Former Players Views

yes ok pedantic one. stating 'going into april/may' also meant with a momentum that would carry through those crucial months to crunch time. so yes, statistically you are right about march :rolleyes:

i guess by now i should know that i have to state absolutely crystal clear before google comes back to haunt me.

even 07/08, we completely lost the plot and by the time we got to those last two months, any momentum and challenge to the others had been long lost.

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Originally Posted by fakeyank

We were in with a shout till the last game in 07/08 season in which Dudu had his leg snapped. It was a distant shout in the last game where we needed both Chelsea and Utd to lose but at least we lasted till the last game. We were leading by up to 8 points up until February till Tiny decided to change all that. That game against Brum still makes me cry :crying:

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We were 4 points behind them going into the final day of 07/08. It was the game before that made it mathematically impossible, but yes that season is the only time we've looked strong enough to challenge, however no Arsenal challenge would be complete without a collapse and boy did we collapse.

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Originally Posted by Terry Tuffnutz

we haven't challenged once. not realistically. at no point could we look back and say 'ooh, that was a close one. we just missed out there.' always the same collapses at the same times.

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We definitely challenged the year when Gallas and co lost the plot at Birmingham. We were top of the league for 7 months IIRC.

All that matters is the here and now. And here and now, we are shit.

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Originally Posted by Grebbo

We definitely challenged the year when Gallas and co lost the plot at Birmingham. We were top of the league for 7 months IIRC.

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from march onwards (yes i know fist of lehman ffs) we collected something like 10 points til the end of the season.

i'm not sure who i hated more then, gallas or clichy.

Gallas. :lol:

What an absolute embarrassment.

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Originally Posted by Terry Tuffnutz

we haven't challenged once. not realistically. at no point could we look back and say 'ooh, that was a close one. we just missed out there.' always the same collapses at the same times.

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2010-2011 We challenged that season, it was only after loosing the CC we crumbled like bitches, had we won that imo We'd have gone on to win the league.

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Originally Posted by Grebbo

We definitely challenged the year when Gallas and co lost the plot at Birmingham. We were top of the league for 7 months IIRC.

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and yet ridiculously we ended up 3rd.

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Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner

2010-2011 We challenged that season, it was only after loosing the CC we crumbled like bitches, had we won that imo We'd have gone on to win the league.

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We were never going to win the CC and never going to win the league...why you ask? Simple the mentality is all wrong, you could see it from the moment we walked off the coach for the final, winners take big matches seriously, not like another Sunday afternoon kickabout.

People can make excuses about how we could have won this and could have won that, the fact is we took none of those opportunities which really shows we couldn't have won them, because the mental side of the game is also a very important part of winning and we totally lack this mental strength Wenger always preaches about.

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Originally Posted by ItsMe

We were never going to win the CC and never going to win the league...why you ask? Simple the mentality is all wrong, you could see it from the moment we walked off the coach for the final, winners take big matches seriously, not like another Sunday afternoon kickabout.

People can make excuses about how we could have won this and could have won that, the fact is we took none of those opportunities which really shows we couldn't have won them, because the mental side of the game is also a very important part of winning and we totally lack this mental strength Wenger always preaches about.

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Thats nonsense. Easy to say that in Hindsight and if we were never going to win the CC then why was every Arsenal fan upset. nonsense to say that.

Everyone thought we would, we did not loose it because of poor mentality we lost it cause the keeper and defender had a mix up.