Bergkamp? nah we'll have Chris Armstrong

[chieftain]

Yeah royal cunts polluting our home turf...shoot the lot of em....

Suppose we'll never live down the "Royal Arsenal" tag....

or that Plumbstead Nomads one

 

[iROBOT]

or that Plumbstead Nomads one

Yup.....

 

[iROBOT]

As it goes I was having trouble (mind you I only did a quick google), Ive got a book on spurs but not on the ARSE, I'm going to ask a gooner mate at the weekend, perhaps he might know something

"Gooner mate"??

You seem almost human after that statement...(for a Spud)....

Look forward to your investigations...

 

[kakuma]

there's a story that when alan shearer went for his trial with NUFC the youth team coach took a dislike to him and made him play in goal all day

 

[squirmy the 2nd]

A good story is how Alan Shearer slipped through the youth ranks at Newcastle, apparently put in goal at his trial.

Ninjaboy - earlier in thread!

on that point though, maybe the fact he gut "royally" (sorry ) fucked meant he tried even harder at the saints to make the big time?

 

[hektik]

.... and I really couldn't give a toss about deals that happened more than a decade ago, let alone remember each and every deal!

except of course, that the bergkamp deal that yo uare glorying in was 11 years ago, pre-wenger.

but none were occasions, IIRC, where we rejected a genius for a clown, as is here.

that's only with the benefit of hindsight though: armstrong at the time was a good potential talent: bergkamp was considered at worst a failure, at best a gamble due to his woeful time at inter..

was looking forward to doing a little investigation for fun to see if ARSEnal had made any howlers like Spurs did

not quite in the same league, bu graham sold keown to villa in 87 for less than £100K (i think?) only to buy him back in 93 for £2million.

 

[chieftain]

"Gooner mate"?

Gooner wife & Gooner oldest mate, it makes for some great banter!

 

[iROBOT]

not quite in the same league, bu graham sold keown to villa in 87 for less than £100K (i think?) only to buy him back in 93 for £2million.

Yeah and he's back again, he's taking his coaching badges at Arsenal. And he was sold as a school boy apprentice at Arsenal to Brighton (...I think....) and came back, to be sold again by Graham (as you state.)

 

[iROBOT]

Gooner wife & Gooner oldest mate, it makes for some great banter!

I bet..!!

My dads a Spud....

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

APparently the shevchenko story is false, and is a mythical creation of 'arry trying to add to his 'shambolic geezer' image...

I read that somewhere recently. Shevchenko never trained/went to any club in England prior to signing to Chelsea.

 

[kakuma]

Ninjaboy - earlier in thread!

on that point though, maybe the fact he gut "royally" (sorry ) fucked meant he tried even harder at the saints to make the big time?

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