We still have to go to anfield, SHL and city and Man U at home. 4 massive games and I cannot see us winning all of them esp the away ones. Could be the season we find shboutside top 4 and hopefully the end of Wenger as manager.
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We still have to go to anfield, SHL and city and Man U at home. 4 massive games and I cannot see us winning all of them esp the away ones. Could be the season we find shboutside top 4 and hopefully the end of Wenger as manager.
Quite happy to see Ozil, Ramsey and Giroud leave this club along with Wenger. Lazy fucking arseholes.
3 points, result and another mediocre performance.
A good result piss poor performance
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Originally Posted by Globalgunner
He's the John Bercow of refereeing. Everything always has to be about him and his fucking circus. Arsehole. Worst referee in the premiership by a country mile. And surely what he did today has to break some rule of impartiality? Can you really talk to a team at half-time and say you got a decision wrong? Doesn't it put your impartiality into doubt? Amazed he gave our penalty at the end.
It's also terrifying that after clearly reviewing TV evidence (which I didn't think refs were allowed to do either) he STILL got the decision wrong - as you say, clearly ball to hand, which unless there is an obscure, Arsenal-specific rule that's been freshly written into the laws of the game (like the Xhaka Rule) HAS to be unintentional.
I expect the media to give it plenty of air tomorrow anyway. Last week we got the Arsenal-are-soft narrative from the media after alonso knocked bellerin into next week for their first goal. This week it's the Arsenal-are-lucky one when we get a decision in our favour. No wonder we seldom get them. Referees and the media: both are made for each other. Crooked, corrupt liars.
Having said all of that, I am mainly angry because we were really shit again today, and have clearly learnt nothing from the last fortnight or so about organisation, resolve and mental strength.
Ozil needs to shape up or fuck off. He looked utterly disinterested today and barely even made a pretence of contesting the ball at times. £250k a week? Really?
Walcott just needs to fuck off period. He's become a joke of a player who needs to salvage his career at West Ham or somewhere shit like that. I don't think he'd get in any of the top 6 sides. He was embarrassing today.
And I'm afraid to say Iwobi and Coquelin look increasingly like the limited, stopgap solutions they should always have been. Useful squad players, but they are not players who are going to win you trophies.
May seem strange saying all this after a 2-0 win, but there really wasn't anything out there to suggest we've turned a corner. Bayern, Southampton and Liverpool away all coming up and we will need to play a million times better to get anything out of them.
Wenger is a goner this year, surely...?
http://news.arseblog.com/2017/02/ars...y-the-numbers/Quote:
Originally Posted by RomfordPele
I'm sure the feeling would be mutual if he knew who you are.Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
I don't buy any of those stats as they don't adequately reflect the poxy backward/ sideways game we play. I'd have one of Ox's passes over 10 of Coquelin's. Ox knows what direction the opposition goal is in whereas Coquelin is very confused. Bellerin and Mustafi might be the top guys but almost all their stuff is aimless tipping and tapping, slowing the play down, neutering the runs of players like Iwobi and even Theo when he can be bothered. Ozil and Alexis' pass rate may be lower but they are doing it in the danger zone whereas Coquelin often has time to pick a pass and will almost always choose the safest (and generally pointless) option. No doubt Coquelin has been told to play this way, to keep it conservative. But it breaks the back of our momentum. In one incident today Coquelin received the ball near the centre and Iwobi set off up the pitch. It was an easy pass buy Coquelin wasn't looking anywhere except backwards and had no interest in looking anywhere but backwards. And back went the ball, instinctively. I said at the time, sub him and sell him, tongue in cheek but it was still a classic demonstration of what has changed in the fundamentals of our game. We are just so negative now. Tip, tap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coney
At any normal club it wouldn't be down to what he says, it would be down to what he does and for the last decade he hasn't been doing enough where it really matters. Surely he knows that? Can he really think that balancing books on stadium moves somehow equates to being competitive on the pitch? What a bunch of spineless yes men we have running this club, all sitting there waiting for Wenger to decide the future of the club in his own sweet time. Any owner with balls would have had this resolved a year in advance but it seems like this lot will sit there until the last day of the season when the Great Wenger will finally divulge the big news on where we go next.Quote:
“I don’t know what Ian Wright said.
“It was questions and answers. I could be tired because I get up early in the morning and I finish late at night, so I am tired, yes.
“But I didn’t give any indication about my future. We had a little dinner before but it was not the two of us. There were four or five.
“You know I appreciate very much that you want me to rest, absolutely. But I am not ready for that yet.”
Yes, but not all passes are of equal value.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coney
As this piece concludes, coquelin has a limited skill set. I think we need better to compete at the very top.
Can you genuinely see us winning the league or champions league with coquelin as our midfield shield? I can't.
MOTD - Danny Mills - "You can't score a goal from a hand ball", having accepted it was accidental. So it wasn't hand ball. Dick. So it counts as a goal. Dick.