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Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast

Arseblog 20: Episode 13 - Tayo Popoola (2014)

Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast

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Football, Arsenal, Premier League, Gunners, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Sport, Soccer

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Arseblog 20 is a series of 20 podcasts to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Arseblog. In each episode, I'll speak to a guest about a particular calendar year of the site's existence, picking out games, goals , personal memories and recollections, transfers, forgotten moments, successes, failures, ups and downs, trophies, fun times, sad times, arrivals and departures, and lots more.


In this episode, I speak to Tayo Popoola about 2014:


We discuss:

  • Theo's cruciate injury
  • The road to the FA Cup final
  • Ending the trophy drought
  • Arsene Wenger contract extension
  • And more


Follow Tayo on Twitter @DJTayo


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Hello and welcome to another episode of the R-Splug 20 podcast series, in which we celebrate 20 years of R-Splug by talking to a guest about a calendar year of the site's existence between 2002 and 2022.

2:10.0

We have reached the momentous year of 2014, the end of the trophy drought, and much more with me to talk all about it is Tio Papula, hi Tio.

2:20.0

Hi Andrew, how you doing? I'm good, thank you, how are you? Yeah, not too bad, thanks having me along as ever. Yeah, my pleasure. So 2014, this was a successful year in some ways.

2:31.0

There was a very significant moment in that regard when it came to trophies which have been in short supply, but where do you want to start this year?

2:38.0

I want to start it with one of the most arsenal signings of the time, I want to start with Kim Kelschrom.

2:46.0

When we spoke about this and you gave me the opportunity to choose a year, 2014 was a good one, as you say, because we got our trophies, we got our trophy, we ended the drought as it were.

2:59.0

But I was just thinking and looking back and I just really enjoyed the kind of Kim Kelschrom cameo, if you will.

3:08.0

The fact that he turned up in January, he turned up and with a broken, with a broken back, injured in a game, injured in the game when it beat you to fall. He says he fell on a pebble.

3:24.0

And just before the transfer had been agreed, he had had a lot of interest in him, the transfer had been agreed and he fell on a pebble just like just having a training game.

3:35.0

The kind of thing that probably wouldn't happen now, they get put in cotton wool straight away, don't they?

3:39.0

So it would never have happened. And so he turned up for arsenal and didn't play for ages, but what it was, what he's wanted to start with him, it was that there was an amazing at the time, there was an amazing kind of in his own words.

3:50.0

Well, he actually the translation of it was put on the Arsenal website and is still there if anyone wants to go back and have a look at it.

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