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@laythy29 Took you up on your recommendation and visited the Hardy John’s Bar on our last day here. Wonderful warm welcome and great value food. Cheers 🍻🇨🇦
Me parece una barbaridad que ayer perdiera el Arsenal y hubiera peña diciendo que el PSG ha “salvado al fútbol”.
El PSG representa lo siguiente:
- El ejemplo perfecto de Club Estado.
- Juegan sin Fair Play Financiero que les regule.
- Controlan la UEFA.
- Calendario nacional hecho a medida.
- Sus futbolistas pueden jugar la mitad de minutos que el resto de los equipos.
- Comité arbitral europeo a su favor.
- Afición mugrienta y delincuente.
PSA: I found quite an expensive digital camera in an electric bike basket today at the Arsenal Parade. Will return if you can describe what camera it is and recent pics. I want to give it back to the owner!!! PLEASE SHARE
It is my understanding, there is a seriously confident expectation now for a decision on the Man City 115 case to be delivered in the coming weeks ( sometime in the summer latest )
All Premier League clubs await official communication.
The last week has been incredible and I’ve loved all the celebrations and all of the content - but I’m already hungry for more. Saturday is not a bonus - it is a must. An opportunity to win our first European Cup. Need to carry this energy and momentum all the way to Budapest.
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Louis Dunford — the man who wrote Arsenal’s club anthem, “The Angel” or “North London Forever” as you may choose to call it.
Dunford wrote the angel the song to honour his North London roots as he’s from Islington but that song resonated with Arsenal’s fanbase. It’s become an important part of today’s story.
In the buildup to the Leeds game in the 21/22 season, he was having a drink with his mates and he made a tweet about Arsenal playing the song at the Emirates. Arsenal fans saw that tweet and gave it wings.
“We were sat in the pub and my mate was going to me, “They’ve got to
play it at the Emirates,”’ Dunford told Charles Watts in an interview.
“So, as a genuine joke, I tagged Arsenal on Twitter and said “Play ‘The
Angel’. The people want it.” I was just thinking that my small following of
Twitter fans would think it was funny. And then, the next day, I woke up
and it had exploded overnight. I had over 1,000 retweets. I couldn’t
understand what had happened. Over the next couple of days I went from
having 2,000 followers to 10,000, then 15,000, then 30,000. I was like,
“Fucking hell, all this over a drunk joke!”’
The song came in at a time when Mikel Arteta was searching for things to help strengthen the connection between Arsenal fans and the club. The song was too good to miss.
Arteta played it to the players on the training ground. Dunford was invited to London Colney. He met the players and sat in the Director’s box in the Leeds game.
Dunford’s song wasn’t the first one tried as an anthem, but his song stood out, connected with the fanbase and told a story.
I wasn’t born in North London and there’s no time I listen to the whole song and don’t feel a genuine connection.
It’s the power of place, people, and genuine talent.
That was how Dunford became a permanent mention in Arsenal’s folklore.
A drunken tweet, a beautiful song, a fanbase that craved a higher purpose, and a club on its way back up.
Today, these streets are our own.
A special shout out to Jamie O’Hara, Shay Given, Peter Schmeichel, Joe Hart, Gabby Agbonlahor, Chris Sutton, Gary Neville, that midget Rory div, and the dozens of others I’ve forgotten - all of whom have been doing their absolute bollocks the past few months, willing and praying hard for Man City to win the league.
Get fucked, all of you.
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.