So Paddy Got Up: an Arsenal anthology

186 Pages·2011·0.98 MB·English

by  Andrew Mangan

Table of Contents

Title Page
LINE UP
1 – IN THE BEGINNING - Andrew Mangan
2 – ONE GEORGIE GRAHAM - Amy Lawrence
3 – THE ARSENAL: FROM OPEN SEWERS TO OPEN
SANDWICHES - Tim Stillman
4 – DENNIS - Paolo Bandini
5 – HIGHBURY V EMIRATES - Jim Haryott
6 – CONTINUED EVOLUTION - Tom Clark
7 – HERBERT CHAPMAN - Philippe Auclair
8 – WHAT IS ARSENAL? - Julian Harris
9 – LET’S GET DIGITAL - James McNicholas
10 – ALL HAIL THE ALMOST INVINCIBLES - Chris Harris
11 – ARSENAL AND FAMILY - Sian Ranscombe
12 – ARSENE WENGER AND TACTICS - Michael Cox
13 – OUR PRIVATE GARDEN - Tim Bostelle
14 – ARSENAL’S STANDING IN THE MODERN GAME - Stuart
Stratford
15 – WEMBLEY. BASTARD WEMBLEY - Tim Clark
16 – BEHIND THE 8-BALL - Tim Barkwill
17 – ON ARSENAL’S FINANCES : A GAME OF TWO HALVES -
Kieron O’Connor
18 – SUPPORTING ARSENAL FROM AFAR - Leanne Hurley
19 – STRENGTH FROM WITHIN: FROM MEE TO GRAHAM -
David Faber
20 – STAN KROENKE : INVESTOR TO OWNER IN 5 YEARS -
Tim Payton
21 – GLORY DAYS - Jake Morris
22 – FROM CHAMP TO CHAMPIGNON - Jonathan Swan
23 – ON THE ARSENAL BEAT - John Cross
24 – A NEW ARSENAL: BUILT ON A BELL LANE DYNASTY -
Nigel Brown
25 – MR F - Nick Ames
26 – WE’RE ON OUR WAY - Andrew Allen
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Arseblog Presents:

SO PADDY GOT UP
Edited by Andrew Mangan
“Bejesus,’ said Paddy ‘I sang it so well,
I think I’ll get up and I’ll sing it again!’
So Paddy got up and he sang it again, Over and over and over again.”
Bejesus,’ said Paddy ‘I sang it so well, I think I’ll get up and I’ll sing it again!’
So Paddy got up and he sang it again, Over and over and over again.”
(repeat to fade)

Arsenal fans – traditional
To Mrs Blogs, for understanding
First published in 2011 by Portnoy Publishing

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ISBN: 978 0 956981 36 3

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LINE UP

1 - In the Beginning – Andrew Mangan
2 - One Georgie Graham – Amy Lawrence
3 - The Arsenal: From Open Sewers to Open Sandwiches – Tim Stillman
4 - Dennis – Paolo Bandini
5 - Highbury v Emirates – Jim Haryott
6 - Continued Evolution – Tom Clark
7 - Herbert Chapman – Philippe Auclair
8 - What is Arsenal? – Julian Harris
9 - Let’s Get Digital – James McNicholas
10 - All Hail the Almost Invincibles – Chris Harris
11 - Arsenal and Family – Sian Ranscombe
12 - Arsene Wenger and Tactics – Michael Cox
13 - Our Private Garden – Tim Bostelle
14 - Arsenal’s Standing in the Modern Game – Stuart Stratford
15 - Wembley. Bastard Wembley – Tim Clark
16 - Behind the 8-Ball – Tim Barkwill
17 - On Arsenal’s Finances: A Game of Two Halves – Kieron O’Connor
18 - Supporting Arsenal From Afar – Leanne Hurley
19 - Strength From Within: From Mee to Graham – David Faber
20 - Stan Kroekne: Investor to Owner in Five Years – Tim Payton
21 - Glory Days – Jake Morris
22 - From Champ to Champignon – Jonathan Swan
23 - On the Arsenal Beat – John Cross
24 - A New Arsenal: Built on a Bell Lane Dynasty – Nigel Brown
25 - Mr F – Nick Ames
26 - We’re On Our Way – Andrew Allen
Acknowledgements
1 – IN THE BEGINNING - Andrew Mangan

‘How do you write a blog every day for 10 years?’

Well, it’s quite simple. You get up every morning. You go to the bathroom, after
which you make coffee, you take said coffee to your office upstairs/across the
hall/in the back bedroom (location has changed due to various house moves),
and you sit down and write it. Depending on seasons/location you work wearing
a dressing gown and slippers or shorts and flip-flops (this is what I call the
Dublin/Barcelona dichotomy). You do that 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for
nigh on ten years and it becomes something of a habit; part of your routine. If
you wake in the morning with a bladder that needs emptying, soon enough you
wake up with a head that needs emptying. Not of piss, thankfully. That would
suggest a serious leak or some badly plumbed pipes. But essentially that’s how.
You sit, you drink coffee, you scour the morning papers (well, their websites),
you flooter around on NewsNow, perhaps a bit of Google News, lately a bit of
Twitter, and then you bash it out. Spell check it, still miss a few errors, wait for
le correction, and publish. Simple.

‘Why have you written a blog every day for ten years?’

Well, because I found a subject matter I love, because, as I explained above, my
head needs to metaphorically (no Redknappian ‘literally’ here) piss out words,
and because I really love doing it. Ok, there are some mornings when I might
have taken a drink the night before when I don’t exactly feel full of the joys of
spring, but I could count on one hand the amount of times I’ve opened an eye
and said ‘Mrs Blogs, there are about 513 things I’d rather do now than write a
blog’. And you know me, being a moderate drinker at the best of times, it tends
to affect me if I have more than a couple of halves of shandy. Or halves of
bottles of Havana Club.
The why, back then, was because it was something new, interesting, exciting
and which allowed me to write. The why now, well, I write a blog because that’s
what I do. Some people have peculiar talents. Contortionists, for example, who
can pick their nose with their toes, or that bloke who was in that freaky circus
and discovered that he was able to lift heavy weights which were attached by a
hook to his scrotum. Don’t ask me how he discovered this was his talent, but I
find it unlikely that Scrotumy Joe had a moment of serendipity when his life’s
calling was made clear to him. What I do might not be as niche as those two but