Mar 31
Tomorrow over two dozen Yanks will join the London members of ArsenalAmerica in the basement of the T-Bird pub on Blackstock road, both before and after the game. Guys should start arriving around noon (or earlier) so we’re more than happy to meet all of you if you’d like to come by and say hi.
If you are in the North Bank, drop by Row M and Row N of the North Bank Lower between 51 and 42 roughly for Aston Villa. Ask for David or Sgt. Gunner or anyone else who might have an American accent.
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Mar 30
I was perusing the betting sites, online, and realized that the Gunners are favored at a higher rate than Chelsea over Birmingham City. Now either the Gunners are playing better or Villa is playing worse. And to play worse than City says alot, as I watched one of the most pathetic efforts in professional football, when City got destroyed 7-0 to Liverpool. I digress, but if there was ever a match to play some of the newer acquisitions, this may be it.
Villa have had two poor showings recently. 11 days ago they were beaten, 4-1, to Everton. The performance sparked the spontaneous chanting,...
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Mar 30
Hot off the presses is our latest podcast. It’ s just me today, as Joel’s on a business trip.
Discussed on this week’s podcast:
Liverpool, Charlton & Juve
The Spring Roadtrip
The Chicago Gathering
The 2Gs
The Five A Side @ Highbury
and much, much more.
Check it out by downloading from here:
Arsenal America March 30, 2006 (right click to save)
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Mar 30
Just stumbled upon this really interesting piece on Spike Lee, Arsenal and his interest in soccer.
The story revolves around his eight year old sons’ youth team in NYC, which wears the Arsenal maroon kits. Great photos, great story.
I wasn’t familiar with this site, but looks to be worth a read.
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Mar 29
Sky News is reporting a new plastic Thierry Henry ‘action figure’ (say ‘doll’ and we’ll have to kill you) is now ready for release. The va-va-voom striker in plastic looks pretty realistic and could definitely woo Barbie away from the metrosexual Ken and give GI Joe a run for his money in a fist fight.
By the way, the ...
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Mar 29
This sort of a post is probably best left to the end of the season, but a performance such as the one last night against Juventus invites comment.
There are many factors that go into a successful team. Talented individuals are part of it, but they must all fit and play together. Throughout this season just about every player in the squad has come in for criticism. While no player is immune to criticism, there is a difference between a bad player and a player playing badly. At times many of our players have underperformed. Meaning they didn’t perform up to their capabilities. But...
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Mar 28
Cesc and Henry with the goals on an historic night that sees Juve left with nine men at the final whistle.
I’ve listened to the haters who said Madrid were going to kill the Arsenal. I’ve heard the doubters moan about Senderos and Flamini. I’ve heard the critics whine about Gilberto. Enough. If you can’t put that aside now, well, go root for Chelsea, or Spurs.
Juve are top of Serie A and Arsenal just made them look like a bunch of rank amateurs. That’s seven, SEVEN!, Champs...
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Mar 28
UPDATE: The shirt designs are complete! Based on expressed interest, we’ve placed an initial order of 25 shirts - 5 med, 10 lg, and 5 xxl.
If you intend on playing in the match, you must wear one of these shirts.
Arsenal America member Miriti Murungi’s company designed the shirts, and, the best possible price he could manage was $16 a shirt.
Please send payments to the Arsenal America PayPal account (treasurer@arsenalamerica.com), which we can then turn around to pay Miriti....
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Mar 28
The ArsenalAmerica Spring Roadtrip is underway at Highbury. Tonight about 16 Americans will be in the crowd for the Champions League Match, and this weekend we’ll have over 2 dozens in various places for the Aston Villa game.
This is a rather unique roadtrip as it is filled (with the exception of the 2 tour leaders) entirely with Highbury ‘newbies’ attending an Arsenal game for the first time. I hope we get some good posts in the next weeks on their first impressions.
To meet up with the Americans while you are over there, you can find them in the following...
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Mar 28
This is it then, the return of Pat Vieira. Its going to be emotional for all involved and could bring out the best in him, but also our own players. I’m harbouring thoughts of Gilberto wanting to prove a point that he is still a player without our old captain, but I may be thinking to highly there!
One thing that has been glossed over in the build up so far is about Thierry Henry. Yes, everyone has said Juve are troubled by pace at the back and the focus is on PV4’s return, but Henry is also playing one of his old clubs. A club that he left with a lot to prove. Whilst Vieira...
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