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Originally Posted by Letters
caught me off guard amongst all this preemptive depression
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Originally Posted by Letters
caught me off guard amongst all this preemptive depression
Letters making virginity jokes! :faint:Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
really cant wait for this game, my favourite game of the season every year. need a performance, and barring mike dean being mike dean, i think we can win this one. been shit, need a performance so who better to do it against then the scum.
COME ON LADS, LETS FUCKING DO THIS. ARSENAL ARSENAL ARSENAL ARSENAL ARSENAL
I hope your right OllieQuote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
Kinda excited about this game tbh, agree it would be alswome to beat the scum.Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
The first half last season in this game which i was at was alswome :bow:
Lawro optimistic about Arsenals chancesQuote:
Arsenal v Tottenham (1330 GMT)
There haven't been too many occasions in the last few years where you would have backed Tottenham to go to the Emirates Stadium and get something, but I think this is one of them.
It is going to be a tough test for Spurs, though. Arsenal have struggled in their last two away games, against AC Milan and Sunderland, but their home form is solid and you have to factor in how keen they will be to hold the bragging rights in north London.
I think the points will end up being shared. And, although I don't think they are going to win the league, for me they are definitely going to finish third, and above Arsenal.
That would be the first time that has happened since Arsene Wenger took charge of the Gunners but the reasons for it are simply that Spurs have got more quality in every area.
Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has put together a really good side, and it has got a bit of everything. They can play in so many different ways and they have a multitude of options going forward.
Defensively they are solid too, and part of that is due to the progress of people like Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Kyle Walker, who is starting to look like a real player.
In goal, Brad Friedel has made a difference too, When you watch him play, he organises his defence so well, and that is a massive help to them.
Heurelho Gomes was capable of making some excellent saves but he always had a mistake in him. The difference between being a good goalkeeper and a very good goalkeeper is about concentration.
Keepers for the top teams might not see the ball for 20 minutes, even to take a goal-kick but they need the ability to tune in and switch on. We saw Joe Hart do it for Manchester City late on against Aston Villa a fortnight ago.
What Hart did for me there is more of a sign he is a top keeper than if he was making a series of brilliant saves every few minutes - in the manner that people like Tim Krul and Wayne Hennessey sometimes do. It's a bit like golf - the really top players have got the mental edge.
Prediction: 1-1
It was bound to happen once he got laid. :good:Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
Oh shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
============================Chesney=============== ================
Sagna=========Koscielny=================Vermaelen= ===========Gibbs====
=========================Song===================== ===============
==========Arteta======================Rosicky===== ==================
Oxlade============================================ =========Gervinho=
=====================van Persie=====================================
Big worry, as ever, is the midfield 3. I can see Spurs completely dominating the middle of the park, something that would have been unimaginable 4-5 years ago.
I think Ramsey will play ahead of Rosicky. That's not a bad team. The biggest problem is that we've been quite dependent on Song and he has been playing poorly in the last few games. Obviously there are no options on the bench so it's up to that XI to win it.
We'll be alright - trust me. 3-1 win. We're always flirting with the breaking point but never seemingly reach it. It's like the club conspire to prolong the misery further. Though I'll happily take the win against the spuds any time. And we'll take it on Sunday. This will be the 'Van Persie game'. In the same way the comeback from 2-1 down against Liverpool with an Henry hat-trick in 2004 or the 5-1 win at San Siro were games in which Henry destroyed the opponent almost single-handedly, this NLD will be Van Persie's game.
Yeah if Ramsey's fit I'd put him ahead of Rosicky tbh
Yep that is the team I would go with, sad thing is Spurs's team is actually stronger than ours, that's how bad things have got.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker
I'm not expecting much from the game on Sunday, I think they'll do a Counter-Attacking job on us, I honestly think a point is the best we can hope for.
We'l win this easily, our home form is good. Can't believe how ppl are shitting themselves on here over Spurs, Spurs ffs!
The same Spurs who have won several recent meetings between us?
Think i read somewhere that we've won only once in our last 8 meetings :blink:
Well twice if you include the Carlington Cup win last season. However since Crooknapp has been there we've only picked up 3 points against them once. When Cesc scored from the kick off.
Cesc. :bow:
Oh.
It's not been the same really since we lost 5-1 to them. People laughed at the time because it was "only" the CC, but that removed their mental block and they've reguarly got results against us since.
Yeah, but that was when we were better than them. Now we aren't, it is our turn to win. :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
in the last 8 spuds have won 3, we have won 2 and have drawn 3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Ramsey is injured. Which is probably good, because he's been woeful.
Come on Eisfeld.
really excited and buzzing for this match now, i love these games. forget everythign that has happened before, its one game, give a performance and we win. i sure hope we do, i believe we can. this game could really kickstart our season, give players belief etc but this is also a nld, it means everything to the fans and i for one cant fucking wait for it
Kickstart our season? :lol:
Bit late in the day for that.
i meant for the race to 4th place. who knows? a big win against the scum, or even just a win and we go to anfield with our tails up, win there an who knows?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
also you never know with milan, liverpool came back from the dead, hell newcastle did it in a half at 4-0 down. suddenly two big wins against our rivals and a big club and who knows. i know im deluded and stupidly optimistic to think we can beat milan and go through but for me, if i dont have hope or believe even when it seems all is lost, there is no point in me watching or supporting Arsenal
You have to love Ollies Optimism tbh, what a legend on here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Even if we win, there have been too many false starts over the last 2 seasons for me to get excited about a late season surge even if we win. We thought we had turned things round after the 5-3 win against Chelsea, but we're back to early-season form again.
People won't be excited because they think were going on to win the league etc, they will be happy to beat the scum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker
If the team can't win on Sunday (I assume a few of them still know and care what it means to the fans) they can fuck off tbh. This is all we have left from the season, this and doing everything conceivable to overhaul our arch rivals. A loss or a draw and they simply don't care, end of. If they don't win it proves they don't give a toss about the fans and just want the money. Fail on Sunday and they'll have given us precisely zero this season. Winning this is the absolute basic standard requirement, the barest possible minimum. After this nightmare season they get zero credit for delivering the bare minimum but on the other hand, I hope they get slaughtered by every last fan if they can't even achieve this most basic standard. Better be a fucking win guys, just get it done. Earn at least a fraction of that money.
I think we'll win 2-1 in true WUMger fashion, right when the season is all but dead. Then we'll be told about how much potential there is for next year.
Don't entirely agree with this. The sad fact is Spurs are better than us right now. For years and years we never lost to Spurs not because their players didn't care. For their fans it was their Cup Final but they generally failed in it simply because we were better than them and while 'form goes out of the window' I don't think quality does. If we don't put the effort in tomorrow and lose then that is unforgivable. If they give everything and just get pipped by a better side then I think it would be harsh to be too hard on the players. By all means go apeshit at the manager and board who between them (and I still don't know what proportion of blame to attribute to who) have year on year sold our best players and replaced them with mediocre ones. We got away with it for quite a while and stayed reasonably competitive. This year the wheels have finally fallen off. Possibly irreparably.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
That'd be a reasonable enough argument if this wasn't the 100th time we've asked this team to stand up only to see them fall flat on their faces. Enough excuses for this lot now. The fans deserve something back too. The players get paid either way, so does the manager and so so those greedy swine in the board room. What do we get? So far zip this season, unless a keystone cops style victory over a broken Chelsea is worth crowing about. Trouble with our lot is they do all their talking in the papers and none of it on the pitch, RvP the honourable exception. I don't want to hear anything from them other than a victorious post match interview.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Well that is certainly true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
They definitely owe us a performance today. Whether that translates into a result...we'll see. Spurs are a good side this year :(
Mate can't go so my taking my Dad, not sure he will have heard me swear so much....c'mon u gunners
Meeting Adzz at the Pins pre-match if you're around :tiphat:
So a year ago this weekend it all started to go wrong, and we're still feeling the effects from the Wembley shocker to this day.
Time flies.
Lets restore a bit of pride today plz.
stop feeling sorry for yourselves,get out out there with your heads up and play with some pride get at them
First NLD in a while that I'm not even nervous. It's a bit of an odd feeling - I expect us to win because I expect us not to win. But if we don't win, I also would've expected that anyway. My expectations are high because they've been lowered. Weird innit?
3-1. Robin Van Signafuckingcontract to net a hat-trick.
Brilliant. I think football (especially Arsenal) can lead to just letting it all out, whoever you are with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Injury Time
Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Koscielny, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Rosicky, Song, Arteta, Walcott, Benayoun, Van Persie.
benayoun starts. had a good midweek game i suppose.
interesting team, think yossi is a good pick, offers more defensive cover imo.