Match reaction v Bayern

[Munchies]

Straight swap ?

[Özim]

Back to your WUM ways. Robben is a technically gifted player but a despicable cheat. He's in the same bracket as Rooney and Suarez in terms of his overwhelming flaws. To praise his performance is like praising a rapist for bringing flowers. Hopefully something bad happens to him, preferably when we next meet him on the pitch and that matter concerning Sagna can be properly addressed.

He was giving us all sorts of problems last night, love him or hate him he's probably the player that has the most influence over what happens in the Bayern team, you can't entirely blame Monreal for not being able to stop him, noone could.

[Özim]

Erm, wait a minute. We DIDN'T get blasted by a superior team. We were the superior team in the first 35 minutes of that match. Having to play more than a half down to 10 is not exactly a standard arrangement. It should have been Bayern down to 10 of course, not us. But the ref wasn't competent or professional enough to apply the rules.

We were great for the 1st half hour I agree and Bayern wobbled, however being down to 10 men was down to our mistake. The fact is they are a better side then us, no shame in it, we were down to 10 men but we had 12% possession in the 2nd half which says a lot.

I never expected us to go through and even if we'd got a narrow win last night (no guarantee we would at all with 11 men) I still would have fancied Bayern to knock us out, simply because at this stage they are the superior outfit, that's why they're European champions.

[Özim]

Well there you are. For an Arsenal fan to favour Rooney over Giroud so you can see that shiny silver despite that dive on match 50 - that say a a lot.
Bendtner and Robben I'll give you - both mercenaries, neither desirable.
And remember the despicable Pires, who dived once and we never heard the last of it? Or the renowned cheat Henry, who handballed it? Yet for the shiny silver we'll applaud the likes of Suarez who cheats in EVERY match.

All for the shiny silver.

Henry handballed it in an International game that knocked Ireland out, it's not really surprising there was upoar.

[Özim]

Robben, Suarez, Rooney or Sanogo, Bendnter, Giroud - Give me despicable cheats with overwhelming flaws any day of the week.

Nevermind Rooney, I favour Sanogo and Podolski over Giroud because the only time Giroud seems to score these days is after midnight.

Giroud is a backup striker, I think anyone with common sense would prefer to see a World class striker come in ahead of him, cheat or not, if we did sign one of these "cheats" as you label them you'd be supporting them anyway, so what you're saying is pretty hollow to be fair.

[Dein-machine]

Well there you are. For an Arsenal fan to favour Rooney over Giroud so you can see that shiny silver despite that dive on match 50 - that say a a lot.
Bendtner and Robben I'll give you - both mercenaries, neither desirable.
And remember the despicable Pires, who dived once and we never heard the last of it? Or the renowned cheat Henry, who handballed it? Yet for the shiny silver we'll applaud the likes of Suarez who cheats in EVERY match.

All for the shiny silver.

Yep - coz at the end of the day thats what its all about. No one remembers a team of choir boys who win fuck all for years.

[JonasTC]

Yep - coz at the end of the day thats what its all about. No one remembers a team of choir boys who win fuck all for years.

How can there be football fans, if only winning trophies counts?

[Dein-machine]

Well there you are. For an Arsenal fan to favour Rooney over Giroud so you can see that shiny silver despite that dive on match 50 - that say a a lot.
Bendtner and Robben I'll give you - both mercenaries, neither desirable.
And remember the despicable Pires, who dived once and we never heard the last of it? Or the renowned cheat Henry, who handballed it? Yet for the shiny silver we'll applaud the likes of Suarez who cheats in EVERY match.

All for the shiny silver.

Also, if you are an Arsenal fan who would prefer Giroud to Rooney after what you have witnessed recently, then you are an Arsenal fan with no ambition - a bit like our manager.

[Dein-machine]

How can there be football fans, if only winning trophies counts?

Because that was what we were promised when our directors & manager ( all shareholders ) wanted to convince us to leave Highbury to a shiny new stadium that would double revenue etc. With this promise in mind we have gone from Henry & DB10 to Sanogo & Giroud in 10 years - and some of you still think we're progressing.

[Özim]

How can there be football fans, if only winning trophies counts?

Different size clubs, different ticket prices, different expectations.

It's all relative to where you are in the game, for a smaller club winning is being in the PL, for larger clubs the goals are different and ultimately success is this goal.