Arsenal v Everton, 125 years and a bloody good drink!!!

Hello All,

Apologies for the delay in posting the write up from the weekend  - was quite a heavy one as you can imagine - what with the Arsenal playing Everton,  the 125 year anniversary celebrations, coinciding with the Eaglet Arsenal Supporters Club Christmas drink up and a party in the evening, spent most of Sunday calling God on the great white telephone!!!!

All in all, with the unveiling of the statues to the legends, the game itself, Chris #Foy(s)  who himself must deserve a statue after single handedly beating Spurs, it must have been old Harry boy who was the only unhappy one



Harry in happier times

 The day started well with the short train trip down from Potters Par to Finsbury Park, ( with the crew from London Colney including Mr Maguire and pal) then a stroll down the tree lined cobbled avenue of the Seven Sisters Road, inhaling the rustic aroma  of  -----------how do i describe it without getting into too much trouble?? Well, those that have taken that trip will know - at certain times of the day, just a deep breath and you could float all the way down that particular road - must be something they put in the hanging baskets???

Strolled into the Eaglet about 12.15pm and the pathfinder Scott L had been there since 11am and appeared quite jovial!! Met up with the quiet and retiring @nate_adeyemi (on twitter) who kindly bought the chaps a round of Jager Bombs - what a pleasant way to begin proceedings!! As you can imagine by the time the  Away Boyz came on stage we were in fine voice!!


The Eaglet 7th Male Voice Choir ( Any Impey has Guinness for a head!! wheres isWill i is?)

The idea was that we would get down to The Emirates for 2.15pm but the pub locked the doors and kept us in!!!!! - so we eventually strolled in around 2.55pm which for us is early - its what Saturdays are all about. ( Did manage to catch a glimpe of Thierry's statue - nice, but smaller than i thought)

Hello Sailor


Missed most of the celebrations but sitting so close to the away dug out and tunnel got to see most of the legends ( nice to see Charlie George and his bastard hair cut!! - but what a player)

The Game, The Fans - home and away

The back 4 picked itself ( in my opinion) with 4 centre halfs - howver Vermaelen has played at left back before. The rest was the same as previous 5/6 league games. Everton, despite their lack of goals had a pretty attacking line up - with the Russian with the long name (iverbollockoff or something like that) and Coleman on the flanks, with the dangerous Cahill supporting Saha, the lone striker.

To be fair, it was The Arsenal that started stronger and could and possibly should have been 2 up before half time -  Arteta feeding Walcott , who crossed  for Gervinho, ( i think the ball was slightly behind him) who may have scored. Then Gervinho put though by Song(?) -  one on one was never going to score - not in current vein of form - I reckon if Tim Howard had moved 50 yards to the left of his goal Gervinhohoho would still have hit him (harsh? Possibly!).

Ramsey, spun in the box  and stroked a left foot shot that narrowly went over Tim Howards bar - and that was about it for the first half.

Home fans - after a bright start and nice to see the ground so full - went a bit flat - again, it was a case of wait and see, we will win - Everton fans - took the full allocation as usual and to be fair gave Arteta a great ovation as he went to take a corner - were noisy to start with - then urged on by our quietness decided to follow suit!!!

2nd half was a vert cagey affair with neither side really creating any clear cut chances and it was left to the man of the moment, Mr RVP, to power home, off the keepers left hand post, a stupendous left foot volley following a lovely flighted pass from the impressive Song.

Orgasmic?

Tim ( sh#t, bo##ocks, tw#t,m#nge)  Howard didn't move - a great goal and fitting that the likes of Henry, George and Wright were there to witness it.

Few scarey moment towards the end when a leprechaun nearly equalised - but the unbeaten league run continues!

After Game

Back to the pub and the party began - Away Boyz were on again Away Boyz In Eaglet After Game - every one got very scary - copius amounts were drunk, we celebrated - some of us might make it to the 150th celebrations but i doubt it - not with our livers!! 

 Must tip my hat to the Norwegian Supporter who travels from Norway to every home game, who joined in the drinks and the dancing - top marks. And to all the Arsenal fans in The Eaglet who were all in top voice - Thanks God we won

Mr Impey and the Chuckle Brothers, Jay and Min made it to Upper Street, Young Dan B and Dan  others went to St Albans  and carried on the celebrations - i ended up with Mrs Talkingoutherarse at some drunken party!!

Future Events

Man $ity v Arsenal Sunday 16th Dec

Aston Villa v Arsenal Wednesday 21st Dec

Next Home game - Boxing Day v Wolves - see you all down The Eaglet if not before

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