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.
I'm all mixed up inside
I want to run but I can't hide
And however much we try
We can't escape the truth and the fact is
Don't matter what I do
It don't matter what I do
Don't matter what I do
Don't matter what I do
Don't matter what I do
'Cause I end up hurting you
(In my mind different voices call)
What once was pleasure now's pain for us all
(In my heart only shadows fall)
I once stood proud now I feel so small
(I don't know whether to love or hurt)
The long hot summer just passed me by[quote]
Spooky how it could be about the fans and Arsenal.
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The distant echo -
Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains
To take them home to
The ones that they love and who love them forever
The glazed, dirty steps - repeat my own and reflect my thoughts
Cold and uninviting, partially naked
Except for toffee wrapers and this mornings paper
Mr. jones got run down
Headlines of death and sorrow - they tell of tomorrow
Madmen on the rampage
And Im down in the tube station at midnight
I fumble for change - and pull out the queen
Smiling, beguiling
I put in the money and pull out a plum
Behind me
Whispers in the shadows - gruff blazing voices
Hating, waiting
Hey boy they shout - have you got any money?
And I said - Ive a little money and a take away curry,
Im on my way home to my wife.
Shell be lining up the cutlery,
You know shes expecting me
Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork
And Im down in the tube station at midnight
I first felt a fist, and then a kick
I could now smell their breath
They smelt of pubs and wormwood scrubs
And too many right wing meetings
My life swam around me
It took a look and drowned me in its own existence
The smell of brown leather
It blended in with the weather
It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth
It blocked all my senses
Couldnt see, hear, speak any longer
And Im down in the tube station at midnight
I said I was down in the tube station at midnight
The last thing that I saw
As I lay there on the floor
Was jesus saves painted by an atheist nutter
And a british rail poster read have an awayday - a cheap holiday -
Do it today!
I glanced back on my life
And thought about my wife
cause they took the keys - and shell think its me
And Im down in the tube station at midnight
The wine will be flat and the currys gone cold
Im down in the tube station at midnight
Dont want to go down in a tube station at midnight
Before you lot get distracted in some sort of reminising fest can I just say that the fact that we score more goals away from home might have more due to the fact that teams actually come out and play in front of their home fans where as when they come to the grove it is park the bus time Add to that the fact the pitches like the hawthorns are smaller pitches and would naturally suit those less mibile but big physical strikers like bedtner
From what I read in the gooner editorial, and on here, I reckon a bad start to neat season and Wenger will walk, as the fans will not "stay patient" when they are treated like contemptable fools. And he will bear the brunt of the abuse not the players and not I might say before time!
augie wrote:Before you lot get distracted in some sort of reminising fest can I just say that the fact that we score more goals away from home might have more due to the fact that teams actually come out and play in front of their home fans where as when they come to the grove it is park the bus time Add to that the fact the pitches like the hawthorns are smaller pitches and would naturally suit those less mibile but big physical strikers like bedtner
that's obviously true of course. And it's true for any of the top clubs.
Thing is, I don't think we've scored less at home than away from home in recent memory despite of that. And the other top clubs don't either, or at least not as significantly less (Man Utd 43-24, Liverpool 38-34, Chelsea 31-32. Arsenal in previous season: 37-37, 43-20, 48-20, 54-33
Only twice has a top 4 team scored less away from home than at home in that period (Chelsea in 2004 by two and Chelsea in this season by 1)
So while that's a factor, it's nothing more than that. Teams score more at home than away from home.
Bendtner misses less chances away from home than at home btw, significantly less.
Add to that the fact the pitches like the hawthorns are smaller pitches and would naturally suit those less mibile but big physical strikers like bedtner
