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Cripps
30-01-2018, 09:30 PM
Aubameyang wants to join this shite :lol:

Welcome to Arsenal Mkhitaryan :lol:

Ralpheroo72
30-01-2018, 09:37 PM
Wenger Out!

Gubby Allen
30-01-2018, 09:38 PM
So much shite in that team.

Cech, Bellerin, Xhaka. If anybody is daft enough to offer money for them, we should take it.

Gubby Allen
30-01-2018, 09:40 PM
Forest thrashed 0-3 at home to Preston tonight.

Swansea were bottom, couldn't even get past Notts County at the weekend and they have both run rings around us.

McNamara That Ghost...
30-01-2018, 09:41 PM
Complete and utter turds.

I'm going to sleep.

Cripps
30-01-2018, 09:41 PM
Selling Giroud when we clearly need him cause we brought him on to try and change the game :lol:

What an embarrassment we are :lol:

Gubby Allen
30-01-2018, 09:41 PM
You can guarantee the next time that we have a match three days after the last one and the other team have had a week off, Wenger will blame it on us being beaten.

rodders
30-01-2018, 09:42 PM
What a bloody shambles, Arsenal decline continues unabated, Wenger our ,Kroenke out

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 09:42 PM
As always, Wenger Out.

Whenever we win it just means the next loss is around the corner. There's nothing with this guy. No energy, no ambition, no momentum, no entertainment, no system, no sanity, no apology. A rotting corpse of a manager, long since deceased - like his legacy will soon be. He's a fucking disgrace to still be hanging around stinking out the place.

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 09:45 PM
Lacazette was NOWHERE in those final 30 mins. Totally anonymous. Wenger has take a 37 gaols per season striker and turned him into a shambling zombie.

Globalgunner
30-01-2018, 09:47 PM
The ref Mason was to blame. He intercepted 2 surefire shots headed for goal, that and somebody left the handbrake on.

Cripps
30-01-2018, 09:49 PM
Lacazette was NOWHERE in those final 30 mins. Totally anonymous. Wenger has take a 37 gaols per season striker and turned him into a shambling zombie.

Aubameyang next :lol:

Penguin
30-01-2018, 09:50 PM
Xhaka can fuck off. He doesn't even bother trying to defend anymore. People run past him while he stands on the spot with his hands on his hips like the turd he is. He probably doesn't even realise he's doing anything wrong because Wenger keeps starting him all the time. Genuinely one of the worst players I've ever seen in an Arsenal shirt.

fakeyank
30-01-2018, 09:56 PM
Frankly, I am just astonished that there is not even an iota of noise from the board or anyone at the top saying that the clown needs to go. I despise Wenger from the bottom of my heart but the bucks got to stop with the leeches at the top. Arsenal fans HAVE TO boycott the club, or else nothing will change.

Gubby Allen
30-01-2018, 09:56 PM
The ref Mason was to blame. He intercepted 2 surefire shots headed for goal, that and somebody left the handbrake on.

The schedule was to blame too. Swansea had the advantage of having played on Saturday whilst we had to wait six days for our match.

Ernesto
30-01-2018, 09:59 PM
What a birthday.

Thank you Arsenal. Useless berks

Xhaka Can’t
30-01-2018, 09:59 PM
It is absolutely astonishing. Wenger has achieved the impossible.

Who in 2004 could have predicted that his legacy would be the destruction of this Club?

Cripps
30-01-2018, 10:00 PM
What a birthday.

Thank you Arsenal. Useless berks

:pal:

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 10:00 PM
There's a fucking tool of a fan ringing in on AFTV now aggressively defending Wenger and saying we should be loving him because we'd be even lower in the table without him. One of the best managers in the world - apparently. And the bloke's serious. Says Wenger has no money.

Alexis' fault, because he's greedy.

Wenger blameless.

How delusional is it possible to be?

Penguin
30-01-2018, 10:00 PM
What a birthday.

Thank you Arsenal. Useless berks

:console:

Cripps
30-01-2018, 10:02 PM
There's a fucking tool of a fan ringing in on AFTV now aggressively defending Wenger and saying we should be loving him because we'd be even lower in the table without him. One of the best managers in the world - apparently. And the bloke's serious. Says Wenger has no money.

Alexis' fault, because he's greedy.

Wenger blameless.

How delusional is it possible to be?

Stop listening and watching that shite and giving them views and lining Robbie's pockets.

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 10:03 PM
Glad we got rid of that shit Alexis - we're playing like a rockweight has been lifted.

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 10:06 PM
Stop listening and watching that shite and giving them views and lining Robbie's pockets.

Nah. It's funny. The host is laying into him big time. He's called Wenger out for what he is, laid out the facts and rammed it back down the asshole's throat.

"Defending Wenger? ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!" ( And he's not even an Arsenal fan :haha: )

The other host, "I didn't know fans like that still existed."

"He takes 13 million quid a year off ya - but he has no money for players? ABSOLUTE TOSH!"

:haha:

Cripps
30-01-2018, 10:06 PM
Xhaka can fuck off. He doesn't even bother trying to defend anymore. People run past him while he stands on the spot with his hands on his hips like the turd he is. He probably doesn't even realise he's doing anything wrong because Wenger keeps starting him all the time. Genuinely one of the worst players I've ever seen in an Arsenal shirt.

I agree. Let's banish him to the Currants thread with Letters.

dostoy
30-01-2018, 10:09 PM
There are people that are on here all day every day almost, WHY ?

Arsenal are a constant let down and nothing will change until Wenger leaves which is years away.

There is more to life than this shit, find something better to do as life is precious and its later than what you think.

Gubby Allen
30-01-2018, 10:10 PM
Wenger did not even seem too interested in his interview, not angry, irritated or blaming anybody else. He didn't seem too bothered at all by having been drubbed by the side bottom of the table.

Cripps
30-01-2018, 10:12 PM
There are people that are on here all day every day almost, WHY ?

Arsenal are a constant let down and nothing will change until Wenger leaves which is years away.

There is more to life than this shit, find something better to do as life is precious and its later than what you think.

To make time pass by at work.

And laugh at lost causes like HCZ and TEG :console:

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 10:12 PM
Wenger did not even seem too interested in his interview, not angry, irritated or blaming anybody else. He didn't seem too bothered at all by having been drubbed by the side bottom of the table.

Getting a cheque for 100K every week eases the pain I suppose.

Thierrymon
30-01-2018, 10:13 PM
Another shameful performance from us. Who will Wenger blame this time?

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 10:15 PM
Another shameful performance from us. Who will Wenger blame this time?

Was talking to him earlier and the general consensus seemed to be it was your fault. That's what he wrote in his book. I didn't disagree too strongly because he was picking up toothpicks at the time and I didn't want to distract him. Not after all that fuss with the maple syrup and the K-Mart underwear.

Power n Glory
30-01-2018, 10:19 PM
Xhaka has to be up there as one of our worst buys. Our CM selection just keeps on getting worse. I can't understand it. He's below average in all the areas we need. I've never seen that from any of our midfielders before. I include Denilson in that. Xhaka is shit in all areas. He can't defend, his ball distribution skills are poor, he can't create chances, can't dribble, slow as fuck, super one footed, no perception of danger or attacking awareness for that matter.....fucking awful.

Thierrymon
30-01-2018, 10:19 PM
Was talking to him earlier and the general consensus seemed to be it was your fault. That's what he wrote in his book. I didn't disagree too strongly because he was picking up toothpicks at the time and I didn't want to distract him. Not after all that fuss with the maple syrup and the K-Mart underwear.

Wenger OUT!

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 10:24 PM
Xhaka has to be up there as one of our worst buys. Our CM selection just keeps on getting worse. I can't understand it. He's below average in all the areas we need. I've never seen that from any of our midfielders before. I include Denilson in that. Xhaka is shit in all areas. He can't defend, his ball distribution skills are poor, he can't create chances, can't dribble, slow as fuck, super one footed, no perception of danger or attacking awareness for that matter.....fucking awful.

Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you like his performance?

Cripps
30-01-2018, 10:25 PM
Was talking to him earlier and the general consensus seemed to be it was your fault. That's what he wrote in his book. I didn't disagree too strongly because he was picking up toothpicks at the time and I didn't want to distract him. Not after all that fuss with the maple syrup and the K-Mart underwear.

:haha:

hobson's choice
30-01-2018, 10:31 PM
What did we expect the chuckle brothers were in the midfield together.

Wenger hasn't quite grasp that those 2 clowns playing together is just a recipe for disaster

Globalgunner
30-01-2018, 10:46 PM
What did we expect the chuckle brothers were in the midfield together.

Wenger hasn't quite grasp that those 2 clowns playing together is just a recipe for disaster

there were 3 clots in the middle today, but at least el neny prevented a surefire goal while it was still 0-0. Ramsey and Xhaka are absolute dogshit. Not 1 iota of acumen between the pair.

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 10:46 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CVmsKbifX0

:haha:

This bloke.

Marc Overmars
30-01-2018, 10:47 PM
Pathetic as usual. No words really left to describe how poor we’ve become.

How this manager is still in a job is beyond me. I would say wake me up when he’s gone but I’ll probably be dead by the time this soul sucking dinosaur fucks off.

Giving him a 2 year deal will prove to be the single worst decision this club has ever made.

Cripps
30-01-2018, 10:49 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CVmsKbifX0

:haha:

This bloke.

I'm not giving them another view. What he say?

HCZ
30-01-2018, 10:53 PM
What a birthday.

Thank you Arsenal. Useless berks

That’s not the worst of it

Your doctor phoned me by accident with your test results

Put it this way....you won’t have to put up with Wenger for too much longer

HCZ
30-01-2018, 10:53 PM
I'm not giving them another view. What he say?

Guess

HCZ
30-01-2018, 10:57 PM
To make time pass by at work.

And laugh at lost causes like HCZ and TEG :console:

For the last time. Filling out internet surveys to claim vouchers, having a hand shandy to porn and calling in at the job centre every two weeks isn’t work.

Cripps
30-01-2018, 10:59 PM
Someone's been let out on day release :lol:

HCZ
30-01-2018, 11:03 PM
Someone's been let out on day release :lol:

Have you?

I suppose if they let John Worboys out, they’d let you out too

Niall_Quinn
30-01-2018, 11:10 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMxiGI7Rhlo

:haha:

:haha:

Bumble
31-01-2018, 07:51 AM
the result could have been better. but signing another striker having spent £50m on a striker in the summer... is the answer? who needs a dynamic midfield or an improvement on mustafi.

Gooner23
31-01-2018, 08:11 AM
If we do sign Auba he would be 30 when Wenger leaves. He must be mental to join us right now.

Marc Overmars
31-01-2018, 08:41 AM
the result could have been better. but signing another striker having spent £50m on a striker in the summer... is the answer? who needs a dynamic midfield or an improvement on mustafi.

It's laughable we're spending another 55m on a striker having done the same in the summer, while also letting every goal scorer we had leave.

Shows how little planning goes into what we do at this club. Everything is done on a whim.

Wenker is at the same level now as Moyes was at United, and that was meant to be our biggest fear and sticking point when talking about who could replace him. We're not even good enough to finish 4th anymore, it won't be hard to replace him now.

Özim
31-01-2018, 09:06 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CVmsKbifX0

:haha:

This bloke.

No hope for this guy honestly, he still thinks that a few successes over a decade ago are good enough reason to keep a guy who is incompetent.

Özim
31-01-2018, 09:10 AM
Wasn't too surprise to see us lose last night, they beat Liverpool last week who are a far better side than us (albeit inconsistent), the manner of the loss though was something else, well beaten in the end.

I agree though, our defence is shocking and we go and sign another striker, obviously he's top class so you can't say he won't be a good signing but this wasn't the highest prioroty. Personally would have taken the money for Sanchez over Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang is more of a replacement as he scores goals, then we could have focussed on a DM, decent CB and maybe even keeper because Cech is way past it.

Liverpool left the door ajar when they lost to Swansea and gave us an outside chance of top 4 again, last night we well and truly shut that door. Got to agree though, why any top player would want to come I don't know, can only be for the money which is an accusation often thrown at players who leave us for bigger more successful clubs ironically, I think the shoe fits in this case though.

AFC Leveller
31-01-2018, 09:17 AM
When you hear your manager say "we made unusual massive mistakes" after yet another comedy defense show, you can't help but feel we are fucked.

AFC Leveller
31-01-2018, 09:22 AM
We have sold our 3 top scorers at the club, only to replace them with a striker. Really can't understand what the fuck is happening at this club. Yes Aubameyang and Mkhi are two world class additions but was it part of the plan? It seems like this club make it up as they go along.

We need a new goal keeper and at least one defensive player. We also need a proper defensive coach.

Gooner23
31-01-2018, 09:29 AM
We need a new manager. It's the one single decision that needs to be made before anything else.

selassie
31-01-2018, 11:58 AM
Wasn't surprised we lost and don't care.

Apathetic.

The Emirates Gallactico
31-01-2018, 05:01 PM
Too depressed to log in yesterday but what a shit show we've become.

Worst feeling is the resignation of all the fans to this crap. You could see it in AFTV videos ..... no one's got the energy more to rant.



To make time pass by at work.

And laugh at lost causes like HCZ and TEG :console:

:unsure: ummm what.


You really are a strange little man. This is why CK left you. :doh:

AFC Leveller
01-02-2018, 05:25 AM
We are 8 behind Chelsea and 6 behind Spurs. At the moment Spuds look really good and the most likely to finish top 4 out us Chelsea and them. They still have to go to Anfield and Stanford Bridge and play us and Citeh at Wembley, so hopefully we can capitalise on their potential dropped points.

Niall_Quinn
01-02-2018, 10:55 AM
We are 8 behind Chelsea and 6 behind Spurs. At the moment Spuds look really good and the most likely to finish top 4 out us Chelsea and them. They still have to go to Anfield and Stanford Bridge and play us and Citeh at Wembley, so hopefully we can capitalise on their potential dropped points.

You mean like we usually do?

KSE Comedy Club
01-02-2018, 10:56 AM
We are 8 behind Chelsea and 6 behind Spurs. At the moment Spuds look really good and the most likely to finish top 4 out us Chelsea and them. They still have to go to Anfield and Stanford Bridge and play us and Citeh at Wembley, so hopefully we can capitalise on their potential dropped points.

We should've done that already in this match.

Marc Overmars
01-02-2018, 11:34 AM
We've not won more than 3 matches in a row this season and even that has only happened once.

We're not capitalising on shit, it would be a miracle if we finished in the top 4.

HCZ
01-02-2018, 12:19 PM
We've not won more than 3 matches in a row this season and even that has only happened once.

We're not capitalising on shit, it would be a miracle if we finished in the top 4.

City, United, Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool, Leicester, Burnley and Watford have all won more points than us away from home.

We have the same points from away matches 13 from 13 that Bournemouth have

Letters
01-02-2018, 12:23 PM
We've not won more than 3 matches in a row this season and even that has only happened once.

We're not capitalising on shit, it would be a miracle if we finished in the top 4.

Back in the day you could count on us to go on one of our trademark "runs" and end up in the top 4. Some seasons it seemed improbable but we'd always get there.
Can't see it now. Looking like 6th.
6th Place Trophy.
Another first for Wenger :bow:

Cripps
01-02-2018, 12:26 PM
Back in the day you could count on us to go on one of our trademark "runs" and end up in the top 4. Some seasons it seemed improbable but we'd always get there.
Can't see it now. Looking like 6th.
6th Place Trophy.
Another first for Wenger :bow:

:faint:

HCZ
01-02-2018, 12:34 PM
I never once thought when we finished outside the champions league places that we’d ever end up qualifying again under Wenger

Letters
01-02-2018, 01:07 PM
I never once thought when we finished outside the champions league places that we’d ever end up qualifying again under Wenger

I would not have been so definitive about it. We finished 5th last year by 2 points, it wasn't a given that we'd be quite this crap this year.
We're currently on target to get the lowest points ever under Wenger. It doesn't feel like this is our worst ever squad under him.

The Emirates Gallactico
01-02-2018, 01:17 PM
I would not have been so definitive about it. We finished 5th last year by 2 points, it wasn't a given that we'd be quite this crap this year.
We're currently on target to get the lowest points ever under Wenger. It doesn't feel like this is our worst ever squad under him.

The point was made on the ArsenalVision podcast but if you look at points, Wenger is remarkably consistent and always gets around the low 70's range. Heck we got more points last year than the season where we finished second after Spurs imploded on the last day (Lecicester season).

The biggest problem is that both Spurs and Liverpool have got their shit together so standing still is no longer no longer good enough.

Letters
01-02-2018, 01:30 PM
The point was made on the ArsenalVision podcast but if you look at points, Wenger is remarkably consistent and always gets around the low 70's range. Heck we got more points last year than the season where we finished second after Spurs imploded on the last day (Lecicester season).

The biggest problem is that both Spurs and Liverpool have got their shit together so standing still is no longer no longer good enough.
That is definitely a factor but also this is looking like it's going to be the worst points tally under Wenger. If you look at where we are after 25 games and extrapolate then we'll only get about 64 points which would be the worst we've ever done under Wenger. Obviously we might pick up (we actually had 1 fewer point at this stage in 2005/6 and finished on 67)
Last year we got 75 which would be more than good enough for top 4 most years. If we were getting points at that rate this year we'd be on 49 right now which would put us in 5th, a point off Chelsea.

Biggest problem right now is our away form. Our home form is pretty much good enough to be "up there", our away form is mid-table stuff at best.

KSE Comedy Club
01-02-2018, 01:38 PM
That is definitely a factor but also this is looking like it's going to be the worst points tally under Wenger. If you look at where we are after 25 games and extrapolate then we'll only get about 64 points which would be the worst we've ever done under Wenger. Obviously we might pick up (we actually had 1 fewer point at this stage in 2005/6 and finished on 67)
Last year we got 75 which would be more than good enough for top 4 most years. If we were getting points at that rate this year we'd be on 49 right now which would put us in 5th, a point off Chelsea.

Biggest problem right now is our away form. Our home form is pretty much good enough to be "up there", our away form is mid-table stuff at best.

Well actually, our away form is currently relegation form at best :coffee:

Letters
01-02-2018, 01:48 PM
Well actually, our away form is currently relegation form at best :coffee:

No. Mid-table. 9th, to be precise

http://www.soccerstats.com/homeaway.asp?league=england

:coffee:

KSE Comedy Club
01-02-2018, 01:50 PM
No. Mid-table. 9th, to be precise

http://www.soccerstats.com/homeaway.asp?league=england

:coffee:

Ok :lol:

It feels like relegation form though :sulk:

Letters
01-02-2018, 01:53 PM
Well, for a club at our supposed level 3 wins out of 13 is pretty abject. It's only our home form which is keeping us anywhere near the top 4.

HCZ
01-02-2018, 02:00 PM
It goes back further than that

Last 25 away games

Win 7 Drawn 5 Lost 13

Conceded 44 goals

Letters
01-02-2018, 02:09 PM
I wonder why this is. I mean, our home record is as good as anyone's bar City. Meanwhile, away from home we can't score or win for toffees.
It's not like our home crowd are particularly raucous or encouraging, if anything the away support is the louder, more hardcore support.

HCZ
01-02-2018, 02:15 PM
The simple answer is when you play at home it’s not just the home support but the familiarity of the pitch (there is a standard size football pitch but premier league pitches can differ) which benefits you and makes the opposition more cautious.

But you’re right the vast disparity is bizarre, at home in the last 25 games we have won 20 drawn 3 and lost 2. Which is a difference of a win rate of 80% and a win rate of 28%

KSE Comedy Club
01-02-2018, 02:55 PM
As Letters pointed out before, we used to go on a 'run' at around this time to get into the top four. If I remember correctly, the majority of those games always seemed to fall away from home, though I could be wrong.
That does obscure the figures somewhat in the last 5 years.

Niall_Quinn
01-02-2018, 03:07 PM
Back in the day you could count on us to go on one of our trademark "runs" and end up in the top 4. Some seasons it seemed improbable but we'd always get there.
Can't see it now. Looking like 6th.
6th Place Trophy.
Another first for Wenger :bow:

6th is ideal tbh. We won't have any European distractions and can focus fully on challenging for 6th next season. I'm pretty confident we can do it too. We're stronger then Leicester and Everton. We can take them. We just need to believe.

Niall_Quinn
01-02-2018, 03:15 PM
The simple answer is when you play at home it’s not just the home support but the familiarity of the pitch (there is a standard size football pitch but premier league pitches can differ) which benefits you and makes the opposition more cautious.

But you’re right the vast disparity is bizarre, at home in the last 25 games we have won 20 drawn 3 and lost 2. Which is a difference of a win rate of 80% and a win rate of 28%

The opposition still treat us like a big club when they come to our place and show us respect we don't deserve. I haven't checked, but I bet all of the games where we've been allowed the time and space to play our intricate bullshit occurred at home because the opposition aren't as ambitious. How long we hang on to this fake reputation I don't know. Surely only a matter of time before teams come to our place confident they can get a result.

It could also be the non-atmosphere in the stadium. Not joking. Our place is so weird, so dead, it might actually put the other team off or send them asleep. But we are used to it. I think the players even like it. The contented munching sounds coming from the sedate fanatics in the home end.

When we go away the opposition fans are up for it, the home team fancies it and we just collapse into a scared and uber-negative tip tap routine that gets us nowhere and opens up te way for even poor teams to crucify us on the break.

Cripps
01-02-2018, 03:33 PM
Well, for a club at our supposed level 3 wins out of 13 is pretty abject. It's only our home form which is keeping us anywhere near the top 4.

No decline :lol:

HCZ
01-02-2018, 03:41 PM
If you go from 15-16 season to now we have played 101 league games 50 at home and 51 away

If you look at the last 50 away games

The first 25 - 12 wins 9 draws 4 defeats (not great) but 19 more points accumulated than the next 25 - 7 wins 5 draws 11 defeats.

Compare that with home form 16 wins 5 draws 4 defeats in the first 25 games followed by 20 wins 3 draws and 2 defeats in the next 25.

Which tells the tale that overall we have gone backwards but if anything our current home form is as good as it’s probably been under Wenger which is the only thing holding this shit together.

We have 7 games left at home this season and apart from City I’d confidently predict we will win them all. Southampton, West Ham, Watford, Stoke, Everton, Burnley.

We have 6 games left away from home and given we’ve lost to Swansea and Bournemouth you have to wonder where the next win comes from. Newcastle? Brighton? Huddersfield?

KSE Comedy Club
01-02-2018, 03:42 PM
The opposition still treat us like a big club when they come to our place and show us respect we don't deserve. I haven't checked, but I bet all of the games where we've been allowed the time and space to play our intricate bullshit occurred at home because the opposition aren't as ambitious. How long we hang on to this fake reputation I don't know. Surely only a matter of time before teams come to our place confident they can get a result.

It could also be the non-atmosphere in the stadium. Not joking. Our place is so weird, so dead, it might actually put the other team off or send them asleep. But we are used to it. I think the players even like it. The contented munching sounds coming from the sedate fanatics in the home end.

When we go away the opposition fans are up for it, the home team fancies it and we just collapse into a scared and uber-negative tip tap routine that gets us nowhere and opens up te way for even poor teams to crucify us on the break.

This is so true.

I noticed this at the semi final recently.

The chav fans pretty much sang all through the game until around 5 mins after we got the second goal, then they weren't quite so loud after that.
Our fans are odd at home. Its fairly silent until a chant of 'Arsenal, Arsenal' breaks out, then it goes quiet again for 10-20 mins. There's hardly any kind of fan generated sporting atmosphere. Really peculiar.

Cripps
01-02-2018, 03:48 PM
This is so true.

I noticed this at the semi final recently.

The chav fans pretty much sang all through the game until around 5 mins after we got the second goal, then they weren't quite so loud after that.
Our fans are odd at home. Its fairly silent until a chant of 'Arsenal, Arsenal' breaks out, then it goes quiet again for 10-20 mins. There's hardly any kind of fan generated sporting atmosphere. Really peculiar.

Well it's not is it :lol:

The real hard core fans have been priced out and the stadium gentrified:lol: hardly the biggest mystery is it :lol:

HCZ
01-02-2018, 03:49 PM
I wouldn’t care to comment too much

1) haven’t been to a game in over two years and won’t go again whilst Wenger is manager

2) Highbury wasn’t ever any better so not sure it’s really an apathy thing or gentrification thing (I’ve never known Arsenal tickets to be cheap). It’s our fans have never liked singing thing

Cripps
01-02-2018, 03:55 PM
I was talking about the real hard core Arsenal fans.

Not you.

HCZ
01-02-2018, 03:58 PM
I was talking about the real hard core Arsenal fans.

Not you.

Well again...I fear you can’t complain about being priced out when you refuse to do any work and your only income stream is JSA.
Arsenal tickets are expensive, and the season ticket price is diabolical. But it hasn’t exponentially shot up.
Islington has always been a mixture of rich and poor, and Arsenal fans have always been fleeced

KSE Comedy Club
01-02-2018, 04:30 PM
I didn't say it was a mystery, I said it was really weird.

Marc Overmars
01-02-2018, 05:32 PM
That's what a decade of underachievement and unforgivable fuck ups does, the fans are now conditioned to expect disappointment which probably contributes to the lack of atmosphere. Obviously the wave of tourists, day trippers and new fans doesn't help either but there is a lot of apathy amongst the fanbase.

Though in all honesty Arsenal have fans have never been that vocal. I mean I join in with the songs and chants if they're going round but I wouldn't really feel compelled to stand up and start signing on my own. Doesn't really seem to be ingrained in our culture like it is at other clubs.

KSE Comedy Club
01-02-2018, 05:38 PM
It’s also the endless turnaround of decent and reliable players.

When we were winning things and solid, we had players worth singing songs about, but they have been few and far between in recent years.

Oh and Wenker of course.

Power n Glory
01-02-2018, 06:36 PM
That's what a decade of underachievement and unforgivable fuck ups does, the fans are now conditioned to expect disappointment which probably contributes to the lack of atmosphere. Obviously the wave of tourists, day trippers and new fans doesn't help either but there is a lot of apathy amongst the fanbase.

Though in all honesty Arsenal have fans have never been that vocal. I mean I join in with the songs and chants if they're going round but I wouldn't really feel compelled to stand up and start signing on my own. Doesn't really seem to be ingrained in our culture like it is at other clubs.

We've never been the loudest but it seems as though it has gotten worse. I'm not a regular, but compared to the first game I went to at the Emirates compared with last season, it's subdued. But that's no excuse for the performances. Fans have just grown so tired of the crap it's sucked the passion right out of the air.

HCZ
01-02-2018, 06:46 PM
We've never been the loudest but it seems as though it has gotten worse. I'm not a regular, but compared to the first game I went to at the Emirates compared with last season, it's subdued. But that's no excuse for the performances. Fans have just grown so tired of the crap it's sucked the passion right out of the air.

The curious thing is, is that our results in the league at home in the last season or two have been as good as they’ve ever been under Wenger (which is just as well for him as otherwise the shit show he’s running really would be fully exposed)

Which possibly suggests that fans have little bearing on the results on the pitch (which shits on Wengers notion two years ago that fans were affecting the performances at the Emirates).

Cripps
01-02-2018, 06:54 PM
The fact we had a player in the calibre of Sanchez and couldn't even be arsed to make a decent chant for him says it all tbh.

HCZ
01-02-2018, 06:58 PM
The fact we had a player in the calibre of Sanchez and couldn't even be arsed to make a decent chant for him says it all tbh.

Dirty Sanchez never caught on

For obvious reasons

Cripps
02-02-2018, 10:43 AM
“For example, at Swansea we had 75 per cent possession and you always think to attack, attack and you forget to defend when you lose the ball because you are so obsessed with wanting to win the game.

“It is always difficult to find the balance when you have so much of the ball. The league is divided in two now, 25-30 per cent possession and 70 per cent possession, there are two kinds of leagues - it is a 70:30 league now. The 70 per cent [teams] do not always win, they lose many games against the 30 [teams].”

:lol: 70:30 league :bow:

Özim
02-02-2018, 11:03 AM
“For example, at Swansea we had 75 per cent possession and you always think to attack, attack and you forget to defend when you lose the ball because you are so obsessed with wanting to win the game.

“It is always difficult to find the balance when you have so much of the ball. The league is divided in two now, 25-30 per cent possession and 70 per cent possession, there are two kinds of leagues - it is a 70:30 league now. The 70 per cent [teams] do not always win, they lose many games against the 30 [teams].”

:lol: 70:30 league :bow:

:lol:

Another classic by Wenger to go along side some of those other classics like:

2% away from domination
We are in a waiting period
I did not see it
We lacked a little of bit of sharpness
We showed great spirit and togetherness
I have made 20000 substitutions

KSE Comedy Club
02-02-2018, 11:06 AM
The team were a little bit jaded

Cripps
02-02-2018, 11:35 AM
Early kicks off :haha:

Niall_Quinn
02-02-2018, 11:53 AM
The team were a little bit jaded

It was either the wrong type of rain or the fact we're managed by a useless cunt.

KSE Comedy Club
02-02-2018, 11:54 AM
It was either the wrong type of rain or the fact we're managed by a useless cunt.

:haha: