Arsenal - crisis or not?

>>> *watching Arsenal vs Real Madrid* (champions league)
Im not a madrid fan but I want them to win this match..

What a freaking relief! It's nice to be reassured that however low our confidence might be at the moment, we're still capable of playing good football. Our best performance of the season, without a doubt.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I have a Roy of the Rovers annual somewhere. It featured the future of football, with women's football being as big as men's football (The World Cup final was between the women of England, featuring Roy Race's great great great grandaughter Camel or something like that, vs Mandelaland (South Africa)) and in men's football, the league was made up of teams from all around the world. The Nairobi Rhinos were relegated, I think, and although North London Aces (A mixture of Spurs, Arsenal and, bizarrely, Barnet) won the league, Melchester Rovers won the first ever Moon Cup.

Oh Roy. :love:

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I subsist mainly on the old-skool thrills of my dad's 1963 album, where the Melchester gang must compete with the testing demands of a new authoritarian trainer with a pencil moustache!

Oh come on, winning the Champion's League to hide a disappointing domestic season (5th!)? It's been done! Then again, we'll probably finish second and win the FA Cup, so y'know. :p

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I subsist mainly on the old-skool thrills of my dad's 1963 album, where the Melchester gang must compete with the testing demands of a new authoritarian trainer with a pencil moustache!

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The main Roy story in my annual was where the Rovers faced a nasty Italian team, in one of those new-fangled European thingamajiggies, who wore the same kit as the national side. After the Rovers go ahead, the Italians target their goalkeeper with dirty tricks, until he is forced to go off injured, and Roy dons the green jersey. In the last minute, the Italians get a penalty, and their star striker steps up to take it. Roy eyeballs him, and in a way that oddly foreshadows Roberto Baggio in the '94 World Cup final (He even has a ponytail, I think), the guy skies it, and then weeps.

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The main Roy story in my annual was where the Rovers faced a nasty Italian team, in one of those new-fangled European thingamajiggies, who wore the same kit as the national side. After the Rovers go ahead, the Italians target their goalkeeper with dirty tricks, until he is forced to go off injured, and Roy dons the green jersey. In the last minute, the Italians get a penalty, and their star striker steps up to take it. Roy eyeballs him, and in a way that oddly foreshadows Roberto Baggio in the '94 World Cup final (He even has a ponytail, I think), the guy skies it, and then weeps.

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Those pesky foreigners! I remember a story from a more recent annual where the Rovers went into a penalty shoot-out with a French goalkeeper who could hypnotise his opponents. Of course, it was all dirty cheating mindgames, and Roy proved it by overcoming intimidation and scoring the winning penalty with good old-fashioned British grit!

P.S. This is totally my sig/avatar after the elections. :D

Signing someone who injured a former player in a tackle is desperate? What planet are you on kid?

To Psy...WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU'LL DO BOTH?? I've learned NEVER be a cocky bastard in football. Because fate always kills you. We're currently 2nd, and it will take a balls up by us as opposed to Liverpool playing well for that to change.

Regarding the FA Cup. That thing is a lottery. Anything can happen & nothing is certain.

On the European Cup results. Arsenal (SCUM%$^) secretly impressed me. They outplayed a Madrid side vastly superior to the one before November. And Liverpool (SCUM%$£) where VERY unlucky to lose. Yet again their bluntness up front paid dearly.

Great football tonight from a neutrals perspective.

I don't think we'll do both, it's called joking around. If you'll notice, I was trying to show how the fates of Liverpool and Arsenal had swapped. :p

But if you want to mention the FA Cup, since 1992, only once has a team outside the "Big 4" has won it, and that was Everton in 1995...a team that came 4th last year. It'd be a surprise if Chelsea or Liverpool didn't win it, going by that kind of form.

Anyway, www.royoftherovers.com YES!

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Anyway, www.royoftherovers.com YES!

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xDDDDDD

The Spandau Ballet special.

Well, they certainly had the hair for it. (Emlyn Hughes and Bob Wilson, haha, classic)

Anyway, "On this day in 1976 - Trevor Cassidy anxious to fill the void left by the departure of Jumbo Trudgeon makes his debut for the Rovers against Second Division Hansfield in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final."

Jumbo Trudgeon? That's the best name I've ever heard!

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Well, they certainly had the hair for it. (Emlyn Hughes and Bob Wilson, haha, classic)

Anyway, "On this day in 1976 - Trevor Cassidy anxious to fill the void left by the departure of Jumbo Trudgeon makes his debut for the Rovers against Second Division Hansfield in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final."

Jumbo Trudgeon? That's the best name I've ever heard!

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Let's not be too hasty. What about the legend that is Jonjo Dickman?

Don't forget Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink. Longest I've heard atleast