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This is the section where we honour those who have had Gooners cheering for one reason or another. To nominate someone to be considered for a mention, email us the details.
Here's a selection of the best Well Played nominations from the 2005/06 season.
From Ray Cornish: Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds and huge Celtic fan, who admitted during an interview on TalkSport, that his 13 year old son, who lives in London, is a big Gooner and Jim also said what a fantastic club we are. Well Played!
From Doctor Robert: Radio Five Live commentator Simon Brotherton for mentioning that Arsenal will be moving to Ashburton Grove (as opposed to the Emirates Stadium) during his commentary on Arsenal vs Newcastle. If the fans keep referring to the new stadium this way, the media will all fall into line. Well Played!
From Dimitri Marun: Whilst I was in Amsterdam a friend of mine was watching The Mission who were playing a gig in Brussels. Singer Wayne Hussey, a Scouser, asked if anyone knew what the Arse's score was. Some idiot in the crowd shouted out "Chelsea", probably thinking he was being funny. Wayne's reply was short and to the point "F**k Chelsea!" Well Played!
From David and Darren James: Fiat for their recent advert in a national newspaper showing a van with a logo on the side for a fictional amusement park called "Cloud Cuckoo Land" alongside the Spurs crest, which says it all really. Well Played!
From Tommy Parker: Our former captain, Patrick Vieira for his wonderful verdict on Van Nistelrooy in his recently serialised autobiography. Paddy describes him as a "cheat and a coward, who is sneaky in the way he goes about fouling people" and "deceitful as well as being a nasty piece of work. he's a son of a bitch." Well Played!
From Ted Baker: The Gooner in the audience at the Marketing Society conference in London recently who, following a presentation by Tottenham's CEO Paul Barber which included a video of Spurs goals, many of which were against the Gunners, stood up and said that whilst it was lovely to see all the goals, could Mr Barber tell the audience the last time Spurs had actually beaten Arsenal. Well Played!
From Dave Woods: Andy Gray who during the commentary of the Wigan game, after Henry's magnificent free-kick, he concluded that "world class" was no longer enough to describe the Frenchman's ability. "More like universal class" he told his co-commentator, Martin Tyler. Well Played!
From Mike Francis: The Arsenal Holdings plc Board of Directors for voting unanimously at the AGM to award an "orphan" share in the Club, worth over £4500, to the Arsenal Supporters' Trust, in Peter Hill-Wood's words, as a "further demonstration of the Board's recognition of the AST and it's role to represent small shareholders and supporters in general". Well Played!
From Alistair Coleman: My brother Nigel, for becoming the father of a son on 29th December 2005; and getting the name Alex James Coleman past his other half, by judicious use of the "OK, let's not call him Thierry Henry" double bluff. Well Played!
From Dan Moore: Golfer Ian Poulter for wearing Arsenal's home shirt during a round of January's Abu Dhabi championship, and the Tour authorities for not disciplining him for breaking the dress code. Well Played!
From Will Gates: Reading manager, Steve Coppell for commenting on Match of the Day 2 after our game against Liverpool that we are "the most aesthetically pleasing team to watch in the country". Well Played!
This is the section (formerly known as Pile of Krappa) where we let people who have annoyed us know what we think about them. To nominate someone who deserves our attention, please email us the details.
Here's a selection of Pile of Krappa's from the 2005/06 season.
From Jo Simms: A school kid's parents for insulting a teacher - me! It was my first day's supply in a new school and I'm taking the register. Some lads spot my Arsenal pencil case and one grinning kid tells me his name is Nayim. Yeah right! I scrub it out - what a wind-up! He promptly produces a Spurs membership card to confirm that he was christianed Nayim! Pile of Krappa!
From Bob Dyer: Delta Airlines in-flight guide which revealed that one of the movies available to view was Fever Pitch and that it was based on "Nick Hornby's novel about his obsession with the Manchester United soccer team". Pile of Krappa!
From Mike Francis: Gooner publisher, Mike Francis, for his pre-season comments in the Evening Standard regarding Spurs' chances of finishing fourth this season because they were nowhere near dismissive enough. Spurs have some good young players? Could finish fifth? Pile of Krappa!
From Adrian Moore: ITV for wheeling out one of a Gooner's most hated players, Teddy Sheringham as their studio guest for our game against Ajax, and then adding insult to injury by having David Pleat as the 'expert' match summarizer. Pile of Krappa!
From Georgina Jacobs: Harchester United (from Sky's Dream Team) for beating Arsenal 1-0 courtesy of Ryan Naysmith's flukey Drogba-like goal. Pile of Krappa!
From Mark Vallis: The French dick-brained journalists who put those two "world class" journeymen, Lampard and Gerrard, 100 points above Thierry in France Football's annual Ballon d'Or award. Ballon de Bollocks more like! Pile of Krappa!
From Linda Watts: Jose Mourinho for not shaking Wenger's hand at the end of the Arsenal v Chelsea match at Highbury before Christmas, obviously believing that as "the special one" he's above the traditional post-match handshake. It was heartening to see him roundly criticised for his actions by the media afterwards. Pile of Krappa!
From Dan Spooner: The Sun for running a piece on the day we signed Theo Walcott rating all of Arsene's Under-21 signings as "Hit or Miss". Not only were some of their verdicts particularly unfair (Lupoli can hardly be classed as a "Miss"), but they also rated Niccola Galli as a miss. Clearly they'd decided that because he wasn't playing top-class football now, he must have been rubbish. If they'd bothered to do their research properly, they'd have no doubt discovered that Italian Galli tragically died in a motorcycle accident when he was only 16. Pile of Krappa!
From Howard Lamb: Hunter Davies who wrote the following in The New Statesman recently: "Arse: Upon which Arsenal might fall. How awful it would be if, when they move into their amazing new stadium next season, Spurs have ended miles above them in the League, they are not in Europe and Thierry Henry has left. It'll be so sad, hee hee hee." Pile of Krappa!
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