Alex

Just score them out of 100, since that's what you're effectively doing

Yeah, me too

***** Excellent, do not miss **** Well worth watching *** Flawed but interesting ** Some redeeming features * Absymal Five stars to anyone who remembers where that's from

The Brummie accent is much better suited to moaning though

That Forest game was great, not just because we got into the Champions League and Boro and Sunderland both went down on the last day of the season but also because I'd been at the Forest away match the year before when Ian Woan's equaliser effectively killed off our hopes of winning the league. The piped up straight away with chants of "You've never won fuck all..."

I wasn't saying it was great but it was definitely what I'd call a decent fight until Haye's injury finished it as a contest. Some of the hype surrounding it afterwards has been mental even by boxing standards though.

Robbie Elliott winner

The fact they dress like bairns (probably right down the Arsenal undercrackers and pyjamas set) doesn't help them in that regard.

Would that be us on the final day of the 96/97 season? Twenty fucking years ago.

I just find the decimal points a tad OTT

I see Hughie Fury is fighting Joseph Parker for a version of the world heavyweight title and Khan v Pacquiao is now not going to go ahead as planned.

I tend to think we're getting the Full English Brexit even if it does taste like shit

I thought it rated about 6.3/10

I refuse to give them another view by even clicking on the link. Parky must be on commission.

I was just messing with you, Jonny

Forgot about that. Just call me Dave was another cracker

In the narcotic sense.

Never realised sourcing soiled knickers was so time consuming

Whatever happened to 'Broken Britain'? Did Cameron fix it?

Mentioned him inheriting Bergkamp above (Rioch signed him from Inter I think) and I don't think Wenger would've signed him.

Aye their disciplinary record under Wenger in the first half of his time there was fucking atrocious

I also meant it was lucky in terms of Arsenal just trying something different in terms of bringing in a foreign manager rather than some masterstroke of employing this brilliant coach they'd known about for a while.

They'd been very successful under George Graham although he didn't look like recapturing their league winning formula under him in the late 80s/early 90s they won a few cups but they were behind us in the reckoning when he arrived (although they'd point to success in various cups). They were still one of the top sides in the country in terms of pull. They had some class players too, Wright and Bergkamp and their back 5. They were a dirty set of bastards and not remotely attractive in terms of their football. I think part of the luck re: Wenger comes from what he inherited and then blending that with French players he knew and he'd worked with at a time when France had some of the best players in the world. He takes loads of credit for that but I think there's always a bit of luck involved. His rep was such (i.e. little known outside of France) that he may well have quickly been sacked if he hadn't done so well pretty soon in his career there.

It seems like a lifetime ago but they got very lucky when they plucked Wenger from obscurity (he was managing Gary Lineker's old side in Japan iirc). He replaced Bruce Rioch which seems difficult to believe now.