Good job Spitting Image isn't still on TV or Wenger would be crucified. So much material there they could have got away with just the one puppet. Wenger vs the Sun pig reporters, that would have been hilarious.
Bring it back!
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Good job Spitting Image isn't still on TV or Wenger would be crucified. So much material there they could have got away with just the one puppet. Wenger vs the Sun pig reporters, that would have been hilarious.
Bring it back!
No, it doesn't make it untrue :lol:
But it is untrue. We need more up front, we need a good captain. Those things and we'd have won the title this year IMO, Wenger or no.
I think there's more to it than pressure. We've won plenty of pressure games, we now seem to be in a collective malaise and have no idea how to drag ourselves out of it - I think that comes back to the lack of a good captain.
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Since Wenger cannot motivate his own wife to undress on their first night
:lol: That would be pretty awlsome, tbf.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Lack of a good captain? Do you mean lack of somebody who can do Wenger's job for him? But it's just another symptom of Wengeritis. Reduce the captaincy to a bribe thrown at players who never stay anyway. Piss in Giberto's face when it is his turn to be the captain. Wenger has got so many things wrong. The captaincy, the lack of a striking threat, these are just two on a long list.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Wenger's job is to get results. It isn't cheating if we have a strong captain that helps him achieve that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Phone Wenget and tell him. But be careful not to threaten to end the call early or you might end up with the armband yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
He already called me about it.
He reversed the charges <_<
"not a pot noodle" :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
"little bit" :haha:
And called at 4am on the cheap rate electric tariff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
I think we need a new poll.
Now that we are out of all the cups we are able to put all our energy in to fucking up the league.
We're still in the only cup that matters.
Can't we just copy/ paste the polls from the last 9 seasons? Mods?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Loblaw
2girls1cup?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Spuds will NOT win it IMO because their run in is by far the toughest out of the 4 teams.
They have Liverpool away, Man u home and then Stoke away. After that its West brom at home before they go to Chelsea and play saints at home. It is far from straight forward and their final game is against newcastle who are in a relegation battle.
Id love us to win it ovb but it looks like it's Leciester's to lose.
The scum look fucking good at the moment, Leicester are scraping wins. Hate to say it, the shit scum will win it. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by AFC Leveller
Nah, we've got no chance.
Hate to say this but on current form I can see the Spuds beating Man U and Stoke and picking up a point at Liverpool, they are capable of winning all 3. I think they'll win at Chelsea too. They won't be dropping many points between now and the end of the season, Poch has that team and system on lock, they are not pushovers anymore, they are hard to break down and very good going forward. I think for us to finish above them we will need to win every game and notch up our goal difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFC Leveller
Honestly, it's between Leicester and them, we blew the title a few weeks back losing to Man U and Swansea, that was our last chance saloon and we threw it away.
Leicester are picking up points but are starting to wobble a bit performance wise, Palace should have got at least a point yesterday, they missed a lot of chances. I suppose Leicester are doing what Champions do, grinding out results at the business end of the season.
I think unless both of the them collapse which is looking very unlikely then we're finishing 3rd at best. We've got to remember that both teams have been very consistent this season, they very rarely lose. What is it? Leicester have lost 3 times and the Spuds 4 times? The Spuds have only lost once this year in PL.
No way Spurs will win it.
Leicester have it in the bag. They've already had their wobble but they came through it even stronger. They're on auto pilot and it will come down to bottle now as they're expected to win it.
Spuds won't win enough of their acid tests to overhaul them.
We need to win every game to even have a sniff. Not going to happen.
There is the goals of the phantom of the opera Kane who has now scored 21 league goals in their favour though. I was quite vocal (to even my own dismay) in stating he wasn't just a flash in the pan or one season wonder last season....... and so it has proved.
We shouldn't forget there are 7 games left so the simpleton could get 25 by then...
Wishful thinking I guess. He's very good, unfortunately. To think he didn't score for the first 6 or 7 games as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
RVC was the last to score 20 league goals for us and then Adebayor before him. Kind of shows what we've missing for so many years now.
I had my doubts about Kane but he's the real deal, he's no flash in the pan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Spurs could win it but Leicester would really have to throw it away now with their run in. Especially as Spurs have a more tricky one.
For the neutral Leicester winning it would be a magnificent sporting against the odds story.
As an Arsenal fan though it is becoming more and more painful to watch as that realisation they will likely win it now kicks in. And the other scenario if they were to falter doesn't bear thinking about. I don't care if it smacks of small time thinking but we HAVE to finish above the Spuds.
It smacks of trying to hold the red line, the one standard we should never drop below. The easiest title in years is gone. The cups are gone. Apart from the odd occasion, like the first half yesterday, our football has gone. What do we have left? Finishing above the spuds. Lose that and we have lost everything bar that coveted 4th place trophy a lot of the fans have come to loathe because of what it represents - second best status. And that's not assured. Another collapse of the type already witnessed and we lose that too. Another dismal crash when we next encounter pressure and the Last 16 Cup could be gone in a clean sweep of failure. It's not so much the urgency of finishing above the spuds, that will be the end product of winning our last 8 games which is what we need to do to grab a bit of pride back from this foul season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooner23
I really hope Leicester do it. Their season has been phenomenal.
I would have been pulling for them sooner had this not been the season where we should have won it comfortably but we are a joke. A big fat mess.
Still not a bigger mess than man city man united or chelseaQuote:
Originally Posted by The Wengerbabies
We're far worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dicks and chicks
For City/Chelsea this has been a mere blip and we should have capitalized on it.
We have been fucked for a decade now. There are absolutely no excuses for not winning this year.
Yup, we are much better off compared to those 3. They only have all the PL titles since we won in 2004 and 2 champions league between them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dicks and chicks
We have 2 FA Cups and many 4th place trophies.
They will correct their problems swiftly and decisively - well maybe not Utd but the other two will. We have Wenger and Kroenke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dicks and chicks
Why use that timeframe? Surely what is most relevant is what's going on now. Over the last couple of seasons I guess you could say City and Chelsea have done better having won a title each, no-one else has. But yeah, Wenger's an idiot who hasn't got a clue what he's doing :blah:Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
We've also qualified for the CL for 50 years in a row and won it....er nevermindQuote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
The Last 16 Cup is a major trophy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
In that time, they've grown as clubs, become more marketable and have developed a bigger fan base Internationally, yes they've had one bad season but overall they've got some major success under their belt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
As for the last bit, can't disagree with any of that :run:
We're spoilt really, we should thank our lucky stars we're so successful and that we have a saint who is superior in knowledge to every else on the planet due to his 20,000 substitutions as manager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Sure. All by spending shitloads of money in an era when we couldn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
Now we're more able to compete with them financially we've started winning trophies again and this year it looks like we'll finish above all of those sides.
Still below Leicester though :doh: and it seems Wenger isn't able to push us on any further but the last 10 years have not been the unmitigated failure you make out. There was a period of belt tightening during which IMO Wenger did pretty well to keep us in the top 4. The money is there now so we need to push on, we have to an extent in terms of the trophies and the level of players we've signed but this season was the one when we really needed to push on and we haven't. So Wenger should step aside. That doesn't make everything he's done over the last 10 years wrong.
The reason Wenger gets so much grief now is the way he behaves, let's be honest, he's patronising, incredibly stubborn, always blaming other factors and never really taking responsibility of willing to criticise his team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
He also point blank refuses to acknowledge problems that have been there for a long time, he's his own worst enemy.
He could make it so much easier for himself is he was more humble, it seems to me he's become more and more arrogant over the years, some of the stuff he comes out with is just unacceptable and really shows he doesn't have any respect for the people who actually page his wages (the fans).
Arrogance of that level from someone who isn't who's has so little success in the last 10 years is hard to understand and hard to swallow, but I guess he feels his job is so secure and the board and owners are so keen to praise him that he clearly feels that's he's a massive success.
Pep will struggle here mark my words. the small teams will be too strong for him, chelsea have lost their team mentality, they worked too hard to achieve things in the short term, they dont have the togetherness thats required.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn