Match Reaction v Aston Villa

[Niall_Quinn]

A venting of frustration that is now at overload.

When all you get is soundbites from politicians, you get the wrath of the electorate. Except, we don't even get to vote. They just take our money and fuck off.

It's even worse than that. They don't fuck off, they stay.

[LDG]

It's even worse than that. They don't fuck off, they stay.

They're like drug dealers, and we're the addicts....except it's not heroin, or any of the good shit. It's like being addicted to marmite when you don't even like it.

[Letters]

The Arsenal I want back is the one that plays exciting football that was fun to watch. The football we play at the moment is shit. This is certainly something Wenger can be criticised for. Why did we dispense with power and pace to replace it with ponderous, tippy-tappy bullshit nothing ball? I hate the shit we play now, I can't bear to watch it, yet am compelled because I'm a fan. It's torture, the most pointless football I have ever seen. Even as recently as two years ago there was a degree of entertainment in our play. Now there's nothing, maybe 2-3 snippets of entertainment a month if we are lucky. It's intolerable and made even worse by the media still banging on about our entertaining style. It makes you wonder if you are insane, you see the boring shit and then you see the glowing reports and think WTF? What am I missing? Did I imagine the footie we used to play?

It's not as bad as you're making out, it's not as good as it used to be.
It's better than the long ball 1-0 to the Arsenal shite in the mid-nineties.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

The Arsenal I want back is the one that plays exciting football that was fun to watch. The football we play at the moment is shit. This is certainly something Wenger can be criticised for. Why did we dispense with power and pace to replace it with ponderous, tippy-tappy bullshit nothing ball? I hate the shit we play now, I can't bear to watch it, yet am compelled because I'm a fan. It's torture, the most pointless football I have ever seen. Even as recently as two years ago there was a degree of entertainment in our play. Now there's nothing, maybe 2-3 snippets of entertainment a month if we are lucky. It's intolerable and made even worse by the media still banging on about our entertaining style. It makes you wonder if you are insane, you see the boring shit and then you see the glowing reports and think WTF? What am I missing? Did I imagine the footie we used to play?

Tippy tappy was good when we had Quality like Cesc and Nasri. Once we lost quality and good passers of the ball it does look slow and rubbish. Though we do tend to mix and match it this season.

Though with the players we have don't matter what footie with play, without quality it will always look boring. its not like we have world class players and are stuck playing this slow tempo pass pass footie.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's not as bad as you're making out, it's not as good as it used to be.
It's better than the long ball 1-0 to the Arsenal shite in the mid-nineties.

True. It's worse. The Villa game was the worst football match I can recall enduring in 30 years. It was embarrassingly bad. At least there was a bit of cut and thrust to the drivel being served up in the 80s and 90s. What we are seeing now is nondescript and sterile. Pointless. I wish they'd just stand still and do nothing and then there would at least be an excuse for the utter futility of our style of play. Tip tap tip tap tip tap tip tap, give it away, other shit team gives it away, tip tap, one shot on goal in 90 minutes, corner blasted at the first defender, cross goes out of play, play if forward, no runners, play it back, do it again, tip tap, pray for improvement in the second half, if can't be that bad again, but it is, in fact it's worse, tip tap tip tap, knife, wrists, gushing, imminent death, saved by an interfering busybody, recovery, switch on the game, tip tap tip tap, get religion, beg for forgiveness, ask God for mercy, pray the devil takes me to burn in hell so I don't have to endure the tip tap tip tap pass it back slow it down, kill me, please kill me, tip tap...

[LDG]

[Grebbo]

The infuriating thing about the Villa game was the amount of times Merts would pass it to a midfielder and the midfielder would just pass it back to him straight away, time after time after time.

It happened a ridiculous amount of times and was piss boiling.

Merts should have told them to fuck off.

Fuck that shit.

[Cripps_orig]

Arteta

[Özim]

It's not as bad as you're making out, it's not as good as it used to be.
It's better than the long ball 1-0 to the Arsenal shite in the mid-nineties.

I find it more boring now without question, sometimes it hard to stay awake for a match...it really is that dull, no desire to win the ball, repetitive, ineffective, sh*t subsitutions.....it really is that bad.

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Arteta

Impossible, or better yet, highly improbable.

Put him on trial for said accusation and all he'd have to do is plead anonymity to bust the case.