After Arsenal’s loss in the Carling Cup final, I decided to open the second canister in that mysterious stack of dusty old D.W. Griffith films that were apparently never released in the 1910s and ’20s. I don’t know what this means, but I’m not sure how much longer I’m going to feel safe keeping these in the basement. I wonder whether that renegade antiques dealer is still doing business in Chinatown, and whether he’d take them back.
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by Brian Phillips · February 27, 2011
Thoroughly enjoyed. Especially that you got the Kosicelny head-rub in there.
Apparently he got clouted by Lee Bowyer, go figure! Great video by the way. It led me to a treasure trove of football manager snippets. Oh how I wish I could let Football Manager back in my life!
Too soon.
To be fair, I think Szczesny was calling Koscielny off, which is why Koscielny didn’t clear the ball.
But still, WTF was that?
Far too much of an enjoyable moment….as a Spurs fan.
I just feel sorry for future generations- my grandkids will ask me perplexedly “Martins scored a winning goal in a cup final?” I will be forced to answer yes, but not with the tone of “we live in a wondrous universe full of redemption and endless possibilities.” Rather, the mood will be “the universe is chaos, you could get hit by a milk truck at any time, and nobody will know why or care a decade later.”
Well… you can close the trophy cabinet boys.
You’d have to say of all the trophies Arsenal were up for that was the most likely. And if they can’t do Birmingham in 90 minutes they sure as shinola won’t do anything else.
It’s the -NY tacked onto the end of their surnames. It stands for “No, you.”
Watching Obafemi Martins doing acrobat in black and white of 20′s and 30′s would be one of the classic viewings.
@Elliott “Uncanny is human existence and still without meaning: a buffoon can be fatal to it.” — Nietzsche
The cartwheels. The cartwheels. Then the look of despair on Kos’ face. You can’t make this shit up.
i blame the consonants!!
There’s just too many of them in kzxvzcvzsny and Scghxcvny , and they are always up to no good!!
As a yankee Bluenose the pleasure of seeing that live was terrific and I just love the way that idiots constantly underrate Birmingham City the team that was supposed to be relegated after just one season. Arsenal and their like are lots of flash, no stamina and no grit, Blues have real players.
This is good. But what I need someone to tell me is: is the smack on the back of Koscielny’s head more or less heartbreaking than that Colombian owl getting kicked off the pitch?
If the duo were English, this never would have happened!
/Daily Mail’d
(seriously though, if Arsenal were running out a ton of English lads, they’d never make it that far)
Thanks for the laugh. What else can you do?
Brilliant.
It’s inexplicable calamities like this that keep some suspense in modern professional football. Though I feel for the Arsenal fans, my heart is warmed by the Birmingham win.