Tucked away in the Pacific Northwest with my wife Denise, a Border Collie named Aoife (pronounced EYE - fa), a guitar collection, and an increasing number of aquariums sporting a variety of fish (cichlids are my new favorites), I live
for football season when I can cheer on the Oregon Ducks and my Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks.
Tucked away in the Pacific Northwest with my wife Denise, a Border Collie named Aoife (pronounced EYE - fa), a guitar collection, and an increasing number of aquariums sporting a variety of fish (cichlids are my new favorites), I live
for football season when I can ch....
Not exact matches
Football season ended
for the Bears, every year
when I played, in December; by February, I was working out again
for next
season.
I'm always looking
for easy snacks to serve
when we host game nights with our friends, and even more so now that
football season is upon us.
They'd also make a perfect snack
for when you're sitting around watching some Monday Night
Football (or baseball or whatever sports is in
season) and need something to munch on, don't ya think?!
Food sales this
season are up 84 per cent on three years ago,
when the club first went meat free, proving that traditional
football fans are a more adaptable breed than they're often given credit
for.
I could blame
football season, the fact Texas is HUGE but still considered «drivable»
for a weekend trip, my scattered family, my over-achieving-packed-personal-schedule self, or just the fact that Gus is so darn cute
when he travels to see his fur friends that we can't say no.
He recently broke the record
for the most goals scored in a single
season by an American - born
footballer playing in a European first division with 17, so he's no slouch
when it comes to up - and - coming talent.
this kid had it all and could have been truly great but guess what, you can take the kid out of the hood but you can't always take the hood out of the kid, sterling hangs around with a bunch of idiots who think posting their mate online doing laughing gas is clever and there all living in London, bringing him in would be a huge mistake in my opinion and those of you suggesting to offer theo and money, Im so glad you don't run the club, theo is the best r winger in the league
when fit, we also have Wellington silva coming back, not to mention ox to cover or Sanchez if we want to play Danny or mezut on the left, let city have Raheem and let their already volatile dressing room implode, let's get Cech, lacazette and a solid dm to compete with le coq, sell Chesney to inter
for good money podolski could be used as make weight
for Morgan or the like release flamini let arteta and Roz have there last
season if they choose or let them go if they want more first team
football, Rio to have one more loan Diaby pay as you play and last promote chuba who clearly is going to be an animal, with this I believe the title is ours and if the new 3 settle a real tilt at the cl is possible but please gooners get behind theo he is absolutely essential COYG
Once the Arsenal team runs onto the pitch
for any game of
football it is up to the 11 players out there representing us all to perform and produce the right result, so we can see the logic in laying the blame with these players
when things do not go exactly according to plan and the Arsenal suffer the sort of disappointment that has been all too prevalent this
season.
There are so many knee jerkers on this forum it's laughable.Spurs were better than us today.Accept it.We played the same way against Man City we won, Wenger is a genius.We play the same way again Spurs and loose.Wenger is crap.If we had played free flowing
football against Spurs and lost, Wenger would have been blamed
for not playing defensively.Sometimes you have to accept
when a team is better.Harry Cain is a great player at the moment but lets see whether he is any good next
season.
The 28 year old will seek an exit to secure some much needed first team
football and Wenger will consider offers
for the Polish international, who has impressed
when called upon in cup action this
season.
He played six games in right field
for the Yankees in 1919 (the Babe settled in that very realty the next
season), and Halas was also there in Canton, Ohio, sitting on a running board in a Hupmobile showroom on Sept. 17, 1920
when pro
football was created.
Giroud is also not getting national
football because he has to compete with a very well established Benzema who plays
for RM; even if he was destroying the PL it takes time to compete with another player of high caliber who has been there
for multiple
seasons when you were not even on the radar.
Our results second half of the
season spoke
for themselves whereas
when Liverpool had a real shot at CL
football, increasing their revenue, luring higher quality players and ultimately giving themselves a platform
for improvement this coming
season they crumbled... Milner
for Stevie G, Firmino
for Sterling and Clyne added to a weak defence.
I can count max 1 - 2 really killer games this
season for us and we play the most beautiful
football when we show in the office.
Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the
season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant
football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent
season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal
when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.
I think our best
football this
season was against man city at the emirates, i have never seen arsenal put up that sort of fight against a top team in a long time, although we didn't win I was satisfied with the hunger we showed, i would always prefer le coq to Flamini but that is not what would win us this game, we need to show the right attitude, go there to win it, and
When I say go there to win it, i don't mean throw everybody forward, I mean go out there with a winning and commited mentality, being ready to throw yourself at the shot, make the all important tackle instead of ducking when the cross comes it, all 11 players need to be ready to fight for the win, we need the boys fired up, C
When I say go there to win it, i don't mean throw everybody forward, I mean go out there with a winning and commited mentality, being ready to throw yourself at the shot, make the all important tackle instead of ducking
when the cross comes it, all 11 players need to be ready to fight for the win, we need the boys fired up, C
when the cross comes it, all 11 players need to be ready to fight
for the win, we need the boys fired up, COYG.
Barcelona's
season serves as a lesson in
when not to overreact
for football fans, and especially
for anyone who's running a team.
With a player blessed with his speed and goal scoring abilities it is vital we play to his strengths.We need to inject more pace and directness into our attacking play otherwise Auba will struggle just as Lacazette.This stems from our «pass the ball to one another at all costs» possession
football that has overtaken system we played
when we were challenging most
seasons for the Premiere League Title 1998 - 2004.
It's normal
for players and teams to push themselves extra hard
when they are closing in on the final stage of a
football season.
Even though the current Premier League
season, so far anyway, is throwing up signs that Arsene Wenger and the squad are in a batter position to push
for the title than usual, we still keep hearing pundits in the
football media talking about the same old things
when it comes to Arsenal.
Regardless of the types of
football bets you indulge, or whether you use acca tips services
for your accumulators or not, there are some important points you can not afford to overlook
when betting on this
season's Arsenal matches.
Despite not being in the first - team plans the majority of this
season Wilshere was said to be the first one to training and the last to leave on a daily basis... Even
when he's out there killing it
for England with barely any first - team
football this
season people still doubt him.
In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off -
season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh
when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern
football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all
for one I say... so
when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat
when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting
for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is
when the real benefits of having someone in charge
for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners
Football is a team sport, Wilshere may perform well on a personal level but the team suffers as a whole, we play better more fluid
when he's on the bench he blocks space
for Ozil and Ramsey to perform, last
season Ramsey's best performances were
when Jack wasn't in the starting 11 we won games not draws and losses
I get the criticisms, I truly do, but a lot of fans blindly deny the fact that he does score goals
for us, and highlight his drought at the end of
season as though that was the story of his
season with us, neglecting the fact that before that he was scoring near on a goal a game in a time where we desperately needed it to secure CL
football when it was in no way guaranteed..
He lies to the fans with high hopes He bottles things up
when the chance presents itself He later comes out to say we can't win the premier league That's what happens every
season still some fans haven't realised this agony His time is up to leave but he won't He favours some players than others He later blames the fans as if the fans select the players He has never blamed himself
For some unknown reasons, fans continue to show their loyalty by fully attending matches while they come out on social media to vent their frustrations Wenger is taking the love of
football from people Hardly a day passes than Wenger not being insulted
For how long will these sufferings continue?
now regular starters is why we are failing to dominate teams even
when we dominate possession... Lateral
football silly flicks hopeful shooting... Need a quality replacement
for carzola
for second half of
season to get best from ozil and Sanchez...
Wilshere should have been move out from last
season when his worth would have been a lot more, i think it would be wise
for wilshere to look a less physical league at the moment to play some
football, in this league it is highly unlikely he will regain any sort of form which would guarantee success in his future at arsenal.
Theo is an expensive failure and to keep giving him the chance
when he has repaid the clubs faith with being a bottler and acting as if he's a lazy git (watched him a number of
seasons ago against Blackburn away and all he did was run up and down the wing without even calling
for the ball to draw defenders away from the centre) I hate to say it but in my mind Alan Hansen was right
when he said that «Walcott has not got a natural
footballers brain» It infuriated me at the time but its been proven to be true I feel he's been collecting his money
for too long without a result to justify keeping him in our employment.
Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the
season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in
for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification
for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked
football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so
when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order
for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart
for now
so
when you see one side on here tearing into followers of another side then it is beyond sport.i think because of our lack of team spirit and winning
for the past few
seasons we have forgotten about
football and our team.
We all had high hopes
for the Costa Rican international
when he arrived as a shock signing four years ago, but he has failed to impress Arsene Wenger and his eagerness to actually play
football has seen him go out on loan every single
season of his Arsenal career.
Now is
when we get to really dig in to the upcoming
football season and plan for what will be our Eighth Annual Football Preview
football season and plan
for what will be our Eighth Annual
Football Preview
Football Preview Special.
Let's face it, with a Europa League win now surely needed to ensure this
season is any kind of success, it seems most likely the next Arsenal manager won't have Champions League
football when he takes the job — inexcusable
for a club of this size.
If anyone is to blame
for his confidence crisis then it has to be Wenger; if he had bought another striker since begining of last
season when it became obvious to every
football follower Giroud still needs a lot of work to become the finished article then the poor chap will not be under such intense scrutiny and pressure.....
coquelin is a decent player but overrated by many fans because he did fill a gap a couple of
seasons ago
when he came back from charlton and did it well... but like ramsey running around non-stop is not in itself the defining feature of a quality
footballer for a DM tackling, positioning, link up play and passing are equally important coquelin is excellent on two of these good on one and poor on last two... xhaka overall is a better DM and should be starting all the time to make him an integral part of a cohesive set up
But I'm sure I speak
for the entire brigade
when I say that I was shocked and dismayed that a fine magazine such as yours would even suggest, as you did at the end of your preview of the U.S. Military Academy's
football season (Sept. 9), that no one cares about the outcome of our traditional game.
lol at the expert fanbase deriding our own players Ramsey is a fantastic
footballer with a great engine and a work ethic gives his all
when he playes H was one of the best players at the last euros or did people forget that It's really sad to se our moronic fanbase who keep attacking their own players as if they know all about
football and tactics Do you forget that he has scored in two cup finals Ask yourselves what have you achieved
when criticising others At the rate at icy the moronic Arsenal fanbase hating their own players and Manager so viciously what too player would cme and play
for us Look at teams like pool or spuds don't an fuk all but their fans support their teams no matter what It used to be like that at Arsenal but now we have the worst fanbase in
football I know because I have bee a
season t it holder since the 70s Hat a spoilt bunch of useless fans we have now mrs so sad to see COYG
I know it might be hard to think about next
season for some people but trust me
when we are going all summer without league
football, we'll be itching
for the madness of it all.
this is one great article i absolutely agree with you, but i do nt mind it
when some fans want a different manager as long as they respect wenger cause we have to admit that this
season could be seen as a failure and the
football we played wasnt really great too, so i support wenger fully but i understand the guys who want a change but some wobs do nt understand that one can ask
for a change without disrespecting and making somebody out to be stupid
So
when Wenger leaves and a new manager is appt do you honestly believe that
season we will be title challenges.It will take years and a shed load of money which the new manager won't be getting and in any case Man City with all their monies will dominant
football for years.So just accept Arsenal in the short term will not be winning anything other than the occasion cup.Just like now
Yes we have improved we have become more aware we have started to show some maturity
when facing the top dogs and that's the difference between us this
season and us getting SMASHED by all of the top teams last
season and if you watch
football you can see that the city side are not a patch on their former selves nor Liverpool nor even chelski, we are NOT another 49 unbeaten squad not yet and not
for a while until the improvements are made, Yea credit where its due of course but lets NOT RUN AWAY WITH THE IDEA WE ARE WORLD BEATERS JUST YET EH, AKB's are the reason we'll never improve as a fan base because they can see NO wrong in anything the board or AW does, Im no AOB but I do see the need
for self criticism and improvement and at BIGGUN its not a ridiculous statement at all we have improved but they have also been off the ball and that why we're having a good run.
You know you've reached the sweet spot of the college
football season when midweek MACtion starts, setting up the stage
for a big Week 10 of action.
That's
when the AKBs start spitting their acid on the fans of
football all over the world, praising the lord
for another good
season.
of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show
for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time
for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn
when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full
season of
football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped
for the best
From what a lot of so - called
football experts have been saying about this Arsenal star, even this
season when he has arguably been better than he was
for Real Madrid and Werder Bremen and in the form of his life, you could be forgiven
for thinking that Mesut Ozil was struggling to live up to the transfer price the Gunners paid
for him.
players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially
when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face...
for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics...
when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas
when things go awry they become easy targets
for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field...
for them, they cared more about shirt sales and
season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility
for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept
when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary
for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and
for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at
season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship
football back to our once beloved club... so
when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame
for our current woes
When Arsenal had to do without the England international speed merchant
for most of last
season, especially with Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain also in the treatment room, it meant that the Gunners were missing a huge ingredient in modern
football, pace.