Match Reaction vs Soton (away)

[Bumble]

As has been said before we aren't going to win every game we play. a point is still a point. we have palace next who seem to keep winning and don't concede many since pukelis took over. If we don't beat Palace then perhaps we can go into melt down on this board. We are still top and City will need to play well to go above us tonight. Still plenty of games to go Chelsea and City aren't going to win every game either.

still think blaming the refs is an excuse, they aren't scoring the goals against us. Or stopping us scoring either.

also what city and the chavs are doing is not cheating. Cheating is breaking the rules, currently they aren't breaking the rules. Once FFP takes hold then we will see what they do.

[Ernesto]

Couldn't sleep last night

F'in Arsenal

[Globalgunner]

We all know that we wont win every game but yesterdays result wasnt because Southampton were that great. WE were that poor. We were never into the game until the 2nd half. Wenger made a selection that wasnt fit for purpose and still refused to change it. They equalised early in the 2nd half and Wenger made no changes until the 70th min.
What is all that about. He makes these errors and keeps repeating them, ad neaseum. Its as if it woould hurt his pride more to win, and admit that he made a mistake than to lose and keep face.
Another 3 years contract, another 3 years of what ifs. The only thing that gives me hope is that I am a fair bit younger than Wenger so odds are I will see another manager at Arsenal before I die. Hubris masked as intrinsic acumen

[Globalgunner]

Couldn't sleep last night

F'in Arsenal

So what if we had lost?

[Ernesto]

So what if we had lost?

Probably pull a sickie

[Ollie the Optimist]

holy fuck, anyone would think we are struggling to get in the top ten reading posts on here. most of those having a complete hissy fit over a draw are the same people who told us all summer that we wouldn't even get top four. this result is a bad one but it doesn't mean we aren't going to win the league or get top four etc, its a setback, we've responded well to set backs so far this season, i back the team to do that again. we've been top of the league pretty much every day since mid september, I'm not sure what more you want. we've knocked spurs out the cup, we are in the 5th round, currently sit top of the league and at worst going into february 1 point off top. who would have predicted that back in july?

[KSE Comedy Club]

As has been said before we aren't going to win every game we play. a point is still a point. we have palace next who seem to keep winning and don't concede many since pukelis took over. If we don't beat Palace then perhaps we can go into melt down on this board. We are still top and City will need to play well to go above us tonight. Still plenty of games to go Chelsea and City aren't going to win every game either.

still think blaming the refs is an excuse, they aren't scoring the goals against us. Or stopping us scoring either.

also what city and the chavs are doing is not cheating. Cheating is breaking the rules, currently they aren't breaking the rules. Once FFP takes hold then we will see what they do.

Of course it's cheating.

They don't buy players with money that they create as a club, they have an unlimited fund from a sugar daddy that they can spunk up the wall every window.

£30m on this player, £25m on that player and a back up for £28m, in pretty much every position. It's horseshit. Normal clubs cannot compete with them in terms of squad depth.

And if you think FFP will do anything then think again. They are already at it now. Citeh's revenue has increased by £40m this season - how?? They had loses of £60m last season and £98m the season before, they were shit in the CL and won fuck all but yet have managed to increase their commercial revenues to a point where they are within FFP rules.....

Bollocks!

PSG are the same, they've managed to increase their commercial revenue from £178m to £341m in 1 year!!
It was obvious what was gonna happen and now it is. The owners of these clubs do silly money deals via other companies they own to sponsor their 'projects'.

Oh and sellassie, the only reason they have strong squads is because they can buy who they want, how many they want for how much they want.

No one else can do that without going bankrupt.

[KSE Comedy Club]

holy fuck, anyone would think we are struggling to get in the top ten reading posts on here. most of those having a complete hissy fit over a draw are the same people who told us all summer that we wouldn't even get top four. this result is a bad one but it doesn't mean we aren't going to win the league or get top four etc, its a setback, we've responded well to set backs so far this season, i back the team to do that again. we've been top of the league pretty much every day since mid september, I'm not sure what more you want. we've knocked spurs out the cup, we are in the 5th round, currently sit top of the league and at worst going into february 1 point off top. who would have predicted that back in july?

I think it's more the way we dropped points last night that has people annoyed Ollie.

No way should we be playing arteta and flamini together, it's against our style and it doesn't work.

No way should poldi be on the bench after scoring 2 goals, and certainly not brought on at 89 fuckin mins!!

Wenger needs to learn to make changes earlier. It's always 70mins before any subs. Again it is a glimpse of the stubborn idiot of old and we're about to give him a new contract worth £24m ????

We didn't play like arsenal last night, it looked like the players just couldn't be arsed and we paid the price, that's not title wining mentality, and if it carries on then we won't be 1 point off the top by the end of the season - be more like 10 points.

[Letters]

That's untrue on tonight's evidence.

Why chose that one game? After 23 games we're top and if City win their game in hand we'll be at worst one point off the top.
If City go top then it'll be because if a run of 12 games where they've won 11, drawn 1. We've done remarkably well to stay top as long as we have.
We're 15 points better off than we were at this stage last season.

We can't blame City and Chelsea for us dropping 2 points but City drew there too, every team drops silly points here and there. We're competing with sides who have infinite resources, it's very difficult. There's been a clear improvement since last season though, last year with a performance as I've heard last night's was we'd have lost. We're going in the right direction, I'm not sure what else you can ask of the manager or club.

[AFC Leveller]

Why chose that one game? After 23 games we're top and if City win their game in hand we'll be at worst one point off the top.
If City go top then it'll be because if a run of 12 games where they've won 11, drawn 1. We've done remarkably well to stay top as long as we have.
We're 15 points better off than we were at this stage last season.

We can't blame City and Chelsea for us dropping 2 points but City drew there too, every team drops silly points here and there. We're competing with sides who have infinite resources, it's very difficult. There's been a clear improvement since last season though, last year with a performance as I've heard last night's was we'd have lost. We're going in the right direction, I'm not sure what else you can ask of the manager or club.

Thats what we are up against and thats why we'll probably not win the league. We cannot win 10+ games on the spin, we dont have the players or goals and when you consider that City have improved their away record and their players seem to be gelling together more and more, its gonna be hard.

Id love a draw tonight but i can honestly see them winning 0-3, they have so much firepower and create umpteen chances per game.

We'll do well to be up there with them this season.