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[A_G]

The Arsenal v Stoke rivalry was bizarre, thinking about it.

From the Stoke side of it...imagine being their fans and being proud of being in a rivalry with another team, purely because you play awful football and are dirty ****s.

Weirdos.

Nearly every game there was significant in some way:
08/09- three injuries, RVP sent off
09/10- Ramsey incident
10/11- Wilshere tried to fight their entire team
11/12- Giroud tried to score from the halfway line when Ramsey was clean through
12/13- rare uneventful game
13/14- title collapse + middle aged man cried on AFTV afterwards
14/15- Wenger abused at the train station
15/16- beginning of the end of the title charge
16/17- rare win
17/18- Lacazette shoelaces were offside stopping a late equaliser

 

[Riou]

Nearly every game there was significant in some way:
08/09- three injuries, RVP sent off
09/10- Ramsey incident
10/11- Wilshere tried to fight their entire team
11/12- Giroud tried to score from the halfway line when Ramsey was clean through
12/13- rare uneventful game
13/14- title collapse + middle aged man cried on AFTV afterwards
14/15- Wenger abused at the train station
15/16- beginning of the end of the title charge
16/17- rare win
17/18- Lacazette shoelaces were offside stopping a late equaliser

The Giroud chip in 2012...I think The Tuesday Club, have a very funny segment on YouTube on that.

 

[Jasard]

Fat Sam's Bolton or Chav Pulis' Stoke, who were worse?

I do think people kinda forget just how dirty those Bolton ****s were back on the day, because we were a better team then.

****ing hated them, when I first got into football.

Anelka played 53 games for Bolton. I mean what the **** is that all about?

 

[Hunta]

People forget how bad Stoke were, look at how we all talk about Burnley these days. They’re Barcelona compared to Stoke back then.

 

[TromsoGooner]

Inbred ****s. Classless. They used to chant “Aaron Ramsey, he walks with a limp.”

Stoke were close to going down to League One a couple of seasons back. It’s exactly what they deserve. Oldest football club and have never won a trophy .

Practically 100 year old virgins.

Still check their results at the weekend and find great delight in them toiling in the Championship without anyone giving two ****s about them

 

[Riou]

People forget how bad Stoke were, look at how we all talk about Burnley these days. They’re Barcelona compared to Stoke back then.

They signed Bojan, then started calling themselves "Stokelona" for a bit, ffs

 

[Riou]

Wouldn't mind Martinelli playing in this, feeling a performance like this from him here...



...Alexis' was obviously brilliant here, but Mes was different class this game too...always thought he was offended that people mentioned Payet in the same league as him around this time, wanted to show who was da boss!

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Wouldn't mind Martinelli playing in this, feeling a performance like this from him here...



...Alexis' was obviously brilliant here, but Mes was different class this game too...always thought he was offended that people mentioned Payet in the same league as him around this time, wanted to show who was da boss!

Gabriel was class in this game at RB.

 

[Riou]

Gabriel was class in this game at RB.

Was this the game were Arsène said he had to stop playing Jenkinson, due to the abuse he was getting online?

Then @BigPoppaPump was like "I did my part to get him out of the team, you're welcome Arsenal"

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

Think the media encouraged them to kick our players and they got away with it.

It was actually Fergie during a press conference who asked (jokingly) for "someone to kick them". Fat Sam duly obliged and everyone else piled in. Three dangling limbs and other injuries and we were branded soft and still get little protection today.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Anelka played 53 games for Bolton. I mean what the **** is that all about?

It’s very simple. At some point he played for every club on planet earth. His brothers kept jogging him on from place to place. Rinse & repeat.

“I have always been an admirer of the history, fans and traditions of <insert club name here>”

 

[Jasard]

It’s very simple. At some point he played for every club on planet earth. His brothers kept jogging him on from place to place. Rinse & repeat.

“I have always been an admirer of the history, fans and traditions of <insert club name here>”

Anelka and Kevin Davies in the same squad. What a duo

 

[Haphazard]

Oh great, an entire week of A-M acting like complete pu$$ys over an average side that we're gonna beat comfortably.

Famous last words before Crystal Palace, Brighton and Southampton.

 

[Haphazard]

People forget how bad Stoke were, look at how we all talk about Burnley these days. They’re Barcelona compared to Stoke back then.

Only reason stoke would win is because the refs would let them get away with murder constantly. 2 foot challenges, studs up, clear penalties not being given because the refs bought into the whole Stoke mythos.

 

[Tom Mix]

Inbred ****s. Classless. They used to chant “Aaron Ramsey, he walks with a limp.”

Stoke were close to going down to League One a couple of seasons back. It’s exactly what they deserve. Oldest football club and have never won a trophy .

Practically 100 year old virgins.

Not of course a hate crime because Ramsey is white and (I assume) straight.

Sadly you are wrong about their never having won a trophy. They won the League Cup in 1971 (I think) beating Chelsea in the final.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

Not of course a hate crime because Ramsey is white and (I assume) straight.

Sadly you are wrong about their never having won a trophy. They won the League Cup in 1971 (I think) beating Chelsea in the final.

Excuse me? Elaborate on this one please.

Yeah I just checked, also won a couple of championship titles if you wanna count that. Still, pretty pathetic return for one of the founding members of the football league!

 

[Sanchez11]

What has Stoke and Bolton got todo with this thread? So have they any defenders for this game?

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Don't underestimate even without defenders they make Chelsea work too hard for thier win. Be professional not because they have tough europa fixture and no center backs mean automatic win.

Only changes I'll make for this Tomi for Cedric and maybe Martinelli for ESR.

 

[Sebastes]

Don't underestimate even without defenders they make Chelsea work too hard for thier win. Be professional not because they have tough europa fixture and no center backs mean automatic win.

Only changes I'll make for this Tomi for Cedric and maybe Martinelli for ESR.

Don't like changing a winning team but can get behind this. Martinelli had a great game vs West Ham last time. Gave Coufal a hard and has the advantage on him

 

[ThisFather]

How the tables turn in two weeks. I thought we had no chance at 4th with our run of fixtures compared to Sp**s. Now we actually have the easier fixtures left instead. As long as Liverpool beat them and we beat West Ham then we should be cruising.

But then again, its never straightforward with us.