Remember...
@PleaseNotPoll is to blame for me spewing what passes for my thoughts on here!
When I was a kid I played a match on a bog of a pitch in mid winter.
An opposition midfielder put a through ball to the striker which was slightly over hit.
This encouraged the keeper to come for the ball. As he slid out the forward pulled his foot back to shoot.
The sickening crack as the boot connected with the keepers face on the half volley was followed by a second of utter silence.
The keeper was laying on his back with his arms and legs splayed wide covered in mud looking like a blacked up snow angel.
The silence was broken by a dull but deceptively hard thud as another player, attempting to to clear the ball (which had landed between the prone keepers thighs) missed and caught the keeper full on in the bollocks.
19 stunned players, 2 guilt ridden ones and the ref stood over the poor kid who was laying in a fetal position covered in mud, blood, teeth and puke.
He looked like he had exploded as he lay there letting out pitiful wimpering sounds inbetween throwing up and spitting out blood and the occasional tooth...I don't remember his name just that (because he looked like his face had exploded) he was forever known as "Grenade" after that.
As he was taken from the pitch...doubled up, one hand holding his teeth and the other holding his balls ...walking as slowly as our midfield passed the ball around v Newcastle last Sunday ... some one finally cracked and began to laugh ... can't remember who

...so he had the final indignity of hearing 21 kids giggling at his horror moment.
He was off school for weeks and, although he tried to disguise it he spoke with a lisp and and had a slight limp from that day on.
The pain, embarrassment, shock, fear, terror, helplessness, humilation and deep sense of foreboding that the keeper felt pretty much sums up the build up to and the game which we know as the North London Derby.
No other game is like it...thank feck...cos unless you win or come from behind to draw you end up feeling like Grenade the keeper.
I do not wanna be controversial but what's the big deal sbout childbirth ffs ... that's a breeze compared to this ...
Arsenal achieved a momentous moral victory last week by not conceding 4 or more goals against Liverpool while we plumbed new depths in which there was a world where Newcastle were defensively sound and Steve Bruce was a tactical wizard.
We finally got a break on the injury front when it was announced that KWP will definitely not be playing on Sunday but before you unpack that bunting Aurier has been delared ****...I mean fit.
Arsenal plan to go with a team of:
Keeper
Good
Back 4
Ok , laughable, ok, ok
Midfield
Decent ok good ok
Front 2
Excellent excellent
Whereas we look certain to go with
Keeper
Where's my ****ing defence
Back 4
Fatty, where's jan, wish I was jan, god knows
Midfield
Sideways, Wtf am I still here? sideways
Front 3
I got a new range of fashionwear out
No movement, no movement
All the smart money is on me to throw the mother fecker of all tantrums come 6.35pm Sunday night.
Sunday is my last day off after the 6 werks summer holiday...so God help the first little kicky spitty mofo brat who messes with me.
BTW...if I ain't around next week it wont be cos of the result...it will just mean that Mrs RCL has read this and I will be in the back garden doing a passable impressionof the Grenade Keeper.