Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
I'm not talking about the quality of the player, I'm talking about the style and the game such players are best suited to. Keown was from the same school and that's fine, he was a good defender too, but you need a mix of players to make a good team. Stick 11 Lampards or Keowns on the pitch though and you're fucked. But we can have 1 Keown and 1 Bergkamp, can't we?

Sunday's result is turning out to be embarrassing in so many new ways. Wow, well done Arsenal, you didn't get thumped 6-0. Wow, the lads turned up, well done, fit to wear the shirt. Wow, we defended properly. Wow, we pressed the ball. Wow, we kicked the ball towards the opposition goal.

None of these things are supposed to be remarkable, not unless the underlying theme is Arsenal are shit, but this was pretty good by their standards. Not sure if fools like Keown realise this is what they are effectively doing when they turn what was really only a bog standard performance into a special moment and then applaud journeymen and conclude we don't need anything better. It's like Keown is revelling in our second tier status.

When the chavs defend, do the pundits say wow, they are defending?
I agree with this and I would go as far as to say the Chelsea performance should be the standard we set Period. We shouldn't need to organise ourselves just for the big game when under immense pressure, we should be putting in this type of performance regularly if we harbour ambitions to challenge for the title. Wenger and Gazidis regularly tell us we have world class players in our squad and that they believe we can challenge so we should be demonstrating that on a weekly basis.