Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal, 16:30 BST (12/07, SS Main Event)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Must win if we're going to have a St. Totteringham's Day this season.

:sick:

[GP]

0-3

[Marc Overmars]

The most meaningless NLD for a long time. A match to determine who’s the least shit.

[Mac76]

'Spuds vs Arsenal' surely?

we won't win but we might get a draw - the ref will give K**t a pelanty for sure so we're basically going in 1-0 down

[The Wengerbabies]

2-0

[Xhaka Can’t]

'Spuds vs Arsenal' surely?

we won't win but we might get a draw - the ref will give K**t a pelanty for sure so we're basically going in 1-0 down

After last night, you can fill your boots at the bookies. Spurs are getting awarded a penalty.

[dazthegooner]

Yep after being told they should've had a penalty last night you know Kane will not even have to even try and perfect his diving (he's more or less perfected it anyway) as he's guaranteed a penalty <_<

[Letters]

*pelanty :sulk:

[dazthegooner]

:p

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Spuds: Lloris, Aurier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Davies, Winks, Sissoko, Lo Celso, Lucas Moura, Son, Kane.
Subs: Gazzaniga, Vertonghen, Tanganga, Sessegnon, Skipp, Gedson, Ndombele, Bergwijn, Lamela.

Arsenal: Martinez, Mustafi, David Luiz, Kolasinac, Bellerin, Ceballos, Xhaka, Tierney, Pepe, Lacazette, Aubameyang.
Subs: Macey, Cedric, Holding, Sokratis, Maitland-Niles, Torreira, Willock, Nelson, Saka.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It's difficult to see how Aurier and David Luiz will both avoid doing something ridiculous and/or a red in a game such as this.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

Give us our one crumb of comfort for the league this season. :pray:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

David Luiz did it straight away. :haha:

Martinez saves from Lucas Moura.

[Globalgunner]

Kane already asking Oliver how many pens he can expect today

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinez with his first real fuck-up since coming in.

[Mac76]

Spuds: Lloris, Aurier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Davies, Winks, Sissoko, Lo Celso, Lucas Moura, Son, Kane.
Subs: Gazzaniga, Vertonghen, Tanganga, Sessegnon, Skipp, Gedson, Ndombele, Bergwijn, Lamela.

Arsenal: Martinez, Mustafi, David Luiz, Kolasinac, Bellerin, Ceballos, Xhaka, Tierney, Pepe, Lacazette, Aubameyang.
Subs: Macey, Cedric, Holding, Sokratis, Maitland-Niles, Torreira, Willock, Nelson, Saka.

i don't care how much people say people like Mustafi have improved i still say that's a totally shit back three for us

K**t and Sonofabitch will've been practising their dives all week

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sissoko kindly gives us a throw in.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe falls on his arse.

[Mac76]

the fake crowd people have 'forgotten' to have any Arsenal chants, what a surprise

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good from Ceballos out wide and then Tierney in to the box.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mustafi header, shite.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Awful control from Pepe.

Martinez stands tall to deny Kane.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Great run from Bellerin, Auba fluffer.

[GP]

That was great from Heccy B

[Mac76]

Great run from Bellerin, Auba fluffer.

i'm wondering if Auba thought laca was closer behind him, it almost looked like an attempt to play it on behind him

[McNamara That Ghost...]

LACAZETTE FUCKING HELL!!!!

[GP]

HOLY SHIT!!!!!

[A Gunner]

0 - 1 Beauty

[Globalgunner]

Thunderbolt!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-1 Son. David Luiz calamity.

[Master Splinter]

Lacashite no more.

:bow:

[Mac76]

LACAZETTE FUCKING HELL!!!!

where did that come from ?!

and still no 'Arsenal' chants... :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Actually that was more Kolasinac, going backwards for no fucking reason.

[Penguin]

What a strike!

[Globalgunner]

There you are. Three stooges

How can any team survive that awful trip. Dumb , dumber and beyond stupid

[A Gunner]

What the fuck is our defence playing at?!

[Penguin]

Clowns :lol:

[Mac76]

1-1 Son. David Luiz calamity.

that was kola he totally wrongfooted him

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lo Celso yellow.

[Master Splinter]

Spurs on the verge of collapsing and we just revive them in one fell swing of the clown boot.

[Mac76]

i don't care how much people say people like Mustafi have improved i still say that's a totally shit back three for us



told you...

[Niall_Quinn]

Same old Arsenal. I didn't bother mentioning the Laca goal because I knew it meant we'd soon be conceding. So utterly predictable, especially from a consistently hopeless defence. This spuds team is utterly shit. Should be an easy 3 points. But we'll always make it hard work. Kola has been shit all season yet he keeps getting picked. And it if wasn't him, Luiz would have fucked up. It's a sure thing.

[Xhaka Can’t]

1-1 Son. David Luiz calamity.

He’s bad, but let’s just blame him for the stuff that’s his fault.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kane offside but Martinez stopped him anyway.

[Mac76]

we're already starting to hang back defending the 1-1...

[Niall_Quinn]

Pepe is also a complete waste of space. He'll get the odd goal, sure. But everything else he doesn't do, like covering the space, making the challenge, finding the space, is missing. He's lazy and wasteful and I haven't a clue why he's playing when Saka isn't.

[Globalgunner]

He’s bad, but let’s just blame him for the stuff that’s his fault.

Kola all the way on that one. But a better defender than Luiz would have stopped the pass to Son.

[Mac76]

Pepe is also a complete waste of space. He'll get the odd goal, sure. But everything else he doesn't do, like covering the space, making the challenge, finding the space, is missing. He's lazy and wasteful and I haven't a clue why he's playing when Saka isn't.

my guess is Saka needed a rest plus we know those spuds c**ts would have targeted him for some serious kicking

[Niall_Quinn]

Has Aurier not been booked for that :haha:

If Xhaka had done it he'd be off.

[Mac76]

Has Aurier not been booked for that :haha:

If Xhaka had done it he'd be off.

it was pretty close to that Auba sending off tbh - was definitely a yellow

[Niall_Quinn]

The only way back for this team is if the backpass is banned completely - even if it means we concede possession or a goal. And that stupid short pass out from the GK which gets us in trouble all the time. Inexplicable nonsense football that achieves nothing except pressure. The team has to learn how to play the ball up the field again. How to put pressure on the opposition rather than give them an easy ride with all this tip tap sideways, backwards shite.

[Mac76]

arsenal gifted a corner then completely waste it...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Davies hammers the bar!

Martinez might have got a touch.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe just wide.

[Mac76]

The only way back for this team is if the backpass is banned completely - even if it means we concede possession or a goal. And that stupid short pass out from the GK which gets us in trouble all the time. Inexplicable nonsense football that achieves nothing except pressure. The team has to learn how to play the ball up the field again. How to put pressure on the opposition rather than give them an easy ride with all this tip tap sideways, backwards shite.

expecting a team with xhaka, mustafi, kola and luiz in it to do anything good is an exercise in futility

[Penguin]

Martinez :bow:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Superb shot, even better save.

[Mac76]

Martinez :bow:

#betterthanleno :faint:

[Mac76]

another great pass from ceballos, but wide from pepe

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Aurier with a yellow, run at him!

[Penguin]

Tierney has been sloppy today. He's wasted possession at least 3 times already.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dreadful freekick from Ceballos.

[Globalgunner]

expecting a team with xhaka, mustafi, kola and luiz in it to do anything good is an exercise in futility

If we start next season with those 4. Its another lost year

[Niall_Quinn]

So that should have been Aurier's second yellow - but the ref hasn't applied the rules. Games can be changed by that. I suppose Aurier gets the winner now.

[Mac76]

oliver forced to book aurier

[Niall_Quinn]

Tierney has been sloppy today. He's wasted possession at least 3 times already.

At least he knows where the opposition half is. It's a start.

[Mac76]

Dreadful freekick from Ceballos.

total joke

[Penguin]

Tierney loses the ball again... he could do with a bit of Bellerin's composure.

[Xhaka Can’t]

I don’t mind losing the ball when you are trying to go for it. But when you’re tippy tappying sideways and backwards, that drives me nuts.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Freekick to us, dangerous area until David Luiz take it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Auba wide.

[Mac76]

we should bring on Holding and Soares at HT, take off kola and luiz

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe shot, easy for Lloris.

[Niall_Quinn]

we should bring on Holding and Soares at HT, take off kola and luiz

They're all as bad as each other aren't they?

[Mac76]

we should bring on Holding and Soares at HT, take off kola and luiz

plus swap xhaka for torreira

[Mac76]

They're all as bad as each other aren't they?

no they're not, Holding is good and so is Soares

[Mac76]

good pass from Luiz to Son

[Niall_Quinn]

So shit by Pepe.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How wasn't that a foul? :haha:

And then Lacazette gets a yellow.

[Globalgunner]

They're all as bad as each other aren't they?

Hard to find something worse than those 2. Maybe Dysentery or Diphtheria

[Penguin]

How was that not a foul on Pepe?

[Niall_Quinn]

Laca booked for a trip. Different standard of reffing depending on the team.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Davies booked, run at him!

Both the Spuds full backs on a yellow.

[Mac76]

Laca gets booked for being fouled

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-1 HT.

Good going Kolasinac you bellend.

[GP]

1-1 HT.

Good going Kolasinac you bellend.

He is so dumb.

[Mac76]

Davies booked, run at him!



you're forgetting Laca can't run

[Penguin]

Kolasinac has no idea what he's doing. He's not a CB ffs Arteta!

[Globalgunner]

Our front players should own a dart board with the faces of our back 4

[Niall_Quinn]

HT Arsenal 1 Arsenal -1

Desperately dull and unimaginative from both teams. But the spuds don't have a midfield and we've failed to exploit it because we can't pass.

[Globalgunner]

Laca booked for a trip. Different standard of reffing depending on the team.

Michael Oliver is a twat. Pity. When he first started I had a lot of hope for him.

[I am invisible]

Amazingly Luiz didn’t compound it by going through the back of Son in the area and getting himself sent off

[Globalgunner]

Kolasinac has no idea what he's doing. He's not a CB ffs Arteta!

He offers nothing at CB or LB. Totally useless player

[Master Splinter]

Pepe is just does everything wrong unless he has a shooting opportunity in and around the right side of the box.

Saka and Holding would calm things down. Maybe Willock and Torreira a bit later.

[Niall_Quinn]

We don't know how to use Auba any more. He's just drifting around aimlessly trying to make things happen by himself. All that pace, his ability to beat a player, wasted. Why's he stuck out there in no-man's land when he should be a knife straight through the middle?

[Mac76]

Kolasinac has no idea what he's doing. He's not a CB ffs Arteta!

it's what happens when you're doing favours to players who lick your arse rather than those who are the best players in their positions

all Arteta's 'non-negotiable' stuff is just BS, he's falling for the same teachers pet trick from Xhaka, Mustafi, Kola etc as Emery did

[Niall_Quinn]

They're asking what Kola should do in that situation? Don't fucking even think of playing backwards! Just fucking stop it you cowardly bastard. Even Redknapp can figure it out.

[Mac76]

Pepe is just does everything wrong unless he has a shooting opportunity in and around the right side of the box.

Saka and Holding would calm things down. Maybe Willock and Torreira a bit later.

Torreira yes, but Willock does very little, but i'm sure he'll get his usual 15-20 minutes

[Niall_Quinn]

it's what happens when you're doing favours to players who lick your arse rather than those who are the best players in their positions

all Arteta's 'non-negotiable' stuff is just BS, he's falling for the same teachers pet trick from Xhaka, Mustafi, Kola etc as Emery did

tbf, Xhaka seems to the the only stabilising influence in this team. At least when he gets the ball he doesn't immediately look to get rid of it and tries to use it. Too much of it is sideways and backwards, but he's not a headless chicken like so many others in this team. I'd rather have a top talent in there, but when you look at who we actually have available Xhaka seems the best option to me.

[Gooner23]

Kola is just so poor in this position, passing is dreadful and defensive positioning non existent. With Luiz in there as well it's such an easy area for the oppo to attack.

[Penguin]

it's what happens when you're doing favours to players who lick your arse rather than those who are the best players in their positions

all Arteta's 'non-negotiable' stuff is just BS, he's falling for the same teachers pet trick from Xhaka, Mustafi, Kola etc as Emery did

Exactly. I hope Arteta realises that it's his head that will roll unless he's ruthless with these twats.

[Globalgunner]

Arteta will never sub Xhaka even if he dropped his pants and followed it with a turd in the middle of the pitch

[Globalgunner]

They're asking what Kola should do in that situation? Don't fucking even think of playing backwards! Just fucking stop it you cowardly bastard. Even Redknapp can figure it out.

Replay showed that Kola wasn't even looking when he played that ball. Instead of passing it to Luiz's left he placed it between him and Son

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ceballos has been very good in brighter news though, again.

[Niall_Quinn]

Replay showed that Kola wasn't even looking when he played that ball. Instead of passing it to Luiz's left he placed it between him and Son

His only instinct is to pass back. When he first arrived he wanted to get forward, probably too much. I guess that was whipped out of him by successive managers who like their pitter-patter ball.

[Niall_Quinn]

Christ! Auba makes the run - we ignore it and play it backwards. FFS!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mustafi could not work out whether to dive in or stay back, got it right in the end though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Why no yellow for Winks?

[Niall_Quinn]

No booking for Winks. I see.

[Globalgunner]

No yellow for Winks for such an obvious foul. Right in front of Oliver

[Niall_Quinn]

Wow, Bellerin. Charges up the pitch with the ball. Stops. Turns. Passes it all the way back.

[Mac76]

wanks should've been booked then

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hit it first time Bellerin!

[Niall_Quinn]

Awful by Bellerin. You hit that. Instead he dithers.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mustafi overhead on target. :bow:

Ceballos. :cloud9:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Nice play by Xhaka

[Globalgunner]

Hit it first time Bellerin!

The boy has stagnated badly in the last 4 years

[Niall_Quinn]

Pepe had time there. He looked up. Picked out the defender and delivered it perfectly.

[GP]

Nice play by Xhaka

He's been really good.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Auba hits the woodwork!

[Niall_Quinn]

That's poor from Auba.

[Globalgunner]

He's been really good.

I wouldn't go that far. He hasn't been crap. Which is good
Auba finds the post from 5 yards out

[GP]

Unlucky!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe frekick, absolute mare. And gets a yellow chasing back after the shite before it.

[GP]

Pepe is not at the races today.

Surely it's Saka time.

[Master Splinter]

Please get Pepe off.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bring Pepe off before he gets sent off.

[Penguin]

This game needs Saka.

Well, all our games need Saka. Get him on!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Still no yellow for Winks. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

WTF Auba?

[Xhaka Can’t]

Winks AGAIN!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What was wrong with that from Bellerin?

[Penguin]

Still no yellow for Winks. :haha:

Clear foul for the 100th time and he was even mouthing off to Oliver and STILL no yellow. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pepe hauled off, Saka on.

[Globalgunner]

Pepe hauled off, Saka on.

Pepe is obviously still pregnant

[Master Splinter]

Winks and Aurier should both be off.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Son tried diving.

Mustafi. :haha:

[Penguin]

Pepe is obviously still pregnant

:haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Mustafi's head has gone.

Defeat incoming.

[Penguin]

All the 50-50 decisions are going Spurs' way.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Winks finally gets a yellow. :faint:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Mustafi is gonna cost us.

[Niall_Quinn]

That's 2 players the spuds should have lost by now, but the ref has refused to apply the rules.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Was the 9 referring to the amount of yellows Winks should’ve had today?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lloris save from Auba's first time effort.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Xhaka has had a few good spots today.

[Niall_Quinn]

Get Laca off, put Auba through the middle and bring Willock on so we have somebody up there who doesn't shit his pants.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinez out to deny Kane again.

[Penguin]

Good effort by Auba. Needed more power to score from that position though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-1 Alderweireld. Oh fuck off.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lucas Moura off, Bergwijn on.

[Globalgunner]

That's what you get from blowing all those chances against a shit team

[Penguin]

2-1 Alderweireld. Oh fuck off.

Typical. :fury:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Absolute mare from Mustafi.

[Niall_Quinn]

Typical. Don't know how many defenders were in there - but none of them close.

[Mac76]

all totally predictable of course

[Globalgunner]

Absolute mare from Mustafi.

He was born off a horse. Useless footballer

[Penguin]

We're falling apart now

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lo Celso off, Skipp on.

Willock, Soares and Nelson on for us. Kolasinac, Tierney and Bellerin off.

[Niall_Quinn]

Quite amazing how Mustafi is still at the club and still getting games. Just shows how little ambition the club has.

[Marc Overmars]

:yawn:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Jesus, we could concede another 2 at this rate

[Mac76]

Mustafi playing like a c**t

who knew?

[Niall_Quinn]

Impotent tip tap until the defence gifts a goal to the opposition. It's a poor game plan, to be sure.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Spurs are shit and instead of lasagne, we serve them up 3 points.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Yellow for Bergwijn.

[Globalgunner]

Mustafi Luiz Kola make at least 3 clangers each match. You cant survive those odds

[Niall_Quinn]

Spurs are shit and instead of lasagne, we serve them up 3 points.

Doubt we could manage a decent lasagne these days.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ceballos has been brought down to a level of a steaming pile of turd.

[Niall_Quinn]

fortunately Son is a greedy shit.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ceballos has been brought down to a level of a steaming pile of turd.

We may have to compensate Madrid when he goes back. There's bound to be a clause that protects against malicious damage.

[hobson's choice]

This loss is on Arteta, lineup is too conservative against a Jose team.

Xhaka, Kola, bellerin, Pepe shouldn't be all playing at the same time, against a team that's gonna sit back

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Yellow for Saka.

[Niall_Quinn]

Tip, tap, tip tap. No rush. Take your time lads.

[Letters]

Spurs are shit and instead of lasagne, we serve them up 3 points.

Had a chat with a Spurs fan in the park this morning (no one I knew, I was wearing a top with an Arsenal crest on.
We both agreed that neither of us could get enthused by this season and that both our teams were terrible.
He claimed Spurs were more terrible, I said if so there’s not much in it.

Not much to like about following Arsenal right now.
Or Spurs.

[Mac76]

smith thinks Arteta's improved us defensively :haha:

[Mac76]

Yellow for Saka.

for a 'petulant gesture' apparently - doesn't he know you get banned from playing at Arsenal if you do things like that? - he'll be socially distancing with Guendouzi down the pub for the rest of the season

[Niall_Quinn]

Lamela on to try for a late pen.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-1 FT. Fucking hell.

[Globalgunner]

These fools wont even blame themselves for throwing this game away

[Penguin]

:yawn:

[RomfordPele]

Fucking awful result. Spurs were shit. We were even shitter.

If mustafi is first choice CB next season, I’m supporting Leyton Orient.

[Marc Overmars]

Mid table secured :cloud9:

[Niall_Quinn]

Easy 3 points chucked in the bin for absolutely no reason other than the same shit players being picked. Kola, Bellerin, Mustafi, Luiz, Pepe - abject shite. But they keeps getting a game. Keep doing the same thing over and over but expect a different outcome.

[Mac76]

Ref 2 Arsenal 1 - usual story of our own sh*tness in defence plus Spuds getting away with a hundred fouls

another wasted two hours - why the f**k do we bother?

[Niall_Quinn]

Ref 2 Arsenal 1 - usual story of our own sh*tness in defence plus Spuds getting away with a hundred fouls

another wasted two hours - why the f**k do we bother?

No way. We didn't do anywhere near enough against a crappy team with no midfield. Tip tap, tip tab, sideways, sideways, forward to player with back to goal, backwards, tip, tap. Can you imagine how panicked a Maureen defence would have been by our zero tempo, no ambition game? Takes an individual bit of skill to score a goal. Then, as predictable as the sun rising, we throw the lead away. Then, as predictable as the sun setting, we go down to a sucker punch have tip, tapped our way to another glorious pointless (literally) possession victory.

Our attitude towards football stinks. We don't respect the game. tbf, not many teams do these days. It's supposed to be about skill, energy, ambition and competition. Some of our players have skill, but we don't have any of the other essential ingredients. So we can randomly win a few, randomly draw a few, but we'll always lose when it really matters.

We'd be battling relegation now if we hadn't conned Auba into coming here. And now even he's looking lost.