Nine Jimmy Rimmers – Arsenal and Football

Looks pretty dark out there now.  I had to work today so I was spared watching it live.  Nipped in and out the of building to get a signal.  First half – fine.  Second half – just painful.  Just spoke to a friend who went.  Well, we didn’t really speak to honest, what can you say.

Ahead of the Swansea game I looked back at old stuff to remember who’d played for Arsenal back when we’d played them before.  Too be honest it all feels a bit early eighties right now.  Dying days of Terry Neill.  Pointless holding action of Don Howe.

Too depressed to watch MoTD.  I’ll take a look on Arsenal Player in the morning, searching for some crumbs of comfort.  There will be no crumbs for the club or Arsene Wenger.  Any kind of win would have been another small step along the path.  This puts us right back on the ropes.

This may be a bit of a over-reaction, I don’t know.  Doesn’t feel like it right now. 

Enough waffle.  Enough beer, going to bed.  Feel free to waffle on below if you feel like it, but let’s at least keep clean, huh.

*Leiber, Stoller, King

Let me see now, I can probably guess half the line up, but I’m going to have to look it up to be certain.

________ Jennings __________
Talbot _ Hollins _ O’Leary _ Sansom
Robson _ Davis __ Petrovic __ Rix
___ Sunderland _ Woodcock ___

Well, it is a bit early to be looking forward to this Saturday yet!

Our last home game against Swansea was on New Years Day 1983. The score was Arsenal 2:1 Swansea.

Alan Sunderland got the first. Lee Chapman came on for Sunderland and scored the second.

I don’t think I was there, but I can’t honestly remember. We beat them away that season as well. The previous season we lost to them twice.

And that was it: Swansea’s brief two year appearance in the top flight. A quarter of Lee Chapman’s Arsenal goals. Arsenal finished the season tenth and lost in the semi-final of both cups to Ron Atkinson’s Manchester United. By the end of the year, Arsenal Manager Terry Neill was gone and Swansea were playing in the Second Division.