Quote Originally Posted by Ach View Post
Probably right. I was an Arsenal fan then but i was Ollies/WMUGs age around 10 or 11 so dont remember much bar the trophies we won. It was from the season after to 2010 where i watched football religiously and wouldnt miss an Arsenal game for the world but the 2 games ive been to this season have been awful to watch. Won 1-0 and drew 0-0 in the other. You want your moneys worth when you go to games and i havent had it
Well I agree it's not been great this year but it's got better of late. OK, the Marseille game was a bit of a damp squib but I thought we were pretty good against Stoke, looked a bit more like Arsenal again. The summer was a disaster and the early season results compounded it and after the Utd game we were on the floor. We've slowly picked ourselves up again though and while we're not a great side this year there are a few signs now that we're not quite as bad as our early season form indicated and we could do OK. I doubt we'll win any trophies but with billionaires throwing money around they're not as easy to come by as they used to be.

In 92/93 our league run from November on was:

LLLLDDLDWLLWDLDWWDLWLDDDLWL

That's P27 W6 D9 L12. 27 points from 27 games. We finished with 56 points - Crystal Palace went down that year and they got 49. We scored 18 goals in those 27 games. In 16 of them we didn't score at all. In brief, we were a pretty shit, boring side back then but we did have a bit of fight in us and the ability to raise it for the big games.

We won two trophies and there are moments which I did 'thoroughly enjoy' in that season (The Spurs semi-final - revenge for '91 - and of course the two (well, 3 with the replay) Cup Finals). But even those were boring games of football in which we ground out results, it all seemed great at the time because I was at them all and more into football than I am now. But those games could easily have gone the other way and all we'd have to remember that season by is the boring football and the fact that it was the year I genuinely thought we might go down. There were a few exciting results but over the course of a 9 month season it wasn't great. Fine if you only care about the end result but if you follow them on the journey you want a bit more than that.

Anyway, things could be better right now but there are a few signs of hope so let's hope for a good win on Saturday and keep the run going.