ARSENALISM©

I suppose I should mention tonight’s much hyped ‘showdown’ between the two Manchester Clubs. It’s a big game of course and in the last twenty odd years of the Premier league there have been a few of these games, generally involving Manchester United. Chelsea and Blackburn have been involved as have Newcastle but in all honesty there have never been any games that come close to those great clashes between Arsenal & Manchester United. The intensity and quality of those games were always something to behold, for both clubs. Vieira v Keane, Ljungberg and Giggs, Henry and Van Nistelrooy, Keown & Campbell, Staam & Ferdinand, Wright v Schmeichel, Dennis and Cantona. So many great games and great memories; even reflecting on the games we lost I have to say those games were simply unmissable. Punch ups and Pizza, amazing goals and contentious decisions, managerial mind games and misdemeanours. Oh how I miss those days. Coming back to tonight I have never had any anti...

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WET & WINDY Another wet weekend another trip to the home of anti-football. Thing is, Stoke are just one of the many teams in this league who are all about doing the best with a motley crew of players. It's the survival strategy that many a side employs; their task yearly to stay in the top flight by whatever means is within the laws of the game. That Stoke are managed by a boorish oaf and that they fielded a thug who shattered Ramsey's leg gives them a touch of the Pantomime villain. The Arsenal have had these kind of nemesis' before; Bolton Wanderers when managed by Allardyce for example. The trick is to go to these kind of irritating matches, do the job and get the hell out of Dodge. let's hope we handle today like pros and take that further step towards the Champions League. MANAGING (BADLY) Seeing the mess that Villa are currently in I wonder just why is it that ex Ferguson players make such awful managers? Take McLeish, Hughes, Bruce, Souness, Keane, St...

A fair amount of feedback on yesterday's post about adidas and Arsenal. Some preferred Nike as they didn't like the adidas three stripes some thought Nike guilty of many an ill considered idea. Always Nice to have feedback from fellow Arsenal supporters even those that don't agree with me. I think my age is a factor in my leaning towards the brand as my first pair of football boots were adidas as were my first pair of football trainers; adidas samba. Thinking about my preference for adidas it occurred to me that much of the appeal is by way of association. I have always thought that in the pretty small world of sports branding adidas tended to have a cool connotation; a great deal of it not actually to do with athletes.I remember Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali and Run DMC all resplendent in adidas. So here's an example of some adidas cool. Marley Snoop Ali Run DMC Vader Ice-T Castro Having said that here's my favourite sports symbol...