Unfortunately I don't think I will live to the age of 638.
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Nope. We were shite yesterday. We were also shite against Southampton.
Unless the theory includes our own players playing like spastics, I'm not having it.
And getting food poisoning from dodgy lasagne is precisely "one of those things". Happens to folk all the time, just shit luck it happened to us.
Unless the theory includes our own players playing like spastics, I'm not having it.
And getting food poisoning from dodgy lasagne is precisely "one of those things". Happens to folk all the time, just shit luck it happened to us.
I know peoplt will jump on this as a wild conspiracy theory. But is it possible there has been some agreement between various parties that ensures Woolwich must finish above Spurs each season. It does seem quite bizaar that 2 clubs of similar size and stature forever finish up in the same order. There is no comparison between other major rivals in football. Liverpool/Everton, Utd /City, Real/atletico. The list is endless. But most intriguing are the circumstances that seem to unfold season after season. Lasagnagate, the players go down with food poisoning in the last day. We lose Woolwich win. A few years later we get Fulopgate. We need to better there result. Inexplicably Roy Dodgson hands Martin Fulop his first appearance of the season. He then proceeds to effectively throw three in the net as Woolwich squeak through 3-2. A couple of years later we face Sunderland at home while they go to Newcastle. Again we need to better their result. Every decision goes against us until news filters through that Woolwich have scored. Bale scores a screamer at the end but its to no avail. Yesterday, as it starts to look like we could get the result we need, the referee gives the most shocking penalty decision of the season and our fate is sealed once again. Of course it may just be bad luck and Spursy. But in some ways that seems even more outlandish than it being somehow fixed against us. I'm the last person to be fooled by wild conspiracy theories, but somehow this don't sit right with me
It'll just make our day in the sun, whenever that'll be, even more sweet.
Don't think there was any rule when it happened to us......but like a lot of these things once we've been fucked over in a completely unbelievable set of circumstances they create a rule after so it never happens again.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's a "no team can play on three consecutive Monday nights rule" in place for next season.
I asked my Gooner mate why he wasn't gloating as I'd expected him to. He said basically what you've said. They are in no man's land with Wenger. Our young squad will learn from this unhappy episode & we are going to strengthen in areas where we are weaker. I'm hoping they don't forget yesterday's match in a hurry & it gives them a little kick up the arse whenever their heads start to drop. Disappointment today should drive them on to be successful. I also hope Poch gave them a proper roasting.
We're authors of our own fate - the whole bollocks of getting some kid out on the pitch at half time against Southampton sums up our mindset.
Getting photos with the subs and then guess what.....we gift them the game because we're in 'charity' mode.
We need to decide if we are a football team or a community centre - the two don't go hand in hand.
Before everyone pipes up I'm fully aware this is a cuntish view, I'm fucking hungover and fed up of us being nice, I don't want us to be nice - I want to win.
Getting photos with the subs and then guess what.....we gift them the game because we're in 'charity' mode.
We need to decide if we are a football team or a community centre - the two don't go hand in hand.
Before everyone pipes up I'm fully aware this is a cuntish view, I'm fucking hungover and fed up of us being nice, I don't want us to be nice - I want to win.
No, it's not a fix. I'll take comfort in the fact that even though Woolwich far outspend us every season it's getting later in the year every time they finish above us. It's the first time (that I can recall) that we've been ahead on the final day. I've also spent the majority of the season being pleased with my team and the football they're producing - in contrast to every Woolwich fan I know, who have spent most of the year being miserable and moaning about Wenger.
Lasagnegate was the only option for me. That on the other hand had glaring sympthoms of corruption about it:
- Food poisoning effectively hitting an entire team: never before, never since in league history. Ever.
- Timing: Would have lifted the at the time fittest non-top-4 team into the top 4 and broken the "SKY 4" monopoly on CL revenue, at a time where it was decisive for succes (TV revenues relatively smaller).
- Timing, part deux: Would have hit a leading "SKY 4" team extremely hard, at a time where they were to move into a new ground and pay off the deficits - and where key players were peaking, plateauing og slightly descending even.
- Formalities: The decision to not delay the game was effectively taken in the ground of the team, which would benefit so very much by the very decision.
- Narrative: The entire media treated the event with utter ridicule, studio pundits glossing it over with "typical spurs" suggestions and outright denying, that any foul play could possibly be in motion; even if it was just a lone wolf employee at the hotel with no participation in any conspiracy. Afterwards there was a blank, complete lack of public debate regarding the formalities. It wasn't even a bias. It was a consensus.
bollocks. England cheated their way to a win in 1966.
The bought refs allowed Pele to be hacked to fuck and the italians to get done by Korea
then the greasy corrupt cunt in the final allowed a goal when the ball hadn't crossed the line and a goal to be scored when horrible english hooligans had spilled onto the pitch. It was only the hard, fair work of the Germans in the face of such adversity that took the game to extra time.
4 years later and despite allowing the thief bobby moore to play, england moaned when the germans knocked them out fair and square, refusing to acknowledge that they'd lost to a better side and instead blamed it on the only player in their team with a slightly foreign name. Ealrier they got hammered 1-0 by Brazil - but instead of praising the genius in that brazil side all that any england fan, or the english media go on about is a tackle by the light-fingered bobby moore.
I could go on if anyone is interested...
The bought refs allowed Pele to be hacked to fuck and the italians to get done by Korea
then the greasy corrupt cunt in the final allowed a goal when the ball hadn't crossed the line and a goal to be scored when horrible english hooligans had spilled onto the pitch. It was only the hard, fair work of the Germans in the face of such adversity that took the game to extra time.
4 years later and despite allowing the thief bobby moore to play, england moaned when the germans knocked them out fair and square, refusing to acknowledge that they'd lost to a better side and instead blamed it on the only player in their team with a slightly foreign name. Ealrier they got hammered 1-0 by Brazil - but instead of praising the genius in that brazil side all that any england fan, or the english media go on about is a tackle by the light-fingered bobby moore.
I could go on if anyone is interested...
There's no denying that we have an ever extending list of inexplicable circumstances that always seem to conspire against us.
You missed the Mendes goal off the list which would have made the difference in us finishing top 4 that season.
I had started to think this season was a sign of change which makes it all the more gutting that the same old shit happened to us again.
I don't believe there is a conspiracy (with the exception of lasagne gate which I do genuinely believe was a fix) ....actually come to think of it even more so considering there was no way we could postpone that game yet utds has been moved due to them being too retarded to remove training equipment from their stadium!
You missed the Mendes goal off the list which would have made the difference in us finishing top 4 that season.
I had started to think this season was a sign of change which makes it all the more gutting that the same old shit happened to us again.
I don't believe there is a conspiracy (with the exception of lasagne gate which I do genuinely believe was a fix) ....actually come to think of it even more so considering there was no way we could postpone that game yet utds has been moved due to them being too retarded to remove training equipment from their stadium!
If we had the extra 2 points from that game we'd have finished 5th to woolwich on GD.
There's no fucking conspiracy.
The club just needs a mental makeover.
Hopefully the expansion of the stadium will get proper winner's mentality fans inside instead of all the silent cunts currently residing in it and Pochettino will go tyranical over the summer and fuck those little pansies up for being fucking no shows. More competition plus perhaps shoving some tit like Vertonghen or Walker out might speak volumes. I'd have Eric Dier in the fucking reserves too.
The club just needs a mental makeover.
Hopefully the expansion of the stadium will get proper winner's mentality fans inside instead of all the silent cunts currently residing in it and Pochettino will go tyranical over the summer and fuck those little pansies up for being fucking no shows. More competition plus perhaps shoving some tit like Vertonghen or Walker out might speak volumes. I'd have Eric Dier in the fucking reserves too.
Woolwich always seem to perform when they have no pressure. But any time they top the league and get all the media attention as potential title winners, they choke.
In reality they only went on a run in the last few games when the title was gone and they had very little to play for-I dont think they even thought they would finish 2nd...They also have to be the worst runners up ever in the history of the prem-they never even put in a title challlenge.
I dont think there is any chance of a conspiracy here-unfortunately the one thing the scum do have is the mental edge over finishing above us but seriously, if they are happy with their season and pipping us to 2nd, that says a lot about them. I would agree with Poch-we should focus on ourselves, winning trophies and not worry what those c*nts down the road are doing - we have gone forwards and they are going backwards (yes, in this case the table does lie...)
In reality they only went on a run in the last few games when the title was gone and they had very little to play for-I dont think they even thought they would finish 2nd...They also have to be the worst runners up ever in the history of the prem-they never even put in a title challlenge.
I dont think there is any chance of a conspiracy here-unfortunately the one thing the scum do have is the mental edge over finishing above us but seriously, if they are happy with their season and pipping us to 2nd, that says a lot about them. I would agree with Poch-we should focus on ourselves, winning trophies and not worry what those c*nts down the road are doing - we have gone forwards and they are going backwards (yes, in this case the table does lie...)