Gooner Podcast 152 now online

Recorded on Wednesday evening

13 January, 2017 9:00

Kevin Whitcher 11 comments

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Gooner Podcast number 152, sponsored by goonershirts.com is now online.

Recorded: Wednesday 11th January 2016

Topics Include -
Is the back four good enough to win the title or the Champions League?
Does it really matter to players signing new contracts who the manager is going to be?
Which player left the panel most heartbroken/furious when they left Arsenal?
‬‬ Will selling Zelalem to Dortmund prove a mistake?
Hopes for the tie against Bayern Munich.
Have Perez & Giroud played themselves into the starting XI?
Is Welbeck preferable to the Ox or Iwobi wide left?
Is there such a thing as ‘The Arsenal Way’?
Arsenal’s away record against the other teams in the top six.
Of the ‘big six’. Who will miss out on the top four this season?

Panel:
Mike Francis (Twitter@MikeFrancis04)
Mark Leech (Twitter@Len_Scap)
Steve (The Highbury Spy) Ashford
Host: Kevin Whitcher (Twitter@KevinWhitcher01)

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Ian
Jan 16, 2017, 8:08 #97037

Highbury Spy as bonkers as ever.He thinks Chambers is a good defender then says Holding is a great player.Remember the Spy was Gervinho's biggest fan!!!
Rob
Jan 15, 2017, 16:28 #97017

I'm not sure I'm over that Luton final defeat even to this day John! Every time I land at that airport it's a reminder
Time for change
Jan 15, 2017, 10:10 #97004

Interesting podcast. Away matches againsthe the top six. Last season Arsenal 5 points out of 18, finished 2nd. Season 2008/9 Man United, 3 points out of 19, finished 1st. Conclusion?
JOHN F
Jan 15, 2017, 8:26 #97001

If you go on the forum link on top on the page on the terrace/Arsenal thanks for the memories the lads on there have put together some great clips of Arsenal in the past.The opening clips of the Rocky memorial show what George Graham's side was all about.
John F
Jan 14, 2017, 23:23 #96997

Good shout on schwarz and Marwood Rob good players and Limpar as well.As for Martin Hayes never was entirely convinced by him although he did show a lot of promise at the beginning.In hindsight with the goal tally you mentioned for someone who was often used on the wing perhaps I misjudged him.Probally i never got over the miss against Luton in the final.
Rob
Jan 14, 2017, 13:35 #96981

Talbot may have been a bit limited John but so were the teams he played in(!) and his wholeheartedness would be more than welcome even these days. I was also thinking about Martin Hayes..one great season where he scored around 24/26 goals (albeit half of them pens oddly) and was then bundled off to Celtic for (the then) considerable sum of 600,000 but his career just seemed to disintegrate to nothing. Anybody have any thoughts or insight as to why George saw fit to shunt off a guy who seemed to have enormous potential and goalscoring ability? Stefan Schwarz played one great season and was the player we all hope Xhaka will become before his missus became homesick and he departed. Strangely he turned up later at Sunderland..presumably with a different wife. Brian Marwood was one of the best players during the GG period but was also pushed out the door far too early and with him went Alan Smith's supply line.
John F
Jan 14, 2017, 10:44 #96970

I forgot about Viv Rob and I remember feeling the same.As you say he was very popular.Brian Talbot a whole hearted player but I felt he was a bit limited and wasn't too upset at his departure.Van Persie in more modern times mainly because he was injured so often then had one good season and left .Like Brady's departure we have never really replaced him.
Rob
Jan 14, 2017, 9:26 #96967

After a bit of head scratching I realised that the player departure that most disappointed me was Viv Anderson. Back when I was a teenager in the early 80s and first started going to Highbury Viv was a great right back, a very popular figure with the fans and one day when i got a couple of days work carpet fitting up in Manchester I saw in the Sun that ManU were buying him for a quarter of a million. I immediately thought it was simply the northern version of the paper dreaming up some fictional story about the local club buying someone but to my dismay it went ahead. He was a big character on and off the pitch to lose and it showed that we couldn't compete with ManU if a current international could be poached from us by them. In my earliest Highbury days I used to stand next to a smallish guy in a dog turd brown leather jacket who spent the whole of the season after Talbot's departure constantly shouting "BRING BACK BRIAN TALBOT". Definitely BT was let go too early and was missed
Rob
Jan 13, 2017, 22:32 #96965

Great one guys. As always.
John F
Jan 13, 2017, 22:10 #96963

Enjoyed listening Kev ,it was a bit depressing that the panel believe as I do that very little defensive coaching is going on.The player leaving causing the most heartbreak/bitterness,I agree about Liam Brady and Frank Stapleton.Brady was my idol at the time and when he went I just knew that would be the start of a long decline .Another one of my heroes Stapleton going to Man Utd left a young man like me feeling betrayed.The hostile reception he got on his return as mentioned was the most abuse I have ever heard a former player recieve from Arsenal fans.Adebayor 's at city was mild in comparison.
Time for change
Jan 13, 2017, 21:56 #96962

In the 1998/99 season Man United gained two points out of nine against the other top four teams but won't the league. It'seems NOT vital.