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Mike Dean was the ref when my son was mascot v Villa in Nov 2008...........we lost!
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Supposed to be our away kit next season, that is if you trust anything on Twitter... :lol:
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We barely scraped 4th that year.
CL form wasn't bad though.
Also, why no waiting period before the new shirts hit the store? They seem to be able to sort that shit out without delay.
Yellow and blue - the colour of winners......
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Theo Walcott believes Arsenal's players must look at themselves and take the pressure off manager Arsene Wenger, while he has tipped Jack Wilshere to become a better player than Cesc Fabregas.
Wenger'shttp://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif position as manager has come under scrutiny this season and his decision to replace Alex Oxlade-Chamberlainhttp://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif with Andrey Arshavinhttp://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif during the loss to Manchester Unitedhttp://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif on Sunday proved particularly unpopular with supporters.
While Wenger has shielded his players from the worst of the Gunners faithful's frustrations, England international Walcott says now is the time for him and his team-mates to stand up and be counted.
"The manager will take all the stick," he told the Daily Telegraphhttp://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif. "He looks after us. He believes in us.
"As players we need to look at ourselves. We need to take responsibility. The last few games haven't been good enough.
"The worst thing is we have a lot of regrets. There are games we could have won. When you go to Swansea and score two goals you should win."
Great captain
Arsenalhttp://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif captain Robin van Persiehttp://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif appeared to disagree with Wenger's substitution but has this week played down talks of a rift with the manager.
And Walcott has praised the Dutchman's leadership in the dressing room as he revealed the team's culture of reflecting at length on the good and bad points of their performances.
"We always like to reflect on the game in the dressing room, even at half-time, sharing our feelings on the game," he said.
"Robin is a great captain who wants to win. He believes in the team and knows the team can do better."
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While injuries to key players have played their part in Arsenal's failings, Walcott insists that cannot be an excuse - though he concedes Wilsherehttp://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif has been particularly sorely missed.
The teenager is expected to take on the mantle of being the midfield talisman at Emirates Stadium over the next few years following Fabregas' departure last summer, but Walcott believes he could even surpass the Spaniard.
"We've missed him. He's an important player even after just that one year (in the team)," he said.
"People compare him to Cesc (Fabregashttp://static.lingospot.com/spot/image/spacer.gif). I think he can be better than Cesc, definitely. It's just a shame he had that massive injury.
"Injuries don't help but we can't just look at injuries."
Don't know if this has been said but on the BBC rumours teletext page said that if Madrid don't win La-liga and the champions league they will go after Wenger!
It makes sense because Real Madrid don't make sense. They have a history of sacking winning managers.
It's the perfect move for WUMger. Go to a club and spend shit loads to succeed.
Straight swap, Wenger and Theo for Jose and Ronaldo
Even if it was to happen would we take Jose? I mean the board have now got used to Wenger's style of play and we know Jose would revert bad to the good old George Graham days, but at least he would spend some bloody money.
Chesney and Ox playing ping pong with frying pans.
Good game.
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Tis the season to say sillyish things.......
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Gazidis - half speaking the truth but not sure if he will be speaking the same tune come season end!
Hmmm.
Thing is, the sentiment of "Self-sustainability" is actually something I admire.
But when things are going wrong on the pitch, and the main competition we're in has heralded 3 defeats in 3, leaving us trailing by some margin, then something is wrong with the model.
I'm all for nurturing talent, and creating stars from nothing, but the competition for even the youngsters is mega nowadays, and as we've said time and time again...you need experience on the pitch to help these youngsters progress.
Talk about spin.
too right.....I think most fans would love to poke the other teams in the eye and say......this is the way to do it but (for one or small catches.....)
1) The other teams dont want to try it and
2) We are not succeeding by following it
Striking a balance is what we are not doing and whether it is the stadium or what it is.....the club/board/Wenger is losing/has lost the confidence of some/all the fans......will it change when we final pay the last pound off on the stadium? Would like to think so but how long is that going to be and how much further do we have to slip......I am willing to suffer the pain but the seemingly lack of worry about achieving nothing more than mediocrity is a bit hard to stomach, especially when it is sugar coated with liberal sprinklings of BS.......FAC :beer:
Where's the fucking money, Gazidis?
We can continue falling down the league forever? What a weird statement. Wumger has got to him.