Arsenal had their annual Christmas lunch at London Colney this afternoon, and following in tradition, the entertainment was provided by Steve Bould’s Under 18’s.
The clubs Academy players put weeks of practice into action, as they gave their own rendition of the Christmas classics ‘Jingle Bells’, ‘Winter Wonderland’ and ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’ in front of the first-team, Reserves and coaching staff. The young Gunners were assisted by summer recruits Sébastien Squillaci and Marouane Chamakh, while captain Cesc Fàbregas also joined in.
The tradition is a long standing one at Arsenal and goes back to when the likes of Ray Parlour were cutting their teeth at the club.
brilliant tradition.
Very good tradition.. De morale should be high coz traditions lik these 1’s makes it lik 1 big family and long may it last…
Hope someone recorded it. right?
come on everybody, we wish you a merry christmas!!!!
HAHAHAHA
Morale high because the U18’s sing the 1st team a few christmas carols??? Don’t think so
95% of our 1st team wouldn’t know any of those carols. Quite how Chamakh and Squill joined I’ll never their English is awful. They’ve been here 5 months and haven’t educated themselves at all.
Stoke will relish playing us tomorrow and all this fun and festivity will be long forgotten when Kenwyne Jones powers through our soft underbelly
good on ya negative nelly- what the hell would you know really!
You know Jingle bells and all those christmas songs are well known around the world. Well a sp*d who has never left engerland would not realize this.
HAHAHA MONTEY! You must be the most bitter and dull idiot there is. Fuck off with your “English is best” shit. ALl the top teams are owned by foregins, all the top players are foregins. England sucks in football(look at internationals). you may want the english loosers in your team, but look at top 4 in PL. ALl the stars are foregin, non are english. Only one remotly good is Rooney.
Totally agree s… Spot on 100%
oh and ironically montey. Most of the kids with less than 5 months education probably has more than your entire family together. Inbread English pfft. COme back when you have a REAL nationaity behind your name.
calling monty bitter and dull is maybe understandable but attacking a nationality on it’s website is clearly just being a dickhead
This is for the attention of s, there is nothing wrong with England or being English. In fact the club this page is dedicated to is English, a language which is clearly foreign (not foregin you idiot) to you, at least learn the language if you are going to slag English people off.
And by the way, I happen to agree that currently the majority of top players are foreign. I just hope the likes of Jack Wilshere, Kieran Gibbs and Henri Lansbury (plus others) change that in the not too distant future.
To be fair to s, there are plenty of fans like Monty who complain about zenaphobia towards arsenal but secretly would chuck most of our players out to replace them with english talent given the chance, dont matter if they deserve the chance, if you’re english your good enough, if your name sounds like denilson you’re not – sort of attitude
The only ones i rate as highly as our overseas players atm are wilshere and gibbs
Boy we could do with Lansbury heart , passion in the first team js are surprised he’s on loan
Heart and commitment these days come mainly from being old enough to appreciate its importance. Most of our young first team do not get it not because they are foreign, but because they are not mature enough to get it, nor mature enough to stop respecting reputations, nor, ironically, old enough to have won anything which is how you stop respecting reputations and fight harder on the pitch. Either that or their personalities aren’t quite right to win things. But the link between personality and nationality is extremely tenuous at best.
passion comes from belief not age or nationality- look at the english football team- youd think with that mix of experience and youth theyd be a top team but alas they never win a thing
No fighting kids, ITS CHRISTMAS
Oooh look at me. My name’s MONTY!