Match Reaction v Spuds (away).

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinez looks how I feel.

Tyler banging on about Tottenham playing on Thursday.

Anyway, utter shite. Not even a St. Totteringham's Day against the shittest Spuds team in 7 years. Unfortunately that's because we're the shittest Arsenal team in 25 years.

[Niall_Quinn]

I knew there was a valid reason for not watching the games. But I blew it and paid the price.

[Marc Overmars]

Shite.

Is this season over yet?

[selassie]

Battle of the bottlers?

Ive had a good weekend so far, no need to put a dampner on it by watching this rabble.

We lost....oh what a surprise!

[Master Splinter]

Sticking with error-prone defenders when there's better options was going to cost Arteta eventually.

Sticking with Pepe for so long and slowly giving them the momentum by not changing anything was also poor management.

It was going well for the last few weeks as well. Losing to such a poor side makes it even worse.

Self-harm from the players and self-harm from the manager.

[Globalgunner]

This game is another example of why I'm against a new contract for Auba. Totally useless in crunch games.

[Penguin]

Unless Arteta weeds out morons like Mustafi, Luiz, Xhaka and Kolasinac there's no hope for us. He's given them a chance, he's tried different systems and they've let him down, just like they let Emery and Wenger down. I can't blame Arteta for that.

But if he's still playing them next season then I can and will blame him.

[Niall_Quinn]

This game is another example of why I'm against a new contract for Auba. Totally useless in crunch games.

We've cut him out of our game play. If we're going to prefer Laca and even Eddie through the center then I agree, we don't need Auba. He's our best player, by a mile, and he's kept us out of the relegation fight despite the mismanagement that mostly relegates him to the sidelines. But he'll lose heart eventually and be worthless. It's such terrible management, to ignore a player with his talent. I can only assume Arteta knows he's going so can't see the point in building around him. And I guess you play him because he's one of two players who can produce something beyond the depressing patter ball we insist on playing.

[Marc Overmars]

Battle of the bottlers?

Ive had a good weekend so far, no need to put a dampner on it by watching this rabble.

We lost....oh what a surprise!

Pretty much.

Arsenal losing to a Mourinho team is a pretty safe bet even in the best of times.

[Niall_Quinn]

Unless Arteta weeds out morons like Mustafi, Luiz, Xhaka and Kolasinac there's no hope for us. He's given them a chance, he's tried different systems and they've let him down, just like they let Emery and Wenger down. I can't blame Arteta for that.

But if he's still playing them next season then I can and will blame him.

Arteta talked big talk about being ruthless. So why is he watching these players make the same mistakes over and over? Stick the kids in and at least we have some enthusiasm. So what if we lose? We lose anyway.