Match Reaction v Bayern

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

jenkinson dismissing bacon face's 8 year jibe in the interview afterwards



shreeves

jenkinsons a bit of a hunk aint he (no homo). arteta looks like a fucking tranny.

[Munchies]

arteta looks like a fucking tranny.

Lol'd haha

[Niall_Quinn]

Interesting reading. Fact is though, we were shit. The defence was better than usual but that's hardly an achievement. The back five was far from good, but they weren't calamitous. A team that were bothered could have easily exploited the huge gaps we were still leaving. But Bayern didn't show up, having concluded they had already won. Turns out they were right. Even with the no show they must have had 20 efforts at goal to our 4 or 5. Pathetic considering we were the team who had to chase. Fabianski looked like an average run of the mill type keeper you'd see in any game at this level. Which is a huge improvement for us of course.

The midfield? Really, really shite. All of them. Ramsey is so awful we effectively are down to 10 when he's on the pitch. Worst thing is he tries, but where the hell has his talent vanished to? He can't even pass a ball, not that he's the only culprit in that respect.

With Walcott you have to judge if his 88 minutes of comically bad play is compensated by the 2 minutes where he can make a difference. We should have much better players than him turning out for us on Euro nights, instead we have Gervinho and what appears to be a wengerised victim in the once promising Chamberlain. Giroud, I assume we can all see, is lower league material at best. He was so out of his depth today it was embarrassing.

The key fact is Bayern treated us like minor league opposition and didn't bother to apply themselves at all. They still bossed the game and still walked off with the result they needed. They were so poor tonight they cut it close and frightened their fans but they were still streets ahead of us in terms of passing and controlling the midfield. That's shocking. A half decent side would have grabbed that extra goal tonight. But it was beyond us. It was such an awful performance Gervinho looked our best player when he came on and we all know how shit he is.

I don't think Wilshere would ave made a difference. We were just a weak and hopeless bunch of losers going through the formality of another exit from another cup competition. Bundling a couple of goals in again a disinterested opponent will be seized as dramatic proof of a revival I suppose, but who is really fooled after 8 years of this shit?

Bollocks is the word that sums it up best. We don't have any and that's how we play.