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Why the fuck did not one of the Arsenal defence tackle Giggs...? Still haunts me, one tackle and 16 years of listening and watching would never have happened.
Bradywasking wrote:Why the fuck did not one of the Arsenal defence tackle Giggs...? Still haunts me, one tackle and 16 years of listening and watching would never have happened.
Bradywasking wrote:Why the fuck did not one of the Arsenal defence tackle Giggs...? Still haunts me, one tackle and 16 years of listening and watching would never have happened.
THIS
Fu**king this
What's funny is I've heard both Keown and Dixon recently on commentary duty lamenting the fact no one chopped him down. Clearly our former players are still haunted by it; even Roy Keane said someone should've scythed into Giggs.
Bradywasking wrote:Why the fuck did not one of the Arsenal defence tackle Giggs...? Still haunts me, one tackle and 16 years of listening and watching would never have happened.
Why I've never regarded it as a great goal, monumental fuck up on our part from Vieiras pass to our defence just allowing him to run through and back off him. Can't believe it was the famous back four, that was something our defence today would do.
Oh and the game at Old Trafford in 2003, one of my all time favourite away days. 9,000 of us took the absolute piss up there that day. We should have won by more despite them trying to kick them off the park. Completely destroyed them that day, still bugs me we never won the league that season. We were sensational at times.
For their 1999 we have our 1979 one of the great cup finals. Don't forget 2005 after they pissed on us for 130 minutes we had the last laugh. To this day I remember our end singing USA USA USA it definitely put their players off even though they had the advantage of taking pens at their end. Also our version of sold in the USA to springstein was pretty funny. How times have changed.
For their 1999 we have our 1979 one of the great cup finals. Don't forget 2005 after they pissed on us for 130 minutes we had the last laugh. To this day I remember our end singing USA USA USA it definitely put their players off even though they had the advantage of taking pens at their end. Also our version of sold in the USA to springstein was pretty funny. How times have changed.
As an american, that's a pretty interesting story to hear. Puts a smile on my face that The Boss (the real Boss not AW) has made it into Arsenal lore somehow. Even if it's as a pisstake of our people.
Bradywasking wrote:Why the fuck did not one of the Arsenal defence tackle Giggs...? Still haunts me, one tackle and 16 years of listening and watching would never have happened.
I've never understood it. Adams and Dixon both had great opportunities to put the incestuous little bitch down. Similarly at Anfield 89, I've never understood why Steve Nichol didn't just chop Thomas down. Wouldn't have even been a yellow in those days!
For their 1999 we have our 1979 one of the great cup finals. Don't forget 2005 after they pissed on us for 130 minutes we had the last laugh. To this day I remember our end singing USA USA USA it definitely put their players off even though they had the advantage of taking pens at their end. Also our version of sold in the USA to springstein was pretty funny. How times have changed.
As an american, that's a pretty interesting story to hear. Puts a smile on my face that The Boss (the real Boss not AW) has made it into Arsenal lore somehow. Even if it's as a pisstake of our people.
Don't take it to heart, GP. Football fans are, as you know, are bunch of chancers, and it was more a way to get under Utd fans (and players) skin. Any ill-feeling I have for Kroenke has nothing to do with his Nationality and everything to do with his business model.
Also; has anyone heard 'Born in then USA' from the 'Nebraska' demo? Totally different song from the one jumped on by Reagan and his cronies when they TOTALLY MISSED THE FUCKING POINT OF IT.
Bradywasking wrote:Why the fuck did not one of the Arsenal defence tackle Giggs...? Still haunts me, one tackle and 16 years of listening and watching would never have happened.
THIS
Fu**king this
What's funny is I've heard both Keown and Dixon recently on commentary duty lamenting the fact no one chopped him down. Clearly our former players are still haunted by it; even Roy Keane said someone should've scythed into Giggs.
I don't even think they had to foul him, they opened it up for him in my opinion, it was too easy. Greatest FA Cup goal ?..no not even close to it.
Bradywasking wrote:Why the fuck did not one of the Arsenal defence tackle Giggs...? Still haunts me, one tackle and 16 years of listening and watching would never have happened.
THIS
Fu**king this
What's funny is I've heard both Keown and Dixon recently on commentary duty lamenting the fact no one chopped him down. Clearly our former players are still haunted by it; even Roy Keane said someone should've scythed into Giggs.
I don't even think they had to foul him, they opened it up for him in my opinion, it was too easy. Greatest FA Cup goal ?..no not even close to it.
Agree, but I also aportion some of the blame for that goal to Seaman who somehow made himself as short as DB10 and OneBard combined by limbo-dancing himself under Giggs's shot, if he just stood up on the shot it hits him in the fucking chest!
This Is The Daybreak wrote:
Oh and the game at Old Trafford in 2003, one of my all time favourite away days. 9,000 of us took the absolute piss up there that day. We should have won by more despite them trying to kick them off the park. Completely destroyed them that day, still bugs me we never won the league that season. We were sensational at times.
It's a performance that sticks long in the memory, arguably the greatest one that team ever produced, we were so far ahead of them that day it was frightening, a complete class apart, they couldnt get near us, and we werent even at full strength.
The only thing worth remembering about the Giggs goal was the piss take where his chest wig came off with his top
That and I think it was the reason why players cant do that now, ruining one half of the populations fun.
Alan Sunderland though what a classic match, bet many of us remember where we were with that one, I was sitting round a load of schoolmates who spent all of a few minutes laughing at me
Similarly at Anfield 89, I've never understood why Steve Nichol didn't just chop Thomas down. Wouldn't have even been a yellow in those days! 
