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She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Arsenal’s Wembley Song

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The Arsenal first wore a golden Yellow shirt in the FA CUP final in 1950 and again in the 1971 final. From elder fan’s I have spoke to the “she wore a yellow ribbon” song was sung in the late 50’s but took until the 70’s to really become popular.
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Like all football songs old and new they are ripped off from a popular song and ‘she wore a yellow ribbon’ comes from a 1949 John Wayne’s film of the same name. It become a song that was sung in different army regiments as well as other football clubs, West Ham and Villa have a claret version, but it was The Arsenal that made the song our own with 3 cup finals in a row 1978/79/80.

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What did she wear ??
She wore, she wore,
She wore a yellow ribbon,
She wore a yellow ribbon,
In the merry month of May!
And when, I asked,
Oh why she wore her ribbon,
She said it’s for The Arsenal,
And we’re going to Wembley!
Wembley,
Wembley,
We’re the famous Arsenal,
And we’re going to Wembley!


This website was formed in 2007 and named after the song and in 2011 when the club ran the competition ‘build a banner’ a ‘she wore a yellow ribbon’ banner was made and sits proudly in the North East corner of the ground.

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10 Reasons why we will beat Everton + starting X1

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1) Everton haven’t beaten us at home in 19 games, We have won 15 and drawn 4.

2) We haven’t lost in our last 13 domestic home games, We have won 10 and drawn 3.

3%) Everton’s Prem away record this season played 14, Won 4, drawn 6, lost 4, scored 14, conceded 17.

4) Wenger will of learned from the 1-1 draw in the Prem earlier in the season, hopefully.

5) Wilshere, Ramsey, Kallstrom and Diaby are all injured, meaning the 2 stable old heads of Arteta and Flamni should both play.

6) We are in the unique position were both Chesney and Fabianski are in good form.

7) The players must know this is our best chance of any silverware, beat Everton and there’s only Man City who would trouble us.

8) Giroud has been banging them in away from home, about time he settled down and did the right thing at home…

9) Everton have won only 1 (one) game in the Capital this season, a last min goal away to Westham.

10) Arsene Knows he wants to rest players for this game in the hope of a miracle in Munich, but he knows anything but a strong side will leave him open to big questions if we lose.

I’d start a full strength side, but I have the feeling Wenger will go with..

Chesney, Jenks, Gibbs, BFG, TV, Flamini, Arteta, Ox, Santi, Sanogo, Podolski.

WHAT DID SHE WEAR ???

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Wenger Needs to Rest Players in the Champions League

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With the loss at Stoke on Saturday the league campaign is once again slipping away. I cant see us maintaining a challenge to finish top. Chelsea seem to be bang in form and with City winning the C1C it’ll give them added momentum to move through the gears and start putting the pressure on to Chelsea. It will be a 2 horse race IMO.

We gave a huge effort against Bayern Munich in the first leg and with 11 players on the pitch the game could have taken a different turn. Had we deservedly gone 1-0 up in the first 10 minutes we would have been confident enough to get the win but it didn’t happen like that and now we have the prospect of going out to Munich 3 days after a massive quarter final against Everton in a competition we have a real chance of winning.

Off target: Mesut Ozil missed from the spot in Arsenal's 2-0 defeat against Bayern Munich on Wednesday night

We need to be selective over the game we choose to be more important and ultimately play a weaker side in the game we deem to be less important. Last season Wenger played a weaker than usual side against Blackburn on a Saturday in the FA Cup, as we were due to play Munich at home on the Tuesday after. This ended in disaster with us losing to Blackburn and then going out against Munich. We should have chosen the more important game and gone all out to win it rather than to try and win both, which was beyond us.
Don’t get me wrong, the team we put out against Blackburn should have won comfortably but they didn’t and so you look at the changes made as the reason why. Squad players that came in were Coquelin, Ox, Diaby and Rosicky I think, and Wenger made a total of 7 changes to the team from the previous game.

If we look at the current situation we need to choose the FA Cup game as the one to win and we need to play a strong side which means playing squad players out in Munich. We are fading in the league, top 4 should still be a formality but a title challenge is becoming more and more distant. Being 2-0 down to Munich is a hard result to overturn especially in their own back yard, yes we did beat them last season 2-0 but I can’t see us doing that again. We have Everton in the FA Cup quarter final in a game we can possibly win. If we get through we have a Semi Final at Wembley with a shot at the final. This has to be the game we target.

It raises the question of the fans. Fans that have paid good money to go out to Munich to follow them and support them, if they saw a weakened side they wouldn’t be happy which is understandable. My Step Dad is one of those fans going out there and he has stated the opposite, he would happily go and support the squad players so long as we play full strength in the cup against Everton. I’m not sure if this opinion is across the board with fans going out to Munich, maybe you could let me know your thoughts.

We have a chance of a trophy and we need to do everything we can to get to that final to win it. Id be disappointed if on Saturday we see changes and players rested for the Munich game. Our squad is not the deepest and its too much to ask to be at full strength for both games.
I truly hope Wenger sees it this way and does the right thing!

Cheers for reading

Norby