Whatever happens this season we can at least be proud to have rid ourself of a

[PSRB]

I have a slight mistrust of that league. The guy is a genuine handful but I wonder if he is right for us.

I'm not the best judge. I don't trust centre forwards

I would agree but he's also been doing it in the CL....apart from against us.

[Peter]

I would agree but he's also been doing it in the CL....apart from against us.

Caused us a few problems as well.

[Rich]

I have a slight mistrust of that league. The guy is a genuine handful but I wonder if he is right for us.

I'm not the best judge. I don't trust centre forwards

I thought he looked a bit of an oaf when he played against us earlier in the season.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

What's AWIMB preference on the striker front?
Sesko, Osimhen, Gyokeres, Vlahovic or wait for Isak in summer?

StatsWIMB.

Just saw that IWWW had a better mins per goal {132 vs 134} and better goals per match {0.64 vs 0.6} than Titi.

But Reg Lewis had 133 {between IWW and Titi} and 0.68 {better than both} and Joe Baker had 138 {bit worse} and 0.65 {better than both.}

However Ronnie Rooke was 120 mins/goal and 0.75 goals per match. Best of all. And 33 first div goals in a title winning season.

So I want us to buy him. Career total of 400 goals in 547 games which is just what we need. Sign him up.

[Peter]

StatsWIMB.

Just saw that IWWW had a better mins per goal {132 vs 134} and better goals per match {0.64 vs 0.6} than Titi.

But Reg Lewis had 133 {between IWW and Titi} and 0.68 {better than both} and Joe Baker had 138 {bit worse} and 0.65 {better than both.}

However Ronnie Rooke was 120 mins/goal and 0.75 goals per match. Best of all. And 33 first div goals in a title winning season.

So I want us to buy him. Career total of 400 goals in 547 games which is just what we need. Sign him up.

I'll take Ted Drake. 124 goals in 167 games (0.74). 42 league goals in a title win, and he served in the RAF during the war

[redgunamo]

I'll take Ted Drake. 124 goals in 167 games (0.74). 42 league goals in a title win, and he served in the RAF during the war

If we're going to go down THAT road, then I nominate Lukas Podolski; he owns his own small chain of doner kebab shops.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

I'll take Ted Drake. 124 goals in 167 games (0.74). 42 league goals in a title win, and he served in the RAF during the war

Agreed. Drake it is. Let's sign Ted and give him the no.9 shirt next season.

But re RAF. From Ronnie Rooke's wiki page:

"He had scored 57 goals in 87 league matches for Fulham before the outbreak of the second world war. However, Rooke's career did not stop, serving as a physical training instructor in the RAF, enabled him to continue playing, where he made 199 appearances in the wartime games for Fulham, scoring 212 goals. He also won a Wartime International cap for England in 1942, against Wales."

So how about we sign him as well as back up, like GG always made sure we had world class spare CHs.

[Peter]

If we're going to go down THAT road, then I nominate Lukas Podolski; he owns his own small chain of doner kebab shops.

Wow. I did not know that

[Peter]

Agreed. Drake it is. Let's sign Ted and give him the no.9 shirt next season.

But re RAF. From Ronnie Rooke's wiki page:

"He had scored 57 goals in 87 league matches for Fulham before the outbreak of the second world war. However, Rooke's career did not stop, serving as a physical training instructor in the RAF, enabled him to continue playing, where he made 199 appearances in the wartime games for Fulham, scoring 212 goals. He also won a Wartime International cap for England in 1942, against Wales."

So how about we sign him as well as back up, like GG always made sure we had world class spare CHs.

Anyone who did their bit in the second lot is alright by me

And scored a few goals, obviously.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Anyone who did their bit in the second lot is alright by me

And scored a few goals, obviously.

The Wops remembered Ted Drake from scoring the 3rd when Eng {with 7 AFC players} beat the Italian world champions 3-2 at the "Battle of Highbury." Ted scored the 3rd. So Benito claimed they'd captured him a Crete:

"The war intervened when he was only 27. He was excused war service for failing the army hearing test, and served as an ARP Warden at the Highbury Stadium. His film appearance in 1939 was not his last – in 1942, Cliff Bastin played a footballer in the classic British war film “One of our aircraft is missing”. He continued to play football in the war-time league that was instituted for raising civilian morale. Bizarrely, Mussolini’s Fascist Italian Radio claimed in 1941 that he had been captured in the Battle for Crete."

https://bergkampesque.com/2020/05/08...-for-58-years/

Did we have anyone from the first war? {WW1 was my MA so would be interested to know.}

Sperz had Walter Tull, who in 1917 became the first black officer in the British Army, despite army regulations of 1914 saying men of non-European descent couldn't be officers. After fighting at the Somme in 1916, he died near the start of Operation Michael that started the German Spring "Ludendorf Offensive" in March 1918.

{Though a few weeks before Tull was commissioned, Hardit Singh Malik, the flying Sikh, was commissioned as a 2nd Lt pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. He'd studied history at Balliol and when, in 1917 he offered to fly for the French air force, his Balliol tutor wrote to a general and got him a cadetship for a commission in the RFC. He had a special helmet made to fit over his turban. He played FC cricket for Oxford and Sussex as a middle order batsman. "In 1927, he became deputy commissioner in Punjab for six years, and after a period working in New York, he was recalled to India in 1944 to become Prime Minister of the predominantly Sikh state of Patiala. He later became India's first High Commissioner to Canada and then Ambassador to Paris. In 1952 he was awarded the Legion D'Honneur."}

So did any Gooners fight in WW1?

Just looked. 19 current players of whom 2 were killed. 45 former players of whom 3 were killed.

https://www.footballandthefirstworld...rst-world-war/

Pat Flanagan was an inside forward for us. Scored 12 in 24 games in 1913-14 in Div 2. He worked as an artillery shell machinist at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Died in German East Africa in 1917.

https://www.footballandthefirstworld.../pat-flanagan/

And it was artillery that won WW1. So to have actually made the shells while banging in 1 in 2 playing inside forward {like ?din} and then giving his life fighting the Hun on their own imperial turf. Hero.