Arsenal finally broke their run of Premier League defeats in 2012, although a 0-0 draw with Bolton Wanderers feels like another loss given the vital points dropped in the quest for a top four finish.
In a remarkably open game both sides had plenty of chances to seal victory, but it was a case of squandered opportunities, which again cost the Gunners dear.
Arsene Wenger’s side started very well. On the 8 minute mark a cross put in by Vermaelen was headed goalwards by Van Persie. The Dutchman’s effort beat Bogdan but was cleared off the line comfortably by Wheater.
A minute later RVP turned provider as he slotted a Bergkamp-esque ball to Ramsey who couldn’t quite find his inner Freddie to finish. It was a tame effort on the slide by the Welshman – his finishing of late has been very poor.
We weren’t playing with a high tempo, but the passing was neat and tidy. More great work from Van Persie teed up Oxlade-Chamberlain, but the youngster fired high and wide. Again, it should have been a goal. As if the Trotters needed it, the captain fired another warning over the bar on 15 minutes.
David Ngog, who once scored past Manuel Almunia at Anfield for Liverpool, had a decent effort at the near post saved by Szczesny. In response Chamberlain weaved his way up the field, created space and fired over. Ngog, almost taking the game to Arsenal on his own, replied again by causing havoc between Koscielny and Mertesacker before squeezing a second effort in quick succession just wide.
It was hard to believe a goal hadn’t been scored. At this point my stream cut out, but Twitter made it very clear that Theo Walcott had been somewhat retarded in front of goal. A missed one-on-one apparently. It didn’t come as a huge surprise.
The new stream came with an East European commentary – surprisingly I preferred it to some of the crap that is usually spouted on Sky. Song and Vermaelen both picked up yellows from Olympic gold medalist Sir Chris Hoy, the Belgian incredibly unlucky after Mark Davies took a massive dive to con the cycle-loving ref. Suddenly in the mood he also cautioned Steinsson after The Ox was cynically scythed down.
At half time it was hard to believe that a goal hadn’t been scored. We were playing pretty well, although that nagging sense that the missed chances could prove costly was familiar of many away days this season.
The Ox continued his impressive performance in the second half making several darting runs before the hour mark. Along with Mikel Arteta, who controlled the midfield with quiet authority, the young winger was our best player. Twice more my stream cut out, twice more I went in search of the dulcet co-commentary tones of Dean Sturridge on Fox Sports.
From what I could tell we were getting frustrated. Bolton weren’t affording us the same space as in the first 45 minutes and the clear-cut chances had dried up. But wait a moment; a cross from Sagna whipped to the near post saw Van Persie clip the woodwork. Seconds later Chamberlain did his best Christopher Wreh impression, only for Bogdan to tip over. RVP then had a header wide from a corner. The momentum was back.
On 68 minutes Thierry Henry entered the fray for Chamberlain. The youngster had been impressive and Wenger critics might have suggested (not for the first time) that Walcott should have been the one to make way.
Bolton started to come strong and enjoyed a string of corners as they chipped away at the Gunners defence. In open play Martin Petrov whipped in a fine ball which forced a brave block from Laurent Koscielny. Throwing caution and elbows to the wind, Owen Coyle sent on Kevin Davies for the last 15 minutes. Again my stream went down!
Another frantic search returned a stuttering Dutch version. I couldn’t see anything. Another frantic search. This time Italian.
As some stupid advert counted down I saw Van Persie channeling the quality of both Ian Wright vs Leeds United circa 1995 and Dennis Bergkamp vs Bayer Leverkusen 2002 (?) with a delightful chip that hit the bar. Walcott then lashed a volley wide. The sublime and the ridiculous.
We were into the last ten minutes. How the fuck had we not scored? Rosicky came on for Ramsey. The game suddenly became stupidly stretched with players on both sides carrying the ball sixty yards through the midfield before playing pathetic passes back to opponents.
Bolton had three great chances to score. Mark Davies skipping through on goal only to be thwarted by terrific goalkeeping by Szczesny. As the ball spilled cleared it was played to Muamba who then shot wide. Heading into the last minute it looked more likely the home side would win it. Davies, who had been a constant thorn in the side all game, fought his way into the area before dispatching a low drive just wide.
After three minutes of injury-time the ref blew for full-time. Despite a poor final ten minutes, the number of squandered chances certainly meant that this was two points dropped rather than one gained.
Another frustrating night, the likes of which we just can’t afford. The gap between us and fourth place is widening by the week. Grim times.
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I may be only speaking for myself here, but I find nearly all your comments very fucking annoying bunburyist.
HA! Keep up the good work Bunburyist ,Just what I needed after a boring match
What a good idea!
BETTER WAYS I COULD HAVE SPENT THIS EVENING INSTEAD OF WATCHING THE ARSENAL GAME
1. Urinated in my official AFC mug, mixed in some underpants fluff and drank the contents
2. Used my offical AFC coloring pencil set to draw a sketch of The Walcott, and then used it to wipe my bum
3. Built a medievel torture rack with my offical AFC toolkit, stretched myself on it, then compared my coordination to that of Per Mertesacker
4. Bought a flight to Africa with my offical AFC credit card and told Marouane Chamakh he better not be as shit when he returns
5. Kissed David Bentley
@Ajax,
Don’t be upset. Are you available for a spoon later?
Temper temper temper Ajax, Don’t lose faith in your beloved Arsen he will come good, he has not lost it or stuck in the past.
@thepimplefellow
you could have also changed that disgusting picture, i mean come on how can someone be aloud to put that as a default
I used to hate the pimple, but I’ve grown to appreciate its symmetry and texture. A human Mount Vesuvius, it you will. Classical while at the time ephemeral.
You go, Boris. You go.
Went to the match last night.Very enjoyable open
game for the neutral……absolute frustration for
us.
Credit Bolton for sticking at it but same as Wolves,Fulham,
Swansea we should have the game won by half time
Walcott winds me up more and more each game.
2 clear cut chances missed again and more poor body
language.
Let’s face the reality guys. No champions league football next year. WTF!!!
It’s still only 5 points. Have a little faith.
We created enough opportunities to win tonight but our finishing was poor and our luck even worse. Chelsea, Liverpool & Newcastle don’t look any better than us. We can still do this. There is a long way to go yet.
Blind faith in Wenger still. I’m sick of him. How we have 37 points from 23 games is an utter joke. If it was any other club in the entire world, Wenger would have been sacked already. I’m sick of him and his stupid excuses and the massive influx of stupid French players. No manager is bigger than a 125 year old club and Wenger HAS TO GO! …………. Rant over
The only reason you say have a little faith is because Chelsea, Liverpool and Newcastle are not doing well. What if they were doing well? I want to have faith too, but only when we are playing top quality.
Yeah, if only all the players were English…
What do you mean? We’re 7th place in February.
Look on the bright side.. At least we might get to see our Coq teach Young Boys a lesson on a Thursday.
Also If we finish out of the top 4 Wenger won’t be able to brag about his perfect top 4 record ,he’ll panick and maybe finally get us a good Striker,2 Wingers,Midfielder,2 fullbacks and a new medical team .
Plus we favourites to win the EUROPA!!!
Hahahahahah Thank you, you made me feel better he is going to buy next season and we will be ok hahahahahahah.
I’ve just realised there were recently a ridiculous amount of Coq jokes on another stream.. Sorry for the overkill, but then again, we probably will see Coq out against Young Boys next year.
Sort it out Arsene, soon please.
I’m not quite sure. Between Walcott and Arshavin. Which one is the worst?
PARK!!! he must be really shit in training , I watched him in a reserve game he dribbles with his buttocks
Arsene is a world class manager, he think they are GREAT, so the must be. Are you saying our GREAT Football Manager lost it or he doesn’t know what he is doing??????.
Are you talking about the football manager or the Bank Manager?
How surprising, I got one of my Arsene knows friends answring me hahahahaha.
It is all Theos fault we didn’t win, Arsene will come good again hahahahah
You can fuck off, and take your boring cliches with you, Cygan.
I’ve not once posted ‘Arsene knows’, you just don’t have the imagination to say anything else. No doubt you’ll post a response as you always need to have the last word – feel free.
At least arshavin is not looking for a pay rise while he plays shit- WALCOTT
Come on, don’t blame Theo, Our GREAT Manager on 7 million a year and rising while not only fixing our club and winning trophies, he is fixing the world economy.
Ramsey is shit as well. but we play him because he is ‘top quality’.
I agree Ramsey is not ready to be playing every game, before he breaks his leg in that unfortunate challenge he was just starting to brake in to the first team, and now Arsene seems to think he is now ready to play every game as a first team player, thats how far back we are compered to the top four sides.
what an old stale piece of shit of a match
Clean sheets are nice.
Arsene Wenger is such a wonderful manager – we’re so lucky to have him!
at least wait till the end of the season to make a complete idiot of yourself
Yup true, Judge Arsene in May.
Oh wait, he told us that Three years ago to judge him in May hahahahahaha.
I’ve missed you
Yes He is ,and Walcott is a shitty finisher
True, it is not Arsene fault Theo can’t finish. Also, it is not Arsene’s fault Theo keeps picking himself to play and sub the Ox instead.
I hate Theo.
You hate Theo ?,
tell us more more..what else do you hate ?
and ramsey is just a ‘top quality’ finisher. he had such a great chance. what the fuck is wrong with that kid. Ramsey and Walcott are costing us points every game
“I think the phrase rhymes with *clucking bell*.”
“Don’t worry sir I have a cunning plan…”
Wish Wenger did…
Wenger’s plan- Play the same player again and again and again
I can smell a hint of criticism here. How very dare you hahahahahah.
Walcott is a fucking liability, Cheerio RVP and hopefully Wenger on this rate.
Oh NOOOO you want Arsene out? Don’t say that if he goes we will be sliding down the table, the Spuds will over take us with half our annual wage bill and we will be playing in the Europa if we are lucky.
Oh wait……
You are having a massive erection today ,aren’t you?
Stop trying to find any fantasy to Master Bate please.
how long will the arsenal fans sit idly by while the board, players and management turn this club into mid-table club? I can’t allow that. as an arsenal fan. if we just allow these kind of periods where we win 0 games in our last 5 or 6 then we are in trouble as a club. something needs to change and somehow arsenal need to win. drawing against 17th place bolton is poor. finishing out of the top 4 when we pay the highest ticket prices is not acceptable.
A lot of fans are not sitting idly by……… the trouble is for all the fans that speak out there are just as many who have total faith in the board (and that is where I believe the blame lies) and won’t hear a thing said against them.
Anyone who speaks out is branded a plastic supporter and not a true fan………. total bollocks if you ask me as where I sit there are many true diehard gooners who are extremely unhappy at the moment.
On a side note how convenient was it that the true extent of Jacks injury wasn’t disclosed until the transfer window had closed, No doubt the young German kid is all we could afford for back up which in reality he is. Its about time silent fucking Stan started to sort this shit out, if it continues I cannot see Robin staying around and which top class striker are we going to sign as a replacement if we find ourselves out of the ECL? lets hope it doesn’t come to that.
You know the sad thing, in years gone by we were so close and we fall short by not buying the one or two quality players we needed, teams like Fulham, Swan, Bolton and EVEN Manure use to kick us to win. Now, they don’t, they just know they will out play us.
Any manager who have world class players like Fab or RVP would have built a team around them and won something. Not play Fab with Denlison and Diaby or RVP with Theo and Arshavin. We were lucky those two players come once every generation. Sadly, we did not take advantage of what we have.
don’t really care about the years gone by. I care about this season and we’re just so shit this season.
This is of wenger’s doing. No striker this window…..
Anyways, it’s high time to make sure all us gooners have channel 5
Can’t believe Walcott missed that one…
I can. Like I’ve said before, he’s crap.
*GASP* Fatgooner was right all along
Likewise and I got slated, if van persie dos’ent score it’s unlikely anyone fucking else will
Third.
I can’t believe Walcott got playing time more than Chamberlain
hopefully we’ll soon see gervinho van persie chamberlain
Really? this is the same walcott, who missed an even worse one on one against QPR, the same Walcott who f*cked up a simple pass against United and then turned round to blame anyone other than himself. After the Chelsea game I thought he was destined for a great season, but he hasn’t been able to produce consistently, and with our ambitions, that ain’t good enough. If only we had better back-up.
Walcott was hyped up at age 17 when Sven picked him and is still hyped up. I have never seen a player at the top level have so many bad first touches and make horrible passes.
In the real world, we’d be without a job with that performance day after day. Yet these premadonnas keep cashing their paychecks, driving sports cars and banging models.
Sports are one huge bubble, bigger bubble than the Irish housing market few years ago…
…….. and this is the same Walcott who wants a fu–ing pay rise….. as far as i’m concerned he can stick his contract negotiations and f–k off to his beloved Liverpoo in the summer!
He talks a good game, shame he can’t play one!
Indeed, I’d say this is typical Walcott.
But, because we’re a charity, not a football club, I think we’ll give in to his wage demands. I mean, doesn’t every club need a sprinter on 85k a week? We already have a Diaby on 60k.
FUuuuhhhhhhh
i dont mean to come in with a kneejerk reaction but, when will the players, manager and staff realise that what happens every week isnt acceptable.
Surely wenger can see what everyone else does? We arent good enough. When will wenger face up to it and act. When will the players face up to poor performances each week? What happened to us!!? We’re toothless.
It seems everyone at arsenal is content with mediocrity. Perhaps it is time the fans acted. Obviously no one else will.
Arsene think this team is great we just don’t understand football at all. If he sees what we see and does nothing that will be more disasters than being just blinkered. The sad truth, he REALLY believe we are good enough to challenge with this team and maybe win the CL. He also believe our squad is good enough to cope will all four competitions.
The only thing I am dreading is that, he start becoming a laughing stock in press conferences and on the touch line, or watch him decline and abused. I hope for old time sake he just leave with diginty as he can’t see anything anymore.
Wenger is finished, same pointless passing sideways till we all fall asleep.Havent teached his players anything new for the last many seasons.Still cant understand that if you keep doing the same thing and come up short every time it is probably because it aint working
He is finish, but do you think he is going to leave????? It is a 7million a year, he is not leaving it for love or hate. He will use all the excuse as long as our Belly Bean Owner allows him.
He started phase two of the excuses, I will only leave the club not if they booing me but if they think I don’t love Arsenal AKA easy 7 million a year.
Thank God I missed it!
We are well are truly fuc*ed!
This is getting beyond ridiculous, i have no idea how Wenger’s going to turn this round!
Absolutely shocking. We’re in a fight for 4th with chelski, loserpool and NEWCASTLE. At this rate we won’t even get 7th.
Come now, I think we’re good for 7th. In fact, I’d say 7th is exactly right for this team this season.
We are shit , But Liverpool and Chelsea are also shit , we will catch up ,but it won’t be because of our brilliance
What utter dross and champions league football is slipping out of our grasp quickly. Bolton have had the worst defensive record in the league this season and only have kept 2 clean sheets and we do very little to trouble them. It was like watching the first half of us vs Villa all over again very slow build up play and no end product it really is piss poor.
Walcott has actually gone backwards from the time he played at Southampton,please,please dont let it happen to the OX.
That’s why he is using him sparingly , Player develop well when not under pressure
It feels painful to watch Theo Walcott.. Theo Boycott soon enough. He shouldn’t be anymore than an impact substitution. He is just woeful. He wants to be a striker eh? You could’ve set up a siege camp for that 1 v1 and decided on how to score in at least 10 different ways. He actually picked the easiest option which was to not score at all.
I just can’t bear it anymore. I just don’t like him as an Arsenal player… All I see of him is throwing his hands up, getting dispossessed and doing f’all other than bundle in goals he has no clue of.
He needs bench time. Gerv Henry RvP OX should be our first choices. up front. WHen will Wenger have had enough? WHat is it he sees? Please tell me.
April 4th.. Remember retune your digi boxes for the switch over so you can get channel 5….
Our problem is lack of competition … Walcott has been sucking major cock lately and yet his position is still guaranteed.
No competition for Ramsey either. I have never seen Nasri, Ces or Wilshire have so many bad matches as Ramsey. Even when they had an off day, they were 10x player Ramsey is.
Yet, Arsene doesn’t put Yosi in, who has an amazing record of changing matches after coming off the bench.
And to add to this. If you play at the top of a midfield three, just behind the lone striker, YOU ARE THE SECOND STRICKER! I can understand all the anger towards theo but all i can’t understand are the excuses for ramsey. You read on blogs in previews how he needs a rest because he’s been tired lately. I say no. Drop him because he’s been poor all season along with theo. Give rosicky the spot he has deserved from the games he has played. If he breaks down he breaks down. Plus play yossi more often. This bullshit about rambo’s work rate, it counts but if you play behind the stricker and you can’t score or create more often then it counts for nothing. Even players in the blue square premiership have work rate and ‘they don’t hide’ that doesn’t make them good enough to play in the hole for AFC. We have played the whole season up to now with the best stricker in the league with very unproductive wingers and zero attacking threat from the man behind RVP.
Great point. Ramsey is killing us playing the CAM role. With top quality there RVP would be on 30 by now
First half 0-0 fine , but where was the urgency? I expected a bit more after three straight defeats in the league. And again why ,why take ox of when there’s a clearly underperforming theo out there. Dont know whats the issue with walcott confidence or attitude but surely if there was someone to comeoff it shoukd have been him.
What i am most worried about is this will be the team against Milan and perform like today we are gonna get fucked.
great too see sagna back add that bit more attacking and such good defending from our mr.reliable and van persie next time he tries that bergkamp trick he definitely gonna score.
really disappointing..
felt the real effort was lacking.. Bolton was ready to lay down in t he 1st and we just didn’t have enough to take it..
the misses by walcott and ramsey keep on being more and more stunning
We are now 7th
What are the rules on Europa league 5th or 6th place
How are we doing in the fair play league?
I appreciate it is 5 points difference but deep down can’t see is catching Chavski
Maybe a blessing in disguise the club need a serious rethink. Hope we can muddle an Fa Cup win to give hope to youngsters but CL this year is a pipe dream. We might best AC Milan but not serious contenders for trophy.
Becoming immune to poor results
We are such poop. When I look at my poop in the toilet, I think of Arsenal. I also think, “is that shaped like a C or an L?” Do you guys ever do that with your logs of poop?
Yeah, so anyway, thank God for booze.
No
Oh.
What makes these results even more frustrating is they always follow Chelsea dropping points. This team has no idea how to make the most of the opportunities that repeatedly get given to them by Chelsea fucking up. The squad just is not good enough for 4th spot. And yet again, January passed with no new arrivals to strengthen the squad to give us the best possible chance of finishing in the top 4. I’m not saying wenger out, but something has to change. The club is rapidly becoming an average team with a couple of world class players. So fucking frustrating.
Fuck me.1 point in 4 games. Yet the guy says we don’t need to spend money. Stubbornness has just seen us throw away 4th place and dropping down to 7th. Even if we picked up 1 win and a draw we’d be in touchin distance. The lack of creativity in this team is pathetic, change the fucking system if you don’t have the players to play it. Bolton wanderers have more shots on target then we do. Yet our most creative midfielder rosicky sits on the bench. Rambo runs alot but fuck me if you think this is a top 4 squad then your havin a laugh wenger. Van persie is left to create his own chances and if he isn’t scoring than noone is. Yet there’s no need to bring anyone in the transfer window… Fuck me it took djibril cisse 12 minutes to score a goal this morning, are you saying we can’t spend a little cash and get a decent back up? Fucking stop this free transfer, final 6 months on their contract shopping and just stop trying to prove you can win something with this philosophy, because you’ve already proved yourself wrong with the last 7 years.
Can somebody please tell Ramsey and Arteta that they can actually pass the fucking ball forward. Its like watching two Ray Wilkins’ passing aimlessly sideways and backwards for 90 minutes. FFS
There goes our opportunity for the Champions League spot. I wonder what is going on with Wenger and the board. They have the chance to buy some decent players in January to backup Van Persie and Wilshere but choose not to sign anyone, I mean proven players.
Newcastle and Liverpool are ahead of us, we are miles behind Spurs and you know what, I hope Wenger will come out and says to fans – Missing Champions League is okay, cuz we’ve been in the competition for so many years, perhaps a blip next year is good for the players.
Wenger must go now.
Can somebody please tell Ramsey and Arteta that they can actually pass the fucking ball forward. Its like watching two Ray Wilkins’ passing aimlessly sideways and backwards for 90 minutes. FFS
Arteta was a head above anyone in the midfield.
god we are shit now wenger will say we were unlucky ahhhh noooooo we are shit no new signing he knew jack was out for rest of the season glass gibbs is due back for a week before hurting himself again falling over a pebble diaby is like a new signing there was no1 for sale in jan van the man is off in the summer dont worry we have ahhhhhhhhhhh chmuck god sick of hwenger aand his lies and the oap board dont know why they are worryed about the fair play rules we wont be in the champs cup again for a long long time
There need to be serious investment in this Arsenal side,i am almost ready to take Alishers cock in my mouth if he spunks a load of money on this side.You can just hear that old arrogant fart,it has never been about spending money,never.
It’s obvious that wenger reads all of our comments after games and decides to piss us off by doing the exact opposite of what we want to see!
Sick of not scoring goals, sick of theo walcott the fucking moron and sick of sucking overall!!
Ramsey is the new Denilson, I’m sick of him.
He’s got heart and not afraid to put himself about, even if it doesn’t quite work out. Would rather have a player who does that then someone else who is happy to coast through the game (read Arshavin, Denilson etc.).
Do think Rambo should have come off earlier for Yossi though.
Okay, so he’s the Denilson with heart.
If the only difference between Denilson and Denilson 2.0 is that 2.0 tries harder to be ineffective, then I’m still saying: Ramsey shouldn’t be a starter for Arsenal. I can’t think of a single team in the top 4, let alone the top 7, in which Ramsey would be an automatic starter.
Trying hard is not good enough for the arsenal.
What to even say…I’ll just list positives and negatives. Positives – Sagna was a breath of fresh air. Ox will be an amazing player in the future. Already miles ahead of Theo. Thought the defense was mostly good, although Song was not helping most of the night. We created some good chances, but that leads to the negatives. Ramsey’s and Walcott’s finishing is just abysmal, face it. Those two chances in the first half would be taken by better players. How Wenger takes off Ox instead of Theo just blows my mind. And poor Song, passing, control, defensive awareness….he just had a terrible game. This side is going to have trouble competing for top 4, as much as that hurts to say.
Really don’t understand what AW sees in Theo. All he can do is run the ball out of play, run into other players, bundle through small gaps and occasionally finish (usually with an element of luck). Really sub-standard and the 1on1 chance tonight has just sealed it for me. Get him out. AW’s chance clearly hasn’t paid off.
Lack of (effective) subs cost us yet again. Where’s our Hernandez who can come off the bench and hassle defenders??
Park, Arshavin, Theo….all dead wood. Clear them out.
You know Saha was going for free and the Spuds got him, he is on around 35K/40K a week, and Chamahk 75K a week, I don’t know about Park but I would not be surprise if he was on 30/40K a week.
For all that’s been said about arsene’s ability to pick technical and skillful players, this team certainly didnt show that they can shoot – except for van Persie, Oxy-chamberlain, and vermaelen.
Walcott? 85k pounds? Brainless speedster. Needs to learn something from Oxy’s game.
The Ox is already everything Theo should have been. Wonder how long before Theo is dropped altogether? Hopefully soon.
The thing is, loads of clubs wanted Theo when we picked him up. A few seasons with us, and we’ll be lucky to make a profit selling him.
I thought we were supposed to make world class players. We’ve made one of Europe’s hottest prospects into a distinctly average player. WTF
Wenger’s influence on player development has been magical in the past, but with Walcott he can only do so much. Like Arseblog said whenever he messes up a situation he tries to blame anyone but himself. Doesn’t seem to me like he’s hard enough on himself. Like I said before, against Chelski he looked like a world-beater, but whereas Henry, Pires, Freddie maintained these standards week in, week out, he only plays well in bursts. Not enough.
I for one don’t blame Wenger for Walcott’s form. He’s been given everything I’m sure to become a great player for this club, but Wenger can’t kick every ball for him. His attitude is pathetic, blaming the others around him every time he loses the ball. At present, what I blame Wenger for is the fact that he hasn’t brought anyone in who’s more clinical. If Walcott was dropped we’d soon see if he had enough to make it with us.
Slowly but surely Theo Walcott is morphing into a version of a well-known footballistically useless Russian winger. I heard that he is developing a hint of a Russian accent when he speaks these days. Nuff said.
http://www.comfytube.com/
i’ll just leave this here. it always calms me down after such a shitstorm…
Thanks I needed that
I’m sick of someone stupid who obviously cannot read properly. This is Arsenal site. You can show your stupidity anywhere else but not here.
Sorry this comment was meant to reply to one of spuds fan who lost and ended up here
Yep.
Mr wenger, I need my old arsenal back!!
You lose your best three midfielders in Cesc, Nasri and Wilshere (through injury) and you replace them with Arteta, Gervinho and Benayoun on loan. Epic fail.
And if Wenger wants to keep buying cheap African players who have to play in the ACN every two years, he needs to make sure the squad has enough quality bench players to take their place when they’re gone.
Hey, Prick… Michael Antennae has been one of the only shining lights this season.
Get back to yo’ mama. It’s nigh time for you to moisturise her ‘special place’.
I love Arsenal but I am utterly frustrated with this shite. Walcott is no longer worth his place. He only scored by a total fluke against villa. Please, please just fuck off
1 point from 4 games,not good enough & Wenger can’t really blame injuries although I’m sure he’ll say something like ‘the players were a little bit still tired after sunday’ or similar dogshit
This arsenal of a team really need discipline,i don’t think Prof Wenger is really talking to them.Can’t you just see what ramsey and walcott just played,these two players are real flops,they have to be benched for either two or more games.Infact i don’t even know the betterof btw Theo walcott and Arshavin
Walcott still wants to be the new TH14. Can he?
I am a big Wengerite – but I just can’t come to grips with him as a tactician most of the time.
Firstly, you really can’t blame too many of the players. Why is Wenger playing exactly those individuals who need rest? Rosicky had a stellar game against Villa. Why not give the labouring Ramsey a fucking rest? (it seems to me as if Wenger is trying to mould him into Fabregas whether Aaron likes it or not). Song was fucking exhausted. And tbh, he never gets a rest either.
Walcott was absolutely abysmal yet again. The guy is, flat out, not a good enough footballer to play for Arsenal. He wants to be a striker – he has zilch composure in front of goal – he is one of the most technically limited players, not just at Arsenal, but in the PL.
You just wonder – why, Arsene, don’t you sub Aaron in the 70th minute rather than 80th, why do you persist with Walcott over empirically better players? Arsene’s faith in him has led to total complaceny on Theo’s part – he doesn’t strive to better himself, he doesn’t seem to be at all self-critical – for me – his attitude is terrible. Even his goal celebration against Villa stunk of arrogance (the game wasn’t even won at that point).
I don’t mean to vent at just one player – but I’m fed up with Theo. If Theo tries to play any games with a new contract, then Arsene needs to be bold and show him the fucking door. Arsene has found so many great talents, but I’m starting to think that his excess of conviction in so many unrealised prospects in recent years is one of the reasons we’re in the situation we now find ourselves.
I’m frustrated with Arsene – I would never want him to leave, I think he’s one of the best managers and innovators in world football – but we’re always coming up short!
Very well said.
“I’m frustrated with Arsene – I would never want him to leave, I think he’s one of the best managers and innovators in world football – but we’re always coming up short!”
Why are we coming short if he was that good? We used the money excuse for him to death. We were suppose to spend this summer 50 millionsn to re-build we ened up making 20 millions.
Arigo Sacci built one of the best team to ever play football, he use to be called in the late 80s the man who plays the football of the future, he had alot of writing that coatchs study and his achievements Arsene can only dream of. What happened to him, he lost it, his second spell at AC was a joke, he was laughed at as he was thinking all wrong and he was right, he can see what others can’t and he is just unsackable.
I personally think the lack of a David Dein character behind the scenes is why we’re coming up short. I know we can call him a big profiteer – whose arsewipe of a son is hellbent on drawing all our player away from the club – but he would always give Arsene a nudge in the transfer market.
I honestly think that, at this club, which is one of the only self-sustaining elite clubs across the entire European continent, there is no more suited a manager. I don’t think many other top class managers would be able to compete with the budget we have. Mourihno would require at least £50m more each summer, Mancini (£200m), even Fergie splurges £30m on unused squad players.
Last summer, there was clearly complete disharmony behind the scenes. It defies common human logic that that transfer spree was the result of carefully planned acquisitions. Benayoun and Park merely make up the numbers for me – yet, you have Arsene complaining in January that his squad is too big to bring in any other players – I personally think Arsene’s hands are being tied somewhere down the line – and the board are using Wenger as cannon fodder – he’s just got too much class to say anything about it.
It is boring to keep the “his hand tied behind his back” excuse, it is gone beyond that. Which part of he is lost it and stuck in the past don’t you get?
I give the Sacci example to show you a manager can be left in the past if he is big headed and stubborn to change and move on with time. Arsene Squad system still 1998, he thinks a football squad should be 14 and the rest from the under 17 team. Arsene plans the sub at the 67th minutes and who is going to change before the game no matter how good or bad you play.
Wenger has been called stubborn. I think pigheaded sums it up better.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Walcott but enough is enough. Someone needs to give him a swift kick up the backside. Lack of finishing is becoming contagious throughout the team and he’s the main culprit. We need to male sure that we destroy Blackburn on Saturday just to make sure we don’t slip further behind. 7th on yhe table at this stage of the season is unaceptable
Its 4am here in my country. I feel watching the match was a waste of time and sleep. :/
By the way, we should kind of be happy with the point. That should’ve been a penalty to them.
Good thing this board exists because my wife is sick of me venting to her about this shit …
It’s been a lot of venting this year… However, I am expecting more…
My wife is a ManU fan and is amused when I vent.
So no moare Basil in your food then!!!!!
Look on the bright side, we still made a £17,550,000 net profit this year in player transfers….. /Sarcasm.
The board needs to go, all they care about is profit. I’m cool with being self sustaining and all, but don’t pocket all the profit!!!! Put the money you make back into the club, you greedy bstards.
Seriously, all arsenal fans need to completly boycott 1 premiership game, if that doesnt send a signall to wenger then get rid of him, we should do it the week before every transfer window opens and if he doesnt sign the right players, do it sporadically through the window.
the club and manager take the piss out of especially with the tckt prices, its all about value in players well im not getting any value as a fan.
only way to send a message to the board and mr cockroenkch is by hitting him where it hurts, his pocket
You know what i would agree with that but as our club is so big now that even if the regular people boycotted there would be just as many people waiting to just take them seats up. I mean just think how many people are on the season ticket waiting list there will always be a demand for tickets. Which is sad as it kind of means the fans views will never get across to these people.
hear what your saying, its the only way to change things though, if no one sells their ticket back to the club and accepts losing the money for one game, then arsenal can replace them. if we can just spread the word on twitter, facebook and all these blogs and can have a half empty stadium, then arsenal will aleast have to start communicating with their fans.
whats the poiint in paying all this money and wasting our weekends if the guy who’s running the show doesnt even do what we need to do to win.
See there lies the problem if we were a Sunderland a Blackburn a Westbrom we would have much more say as them clubs always make a loss on revenue and empty seats really do harm them i’m sure we’ve all seen them clubs on match of the day with very empty stadiums. Now for us as long as we make a profit the wheel still turns for our owners and they don’t see a problem. We are so big that fans booing mean nothing to them if people decide not to go to games there are people waiting to take up them seats and as sad as it is will not make a difference as the demand is there. We aren’t a football club anymore we are a sports franchise and until they make a loss on there revenue I can’t see changes happening any time soon
what do you do then, i dont agree with booing, we need to be able to communicate with wenger and he isnt listening.
if theres a televised game and empty stands, the cliub will be embarrassed even if they dont lose any money, 2 games and they will have to do something to appease the fans
8 points out of the last 24. The downward spiral didnt just start in January folks..
oh one more thing: Tottenham Hotspur are now 12 points ahead.
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our worst season in 20 years and this is your best, you still wont win anything worthwhile and your manager will be locked up by the end of the season, either tha or he’ll be england manager, then you can say godbye to moDICK, bale and vab der fart, the rest you can keep…
But we’ll be in the champions league and when Rvp goes, you can keep all of your players. To say Walcott is a s*** Aaron Lennon is an insult to s***
youmake me laugh, spurs will always be a shit club with shit fans who wished they supported arsenal… you can have your 2 years of excitement but in the end, you’ll show youre true colours and fuck it up again….
First time in over 20 years and you still won’t win anything. When we were flying at least we won titles. Go back to your black and white video cassettes mate
I now want these players to shut the fuck up. I don’t wanna hear anymore about focus, or sticking together or deserving top 4.
I want them to shut the fuck up and prove it. Forget about top friggin 4 and play for some self respect and pride. If they can’t do that at the very least, they don’t deserve to play for the Arsenal.
What a frustrating game. I posted full player ratings and analysis at oursoccerblog.blogspot.com
I just hope we don’t become a mediocre team like Liverpool if we don’t get 4th. They failed to qualify for the CL in the 2009-2010 season, and then they’ve been shit every since. It’s a domino effect, it’s hard to attract top talents if you don’t play in the CL.
This is a bit of an over-reaction guys. We’re playing Blackburn on Saturday at 1pm (which is before everyone else) and if we win that game we go to 2 points off Chelsea who play United on Sunday. They’ll probably lose that game because of their dire form and with Rooney and Nani coming back. We’ll still finish 4th. In Arsene we trust.
we wont beat blackburn
No use mate. Every time Arsenal dont win Arseblog turns into a suicidal place where people want to see Wenger’s head cut off.
This is what happens when foreigners come in. Some of them are supporters, the others are here because of our history and are now sad that we are not like Barca or Man U
Vapid remark, Kid. Why do you still follow the arse if you don’t like foreigners FFS?
What I like to do is go onto The Gooner, read the comments there and come back here. Always makes me feel better…
Only read and replied to the first paragraph. Surely if you hate foreigners you shouldn’t be supporting a multinational team like Arsenal? Villa have a few english players, maybe you should move to the midlands…
Obviously if you read further you would have read that I like most of them but we have to admit, some of them (and actually people in England to) overreact a little to much over anything bad with Arsenal.
Dont get me wrong. I am also now deciding whether Wenger has it or not but to act so suicidal after a draw away from home (abide a shitty team)
Could be worse. We could be Manchester City and lose to Everton.
BTW I am sorry if people got the wrong message from what I wrote. It was a pit of rage (Arsenal draw + Angry/Suicidal fans = Angry me) I am sorry if I offended anyone for a foreigner response
I’m fairly certain youre an American kid. That would make you a foreigner too, no? Get fucked.
Is that the same blackburn we managed to beat earlier in the season? Oh my mistake we lost 4-3 to them the fact is we are just throwing away points we drew with the team who has the worst defensive record in the season and we barely troubled them. We are failing to close the gap when our rivals drop the ball i hope we get 4th place but i can’t see it as we seem to lack drive when we play to go out and get the win
You are moronic and despicable. A lil bit of perception: the stupid Satan called Kroenke that owns the largest share is a foreigner and the Skint Pinochio that sees what the whole world can see is French. You are deluded. I didnt know people like you are still alive. John Terry your brother will welcome you to Chelsea with open arms.
Its sad that a few seasons ago most of us thought we were two maybe three players away from being a proper contender for titles. Now look at us. I love my club but its plain to see we are currently a mediocre inconsistent top 7 side at best…a bit like that shit lot up the road have been every year until this one. Dunno about you lot but its making me sick having to put up with their classless gloating and for once actually know that we arent good enough at the mo
Well said
Wenger has fucked up big time this year. He needs to go.
And fuck Cesc. I don’t know why he gets a free pass for abandoning the team as the captain. Him and Nasri can get fucked, selfish wankers. I hope Barca never win another trophy.
Spot on.
On the bright side AC Milan lost 2-0. Time to stand up to the spud intruders. Arsenal till we die. Still in the champions league and fa cup and 4th is still in our reach. Let’s back the team as we can’t do anything more.
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Oh god. Here come the suicidal Arsenal fans who want to see Wengers head.
The most important thing for you of course, is that he remains in charge. Arsene FC not Arsenal FC.
Like it or not, Arsene is still buying cheapsales or young talents. Gazidis said, we dont buy world class (meaning, “expensive”) players, but we make them (meaning, “profits from sales”). It’s still all about money, Crap!! No wonder Arsene flipped-flopped about transfer windows. Yet he says, keep the faith. Seriously, we need someone who can make him listened up, not Pat Rice, Gazidis, Kroenke, PHW.
Both Gervinho and Arteta cost over 10 million pounds.
can we all just agree to boycott the blackburn game, lets agree to do this on facebook, twitter everywhere, wenger needs to see we wont stand for this and do something about it…
i cant see how else we can make him take notice…
U british people should stop defending ramsey,he is worst dan denison.walcot is useless
What? Worse than Dan Denison?
Dan Denison is fucking quality. There’s no shame in that Chris.
i agree with his message. not his language. Ramsey is an awful finisher.
If I’m not mistaken, but did we not win the league the last time we didn’t qualify for the champions league? I know which I’d rather have at the end of next season….
Mate if you think we are winning the league next season with the team I’ve seen this season then your havin a laugh. Not to mention reducing the quality of potential signings we could bring in. Thank fuck wenger had done something right in bringing up these new youngsters and buying English or British. Atleast they won’t be running for the exit, not everyone’s like cashley cole.
Theo Walcott, how is he a premiership footballer? He never lifts his head when in a dangerous area, once his pace goes he won’t get a side on a Sunday league team.
Don’t understand Wenger’s thinking, we have no creativity coming from midfield, Wilshire suffers a major set back, yet Pizzaro goes to City. Do we not even bother making any inquiries any more?
This is the worst Arsenal team I can remember. I would keep around five players, the rest are not good enough. They are a disgrace to the shirt.
Has to be his last year, I love the man but his tactics, insistence of playing 4-3-3 and lack of any work on the defence mean he can’t stay. I would say the only decent buys in four years have been Arteta and Verm. Gone are the days of Edu struggling to get a game and strikers of Kanu, Wiltord, Reyes, Bergkamp, Suker. Instead we have VP and then nothing. He said in January it would be stupid to drop points because we didn’t have a recognised left back….hmmm that went well.
I’ve lost all hope, I used to enjoy watching Arsenal, even if they didn’t win trophies, but this arsenal team can’t even string a decent move together these days.
back to boring boring arsenal…
Boring arsenal wouldn’t be so bad if it were “one-nil to the Arsenal.”
(sigh)… for the love of crumb cake
i think its embarrassing that we bring Henry on for the last 20 mins of a game expecting him to win it for us, fucking shocking. we should have bought players in jan. i know its not easy, but surely we have the money. wasnt that the reason why we moved to emirates, to allow us to earn loads of cash to allow us to compete with the biggest/richest clubs?? so far we’ve spent a grand total of pretty much fuck all, and sold the majority of our best players! cant stand watching this shit week in week out anymore! wenger is going senile and bringing the club down with him. walcott can fuck off and do one aswell. i hope he doesnt sign a new contract, hes finishing is on par with ramseys – shambolic
completely agree, wenger seems blind to all our flaws and never thinks about the fans. i cant work out what he is trying to acheive, its definitely not about winning trophys…
You have to be a pretty sad pair of spurs twats to spend your evening on here slagging off Arsenal and disliking all the comments ha ha jesus get a life
Haha, au contraire, your semi literate moaning after, as you say, 15 years of darkness brings lightness and joy to our pure, north London hearts. Please keep it up
15 years? Your whole history is shrouded in darkness, you have been in our shadow for a lot longer than that. P.s you havent achieved anything this season yet. Remember lasagne? Oh how we laughed at that one. What will you blame this year? Arry’s porridge?
We can’t even beat a team that’s 17th on the verge of relegation. All the criticism of our defence is one thing, but the sad fact is that we can’t score in a brothel either. RVP is the only consistent scorer and if he gets injured, we’re even more f**ked than we are now. Arsene and the greedy board: au revoir!
Park is a great finisher.
Technically the gap hasn’t widened, but now there are two teams sitting in front of us on the gap. What’s most frustrating is that Chelsea keeps giving us chances to close the gap and we keep squandering them.
Mr Theo, kindly make way for The Ox… You’ve fucked up your bazillion chances, sir.
he’s a total liability to the team. If the club had top class players in these kinds of situations (similar Vs QPR) we’d have many more points than we do.
Its funny while a lot of people are giving stick to Ramsey and Arteta, theyre missing the fact the Song had an absolutely horrible game!
agree. has to happen sometime. nobody stepped up for him though. RvP’s gone, just like all our best
yup Song was awful yesterday but I can excuse one bad game; especially when the rest are permanently awful. I think there’s a knock-on effect.
Not sure, but I think 35% of the people who view this blog are spuds…
Fack.
The only positive I can take from this is that there is only 5 pts to a Champions League position.
Last!
Oh, shit.
Let me try that again:
Last!
There can be no possible excuse for theo not getting subbed.He could barely control the ball properly,However Wenger has his pecking order and he was too scared to disappoint theo.Same goes for Ramsey as well even though i think he should be given a little more time.Theo should be sold the moment the season gets over.Its not just the lack of quality that pisses me off about theo.There is no aggression whatsoever in his game.Keeps jumping away from tackles
The Ox looked superb again today he reminds me of a young (non-granny-fucking) Wayne Rooney, very exciting, direct, tonnes of ability and brimming with confidence. Saying all that why the fuck does the boss keep dragging him off instead of theo? Is this some type of psycho experiment to finally send all of us over the edge? I do despair!
I don’t think Arsenal will come fourth, but Chelsea have a MUCH more difficult run-in that Arsenal. Having said that, they have Essien back – one of the best players in the Premier League, he could turn their season on its head.
don’t know what to say. feel compelled to write something. we’ve been shite since start of december. team/squad/club getting worse season on season. powerless to stop it. This team might be worth 6th spot. RvP to barca hopefully to fulfill his talent. I’d say sorry, BUT IT’S NOT MY FUCKING FAULT!!!!! Gotta stop losing it over football so much.
Walcott is fucking crap. What Premier League team would take him? He is only fit for a tippy tappy, non-tackling side like Arsenal, at a team that need results he’d never get a game. Once he leaves Arsenal he’s finished imho.
OK gooners let’s settle for middle ground..
Arsenal won’t finish 4th but still be in CL next season.
Wow! I guess Theo is this seasons scape goat
I didn’t watch the match so I can’t judge but c’mon!!!! was Theo the only 1 on the pitch?
Don’t get me wrong Theo has been woeful for pretty much 75% of his Arsenal career, but to blame him would be fickle.
Previously it was Eboue, Denilson, Diaby, Martin Taylor, Almunia, Shawcross, Squillacci, Djourou, Gallas, Clichy, Senderos, Na$ri, Injuries, Mike Dean, Platini, FA, UEFA!!!!
It’s ridiculous, we have to stop blaming individual players.
There’s something fundamentally wrong at Arsenal & I have no idea what it is.
But there is 1 person that deserves to be blamed, and we all know who that is!
Glen Helder?
Nah Dan Denison mate
Extra laps at practice tomorrow!
extra drills that involve shooting the ball on target while being marked
Such melodrama, the same records been played for nearly 150 posts. As poor as Theo’s miss was can you really blame him for tonight? Ramsey was equally dire yet he got played before Rosicky who’s been outstanding. Him and theo need dropping for a bit to recuperate.
Oh Theo was the man behind the grassy knoll.
never realised how soul destroying it is to watch the arsenal. great players like song and kos trying to force passes today only to give the ball away. have to wonder if maybe a change of formation is required… to often we’re left frustrated in front of goal or left exposed at the back with this 4-3-3 formation.
i have no doubt this squad is capable of a top 4 finish, thats not in question, i question maybe how they are being utilised.
maybe a martin o’neill style 5-3-2 would work?
sczc
kos – mert – verm
sagna – Gibbs/Santos(le coq*)
song – Arteta
wilsh/chambo/rambo
walcott/cham – RvP
no drop ramsey. sell walcott and arshavin. RAMSEY is so horrible. why do people keep sticking up for him? If he has ‘potential’ let him go on loan and develop somewhere else. What the fuck ‘potential’ is the reson we keep losing. It’s the reason we will always be ‘potential’ champions. We aren’t probable champions ever. No we don’t have clas players opther than Robin. We have shit potential like Ramsey who people are willing to give endless chances too. What happens if he fails like Theo Wlacott? What happens if he’s another Denilson. Stop it. This is all too familiar for me. Believeing in a player who has given us no reason to believe in him. He fails to perform match after match. And all I keep heraing is ‘potential’. fuck potential. I want perofrmance. And I want a team with the desire to win.
you’re talking about selling players, right now the transfer window is closed. we have to make do with what we have right now. This season can be salvaged, it requires a drastic change tho, i cant say what but the current set-up is obviously failing.
i agree with you that arshavins time is up, but walcott definately has quality to be used as an impact sub. i’ve always felt that he gives his best performances when defenders are tired and he’s fresh.
On ramsey tho, i think you’re wrong. while i agree that maybe he shouldnt be exposed to as much 1st team football/responsibilities. let’s not forget this is his 1st full season as a starter, and he was rushed into the 1st team with improper preseason planning with regards transfers. Ramsey is composed with the ball and has a eye for a pass, something which with experience he will improve, as well as improving his positional sense and awareness.
The fact remains that it is not the ramsey’s fault that we are poor, he should be a squad player this season, someone to call on when injuries hit. it’s clear that many of the filler players in the squad(a la park) should be shot(or sold), and first team quality players added(i.e. players wenger is willing to use) leaving us with backups like walcott and ramsey to supplement the first team.
Also for me there still lies a doubt in our tactical set-up, too many times have we watched mediocre-to-poor man utd teams beat us(gibson and oshea ffs), clearly this shows with an improved set-up/tactics maybe performances would shift. As well as this perhaps it’s time for arsene to adopt a policy whereby he sets out his team with thought towards the opponent rather than foolishly believe that it is only our own gameplan that matters.
There must be a young striker at the club with the ability to finish. No better time to blood them in than when we can’t score for shit…
It baffles me why fans haven’t yet called for Wenger’s head.
It’s just ridiculous. 3 titles in 16yrs and he s supposed to be a god??? Really? ZERO European championships (not even a Europa league trophy). And you guys talk about him identifying talent. Let’s be honest, for every 1 star that he gets (Henry, Viera, Fabregas), he gets 10 wrong (Squillaci, Park, Chamakh, Brown, Cygan, Dennilson, Jeffers, Bischorff, etc…)
Please, the only reason Ferguson (longest serving manager) is still on the job is because he wins (about 12 league titles, 2 champions league). Ferguson worst season in the last 20years is better than Wengers best in the past 8yrs. TRUTH>
Nothing justifies Wenger staying. Absolutely NOTHING.
I hope that Wenger has the self-awareness to resign at the end of this season, and we can all remember him for the good times. It is just getting nasty now. If he carries on with his beligerance, that’s a road to further alienation of the fanbase. Though we’ll still have the issue of who is the owner of course. Now how to get rid of him … any ideas?
Our lack of quality in movement and creativeness is a worry atm, none of the free flowing movement that we became accustomed to during the golden years. We haven’t been great to watch as a pure football side since then, people say we are as we used to be but we haven’t been for a while.
I remember during the Henry years we really did play better and more attractive football than Barca, look how the have kept improving while we seem to have been systematically dismantled. When sp**rs play better football you know your fucked.
But there is hope, with a few players in key positions which know how to hold on tot the ball and make good passes we CAN still turn it around.
M’Villa, Gotze, Podolski.. All three players we could realistically get, all good with the ball. Podolski can play in the whole, upfront and on the left, and works hard, M’Villa gore and Wiltshire in the middle, with song arteta and Ramsey for rotation and resting, ox on the right Gervinho as back up. I don’t mind our defence, maybe Gibbs is a bit injury prone, but with a better mid we hold the ball more like we used to and won’t give it away so much in retarded positions like theo and Ramsey do every two minutes.
Obviously this would mean winger spending on proper talent and when was the last time we did that in quite a few seasons, and off holding onto vp if we don’t have CL football.
Just wish we, for once, went that extra mile and bought a few stars. We always fell short the last few years as we were one or two off, pls pls lets just do it next year…
It’s only Feb and lots of footy left to be played, but it really doesn’t seem like we are going to get that all elusive 4th place. I hope like hell I’m wrong, but the present squad is simply not good enough. I can understand the Boss not buying as the return of Jack could have been the creative spark plug and catalyst that could unlock games like today. But with Jack pretty much crocked until May and the transfer deadline come and gone, we are pretty much stuck with what we have. We need to go on another 2 month run of games again. The same group of players have done it once so it isn’t impossible and beyond them, but how much would you honestly wager on them pulling a run like that again? A few pence rather than squids if truth be told. Our only hope is that Chelsea and Liverpool seem to be just as inconsistent as we are so points will definitely be dropped by them. Jack’s 2nd stress fracture is bad luck, but I can’t believe the boss didn’t have a back up plan. For this tactical error, our run in the Champions League will most likely come to an end after this season. We all know the after effects of that which will be Bye Bye Robin.
It’s a tough season, but Gooner till I die. Can’t support another club!
COYG!!!
I fell asleep during the second half
I was pretty tired though. Thankfully we were not losing when I woke up, Henry on again around the 70m mark, same old Arsene, who did he take off, no it cant be the ox must be Theo, same old Arsene, which striker you gonna bring on to save the game when Henry is gone??? Chamakh, Same old Arsene. Arsenal is becoming a laughing stock, everyone except Wenger knows what we needed in the transfer window.
Where is all the money I spent on Arsenal going, if its not being re-invested?
It was a frustrating game of squandered opportunities, and more than just Walcott were subpar tonight, though the Ox continues to impress. Still, squandered opportunities or not, we should have left these relegation-bound puds in the dust in a laugher.
Some good points made.
Biggest problem is we are over relliant on youth this league requires most of the players to be 25 and up for the phsyical demands. Hence fab injured so much gibbs jenkinson walcott last season wiltshire this season and many others.
We wont keep robin anymore than Cesc with the current transfer policy you can have a few young players but not your whole midfield. Ramsey is a decent player but hes out on his feet and will get broken down like wiltshire Robin we will kill him also with no decent cover before the seasons over.
When will they effing wake up last season when they knew Cesc and Nasri was going, deals for Goetz and Hazard should have been already done and in place. Lets face it benayoun on loan and Arteta whos doing ok isnt the answer. Average players producing average results just not good enough.
Top 4 my arse-nals
When I think that city and utd are out of the cup and can rest up with spurs resting up on european nights and chelsea with a stronger squad not to mention Liverpool hitting a hot streak it makes me sick watching whats happening to our club.
Szczesny had a bad game too. Didn’t look comfortable at all between the sticks. Got really lucky not to give away a penalty.
Wow!So much frustration and understandably. IMHO I think arsene is under-utilising players in the squad. For example, Ramsey is getting so much stick now because he’s been asked to be cesc. When we bought Arteta, I thought he’d be the creative guy but what does arsene do? That’s right he drops him alongside Song. This is a player who excelled at Everton by being the creative player. I don’t blame Ramsey. Try moving Arteta forward and putting Ramsey back in his normal role.
As for Walcott, arsene has left it too long to convert him to a central striker and he’s playing from.the wrong side of the week. Theo pre-arsenal used to like to cut in and curl one in. Overall my assessment is that Arsene is a poor technician and his reading of the game is mediocre.
Absolutely spot on!
when Gervinho comes back what about playing The Ox in the middle of midfield? he says he grew up as a central midfielder.
I would like to see:
————————Szcz—————————
Sagna—Mertesaker–Vermaelen—Gibbs
—————-Song———-Arteta—————-
Walcott————–The Ox———–Gervinho
————————RVP—————————
just a thought.
fuck no. drop walcott and play chamberlain. i’ve had enough of seeing walcott be shit. he can be an impact sub. best role for him
And drop koscielny our best defender this season, no mate
Oh, ye of little faith.
Warning!
Trading Standards Officials have asked all football fans to be on their guard against a scam being carried out by a certain north London football club. The aim of the scam is to trick supporters out of thousands of pounds by getting them to buy tickets in the mistaken belief that their club is actually trying to win trophies. Having collected the supporters’ money, the club makes no effort to finish higher than fourth in the Premier League and are easily knocked out of cup competitions. The club also makes large amounts of money out of UEFA by consistently entering and then failing in the Champions’ League. The con artists have cleverly worked out that they can make considerable amounts of cash while not actually winning anything, and have ruthlessly exploited this loophole. It’s believed that both scams have been running for more than six years.
It’s thought that a number of people are involved in the scams; however, the ringleader is believed to be a short-sighted Frenchman who is often seen sporting a slightly effeminate bouffant hairstyle. As the head of the gang, he makes the important decisions pertaining to the buying and selling of players, and has managed to set up the club so that it makes massive amounts of money while spending as little as possible. While doing so he has somehow managed to delude tens of thousands of supporters into believing that he is some kind of messiah. It’s known that he personally makes more than seven million pounds a year from the scam. Last summer he sold two of the club’s best players, pocketing tens of millions of pounds for himself and the other members of the gang. And by buying cheap, second-rate replacement players, the fraudsters hoped that the club’s supporters would be fooled. They have made well over 100 million pounds in the last five years alone with this cunning ploy.
The gang is thought to be overseen by a shadowy American figure, who never gives interviews. It’s believed that he also directs other scams in North America and other parts of the world. Despite being extremely wealthy he is known to have an insatiable appetite for money and never spends unless he absolutely has to.
By sucking the club dry, the fraudsters have turned it into a mid-table laughing stock, unable to compete with its free-spending competitors. The club now has no viable future as a competitive outfit, as it refuses to buy quality players or pay the going wage rates for top-class talent.
Supporters are strongly advised not to buy tickets or any merchandise from this club until there is a change in ownership and management.
Arsene’s master plan – to get into the champions league by winning it
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How freakin’ haaaaaaaawt is Karen Gillan!?!?!
We are a team in turmoil. Stan, not the man needs to fuck off before he ruins are club. Every sports team he has owned, he has sold their best players and turned a competative team into a mid table team. Look at the parallels with the gunners. Arshavin fuk off back home, Chamack you need to leave us now, Walcott you’ve had far too many chances, probably 1 of the worst finishers in the league!. Gibbs, waste of a squad place. Santos injured but can’t defend anyway. Djourou, Sqillachi awful. I could go on but enough said. The season is over, no top 4 finish and we are a laughing stock, with the scum laughing loudest!!!!!
Ill be happy if we we dont finish in the top for just so Wengar and the board get a kick up the ass. He had his chance to buy players and blow it now we will lose our best player at the end of the season without question. All the teams that will offer him a better contract and then can actully compete for trophyirs why would he stay.
People keep telling him to buy players like Hazard Gotze etc but no we by a player with a broken legs.