to Arsenal on Tuesday. Just been offered an executive box ticket free.

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

Answers

Arsenal Pummelled?

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

If you go there may be trouble...

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

And if you don't they'll do the double..

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

i think they'll get more than double against us gavin

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

PArt time supporter or what? Get yersel' there. CU in the pub???

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

Sod it then...I'm off to London. Which pub?

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

Not sure preciesely what decision needs to be made here - unless it is on the 11 people who you can take along with you!

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

I don't like sitting with corporate bods as I like a good shout/swear :-)

I'll just have to get the abuse out of my system in the rub-a-dub before the game. Bliddy awful place to try and get to as well... even worse to get back from down to Winchester...

I think I'll stay in Londinium overnight

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

No idea which pub, apart from the one we went to last year. Sadly, I can't remember what it's called, but I think it's south of the stadium, up the hill overlooking the railway, near where the buses park.

Howay you Lahndaan lot. Help iz oot!

That said, we lost 5-0 when I went there last year. Maybe we should try a pub ootside the M25 (on the basis they are unlikely to let us play the game ootside the M25).

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

can't remember how to get to the pub as Gav got us a cab... I think

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

Wasn't it Drayton Park or something? the name evades me a bit....

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

It wasn't exactly a "lucky" pub :-(

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

C&P from Bobby's post last season:

I think the pub we mean is actually called the Drayton Park Hotel, near Drayton Park mainline and up the road from Arsenal tube. If it is, then this link might help find it. ... the link being:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=531400&Y=185600&ar row=Y&title=Approximate+location+of+Drayton+Park+Hotel

just browsing the posts around that time it appeared young Screacher had just arrived from the states and was meeting with scratchy.... seems like just yesterday!

The threads of the next couple of days were:

Post 5-0 humiliation analysis...
The morning after
Debacle waiting to happen
ettc..

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

So which London pub has been lucky for us, say in the last 4 years? ;-)

Pub near Arsenal - Drayton (something) rings a bell.

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

Yes I know what you mean actually, Geordie. Wor lass and me had a "prawn sarnie opportunity" recently for the Spurs game. We sat outside in the Milburn - top left, fairly near the away fans, the bit where the Milburn is perenially empty.
We were surrounded by utterly obnoxious Spurs knobs who really got my goat. The fact that we were utter sh*te naturally didn't help my mood!

My wife kept digging me in the ribs and telling me not to react - so I simply started supporting the Toon, loudly!!

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

Pub you going on about Bobster is the Drayton arms. If you are comin' (round the mountain) by tube get off at the Arsenal stadium, on exit go right and about 6-700 yards up the straight road it's on your left. Away pub loads of Geordies, normally one of our lads jumps behind the bar, canny boozer in a trad london kind of way.

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001

TM - that lad behind the bar last year was caaled Clarky. Not wor marra mind, but a little grey-haired fella that goes to aal the away matches. Well, 50% similarity isn't that bad!

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2001