Probably by the same characters who are tipping yaya sanogo to be a flop.Originally Posted by Alpha
You cant be a good player if youre french ive learnt on here, its an interesting theory.
Probably by the same characters who are tipping yaya sanogo to be a flop.
You cant be a good player if youre french ive learnt on here, its an interesting theory.
Good to see some team spirit. Despite all the negativity about where we've fallen and the chants of "smalltime" from bitter rival fans about us celebrating this, it's quite nice to see the players in good spirits. Give them their moment and enjoy this - what we've managed to achieve over the last 14 or so games has been nothing short of remarkable. That alone is worth celebrating; if only we begun the season like that.
Wenger isn't the perfect manger and has many flaws which have already been delved into extensively but we've always ended up finishing at the very least where we should have with the quality of players we've had available. I mean out of clubs ahead of us, two are artificially there purely because of ridiculous levels of investment from billionaires and the other because they have had one of the greatest mangers in the history of football.
True about Wenger. His prudence and percentages approach to the game delivers at least the bare minimum over 38 matches. Problem is the football, it's so bad it's almost unwatchable. We got spoiled on great football and now it's hard to stomach what is being dished up. The shareholders have had amazing and unparalleled success. The fans have had almost nothing. It's that imbalance that grates. Celebrating 4th would be extremely small time and humiliating, I doubt they are doing that. It's the end of the season, they have CL football next season which means more money and more exposure. It's good for the players. The fans get to beat out a bitter rival, narrowly. So everyone has something to celebrate for different reasons.
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Wenger is without a doubt a legend of the highest order; no less for ensuring that an entire generation of adult scum fans don't know what it's like to see their shower of shit finish above us.
It's a remarkable feat, tbh.
Wenger.
Guardian Match Report
5.27pm: Meanwhile in the stands, there can be few sights more comical than the crushed looks of disappointment on the faces of the many Spurs fans who have just realised that, contrary to false reports, Newcastle haven't in fact equalised.....Michael Dawson speaks: "Devastating ... the season we've put in. The work-rate we've put in, the quality we have ... it's devastating. It's really hard to take. We've got 72 points, the highest total the club's ever got and we still miss out on the Champions League ... it's hard to take. It's a hard day. It's not a good day."
He goes on to say that he heard Spurs fans celebrating and assumed Newcastle had done his side a favour, so when Gareth Bale scored he presumed Spurs had secured fourth place. When word filtered down from the stands that reports of Arsenal's demise had been greatly exaggerated, he was and remains totally gutted.
When Bale scored
When Bale scored
This must be the best St. Totteringham's Day ever.
The fuckwits really did think they had usurped us at long last.
Retarded scum ****s couldn't even get accurate on demand info in the days of all manner of hi-tech gizmo.
The celebrations are a bitand a sad indictment on the game, but good for them I say, it's been a very close race with Spurs with both sides hardly dropping points at the end, so if they want to let off some steam there's no problem with that.
It's true you wouldn't catch the sides above us celebrating like this but that's because they are already groups of winners. Until we actually achieve something tangible this is what's going to be viewed as success because the manager declares it so.
True, that none of the other teams above us would celebrate like that but any of the clubs below us certainly would have.The celebrations are a bit
It's true you wouldn't catch the sides above us celebrating like this but that's because they are already groups of winners. Until we actually achieve something tangible this is what's going to be viewed as success because the manager declares it so.
I know I shouldn't be wasting my time on that cesspit but I was reading through RAWK and they were spouting their usual bitter BS about us being smalltime for celebrating this - that place would have exploded with joy had they pipped their local rivals, Everton for a CL place on the final day of the season after being so far behind. Especially after how dire they've been this season despite spending another bucketload of money. That I can assure you of.
Fact is that we were never ever going to challenge for the league. It would have been debatable enough if we'd kept RVP and Song but it was pretty much a non starter once those two left. Until we start properly investing in the team and we have a squad with sufficient quality, mentality and temperament to challenge for the league, fourth will be best we can hope for and an achievement for this club. Man Utd will always be there and Chelsea and City with their resources at their disposal will always be there.
In any case I don't think it's that sad. Sure it's an indictment of how far we've fallen but as I've alluded to most of on here were already aware of that. Winning the league is not the only thing in football you can celebrate though, there are other prizes for teams not at that level (like us) e.g. Surviving relegation, getting record points hauls, qualifying for prestigious tournaments etc etc. I do agree it would have been pathetic and unnecessary had we've been seriously realistic about challenging for the league and had failed miserably to eventually limp into to fourth, like we did a couple of seasons ago but for most of the season even qualifying for the CL looked like a complete dream.
They may not be the most talented group of players we've ever had but the majority of the team that have seen us through this "title winning" run the past 14 or so games have worked their asses of (apart from those shockers against Spurs and Bayern) during that period and given their all (no matter how limited that may be) to see us home. They deserve credit for that and the opportunity to celebrate it - there's no need for everyone to act so robotically about this. They're humans and they've just pulled of a miraculous feat. Of course they're giddy about it.
I thought Newcastle were crap and we weren't much better but we looked pretty solid. Well done to the team and Wenger.
Kos was immense and I though the Ox did well considering the circumstances.
I'm surprised at the reactions at some of you for the players and fans celebrating 4th tbh. I was jumping around when we won! We finished above Spurs - surely that's cause for celebration? I really don't know what you lot expect of Arsenal, 4th is our level. Do you expect us to finish above Manure, Chelsea and City? If you do then you're in for a lifetime of disappointment. Yes, we should have won a couple of cups of the past 8 years but league position wise I don't think we have under achieved.
Any way, onwards and upwards. Here's to yet another hugely frustrating summer transfer window. At least this year we should keep all of our players that we want to keep - because they're a bit shit and no others want them.
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