Some former players had a better day. Xhaka scored a screamer as he won the Bundesliga (cue the memes about players leaving Arsenal and winning leagues immediately etc) and even Maitland-Niles of all people scored the winner in the 16th(!) minute of injury time for Lyon.
Feel like Henry's found a niche being the motivational guru for these young players rather than being their manager.
Former youth player and bench warmer Omari Hutchinson seems to have had a decent season at Ipswich (think he's one Championship POTM a couple of times). Shame it didn't work out for him with us (not sure why we weren't able to send him out on loan).
Scored a couple of cracking goals yesterday for Ipswich.
Don Pacifico Ispwich supporters desperate for the club to be able to buy him. He's been brilliant for them, seems like fulfilling his promise
fuckin love this dude. dribbly mcnoscore.
Its amazing how Wenger managed to keep us competitive with players like Hleb in the team. Then again it was his fault for signing mediocre players in the first place.
WTF?
nothing but respect for that move. if arsenal were so fuckin stupid to not trademark it themselves they deserve this result. jens should license it to them for certain occasions though. while i respect going for the trademark, his plans sound hokey as fuck. there is no way i would pay to watch in 2024, the invicibles vs 2004 manyoo. these flabby and sick events don't appeal to me. sit your ass down.
UK trademark law is quite from different from the US. arsenal used it in merchandising long before he filed for the trademark, so they would be protected here. also Preston NE owns the trademark to "Invincibles". In the US adding "The" wouldn't make any difference, especially since both are football related.
Can't find the Wenger thread but
Pique would have been a big success here. Pity Wenger didn't want to fight Barcelona
Maybe. I don’t recall him pulling up any trees at Man U
26 years ago today, Tony Adams did this
What a glorious day.
God will never forget that day, still remember that moment like it was yesterday. One of my all time great memories as an Arsenal fan. Bould putting Adams through to score, just showed you what our new football was about.
Good times.
RocktheCasbah Something I just saw on my twitter timeline, the above clip does not have the original Tyler commentary on it. I am guessing due to copyright issues they are using a dubbed on version, the original one is below.
JazzG oh wow, hadn't noticed that at all but it sticks out like a sore thumb now you've pointed it out. Thinking about it, I always remember Tyler saying "put through by Steve Bould..."
The other weird one is when you see Overmars goal at Old Trafford, that generally seems not to have the original comms on it either now.
Twitter seems to think it might be copyright issue but yeah once you've heard the original it defo sticks out like a sore thumb. I heard the version you attached a few years ago and remember thinking I was going a bit mad because in my head I remembered it sounded different.
This is something I learned the hard way. If it's in the same class, it doesn't matter if its slightly different, it will be successfully challenged.
RocktheCasbah The other weird one is when you see Overmars goal at Old Trafford, that generally seems not to have the original comms on it either now.
Another one with the original commentary changed!
What the....
This was so amazing.
How great would it be if we had Declan Rice or Saka doing something like this against Everton on the last day again. Not Mr. Arsenal yet either of them but do it in a title winning cause and they will stake a claim.
Rohit well, I suppose it could be said Saka is Master Arsenal...
Had no idea...
Bit of a weird one. Lehmann has bought the trademark to 'the Invincibles' because apparently we didn't have it.
invisibleman18 Jens to the watching world: yes, I am in fact still mad. Curious to see how much buy-in from the 03–04 squad he's able to get for his money-spinning plan.
Pires with his trademark lob at the age of 50 years old. Classy as ever.
Sneijder size...
Rivaldo's accuracy is incredible
Wrighty really knows ball
If Wrighty had been a poster on this forum, he'd have been laughed out of here.
We'd have 6 titles by now if we'd taken Vieira like I wanted.
RocktheCasbah We took Emery instead though...
Who knows what would have happened if we took Arteta back then
Clrnc Who knows what would have happened if we took Arteta back then
I think working under Pep for a bit longer didn't do Mikel any harm!
Also sometimes you need to hit rock bottom before tough decisions are made. We were at rock bottom and had big expensive decisions to make and the club backed him.
Replacing an institution-defining leader is almost always an impossible task in the short term. We needed a transitional manager. I will always be fond of Emery for having filled that role honorably.
Worth adding that the club's internal hierarchy was such a hot mess that any manager was set up to fail. Not sure Arteta would have been much more (if at all) successful at that point.
The only thing in his favour is his more assertive force of will but not sure that would have been enough to wrangle things into place at that point.
Don Pacifico I do think some of the things with Arteta which gave me hope was; he had a vision of how to bring us back; he could clearly articulate that vision (as he did at his first presser) and; perhaps most importantly, he understood how big Arsenal is and how far ouw standards done fell.
I don't think Emery had any of that.
Which isn't to say taking over from Arsene, especially with things as they were in the back office, wouldn't have been a hospital pass. I just think Arteta would have dealt with it better than Emery.
Don Pacifico Worth adding that the club's internal hierarchy was such a hot mess that any manager was set up to fail.
Definitely. You don't need to look longer than Pepe. He was our record signing at the time and the manager didn't even want him. 
This would never happen today.
RocktheCasbah he could clearly articulate that vision
Don't know what you're talking about...Unai made it very clear he wanted us to be protagonists! 
I'm not sure it's necessarily quite what you meant but I agree the communication aspect (ie. Arteta's bilingual to Unai's 'good ebening') was important in terms or landing ideas with the players.
Don Pacifico I'm not sure it's necessarily quite what you meant but I agree the communication aspect (ie. Arteta's bilingual to Unai's 'good ebening') was important in terms or landing ideas with the players.
Oh, it's absolutely what I meant. 
I also bear Emery no ill will, but even now I listen to his mangled English (albeit much improved from 2018) and wonder how the hell we were expecting this guy to lead Arsenal six years ago.
RocktheCasbah I just think Arteta would have dealt with it better than Emery.
Arteta's lucky he didn't have to deal with much of the crappy Sanllehi moment. One thing is however certain, Emery would not have had the patience and inclination to push through Arteta's holistic changes.
Remember when we were raising our eyebrows about Arteta's life-size cutouts of Wenger at Colney? That idiosyncratic stuff has ended up working.
Burnwinter big dick Raul
