Arsenal Banter Archive November 13 2015

13 Nov 2015 22:10:42
Ed,
Bit of a compliment for you.
Was doing a lesson with a yound lad today.
We had a 5 minute break and got talking about footy.
He said he doesn't follow it too much but has a soft spot for Everton because of his Dad.
I said to him, "when I was your age, Everton had one of the best teams I have ever seen" and, without even pausing I rattled off the names Southall, Ratcliffe, Mountfield, Trevor Steven, Gary Stevens, Andy Gray, Van Den Hauwe, Graeme Sharp and Kevin Sheedy.

Not 100% sure if they were all at the same time, but think they were.

Arsenal apart, I can never name another team (well maybe Liverpool in 80's and Manchester United under Red Nose) .

Fantastic Everton team mid 80's.

{Ed025's Note - if only we had them now dags.. :)

13 Nov 2015 22:34:57
Probably from the age of 10 to late 20s I could name every premier league/division one teams starting 11 plus sqaud members and quite a frew 2nd division too, not any more though, I can't pronounce let alone spell around half the ones I do know.

13 Nov 2015 22:42:18
G62,
I couldn't even tell you what I had for breakfast mate, lol.

14 Nov 2015 09:50:13
Dags mate, you've got something on the end of your nose there fella. ;-) lol.

Great team of players though, can't argue with that. :-)

14 Nov 2015 20:07:40
Haha, thanks Red.

13 Nov 2015 21:13:32
When Carra was asked "Who is the best player you ever played against? ".

His reply, "Thierry Henry".

{Ed025's Note - obviously.. :)

13 Nov 2015 21:40:20
As an out and out Number 9, I might put Shearer in same bracket as Thierry, Ed.

Than again :-)

{Ed025's Note - then again is right dags..

13 Nov 2015 21:54:12
1) Henry.
2) but a close second, Shearer :-)

{Ed025's Note - henry, bergkamp............................................shearer..

13 Nov 2015 22:10:37
As I mentioned earlier Dags - you have a certain taste when it comes to strikers, unique and only understood by yourself.

I have Henry by a fair bit, Bergkamp and Shearer and then Fowler.

Don;t know if its fair but Michael Owen's punditry has dropped him at least 3 places on my list and that's just the way it is ;-) )

13 Nov 2015 22:13:32
Shearer was the classic center forward. He was efficient and deadly. But in an overall point of view he was not in the same league as Henry and bergkamp they were pioneers of a trade whilst shearer was the best of an established trade.

I have the utmost respect in shearer when he rebuffed the advances of United. But if that man ever put the United shirt on in the days of United dominance we would have never seen a goal scorer like it. What a guy that says no thanks, fergie. He's a loveable player that all neutrals can agree on.

13 Nov 2015 22:00:41
Yeah, you twisted my arm lol.

13 Nov 2015 22:43:18
Totally agree Rooster, lol.

13 Nov 2015 22:44:50
Totally agree Grow.
Dammit, I'm even going to throw Le Tissier in there.

13 Nov 2015 23:01:11
Great player. Magic at set pieces . Arguably the best in his time at them.

13 Nov 2015 23:19:43
Let Tiss, as they use to say, "not a great goalscorer, but a scorer of great goals".

13 Nov 2015 16:54:11
Prediction for tonight's game? I'm going with 3-0 Spain.

13 Nov 2015 18:13:02
No idea and won't be watching but Spain should go with morata long term instead of that adopted Spanish Brazilian thug.

13 Nov 2015 18:47:42
Apart from anything else Costa has been poor this year and is making a joke of himself . Chelsea will be back strong come January I've been reading that griezman, pogba and CR7 are on there way to push them into the top 4🙄😒😅.

13 Nov 2015 19:12:49
Why any player with great options from lots of top clubs would chose to go to a club where the players already their seem to be a long way from happy is beyond me.
Surely you go where the football and atmosphere is every bit as good as the money on offfer.

{Ed025's Note - its all about the money mate..

13 Nov 2015 19:45:49
Costa a thug? That's a bit kind Derby.

13 Nov 2015 20:13:51
Was just looking through the various games and see that Ozil isn't in the German starting 11 or on the bench.

Anyone heard anything?

13 Nov 2015 21:06:09
Ozil rested and won't be selected for both matches since there is no winter break in England, according to Joachim Low.

13 Nov 2015 21:11:48
Red Dog,
It's because Germany have a very decent manager in Joachim Low.

He intentionally left Ozil out because he knew he wouldn't get a winter break playing for Arsenal.

13 Nov 2015 21:18:50
Thanks Wesley that's a result, shame Thiago got injured though, was looking good for Cazorla to get a break. Sanchez played the whole 90 mins last night for Chile.

Good to see Giroud on the scoresheet again.

13 Nov 2015 22:06:50
Shame they're not a few more like him Dags, especially the Chile manager. :- (

13 Nov 2015 22:18:17
Honestly giroud on his day is lewandowski he's clinical tough and very decisive . He's a very sure footed clever player that can play that possition perfectly. But unfortunately unlike lewandowski he plays like that one in ten games and consistentcy is the hallmark of any great player.

13 Nov 2015 23:20:28
Absolutely Dog.

13 Nov 2015 06:51:27
Assuming Ospina leaves at the end of the season, should we retain Szczesny as cover for Cech?

13 Nov 2015 08:11:42
Its time part company for Szczesney and Arsenal, he needs to be a number one at his age and we need a successor to Petr Cech who capable of a high level consistency.
Cech is a title winning quality keeper and while Szczesney and Ospina are strictly champions league qualifying material.

13 Nov 2015 12:04:46
Szczesny is good enough to provide cover I feel. He's probably good enough to start somewhere else but you can't be too sentimental in football, if we can then we should keep him as a number 2.