Chelsea (H). Wednesday 7.45pm. Sky Sports.

[Özim]

The decline (as opposed to stagnation) is clear. We used to play shit but we all knew we'd scrape the world famous Top Four Trophy somehow. Now it's by no means clear we'll get there and it will rely far more on our opponents collapsing than anything we do. Liverpool and the spuds have been horribly inconsistent, Utd have their problems and the chavs aren't exactly dominant, but we are still languishing in 6th. Highest ticket prices, third highest wage bill and hundreds of millions splashed in the transfer windows. But we are worse than ever. It's inexcusable.

Spot on, the only reason we're anywhere near top 4 is because those other teams have blown hot and cold, the fact we're 6th despite this just shows how awful we are, but then we know that when fans start celebrating 0-0 draws and 3-3 at home as if it's some sort of victory.

We thought last season was bad, we've somehow managed to get even worse this season, quite some achievement, but with that man in charge nothing is inconceivable. Watching him complain about a penalty decision and fixtures at the weekend was cringeworthy, somehow he never notices just how poor we are or how many errors we make, always someone elses fault.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

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His end product is easily forgotten when the manager changes the system and won't even give him a bench role.

[Globalgunner]

Walcott is pony. 12 years of his failed promise should have convinced any Arsenal fan by now. If he hasn't left by February, he will be lower than a skunk in my estimation.

[Cripps]

In fairness to him, he does seem to pop up in these big games more than most.

Would be interesting if he did start because Chelsea wouldn't have prepared for it but I think Wenger has given up on him. This will be his last contract with us and I'm sure he'll be moved on soon.

Think Walcott's recent injury took a lot out of him.

Was a massive injury and had a long time out. The picture of his knee is horrific; like a butchers taken the knife to it. Visible sliced scars on the skin.

No doubt will have mentally crushed him. He needs a fresh start.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Good that Iwobi has been dropped. Clearly just isn’t good enough

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ian Chambers is playing for us according to Skybot.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chelsea: Courtois, Azpilicueta, Christensen, Cahill, Moses, Fabregas, Kante, Bakayoko, Alonso, Hazard, Morata.
Subs: Caballero, Rudiger, Drinkwater, Pedro, Zappacosta, Willian, Batshuayi.

[selassie]

I’m not expecting us to get anything more than a point tonight, it’s more about hope than expectation and as per norm we will be hoping Ozil and Sanchez pull out all the stops to get us out of the shit.

Tonight will be similar to the Liverpool game IMO, we’ll spend most of the game chasing shadows.

So sick of this shit, what was the point of us moving to a new stadium again? Ridiculous that we are putting starting line ups out there like this.

[Niall_Quinn]

Inexperienced and off form defence that highlights our lack of squad depth. But who didn't know that already (apart from Wenger)?

Still. If we give it a go rather than tap our way around at snail's pace, that's a good enough team to give a pretty ordinary bunch of chavs a game. IF we give it a go.