Will we bottle the Fa Cup ?

[GP]

I signed Ozil and so did my wife.

[AFC Leveller]

Really? How old are you? Maybe I'm getting old but I've just had a few mates take the piss a bit, I'd have done the same to them, and that's that.
All fairly good natured, that's how it goes. It's not going to ruin my next week.

29.

I work with about 400 people and everyone knows il a Gooner so imagine bumping into anyone and everyone a day after we lose 6-0? not nice i can tell you.

[IBK]

Because we've made progress this year and if we win a trophy too that will be something worth building on.

Last year we were struggling most of the season and only just snuck into the top 4 on the last day.
This year after 29 games we were 4 points off the top with a game in hand. Yes yes, the thumping was embarrassing but we're still 9 points off better than at this stage last year and we've got a lot of good wins this year in games we were drawing or losing last year. We've negotiated 3 tricky Cup ties (all at home, admittedly, but still 3 of the top 6 teams and one who are genuine title contenders) to get us to the FA Cup semi final. We've had this big mental block in big games over the last few years which has contributed to us not winning trophies. If we go and do it this year - and with the teams left then we really should - then that's something we can build on. The players will no longer be playing for a side who haven't won a trophy in 9 years. We're a top striker away from being a side who can genuinely challenge. We don't need to rip everything up and start again.

Any 'progress' we have made has not changed the frailty of this team. Those skeptical about our credentials remain so - as much as they have done for any of the past 5 years.

[Letters]

Any 'progress' we have made has not changed the frailty of this team. Those skeptical about our credentials remain so - as much as they have done for any of the past 5 years.

If we win the Cup then some of that skepticism about our ability to finish the job will have been answered. If we don't then...

[Xhaka Can’t]

If we win the Cup then some of that skepticism about our ability to finish the job will have been answered. If we don't then...

[Injury Time]

got tickets for Wembley

I was at Highbury when Wigan dumped us out of the cup...we're fucked

[Özim]

Regarding our progress, it's difficult to gauge, on the one hand we were up there for much of the season, on the flips side we've received some real thrashings and it has to be said we were woeful last season so improving on that wasn't hard. Our defence has certainly been better although having been beaten convincingly and fallen to pieces a few times there's still some questions that need to be answered there, our attack on the other hand hasn't been as good, it's been 4 months since we played well but there's a few games where we've played some good football when we've played counter attacking football

If we end up 4th is that really progress, I'm not sure. Winning the cup would be fantastic and certainly an achievement for us, but due to circumstances we wouldn't have had to play those crunch games (I know we played Liverpool but that's not usually the stage we struggle it's usually when we get closer to winning something). and thus it still wouldn't necessarily answer the questions about our ability to win games against the top sides when it matters, if anything we've so far proved we can't.

Had we put up respectable shows in the big games and won the cup it would have been a decent enough season, the embarrassing results raise some real questions for me though, how can a side who are supposedly challenging get battered in the way we have as many times as we have.

We had a pressure situation in December when we had a chance to go well clear and we stumbled badly, we then had this run in February and March which was going to define our season and it's not been great to be honest, again we've collapsed somewhat.

I'm just not convinced the manager can do it anymore, I was shocked to see him do nothing when Liverpool were 2-0 up at Anfield and we were being taking apart, he sat there out of ideas and didn't even try to change things, I just can't understand this, it's his job to manage and adapt to the different situations and he clearly doesn't.

Can we develop anymore under Wenger? IMO no, a few years back we were in a similar situation and collapsed and we just haven't really progressed from there, we went backwards and have now gone full circle and still have the same problems we've always had. In addition I just don't trust him in the transfer market, whilst he does find good players, rarely are they in the positions we need and he time and time again fails do the necessary. The Ozil signing was a fantastic signing, however being critical he wasn't a player we needed (though I'm happy we got him) and some might disagree but in my mind the signing was in no small part due to the pressure the fans put on the club, it reminded me of the panic buying after the 8-2 defeat a few years back, albeit that it differed in the sense we signed one top quality player rather than 5-6 good players.

I think he's had his chance now and I just don't believe in him and IMO neither do the players judging from their performances in the big games recently.

[LDG]

I signed Ozil and so did my wife.

Shut up big nose.

[Niall_Quinn]

Regarding our progress, it's difficult to gauge, on the one hand we were up there for much of the season, on the flips side we've received some real thrashings and it has to be said we were woeful last season so improving on that wasn't hard. Our defence has certainly been better although having been beaten convincingly and fallen to pieces a few times there's still some questions that need to be answered there, our attack on the other hand hasn't been as good, it's been 4 months since we played well but there's a few games where we've played some good football when we've played counter attacking football

If we end up 4th is that really progress, I'm not sure. Winning the cup would be fantastic and certainly an achievement for us, but due to circumstances we wouldn't have had to play those crunch games (I know we played Liverpool but that's not usually the stage we struggle it's usually when we get closer to winning something). and thus it still wouldn't necessarily answer the questions about our ability to win games against the top sides when it matters, if anything we've so far proved we can't.

Had we put up respectable shows in the big games and won the cup it would have been a decent enough season, the embarrassing results raise some real questions for me though, how can a side who are supposedly challenging get battered in the way we have as many times as we have.

We had a pressure situation in December when we had a chance to go well clear and we stumbled badly, we then had this run in February and March which was going to define our season and it's not been great to be honest, again we've collapsed somewhat.

I'm just not convinced the manager can do it anymore, I was shocked to see him do nothing when Liverpool were 2-0 up at Anfield and we were being taking apart, he sat there out of ideas and didn't even try to change things, I just can't understand this, it's his job to manage and adapt to the different situations and he clearly doesn't.

Can we develop anymore under Wenger? IMO no, a few years back we were in a similar situation and collapsed and we just haven't really progressed from there, we went backwards and have now gone full circle and still have the same problems we've always had. In addition I just don't trust him in the transfer market, whilst he does find good players, rarely are they in the positions we need and he time and time again fails do the necessary. The Ozil signing was a fantastic signing, however being critical he wasn't a player we needed (though I'm happy we got him) and some might disagree but in my mind the signing was in no small part due to the pressure the fans put on the club, it reminded me of the panic buying after the 8-2 defeat a few years back, albeit that it differed in the sense we signed one top quality player rather than 5-6 good players.

I think he's had his chance now and I just don't believe in him and IMO neither do the players judging from their performances in the big games recently.

I prefer this argument than the "incompetent old cunt" argument presented by others. It has the merit of being debatable.

[Letters]

Regarding our progress, it's difficult to gauge, on the one hand we were up there for much of the season, on the flips side we've received some real thrashings and it has to be said we were woeful last season so improving on that wasn't hard. Our defence has certainly been better although having been beaten convincingly and fallen to pieces a few times there's still some questions that need to be answered there, our attack on the other hand hasn't been as good, it's been 4 months since we played well but there's a few games where we've played some good football when we've played counter attacking football

If we end up 4th is that really progress, I'm not sure. Winning the cup would be fantastic and certainly an achievement for us, but due to circumstances we wouldn't have had to play those crunch games (I know we played Liverpool but that's not usually the stage we struggle it's usually when we get closer to winning something). and thus it still wouldn't necessarily answer the questions about our ability to win games against the top sides when it matters, if anything we've so far proved we can't.

Had we put up respectable shows in the big games and won the cup it would have been a decent enough season, the embarrassing results raise some real questions for me though, how can a side who are supposedly challenging get battered in the way we have as many times as we have.

We had a pressure situation in December when we had a chance to go well clear and we stumbled badly, we then had this run in February and March which was going to define our season and it's not been great to be honest, again we've collapsed somewhat.

I'm just not convinced the manager can do it anymore, I was shocked to see him do nothing when Liverpool were 2-0 up at Anfield and we were being taking apart, he sat there out of ideas and didn't even try to change things, I just can't understand this, it's his job to manage and adapt to the different situations and he clearly doesn't.

Can we develop anymore under Wenger? IMO no, a few years back we were in a similar situation and collapsed and we just haven't really progressed from there, we went backwards and have now gone full circle and still have the same problems we've always had. In addition I just don't trust him in the transfer market, whilst he does find good players, rarely are they in the positions we need and he time and time again fails do the necessary. The Ozil signing was a fantastic signing, however being critical he wasn't a player we needed (though I'm happy we got him) and some might disagree but in my mind the signing was in no small part due to the pressure the fans put on the club, it reminded me of the panic buying after the 8-2 defeat a few years back, albeit that it differed in the sense we signed one top quality player rather than 5-6 good players.

I think he's had his chance now and I just don't believe in him and IMO neither do the players judging from their performances in the big games recently.

Who are you and what have you done with Zim?


Don't agree with it all but