Kicking the ball away. No card.
Kicking the ball away. No card.
This is sensible, Trossard and Ode comong off for Merino and Sterling, we should also be taking Havertz and Nwaneri off for Zin and Tierney
Doesn't matter what formation, it's just about looking after players now
Odegard and Trossard off.
Sterling and Merino on. Newcastle are in deep shit now!
Come on, the kid has broken his arse to get the ball in there but nobody anywhere near it!
Starting to think we need a striker.
We only need 4 goals so we're being patient.
So like Arsenal of old. Brilliant result on Sunday that has the club buzzing, then the owners shit on everyone from a great height on the Monday, and on the Wednesday we completely fail to turn up. Like a rollercoaster that plunges into a sewer.
It is a bit annoying that we’ve gone so long without winning this competition. All the top clubs have won it multiple times since 1993 except for us. I guess when it’s treated with such antipathy that will filter through to the team in some ways too.
How is that not a yellow? This is ridiculous.
We've won one FA Cup during the Kroenke era. It's not just a disinterest in this competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
I can’t help treating it with antipathy, maybe if it was a worthwhile competition and not a mixture between a way of blooding youngsters and unnecessary fixture congestion
I wish we could get a couple of goals just to say we turned up and made a game of it.
Not the slightest glimmer of that happening though.
A non-event, but still damaging to the club.
There's no way I'm beating up the team after the January we had, nine games, a small squad, arsehole refs, injuries etc etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
It's just a result of everything that's been thrown at us and we've just started doing uncharacteristically dumb stuff
Completely the wrong way to think about it. Winners would be thinking, beat this lot then get hold of Liverpool in the final and beat them too, make a statement, put pressure on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
But I don't think you win a lot of prize money in this one, do you? So hardly worth it.
There's never a reason to treat a match with antipathy because it takes the edge off and always come back to haunt you.
Talking more about the club than the team. It has a clinical way of obliterating hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
The players haven’t really given a shit across the 2 legs so I don’t anticipate any knock on effects here. The damage was already done 3 weeks ago, tonight was always a long shot.
Get them off to Dubai to regroup and hopefully conjure up whatever they did this time last year.
HmmmQuote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
I actually agree with this. I think there was enough interest in this game to make it worth risking the first team. And I do think it needs to be addressed how easy it is for them to shit us up. And I don’t just mean the thuggery, they’d be beating us without that…which makes it doubly unnecessary.
Best to just chalk it up as one of those things and move on.
Calafiori and Jorginho on
Partey and Timber off
At least we have an extra man now.
pel by Burn, not given naturally
These excuses are what have delivered up 2 decades of failure. Momentum is important. We needed to go away from here at least thinking, okay we gave it a go. But this has been a stroll to defeat, first team or not. Nothing good can be said about that or come from it.
Liverpool had better beat Spuds tomorrow for sure
Is that a joke?
NO PEN?
Fucking hell, that's hilarious.
Ref making sure he books a few more Arsenal players before he runs out of time
Sterling booked :haha:
Or was it MLS. For a challenge that has been happening all night.
Starting to think we might not turn this around :unsure:
I think they believe they are untouchable now and they can just do what they want and they'll be backed up by their mates at Sky.
And now Rice does that cheat Bruno but no yellow? I have no idea what the rules are any more. I think they must be random.
Rice telling Trippier to fuck off :good:
Isak gets MOTM probably because he has a big fee - certainly wasn't for his performance.
We could be here all night trying to score.
MLS :lol:
4 mins ET then it's all over :bow:
Yeah, MLS could have done better there. It's just not going to go in though. Not tonight.
That Bruno bloke goes off, he must have committed 50 fouls in that game.
Schar booked for his persistent (as in non-stop for 90 minutes) fouing.
The Quadruple :rose:
The Treble :bow:
it's over :patrice::dance::yippee::jumpnana:
And for the last act of the game the corner kick goes straight to the keeper. You could summarise this match right there. Non-event.
you know we're out of the FAC already right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
it's the double now*
*hate to be a spoilsport but we're not doing that either**
** or the single
I suppose it's legit to call the geordies cheating arabs now? But they also cruised it, we didn't lay a glove on them.