But if I waited until I had time to go right through this checking everything, it would never get posted. And if it doesn’t go up now, it won’t see the light of day until Xmas 2008. So apologies for any holwers.
But hey, it’s Christmas. Mum or dad can copy the text, paste it into a word document and print it out to send the nipper(s) off to sleep when they’ve eaten too many sweets over the holidays.
After seeing the special teenage forward perform so well in the tryout session, the manager, an Arsenal legend himself, pondered whether to sign the Prince. Walking down the hallway of the stadium, the 56-year-old passed by the bust of Arsene Wenger which had been standing there for 29 years. He still remembered that it was commissioned in 2007 and erected in 2008 to immortalise Arsenal's most successful manager after Herbert Chapman, before himself. He remembered those good old days of playing under the great man when he contributed a lot to the team's success as a foreign player at his peak in the 2000's and early 2010's. His mentor who had signed him as an unknown for a modest fee from a small club once said in 2007, "I believe that in sport the best play with the best. If you are the son of the Queen, if you are not good enough, you do not play at Arsenal. Has Prince Charles played for Arsenal?'
How amazing then-Prince Charles' grandson was now at Arsenal and really eager to play for him, Kolo Habib Toure, the first African manager of the great club, thought with a smile on his face. His mentor did not look at players' passports back then and he would definitely not do that now. So when he left Ashburton Grove Stadium - once called Emirates Stadium when it was officially opened by the prince trialist's great-grandfather, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - Toure decided to sign the kid and give talent a chance, regardless of where the kid's from.
