http://soccerlens.com/forum/ Soccerlens Forum Tag: Arsenal - Recent Posts en Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:12:08 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/60-of-the-best#post-46603 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:25:30 +0000 Liversea 46603@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>I also find 54 somewhat funny. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/60-of-the-best#post-46591 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:59:28 +0000 Michael Tuff 46591@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>59 is an all time great </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/60-of-the-best#post-46504 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:10:57 +0000 Ghostwriter 46504@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>60 top quotes for Wenger&#39;s 60th Birthday (number 59 is the classic):</p> <p>1) [Upon being asked what he does with his spare time] &quot;I watch football.&quot;</p> <p>2) &quot;I tried to watch the Tottenham match on television in my hotel yesterday, but I fell asleep.&quot;</p> <p>3) &quot;When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.&quot;</p> <p>4) [On the qualities of Dennis Bergkamp] &quot;Intelligence and class. Class is of course, most of the time linked to what you can do with the ball, but the intelligence makes you use the technique in an efficient way. It&#39;s like somebody who has a big vocabulary but he doesn&#39;t say intelligent words, and somebody who has a big vocabulary but he can talk intelligently, and that&#39;s what Dennis is all about. What he does, there&#39;s always a head and always a brain. And his technique allows him to do what he sees, and what he decides to do.&quot;</p> <p>5) [After the Arsenal fans booed a 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough in November 1998] &quot;If you eat caviar every day it&#39;s difficult to return to sausages.&quot;</p> <p>6) &quot;A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.&quot;</p> <p>7) &quot;Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I&#39;m a bit bored. I&#39;m thinking: &#39;Where is the intensity?&#39;&quot;</p> <p>8) [In 2003] &quot;It&#39;s not impossible. I know it will be difficult for us to go through the season unbeaten. But if we keep the right attitude it&#39;s possible we can do it.&quot;</p> <p>9) [On Jose Mourinho after the then Chelsea boss accused him of being a voyeur] &quot;He&#39;s out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.&quot;</p> <p>10) &quot;A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.&quot;</p> <p>11) [In response to Sepp Blatter&#39;s accusation that big clubs were guilty of &#39;child slavery] &quot;If you have a child who is a good musician, what is your first reaction? It is to put them into a good music school, not in an average one. So why should that not happen in football?&quot;</p> <p>12) [After the departure of Sol Campbell to Portsmouth] &quot;It is a big surprise to me because he cancelled his contract to go abroad. Have you sold Portsmouth to a foreign country?&quot;</p> <p>13) &quot;I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art. And football is like that. When I watch Barcelona, it is art.&quot;</p> <p>14) &quot;When you represent a club it&#39;s about values and qualities, not about passports.&quot;</p> <p>15) &quot;If I go into a season and I say, &#39;For fu*k&#39;s sake, if we don&#39;t win anything, they will all leave,&#39; I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.&quot;</p> <p>16) [After the success of the Great Britain team at the Olympics] &quot;I didn&#39;t know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven&#39;t seen a swimming pool.&quot;</p> <p>17) &quot;The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.&quot;</p> <p>18) &quot;There is no better psychological education than growing up in a pub when you are five or six because you meet all different people and hear how cruel they can be. You hear the way they talk to each other like saying &#39;You&#39;re a liar.&#39; And from an early age you get a practical psychological education into the minds of people.&quot;</p> <p>19) &quot;I started at 33 as a manager and sometimes I felt I wouldn&#39;t survive. Physically I was sick.&quot;</p> <p>20) &quot;Politically, I am for efficiency. Economically first. Until the 1980s the world was divided into two, people were either communist or capitalist. The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. You cannot ignore individual interests, but I believe the world evolves slowly. The last 30 years have brought a minimum amount of money for everybody in the west, the next step, politically, would be a maximum amount of money earned by everybody.&quot;</p> <p>21) &quot;As long as no-one scored, it was always going to be close.&quot;</p> <p>22) &quot;If I asked you who was the best team in the world you would say Brazil. And do they play good football? Yes. Which club won everything last year? Barcelona. Good football. I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?&quot;</p> <p>23) [In response to Sir Alex Ferguson&#39;s claim that he possessed the best team in the league despite Arsenal winning the title in 2002] &quot;Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.&quot;</p> <p>24) &quot;Ferguson should calm down. Maybe it would have been better if he had put us against a wall and shot us.&quot;</p> <p>25) &quot;He [Ferguson] doesn&#39;t interest me and doesn&#39;t matter to me at all. I will never answer to any provocation from him any more.&quot;</p> <p>26) [To journalists regarding Ferguson] &quot;What I don&#39;t understand is that he does what he wants and you are all at his feet.&quot;</p> <p>27) &quot;Ferguson&#39;s out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He&#39;s pushed the cork in a bit far this time.&quot;</p> <p>28) [Upon being asked if he had received the apology that Sir Alex had announced he had sent to Wenger] &quot;No. Perhaps he sent it by horse.&quot;</p> <p>29) &quot;I&#39;m ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football if that is what he wants.&quot;</p> <p>30) [After Jose Royes announced he wanted to leave Arsenal] &quot;It&#39;s like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn&#39;t want you. I can try to help you but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?&quot;</p> <p>31) &quot;Despite the global warming, England is still not warm enough for him.&quot;</p> <p>32) &quot;Gerard Houllier&#39;s thoughts on the matter [international football] echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you&#39;re expected to be nice about it.&quot;</p> <p>33) &quot;Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.&quot;</p> <p>34) &quot;I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.&quot;</p> <p>35) [On losing the lead of the league in November 2004] &quot;It&#39;s like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn&#39;t come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.&quot;</p> <p>36) &quot;Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.&quot;</p> <p>37) &quot;We were considering him [Ruud van Nistelrooy] and Francis Jeffers and, in the end, we went for Jeffers.&quot;</p> <p>38) &quot;Maybe people will be surprised that I have signed an Englishman but I looked at his quality and not his passport. Francis is a &#39;fox in the box&#39;.&quot;</p> <p>39) [On Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2003] &quot;He can only cheat.&quot;</p> <p>40) &quot;I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.&quot;</p> <p>41) &quot;I lived for two years in Japan and it was the best diet I ever had. The whole way of life there is linked to health. Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.&quot;</p> <p>42) &quot;One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.&quot;</p> <p>43) &quot;What&#39;s really dreadful is the diet in Britain. The whole day you drink tea with milk and coffee with milk and cakes. If you had a fantasy world of what you shouldn&#39;t eat in sport, it&#39;s what you eat here.&quot;</p> <p>44) &quot;If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.&quot;</p> <p>45) [On Arsenal&#39;s recruitment policy] &quot;If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.&quot;</p> <p>46) &quot;I don&#39;t kick dressing room doors or the cat or even football journalists.&quot;</p> <p>47) &quot;At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.&quot;</p> <p>48) &quot;Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.&quot;</p> <p>49) &quot;You have to be a masochist to be an international manager.&quot;</p> <p>50) &quot;For me, when you change more than three players in a team, you always take a technical risk because you change the deep structure of the team and the deep balance of the team, mentally and technically.&quot;</p> <p>51) &quot;We do not buy superstars. We make them.&quot;</p> <p>52) &quot;The real revelation of a player&#39;s character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.&quot;</p> <p>53) [After Martin Taylor snapped Eduardo&#39;s leg in half] &quot;The guy should never ever play football again.&quot;</p> <p>54) [On how long Tomas Rosicky would be ruled out for at the start of his 18-month recuperation] &quot;Days not weeks.&quot;</p> <p>55) &quot;I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you.&quot;</p> <p>56) &quot;We try to go a different way that, for me, is respectable. Briefly, these are the basics. I thought: &quot;We are building a stadium, so I will get young players in early so I do not find myself exposed on the transfer market without the money to compete with the others. I build a team, and we compensate by creating a style of play, by creating a culture at the club because the boy comes in at 16 or 17 and when they go out they have a supplement of soul, of love for the club, because they have been educated together. The people you meet at college from 16 to 20, often those are the relationships in life that keep going. That, I think, will give us strength that other clubs will not have.&quot;</p> <p>57) &quot;What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.&quot;</p> <p>58) [On Emmanuel Adebayor&#39;s stamp on Robin van Persie] &quot;I watched it when I got home and it looked very bad. You ask 100 people, 99 will say it&#39;s very bad and the hundredth will be Mark Hughes.&quot;</p> <p>59) &quot;I did not see the incident.&quot;</p> <p>60) &quot;I do not like to make a fuss, it&#39;ll just be another day. I want to stay 59.&quot; </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-45575 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:09:34 +0000 Liversea 45575@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>He seemed to be the only Milan player capable of possessing the ball, in the second half at least. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-45568 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:03:37 +0000 thefourthwisemonkey 45568@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>didn&#39;t actually see the match, score line was pretty emphatic though. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-45549 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:44:26 +0000 Liversea 45549@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>Huntelaar was actually good in that match, though. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-45547 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:43:28 +0000 manutdfan 45547@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>adding some Klass just didn&#39;t enough to boosten Milan&#39;s attacks as we can see in the derby match.. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-45496 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:24:55 +0000 Matt Belbin 45496@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>I swear they&#39;re all the same person or something. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-45488 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:27:34 +0000 Liversea 45488@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>DUde, CoolMan is a troll. he really doesn&#39;t belong here, and should be banned. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-45483 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:14:02 +0000 Matt Belbin 45483@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <blockquote><p><cite>duffman90 - 1 month ago <a href="//soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-43413&quot;">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;</a></cite><br /> <a href="http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5438714,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5438714,00.html</a><br /> you might be dissapointed to read this</p></blockquote> <p>Haha way to put him down completely...<br /> Anyways hes at AC Milan now, yes? Why are you bringing up old topics like a month old...? </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-45472 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:19:11 +0000 Cool man 45472@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>I like the idea, cool! </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/the-gooner-review-new-arsenal-film#post-44844 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:50:32 +0000 thegoonerreview 44844@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>The Gooner Review 08-09 is now released!</p> <p>Purchase your copy now from: <a href="http://www.thegoonerreview.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thegoonerreview.com</a></p> <p>and join the Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46430996988" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=46430996988</a></p> <p>The Gooner Review is an 85-minute film made by Gooners for Gooners on the 2008 - 2009 season which was released on DVD on Saturday 1st August .</p> <p>The film is a perfect companion to the Arsenal FC&#39;s official season review. Whereas the official season review has all the goals and interviews with current players, The Gooner Review analyses the top ten most significant moments of the season from an independent supporter&#39;s viewpoint. The film features interviews with Nick Hornby, Bob Wilson, Perry Groves, Joe and Clive Swift, Peter Marinello, Tom Watt, Judge Jules and many others. So you can find out what they made of the season including the unbeaten run, the captaincy issue, the semi-finals, Arsene&#39;s performance as manager and many other key issues.</p> <p>100% of all profits from The Gooner Review 2008 - 2009 will go to Bob Wilson&#39;s charity The Willow Foundation.</p> <p>Keep up to date with all The Gooner Review news and daily updates on Facebook, Twitter, our official site and most recently our new Blog.</p> <p>Our aim is to produce much more than a film with The Gooner Review - we also want to build a community which will help represent the voice of Gooners and which will become active in making the types of films Gooners want to see.</p> <p>It&#39;s really important for us that all Gooners get involved in this process: by sending us questions for interviewees, by suggesting Gooners to interview, to help us get your local cinema to show The Gooner Review film or other Arsenal-related films, or to get involved in the actual production of the film.</p> <p>In the 2008 - 2009 film we asked fans throughout the season for their feedback on what type of film we should make and now we want to get even more Gooners involved in our 2009 - 2010 projects.</p> <p>Get in touch with Ed at <a href="mailto:edthegoonerreview@googlemail.com">edthegoonerreview@googlemail.com</a> if you&#39;ve got any suggestions or if you want more information. We&#39;re really interested in trying to get The Gooner Review played in as many local cinemas as possible so if you think you can help, let us know.</p> <p>We will be filming from time to time at the Emirates and at key away matches during the 2009 - 2010 season so if you see us, come over and have a chat. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/essien-is-better-than-vieria#post-43524 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:11:02 +0000 Ghostwriter 43524@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>You cant compair them now Essien is in his prime and Viera is on his last legs...</p> <p>but in his day Viera was better than Essien is now </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/essien-is-better-than-vieria#post-43517 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:30:17 +0000 footypir8 43517@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>Presently Essien is better than Viera, but I still think he has a way to go to be better than Viera at his peak - however, he certainly has the potential to do it and I expect him to </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-43424 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:47:49 +0000 manutdfan 43424@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>nope,I don't think so he's overrated.. he's good though.. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-43414 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:14:11 +0000 XerxesK 43414@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>I think he is the most overrated player of the half decade. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-43413 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:39:33 +0000 Michael Tuff 43413@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5438714,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5438714,00.html</a></p> <p>you might be dissapointed to read this </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenal-to-add-a-bit-of-klaas#post-43412 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:33:20 +0000 Ghostwriter 43412@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>Rumours is that Arsenal have enquired about the price range of Klass-Jan Huntelaar, papers recon he will go for bout 18mil.</p> <p>I would welcome Klaas to replace Ade. and Klaas is romoured to be unsettled at Real.<br /> What you make of it? </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/name-your-clubs-greatest-historic-all-time-xi#post-42487 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:43:44 +0000 Michael Tuff 42487@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>he has been at the club for 2 years,he cant be judged as greater than rush or fowler yet.wait til he scores a hattrick in 4 and a half minutes and then he can be called better than fowler </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/name-your-clubs-greatest-historic-all-time-xi#post-42480 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:00:13 +0000 gazza11984 42480@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>How honestly can you leave out Torres, the man who scored 50 goals quicker than Aldridge, Rush and Fowler!!! Crazy and im not even liverpool fan but at least i realise how great Torres is!!</p> <blockquote><p><cite>JimKnuckles - 1 month ago <a href="http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/name-your-clubs-greatest-historic-all-time-xi#post-39291">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;</a></cite><br /> <strong>Liverpool Greatest XI</strong><br /> -----------------------Reina-----------------------------<br /> --Neal---------Hansen-------------Hughes---------Riise---<br /> --Gerrard--------------Souness-------------------Barnes--<br /> -----------------------Dalglish--------------------------<br /> ----------Rush------------------------Fowler-------------<br /> Subs: Clemence, Carragher, Molby, Beardsley, Liddell, Aldridge</p></blockquote> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/name-your-clubs-greatest-historic-all-time-xi#post-42469 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:25:08 +0000 cambo 42469@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>i wasnt sure exactly where in defence he played but during his time at chelsea, around 19 years i think, he must have learned how to play on the left. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/name-your-clubs-greatest-historic-all-time-xi#post-42461 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:17:22 +0000 Liversea 42461@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>Harris is on a completely other wing than Cashley though... </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/name-your-clubs-greatest-historic-all-time-xi#post-42457 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:52:48 +0000 cambo 42457@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>i'm far from a chelsea fan but a clubs all time top goalscorer has to be in the starting 11. meaning Essien would be in the middle, Lampard on the right, Zola in behind Osgood and Tambling. Makelele on the bench. as for ashley cole, Chopper harris is chelsea's all time highest appearence maker and was captain. he won the 1970 fa cup and the 1971 European cup winners cup. so for that reason combined with the fact that i hate ashley cole, harris would start for me. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenals-third-kit-for-200910#post-42221 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:23:59 +0000 Liversea 42221@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p> <img src='http://soccerlens.com/forum/bb-images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenals-third-kit-for-200910#post-42170 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:18:21 +0000 thefourthwisemonkey 42170@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>Looks like one of those thermal vests my mum made me where in the winter when I was a kid </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenals-third-kit-for-200910#post-42047 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:40:01 +0000 XerxesK 42047@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>spurs anyone? </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/arsenals-third-kit-for-200910#post-42042 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:14:12 +0000 gGw 42042@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>Arsenal has released their third kit.. Is this a fashion this season, the thin-striped shirts? </p> <p><a href="http://soccerlens.com/shirts/arsenal-0910-third-kit/2832/" rel="nofollow">http://soccerlens.com/shirts/arsenal-0910-third-kit/2832/</a> </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/name-your-clubs-greatest-historic-all-time-xi#post-41785 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:57:37 +0000 Liversea 41785@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>I have Le Saux as a sub, and Cashley I can't include because he once played for the Arse. </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/name-your-clubs-greatest-historic-all-time-xi#post-41701 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:14:41 +0000 Rhian Joseph 41701@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>I notice you have no Ray Wilkins, Steve Clarke or Micheal Essien in your team Liversea...tsk tsk tsk.....Clarke who made our Centenary XI, Wilkins who was so good he joined the coaching staff and Essien the monster...nuff said about him.</p> <p>But Dan Petrescu? over Essien? McCreadie over LeSaux and Cashley? think you may have to look over that XI..... </p> http://soccerlens.com/forum/topic/name-your-clubs-greatest-historic-all-time-xi#post-41700 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:09:55 +0000 Rhian Joseph 41700@http://soccerlens.com/forum/ <p>With each of these players in their prime....this team would be unbeatable....true Maka was not at his peak with us but I interpreted this to mean what is the greatest team your club could put out using past players hypothesizing that each would be in his prime...</p> <p>If so Claude Makalele would definitely be a starter. At their prime, the four I have selected would surely be the best midfielders to ever play for us. The only player in prime form that could arguably displace any of these is Gullit. </p>