Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

Arsenal and Manchester City will play each other in the inaugural ‘China Cup’, a one-off match in Beijing’s ‘Bird’s Nest’ Stadium on Friday, July 27, kick-off 8pm local time.

ironically, given his bone composition

Scott Parker is England captain. If anyone cares

I can't find myself getting excited about Podolski. He was a bit rubbish at Bayern when they actually eexpected him to perform. Still, he's hopefully a step up from Arshavin.

It's Arsenal going for a *name* player that's significant imo. He's a step up in status from every other signing bar Arshavin for the last what, ten years?

poor gervinho, nasri, arteta, chamakh, campbell, baptista and reyes. forgotten in time.

One day hopefully we can go for both a *name* player and an *awesome* player in one.

Podolski's got 95 caps and does well in big tournaments, he's a league up from those other guys

that's why he's not Arsenal enough

lol germany caps mean shit to me post-mertesacker

/jaded

holy shit, Mertesacker is 27? I thought he was about early thirties

is he fuck a league up from chamakh

and i man, really who is this podolski guy when compared to gervinho, one of the greatest players of the moder- oh fuckit i've lost the will

Podolski is a baby, even by professional footballer standards. Can see him doing well if he's brought in to replace Van Persie and expected to be the focal point of a team going for 4th. If he comes in to be in the same team as RVP and help Arsenal to challenge for the title then he'll bottle it.

wow, that's depressing

He is probably better than Arshavin tho

tellya, when arshavin starts seeing his wages go back to zenit levels he'll be a worldbeater again

I remember Eamon Dunphy confidently declaring Arshavin "one of the best players in the world" after the quarter-final against Holland in Euro 2008. Next game: "we've had the wool pulled over our eyes with this guy, Bill". His Arsenal career in microcosm.

dunphy and his woolly eyes eh

Arshavin just needs to move to LFC. He scores with every shot at Anfield iirc

arsenal were robbed in that game, i remember the outraged emails i exchanged at the time with my lfc correspondents

We'd need to buy a midfield capable of creating the opportunity first

I though we just did that? Oh no we sold/shipped them out on loan. My mistake.

ismael and his ever-expanding 'we'

Think Arsenal are played 2 won 2 when they have 'superfan' IK in the 'audience'

Before this season I think my record w/Arsenal was seen-em-twice, drawn two, inc one heartbreaking cup exit; so I'm keeping us afloat this season afaict

Ah no, that's not true, I did steer them to the double in 1998 as well. Wenger owes me.

Is there any correlation between their results and the hairstyle you're sporting on each visit?

It's the dead celebrities I feel sorry for

I've only ever been to 7 LFC games. They have lost 4, drawn 3. I stay away now.

we drew 0-0 with villa in my only trip to WHL

We've been beaten 3-1 and 1-0 in my trips to old trafford, cheating cunt ref every time iirc (imnrc)

Only four Liverpool games for me - 1 win, 2 draws, 1 defeat, one managerial heart attack.

i like podolski a lot

If you carry on seeing 2/3 of your Spurs games at O.T then I fear you are destined to be disappointed Darragh.
xp

Nice job burying the lead there Ismael!

was he one of the celebrities ik

FWIW I've seen Spurs 8 times: 2 wins (including 4-0 against United and 5-2 or 5-1 against Everton), 2 draws, 4 defeats.

(that's not actually "including", is it? more "consisting of")

xp That he ended up at Villa was a worse fate tbh.

To be fair we didn't have a clue til we stopped at a pub after the game. Nowadays I could enjoy ilf banter and questionable puns within seconds.

Wanna explain Kerr? I only ever really saw him for Germany (could be very good, but i'm glad they have ozil and gotze now) and Bayern (the drizzling shits).

Spurs four times - can't actually remember any of the other results (home v Leicester, Portsmouth and Wolves) but I think I had a 100% record 'til Sunday.

Wish I'd kept track of my Arsenal attendances from the early years when I went five or six times a season as a JG. A few memorable ones include a 3-0 against Newcastle when Vieira scored the goal of the month and Freddie Ljungberg's debut against Man United (4-1 iirc).

Only away trips have been two to Old Trafford (9-2 on aggregate) and Villa in the only game of that season when we conceded three (after being 0-2 up at half time). That was also the game when a parachuting Father Christmas crashed into the upper tier of the stand and broke his leg in the plummet that followed.

Impressed that ILFers have been on the spot for so much carnage and catastrophe.

I was at the Johnny Haynes memorial match at Craven Cottage when he died in a car crash, but that wasn't *at* the game thankfully.

Not saying this in a superior way - but are most people here TV viewers of their clubs rather than match attenders? These last few posts have quite surprised me.

xpost to Local Garda. Nowhere you'd want to drink near Wembley. The Globe at Baker St is always full of cretins. But you certainly want to drink at the central London end of your journey, not the Wembley end.

most ppl everywhere are tv viewers tbf

Go down Baker Street a bit from the Globe to Paddington Street/Crawford Street if that's the way you're going (runs parallel to the Marylebone Road).

xpost As I say, not having a pop.

(I am not a Spurs supporter, btw)

I probably go a couple of times a year, but I get quite excited about it when I do. Also it's kind of expensive and time-consuming. No regular side or location - I wish I'd got a season ticket for fulham when I lived nearby and they were only about £350, I don't know why I didn't. I've been trying to remember games all afternoon - it feels like a lot more than I'd thought, but that's more because I've been to plenty of grounds over plenty of years than anything else.

I can only think of the Villa or QPR lads here who might be week-in-week-outers.