Southampton v Arsenal, 19:45 KO, Saturday, 26th December 2015 - BT Sport 1

[Munchies]

It's been a tricky fixture recently, but they're not on the best of runs.

0-2

:scarf:

[Alpha]

Finally, we are no longer worried about some games as we used to be. Southampton is not an easy game but the maturity and confidence in the team will make it easier.
Head says: 1-2 but heart says 0-2.
But whatever the score in our favour I want Cech to keep a clean sheet to beat David James record as that will increase more confidence in our defence.

[Marc Overmars]

Tricky game but with the form we're in we should be looking to rubber stamp the City win with another 3 points here. I don't think Southampton have won since early November.

1-2.

[GP]

0-3

[Xhaka Can’t]

1-5

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[fakeyank]

0-0

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Little bit our bogey team over on their patch. However, our attackers have started to put away a fair amount of the chances Ozil has long been serving up on a platter. Therefore, I fully expect us to waste little time picking off a Soton team, which have been looking like Championship material for a better part of the current season.

0-3. :scarf:

[Munchies]

Probable line ups

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[McNamara That Ghost...]

With Leicester - Man City next, this is the must win of all must wins.

[Marc Overmars]

Yep, we could be sitting very pretty come New Year's Day.

But first, win tonight please. :pray:

[Letters]

Could go top now :sick:

[Maestro]

Can we handle going top ....and staying there??? Well we'll soon find out.

[Master Splinter]

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[Munchies]

As expected, COYG :scarf:

[GP]

Any win will do.

A right kicking would be lovely.

[Master Splinter]

Come on Arsenal :scarf:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal! :bow:

[adzzzbatch]

COME ON ARSENAL!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chance for Bif.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Why did BFG pull up going for the ball?

[Maestro]

COYG let's pick it up

As said by others, any win any which way just win

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a pass from Ramsey to Monreal!

[adzzzbatch]

Giving Southampton too much space

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Monreal shot, bit tame.

[Maestro]

Should be 1-0 up right there

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a strike from Martina.

[adzzzbatch]

Shit. All to do now.

[Master Splinter]

Another fluke. :doh:

[Maestro]

Fuck me that hurt

[Maestro]

That is no fluke, don't kid yourself

[adzzzbatch]

Another fluke. :doh:

It was.

We always give no hopers like him a goal

[adzzzbatch]

If we don't win tonight then last Monday is meaningless.

[Marc Overmars]

FFS

Come on Arsenal

[Master Splinter]

It was.

We always give no hopers like him a goal

He'll probably never play for them again.

[Maestro]

COYG I'm backing you here boys

[adzzzbatch]

Lucky boy Kos

[adzzzbatch]

Sort it out Arsenal!

[Letters]

If we don't win tonight then last Monday is meaningless.

No it isn't.

[Munchies]

not watching the game, saw the goal, ffs

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Shite from Ward-Prowse.

[Master Splinter]

Koscielny the thug :bow:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kos. :doh:

Oh dear.

[adzzzbatch]

FFS!

[Maestro]

We're really asking for a beating here
Horrendous defensive errors

[adzzzbatch]

We look awful atm.

[adzzzbatch]

shit cross

[adzzzbatch]

Hoddle likes Ozil being fouled :rolleyes:

[Maestro]

We've been very poor so far, a goal would be the tonic

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Long booked. Send him off!

[Marc Overmars]

Nose bleed from being so high in the table it seems.

[adzzzbatch]

We desperately need a goal from somewhere. Southampton are very comfortable.

[adzzzbatch]

Shit corner

[adzzzbatch]

fuck off long you cunt!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good run from Theo, tame shot.

[adzzzbatch]

weak from theo! FFS

[Maestro]

Put your foot through it Theo FFS

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Theo header, side netting.

[Maestro]

On your own and header off target ffs

[adzzzbatch]

Theo, scores a brilliant goal Monday, plays like a dickhead tonight.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Long. :haha:

[adzzzbatch]

Fucking hell. :ilt:

[Maestro]

Lads this is really poor, need a goal please

[adzzzbatch]

this is terrible.

[adzzzbatch]

fuck are we winning the league playing like this.

[adzzzbatch]

Ozil fouled. nothing.

[adzzzbatch]

Fuck that half of football, it was shit.

[Maestro]

They need a rocket at HT

COYG!!!!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 HT. Fecking press merchants.

[Marc Overmars]

What a wasted opportunity this could turn out to be.

Sort it out Arsenal.

[Master Splinter]

Southampton and Stoke are bogey grounds. The opposition doesn't need to do much to win and we just look lethargic and drunk.

That fucking fluke though.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Can we handle going top ....and staying there??? Well we'll soon find out.
Looking like we'll not have to worry about it. Good performance by Southampton. They give us no time on the ball and the pressure is really disrupting our passing game.

Fantastic goal but we'll be alright in the return match because FY is going.

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[Slacker]

As usual on his returns to Southampton, Theo has disappeared up his own arse. Too many players are having an off day. They can't carry on playing like this for another 45 minutes. I'm worried we are creating chances but don't look any where near converting them. Amazing what a freak goal can do.

[Maestro]

Looking like we'll not have to worry about it. Good performance by Southampton. They give us no time on the ball and the pressure is really disrupting our passing game.

Fantastic goal but we'll be alright in the return match because FY is going.

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Will be a real shame if we can't capitalise here, but hey ho

By the time FY turns up hopefully we have a real buffer or it just doesn't matter anymore. Must always calculate and make allowance for the FY factor

[fakeyank]

No urgency from the assholes. Per and Kos look uncomfortable against crap like Long.

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[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :scarf:

[Slacker]

No urgency from the assholes. Per and Kos look uncomfortable against crap like Long.

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Laughable but true. Davis looks like a worldbeater as well.

[Maestro]

Right lads, time for the cognac anaesthetic

[adzzzbatch]

Great start....

[adzzzbatch]

Sort it out Kos!

[adzzzbatch]

Fucking shit. Lucky.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for Van Dijk.

[adzzzbatch]

Very very lucky

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Can't see why that was disallowed. :lol:

[adzzzbatch]

Awful.

[adzzzbatch]

FUCK

[adzzzbatch]

GO FUCK YOURSELVES ARSENAL.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-0 Long.

Horrendous from Theo.

[Thierrymon]

:ilt:

[GP]

The fuck is this referee doing?

[adzzzbatch]

Fuck are we winning the league.

[Marc Overmars]

What a balls up.

[Master Splinter]

Moss has been dreadful for both teams in fairness. But that one led to a goal.

We just ask for some basic competence.

[selassie]

We've been downright horrible so far.

[adzzzbatch]

What a balls up.

We do it to ourselves.

beating City was a waste of time.

[adzzzbatch]

Ramsey the only one trying.

[Thierrymon]

Now the players wake up. The thought of going top is apparently not enough.

[Marc Overmars]

We very rarely come from behind to win games, this one is done.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ramsey shot, deflected. Easy for Stekelenburg.

[Maestro]

The key now is to just get drunk fellows

[adzzzbatch]

We very rarely come from behind to win games, this one is done.

Yeah, we may have got back to 1-1, but we're getting nothing from this at all.

[Maestro]

Cannot allow this to fuck up my Christmas

[adzzzbatch]

The key now is to just get drunk fellows

:beer:

[Ernesto]

Robbie Savage must revel in our misfortunes

[adzzzbatch]

Cannot allow this to fuck up my Christmas

It's the hope that kills.

[Munchies]

:banghead:

[adzzzbatch]

Robbie Savage must revel in our misfortunes

The weird thing is they have mentioned the "trip" a few times since the second goal. fucking wally!

[Slacker]

Get up you fucking pansy

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bit of a shocker from Theo.

[Maestro]

It's the hope that kills.

Still live in hope but not expectation

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Campbell off, Ox on.

Please don't be shit Ox.

[Slacker]

Campbell off, Ox on.

Please don't be shit Ox.

A big ask...

[Munchies]

It's the hope that kills.

*Sighs*

:(

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Clasie off, Romeu on.

[Slacker]

Hold on. They kicked the ball out and they get a free kick?

[adzzzbatch]

Fuck it

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-0 Fonte. Fuck this.

[selassie]

Wow.

[Maestro]

Embarrassing performance

Simply no other way to describe this

[fakeyank]

What a load of rubbish. This team will win the premier league? Lol

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[Master Splinter]

Bogey fucking grounds.

No sense to the outcome. But it will be the same one.

[adzzzbatch]

Fuck off Wenger.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Never too late to ruin Christmas hey.

[adzzzbatch]

We're fucking weak. no backbone.

[Maestro]

:haha::haha:

I really hope you're all having a drink

[Master Splinter]

I think Southampton had the worst form in the league.

Conceding loads and not scoring.

Then this happens. It was inevitable.

This league is just mental.

[Maestro]

Never too late to ruin Christmas hey.

Not my Christmas

[adzzzbatch]

Crap decision, but we've done fuck all.

[Marc Overmars]

Well beaten by a team that hasn't won in 6 weeks.

Nice work Arsenal.

[adzzzbatch]

:haha::haha:

I really hope you're all having a drink

What else is there to do? :cheers:

[adzzzbatch]

Well beaten by a team that hasn't won in 6 weeks.

Nice work Arsenal.

We are The Arsenal, anything is possible.

[-Xs-]

Collectively bad performance from all, even Cechs been shit so no point saving there

[Ralpheroo72]

About as enjoyable as a mouthful of bong water. Wenger and Arsenal can fuck right off.

[Master Splinter]

Was it even a corner?

We've been shit, but that's no excuse for a ref handing them two goals. At 1-0, there's still a chance. But Wenger is a cunt and Arsenal are the worst team ever again.

Shane Long has got one over Koscielny. Koscielny should cut himself. Or the cheating ref.

[Munchies]

greasy kebab is numbing the pain from the 'collapse'

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Iwobi on to save us. :bow:

Theo hauled off.

[Maestro]

Making shit teams look good for the last ten years, we sure have it in us ������

[Maestro]

About as enjoyable as a mouthful of bong water. Wenger and Arsenal can fuck right off.

Hopefully you've had a toke on that bong tonight

[adzzzbatch]

Making shit teams look good for the last ten years, we sure have it in us ������

:gp:

[adzzzbatch]

The replay for the 3rd goal :doh:

[Maestro]

They're beating us with players who'd be happy to sit on our bench for modest wages. Look at our bench ....makes you wonder

[adzzzbatch]

:haha: this is too much!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Can we get a consolation? :popcorn:

[RomfordPele]

Classic arsenal, classic wenger. Manager didn't turn up with a plan, and the players just didn't turn up period.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Long hits the post.

[adzzzbatch]

We're shit.

[adzzzbatch]

Classic arsenal, classic wenger. Manager didn't turn up with a plan, and the players just didn't turn up period.

I agree!

[fakeyank]

Ve vill vin BPL

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[Munchies]

This is the only chance we have at the PL ffs :(

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We're terrible against Koeman sides.

[adzzzbatch]

so sad watching us tonight.

[A Gunner]

0 - 4

[adzzzbatch]

FUCK OF ALL OF YOU CUNTS

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-0. Fucking hell.

[selassie]

Our worst performance of the season by a mile, we really need to push on from this because it could be really damaging to our season.

[Marc Overmars]

Only we can do a complete 360 in the space of 5 days.

Pathetic.

[selassie]

Merts & Kos have been embarrassing tonight.

[adzzzbatch]

We deserve to win fuck all. Bunch of cunts the lot of em.

[Munchies]

Just laugh lads

:haha:

[adzzzbatch]

Only we can do a complete 360 in the space of 5 days.

Pathetic.

:trophy:

:ilt:

[adzzzbatch]

Just laugh lads

:haha:

I do then I cry then I laugh, then I cry again.

[selassie]

Only we can do a complete 360 in the space of 5 days.

Pathetic.

It's why I don't trust this team and don't believe. We've not even been unlucky tonight, we could have lost by more.

[adzzzbatch]

TWATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

At least the next game is only on Monday. :lol:

Utter shite.

[Xhaka Can’t]

4get about this guys.

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[Ralpheroo72]

Even with the shit league this year, Wenger will still fuck it up.

[Munchies]

At least the next game is only on Monday. :lol:

Utter shite.

Bournemouth are on a huge confidence run at the moment

[Marc Overmars]

It's why I don't trust this team and don't believe. We've not even been unlock tonight, we could have lost by more.

Yeah, I don't know anymore with this lot. Of course Southampton away is a tough fixture, but to go and get spanked after what we did against City? Ridiculous.

[adzzzbatch]

4get about this guys.

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We're terrible. We've flattered for so long now and we serve up that shit. Fuck it.

[adzzzbatch]

Bournemouth are on a huge confidence run at the moment

I've got a free ticket Monday god help 'em if they play like that the cunts.

[Kano]

We're terrible. We've flattered for so long now and we serve up that shit. Fuck it.

Relegation minimum.

[Power n Glory]

Predicted. Win against City and fail to capitalise on Leicester City's loss. I keep saying you can't pay attention to the big wins because the team has this sort of game in them. Woeful.

[Master Splinter]

Predicted. Win against City and fail to capitalise on Leicester City's loss. I keep saying you can't pay attention to the big wins because the team has this sort of game in them. Woeful.

There's no pattern to anything anymore. You shouldn't read in to this anymore than you shouldn't read into the City win. It's not like we regularly get thrashed by a mid-table team. When was the last time it happened?

[IBK]

Predicted. Win against City and fail to capitalise on Leicester City's loss. I keep saying you can't pay attention to the big wins because the team has this sort of game in them. Woeful.

Completely agree. Dropping points against Southampton was no surprise at all - although this deserved spanking may not have been so easy to predict. How come we are the patsys for every fucking team that is woefully out of form? This can't be a coincidence. Our attitude was completely different to that against Olympiacos or Citeh - we looked disinteterested; lacking in focus and complacent. Our habit of turning this kind of performance in regularly has not, and will not go away, Which is why I don't believe we will win the league,

[Power n Glory]

There's no pattern to anything anymore. You shouldn't read in to this anymore than you shouldn't read into the City win. It's not like we regularly get thrashed by a mid-table team. When was the last time it happened?

Aston Villa and Everton putting 3 past us a couple of seasons ago was embarrassing but this tops those.

But I'm not talking about the scoreline being predictable. It's the way we buckle when we have a chance to be league leaders. We're too unpredictable and you just don't know what team will show up. You're right about that. Which is why there is no point in getting over excited about City. Lessons aren't being learned.

[IBK]

Aston Villa and Everton putting 3 past us a couple of seasons ago was embarrassing but this tops those.

But I'm not talking about the scoreline being predictable. It's the way we buckle when we have a chance to be league leaders. We're too unpredictable and you just don't know what team will show up. You're right about that. Which is why there is no point in getting over excited about City. Lessons aren't being learned.

I thought of your observation re 'must win' games while watching tonight. And our inability to grasp opportunities like this is a failing that will not go away.

[Xhaka Can’t]

We never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

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[Power n Glory]

I thought of your observation re 'must win' games while watching tonight. And our inability to grasp opportunities like this is a failing that will not go away.

It's the perfect example of what I've been talking about. I can't wrap my head around why we seem to have this problem with every Wenger team since moving from Highbury. It makes no sense. It's just impossible to measure the progress of this team or asses whether they've overcome that psychological hurdle.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's the perfect example of what I've been talking about. I can't wrap my head around why we seem to have this problem with every Wenger team since moving from Highbury. It makes no sense. It's just impossible to measure the progress of this team or asses whether they've overcome that psychological hurdle.

Pampered players who have a socialist relationship with manager and our wet board of directors rather than a hierarchical position in a results machine. And it's not just us, player power has infected and rotted the whole league. The poor saps in the media see this as a competitive revival, the players see this as wow, I don't even have to turn up to make bank. When Ferguson retired the game of Paisley, Clough and Ramsey retired with him. It's not a team game at the top any more, it's a shop window for individuals. They play a couple of seasons, maybe bunging in an effort in the first year, coasting through the second while they focus on the more important matter of the contract renegotiation.

How disgusting was Theo Walcott yesterday? How much more can our lilly livered manager and club do for this kid before he commits to 90 minutes every week? A cracking goal against the gypos? Theo evidently thinks this buys him a free ride. No professional pride or sportsmen's ambition.

Too much money. The top teams can't afford to drop out of the top 4. There's too much commercial shit riding on it. To many huge pay packets to service. To many rivals sniffing around with unlimited bank balances.

The fans are consumers. They pay for admittance and after that they are owed nothing. They have no investment in the club beyond the cash transaction. Turn up if you want, cheer if you want, fuck off if you want because there's a queue of consumers behind you.

Some of the smaller clubs have figured all this out and have opted to play as a team. A team will wallop a collection of self-interested individuals any day. Our cosy little socialist club run by the players and serviced by the bean counters who are in it for the share price were annihilated on the pitch by a football team yesterday. Ty (the poster boy consumer fan) says so what? It happens. They'll still finish 10 points behind. Ty is cancer.

[Power n Glory]

Pampered players who have a socialist relationship with manager and our wet board of directors rather than a hierarchical position in a results machine. And it's not just us, player power has infected and rotted the whole league. The poor saps in the media see this as a competitive revival, the players see this as wow, I don't even have to turn up to make bank. When Ferguson retired the game of Paisley, Clough and Ramsey retired with him. It's not a team game at the top any more, it's a shop window for individuals. They play a couple of seasons, maybe bunging in an effort in the first year, coasting through the second while they focus on the more important matter of the contract renegotiation.

How disgusting was Theo Walcott yesterday? How much more can our lilly livered manager and club do for this kid before he commits to 90 minutes every week? A cracking goal against the gypos? Theo evidently thinks this buys him a free ride. No professional pride or sportsmen's ambition.

Too much money. The top teams can't afford to drop out of the top 4. There's too much commercial shit riding on it. To many huge pay packets to service. To many rivals sniffing around with unlimited bank balances.

The fans are consumers. They pay for admittance and after that they are owed nothing. They have no investment in the club beyond the cash transaction. Turn up if you want, cheer if you want, fuck off if you want because there's a queue of consumers behind you.

Some of the smaller clubs have figured all this out and have opted to play as a team. A team will wallop a collection of self-interested individuals any day. Our cosy little socialist club run by the players and serviced by the bean counters who are in it for the share price were annihilated on the pitch by a football team yesterday. Ty (the poster boy consumer fan) says so what? It happens. They'll still finish 10 points behind. Ty is cancer.

I don't think we have pampered players at Arsenal. I just don't think we suffer from the same sort of problems we've seen at Chelsea, Utd or City. We don't have a culture where the manager gets sacked if the players fail to turn up, most of these players aren't on mega rich clubs most wanted list either. It goes far beyond one or two individuals as well because the whole team didn't turn up last night. But I wouldn't say it's a case of the players not caring. Most of these guys aren't used to winning and it makes no sense go get sloppy when it's the first time in years you could win the league. Why throw away great work from earlier in the season all of a sudden?

[Niall_Quinn]

I don't think we have pampered players at Arsenal. I just don't think we suffer from the same sort of problems we've seen at Chelsea, Utd or City. We don't have a culture where the manager gets sacked if the players fail to turn up, most of these players aren't on mega rich clubs most wanted list either. It goes far beyond one or two individuals as well because the whole team didn't turn up last night. But I wouldn't say it's a case of the players not caring. Most of these guys aren't used to winning and it makes no sense go get sloppy when it's the first time in years you could win the league. Why throw away great work from earlier in the season all of a sudden?

The team is not motivated at heart. The manager is not 100% focused on sport and excellence. The club is a vehicle for something other than football. It's a broken vessel, not the only one by any means, as we see in chavland and gypoland and elsewhere. Priorities are misplaced, goals are confused, rewards are granted regardless. It's a fantasy world pretending to be something it's not.

It would be great for football if Leicester won the league. Might wake up the players who have "made it" and make them aware they need to be at the top of their game to stay at the top. Of course Leicester would then have made it and so the disease would set in. The chavs won their last title when nobody else showed up. What an awful collection of half grade players they are, as has been shown this season. Not even Maureen could motivate the cunts to do what they are privileged and paid to do. At Arsenal we're worse off. A board that doesn't even know anything about football, let alone care. A manager that splits his focus into a thousand different areas, probably because the executive can't be arsed. Players who know they can get away with results like the beating we just took. You'd think that after that 6-0 mauling we got against the chavs a couple of years back such a performance would never be possible at Arsenal again. But here we see it it again.

Listen to Ty on Arsenal Fan TV. He's such a reasonable chap, he really is. Always an excuse masquerading as a reason. He's telling us what's wrong with the club and its players, expressing it in gushing terms even. On average, he all but says, this result can be wiped away. Because on average we'll still achieve that greyness that brings so many financial rewards.

I said after the win against the gypos that the main test came in the next game. Not only did we fail the test, we failed it as comprehensively as it was possible to fail it. And I said, along with others who are apparently not "true supporters", that all the old signs were still evident because they are. It all points back to one man and the organisation that backs him to deliver something different to sporting achievement.

Wenger after this farce was a disgrace. Blaming the ref FFS. Was it the ref's job to send the extraordinarily well paid players out on that pitch to take the opportunity all but dished up on a plate. Their job was to be at least as competitive as an organisation with a fraction of our resources. Look what happened. A one-off? A blip? Or another example of what we have been seeing for years. And if you conclude, as you must, it is the latter, what's that guy still doing in his job? How can the reigning champion be sacked while our guy continues to dish this up? Where's the sense in it? What's the purpose of our club? He won't do anything in the transfer window to fix the problems either. It will be more excuses, all so reasonable, all so grey. But the cash will keep rolling in. And if nobody else turns up we might even be champions by default. What a disaster if that happens. It will give the wrong people a whole new lease of life to continue with the same old shit.

[IBK]

It honestly seems as though our players feel that they are good enough to get results automatically against so-called 'lesser teams'. And this complacency does not seem to change despite bitter experience. Our team's basic flaws persist.