Here is an idea for a bit of fun for a few days while we wait for the Villa game over Christmas..
10 questions for you to try to answer about Arsenal..
(I don’t know if you can google the answers but it may be fun not to)…
1… Name 5 other sports that have been played at our old Highbury stadium?
2…How long did the emirates take to build? (in weeks and days) not planning time or anything..
3…When was the last time that Arsenal fielded an all English team?
4… What was the common name of the Arsenal North End for the first 50 years of Highbury?
5.. In 2006 Arsenal had more players in the World cup than any other team.. How many players were involved?
6… Name 2 bizarre injuries that David Seaman picked up not playing football?
7… What unusual animal is named after Gilberto in London Zoo? (if it’s still alive)
8…How many Spuds have moved 5 miles down the Seven Sisters Road to play for Arsenal?
9… We all say no player that leaves Arsenal does any good.. How many have left us to go on to win the European Cup/Champions League?
10… The Spuds had an animal given to them on a tour, but on the day Arsenal took their place in the old First Division in 1919 it died and a famous football phrase was started what was it?
To the best of my knowledge I have the correct answers.. I had some fun and learned a bit about our great football club I hope you do too..
It may be a bit of fun to put a question in the comments then whoever answers it asks another question and so on.. If that makes sense.. 
Have a great day Roadsters and stay warm..
avenell
JonJon
What a great post and being the all knowing Arsenal supporter that I am I could answer…………..none.
Hi ave … excellent fun post…. unlike London, I obviously know all th answers but don’t want to spoil it for the rest of you
Here’s some alternative answers..
Q.1
Dwarf throwing … won by AA
Blind man’s buff … Arsene
Pin the tail on the donkey
World gurning championship … Keown
Pocket Billiards … I won
Q.2
Too f***ing long
Q.3
Arsenal ladies this season
Q. 4 …. do you want me to carry on …
Go on then Rasp .. prove it..
I have some good news for everyone if you are about..
And the good news is?
We have signed a new striker
The placenta worked after all and Van Persie will be available for the Villa game.
Vermaelen has got a brother who is even better.
A loop hole has been found in Theo’s contract and he is not really an Arsenal player.
Er no better than that..
We are moving back to Highbury
All the beer is free for the Villa game?
At the cost of £300 million we are cutting our capacity down by 28,000 lol..
No London.. Avenell Road’s next post should be featured on NewsNow..
It should give us access to the same amount of traffic other blogs have had for ages..
Frank Lampard has come out of the closet?
Well that’s the easy part but now comes the hard bit — someone has got to write it….I’m howling with laughter here.
Who do you reckon the Premiership manager who visits brothels is?
Ave
I missed the joke: what do you mean cutting the capacity?
That easy part took 10 months..
Moving back to Highbury..
Don’t know, what do you call a Premier manager who visits brothals?
Hopefully Rafa or Alex..
By the way congratulations on getting the site on News Now, how did you do it?
rico and me have been emailing them for months in the end they caved in..
It could change things from a little community to a more open blog..
I hope that is a good thing..
I will be on my best behavour
Stay off the Emirates warming up fluid..
nice smiley.. Is that really you London?
1… Name 5 other sports that have been played at our old Highbury stadium?
croquet,netball,curling,bowls and synchronised swimming.
2…How long did the emirates take to build? (in weeks and days) not planning time or anything..
About 2500 years until they ran out of sand
3…When was the last time that Arsenal fielded an all English team?
racist
4… What was the common name of the Arsenal North End for the first 50 years of Highbury?
Sandbanks
5.. In 2006 Arsenal had more players in the World cup than any other team.. How many players were involved?
17.5
6… Name 2 bizarre injuries that David Seaman picked up not playing football?
groin strain and hernia
7… What unusual animal is named after Gilberto in London Zoo? (if it’s still alive)
The brazilian orungutan
8…How many Spuds have moved 5 miles down the Seven Sisters Road to play for Arsenal?
I bag full
9… We all say no player that leaves Arsenal does any good.. How many have left us to go on to win the European Cup/Champions League?
655
10… The Spuds had an animal given to them on a tour, but on the day Arsenal took their place in the old First Division in 1919 it died and a famous football phrase was started what was it?
The dogs bollocks
simples
You was within 1.5 on one of the questions and a thigh muscle away on another..
One bag full
LMAO
Woop Woop Woop
News Now paid off then ave…. I reckon it was the November posts that clinched it
Oh,. Hello everyone are we all ready for Santa..
At last someone sensible..
ave – many on here have written good posts, many like me have written bad one’s in 2009, London and JJ have many from the heart to cause a ‘mass debate’ but, if ever there is a post that suits the fun, holiday and celebration times it this one….
Good on you
Where ave, I thought it was now just you and me
By the way Ave, if the next post, which will probably be the Villa report, is going to be the first that goes on News Now I will butt out and leave the honours to you guys who put the work in. I mention this so we don’t double up.
I love Kelsey’s post, it gets better the more I read it.
Where’s jonjon?
He was the one who wanted Newsnow the most.. There will be a few I am sure he would like to read one of his posts..
London you can do it if you want you have put a fair shift in too, I have just had to tidy up behind you
No seriously it isn’t a problem, rico doesn’t do match reports and I don’t mind.
Hi all
Kelsey you’re brilliant
Look at that – pink sheets London
Well done ave and rico for all your hard work nagging News Now…….is it tomorrow?
It’s a shame this post above couldn’t have been the first, it sets a nice friendly tone.
I don’t mean is it tomorrow now I mean is it tomorrow that Avenell Rd is featured on News Now…….
Hello Peaches
Nice sheets
Hi Peaches.. I am hoping it’s the next post.. They emailed me and I have replied, but it is as always in their hands..
and the next post is when the 10 questions have been answered correctly..
You mean Kelsey’s answers aren’t all correct?
2 were nearly..
try and google them, they might be there..
Errrm.
Well I know Henry Cooper boxed at Highbury.
It’s a start
Yep….
bonjour mon amigos…
dont know any of those answers..i should go support chelsea..
is AR really on NN??
How many players have gone onto win the Champions League? Two: Silvinho, Van Bronhaust or perhaps three did Hleb pick up a meddle?
Evening Chav..
We will find out if we keep posting..
London.. my book is a couple of years old so I have to guess Henry as being one..
Don’t forget European Cups are counted too..
Opps, I forgot Henry.
That’s a good point about Hleb.. does it count if you don’t feature?
European Cups…..bloody hell….I can’t imagine anyone did that…..well it wasn’t Eddy McGoldrick that’s for sure…..got it…..Ray Kennedy.
Hleb must have featured in enough games to have got a meddle.
I was there ave, good old ‘enry.
Do you want me to have another go at the quiz, I have a feeling Phil Brown might be the one i got wrong in London Zoo
Well done on News Now
Spunky tore his shoulder whilst fishing!!
He didn’t play in the final.. but I will count him in if you want..
Ray Kennady makes 5 then a few more..
Spuds saved.
Jimmy Robertson, Pat Jennings, Sol in recent years. Must be more
AFC players at WC 2006. JD, Swiss Phil, Theo, WG, Sol, Jens, Dennis, RvP, TH, , Kolo (?) Ade, Freddie, Lauren, Gilberto, Ashley
I have 15. Just a guess though
well its busier on here than it was yesterday..
has everyone been doing some last minute xmas shopping??
thats my excuse anyway..
Rico.. that’s half of that question correct.
Didn’t Seamo injure himself in the “bathroom” …… a wrist injury?
Raddy yeah a few more, a few you will have heard of..
the World cup question.. bloody close..
Or was it Seamo who damaged his hand prior to a WC…. It hink it was due to catching his wedding ring
No not in this book Raddy about Seaman..
Big Raddy Says:
December 23, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Didn’t Seamo injure himself in the “bathroom” …… a wrist injury?
Where are going with that one,raddy.
A lot of people could discuss that one Kelsey..
ave – the second has just come back to me as i reached for the tv remote
That is how he got injured, grabbing the tv thingy to quickly when he saw spurs on the televiaion…
rico.. yep he damaged his knee ligaments reaaching for the remote control..
Hoorah, I never thought he was a ***K*R anyway
and he did his shoulder in landing a 26lb Carp.. lol..
North Bank?
Gillespie Road Stand ?
North Terrace?
Raddy Clue..there was a shop/factory there.. it was named after that..
OK.
2. Boxing, Rugby, Cricket, American Football, Darts
3/5 on that one..
2 and baseball and the 1948 olympics which raddy told me was great.
Not darts then……
Lacrosse, Netball, Greyhound racing?
Give up on the stand name. I remember walking passed the factory, but not it’s name. In fact I used to queue up outside it. There was a sweet shop there as well.
Isnt no 4 just the clock end….
That’s one of the Kelsey Baseball..
3. 1962
10. Got to be a parrot, as in “sick as a parrot”.
The Clock end is the South stand/terrace.. opposite the er North bank..
No it was before the North bank was called the north Bank..
And when I went to London zoo there was a a Giant Anteater named after Gilberto..
Sick as a parrot.. spot on Raddy..
the olympics were partly held at highbury,and stamford bridge and wembley in 1948
Anteater is correct too rico..
The answer to 3 is more recent than that..
3. 1987
We are flying now…..
AvWhat is the answer to 5.
I know I was close, but was unsure about Africans
3 later still..
No doesn’t mention the olympics..
3. 1992
the answer to 5 is 16 Raddy .. I will have to look it up if you want to know who..
Raddy 3.. very warm now
Dinner on the table…..
Kelsey. Will get in touch tomorrow. No time today……
Night All
1993? or 1994?
Anyway, wish you all the best ave now that AR is on Newsnow it should fly…
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year… be good…
2.Hockey?
Hi Raddy – we have masses of snow in north london – you didn’t need to move to Copenhagen after all
Hockey is right too Peaches.. I think there is one more..
Rico 1994 was the last all English Arsenal team..
3.1994?
I put my 1994 in and hadn’t seen ricos
Oh well..
You can have the point if you name them..
2. 135 weeks and 4 days
Close but I have a different answer in this book I used.. where did you get that from Peaches..
I made it up …..
How close?
Within a few months..
Well I know now cos I’ve looked it up……
How are you ave – all things good in your house?
Yes not bad thanks.. no snow though.. just a bit of icy hail yesterday..
Not a good time to have a bad foot..
I won’t give in The Football Olympics wwere held at Highbury.
This began on July 26, 1948 with a preliminary round of two matches: Luxembourg defeating Afghanistan 6-0 and the Netherlands beating Ireland 3-1, with Faas Wilkes scoring two goals for the Dutch. In the first round, which began five days later, the Netherlands played Great Britain at Highbury,
You are most likely correct Kelsey..
But the five other sports were.. Baseball, Boxing, Cricket, Hockey and Rugby..
Should have saved that question for Avenell’s new years day quiz..
Fabregas has been on fire these days. I was really impressed by his performance at the Liverpool match. I heard that he got really mad at the team during half time break.
well ive been searching the web high and low for ages and im none the wiser…
i got more answers from you lot… lol
im off out for abit xmas shopping cos i hate to leave things last minute..
Evening Mr Fabregas.. it’s an honour..
Fabregas, may I ask where you are from?
Was it called ‘The Laundry End’ ave?
Very good Raspno..
We’re nearly there now I think..
right ive got one..
ive been reading through my arsenal history books..
and the last time we fielded an all english side was against wimbledon on 19th april 1994
seaman
dixon
bould
adams
keown
parlour
davis
selley
campbell
wright
smith
i know its already been answered but surely for my effort i get extra marks…
Why was it called the laundry end?
I was just typing the answers.. I could have saved myself the effort..
Nice one JJ.. How was shopping?
Peaches..
In the early 1960s, the North Bank was simply called ‘The Laundry End.’ That had been its nickname ever since Highbury was built, testament to the steam laundry behind the ground in Gillespie Road.
I think there was a big laundry company there
Evening Paul… have you any Arsenal quiz questions we can have a go at answering?
Evidently the laundry helped us keep a lot of clean sheets
Who did Bertie Mee replace as Arsenal Manager
Billy Wright? ….
He married Joy Beverly of the Beverly sisters. They lived in Barnet and used to come into my garden centre. She did all the talking, but he was a much greater star in my eyes … wasn’t he the most capped england footballer ever?
Yes but a shite manager nearly got us relegated if i remember rightly
I saw the Beverley sisters – the twins – at Brent X last year…..
Get it right rasp 3 E’s………
cheers ave..
the post is fun..
shopping was not..its a blizzard up here and everyone was getting in eachothers way and i lost my rag and came home after an hour..
lmao paul..cleen sheets..
Rasp
If they lived in Barnet and used to go into your garden centre, said garden centre must have been in or close to Barnet which means you know the area very well. I bet it would take very little to find someone we have in common.
Although, admittedly, you might not want to do that lol
Hadley, Totteridge or Arkley
I wonder
Silly you London – you both have me in common
Haha London …. no I’m actually from the posh side of lowly old Enfield. I went to the Latymer so mixed with quite a few ‘well off’ kids from the Hadley Wood / Barnet area though.
Was that Tooting Common or Hampstead Common?
I deny everything – I haven’t been to Tooting Common or Hampstead Common with either of you …….
That was fun, night night
Agh I missed all the fun
Question: Name the brother and sister to have played for the Arsenal (evidently one played/plays for the Ladies team)?
Morning all,
The laundry was originally called Gift Day in Gillespie road.
Here’s another.
Which player scored against Everton for 5 different PL clubs ?
Morning Kelsey
I think that is Anelka
Bloody hell, London that was quick. Your turn
Irishgunner Says:
December 24, 2009 at 1:13 am
Agh I missed all the fun
Question: Name the brother and sister to have played for the Arsenal (evidently one played/plays for the Ladies team)?
Lady Gaga and Freedie Mercury in a duel sex role
Morning Roadsters.. I have put the anawers to the quiz up in a NEW POST.