Gøöner Phil

Heart of gold, nerves of steel, knob of butter.. & Gooner til I die! I shook Dennis Bergkamp's hand & Charlie George laughed at my trousers.

[REDaction Gooners @REDactionAFC]

Tifo idea submitted for Coventry opening fixture :

Giant image of Arteta holding the bloody, severed heads of Pep & Slot in each hand, accompanied with the text ‘’WHO’S NEXT??”

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

Boom Xhaka!

[Mel loves football @melt77]

Watching this England defence after being used to Arsenal’s back line is hard work 😩

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

Well done England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

Sixty million down the drain….🎶
#Kai

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

@RileyTravels @OnsOranje @Shareee 🤞

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

David Bowie’s “Golden Years” in A KNIGHT’S TALE (2001) is the moment the movie fully commits to its own insanity. A medieval dance set to Bowie should be ridiculous. Instead, it’s one of the film’s most charming scenes.

[Hillsy @Hillsygooner]

Horrible to see that Christian Eriksen has collapsed on a football field again. I wish him a full and speedy recovery. 🔴⚪️❤️

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

On June 6, 1944, the Germans knew one thing for certain: to invade France, the Allies needed a port.

So they fortified every port on the French coast. Cherbourg. Calais. Boulogne. Turned them into fortresses. Poured millions of tons of concrete into the Atlantic Wall.

The Allies simply decided to bring their own port with them.

This is the story of the Mulberry Harbours, and it might be the single most audacious engineering feat in military history.

The problem was simple and brutal. You cannot sustain an invasion army of millions of men on landing craft alone. You need docks. Cranes. Piers. The infrastructure to pour supplies ashore by the thousands of tons every single day. Without a working port, any beachhead would eventually starve and collapse.

The Germans knew this. Their entire coastal defense strategy was built on it.

What they never imagined was that the Allies would build two fully functioning deep-water harbors in Britain, dismantle them into pieces, tow them across the English Channel, and reassemble them off the beaches of Normandy.

Starting in December 1943, 37,000 workers across Britain began secretly manufacturing the components. The project was so large it strained the entire British economy. 146 massive concrete caissons called Phoenixes, each one 60 metres long and 18 metres tall. Miles of floating steel roadways. Pontoon bridges. Breakwaters. Pier heads. Enough material to build a small city.

They built dry docks in the Thames and Clyde rivers just to construct the caissons. 1.5 million yards of steel shuttering. 31,000 tons of steel. Workers had no idea what they were building or why.

When D-Day came, tugboats began towing the pieces across the Channel at just 8 kilometres per hour. Hundreds of individual components, each one a logistical nightmare to move, crossing open water in the wake of the largest invasion fleet ever assembled.

Within 12 days, two working harbours stood off the Normandy coast. Mulberry A at Omaha Beach for the Americans. Mulberry B at Arromanches for the British and Canadians.

Then, on June 19, the worst storm to hit the Normandy coast in 40 years tore through the Channel.

For three days the storm raged. When it cleared, Mulberry A at Omaha was gone. 21 of 28 caissons completely destroyed. The piers smashed. The roadways scattered. The Americans scrapped it entirely and cannibalized the wreckage to repair the British harbor.

Mulberry B at Arromanches survived, barely, because of its slightly more sheltered position.

That one surviving harbor then proceeded to supply the entire Allied liberation of Western Europe.

2.5 million men. 500,000 vehicles. 4 million tons of supplies. All landed through an artificial harbor that was designed, built, floated, towed across the Channel, and assembled in secret, in less than six months.

After the war, Nazi armaments minister Albert Speer put it plainly.

Germany had spent 13 million cubic tonnes of concrete and 1.5 million tons of steel building the Atlantic Wall to deny the Allies a port.

"A fortnight after the landings," Speer said, "this costly effort was brought to nought by an idea of simple genius."

They built their own port.

And they brought it with them.

[🚨The Celebration Police🚨 @PLCPolice]

Feels like time to call it a day on this account, so this will be my final post.

I started this piss-taking Celebration Police thing 4 years ago and it’s genuinely been great fun. Unexpectedly so.

Through this account, I’ve met and engaged with some brilliant people, built a 55k following, made a bit of money and, for the most part, enjoyed my time here.

But let’s be honest: the joke wore thin a long time ago. And i’m bored of this platform and the increasingly repetitive, shit banter that fills it.

And Arsenal have won the league, so who gives a fuck about weirdos telling you when you can or can’t be happy about the football team you invest so much of yourself in😂

Policing celebrations is about as lame as it gets. It really is😂👎🏻

So thank you for all the support over the years, each and every one of you, and for engaging with The Celebration Police. You’ve been brilliant❤️

So for one last time…

ALL UNITS TO THE EMIRATES!!! 🚨🚨🚨

Chiefo x
#COYG

[Gooner Chris @ArsenalN7]

🗣️ Thierry Henry: “This is not failure. This is a great season for Arsenal Football Club.” ❤️

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

And breathe….
… we will dominate Europe!!

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Premier League champions, and within touching distance of European glory.

A season we can be immensely proud of.

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

Home soon.

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

43 bus from London Bridge.
Top deck, front seat, driver’s side.
Who’s the Daddy!
COYG!

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

It’s written in the stars. We’ll do this!
COYG!

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

Mind my car….!

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

@eamonnbd Unchanged

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

@martinehami Good luck Martine, hope you find somewhere.

[Gøöner Phil @Gooner_Phil]

Very jealous of all of the fans in Budapest but I’ll be heading to the Emirates soon & can’t wait to feel the energy at the screening. See you all there!
Feeling very confident!
COYG!