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Since the 1980s, Arsenal's fans have often been referred to as Gooners, a derivation from the team's nickname, the "Gunners". Many fanzines , blogs, podcasts and fans websites have been dedicated to the club and the fans have long-standing rivalries with several other clubs; the most notable of which is with near neighbours Tottenham Hotspur ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. Look up goon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Goon may refer to: Slang Humans: People noted for brutality, or otherwise as targets of contempt: A guard in a prisoner of war camp (British World War II usage) An enforcer (ice hockey) A hired thug, in a goon squad Participants in gooning ...
The term "goon" was reputedly coined by F. L. Allen in 1921, [17] perhaps a variant of the US slang "gooney" which had been around since at least 1872, meaning a simpleton or fool, [18] which may have derived from "gony", applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (c.1839).
There are two Arsenal firms, The Gooners (a mutation of the club's nickname, The Gunners) and The Herd. The Gooners were a violent football hooligan firm mainly active in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the name is now used by most non-hooligan Arsenal supporters .
Arsenal's fanbase are referred to as "Gooners" – the name derived from the club's nickname "The Gunners". Virtually all home matches sell out; in 2007–08 Arsenal had the second-highest average League attendance for an English club (60,070, which was 99.5% of available capacity), [ 152 ] and, as of 2015, the third-highest all-time average ...
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
The Gay Gooners were founded in February 2013 by Stewart Selby. [7] Carl Fearn and Joe White lead the group as founding members and co-chairs. [8] The Gay Gooners exist first and foremost as an Arsenal fan group but also operate politically and work with organizations such as Rainbow Laces and Kick It Out to raise awareness of homophobia in the game.
When David Flint was a London teenager in 1980, he was rifling through vinyl LPs at Virgin Records, and he stumbled upon his first porn movie soundtrack: Deep Throat. Because albums weren’t age ...