Arsenal vs West Ham. Tuesday 7.45pm. League cup.

[Cripps]

West ham in good form :popcorn:

[Marc Overmars]

Can see us losing this if we play the second string, which we probably will with Liverpool 3 days after.

[Letters]

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a crap.

[LDG]

I'm as excited about this as Letters is about MrsL's great uncle's funeral on Wednesday.

There will undoubtedly be more life in the deceased than our side.

[Letters]

MrsL's great uncle's funeral will be loads better.
There will be cake.

Cake :bow:

[GP]

Don't care about the Coocoocachoo Cup.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

We aren't going to win the league, we aren't going to win the champions league.....we have a chance of winning the Europa league a tournament most turned their nose up at this time last season and many still do now.

We have a chance of winning the FA cup but it's no given, so the revolving sponsorship cup is a cup we can win and have never won so I do care about it personally.

Even if by some miracle we were challenging for the league I'd still care whether we progressed in it.

Let's do the mickemouse treble of Europa, revolvo cup and FA cup. Hope he names a strong team.

[Letters]

We aren't going to win the league, we aren't going to win the champions league....
Pessimist :sulk:

[Niall_Quinn]

We aren't going to win the league, we aren't going to win the champions league.....we have a chance of winning the Europa league a tournament most turned their nose up at this time last season and many still do now.

We have a chance of winning the FA cup but it's no given, so the revolving sponsorship cup is a cup we can win and have never won so I do care about it personally.

Even if by some miracle we were challenging for the league I'd still care whether we progressed in it.

Let's do the mickemouse treble of Europa, revolvo cup and FA cup. Hope he names a strong team.

That would buy Wenger another 6 years, which will seem like a life sentence for the rest of us. Is that what you really want or haven't you thought this through properly?

What we really need on Tuesday is for Wenger to get kidnapped by ISIS. He'd never be released because he'd instruct the club to haggle endlessly on the ransom demand.

[Cripps]

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a crap.

I didn't expect you to :lol:

[Cripps]

That would buy Wenger another 6 years, which will seem like a life sentence for the rest of us. Is that what you really want or haven't you thought this through properly?

He'll stay regardless though. He'll only leave when he wants to. Which probably won't be anytime soon as he's scared of post football life. So we might as well win trophies along the way to get some pride back and stop some of the colossal piss taking on a grand scale in the media.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

That would buy Wenger another 6 years, which will seem like a life sentence for the rest of us. Is that what you really want or haven't you thought this through properly?

What we really need on Tuesday is for Wenger to get kidnapped by ISIS. He'd never be released because he'd instruct the club to haggle endlessly on the ransom demand.

Do you want us to do as badly as possible to ensure he goes?

[Niall_Quinn]

Do you want us to do as badly as possible to ensure he goes?

I'm out of ideas as to how to get rid of him. But I have a nasty feeling he'd find a way to stay on even if we were relegated. The situation is impossible. I guess there's nothing to do except accept it and go with the flow. Which is what this fraud has demanded all along. We've done the cup wins and in many ways it makes things worse, not just because Wenger ends up using it as an excuse to hang on but also because the fans slip backwards and give the phoney a dose of credit, like transfusing a vampire. Wins harm us in the long run, any wins. Trophy wins, as we have seen, are catastrophic - fun for a day, pain for 2 years after, like a virulent dose of the pox the morning after. Yet as a fan you want to win because, unlike Wenger, we remember the point of the sport. This is what fraud, corruption, deceit and unrestricted selfishness do, they create horrendous paradoxes because the victim still cares while the perp couldn't give a fuck as long as he keeps getting what he wants and needs. Is that a psychopath or a sociopath? Wenger's a bit of both.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Out of ideas?

What do all elderly people fear the most?

Stairs

[LDG]

Out of ideas?

What do all elderly people fear the most?

Stairs

Who can push him down them?

I have a sneaky suspicion Pat Rice always wanted to.

[Cripps]

Out of ideas?

What do all elderly people fear the most?

Stairs

Letters will be there to catch him :lol:

[Xhaka Can’t]

I predict a riot

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Who can push him down them?

I have a sneaky suspicion Pat Rice always wanted to.

Isn’t that just the British way. We want to hang people but no one wants to be the guy to pull the lever

Frankly I’m just recycling my Pascal Cygan Schtick.

[Niall_Quinn]

I predict a rot

:gp:

[AFC Leveller]

Arsenal: Ospina, Debuchy, Holding, Chambers, Kolasinac, Coquelin, Elneny, Willock, Welbeck, Walcott, Giroud

Subs: Macey, Sheaf, Dasilva, Nelson, The Jeff, Akpom, Nketiah

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kolasinac. :lol:

Well and truly dropped.

[AFC Leveller]

Weird that Kola is now considered a carling cup player, I thought he was first choice lb? No way is Maintland a better left back!

Wenger obviously doesn't fancy him anymore.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arsenal: Ospina, Debuchy, Holding, Chambers, Kolasinac, Coquelin, Elneny, Willock, Welbeck, Walcott, Giroud

Subs: Macey, Sheaf, Dasilva, Nelson, The Jeff, Akpom, Nketiah

He even randomises the reserves - the stupid cunt. Why not stick out a stable set of reserves for the Freight Rover Van Cup and the Europa Cup? That way they'd have a chance of improving game on game rather than having to introduce themselves and their wives before every kick off.

He's such a disorganised, stupid cunt.

[Marc Overmars]

What a shit team. West Ham should kill themselves if they don’t win this one.

[Niall_Quinn]

Weird that Kola is now considered a carling cup player, I thought he was first choice lb? No way is Maintland a better left back!

Wenger obviously doesn't fancy him anymore.

Wenger probably forgot he signed him. Or else he can't tell the difference between Maitland Niles and Kola. Somebody will tell him eventually, when he lets them speak.

Not that I disagree. Kola was too direct. Not enough sideways and backwards passing. Had a nasty tendency to get his shots on target. And he's too aggressive, doesn't wimp out enough.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

West Ham: Hart, Masuaku, Ogbonna, Reid, Collins, Cresswell, Rice, Obiang, Quina, Ayew, Hernandez.
Subs: Zabaleta, Arnautovic, Carroll, Adrian, Sakho, Haksabanovic, Makasi.

[Niall_Quinn]

West Ham: Hart, Masuaku, Ogbonna, Reid, Collins, Cresswell, Rice, Obiang, Quina, Ayew, Hernandez.
Subs: Zabaleta, Arnautovic, Carroll, Adrian, Sakho, Haksabanovic, Makasi.

Thought they might go stronger than that. That'll do.

Hart :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a shit team. West Ham should kill themselves if they don’t win this one.

We're playing against Hart, that should make up for it.

[Niall_Quinn]

I'm only watching this because of Hart.

He's funny.

[LDG]

Oh dear lord.

That team has 2005 to 2016 all over it.

[Globalgunner]

Arsenal: Ospina, Debuchy, Holding, Chambers, Kolasinac, Coquelin, Elneny, Willock, Welbeck, Walcott, Giroud

3 Wallies and a clown.
Sorry Willock, you are yet to impress me

[Niall_Quinn]

Theo's as good as ever I see.

[GP]

Theo Walcott should be killed.

[Niall_Quinn]

Get it BACKWARDS! Especially on the break FFS!

[Niall_Quinn]

7 mins gone and Theo has been heavily involved. And he's fucked everything up. Literally everything.

[Niall_Quinn]

The backwards and sideways shit is just excruciating.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bif absolutely shocked him barely touching the ball didn't affect the flight of the ball.

[Niall_Quinn]

Tbf West Ham look worse than us. Inept.

[Niall_Quinn]

You don't see quality like this too often.

[Niall_Quinn]

Theo and Bif :haha:

Deadly duo.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bif with a wonderful dummy. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif with a wonderful dummy. :haha:

Yes, he's called Theo.

[Niall_Quinn]

Without exaggeration, I'm not sure Theo has done a single thing right so far. His pass completion rate must be very near 0%

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Without exaggeration, I'm not sure Theo has done a single thing right so far. His pass completion rate must be very near 0%

He attended the match on time.

[Niall_Quinn]

32 minutes of the worst crap you'll ever see.

75 mill squad on our side, 65 mill squad on theirs. All of them on multiple thousands of quid a week. Theo on over 100K a week!

What sort of craziness is this? It must be a giant piss take of some sort that we haven't figured out yet.

[Niall_Quinn]

He attended the match on time.

Another terrible mistake.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Debuchy is stil a psycho, good to know.

[Niall_Quinn]

Debuchy kicks somebody. Highlight of the match so far.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kolasinac goes for it, miles wide but at least he had a go.

[Niall_Quinn]

I think that might be the first attempt on target, and possibly the first attempt full stop. Lame header at goal that Ospina catches easily. It's hotting up now. Soon molecules may start moving again.

[Niall_Quinn]

Kolasinac punts it out of play. Perhaps it will be called an attempt on goal (or some other such euphemism)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Theo. FFS. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Walcott the last defender for West Ham.

[GP]

Jesus fucking christ. On a plate with an open goal :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

WELBECK!!!!

Always a goal when he stumbles.

[Thierrymon]

A Welbz classic right there.

[Niall_Quinn]

Welbz bundles it in.

1-0

Came from a cross on the right from Debuchy. Hart all over the shop. Everybody bum rushes the ball and Welbz half kicks, half trips it over the line.

A fitting goal to grace this shit fest.

[Niall_Quinn]

Meanwhile Theo completes a pass.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Willock. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Pillock blasts it over the goal. But it does seem we have decided to step things up in the last 10 mins. We are out of reverse gear and pushing the car in neutral. Big improvement.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 HT. Great entertainment.

[Niall_Quinn]

HT 1-0

All you can say about that is, people who made the effort to attend :pal:

[GP]

Enjoyed that

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Pillock blasts it over the goal. But it does seem we have decided to step things up in the last 10 mins. We are out of reverse gear and pushing the car in neutral. Big improvement.

Pillock, obvious but funny all the same

[Niall_Quinn]

Pillock, obvious but funny all the same

As the weeks and years roll on, it becomes less funny.

[Niall_Quinn]

At least we know now why Theo can't even make the bench in the PL. Not even Wenger is that crazy.

[Globalgunner]

As the weeks and years roll on, it becomes less funny.

Get used to it, this is the panto version of War & Peace, starring One Arsene Wenger

[Niall_Quinn]

Get used to it, this is the panto version of War & Peace, starring One Arsene Wenger

At least there's only one Arsene Wenger. Otherwise we'd hire the other one in a couple of years.

[Niall_Quinn]

And then they go and play that fucking song at half time, just to rub it in.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

My stream provider's cable account just got trashed.

And it was LIVE!

[Niall_Quinn]

4th official has been replaced by a non-qualified stand-in.

I demand a replay so we can watch this all over again.

[Niall_Quinn]

Mind you, the qualified ones aren't all that. Maybe this guy will do a good job.

[Niall_Quinn]

11th May 2011 was the last time we avoided the first defender on a corner, according to Bein Sports stats.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Welbz going for the Welbeck bundle again.

[Niall_Quinn]

Pretend 4th official is now being replaced by a trained official who happened to be in the crowd.

Considerably more interesting than the match.

[Niall_Quinn]

Why don't they bring the kids on? FFS, give the fans a sliver of hope. Get Jeff on, and Eddie.

Stupid twat is going to do the 72 min thing again, isn't he?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That was surely a foul from Holding? GHEL. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

That's sooooo Arsenal 2017. Willock is pinned in the corner with three opponents on him. Welbz stands 20 yards off, stock still, and watches while the kid is disposed. It's just appalling.

Meanwhile wor'Andy is warming up. Panic stations imminent.

[Niall_Quinn]

That was surely a foul from Holding? GHEL. :bow:

That's it, our one break from the refs for 2017/18, wasted in this game.

[Niall_Quinn]

Theo has just beaten two men by running straight into them and then run the ball straight over the touchline without ever slowing down.

Straightline merchant :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coquelin, stop it mate.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Freekick to the 'Ammers, dangerous area.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fair play to Willock, at least he's figured out it's better to carry the ball towards the opposition goal. Now he just needs to learn how to do it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Creswell sends it miles wide. Awful.

[Niall_Quinn]

Debuchy is the new Flamini, minus the alternative energy directorship.

[Niall_Quinn]

Creswell sends it miles wide. Awful.

It seems like only a few days ago when the pundits were calling him pure quality.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Crockelin.

[Niall_Quinn]

Hammers making a couple of subs.

Carrol for Cresswell.

The invisible Hernandez off, Sakho on to do a bot of diving.

Still 9 mins until our sub.

[Niall_Quinn]

Carroll's first touch, literally, is to barge into Coquelin.

Coquelin is dead at the moment, but the resurrection team are on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

BBC live text:


DavidPHThomas: I must say both Holding and Chambers look very composed on the ball

Wenget. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Uncontested drop ball, Bif boots it towards the keeper. Best contribution of the night.

[Niall_Quinn]

Crowd amusing itself while they wait for the match to start.

[Niall_Quinn]

Kolasinac makes Carroll his bitch.

[Niall_Quinn]

LOL.

Hammers midfielder looks up, measures it, kicks the ball off the field with nobody within 20 yards.

Quality :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

2 mins until the sub. Wonder who it will be?

[Niall_Quinn]

Hart :haha:

Comes sprinting out and hacks Welbz. Yellow.

[Niall_Quinn]

Elneny hits the first defender from the FK :haha:

It's pathetic.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Looks like Bif is dead.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bif off, Nelson on.

Should've been Eddie really.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bif tried to run on the break and got a hamstring injury. I fucking told him not to overdo it. He was still halfway through his pre-game warm up.

[Niall_Quinn]

Nelson on for Bif. Does this mean he won't be playing in defence today? Does this mean he'll be playing in his proper position?

[Niall_Quinn]

Theo up top. :haha: :haha: :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Brilliant from Willock, sadly he has Walcott with him.

[Niall_Quinn]

Willock drives into the box but Theo is there to snuff it out.

[Niall_Quinn]

Elneny with a laser precision pass back to Hart.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Quina off, Arnautovic on.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fuck! I just thought of something terrifying. If the Hammers score, is it extra time?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Willock hauled off for his positive contribution, Sheaf on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fuck! I just thought of something terrifying. If the Hammers score, is it extra time?

Yup.

[LDG]

Willock hauled off for his positive contribution, Sheaf on.

Sheaf is good on paper

[Niall_Quinn]

Ben Sheaf coming on for us. Nice moment for the lad, but it's Willock who is pulled just as he was getting into the game. Classic Wenger.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Coquelin hauled off, Da Silva on.

[Niall_Quinn]

44,000 official attendance. 44,000 heartless robberies.

[Niall_Quinn]

4 extra minutes. Sadistic bastards.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Sheaf is good on paper

He's A1

[LDG]

He's A1

Class written all over him

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 FT! Another glorious win.

Moyes. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Another meticulously crafted, steaming, stinking stool squeezed mercilessly from Wenger's anus and deposited where a football match should have been.

[Cripps]

Another Letters for me :(

Was it the usual? :rose:

[Niall_Quinn]

Another Letters for me :(

Was it the usual? :rose:

A lot worse. You had to see it to believe it.

[Cripps]

:lol:

:rose: