......Originally Posted by Noel_Quinn
Show me the money, Jerry.
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Show me the money, Jerry.
So it's not a problem for you that under these managers we can't beat these sides that are mid table sides away from home. When you play at home, you can dictate the tempo of the game more because you have the crowd on your side and the team are playing on familiar territory so it makes a difference for these managers.
Because we have managed to get away with draws on occasion doesn't change that and Koeman has beaten Wenger when playing in home fixtures three times in a row with an aggregate of 8 goals for and 1 against....is that really close?.
We had one shot on target (the goal) before injury time....
Again you take these things too literally, the 4th placed trophy thing is gallows humour......it's a way of people showing their frustration at seeing the same old season in, season out. My attitude has always been expect the worst, hope for the best.....and when we lose three times in a row to the same manager away from home i'm not going to pretend it's a surprise or it's not the same old, same old.
Now if we do win at the Hawthorns, at the Britannia, beat either Everton or United at home.....than i might revise that opinion....but the precedent that's been set doesn't suggest that.
No because we beat nearly all of the fodder lower down the table. Having someone's number, to me, means being able to beat them 9 times out of ten. Maureen I can't dispute because he does have Wenger's number. But given we nearly always turn over those other pubbers at home, the definition doesn't stick. We can all stack up statistics to build an argument but only thankfully we don't play aggregate games in the Prem, so like most, that one is meaningless.
So basically you're quibbling over terms
In Koemans case he definitely does have Wengers number, again just to repeat head to head they have played each other Ten times and Koeman has won five and Wenger once......Ajax, PSV, Southampton and Everton these aren't teams that are on the same level as Arsenal let alone superior to. Mourinho at Chelsea at the very least they have either been equivalent to or better than us.
Regardless of what label you want to put on it, there is a clear problem when it comes to Beating teams managed by the managers I've mentioned away from home and it's happened too often to be a coincidence. I would agree with you, but look at Stoke (managed by Pulis and then Hughes)....Arsenal have played at the Britannia stadium nine times in all competitions since Stoke got promoted we have lost five times, drawn there three times and won only once. Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs, United and City have all come unstuck there in the past but they have all shown that they can win there just as often as they lose.....the same cannot be said of Arsenal.
The manner of the defeat was laughable but very familiar
'WHEN HE HAS A PLAN, WE BACK HIM, WHEN HE DOESN'T......WE KEEP QUIET'
The sun went down last night and came up this morning.
I wonder how the next 24 hours will pan out.
If you don’t send this signature to ten people, you will become a Spurs fan.
There was a report on Sky News about our lack of preparedness for an Asteroid/Meteor collision
I think we are likely to get more than 24 hours notice.
I'll judge it when the sun comes up.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Just when you begin to think at last we are making progress, we revert to the typical sort of defeat we have become accustomed to. Tons of possession , sod all shots on goal and defensive ineptitude. And of course excuses from the Supremo.
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