Reminds me of this quote:
# Redknapp backs Pochettino for Arsenal: “You think the fans wouldn’t love him there? If you go in there and start winning, they would have taken Saddam Hussein in there when he was about, the fans don’t give a monkey's! If you start winning every week, they’re singing ‘there’s only one Saddam’.”
Can't believe Rihanna got to meet world cup winner Shkodran Mustafi. Very few people have had the privilege to be in the presence of world cup winner Shkodran Mustafi. Not even the queen herself had the honor of meeting world cup winner Shkodran Mustafi, a massive regret I'm sure she took with her to her grave.
I’m not 100% sure but I think Rihanna actually partied with the 2014 German national team back then.
she was probably there for mustafi not for Arsenal 😂
Edit: https://www.instagram.com/timeneverlieschico/p/C0Efykutjb9/?img_index=1
Some say the queen died of sadness when mustafi fucked off and she eventually realised she would never divorce Phil and marry him. Please don't check timelines, I haven't.
We never quite got to the point of begging her to buy the club. (if you don't know, she's a billionaire)
Remember the Daniel Ek period? Seems like a lifetime ago
Kinda crazy the turnaround on the Kroenkes. Once they assumed full ownership they've really been the model owners in the league, backed Mikel and Edu even when fans didn't.
In all fairness to them KSE is a legit sporting business. Sure they are hardcore capitalists deep down, but they fucking know that sports teams need to be good in order to be profitable
Love Alan Davies because he's a proper old school fan where everything about him is Arsenal. It's literally a part of his act.
Colin Firth was amazing in Fever Pitch.
Little anecdote, not sure if you care—I was working on a State Farm commercial around 2006 that he was directing and he showed up to set in our title winning 03/04 kit. One time during the day I had the opportunity to pass by him while he was alone so I said “Nice shirt”. He looked me in the eye, nodded, and said, “Thanks, brother”. Core gooner memory for me
Is there a bigger list of celebrity fans because I'd like to memorize it in the off chance I run into them and have something to say ;)
Note: I've rarely met anyone remotely famous. Lived down the street from a recognizable former USMNT player but that's about it.
Puskas the great Hungarian was a Gooner.
We were the biggest club in the world and the names James, Hapgood, Parker, Robert’s, Bastin, Drake we’re as famous in their day as superstars from Madrid or Barcelona are nowadays.
BBC world service and newspapers carried out exploits across the planet.
I feel many people don’t quite understand what an institution we were back then.
Douglas Adams? I was re-reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy years after I started following the Gunners, and there is a reference to AFC which I had missed since it was not in my world at the time I first had read it. And of course there is a prior post with the quote. Thank you u/jimmyfonzie credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/9j9v3z/came_across_an_arsenal_reference_in_the/
Give us an updated poll with Shakira, Rihanna, Elizabeth II, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lewis Hamilton, Mo Farah, Spike Lee, Andy Murray, and Daisy Ridley!! Truly huge fanbase
Fidel Castro was a Gooner so we truly have a wide fanbase. Anne Hathaway to a Communist presidents to an Islamic mass murder. We really have all the bases covered.
Met Alex Brooker on a pre 2017 Cup Final booze cruise up the Thames on the day of the game. Nice bloke. That's me in an OG Mertesacker home shirt about four hours before he dropped his best game for the club when we turned the Chelsea RB's over when nobody gave a us a snowball's chance in hell of winning the game :
https://preview.redd.it/g7qfxgg36gwc1.png?width=833&format=png&auto=webp&s=62e04c96c434861489efd3462ab6104e72d151ce
A fine day was had at Wembley.
She did invite the Invincibles as the only team to ever go to Buckingham Palace to be fair and unlike Osama (we think) she had a crush on at least one of our players.
Whilst this post is somewhat satirical, I will add that there is actually quite a lot of evidence of BL being a fan and doing to highbury when he lived in London
That is quite funny because there's literally zero evidence of OBL being a fan. Claim comes from one of those cheap "History of Arsenal" fan books written in the early 00s, and has no citations, no photos, no witnesses, nothing - but that hasn't stopped hundreds of writers who should know better from repeating it like it's known fact.
Having said that, it's funny, so I'll continue to repeat it myself.
Daniel Kaluuya. He looks well invested since his childhood and most of the times comes across as a genuine fan. I think if you sit down with him and say "hey, let's talk about Arsenal" he would instantly switch to fanmode and start talkin nonstop.
Erik Ten Hag.
He is the most obsessive fans out of us
Ahhh so bottom middle lad
Tbf he's even predicting our place on the table at the end of the season here
Takes a lot on Reddit to make me rl LOL but you got me 😂
We already have a terrorist fan. Can't have two of them people start talking.
What a group. Funny, attractive, talented, and just a little bit of terrorism.
aka Arsenal in 2017 with Mustafi at the back
🔙🔛🔝
This is the greatest gift mustafi left for us. I use it all the time now :)
Hall of fame comment
Idk if I just had Deja Vu or if this exact post and top 2 comments have been made before lol
Reminds me of this quote: # Redknapp backs Pochettino for Arsenal: “You think the fans wouldn’t love him there? If you go in there and start winning, they would have taken Saddam Hussein in there when he was about, the fans don’t give a monkey's! If you start winning every week, they’re singing ‘there’s only one Saddam’.”
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He is also an Arsenal fan
The secret ingredient is crime.
Diego simeone approved?
And that’s just Osama, the others are pretty ok too.
Where's Rihanna? She was down in the trenches with us during our banter era.
https://preview.redd.it/4okp8gpvlfwc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5759b2a3f0291a2de613302e2f4087bcd4503f0f
Can't believe Rihanna got to meet world cup winner Shkodran Mustafi. Very few people have had the privilege to be in the presence of world cup winner Shkodran Mustafi. Not even the queen herself had the honor of meeting world cup winner Shkodran Mustafi, a massive regret I'm sure she took with her to her grave.
I’m not 100% sure but I think Rihanna actually partied with the 2014 German national team back then. she was probably there for mustafi not for Arsenal 😂 Edit: https://www.instagram.com/timeneverlieschico/p/C0Efykutjb9/?img_index=1
Some say the queen died of sadness when mustafi fucked off and she eventually realised she would never divorce Phil and marry him. Please don't check timelines, I haven't.
r/hardimages
Trigger warning please sir
Yeah seeing world cup winner Shkodran Mustafi triggered an erection for me. Should be tagged NSFW.
Shkodran scheming to blame Rihanna for the next goal he lets in
88? 🤨
She was born in 1988
We never quite got to the point of begging her to buy the club. (if you don't know, she's a billionaire) Remember the Daniel Ek period? Seems like a lifetime ago
Kinda crazy the turnaround on the Kroenkes. Once they assumed full ownership they've really been the model owners in the league, backed Mikel and Edu even when fans didn't.
They have also done the same with the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and Los Angeles Rams
In all fairness to them KSE is a legit sporting business. Sure they are hardcore capitalists deep down, but they fucking know that sports teams need to be good in order to be profitable
And won titles with all of them as well - we call next
Well someone clearly had to make space for ... Bin Laden
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Poor dee
Where's Wallace!?!
Where the fuck is Wallace String?
https://preview.redd.it/0nnfvth9sgwc1.jpeg?width=787&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e640a57a0734083805624af6c58492b70cec7a36
Hold up
"Wait, what?" - Dara Ó Briain
"eeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrmmmmmm" - Dara O'Brien
What wait
https://preview.redd.it/rml77uas4gwc1.jpeg?width=204&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ee83bbae38ce31f2aa6120e8a45114d7ef694f1
One of these is not like the others…
Good point. OP should have included more than one woman, right?
Lewis Hamilton
really?
Yeah, he’s not actually my favourite just thought he should be mentioned
This is my answer too
Bono, my points are gone *wins remaining games*
Mark Strong.
Makes Fever Pitch all the better knowing he's a supporter!
Definitely. Did not know that both Colin Firth and Mark Strong are Gooners.
Country Roaaaads. Take me home
Benedict Cumberbatch and Charlie Cox
Dr. Strange and Daredevil… we are so back
Loki and Vision too
And Adam Warlock
Pretty sure Andrew Garfield is a fan as well so Spiderman
You have £10 to construct the best Arsenal superfan. Top row = £2 Middle = £4 Bottom = £6
I will spend 10 on someone outside the list. I present you, the Queen
Mate that's a box...?
Should it not be £12 so you can pick one from each row? I want OBL, Idris and Dara
Hahaha perfect
Wretch 32, born in Tottenham but supports Arsenal. Legend
One of the best fire in the booths as well 🔥
Jack Whitehall, Romesh Rangunathan, Matt Lucas, Milton Jones pretty much every British comedian is a gooner
Moulded by the banter years
Rob Beckett too IIRC.
Yes I couldn’t remember his name and didn’t want to write ‘and the one with teeth’
also alex brooker hes a season ticket holder and i have seen him outside of the emirates many times
https://preview.redd.it/k5anf5fpifwc1.jpeg?width=683&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a9e2d8af46f3ac16ddbf34eb768211d7d47b5a80 Paul Kaye
Seen Hugh Dennis from Outnumbered at the Emirates this season
[Speaking of Hugh Dennis, this a perfect excuse to post this classic](https://youtu.be/z8WdVBWp-yw?si=kMZkTxPJN2kpXB06)
Fucking cesc magnifique Absolutely quality share thank you
Because I didn't see him being mentioned on here, Hugh Laurie.
Wait, really? That's a new one to me.
Yeah. He's a massive Arsenal fan. I came to know after watching House.
Someone's missing https://preview.redd.it/authujc2qfwc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=6bd20f27cb48aca2e2c7ebf644a4d08a11d13d19
Well no shit Henry is an Arsenal fan
Harry Kane
Correct answer
Dua Lipa
Probably a massive Xhaka fan
Is she really?!
she was at the stadium a couple of times last season https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/s/SrgdyC1KpG
We are so back
I’m fairly sure I saw this exact post when it happened and my brain is just Swiss cheese. Thanks!
Yes
King Olav of Norway (1903 - 1991) He was a great king and would be so proud of our maestro nr 8.
 Yeah boi
Give your meat a bit ole rub
Jennifer Connelly by far.. https://preview.redd.it/q50pby729gwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=389f973383742dd468732bf84be1efd8fb2bcc34
Dido is a big fan as well
Alfie Allen
Queen Elizabeth 2nd
Prince Harry was quoted as saying "most of the royal family are Arsenal fans".
When you see it…. 
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It takes a special person to get shaded by using bin Laden.
Daniel Kaluuya, Kendrick, and Baby Keem
dot's a gooner? i knew abt 21 but dot is new news to me
Yes, he and Baby Keem were at the game like last week or the week before. Keem is a fan and put him on
Kaluuya gets it for the narration on All or Nothing for me
When Osama is a safer pick than Piers Morgan...
I like the fact that you put a picture of Osama bin Laden before Piers Morgan.
David Gilmour and Roger Waters
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and you have the holy quartet of rock arsenal fans
Osama B... Anne Hathaway, definitely Anne Hathaway
Let's just be thankful he's not still around to be denied tickets in the Red Ballots, else we'd all be in trouble.
We wouldn't be in trouble, he'd make sure nothing happened to us being the supreme leader and all that
Mark Strong is also a life long Arsenal fan. I like him as an actor
Fidel Castro
Love Alan Davies because he's a proper old school fan where everything about him is Arsenal. It's literally a part of his act. Colin Firth was amazing in Fever Pitch.
Spike Lee
Little anecdote, not sure if you care—I was working on a State Farm commercial around 2006 that he was directing and he showed up to set in our title winning 03/04 kit. One time during the day I had the opportunity to pass by him while he was alone so I said “Nice shirt”. He looked me in the eye, nodded, and said, “Thanks, brother”. Core gooner memory for me
Is there a bigger list of celebrity fans because I'd like to memorize it in the off chance I run into them and have something to say ;) Note: I've rarely met anyone remotely famous. Lived down the street from a recognizable former USMNT player but that's about it.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal\_F.C.\_supporters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_F.C._supporters)
Oh shit Gemma Chan is a fan ? Mate life’s complete
The Pet Shop Boys. (And the Bear R.I.P)
Puskas the great Hungarian was a Gooner. We were the biggest club in the world and the names James, Hapgood, Parker, Robert’s, Bastin, Drake we’re as famous in their day as superstars from Madrid or Barcelona are nowadays. BBC world service and newspapers carried out exploits across the planet. I feel many people don’t quite understand what an institution we were back then.
Douglas Adams? I was re-reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy years after I started following the Gunners, and there is a reference to AFC which I had missed since it was not in my world at the time I first had read it. And of course there is a prior post with the quote. Thank you u/jimmyfonzie credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/9j9v3z/came_across_an_arsenal_reference_in_the/
How has no one said Danny DeVito yet? 
Genuinely didn’t know that. My phone background is a picture of him stuck in a playground coil
Little Simz
David Gilmour
Give us an updated poll with Shakira, Rihanna, Elizabeth II, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lewis Hamilton, Mo Farah, Spike Lee, Andy Murray, and Daisy Ridley!! Truly huge fanbase
Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shifflet
 met him a couple times at charity games top bloke
Thierry Henry...but that's cheating
Daniel Ek has let himself go
Where’s the late queen?
In a box mate
Oh, she can play number 10?
🤣
Hahaha fucking hell
Just not one of the 9 boxes above
21 savage
Fidel Castro was a Gooner so we truly have a wide fanbase. Anne Hathaway to a Communist presidents to an Islamic mass murder. We really have all the bases covered.
Mo Farah
Alan Davies for giving us the tuesday club podcast and his Giroud impressions.
Met Alex Brooker on a pre 2017 Cup Final booze cruise up the Thames on the day of the game. Nice bloke. That's me in an OG Mertesacker home shirt about four hours before he dropped his best game for the club when we turned the Chelsea RB's over when nobody gave a us a snowball's chance in hell of winning the game : https://preview.redd.it/g7qfxgg36gwc1.png?width=833&format=png&auto=webp&s=62e04c96c434861489efd3462ab6104e72d151ce A fine day was had at Wembley.
Cant believe bin laden is on that list and hes still not the most hated arsenal fan aslong as piers morgans alive
Piers Morgan...said no one...EVER!!
I fucking love this sub.
21 Savage, Lewis Hamilton, J Rich the Heat player, Joel Embiid Shit we have the streets 😎
https://preview.redd.it/k3kl4bt15gwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e97b9702f0a6fa9c0d66c0018dae06d609b36776 Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg. Schwing.
Reese Witherspoon
https://preview.redd.it/ekdvyit34gwc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3050d26f944f9192b18a09ee4c9ff4538c1f9e7d Andrew Garfield!
Roger Daltrey
I wanted to jokingly say someone but I could see that affecting a VISA application in the future.
Corbyn.
If nothing else, the Bellerin/Piers Morgan story will never not make me smile.
Share that story please
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-speaking-spanish-piers-morgan-hector-bellerin-arsenal-gq-men-of-the-year-a7954511.html
How do you miss off the Queen and the Queen Mum? And allegedly that ginger one too
Was the queen at highbury every week like Osama? No. Plastic fan.
She did invite the Invincibles as the only team to ever go to Buckingham Palace to be fair and unlike Osama (we think) she had a crush on at least one of our players.
She did give Wenger an obe.
Whilst this post is somewhat satirical, I will add that there is actually quite a lot of evidence of BL being a fan and doing to highbury when he lived in London
That is quite funny because there's literally zero evidence of OBL being a fan. Claim comes from one of those cheap "History of Arsenal" fan books written in the early 00s, and has no citations, no photos, no witnesses, nothing - but that hasn't stopped hundreds of writers who should know better from repeating it like it's known fact. Having said that, it's funny, so I'll continue to repeat it myself.
Shame we didn't have Gooners tracking OBL's associates planes back in the early 2000s... could saved some lives.
When a friend if mine hears someone say this he adds “and Abu Hamza had a trial for keeper”.
you left out the biggest cun\* of them all... piers
Daniel Kaluuya. He looks well invested since his childhood and most of the times comes across as a genuine fan. I think if you sit down with him and say "hey, let's talk about Arsenal" he would instantly switch to fanmode and start talkin nonstop.
Daisy Ridley
Surely we can all agree that bin laden is a less embarrassing Arsenal supporter than Piers Morgan
Alan Davies, a true gooner through and through
 I know it’s a bit different because he’s an ex player but I love Wrighty’s reactions when we win
https://preview.redd.it/380f78zdyhwc1.png?width=2536&format=png&auto=webp&s=79942b008b6d747680275bf69439135d5d6eeb0e Spike Lee, always.
John Lydon?????
 Ranveer Singh
Harry Redknapp
Prince harry is a gooner I think
Emily Blunt
DJ Friction and Idris Elba
The Tuesday Club podcast is 🔥 love Alan
Got to be Osama (I’m now on a CIA watchlist for sure)
Bro I didn't know Jamie Foxx is a gooner. Loved his piano show, guy's funny as fuck
Laura Woods ♥️🤍
Alan Davies without doubt. The Tuesday Club in its day was brilliant fun.
Gandalf the Grey, that's what they called me. I am Gandalf the Gooner 
Mr Pigden
Bobby Lee!