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  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,331
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    To be fair it is their first league title for a generation. 22 years since the last one so unless you're at least 27 you'd have no memory of them winning it.
    Totteringham fans aged 65 have not seen one either :D
    But they would have seen 3 of the 4 European trophies we've won in their 65 years.:wink: 
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,931
    alan dugdale said:
    Stabbings, 3 alleged sexual assaults and 75 rescued by the LFB after getting stuck on rooftops. Sorry but unless they had 4 legs and were called Tiddles the time wasting mugs should have been left up there 
    Water cannons would have been fun.
    I actually would have volunteered to have a go.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,473
    Wonder what happened to those ones Boris bought from Germany that didn't work and were illegal to use in the UK?
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,458
    edited June 2
    Alwaysneil said:
    Wonder what happened to those ones Boris bought from Germany that didn't work and were illegal to use in the UK?
    They cost £320,000 and were scrapped for £11,000. Good work, Bojo. Easy when it ain't your money innit?
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 30,132
    JohnBoyUK said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    To be fair it is their first league title for a generation. 22 years since the last one so unless you're at least 27 you'd have no memory of them winning it.
    Totteringham fans aged 65 have not seen one either :D
    But they would have seen 3 of the 4 European trophies we've won in their 65 years.:wink: 
    With you being a spurs fan, what would you rather win? The league or a cup?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 86,364
    Reader, I married one.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,524
    Quite a few in Basingstoke on Saturday morning when i was in town. We even have a pub called Larsen's...a play on their name and yes the landlord is a gooner i keep well away.
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,677
    Chippycafc said:
    Quite a few in Basingstoke on Saturday morning when i was in town. We even have a pub called Larsen's...a play on their name and yes the landlord is a gooner i keep well away.
    Arsenl?
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,480
    Perhaps the parade should have started at the Manor Ground or Dial Square, but Arsenal try to gloss over the Woolwich days. 
    But it is a sure thing that success leads to children wanting to be seen supporting a successful club. 
    But that Gunnersaurus needs a good old fashioned Woolwich right hander


  • Bod
    Bod Posts: 288
    I think Arsenal are as safe and predictable a club as any band wagon jumper could choose to follow, they are as close to a generic football club as it's possible to be.

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  • CAFCOlly
    CAFCOlly Posts: 567
    edited June 3
    Croydon said:
    Arsenal are the club non-football fans in and around London will attach themselves to. Plus when I was a kid during the Wenger years, glory hunting Arsenal fans weren't looked down upon as badly as United fans because Arsenal was at least a London club. 

    This enormous fanbase on show over the weekend is almost entirely built up of people who don't even check the scores on Saturday, and just say they support Arsenal to be involved in conversations in social settings.
    This is it. The number of people I follow on Instagram who I’ve met in social settings and who never showed the slightest interest in football suddenly posting parade photos in the latest Arsenal shirt with captions like, “After 22 years, we finally did it,” is genuinely cringe. 

    My general assumption when meeting someone for the first time is that if they support Arsenal, they probably don't know much about football.

    Most of the genuine Arsenal fans I know, including some of my closest mates, are great. We’ve spent years sharing the same frustrations: poor signings, bottling big moments, and endless seasons of disappointment. What Arsenal fans have endured is nothing compared to what we’ve been through, but it’s all relative given the size of our clubs.

    I used to joke with my mates that Arsenal were the Charlton of the Big Four/Six: both stuck in 20+ years of mediocrity/disappointment but finally starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
  • NorthStandDan
    NorthStandDan Posts: 62

    I think this sums up the level of football knowledge of most of the plastic muppets walking about in their Arsenal shirts…
  • NorthStandDan
    NorthStandDan Posts: 62
    edited June 3
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  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,677
    NorthStandDan said:

    I think this sums up the level of football knowledge of most of the plastic muppets walking about in their Arsenal shirts…
    Also me after  a season of Jonesball  ;)
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 10,293
    IdleHans said:
    The stupid 'gooners' thing = temperature of my urine 100C
    It may please and amuse you @IdleHans to know that in modern French slang ’un gooner’ means a wanker. My 18 year old son was having a good laugh at the banners at the Champions League Final. He was wondering why the Arsenal fans would give themselves this name. I imagine that the younger PSG fans find this hilarious. 
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 8,441
    https://youtu.be/c29OpzjjXc0?si=8iDATEKluL6MgxsX
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,458
    jimmymelrose said:
    IdleHans said:
    The stupid 'gooners' thing = temperature of my urine 100C
    It may please and amuse you @IdleHans to know that in modern French slang ’un gooner’ means a wanker. My 18 year old son was having a good laugh at the banners at the Champions League Final. He was wondering why the Arsenal fans would give themselves this name. I imagine that the younger PSG fans find this hilarious. 
    Thank you, @jimmymelrose I am both pleased and amused. This has been shared with my spurs mates, and I'll save the page.


  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 10,293
    It seems that this  is already British slang too

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gooner
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,971
    Bit obsessive this now...
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,293
    SELR_addicks said:
    Bit obsessive this now...
    Yeah you would say that though. Good old PSG!

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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,473
    SELR_addicks said:
    Bit obsessive this now...
    What all this wanking?
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,620
    The team that people who know nothing about football gravitate towards for some reason. The least football knowledgeable fan base by far.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,766
    I was at Kings Cross on sunday and i'd say 75% of the thousands outside the station had never been to a game and it was all a bit cringe really.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,719
    Probably just me but I find it amusing when asking the Woolwich Rejects what are the 4 names Arsenal FC have played under ?
    Or even just asking what their original name was.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,331
    SELR_addicks said:
    Bit obsessive this now...
    Not really.  No one likes Arsenal and you're seeing that now!
  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,184
    JohnBoyUK said:
    SELR_addicks said:
    Bit obsessive this now...
    Not really.  No one likes Arsenal and you're seeing that now!
    I quite like Arsenal.
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,677
    Did Dial Arch show the final? 
  • Kindoncasella
    Kindoncasella Posts: 271
    EugenesAxe said:
    Did Dial Arch show the final? 
    I would assume so, they usually do show games
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 4,677
    Kindoncasella said:
    EugenesAxe said:
    Did Dial Arch show the final? 
    I would assume so, they usually do show games
    was just contemplating the irony of how many Arsenal supporters there were unaware of its significance, would be very "on brand"
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 4,068
    The Red Robin said:
    Bedsaddick said:
    They are insufferable. 
    Proper old school Arsenal fans are fine, it’s all the newer fans that couldn’t point to The Emirates on a map that are annoying. 
    Even in the late 80s (when I started working in Old Street with a few of them), they were pretty blinkered to their own club then too.

    As I’ve probably mentioned elsewhere, Willie Young fouling Paul Allen in the 1980 FA Cup Final (I supported West Ham when I was 10) and Andy Peake not getting a pen at Highbury in 1988/89 (who fouled him?) has added to my dislike of them.


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