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.
DB10GOONER wrote:Lads, as someone that has always defended the right for threads to meander all over the fucking place on here, God forbid that I try now to keep one even a tad on track!! But seriously, this is about the FA CUP we just won. There is a politics bollotics thread in the basement. Happy enough for tits, footy, tits, racism, six-toe on each hand Hull fans, tits etc to be discussed here, but politics??!!
Anyballs - I'm still fucking thrilled to bits to have won the cup! Can't believe I'm this happy tbh.
DB10GOONER wrote:Lads, as someone that has always defended the right for threads to meander all over the fucking place on here, God forbid that I try now to keep one even a tad on track!! But seriously, this is about the FA CUP we just won. There is a politics bollotics thread in the basement. Happy enough for tits, footy, tits, racism, six-toe on each hand Hull fans, tits etc to be discussed here, but politics??!!
Anyballs - I'm still fucking thrilled to bits to have won the cup! Can't believe I'm this happy tbh.
Praise the Lord Amen
Good idea, let's debate religion instead
Bang on LDB.....I haven't stopped talking about it/smiling inanely all week. Was awesome to be there with my boy! Arsenal, you kill me,infuriate me and delight me. Arsenal is collectively feminine!
Came from Denmark to see the match and paid 650£ for the ticket(not on the black market)...worth every penny of it(we won)..also tired of people saying winning is a big thing because it was against Hull...we beat the victims...everton.....spuds...Wigan(beat Citeh who had a with strong line up...) enjoy the cup..and not like myles palmer who even can't enjoy himself..not being carried away, but you have to enjoy the moment...great to be gooners ,people who you did not know but was shanking hands with, nodding to each other ...maybe I am a softie, but I shred a tear or two...and did so when I got congratulations text messages..enjoy your summer, gents...I will..especial more this summer
manninger wrote:Came from Denmark to see the match and paid 650£ for the ticket(not on the black market)...worth every penny of it(we won)..also tired of people saying winning is a big thing because it was against Hull...we beat the victims...everton.....spuds...Wigan(beat Citeh who had a with strong line up...) enjoy the cup..and not like myles palmer who even can't enjoy himself..not being carried away, but you have to enjoy the moment...great to be gooners ,people who you did not know but was shanking hands with, nodding to each other ...maybe I am a softie, but I shred a tear or two...and did so when I got congratulations text messages..enjoy your summer, gents...I will..especial more this summer
and we don't want politics remark!!!
Bloody foreigners coming over here and taking our tickets... !
Couldn't agree with you more. Not afraid to say that was the first time I've shed a tear at a match for a long, long time (although did the same when Murray won Wimbledon!). It was a cup final and matters not a jot how we won it (and with a better referee we certainly wouldn't have needed extra time!!) or who we beat. Don't think City celebrated their title win two years ago any less because they stumbled over the line against a team who narrowly avoided relegation...
manninger wrote:Came from Denmark to see the match and paid 650£ for the ticket(not on the black market)...worth every penny of it(we won)..also tired of people saying winning is a big thing because it was against Hull...we beat the victims...everton.....spuds...Wigan(beat Citeh who had a with strong line up...) enjoy the cup..and not like myles palmer who even can't enjoy himself..not being carried away, but you have to enjoy the moment...great to be gooners ,people who you did not know but was shanking hands with, nodding to each other ...maybe I am a softie, but I shred a tear or two...and did so when I got congratulations text messages..enjoy your summer, gents...I will..especial more this summer
and we don't want politics remark!!!
Bloody foreigners coming over here and taking our tickets... !
Couldn't agree with you more. Not afraid to say that was the first time I've shed a tear at a match for a long, long time (although did the same when Murray won Wimbledon!). It was a cup final and matters not a jot how we won it (and with a better referee we certainly wouldn't have needed extra time!!) or who we beat. Don't think City celebrated their title win two years ago any less because they stumbled over the line against a team who narrowly avoided relegation...
At the parade on Sunday two lads came all the way from Sydney specifically for the cup final. They didn't come across as plastics and really knew their stuff. One of them paid £480 for a club wembley seat at our end of the ground, which when its part of a package that costs a few thousand quid doesn't sound too bad.
Apparently Arsenal has a big support down under, so it looks like our marketing strategy is finally working.
Still smiling , but here is the moan, less than 24 hours after our win Cambridge got promoted to the Football League through a Wembley Final and this weekend three teams will get promoted through Wembley Finals.. Very wrong and goes against the spirit and meaning of a league structure. When people talk of the FA Cup being devalued in my opinion these play off games/finals are as much of a reason as any cliches spouted by pundits. Team gets , Wembley Final, Wembley , presentation of Cup and Medals, Wembley suits, and open top bus for finishing sixth or seventh in their division...So wrong.
The FA Cup is very special and should not be devalued by these money making exercises. Play offs, third bottom in a division plays against third from top in the next division down over two legs. That's how it started with Charlton V Leeds Utd in 1987.
Keep Wembley Finals Special.
Bradywasking wrote:Still smiling , but here is the moan, less than 24 hours after our win Cambridge got promoted to the Football League through a Wembley Final and this weekend three teams will get promoted through Wembley Finals.. Very wrong and goes against the spirit and meaning of a league structure. When people talk of the FA Cup being devalued in my opinion these play off games/finals are as much of a reason as any cliches spouted by pundits. Team gets , Wembley Final, Wembley , presentation of Cup and Medals, Wembley suits, and open top bus for finishing sixth or seventh in their division...So wrong.
The FA Cup is very special and should not be devalued by these money making exercises. Play offs, third bottom in a division plays against third from top in the next division down over two legs. That's how it started with Charlton V Leeds Utd in 1987.
Keep Wembley Finals Special.
I see where you're coming from, but if you told a Cambridge, Gateshead, Burton, Southend, Rotherham or Orient fan that their trip to Wembley isn't special then I think they'd tell you where to shove it. It could well be the only chance their players ever get to play there. Personally I have more issue with FA cup semi finals at Wembley
manninger wrote:Came from Denmark to see the match and paid 650£ for the ticket(not on the black market)...worth every penny of it(we won)..also tired of people saying winning is a big thing because it was against Hull...we beat the victims...everton.....spuds...Wigan(beat Citeh who had a with strong line up...) enjoy the cup..and not like myles palmer who even can't enjoy himself..not being carried away, but you have to enjoy the moment...great to be gooners ,people who you did not know but was shanking hands with, nodding to each other ...maybe I am a softie, but I shred a tear or two...and did so when I got congratulations text messages..enjoy your summer, gents...I will..especial more this summer
and we don't want politics remark!!!
Bloody foreigners coming over here and taking our tickets... !
Couldn't agree with you more. Not afraid to say that was the first time I've shed a tear at a match for a long, long time (although did the same when Murray won Wimbledon!). It was a cup final and matters not a jot how we won it (and with a better referee we certainly wouldn't have needed extra time!!) or who we beat. Don't think City celebrated their title win two years ago any less because they stumbled over the line against a team who narrowly avoided relegation...
At the parade on Sunday two lads came all the way from Sydney specifically for the cup final. They didn't come across as plastics and really knew their stuff. One of them paid £480 for a club wembley seat at our end of the ground, which when its part of a package that costs a few thousand quid doesn't sound too bad.
Apparently Arsenal has a big support down under, so it looks like our marketing strategy is finally working.
I have really enjoyed seeing the video's on faceboook / Arsenal.con of various supporters groups abroad watching the final and the ensuing celebrations.
They celebrate every bit as passionately as we did at Wembley (or various North London pubs)
Evening All. A week on from sitting in the airport moaning about not being able to get in the bar and feeling the nervous tension and I can't believe how many times I have found myself watching the goals and the celebrations on youtube and looking at the photos on different websites. It's taken me all this time to get my voice back fully too and to realise that I've spent most of the last six days walking round in some kind of daze with a smile all over my face. In some ways, it was the game that made us fall back in love with the club again, looking around Wembley and at the pictures from around the world as the comeback was completed and the final whistle blew, it showed just how much this club means to so many people and how much we've kept bottled up over the last nine years. It was one big family in the stadium, one big group of people wanting the same thing, thinking the same thing and then celebrating the same thing. Seeing that cup won and the pleasure it gave to so many people who were all best mates for just over two hours of their lives and who shook hands and wished each other well as they parted made me remember that we have a beautiful club to follow, with wonderful fans and now a trophy to put in the cabinet.
Great vid this, the moment we score the winning goal and as a fan you lose all sense of reality! I know exactly how it felt !
Second vid is a gooner who sits in front of me at the emirates, I laffed when I watched the rerun on ITV his face was a picture after gibbs missed that sitter. It will be fun to rib him about this next season, but if the truth be known we where all going through the same emotions.
