John Ableet Final 2006 pt 2

John Ablett Cup final

Panini Stickers v Panini Cards:

The 2 albums together, Cards on the left, stickers on the right;

Inside the card album;

Inside the sticker album;

Arsenal 1 Tottenham Hotspurs 1

The last North London derby at Highbury ended all square, in a tough fought battle. The draw was a fair result as Spurs were pretty good in the first half. Aaron Lennon was very threatening, and was probably the most dangerous threat I've seen to our defence all season. Flamini, who has kept Beckham, Juve and C Ronaldo at bay couldn't cope with him in the first half which is pretty good testament to the spurs nob.
Second half saw a controversial goal from the lillyshites. Now this is a weird one, coz if it had been the other way round I would have been shouting at our players to carry on, which Spurs did. The problem I have is that the ref paused and checked the players were ok, which in itself isn't a problem, but it gave the impression to everyone that he was going to blow his whistle, which from watching the highlights you can see a couple of Arsenal players slowing down, most importantly Flamini and Djourou, which resulted in Robbie Keane being free in the box to score. I know everyone will say you have to play to the whistle but it's just annoying.
TH14 got a deserved equaliser, and if we had a few more minutes I believe we would have got a winner. Main problem was Wenger got the team wrong and should have started TH14 today. We needed a goal today, at present we don't need a goal Tuesday night in Spain. Well it's easy to be the manager from the terraces isn't it...

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Arsenal 1 Villarreal 0

A pretty tame semi final was won comfortbaly by Arsenal by just one goal. Villarreal rarely threatened, though had a good shout for a penalty turned down. TH14 had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside. Toure scored just before half time after neat work by TH14 and Hleb. The second was dominated by Spanish time wasting though the Austrian ref tried his best to cut this down.


The highlight of the game was the grey squirrel that made a 10 minute appearance infront of us in the North Bank. The little one kept Forlan quiet, but ran off when Mad Jens walked over to it, fearing for its life.

Next up Spurs on Saturday lunchtime. Hopefully 3 points, look out for how many sitters Adebayor will miss...

Arsenal 3 WBA 1

The match theme was Bergkamp Day, and loads of free orange t-shirts were handed out before the game. You might be able to buy one from ebay as some sad people are selling them, even worse some people are buying them! The ground looked strange with a good proportion in orange. This may have had an adverse effect on the team as Arsenal played below par until WBA equalised in the 73rd ish minute. Bergkamp and Pires came on as subs just before the WBA goal. The last ten minutes were unsuprisingly down to Bergkamp, and he showed us all what he has done in the past 10 years for the club: Skill, fight and class but only in short bursts.

Can't be bothered to put anymore about the game. Martin Keown was on the pitch at half time. He gave some medals to what appeared to be the ladies under 16's. This age was confirmed after pervy discussion with Space Cadet.

More supersition seemed to be in force during the game. This seemed to involve my "brown zip up cardigan". Whilst wearing this in the first half, Arsenal were winning. I took it off in second half to expose my orangeness, only for WBA to score. Straight after I refitted the lucky brown garment and we scored twice. Bad news is that it is in the wash for tonights game v Villarreal...I have my excuses all ready

Arsenal 2 Juventus 0

Arsenal carved Juventus apart last night, and made the Italian Champions look like a poor West Brom. The form Arsenal have shown since playing in Madrid continued last night, and if this lasts the season 4th place and the Euro cup could become a real possibility.
Vieira got a good reception before the game. This was always going to be the case. This didn't last long though as his first challenge was a dodgy one on Fabregas which could have earn't a booking. It was strange seeing him in non Arsenal colours, but in the past 5-6 weeks we have eventually got over his departure.
The crowd was pretty loud last night. The 4 drunk guys infront of us tried their best to get them going, didn't really work in the first half. Towards the end one of them was showing how good he must be at football by calling TH14 a fcuking cnut for not having scored 3 times and being a bit fancy. Some fans will never be happy.
Villa at home on Saturday. I wont be there this time, I have a woman to please.....

Arsenal 3 Charlton 0

On a sunny, blustery and freezing cold day at highbury, Arsenal eased to a simple victory. Charlton were crap. Pires put Arsenal infront in the 13th minute after some lovely play by Hleb, Adebayor and TH14. Arsenal should have already scored twice but 2 easy chances were wasted by the new striker Adebayor. However he got the 2nd goal after a classic show of crapness by Hreidarsson. Despite wasting chances he has shown a lot of potential, and woks hard for the team, and can win headers which hasn't been seen at Highbury since Alan Smith retired his boots. 2-0 Half Time.


Hleb got a deserved goal at the start of the second half, following a powerful surge forward by the Belarusian. Charlton failed to show up for this game and got their tactics completely wrong. Most teams know that if you try to attack Arsenal at highbury you will get fcuked 90% of the time. Curbishley for England, I hope not.

Special mention to Fabregas with his man of the match performance. Also Eboue playing at right back could spell the end of Lauren being first choice.

Next up, Pompey away. Hopefully our run will continue.

Neighbours

Being a 24 year old man in a full time job I unlike many others of my generation find it embarrsingly easy to watch Neighbours at work. Which is what i have been doing this week. And I tell you this i have lucked out, i turned on Monday to find Sir Harold "bash the" Bishop strangling one legged love god Paul Robinson. He escaped with Paul seemingly dead. But Paul is not dead he is the opposite of my limp penis and very much alive. Yet he does not know that Harold tried to kill him and nobody suspects the saggy necked psycho. If you think it all seems out of character for Harold then of course you would be right, but the man who was resurrected lazarus like from the dead, returning from the sea like some kind of bible bashing swamp thing is being driven by demons, demons as far as i can understand created by the death of his son in an incident caused by Paul in some way, and if thats not enough he is being forced by some kind of internal monlogue to keep on with these acts of evil. its things like this that have kept Neighbours at the top of the comedy tree for over 20 years now. And i'm glad i have taken the time out of my schedule to start watching again. For those wondering why Paul only has one leg, i think he was pushed off a cliff. And the scriptwriters ignoring the normal outcome from this event of death decided to remove his leg, which like Mark Fowlers HIV or Ethels Willy would only comes out when the plot is wearing thin.

And in other news, Steph, who as far as i used to remember didn't used to have a face like a fanny mangled in a blender, is pregnant but also has cancer of the tit.

D Freear 17 Mar 2006