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New Issue of The Gooner on sale this evening… if the game goes ahead

It’ll be so chilly for our sellers, we won’t be complaining if it’s postponed

1 March, 2018 12:34 32 comments
New Issue of The Gooner on sale this evening… if the game goes ahead

Front and back covers of the new issue

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So first up the weather. No doubt the pitch will be fine, and Arsenal will make every effort to ensure the aisles inside and the approaches to the stadium on their land are fully gritted, but there are three factors that may lead to postponement…

1 – The safety of the streets around the stadium
2 – Difficulties with the transport system in London and between London and Manchester
3 – More snowfall today

The odds on the game being postponed – 1/5 on yesterday from Paddy Power, changed yesterday to 15/8 on a postponement. I suspect down to a lot of punters thinking 3-1 on the game going ahead was a very decent gamble, and also the fact that the Spurs v Rochdale FA Cup replay went ahead at Wembley last night.

Anyway, as I write shortly before 12 noon, there is no announcement of a postponement as yet, the snow seems to have stopped falling, and Manchester City are on the train south, so it appears as if the game is going ahead. I have to confess that I would have been quite happy for it to have been delayed until the Sunday of the FA Cup quarter final weekend – for two reasons –

1 – The crowd tonight will be very low because of both the weather and lack of interest following recent performances
2 – It’s bloody cold for our sellers to be out there on the streets for an hour plus shifting copies!

Which brings us onto the new issue which will be on sale given there is no indication that the game will be off. First up, due to a late delivery, subscribers’ copies will be in the post tomorrow. And those that get their copies via e-edition will also get that tomorrow.

Next up, the issue has a decent mix of current and nostalgic content, so if you haven’t bought a copy for a while, give it a try. In every single issue there will be a flyer loosely inserted with details of the campaign to Save The Gooner next season. I spoke to Robbie at Arsenal Fan TV last night and we are going to do an interview about the fanzine in the lead up to the home game v Milan to increase awareness even more. Full details of the contents can be found here.

To buy a copy of the new issue online (which will be despatched tomorrow, Friday), click here. Subscription options (including committing for next season to help us reach our target of 1000) can be viewed here.

To finish, we’re running an ad in the issue for FansBet, an online gambling company with a bit of a difference. Here’s what they have to say to our readers…

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So there you have it. Support your fanzine and help our sellers keep warm by buying a copy tonight, assuming the game goes ahead!

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  1. mbg

    Mar 02, 2018, 18:07 #107601

    You'd think with all his talk of honour especially with his time in Japan the culture, and speaking the language and all that, he'd know all about honour an do the honourable thing. Resign now wenger you loser.

  2. Babu

    Mar 02, 2018, 11:57 #107573

    As for the game...and the manager...and the team...well, The Arsenal that I knew and loved is no more. Highbury is a memory, as is the crest and VCC. I have moved on. That team playing in that stadium is not high on my list of priorities anymore. When the Board sold out and Wenger got unlimited power and a new home/team that he could construct in his own image the result was inevitable. The only hope for the Club niow is that Wenger is sacked. If he is allowed to move upstairs in some role then the cancer will eventually kill even this hideous mutation of The Arsenal. If the cancer is removed and does not return there is the possibility that The Arsenal can rebuild and rise from this stagnation and challenge the other 2 Clubs in London. If Wenger stays we will be stuck as the 3rd Club in London, a notion that was laughable when Wenger joined in 1996.

  3. MAF

    Mar 02, 2018, 11:15 #107571

    selfish, scheming, political, narcissistic, tricky, frenchman who cares nothing for this Club + its fans. he has become a Cancer that has to be removed quickly to save the Club and begin the healing. When Monaco offered the Silver Dollar he went there; Japan came calling he went there; London he went there. Little did any of us realise all along his real personality/deep love of Money/wealth ahead of Sport. I really do not like this man at all anymore and i cry for our Club. but April 10 Deadline i will again buy our 4 seats out of love for the Club and praying for change

  4. Babu

    Mar 02, 2018, 10:07 #107570

    Badarse aka Cannon Balls aka Jeff Wright = Randy Marsh, South Park... FACT

  5. Hi Berry

    Mar 02, 2018, 9:44 #107569

    Well, it seems like all those pundits and experts who up until quite recently were adamant that Wenger was the right man to take Arsenal forward have suddenly changed their opinions. Jamie Carragher, Martin Keown, John Cross...we all know who they are. Strange they couldn't see the sad and slow decline coming as per any number of posters on this and other sites stretching back over so many years....and guess what? - we haven't worked a day in football! Give yourself a pat on the back men.

  6. Babu

    Mar 02, 2018, 9:36 #107568

    Badarse, Badarse, Badarse. How did it come to this, eh Jeff. I "met" you 2005ish, on the SG Forum. A "little englander", living exiled from his childhood team, in far-away Lytham St. Annes, with your lovely wife. "Lovely wife?" Yes, remember when DejaVu "hacked" your photobucket account and posted pics. of yourself in your duffel-coat on the web? Hilarious? Ahhh, those far-off days, when Exiled, Harlow and Daz used to hand you your arse on a plate every day. Great times! Remember when you couldn't believe that Daz on the forum was a "real" Author, so you phoned up his Press Officer to check? And that was the problem, wasn't it? There were word-smiths on the other forum whose posts were a joy to read... not just for their content, but for the way they were written. You tried to emulate them, but failed miserably, save for one line that stuck... "The Lane that Time Forgot" You probably copied and pasted it from another article, but your description of WHL at that time hit a chord, and other forumites praised you for those 5 words. You changed it slightly over the years...adding "where the future is always under construction", etc., etc. but that was that. Your only "positive " input. The rest of your 30,799 posts on the forum were...well, very like on here...just the ramblings of a lonely old man with a lot of time on his hands who wants to be accepted, but has no social skills at all. Over the years there have been hundreds of accounts of "someone" you met in a pub who you disagreed with and who you then told...in no uncertain terms...why they were wrong. You never saw them again! I remember your stories of trips to "turkey" on your Holidays, singing songs at the Krauts about " 2 World Wars and 1 World Cup". I sided with you on this one, as I too, am a bit of a racist. Are the germans a race? Well, probably not. So Xenophobic, not racist. You obviously supported The Arsenal in your childhood, when you were living in/near London, and may even have gone to the occasional game, but Arsenal supporter? No, you like the internet. You found The Steve Gleiber Forum in 2005 and then became an internet person. It was new, different. You could interact with people, fall out with them, as you invariably did, and then insult them for months/years on end, with no come-back. You lost every single argument that you EVER had on the SG Forum, from subjects about The Smiths, to Sophistry, to the location of different roads in London...the list is varied and almost endless. The only reason that I tolerated your presence was that you too, were Anti-Wenger. In FACT you were probably the first person on the Forum to call for Wenger's head. Another "character" on the old forum...US MARTIN...yes, that one...was posting his rantings about the Board/Bored at that time, and he was right! The Board sold us out! And you were right too! Wenger Out! So why are you not a "wenger out" now? Well, it's obvious to me now. It took a whole lot of self-examination from me, but I watched South Park Season 20 all the way through on one of my drug-filled weekends without football, and realised that I, like you, am an Internet Troll. Yes, there is no doubt. You are a troll. No shame in that, if you can admit it. You serve a purpose. Although probably you trolling on the comments section here has made it a bit unpleasant for the other posters here, but hey ho! They can always scroll past. Just one thing...why don't you go to the Online Gooner Forum and post on there? There are many topics...films, politics, etc., and you could troll/post on there to your heart's content. I know there are different threads, and it's a bit complicated, but give it a go. But of course with multiple threads it is also easy to ignore you, or just not read your views about anything non-Arsenal related, which is not what you want. What you desire is to be "Top Dog" on a forum, the poster that people are waiting for. When you're gone you want people to ask where you are, waiting for another educating and life-changing article, filled with hilarious word-play, etc. What they get is the nonsensical ramblings of a mad man. Well, not even a madman, just a sad old git who had no social skills and who, as his life slowly ends, is reduced to shouting abuse on an internet message board as everyone who you have ever met in your "real" life thinks you're an idiot.

  7. TonyEvans

    Mar 02, 2018, 8:45 #107567

    Desperate times. For heavens sake someone do something!

  8. mbg

    Mar 02, 2018, 0:15 #107565

    Listening to the walking skeleton standing there post match after another humiliation shaking talking meaningless s***e it's plain to be seen he knows his time is up. Go now you meaningless old man.

  9. Hi Berry

    Mar 01, 2018, 23:11 #107564

    My thirteen year old daughter cracked a spontaneous funny at half-time....when the Sky commentator asked what Wenger could say to his players during the break she said 'Goodbye'?

  10. Paulward

    Mar 01, 2018, 22:33 #107562

    Will surely be confirmed that he is leaving once we have been eliminated by Milan. Won’t be another full house at Emirates till he has gone.

  11. mbg

    Mar 01, 2018, 22:24 #107561

    The skinny c**t is out making excuses with his looooks, this looks that, talking fluent gobbledegook resign now you useless f*****g sad old man. wenger out now.

  12. mbg

    Mar 01, 2018, 22:11 #107560

    So the old fraud has locked himself and the players in the dressing room, why ? what ****ing good is that going to do ? lets hope he's resigning and saying his goodbyes, what a useless good for nothing ****. Go now wenger, your a ****ing waste of fresh air..

  13. Paulo75

    Mar 01, 2018, 21:50 #107559

    Not going to rant as the end game is nigh. Just interesting to hear City players post match saying how Guardiola demands5 them all in training and matches to push themselves to the maximum. Conversely the jokers at Arsenal turn in mediocre performances continuously but know they will be in the team the following week. The culture is rotten and there’s only one cure - Manager and failed players have to go.

  14. Paulward

    Mar 01, 2018, 21:47 #107558

    Starting to wonder if he’ll even see the season out, we can’t go on like this for much longer surely.

  15. Arseneknewbest

    Mar 01, 2018, 21:46 #107557

    Turd polisher extraordinaire Graham Perry will be on here soon to say we deserve a point for drawing the second half. Message to Josh Kroenke - when you call daddy tonight to tell him all about your day, don't forget to mention the result. I rather enjoyed that game for the first time in ages.

  16. PaulMersonlalala

    Mar 01, 2018, 21:35 #107556

    58,420. Close. We are just not plausible in any way are we?

  17. John F

    Mar 01, 2018, 21:34 #107555

    That's City 9 Arsenal 1 on aggregate this season.

  18. Goonhogday

    Mar 01, 2018, 21:28 #107554

    The remaining fans should walk out now.

  19. Arseneknewbest

    Mar 01, 2018, 21:26 #107553

    I'd just like citeh to make it four as visible evidence that things have got even worse since Sunday. 7 infamous days on the club's downwards spiralling history.

  20. PaulMersonlalala

    Mar 01, 2018, 21:21 #107552

    Wait for it, "Tonight's attendance, 59,949" please someone make it stop

  21. John F

    Mar 01, 2018, 21:14 #107551

    Pep half time talk,"look boys take it easy otherwise Wenger will get sacked and we might have to deal with someone who knows what he is doing next season"."think to the future boys".

  22. Ebor Gooner

    Mar 01, 2018, 20:44 #107549

    Texts from non Arsenal supporting mates - offering sympathy and condolences. That's what Wenger has reduced us fans to. Objects of pity. I don't expect to win any game. I do expect us to turn up, compete, and at least look as though the players care. TDOF has clearly been out of his depth for years. The only remaining question has to be how low will the club be allowed to reach, before somebody has the guts to rid us of Wenger (I can't see him leaving voluntarily).

  23. MAF

    Mar 01, 2018, 20:44 #107548

    Emergency - can someone please dial 999 and make it stop..

  24. Arseneknewbest

    Mar 01, 2018, 20:32 #107547

    As de la soul once said.....three is a magic number. Talking of magic, let's all make a wish and hope wengo disappears tonight in a puff of sulphurous smoke. Wonder what the odds would be on that?

  25. Petergooner

    Mar 01, 2018, 20:23 #107546

    Paulward you are so right and it is only the 30th minute and it is 3-0. The only hammer that needs to be done is into our managers head because he has no thoughts. I hope all fans leave at half time when we are probably 5-0 down.

  26. Arseneknewbest

    Mar 01, 2018, 20:22 #107545

    0-2 and the booing has started. Good. I can only imagine and enjoy the old b*stard's anguish and embarrassment. Cmon city, let's have a few more.

  27. Paulward

    Mar 01, 2018, 19:32 #107544

    Can only see another hammering, and quite happy that I am on my settee and not in my seat at the ground. Could not even get rid of it on the ticket exchange as the game is not a sell out. Says it all about how far we have fallen really . Don’t think I missed more than a couple of home league games in the first 8 years at Emirates, have skipped half a dozen already since last season started to go pear shaped.

  28. Redshirtwhitesleeves

    Mar 01, 2018, 18:53 #107543

    I'm glad the game is going ahead and I hope we get slaughtered by city again and that the atmosphere in the ground (haha!!) is as toxic as possible. Anything that might push the old git towards the exit door....

  29. mbg

    Mar 01, 2018, 18:32 #107542

    Maybe City will take pity on us tonight, but whatever the out come whatever the score wenger the weasel out the door. We want wenger out tonight.

  30. Arseneknewbest

    Mar 01, 2018, 17:21 #107541

    Mbg - Hiya mate. I go for your second option. Another convincing loss to citeh in 4 days can only increase the speculation and pressure on our chihuahua faced former manager. I'd also like to see the players' heads to go down quicker than eastender cathy's did when her poor old hubby had a tummy ache in his range rover, and for some lengthy booing - a la ostersunds - which will be just the ticket. And G Perry will probably soil his bright red children's entertainer strides. A win-win such as I describe from a heavy defeat is the best outcome.

  31. jwe1981

    Mar 01, 2018, 15:33 #107538

    It seems to me that more and more this whole website is nothing more than one big ad for various different gambling companies. Most of the 'articles' are nothing more than a link to one bookmaker or another. I guess you are going the same way as the clubs themselves, selling their souls to companies who offer them the most money. Who cares if it breeds yet more gambling addicts along the way hey guys!

  32. mbg

    Mar 01, 2018, 14:47 #107535

    I don't think anyone will be disappointed if it's postponed Kevin (especially the old weasel himself) we're fed up with embarrassments and humiliations and being laughed at, or there again the more that comes along the merrier as it will be another blow to TOF's ego and another nail in his coffin. wenger out tonight.