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🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 | Storyteller | Board @arsenalamerica & @mspgooners Gaffer | ♥️ 🫖 & @Arsenal | 🐈 Dad | #Feminist , #Antifascist , #BLM , #verit àpergiulioregeni

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@laurielaker
Laurie Laker
10 months
I’ll just say this; In a world of Joey Barton’s, be an Ian Wright.
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7 months
I’ve watched it again and let me tell you; Martin Ødegaard took that loss at St. James’ Park personally. Man was an absolute demon today. Possessed.
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Laurie Laker
5 months
"That tells you their standard." — Thierry Henry
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Ben Jacobs
5 months
Spurs losing and fans gleefully chanting, "Are you watching Arsenal"🤷‍♂️
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Laurie Laker
5 months
"Ben White is the thinking man's shithouse." — @IanWright0 on today's episode of @WrightysHouse . Absolutely glorious.
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1 year
“If the pass, attempt to gain possession or clearance by the player in control of the ball is inaccurate or unsuccessful, this does not negate the fact that the player ‘deliberately played’ the ball.” As per the rules, the goal should’ve stood.
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Laurie Laker
8 years
Look at this, @FA - Adam looks directly at Sanchez on the ground, w/ space & time to avoid him. Instead, he stamps on him. Action, please.
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7 months
Today I kissed complete strangers from Somalia and hugged pals from Colombia. I chest bumped with Americans, I toasted with Englishmen. I leapt into the arms of Turks. Lost my head with South Asians. This. Football. Club. The Arsenal. #Arsenal #AFC #COYG #UTA @arsenalamerica
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Laurie Laker
7 years
Wow, #MOTD2 ...just wow. That. Was. Absolute. Poverty. Sorry we ruined your narrative and broke some small timers hearts. Not a single mention of how we played, defended very, very well, made chances, got fouled repeatedly, should've had a man advantage etc. Jog on. Useless. #AFC
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Laurie Laker
5 years
My football club.
@brfootball
B/R Football
5 years
He looked so lost when all the other mascots ran off... so Arsenal players invited him into their team photo ❤️
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4 months
Everyone take a moment to wish the main man himself, @clivepafc a very happy birthday. One of the very best of us, a true gentleman, and lover of all things Hugo Boss. Happy birthday mate. 🍻
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Laurie Laker
6 months
Very dodgy hashtag for our next fixture, lol #ARSLUT
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Laurie Laker
11 months
This weekend I fulfilled a longstanding dream; to be a host for a major Arsenal event. We had 350+ at our pub for the Midwest Meetup 2023. I’m proud beyond words. Thank you @MSPGooners , @arsenalamerica , and @TheLocalMpls . This is a special, special football club. ♥️🔴⚪️♥️
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Laurie Laker
7 years
700 wins for Arsene Wenger, OBE. Simply the greatest manager we will ever see at our club, make no bones about it. He's divisive, maligned, but resolute and dedicated. He loves this club. It's his club as much as any of ours. Beyond respect. In awe. Legend.
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Laurie Laker
10 months
1 point from 12. Keep that hard evidence going!
@guardian_sport
Guardian sport
10 months
Spurs show hard evidence they are the real deal under Ange Postecoglou | Barney Ronay
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Laurie Laker
7 months
Reppin’ innit’?! ♥️🔴⚪️♥️
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Laurie Laker
9 months
And just like that, I’m 35!!! 🥳 Bugger me, I hope we win today. A birthday win at Anfield would be the best. COYG!!!
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Laurie Laker
3 months
Just going to say this — Benjamin White was right the whole time. The England coaching and managerial setup is not a serious one.
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Laurie Laker
6 months
Had to be done.
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Laurie Laker
5 months
Never, ever thought I’d say this but fair fucks to Richard Keys for this.
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gunnerzvideoz
5 months
Man City’s 115 charges in details 🤯
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Laurie Laker
4 years
Anyone advocating for Costa at the Arsenal can simply get in the bin forever. Thank you, next.
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Laurie Laker
3 years
Ben White has been an absolute titan tonight.
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Laurie Laker
6 months
These two. Wow. Just wow.
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@xGPhilosophy
The xG Philosophy
6 months
Erling Haaland has accumulated 0.24(xG) against Arsenal in his last three appearances against them.
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Laurie Laker
8 years
This May interview on @BBCOne w/ @afneil is as horrifying as it is engaging. Neil fabulous. A genuine inquest of information and whits.
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Laurie Laker
1 year
Big Billy Saliba gets home from the ground tonight. Gate opens, Audi in park. Through the door. He kicks his shoes off, shuffles them to the side. Vintage Gucci jacket off, over the end of the banister. En route to the lounge, hands in pockets next to side table. Pulls out…
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Laurie Laker
5 months
Couldn't have happened to a bigger bellend.
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Laurie Laker
4 years
Actually crying. Thank you @GilbertoSilva !! COYG!!!
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@laurielaker
Laurie Laker
4 years
UPDATE: YOUR BOY GOT A JOB OFFER!!!!
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Laurie Laker
4 years
Update! Moved onto the second, and final, round! Another hour-long interview tomorrow morning! *Insert prayers to Bergkamp, Satan, and all Womyn Goddesses and Deities here*
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Laurie Laker
4 years
THIS. RIGHT. HERE.
@ProudSocialist
Power to the People ☭🕊
4 years
Corporate Democrats are 1980s Republicans and Republicans are far-right fascists. That is how far to the right the political spectrum has moved over the last 40 years on economic issues and that is why we need to keep fighting like hell to move left!
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Laurie Laker
3 years
Good lads. UTA.
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Laurie Laker
5 months
This energy today, boys. Let’s fucking have it.
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Laurie Laker
5 years
I’m having a party when Dean retires. You’re all invited.
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Laurie Laker
5 years
BTW, just...*HOW* has Eric Dier avoided ANY punishment or repercussion for literally wading 20+ rows into the crowd and laying into a fan?!?! HOW?!!?
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Laurie Laker
9 years
Talk about #squadgoals ... Best GIF, of all time. Bar none. #arsenal #footballfunnies #toogood
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Laurie Laker
4 years
Dear @adidasfootball & @Arsenal - how, seriously asking here, how have you botched the 50th anniversary of the 70-71 double side so, so badly with these new kits? It's not a hard thing to get right, it would beat your 90s retro line by tenfold. Please, we beg you, reconsider.
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Laurie Laker
9 months
This one, always, is for @TheGoonerholic . Miss and love you, Dave. Thanks for being a friend. ♥️🍻
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Laurie Laker
3 years
Listening to @clivepafc say, "Put down a marker. Man City, we are coming for you" on the reaction @ArsenalVPodcast . Jesus Christ. My blood is UP. We're on our way, lads. Let's fucking go.
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9 months
Reppin innit?! COYG! ♥️🔴⚪️♥️ #AFC #COYG #UTA #Arsenal #ArsenalAmerica
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Laurie Laker
8 years
Sutton fans chanting, "You're just a French Jimmy Saville" at Wenger. Classy, so nice. Magic of the cup. Bastards. Humiliate them, lads.
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Laurie Laker
8 years
🇬🇧Bloodied, but unbowed. 🇬🇧 #LondonStrong #Westminster
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Laurie Laker
9 months
Happy Christmas, Gooners!!! May your stockings be brimming with red and white cheer, and your cups runneth over with drinks and good beer!!! COYG!!! ♥️🎄🔴⚪️🎄♥️ #Arsenal #AFC #COYG #UTA #GoonerChristmas #ArsenalAmerica #Gooners #VCC #Christmas
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Laurie Laker
8 years
I just published “631,138,519.87 Seconds”
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Laurie Laker
7 months
I should bring them down from within.
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Laurie Laker
11 months
In with the fans, as a fan. Wrighty is all of us.
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Ian Wright
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Laurie Laker
5 years
This is the single best paragraph I’ve ever read on the titanic shitestorm that is #Brexit . It’s emotional, powerful, and worth your time. @GarethRoberts3 - thank you for your work and your courage in sharing it. #bollockstobrexit #remain #RevokeArticle50 #European
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Gareth Roberts
5 years
Very proud to have written the first piece for the Politics Punked website... read it here....
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Laurie Laker
5 months
Can't watch today as I have an interview (YAY!!!) at exactly kickoff and then a client meeting right afterwards. Lads, I don't care how or what it takes, just please, please, please...win tonight. That's all. COYG!!!
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Laurie Laker
10 months
@travellingred77 If by that you mean aware and cognisant of social inequalities, injustice, and systematic oppression and discrimination — aka being a decent, fully compassionate person — then yeah, be woke. 100%. Clearly for a lover of literature you're unable to correctly define your terms.
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Laurie Laker
6 months
♥️🔴⚪️♥️
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Laurie Laker
4 years
@Arsenal Please don’t break Martinelli, please don’t break Martinelli, please don’t break Martinelli...
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Laurie Laker
6 months
Today was one of the heaviest, grief-laden days of my life. The entirety of my last two years just...exploded out of me. I don't want to go into details, but right now I'm feeling utterly broken, hollowed out, and defeated by, well, everything. Here's to a better tomorrow.
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@laurielaker
Laurie Laker
5 years
Update: I bought it. 😍😍😍😍😍😍
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Laurie Laker
5 years
Should I? It's over $130...
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Laurie Laker
3 months
Being tactically, intellectually, and sportingly rubbish as managers in 2024: Gregg Berhalter 🤝 Gareth Southgate
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Laurie Laker
3 years
Martinelli and Saka woke up today and chose violence. I love it.
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Laurie Laker
5 years
Abysmal refereeing today, btw.
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Laurie Laker
5 years
Bit of personal news; I got the promotion, title change, and raise I was pitching for. Finally. Such a relief, feels so, so wonderful. Happy days! Time for a celebration!
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Laurie Laker
6 years
@BLarsenAFC1886 @bbcsport_david This is the correct response.
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Laurie Laker
7 months
Bullshit. You and your team - that’s my national team for the record - can’t wrap your tiny little minds around the fact that Benjamin doesn’t play into your little pashun wankfest and is actually a fully rounded person with interests beyond the game. Piss off.
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afcstuff
7 months
Gareth Southgate on White’s omission: “We had a call from Edu last week to say that Ben didn’t want to be considered for England squads at this time. For me, that’s a great shame, he’s a player I really like.” 🎥 @SkySportsNews
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Laurie Laker
4 years
This is absolutely astounding. Please, please, watch it.
@brexit_sham
Brexitshambles
4 years
@DMinghella @vicderbyshire @BBCNews BBC have posted the whole video. Sobering, candid and moving. Urge everybody to take the six minutes to watch and listen:
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Laurie Laker
5 years
I'm from England. My uncle played for The Arsenal. It's in my blood. My kids will be fourth generation Arsenal supporters. I've lived in the U.S. since 2001, and I've met as many passionate, dedicated people, who love our club as any born and bread N5 native who goes home/away.
@jessicas0226
Jessica 🎗
5 years
I’ve been an @Arsenal fan for nearly 20 years yet never seen them live. My boyfriend captured my reaction as @MesutOzil1088 @LacazetteAlex @Aubameyang7 entered the pitch. Thank you for visiting us, Gooners. @PLinUSA @PLinUSA @arsenalamerica #arsenalinusa
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Laurie Laker
3 years
Bought a house. Popped bottles. First Friday. Let’s get fancy.
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Laurie Laker
11 months
He won’t win the TV award, but Tomiyasu has been my MOTM tonight. Just a very, very good defender, who’s really come back into the side strongly. After such a long layoff and his injury worries, to say nothing of his mental health and anxiousness, I’m so pleased for him.
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Laurie Laker
5 months
No yellow given. Smh.
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Laurie Laker
4 years
Can't believe it's almost been a year since we lost @TheGoonerholic . I miss Dave so much. So many do. What a man. One of the true honours of my life to have been able to call him a friend.
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Laurie Laker
7 years
Dolores O'Riordan's music, her voice, came into my life when I needed that anguish, that power, that close-held vulnerability. Zombie was the first song I learned on guitar, the first song I performed live. Her voice was - is - chillingly unique. Rest well, Dolores. Thank you.
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Laurie Laker
5 years
Don't ever tell me that "foreign fans" don't get it, don't love the club in the same way. Ever. Bugger off with your xenophobia-tinged, Little Englander mentality. However you got into The Arsenal, yesterday or 50 year ago - you're welcome, you matter. You're one of us.
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Laurie Laker
10 months
They really really really HATE Mikel
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Laurie Laker
1 year
@dipatach @thearsenalscout An attempted block is a deliberate action.
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Laurie Laker
5 months
Grandad would've absolutely fucking loved that. May have a little Tuesday night tipple in his honour. Blended Scotch, neat. UP THE ARSENAL!!!
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Laurie Laker
5 months
Today would've been my grandad's 104th birthday. He'd absolutely love where Arsenal are now, even if he'd not quite grasp the intricacies of an inverted fullback or left 8. I'm so, so proud to be his grandson and lucky beyond words to have inherited his love of this club. COYG!
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Laurie Laker
4 years
Just brilliant. Watch it.
@ITVWales
ITV Wales News
4 years
Remember Owen Filer, the 100-year-old that no-one could quite believe? @robosborneitv caught back up with Owen in the midst of this global pandemic to reflect on his life - and hear his thoughts about this time we are all living through
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3 years
INJECT IT
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Laurie Laker
6 months
Between Villa and this match, I’m remembering why I blocked or unfollowed A LOT of people. Morons and cowards, out in force.
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Laurie Laker
4 years
Update! I GOT THE JOB!!! AHHHH!!! GET IN!!! I'll be in a challenging new and exciting role with a wonderful nonprofit @HAP_MN . Couldn't be more honoured, thrilled, and eager to get going!
@laurielaker
Laurie Laker
4 years
Update! Moved onto the second, and final, round! Another hour-long interview tomorrow morning! *Insert prayers to Bergkamp, Satan, and all Womyn Goddesses and Deities here*
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Laurie Laker
3 years
Hello, it’s me. Micro-preemie over here. 10 weeks premature and weighing in at 1lb 1oz. Should be dead. Very much alive. Grateful beyond words. Thank you @NHSuk , @GreatOrmondSt , Dr. J N G Evans, Dr. Gavin Morrison and everyone other one who kept me here. #WorldPrematurityDay
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Laurie Laker
6 months
I really don’t enjoy agreeing with United fans on anything, but this is spot the fuck on.
@markgoldbridge
Mark Goldbridge
6 months
The Man City truth!
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Laurie Laker
4 years
As a proud patron of some delicious Arsenal content, it really is a honour for @YankeeGunner to let us in on his most intimate of moments...
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Laurie Laker
10 months
’tis the season 🎄🔴⚪️🎄
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Laurie Laker
7 years
Dear #StanKroenke - GET. THE. HELL. OUT. OF. OUR. CLUB. #kroenkeout (via @jmwerner123 )
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Laurie Laker
4 years
The last of the Guinness. For the very, very best of us, Dave @TheGoonerholic . I love and miss you, mate. Thank you for the honour and privilege of your friendship. Cheers, ‘holic - see you in the drinks.
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Laurie Laker
5 years
I see Pep, and I raise you... Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger, OBE.
@GaryLineker
Gary Lineker
5 years
I’ll say it for him. He’s had, arguably, the most positive influence of anyone, ever on our game. 👏🏻👏🏻
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Laurie Laker
4 years
How it started: ➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️➡️ how it's going:
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Laurie Laker
9 months
Just because the rats are out in full voice, let me as clear as I possibly can be: AFTV and any of their iterations or individuals have absolutely no place in this club, this supporter community, or proffering their opinions on anything resembling football. End of.
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Laurie Laker
6 months
Not mine but sharing: Man City are now favourites to win a fourth Premier League in a row. Amazing what can be achieved with £2 billion, a manager with an offshore account, a suspended 2-year ban from European competition and 115 charges of financial irregularity. What a story.
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Laurie Laker
3 years
October 14, 2023. It's happening.💍♥️ P.S. - and yes, the numbers 10 and 14 were a part of my eagerness to book that particular date.
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Laurie Laker
9 months
Home office being redone means I finally have room for some more Arsenal gear. Special shoutout to my late grandad for the autographs from the great 1930's side, his favourite time as Gooner. #Arsenal #AFC #COYG #UTA #TheArsenal #Gooners
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Laurie Laker
2 years
A really tough, not good, very bad day. Hoping tomorrow will be better. Good energies, vibes, thoughts would be appreciated. My head above water. Just keep swimming. Keep going, Laurie. Keep going.
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Laurie Laker
10 months
Fuck my bank account, I guess.
@afcstuff
afcstuff
10 months
🚨 Adidas will release a special retro Arsenal collection in late 2024, featuring the trefoil logo & classic Arsenal crest. It is not known if the collection will also feature a remake kit, but it is possible Adidas will use shirts from that period (1986-1994) as inspiration for
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Laurie Laker
4 years
Interview in just under an hour. Kindly send positivity, vibes, energy, and entire rainbows of well-wishes my way.
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Laurie Laker
3 years
Just gonna say this: Wenger was right about pretty much everything regarding officials in this league.
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Laurie Laker
7 years
IDK who this Frankie is, but I want to buy them a drink and hug them.
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Laurie Laker
8 years
I don't care what people say. This man, this wonderful, patient, brilliant man is the greatest figure I've ever known in football. #Wenger20
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Laurie Laker
4 years
Lamella has the most punchable face in modern football.
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Laurie Laker
5 months
Just a reminder: fuck every single thing, top to bottom, about Man City. 115 FC.
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