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.
Watched the unbeaten dvd (season review 03/04) the other day & Reyes gives an interview that just seem crazy now. He goes on & on about how he adores (yes adores) English football
Watched the unbeaten dvd (season review 03/04) the other day & Reyes gives an interview that just seem crazy now. He goes on & on about how he adores (yes adores) English football
Gus you are being unbelieveably harsh on reyes. Yes he had homesick problems while he was with us but I think most Gooners will agree that henry played a huge part in driving him out. I watched him pass a ball to henry in 1 game that was literally 2 yeards away from henry and henry bollocked him over it and later in the same match cygan(bless him) tried to pass henry a ball and it sailed over henrys head and into the stand as henry applauded cygan for his efforts. This crap started long before the aragones spat and was probably at the heart of aragones comments to jose in the 1st place. Henry behaved like a total *word censored* with reyes and I personally would welcome jose back and give him that 2nd chance. You cannot deny that we have missed big time his energy and drive on the left side and again with his skill, pace and age he fits right into wengers Dream Team 3 mould. Lets not cut off our nose to spite our face here gus
Back to the original gist of this thread; the so called "curse" of our No 9 shirt.
Will everybody please stop listing the Merse as someone that "suffered" in this shirt? To lump a Gunners legend in with glass ankle jeffers, Suker and the fat mosquito (or Beast as he was hilariously known) is an insult to the man.
Merse was very successful with us and only took on the 9 shirt when DB10 (the real one - not me ) joined because the Dennis wanted the 10 which was Merse's number.
Merse was sold before anyone could say he "failed" in the 9. This is a midfielder that scored 99 goals for us. Personally I believe he got the ton because the w*nkers on the disputed goals panel took one off him that should have gone onto his tally.