Norwich v Arsenal 29th November 4:15 pm

[Bumble]

4-0

[Niall_Quinn]

3-0 Ozil hattrick

[Letters]

Wenger Out!

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger Out!

DUH!

But statements of the obvious aside, we're predicting the score here.

[AFC Leveller]

2-2.

Giroud and Santi.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We're away so I had best change the thread title.

[Master Splinter]

Norwich are in for a right good kicking.

0-4.

[adzzzbatch]

I read that the team are flying to Norwich and that also we're wearing that abomination of a 3rd strip tomorrow.

[Marc Overmars]

Really a must win game with Leicester and United drawing.

0-3.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

For once.....we need to take advantage and stay close to Citeh....love the fact we don't have to worry about what Chavs do

[Power n Glory]

We should win the game considering the opposition and what it means for our title charge. Will be interesting to see if he plays Ramsey and where gets played. Wenger was saying Cazorla and Ramsey are too offensive to play together in the middle and Ramsey will continue on the right to add balance. But he was also praising Campbell this week saying he's grown in confidence and becoming more creative.

We'll see what happens. But hoping Ramsey changes our games and puts pressure on the starters with his performances if he's on the bench.

[AFC Leveller]

Team to play Norwich: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Flamini, Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Sanchez, Giroud

Subs: Ospina, Debuchy, Gabriel, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Reine-Adelaide, Campbell

[AFC Leveller]

Team to play Arsenal: Ruddy; Wisdom, Bennett, Bassong, Olsson; Howson, Dorrans, O'Neil, Brady; Hoolahan; Grabban

Subs: Rudd, Martin, Mbokani, Jerome, Mulumbu, Redmond, Odjidja

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ox. :bow:

[GP]

The Jeff :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Nothing really in that Norwich team that should overly concern us. If we start quickly this should be fairly straight forward.

Come on you Gunners, lets get this title challenge back on track.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CU_V2RBWcAEBnU_.png

Carzola. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :scarf:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis boots it out of play.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis whacks it, wide it goes.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kos is holding his back.

[adzzzbatch]

fuck

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Must be a back spasm.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kos off, Gabriel on.

:rolleyes:

[Marc Overmars]

Kos injured.

Ridiculous.

[Maestro]

An injury a week

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis unfairly being stronger.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Racist Smudger.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Özil shoots, Bassong balloons it behind for a corner.

[Niall_Quinn]

Super defending by the ref. Not only does he halt the attack , he breaks up the tempo. If this guy is not actually injured he should be sent off.

[Niall_Quinn]

Yeah, thought as much. Fake injury.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bif fluffs it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif fluffs it.

Eventually we're going to need a proper striker.

[Marc Overmars]

Go away Cazorla.

[Maestro]

Eventually we're going to need a proper striker.

Don't you start ....you know there is no one better available out there

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Great pass from Alexis, Ramsey can't beat the first man.

[Niall_Quinn]

That should have been a goal. That was utter shit by Ramsey.

[Niall_Quinn]

Merts is too slow. Fact.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis smacks it, Ruddy saves.

Cazorla. :cloud9:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Terrible ball from Wisdom.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Not so good from Catzola.

[Marc Overmars]

Ozil!!!!

[Master Splinter]

OZIL!!!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

ÖZIL!!!!!!

:bow:

[Kano]

Lovely finish by Ozil :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Ozil is a bit of a god really.

[A Gunner]

Well assisted by Alexis too!

[Niall_Quinn]

Alexis and Ozil - as usual.

[Power n Glory]

Ozil with the tidy finish.

[Master Splinter]

What would Arsenal do without Alexis and Ozil?

If they get a few injuries, they'll be in trouble.

[Niall_Quinn]

Don't know who it was that ran in on the keeper and made him kick it. Bif maybe. That's the shit we should be doing all the time.

[Niall_Quinn]

9 assists in 7 for Ozil. One day he'll be as good as Di MariaDePay.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Superb passing tbf.

[Niall_Quinn]

Super passing. I like it when we pass forwards.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gabriel wants to get Cech more involved in the game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Özil. :haha:

Blatant dive.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ozil wipes out the media. Good play. They deserve it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Commentators reckon Norwich should have had a pen :haha:

Fucking ludicrous. How desperate are they?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis pushed by Bennett off the pitch. Twat.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Not even a booking. Ridiculous.

[Niall_Quinn]

Should be a red for that deliberate shove. Ref does fuck all. Clear red.

[GP]

Bennett should be off for that.

[Marc Overmars]

Didn't realise you were allowed to shove players into a pit.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How can that not be considered reckless or dangerous play?

Anyway, Cech saves.

[Niall_Quinn]

Debuchy's Arsenal career was all but ended with shit like that. You can tip somebody in the box and get a red, but shove somebody into the dugout when they are in mid air and have no control - play on. Refs are clueless.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-1 Grabban. :doh:

[Marc Overmars]

1-1 :doh:

[adzzzbatch]

fuck this shit

[Kano]

Poor by Gabriel.

[Niall_Quinn]

Norwich's cheating, aided and abetted by the ref, has got them the equaliser. If football won't do it, moaning, whining, trying to injury the opposition, that'll do it.

[Munchies]

fucking hell

[Power n Glory]

Poor from Gabriel and Ramsey was beaten easily on the wing.

[Power n Glory]

Norwich's cheating, aided and abetted by the ref, has got them the equaliser. If football won't do it, moaning, whining, trying to injury the opposition, that'll do it.

Can't always blame the ref. We have a concentration problem.

[adzzzbatch]

shocking defending

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hoolahan blazes it over.

[Newguy]

Norwich's cheating, aided and abetted by the ref, has got them the equaliser. If football won't do it, moaning, whining, trying to injury the opposition, that'll do it. either way we need more from our striker, no point him starting games...

[Marc Overmars]

Should be 2-1 :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

Poor from Gabriel and Ramsey was beaten easily on the wing.

Yeah, but the way the play was so cynically broken up over a period of 5-10 mins and the way the ref just waved it all on, that's what makes this league so close. Farmers always have a chance if the ref is up for it.

Mind you, we're a bit pansy still when the opposition goes agricultural.

[Power n Glory]

Very lucky not to be losing.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-1 HT. Cock.

[Niall_Quinn]

Let's be charitable and say Ramsey is rusty today.

[AFC Leveller]

Should be winning this. You can not concede a goal to Graban, who the f is he?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I don't know where I stand with Ramsey and Ox. When one plays, I am often pining for the other.

[Kano]

Not a bad half, home side has chances as always, poor from Gabriel for the goal. Ramsey looks a bit off the pace. Norwich literally have eleven men behind the ball so have to carve something out of tight spaces in the second half.

[Niall_Quinn]

HT 1-1

Grim stuff, shows that cheats always have a chance. So cynical and such a weak ref.

That said, we should be 4 goals up. Bif has got around the pitch well but he's really not so good when the ball is anywhere near the net.

Alexis lucky not to be seriously injured by the sort of foul play that should have the police involved, never mind the blind ref. When you think back to what Gabriel got sent off for, what the fuck is wrong with this league?

That snidey sort of shit that can have any one of a hundred outcomes, some very serious, needs to be dealt with. As it is, I hope Flamini kicks that cunt up in the air second half.

[Marc Overmars]

In control for all of the half but punished after switching off. *Sigh*

Time to put them to the sword now.

[Newguy]

With the performance from Campbell in his last outing, I don't see how he gets dropped for this game in favour of Ramsey..

[Niall_Quinn]

And our defence is still making school yard mistakes. Time for Wenger to back away from all things defensive and bring a coach who knows what he's doing in. It's been long enough now, watching the same errors regardless of who is playing.

[Niall_Quinn]

either way we need more from our striker, no point him starting games...

Yeah he's very poor in front of goal. But there's nobody else who's better, so not much can be done.

[Master Splinter]

Norwich will get their first booking for an axe to Alexis' head in the 94th minute.

[Munchies]

the guy who scored was about to leave in August and hasnt scored since march

ffs

[Niall_Quinn]

Norwich will get their first booking for an axe to Alexis' head in the 94th minute.

I don't think there's an actual rule that says you can't murder players with an axe. It would come down to the ref's discretion so I doubt it would be a booking.

[Master Splinter]

I don't think there's an actual rule that says you can't murder players with an axe. It would come down to the ref's discretion so I doubt it would be a booking.

He saw the incident.

[fakeyank]

What a shite performance. Sack that joke of a manager and we'll be ok.

[Niall_Quinn]

He saw the incident.

I think you're forgetting Norwich should have had a penalty for that dive.

[Maestro]

Coquelin masks a multitude of sins, very much missed. Can't trust our defence without him sitting in front of them.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Agree with NQ and thought the turd who pushed Alexis should have got a yellow.

Piss poor defending between Ramsey and Gabriel for their goal. Must do better.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dance off with the mascots. :sarcy:

[Niall_Quinn]

Players out for second half. Surprised Norwich didn't plant turnips on the pitch during HT break.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cazorla. :rose:

[AFC Leveller]

Santiago dead

[Niall_Quinn]

Santi the first casualty of the second half war. But the farmer got the ball so killing the player in the process is fine.

[Niall_Quinn]

Foul went against Santi :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif taken out now. Accidental of course.

[adzzzbatch]

this is the west brom game all over again.

[Niall_Quinn]

Giroud in the box again :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dreadful cross from Wisdom.

[Newguy]

I hate going on about the same thing but, I just don't think Giroud is good enough... We're playing with 10 men

[Power n Glory]

Regardless if they foul and disrupt our rhythm on attack, we must still defend. We were a goal up so just needed to hold that if they wanted to cheat us out of attacking.

[AFC Leveller]

11 men behind the ball, not enough movement or pace from us to open them up.

Cannot drop points here, we have to fo joint top

[McNamara That Ghost...]

BFG with the fake header. Cunning.

Özil nearly. Not sure how Bif fluffed it.

[adzzzbatch]

twat of a ref

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cazorla booked. :unsure:

[Niall_Quinn]

Regardless if they foul and disrupt our rhythm on attack, we must still defend. We were a goal up so just needed to hold that if they wanted to cheat us out of attacking.

But finding a rhythm in the game is where that control comes from. It's too easy in this league for an inferior (and in this case massively inferior) team to bust up a game using tactics that are outside the law, or on the edge of it.

Cazorla booked :haha: It's beyond believe.

[Niall_Quinn]

Jeez, Ramsey is so off the pace.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

O'Neil booked.

[Niall_Quinn]

Booking for those cynical, cynical turds, finally.

[Power n Glory]

But finding a rhythm in the game is where that control comes from. It's too easy in this league for an inferior (and in this case massively inferior) team to bust up a game using tactics that are outside the law, or on the edge of it.

Cazorla booked :haha: It's beyond believe.

Did we defend poorly for that goal? That's the question. Was there and opportunity to stop them from scoring? We're always gonna have these sort of games where we can't control.the team or refs behaviour. But there are parts of the game we can control like marking properly.

[adzzzbatch]

crap fk

[adzzzbatch]

alexis dead

[AFC Leveller]

Alexis dead

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis. :rose:

Oh dear.

[adzzzbatch]

fuck his hammy is done in

[Marc Overmars]

Alexis holding his hamstring FFS

[Kano]

Alexis coming off :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Alexis is down holding his hamstring. If he's done then we're done.

Looks bad.

[RomfordPele]

Ffs. What is it with this fucking team. Every year the same.

[Marc Overmars]

What a joke

[Newguy]

Wenger taking chances with Sanchez has finally cost us

[Niall_Quinn]

Did we defend poorly for that goal? That's the question. Was there and opportunity to stop them from scoring? We're always gonna have these sort of games where we can't control.the team or refs behaviour. But there are parts of the game we can control like marking properly.

Already said we did.

Anyway season just ended.

[AFC Leveller]

See you in 2016 fella

Alongside koss, coq jack rozza arteta theo welbz and two others

[adzzzbatch]

we are really going to struggle without him :(

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Alexis off, Campbell on.

[Power n Glory]

Bound to happen eventually. Poor management when it comes to fitness.

[Munchies]

:(

fuck Wenger ffs

fucking shit

[Niall_Quinn]

So far Kos and Alexis, not bad even by our standard.

[RomfordPele]

We are losing this game too. The ref will see to that.

[adzzzbatch]

how is that a fucking foul

[Niall_Quinn]

We are losing this game too. The ref will see to that.

Yeah, he's on his game today.

[selassie]

Dropping like flies. No words for our injury situation.

[Niall_Quinn]

Dropping like flies. No words for our injury situation.

Who could have predicted it?

[adzzzbatch]

Campbell :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

Commentators are buzzing on my stream. They sense an unlikely win for their team.

[Master Splinter]

This fucking disastrous kit.

[Marc Overmars]

Has anyone told this lot they can go level at the top with a win?

[selassie]

Who could have predicted it?

It's a disgrace, it's not normal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Poor from Bellerin.

[Marc Overmars]

Very poor from Bellerin

[Niall_Quinn]

Bellerin :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

It's a disgrace, it's not normal.

Actually it is normal, for us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif having the shirt pulled off his back. This ref is a cheat.

[Slacker]

Sanchez out until August.

Why are Arsenal hanging back against these tossers. They are so fucking average it's unreal. Their passing is shit, their control is dreadful and all we do is let them scuff, shitkick, punt and clump the ball around at will. If we were first to every challenge they wouldn't have any possession whatsoever. We're making a shockingly bad team look good. The ref don't help but Arsenal should know by now they have to factor in the fact he is likely to be a complete arsehole. We should be winning this game. Not sure we will though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Great save from Cech to deny Gabriel.

[adzzzbatch]

FFS well done cech

[RomfordPele]

Great save cech

[Marc Overmars]

Cech :bow:

[Kano]

Nice back pass from Gabriel.

[adzzzbatch]

WAKE UP ARSENAL

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Howson. :lol:

What are we doing?

[Niall_Quinn]

Great stuff from Cech. To offset our dire, dire defending.

[AFC Leveller]

I'd take a 1-1 right now. We have lost our shape and spark, Norwich look more confident ad a result.

Can't lose this.

[fakeyank]

Wenger should be manager of the year

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[Marc Overmars]

We're not very good.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox on for Ramsey.

[adzzzbatch]

shit cross from monreal

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Player turns back towards his own goal, definitely not the time to be pressing.

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger should be manager of the year

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G925A using Tapatalk

His computer should be managerbot of the year.

[Globalgunner]

How much are we going to pay Giroud for today's modelling session?

[adzzzbatch]

shit from monreal again

[Marc Overmars]

Come on Arsenal FFS

[adzzzbatch]

giroud should've done better

[Kano]

Tough one for Giroud, at least a cross was in the right space for once.

[Niall_Quinn]

Tough one for Giroud

It's the easy ones he needs to master.

[Munchies]

Wenger fuck off

Alexis dying has ended our season

[RomfordPele]

Campbell is fucking awful. The new eboue.

[adzzzbatch]

Fucking hell

[adzzzbatch]

that should've buried us

[adzzzbatch]

FFS

[Marc Overmars]

We're title challengers, you know.

[Niall_Quinn]

Wenger fuck off

Alexis dying has ended our season

What could he do though? We have 2 players who can change a game. That's Wenger's fault of course for sitting on his chequebook. But we knew he would so now he has to play Ozil and Alexis into the ground.

[Kano]

Monreal has had a poor game.

[Slacker]

Monreal and Campbell having a mare (par for the course for Campbell).

[adzzzbatch]

This is desperate stuff

[Newguy]

This is hard to watch

[Niall_Quinn]

Damn, that was weak from Flamini.

[adzzzbatch]

lots of tippy tapppy

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bellerin. :doh:

[adzzzbatch]

fuck off bellerin

[Marc Overmars]

Bellerin :doh:

[RomfordPele]

Nah. We are done in this game. Out of ideas.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hoolahan off, Ofoe on.

Grabban off, Jerome on.

[adzzzbatch]

Nah. We are done in this game. Out of ideas.

Looks that way.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bellerin and Monreal off their game today.

[Marc Overmars]

Nah. We are done in this game. Out of ideas.

Never had any ideas to begin with. Our goal was a gift.

[adzzzbatch]

dire

[adzzzbatch]

what is Campbell doing?

[Niall_Quinn]

Nah. We are done in this game. Out of ideas.

No Alexis to open up the play. Ozil has to do it all on his own now and that makes it so much easier for the opposition. We are massively fucked now. Win, lose or draw, the real result is the Alexis injury. If it's any more than a couple of weeks (in human time rather than Arsenal time) we are done.

[Kano]

Ruddy awful.

[Niall_Quinn]

Their keeper has looked shit today but we have't tested him nearly enough.

[Munchies]

how long left do he have to hold on? Not watching the game

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cunt home fans.

[adzzzbatch]

Their keeper has looked shit today but we have't tested him nearly enough.

Yeah can't exactly say he's had the game of his life.

[Niall_Quinn]

Every cynical trick in the book.

[adzzzbatch]

wow we are so shit

[Slacker]

Thisn lot got mullered by the Toon a few weeks back. What happens to Arsenal every November (apart from a shedload of injuries).

Monreal is costing us the game today.

[adzzzbatch]

sky willing Norwich to get the winner

[Niall_Quinn]

Cunt home fans.

Not up to the fans to get a ball on the pitch. But this Norwich outfit are well skilled in the arts of whatever it is they are playing at.

[adzzzbatch]

we're done.

[adzzzbatch]

Norwich won't have an easier game all season

[Marc Overmars]

This is terrible

[Globalgunner]

Giroud is really thick

[adzzzbatch]

fuck off smudger

[Power n Glory]

We are close to losing this one.

[Newguy]

Anyone telling me that Giroud is anything other than championship material is insane

[Niall_Quinn]

A credit to the Premier League is how the stupid wanker on my feed sums it up. Why? Because players are still running at helter skelter pace after 90 mins. That's what footie is all about of course.

[adzzzbatch]

fuck off arsenal

[Niall_Quinn]

fuck off smudger

You got Smudger :haha:

I don't feel so bad about my feed now.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-1 FT. Utter bollocks Wenger.

[A Gunner]

1 - 1 FT
Bad November

[Marc Overmars]

FT

Rubbish

[adzzzbatch]

You got Smudger :haha:

I don't feel so bad about my feed now.

I think he was Norwich's biggest fan today.

[LDG]

That was shit.

Two more injuries too.

Who could have seen this happenning :faint:

[Niall_Quinn]

FT 1-1

We had a chance to capitalise on other results. Who, if they are being honest, expected us to take that chance?

The loser mentality at this club starts at the top and soaks all the way down. We're winning fuck all and it comes down to one man. You can say refs and injuries and bad luck and whatever, but when you keep seeing the same things over and over - regardless of the board, regardless of the roster - then honesty demands you look at the one constant. We are doing nothing until he's gone.

[AFC Leveller]

Shit.

Not title winning form, should be winning games like these.

[Power n Glory]

Fluffed our lines again. Sanchez and Kos injured.

[Niall_Quinn]

1 - 1 FT
Bad November

Usual November. We are just unlucky - season after season after season after season.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Piss fuhking poor.

[Munchies]

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Arsene-Wenger-Struggles-to-Zip-Up-Jacket.gif

get rid of the ........... Enough is enough

[RomfordPele]

I think he was Norwich's biggest fan today.

Yep, we are even shit at pundits. Smith really is a fucking corporate turncoat, always sees the negatives in what we do.

No mention of alexis getting shoved into the camera pits at half time eh sky? That can't have done his hammy much good.

God help us if an arsenal player had done it.

[fakeyank]

"We are still within touching distance of the league leaders. Leicester city is obviously going to fall off. We have a run of easy games. We have spent on new players due to new commercial deals being in place. We have won 2 FA Cups. We have most points in 2015. Judge Wenger end of season."

Source: Unknown

[Munchies]

Watching a player like Campbell finally get his chance and do fuck all with it shows why Wenger never played him, yet when we have 3 injuries he's our first go to guy LOL.....

[Niall_Quinn]

Yep, we are even shit at pundits. Smith really is a fucking corporate turncoat, always sees the negatives in what we do.

No mention of alexis getting shoved into the camera pits at half time eh sky? That can't have done his hammy much good.

God help us if an arsenal player had done it.

Do you know that Arsenal have 367,000 red cards since Wenger took over?

[Niall_Quinn]

Watching a player like Campbell finally get his chance and do fuck all with it shows why Wenger never played him, yet when we have 3 injuries he's our first go to guy LOL.....

He didn't do anything that awful did he? Bad team performance. Can't expect a kid to come on and change it all around when seasoned pros around him aren't delivering. It was Ramsey who was particularly bad today, and Bif of course. Ramsey coming back from injury so understandable to a degree, but some of the stuff he played, shit that was bad.

[AFC Leveller]

Two positive things after this weekend, we remain 2 points behind and are 4 points better of than last season.