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.
QuartzGooner wrote:The club should open an official pub; open seven days a week, near the ground.
Could serve wider range of beer than in the ground, and could be decked out really well, photos from through the years and signed shirts on the walls etc.
Maybe once a month does a charity night, former players help out with a raffle etc.
Please, no....!
I think its great to be able to eat/drink around the Islington area in establishments that show an allegiance to Arsenal FC, without actually being owned by them. It's the same when you have kids around Finsbury Park wearing the shirt even if not actually going to the game. Or when you see an Arsenal poster in the bedroom window of a flat on Holloway Road. It truly makes it feel as if Arsenal still belong there. If it gets to the point when everything is so tightly controlled and packaged as a franchise then you may as well up sticks and move it Mumbai, Malaysia.......or MK!
I also think that a football club name and crest (the old ones, if not the latest cartoon one) are so well estalished in the community that copywrite laws shouldn't apply. Imagine trying to copywrite the name England and the St Georges Cross, or Ireland and the Tricolour!
QuartzGooner wrote:The club should open an official pub; open seven days a week, near the ground.
Could serve wider range of beer than in the ground, and could be decked out really well, photos from through the years and signed shirts on the walls etc.
Maybe once a month does a charity night, former players help out with a raffle etc.
Please, no....!
I think its great to be able to eat/drink around the Islington area in establishments that show an allegiance to Arsenal FC, without actually being owned by them. It's the same when you have kids around Finsbury Park wearing the shirt even if not actually going to the game. Or when you see an Arsenal poster in the bedroom window of a flat on Holloway Road. It truly makes it feel as if Arsenal still belong there. If it gets to the point when everything is so tightly controlled and packaged as a franchise then you may as well up sticks and move it Mumbai, Malaysia.......or MK!
I also think that a football club name and crest (the old ones, if not the latest cartoon one) are so well estalished in the community that copywrite laws shouldn't apply. Imagine trying to copywrite the name England and the St Georges Cross, or Ireland and the Tricolour!
Agreed 100%. A pub owned by and run by the club? No thanks.
QuartzGooner wrote:The club should open an official pub; open seven days a week, near the ground.
Could serve wider range of beer than in the ground, and could be decked out really well, photos from through the years and signed shirts on the walls etc.
Maybe once a month does a charity night, former players help out with a raffle etc.
Please, no....!
I think its great to be able to eat/drink around the Islington area in establishments that show an allegiance to Arsenal FC, without actually being owned by them. It's the same when you have kids around Finsbury Park wearing the shirt even if not actually going to the game. Or when you see an Arsenal poster in the bedroom window of a flat on Holloway Road. It truly makes it feel as if Arsenal still belong there. If it gets to the point when everything is so tightly controlled and packaged as a franchise then you may as well up sticks and move it Mumbai, Malaysia.......or MK!
I also think that a football club name and crest (the old ones, if not the latest cartoon one) are so well estalished in the community that copywrite laws shouldn't apply. Imagine trying to copywrite the name England and the St Georges Cross, or Ireland and the Tricolour!
Agreed 100%. A pub owned by and run by the club? No thanks.
You wouldn't be allowed to stand at the bar.... !!
QuartzGooner wrote:The club should open an official pub; open seven days a week, near the ground.
Could serve wider range of beer than in the ground, and could be decked out really well, photos from through the years and signed shirts on the walls etc.
Maybe once a month does a charity night, former players help out with a raffle etc.
Please, no....!
I think its great to be able to eat/drink around the Islington area in establishments that show an allegiance to Arsenal FC, without actually being owned by them. It's the same when you have kids around Finsbury Park wearing the shirt even if not actually going to the game. Or when you see an Arsenal poster in the bedroom window of a flat on Holloway Road. It truly makes it feel as if Arsenal still belong there. If it gets to the point when everything is so tightly controlled and packaged as a franchise then you may as well up sticks and move it Mumbai, Malaysia.......or MK!
I also think that a football club name and crest (the old ones, if not the latest cartoon one) are so well estalished in the community that copywrite laws shouldn't apply. Imagine trying to copywrite the name England and the St Georges Cross, or Ireland and the Tricolour!
Agreed 100%. A pub owned by and run by the club? No thanks.
I don't have a problem with that if it means the tourists then leave the pubs for the rest of us to enjoy.
QuartzGooner wrote:The club should open an official pub; open seven days a week, near the ground.
Could serve wider range of beer than in the ground, and could be decked out really well, photos from through the years and signed shirts on the walls etc.
Maybe once a month does a charity night, former players help out with a raffle etc.
Please, no....!
I think its great to be able to eat/drink around the Islington area in establishments that show an allegiance to Arsenal FC, without actually being owned by them. It's the same when you have kids around Finsbury Park wearing the shirt even if not actually going to the game. Or when you see an Arsenal poster in the bedroom window of a flat on Holloway Road. It truly makes it feel as if Arsenal still belong there. If it gets to the point when everything is so tightly controlled and packaged as a franchise then you may as well up sticks and move it Mumbai, Malaysia.......or MK!
I also think that a football club name and crest (the old ones, if not the latest cartoon one) are so well estalished in the community that copywrite laws shouldn't apply. Imagine trying to copywrite the name England and the St Georges Cross, or Ireland and the Tricolour!
Agreed 100%. A pub owned by and run by the club? No thanks.
You wouldn't be allowed to stand at the bar.... !!
Someone would text a bouncer if you spoke loudly...
QuartzGooner wrote:The club should open an official pub; open seven days a week, near the ground.
Could serve wider range of beer than in the ground, and could be decked out really well, photos from through the years and signed shirts on the walls etc.
Maybe once a month does a charity night, former players help out with a raffle etc.
Please, no....!
I think its great to be able to eat/drink around the Islington area in establishments that show an allegiance to Arsenal FC, without actually being owned by them. It's the same when you have kids around Finsbury Park wearing the shirt even if not actually going to the game. Or when you see an Arsenal poster in the bedroom window of a flat on Holloway Road. It truly makes it feel as if Arsenal still belong there. If it gets to the point when everything is so tightly controlled and packaged as a franchise then you may as well up sticks and move it Mumbai, Malaysia.......or MK!
I also think that a football club name and crest (the old ones, if not the latest cartoon one) are so well estalished in the community that copywrite laws shouldn't apply. Imagine trying to copywrite the name England and the St Georges Cross, or Ireland and the Tricolour!
Agreed 100%. A pub owned by and run by the club? No thanks.
You wouldn't be allowed to stand at the bar.... !!
Having paid extortionate prices for their fare, customers will probably be leaving behind half their food and drink!!
QuartzGooner wrote:The club should open an official pub; open seven days a week, near the ground.
Could serve wider range of beer than in the ground, and could be decked out really well, photos from through the years and signed shirts on the walls etc.
Maybe once a month does a charity night, former players help out with a raffle etc.
Please, no....!
I think its great to be able to eat/drink around the Islington area in establishments that show an allegiance to Arsenal FC, without actually being owned by them. It's the same when you have kids around Finsbury Park wearing the shirt even if not actually going to the game. Or when you see an Arsenal poster in the bedroom window of a flat on Holloway Road. It truly makes it feel as if Arsenal still belong there. If it gets to the point when everything is so tightly controlled and packaged as a franchise then you may as well up sticks and move it Mumbai, Malaysia.......or MK!
I also think that a football club name and crest (the old ones, if not the latest cartoon one) are so well estalished in the community that copywrite laws shouldn't apply. Imagine trying to copywrite the name England and the St Georges Cross, or Ireland and the Tricolour!
Agreed 100%. A pub owned by and run by the club? No thanks.
You wouldn't be allowed to stand at the bar.... !!
I'd suggest the BSM get some BSM flags for the Gunners and Tavern to display.
Wasn't the whole point of the new disney crest so the club could copyright it ? - this motivates the unofficial sellers and pubs to use the original 'victoria concordia crescit' doesn't it ?
if i was that mackem pub, i'd give out free drinks on one matchday just to piss the club off
flash gunner wrote:I remember SteveO saying he uses his dads season ticket but if he pays for tickets or has any membership then he is as guilty of lining Kroenkes pockets as any season ticket holder. For the record im a silver member so im guilty too
I am guilty of keeping a silver membership, so if lining Kroenke's pockets is the £36 or however much I just paid then to a degree I'm guilty. However, from the start of last season I refused to buy a ticket, or when I'm there on someone else's ticket, refuse to spend a pound on anything sold inside the stadium or linked directly to the club.
The Silver membership I see as a blocking stake - if all of us bought it and didn't buy any tickets then the club would actually receive the ticket monies from those seats a month after they normally do, as nothing would be bought two months before games. That's how I justify it to myself.
I have been offered season tickets at the start of each of the last 3 seasons by folk that no longer want them and turn them down every time.
When the club concentrates on its core activity of being a football club first and a property developer second and invests in that core activity I will start going again. The success, or lack of it, is not the factor. I was a regular in the 80s when we were shit.
QuartzGooner wrote:The club should open an official pub; open seven days a week, near the ground.
Could serve wider range of beer than in the ground, and could be decked out really well, photos from through the years and signed shirts on the walls etc.
Maybe once a month does a charity night, former players help out with a raffle etc.
Please, no....!
I think its great to be able to eat/drink around the Islington area in establishments that show an allegiance to Arsenal FC, without actually being owned by them. It's the same when you have kids around Finsbury Park wearing the shirt even if not actually going to the game. Or when you see an Arsenal poster in the bedroom window of a flat on Holloway Road. It truly makes it feel as if Arsenal still belong there. If it gets to the point when everything is so tightly controlled and packaged as a franchise then you may as well up sticks and move it Mumbai, Malaysia.......or MK!
I also think that a football club name and crest (the old ones, if not the latest cartoon one) are so well estalished in the community that copywrite laws shouldn't apply. Imagine trying to copywrite the name England and the St Georges Cross, or Ireland and the Tricolour!
Agreed 100%. A pub owned by and run by the club? No thanks.
You wouldn't be allowed to stand at the bar.... !!
Having paid extortionate prices for their fare, customers will probably be leaving behind half their food and drink!!
And every year, the best selling beers, wines and spirits get sent to Manchester or Barcelona whilst the Arsenal pub replaces them with milk, water and Ribena.
QuartzGooner wrote:The club should open an official pub; open seven days a week, near the ground.
Could serve wider range of beer than in the ground, and could be decked out really well, photos from through the years and signed shirts on the walls etc.
Maybe once a month does a charity night, former players help out with a raffle etc.
Please, no....!
I think its great to be able to eat/drink around the Islington area in establishments that show an allegiance to Arsenal FC, without actually being owned by them. It's the same when you have kids around Finsbury Park wearing the shirt even if not actually going to the game. Or when you see an Arsenal poster in the bedroom window of a flat on Holloway Road. It truly makes it feel as if Arsenal still belong there. If it gets to the point when everything is so tightly controlled and packaged as a franchise then you may as well up sticks and move it Mumbai, Malaysia.......or MK!
I also think that a football club name and crest (the old ones, if not the latest cartoon one) are so well estalished in the community that copywrite laws shouldn't apply. Imagine trying to copywrite the name England and the St Georges Cross, or Ireland and the Tricolour!
Agreed 100%. A pub owned by and run by the club? No thanks.
You wouldn't be allowed to stand at the bar.... !!
Or in DBs cases see over the bar
At least I could rest my pint on top of your little head.
When I lived in Aubert Park I frequently showed my arse out of the Window to show my support of the Club !
I was never sued but was warned that further displays of Arse would result in legal action !
Herd wrote:When I lived in Aubert Park I frequently showed my arse out of the Window to show my support of the Club !
I was never sued but was warned that further displays of Arse would result in legal action !
I think it was the 12" dildo hanging out of it that upset them, Herd.
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