Maltshoveller Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Shaun Taylor said: I think you may be OK as they won't know where the top flight is They were in the top flight of NON League a few seasons ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Leveller said: “5th in line”? In what sense? They’re certainly a club with a great history, but don’t belong in the top half at the moment. As “big clubs” currently go, I’d say they’re behind the Manchester clubs, the Liverpool clubs, Chelsea, Tottenham and probably Leicester, with Villa coming up very close in the rear view mirror. In the sense of budget and financial clout. As you say though they're way behind those clubs you list in terms of football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Marco the red said: Too see arsenal get relegated would be a thing of beauty - won't happen though Arsenal are the only English football club never to be relegated and that won’t happen this season either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 minute ago, Robbored said: Arsenal are the only English football club never to be relegated and that won’t happen this season either. They literally got relegated in 1912/13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said: They literally got relegated in 1912/13. I wasn’t around then, neither were my parents…………. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Just now, Robbored said: I wasn’t around then, neither were my parents…………. Hang on. Are you saying that unless you or your immediate kin were alive then something didn't happen? Is the Titanic still afloat as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 27 minutes ago, Robbored said: Arsenal are the only English football club never to be relegated and that won’t happen this season either. No, they aren't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, MarcusX said: No, they aren't What I should have posted is that Arsenal are longest serving club in the top division of English football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 44 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said: Hang on. Are you saying that unless you or your immediate kin were alive then something didn't happen? Is the Titanic still afloat as well? Unless and until the OS confirms its sinking , then as far as RR is concerned, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 3 minutes ago, downendcity said: Unless and until the OS confirms its sinking , then as far as RR is concerned, yes. And the reason that so few were saved was because of the shocking tannoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 6 minutes ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said: And the reason that so few were saved was because of the shocking tannoy! It was still muffled at the Jacks game. None of us could make out anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, Robbored said: It was still muffled at the Jacks game. None of us could make out anything. I'm pretty sure that Smith, Lightoller, Boxhall and Murdoch were not too fussed about the Swansea match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sglosbcfc Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 21 hours ago, Bristol Rob said: 2 year campaign to get Wenger out as top 4 was shit, fans fighting amongst themselves in the stands.. Wonder how they feel about that now? Spot on, so many fans think that changing the manager is the answer to all their prayers when more often than not it is not the case. Arsenal have gone steadily backwards since easing Wenger out the door. Further proof if it is needed is the Gas, their revolving door of managers has led them to the bottom of the fourth tier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 31 minutes ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said: And the reason that so few were saved was because of the shocking tannoy! ....and that Gary Johnson was in charge of manning the lifeboats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 14 minutes ago, downendcity said: ....and that Gary Johnson was in charge of manning the lifeboats. He summoned the purser to his office, so he could give him a wedgie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Robbored said: What I should have posted is that Arsenal are longest serving club in the top division of English football. But you didn't. Did make I larf though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Chambers + Holding = not good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 3 minutes ago, BigTone said: But you didn't. Did make I larf though. Don't question the all seeing, sagacious oracle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1ackbird Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 3 hours ago, Marco the red said: Too see arsenal get relegated would be a thing of beauty - won't happen though God, imagine that, on TV every week, with the experts fawning over them.. Not that it would affect us as we're going up this season, so take our place Arsenal.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 44 minutes ago, Fordy62 said: Chambers + Holding = not good enough. Kalas + Atkinson > Holding + Chambers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Taylor Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 They should have stayed in South East London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedorDead BCFC Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 At least Sam Allandyce is likely to be employed again soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glynriley Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 7 minutes ago, RedorDead BCFC said: At least Sam Allandyce is likely to be employed again soon. https://news.paddypower.com/football/2021/08/24/breaking-news-arsenal-give-it-to-big-sam-til-end-of-season-arteta/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 hours ago, Robbored said: What I should have posted is that Arsenal are longest serving club in the top division of English football. Nah, what you should have said was that it was The Woolwich Arsenal that got relegated in 1912/13, following voluntary liquidation in 1910 and a takeover by Henry Norris. Then, in the summer of 1913 they upped sticks and moved their franchise away from Woolwich and into the more affluent area of Highbury, which was an area at that time in the catchment area for Tottenham Hotspur. This move was almost solely motivated by money and finances, and they simultaneously dropped the "Woolwich" from their name and became simply "Arsenal". In 1919, after WW1 ended, Arsenal, having finished 6th (later revised to 5th) in the 1914/15 season then managed to negotiate/bribe/cajol their way back into the First Division in the election held to expand that division out to 22 teams. This election was at the expense of Spurs, who had finished bottom of the First Division in 1914/15, but expected that tradition would endure and they would be elected to remain as one of the 2 new teams. Norris saw to it that Arsenal instead replaced them. As an aside, Chelsea were also due to be relegated, having finished 19th in 1914/15, but they were reprieved as they had been the victim of match fixing by Man Utd and Liverpool. Arsenal are therefore not only the longest enduring too flight team, but they are also the only team to have been promoted not by sporting merit, but by dubious electoral methods. What a lovely, famous, truly noble history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 8 hours ago, Red-Robbo said: I have a mate who grew up in Somerset. His parents are Scottish and Cornish, but he used to claim he was a "lifelong Gooner". Obviously, he's died then, as in the last two seasons he seems to have shifted his support to Leicester City. Sums up the plastics. I used to work with a girl who chose a different top flight club to “support” each season! And one World Cup year she actually asked me who I was going to support in the World Cup - you cannot choreograph comedy like that ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hustler Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 46 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said: Nah, what you should have said was that it was The Woolwich Arsenal that got relegated in 1912/13, following voluntary liquidation in 1910 and a takeover by Henry Norris. Then, in the summer of 1913 they upped sticks and moved their franchise away from Woolwich and into the more affluent area of Highbury, which was an area at that time in the catchment area for Tottenham Hotspur. This move was almost solely motivated by money and finances, and they simultaneously dropped the "Woolwich" from their name and became simply "Arsenal". In 1919, after WW1 ended, Arsenal, having finished 6th (later revised to 5th) in the 1914/15 season then managed to negotiate/bribe/cajol their way back into the First Division in the election held to expand that division out to 22 teams. This election was at the expense of Spurs, who had finished bottom of the First Division in 1914/15, but expected that tradition would endure and they would be elected to remain as one of the 2 new teams. Norris saw to it that Arsenal instead replaced them. As an aside, Chelsea were also due to be relegated, having finished 19th in 1914/15, but they were reprieved as they had been the victim of match fixing by Man Utd and Liverpool. Arsenal are therefore not only the longest enduring too flight team, but they are also the only team to have been promoted not by sporting merit, but by dubious electoral methods. What a lovely, famous, truly noble history. Maybe you should look up Bristol City’s ‘truly noble’ history, as of that of many other ‘elected’ top flight clubs at that time, before passing assumption. Many clubs would give their right arm to have the tradition and success of Arsenal. Jealousy is never a good look Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie andrews Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 5 hours ago, Robbored said: What I should have posted is that Arsenal are longest serving club in the top division of English football. Hmmmm everton but cud be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledAjax Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 hour ago, The Hustler said: Maybe you should look up Bristol City’s ‘truly noble’ history, as of that of many other ‘elected’ top flight clubs at that time, before passing assumption. What is it in our history that is comparable to what Arsenal did in 1913 - 19? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy1968 Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 6 hours ago, downendcity said: Unless and until the OS confirms its sinking , then as far as RR is concerned, yes. If he hasn't heard it on the Dolman PA ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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