When Highbury Was Home Podcast

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The Ramblings Of A South African Gooner, Who Misses The Good Ol' Days, When Highbury Was Still Home... If You Enjoy Some Candidly Robust Debates, Surface Level Researched Team News, Hardly Hidden Hard Hitting Bias Opinions, Often Undercooked Yet Never Overprepared Game Previews / Reviews, And An Endless Supply Of Click-Bait Updates Taken From Tabloid Transfer News Speculation Articles, While Also Still Remaining An Arsenal Fan After The Decade We Just Had... Then Welcome To The Support Group! Please Grab An Ashtray, And Take A Seat. Medicate Responsibly! #WHWHPodcast #LoudBoothPodcasts #AFC

  1. 04/23/2021

    Episode 26 | What Would Dangote Do? #KroenkeOut

    We’ve Always Known How 1 Week In Football Can Change A Whole Lot, Yet This Past Week Reminded Us All Of Just How Much That Age-Old Adage Rings True In Our Beautiful Game - The Briefly Lived Initial Launch Of A Long Rumoured European Super League Rocked Football To It’s Core, With Some Of The Biggest Global Football Brands Banding Together To Create An Elitist League Owned & Controlled Solely By Themselves, A Reality We Were Momentarily Spared From Due To Fan Protests, UEFA Threats & Broadcaster Outcry - The Arsenal Board Have Some ‘Splaning To Do, As We The Fans Have Now Seen Them For Who They Truly Are... A Bunch Of Money Hungry Leeches Who Bought Into The Most Profitable Football Club In The World To Raid Her Of All Her Profit & Neglect To Invest In The Long-Term Fiscal Sustainability Of The Club... When The Kroenke’s Begun To See That Their Cash-Cow Was Causing More Beef With The Fans Than It Was Creating Profit, They Threw A Hail-Mary Pass In An Attempt To “Build Their Own Ranch” Through The ESL, Now That Their Plan Has Come To Naught, It’s Worth Taking A Moment To Ponder What Mr. Aliko Dangote Would Do. You’ve Run This Race As Far As You Can Kroenke’s, Cash In Now & Sell To Mr. Dangote While The Asset Still Has A High Resale Value. If Arsenal Aren’t Sold In The Next 12 Months, It’s Hard To See How We Will Actually Rebuild Our Once Great Football Club Under The Current Quasi Money Laundering “Sustainability-Based” Financial Model Being Instituted By The Egg-Faced Kroenke Family. On The Field Of Play, Arsenal Have Qualified For The Semi-Finals Of The Europa League, Following A 4-0 Drubbing Of Previously Undefeated Racist Protecting Salvia Prague, Who Still Refused To Take A Knee In Solidarity With The Arsenal Players Prior To Kickoff. That Morale Raising Result Has Now Seen Us Drawn Against Our Former Gaffer Unai Emery & His Villarreal Charges, In A 2- Legged Tie That Promises To Reveal Weather Arsenal Made The Right Call 24 Months Ago When Mikel Arteta Was Hired To Come In & Rectify What Unai Had Failed To Correct In His Tenure As Arsenal Manager. Coming Off The Back Of Such A Great Result In The Cup Game, You Would’ve Thunk A London Derby @ Home Vs Fulham Would Be More Of The Same Right? Not With This Arsenal Team, No... Stealing A Last Minute Draw Vs Fulham & Having To Celebrate A EUL Semi Is How Far We’ve Fallen Under The Kroenke Administration, There Are Much Needed Fan Protests Planned Prior To Our League Game Vs Everton & You Know Where We Stand Innit? #KroenkeOut #WhatWouldDangoteDo COYG!!! 🏾️🇿🇦️ #WHWH #WhatWouldDangoteDo #LoudBoothPodcasts #SuperCreativeFC #AKibuniMediaGroup #AFC #Arsenal #ARSSLP #ARSFUL #ARSEVE #EPL #PremierLeague #UEL #EuropaLeague #EST1886

    Episode 26 | What Would Dangote Do? #KroenkeOut

  2. 04/15/2021

    Episode 25 | The Last Chance Saloon

    There Comes A Time In All Our Lives When We Are Against The Kosh, Forced To Showcase Some Degree Of Fight In Order To Survive & Advance, Tales Of Weathering Those Inevitable Moments Of Adversity Are Often Very Characteristic Of Every Great Champions' Life Story... Our Beloved Gooners Have May Have Made Their Bones By Being Tested Through The Fire, Over The Past Decade & A Half, Yet This Europa League Quarterfinal 2nd-Leg Is The Ultimate Test Of Their True Survival Instincts, As Our Entire Season & Even A Few Arsenal Careers Are Riding On The Outcome Of This Result (And Winning The Europa League). After 25 Consecutive Seasons On Being In European Competitions, A Run That We Came Close To Losing A Couple Of Times In Recent Years, The Arsenal Are Now In Danger Of Missing Out On The Grandest Stages Of European Club Football Completely, Due To Our Inconsistent League Performances & That Dreaded Away Goal That We Gave Away To Slavia Prague In The Last Minute Of Our First-Leg Draw At The Emirates Stadium... Salvia Prague Are Fresh Off A 2-0 Derby Win Against Arch-Rivals Sparta, While Still Riding A 13 Game Home Unbeaten Record In The Europa League; Meanwhile Arsenal Are Coming Off The Back Of A Convincing Win Against Recently Relegated Sheffield United; This Quarter-Final Second Leg Promises To Be A Very Heated Battled Between Two Teams That Really Want To Progress To The Semi's, In Order To Cap Off Their Respective Seasons... It's Last Chance Saloon For Many Of These Gooners, Mikel Arteta Included, If We Don't Win This Game Then The Board Will Have To Institute Some Major Changes Expeditiously, Before The Fanbase Cuts Instead Of The Kroenke's. COYG! #WHWHPodcast #WHWH #LoudBoothPodcasts #SuperCreativeFC #AFC #COYG #ARSSHU #SLPARS #EPL #PremierLeague #EUL #EuropaLeague

    Episode 25 | The Last Chance Saloon

  3. 04/11/2021

    Episode 24 | Give The Youth A Chance

    It’s 90 Seconds To Go In The First Leg Of A Europa League Quarter-Final, And Your Team Can Take A Lead Into The 2nd-Leg Away From Home By Merely Seeing Out The Game, Yet You Are Still Not Comfortable As A Fan... That’s Because Arsenal Have Made A Habit Of Bottling It When The Pressure Is On, Especially When They Come Up Against Teams That They Really Ought To Be Beating. The Prague Game Is Proof Positive That These Current Lot, For The Most Part, Aren’t Good Enough For The Arsenal Still. Leno, Bellerin, Xhaka, Willian & Lacazette Aren’t Good Enough To Start Games Regularly For My Arsenal Team, Simple As... We’ve Accepted Them Over Th Years, Due To Our Dire Fiscal Standing, Yet They’ve Now Become The Reason Why Our Team Now Has Very Little Room For Improvement Even After 18 Months Under A New Manager. If They Don’t Deliver In The 2nd-Leg, And Go On To Finally Win The Europa League This Season, Then It’s Time To Bid Farewell To Mikel Arteta & The “Experienced” Players That He Trusted To The Hill Until They Inevitably Let Him Down, As They’ve Done To Arsene Wenger, Unai Emery Freddie & Ljunberg In The More Recent Past. It’s Time For Mikel To Get A Grip & Realize That His Managerial Career Is On The Line Here, He’s Still Too Reliant On Seasoned Pro’s Who May Be Too Long In The Tooth To Actually Learn Something New, Arteta Has Repeatedly Had His Bacon Saved By Bukayo Saka, Emile Smith-Rowe, Kerian Tierney & Matin Ordegaard Of Late, The So-Called Experienced Players Have Been As Consistent As Rain Showers In California... Mikel Has To Be Seeing The Writing On The Wall, We As Fans Are Ready To Fully Rebuild & Sell-Off All The Deadwood Leading Up Into Next Season... Auba & Partey Shouldn’t Even Be Exempt From The Axe, If They Don’t Improve Between Now & Season’s End While Playing With More Of Our Younger Players In The League Games To Gauge What It Is We May Have Going Into The 2021/22 Season. Sheffield United Are A Great Team To Begin This Experiment Against, It’s A No Pressure Situation That Could Set Us Up To Go On A Good Run Of Form. COYG!!! 🏾️🇿🇦️ #WHWH #GiveTheYouthAChance #LoudBoothPodcasts #SuperCreativeFC #AKibuniMediaGroup #AFC #Arsenal #ARSSLP #SHUARS #EPL #PremierLeague #UEL #EuropaLeague

    Episode 24 | Give The Youth A Chance

  4. 04/08/2021

    Episode 23 | And Not Waving, But Drowning...

    Losing Is A Necessary Part Of Sports & Life, One That Allows Us To Learn From Our Mistakes And Set Us Up For A Comeback Or Meteoric Rise To The Top... The Only Issue With Losing, Is The Manner In Which You Lose - You Can't Learn Much From A Failure Caused By A Situation In Which You Didn't Try Your Level Best - Our Beloved Arsenal Are No Where Near Knowing How Far They Are Away From, An Albeit Fallen On Hard Times Heavyweight, Team Like Liverpool... Which Intel That We Should Be Using To Gauge The Efficiency Of Our Rebuilding Process Thus Far. So Much For That! We Now Turn Our Attentions To Our Best Hope For A Return To European Competition Next Season, The UEFA Europa League, Where We Face Salvia Prague In The Quarter-Finals 1st Leg Tonight At The Emirates Stadion. In Reality, Arsenal Should Be Winning This Tie With Ease & Already Planning For A Welcome Back Tribute For Unai Emery & His Villarreal Team In The Semi-Finals, But Our Team Prefers For Us To Sample Some Of Their Virtual Reality Experience... So You Never Really Know How This One May Pan Out. The Arsenal That I Grew Up On Would Smack Salvia Around For The Racial Abuse Suffered By Glen Kamara In The Round Of 32 Tie Vs Rangers, Who Will Have To Watch A Racist Play With His Team In A Competition That They Should've Lost The Right To Compete In Following Such Heinous Abuse Live On Television In Front Of A Global Audience... If We Can't Kick Racism Out Of A Globally Regulated Industry Like Football, What Hope Do We Give To Those Fighting Racial Abuse Closer To Home, With No Global Regulatory Body/s To Call Upon? COYG! #WHWHPodcast #WHWH #LoudBoothPodcasts #SuperCreativeFC #AFC #COYG #ARSLIV #ARSSPG #EPL #PremierLeague #EUL #EuropaLeague

    Episode 23 | And Not Waving, But Drowning...

  5. 04/03/2021

    Episode 22 | The Legends Live Forever!

    It’s With A Heavy Heart That We Bid Farewell To A Legendary Arsenal Fan, Claude Callegari, Who Passed On From Natural Causes Aged 58. As An Avid Arsenal Fan TV (AFTV) Viewer, I Grew To Admire The OG Claude For His Unique Viewpoint & Candid Takes On The State Of Our Beloved Football Club, We Will All Miss Claude & Ty’s Banter In Studio. Rest In Power Gooner! In This Episode, 2RU-STORI Recaps The 3-3 London Derby Draw Against West Ham United (Match Takeaways & Player Ratings), Where Arsenal Had To Fight Back From 3 Goals Down Within The First 32 Mins & Could’ve Even Got The Win In The End With A Little Bit More Quality / Composure In-Front Of Goal. We Make Our Return From The International Break With A Big Week Of Football, Beginning With A League Game Versus Defending Champions Liverpool (Which We Preview In This Episode + #PredictTheLineupAFC) & A Europa League First Leg Quarter-Final Encounter Against Salvia Prague At Home On Thursday Night, Before We Face Bottom Of The Table Sheffield United Next Week Sunday, A Run Of Games That Could Define How Well We Finish This Season & Build Up Momentum Leading Into A Very Pivotal Off-Season, For Our Rebuild Process. COYG!!! 🏾️🇿🇦️ #WHWH #TheLegendsLiveForever #LoudBoothPodcasts #SuperCreativeFC #AKibuniMediaGroup #AFC #Arsenal #WHUARS #ARSLIV #EPL #PremierLeague #UEL #EuropaLeague

    Episode 22 | The Legends Live Forever!

  6. 03/21/2021

    Episode 21 | Closing The Gap

    In A Season Filled With Nigh On Relationship Ending Depression Caused By The Continued Under-Performance Of Our Beloved Arsenal, It's Pretty Wild To Think That We Are Still In With A Shot Of Winning The Europa League & Finishing In The Top 4 (Knock On Wood). There's Plenty Room For Improvement At Arsenal, Along With Plenty Reason For Optimism Too... For All The Goals We've Given Away Or Left On The Table, We've Also Unearthed A Couple Young Players That Now Serve As The Cornerstones Of Our Rebuilding Process. All Things Considered, We're Are Now Beginning To Close The Gap Between Ourselves & The Elite Teams In The EPL, Which Is Exactly The Type Of Progress We Needed To Make This Season. Having Been Away For A Few Weeks, We Briefly Recap All The Games That I Missed Out On (A Pretty Decent 6 Game Run For The Goon Squad) Before Doing A Young Preview Of The Upcoming London Derby Vs West Ham United & Closing Off The Pod With An Optimistic Look At Our Remaining 10 EPL Fixtures (Predicting Where We Can Still Finish This Season). All Things Considered, We Have To Keep Supporting The Manager, Players & Board In This Pivotal Stage Of Our Process. COYG!

    Episode 21 | Closing The Gap

  7. 02/25/2021

    Episode 20 | The Final Before The Final

    It’s Been A While Since We, As Arsenal, Went Into A Run Of Games Knowing That, Regardless Of How The Season Has Gone / Is Going, We Still Have The Power To Dictate How The Season Is Remembered Through The Manner In Which We Finish The Race Regardless, Of Our Final Position Or Lack Of Silverware Attained. The League Is Seemingly A Foregone Conclusion, With Manchester City Having To Collapse Right At The Finish Line To Blow Their Lead This Season, Yet Our Beloved Arsenal Are Still In The Europa League Round Of 32 & Just 6 Points Off The Top Six In The League... While There’s Still Quite A Bit Of Football Still To Be Played, These Next 3/4 Games Could Easily Define Arsenal’s Season From A Bigger Picture Perspective And Possibly Buy Mikel ArTekkas The Opportunity Cost He Needs To Kick-Start This Stalled Rebuild Process. Following A Narrow 1-0 Loss To The Champions Elect, Man City, Our Beloved Arsenal Are Back At It With A Must-Not-Lose Home Game Away From Home In Athens (Greece) Against A Very Strong & Well-Organized Benfica Squad Who Are Also Fighting To End Their Season On A High Note, Following Some Poor League Performances This Term. Both Teams Will Be Hungry To Advance Into The Last 16, Where They’ll Be Just 5 Games Away From Potentially Lifting The UEFA Europa League Trophy & Sealing A Much Welcomed Return To Champions League Football Next Season. COYG!!! 🏾️🇿🇦️ #WHWH #TheFinalBeforeTheFinal #LoudBoothPodcasts #SuperCreativeFC #AKibuniMediaGroup #AFC #Arsenal #ARSMCI #ARSBEN #EPL #PremierLeague #UEL #EuropaLeague

    Episode 20 | The Final Before The Final

  8. 02/21/2021

    Episode 19 | The Free-Kick Game

    The Teething Stage Is Rumoured To Be When Infants Tend To Be At Their Most Unsettled, Disgruntled & Annoyed (Read Annoying) Of The Early Childhood Phases, Which I May Not Be Able To Vouch For Yet But I Can Still Use That External Perspective To Juxtapose That Early Childhood Occurrence To The Current State Of All Things Arsenal Related... As Things Currently Stand, This Is The Most Unsettled We’ve Been As A First Team Squad, As Disgruntled As We’ve Become As A Fanbase And As Annoyed (Annoying) As The Results Have Been For The Manager, After Looking Like We Had Fully Turned The Tide And Begun To Grow Into Who We May Be, Post A Decent Run Of Form That Coincided With The Boxing Day Beating Of Chelsea Last Year. This Has To Be The Culmination Of Our Valley, There Needs To Be A Series Of Peaks From Here On In As We Are Due A Positive Turn In Fortunes, Before Job Security Becomes More Than Just A Mikel Arteta Issue... As Eyes Will Inevitably Begin To Turn Towards Edu, Vinai, Josh Kroenke & The Players Themselves As Co-Defendants To The Charge Of Continually Failing To Improve The Arsenal During Their Tenure's At The Club. A Blown Chance At Revenge Against Aston Villa Was Retributed With A Morale Boosting Win Versus Leeds United, Which Was The Type Of Momentum We Needed Going Into A Big Europa League Round Of 32 First Leg Against Benfica, That We Unfortunately Failed To Win Yet Still Managed To Get An Away Goal From The 1-1 Draw Against A Very Good Team, That Will Truly Be Up For It In The Winner Takes All 2nd Leg. It’s Hard To Be Confident As A Gooner Coming Into This Heavyweight Clash Against League Leaders Manchester City, They’ve Beaten Us In The Previous 7 League Encounters, With The Looming Second Leg Tie Versus Benfica And Pretty Much Nothing Left To Play For In The League, Despite Us Being 10 Points Off The Top 4 / 6 Points Off The Top 6, Arsenal’s Inconsistency’s In The League Have Now Necessitated That We Go All In On The Europa League And Secure Ourselves A Return To Champions League Football Next Season Via That “More Scenic” Route. I See This Game Vs Citeh As A Free-Kick That We Can Use To Work On Some Things For The Benfica Game & Even Rest Some Key Players, While Giving Some Of Our Academy Graduates A Chance To Redeem Themselves For The EFL Cup Loss That We Suffered Against Pep's Lads Earlier This Season. COYG!!! 🙏🏾❤️🇿🇦⚽️ #WHWH #TheFreeKickGame #LoudBoothPodcasts #SuperCreativeFC #AKibuniMediaGroup #AFC #Arsenal #AVLARS #ARSLEE #BENARS #ARSMCI #EPL #PremierLeague #UEL #EuropaLeague

    Episode 19 | The Free-Kick Game
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The Ramblings Of A South African Gooner, Who Misses The Good Ol' Days, When Highbury Was Still Home... If You Enjoy Some Candidly Robust Debates, Surface Level Researched Team News, Hardly Hidden Hard Hitting Bias Opinions, Often Undercooked Yet Never Overprepared Game Previews / Reviews, And An Endless Supply Of Click-Bait Updates Taken From Tabloid Transfer News Speculation Articles, While Also Still Remaining An Arsenal Fan After The Decade We Just Had... Then Welcome To The Support Group! Please Grab An Ashtray, And Take A Seat. Medicate Responsibly! #WHWHPodcast #LoudBoothPodcasts #AFC

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