Arsenal v Newcastle. League Cup Semi Final 1st Leg. 20:00

[Letters]

This is starting to feel like just before I completely lost interest in football.

Not sure I'll make it to the end of the season tbh.

So you’re a glory hunter?

[The Wengerbabies]

So you’re a glory hunter?

I have more important things to do in my life.

For the nostalgia if we're doing well it's nice, otherwise what's the point in caring.

[Letters]

I have more important things to do in my life.

Like hating black people?
I guess it's all about priorities.

[KSE Comedy Club]

So you’re a glory hunter?

I think the issue is more that, the last two seasons have been exciting to watch, exciting to believe, exciting to be an Arsenal fan.

This season, we have gone back to his first season in charge, and it seems like we are a new project again - that is too much to take after where we have been the last 20 years.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Don't you give health advice or something like that for a living?

Anyway, I think my argument is simple enough for anyone. If we had reliable personnel that their main job is to be clinical, we could have escaped with something today.

Now we are just going to have to listen to Arteta making excuses about teams playing deep, till the next team beats us by having forwards who are clinical.

On the brightside, this is now another trophy Arteta doesn't have to worry about so we can get a rest.

Imagine being beat by the same team/trick twice in less than 4 months....lets wait for the stats again of how we are not doing that badly compared to last season.

Tbf, HCZ cannot stand Arteta and wants him gone. I have edited the quote to reflect what I do agree with however.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I think the issue is more that, the last two seasons have been exciting to watch, exciting to believe, exciting to be an Arsenal fan.

This season, we have gone back to his first season in charge, and it seems like we are a new project again - that is too much to take after where we have been the last 20 years.

I do sometimes wonder if Arsenal fans watch the same game as me.


For the first half of last season especially we absolutely were not exciting to watch at all.


Idiots like 21 Brain cells seem to think by comparing this season with last season I’m defending Arteta when in fact what I’m doing is saying that we remember the 16 wins out of 18, but we don’t remember what absolute dirge we were serving up until the new year.

I don’t think we were that great in the second half of the season truth be told, we just managed to exploit set pieces more and we scored more goals against spastic teams. The only games I remember seeing any free flowing football was the home games against Liverpool and the away game vs Spurs.

So that to that end I don’t think we really have regressed.

[Letters]

I think the issue is more that, the last two seasons have been exciting to watch, exciting to believe, exciting to be an Arsenal fan.

This season, we have gone back to his first season in charge, and it seems like we are a new project again - that is too much to take after where we have been the last 20 years.

I think that's a bit of an overstatement - the bit in bold. But it certainly feels like we haven't pushed on since last season. Although as I've noted before, we're actually in a very similar position to the one we were in this time last year.

[KSE Comedy Club]

I do sometimes wonder if Arsenal fans watch the same game as me.


For the first half of last season especially we absolutely were not exciting to watch at all.


Idiots like 21 Brain cells seem to think by comparing this season with last season I’m defending Arteta when in fact what I’m doing is saying that we remember the 16 wins out of 18, but we don’t remember what absolute dirge we were serving up until the new year.

I don’t think we were that great in the second half of the season truth be told, we just managed to exploit set pieces more and we scored more goals against spastic teams. The only games I remember seeing any free flowing football was the home games against Liverpool and the away game vs Spurs.

So that to that end I don’t think we really have regressed.

Our football in the second half of last season absolutely was free flowing and more attack focused, certainly not set piece focused.

The point is that it has felt like we were building towards being bigger & better and getting back to trophy winning ways - it was exciting.

But this season has been turgid, slow, boring and infuriating. Watching us makes my eyes bleed.

[KSE Comedy Club]

I think that's a bit of an overstatement - the bit in bold. But it certainly feels like we haven't pushed on since last season. Although as I've noted before, we're actually in a very similar position to the one we were in this time last year.

It's really not.

We have gone completely back to sideways and backwards passing with slow paced, predictable and easy to defend against forward attack (I use attack lightly)

That is 100% the football we were playing in Arteta's first season.

[Letters]

It's really not.

We have gone completely back to sideways and backwards passing with slow paced, predictable and easy to defend against forward attack (I use attack lightly)

That is 100% the football we were playing in Arteta's first season.

Oh, I thought you meant in terms of results.
To be fair, I think injuries to some key creative players like Odegaard and Saka have been a factor there. I actually thought we looked better last night, Martinelli was inches away from putting us in front, had he done so it would have been a different game. Fine lines in football. But we do lack a clinical striker, I don't think anyone disputes that. Well...maybe Arteta does! But players like that don't grow on trees at this level, I'm not sure we had the money to get someone last summer.