True but you have to be a member for that. Plus, to have been eligible to get tickets for this game you had to be a member before the group stage draw was made. So obviously Cologne fans could not have bought bogus Red memberships.Originally Posted by Letters
My guess is that the game was on friends and family sale which meant paper tickets that could easily have been coined in by our fans.
I think a lot of the messages of panic came from people pooing themselvesMedia sensationalism.
Real story is somebody sold a whole bunch of home tickets to away supporters. A lot. So a ton of Germans ended up in the home sections, which is pretty lucky for the club because when you looked at the home sections in general there were many. many empty seats. Seems that Arsenal fans stayed away in droves last night.
Meanwhile, two Jerries kicked over some railings, about 4 sour Krauts hit stewards with their handbags and a few pissed in the street. Otherwise, considering there was 20 thousand of them, there was nothing much untoward beyond extremely noisy and enthusiastic support.
Daily Mail has "Anarchy at Arsenal" sprawled across the back page
No anarchy, in fact considering so many away fans got into the home sections, somebody, somewhere behind the scenes did a good job of getting the game kicked off. Must have been an older, less hysterical figure who detected the fact we were dealing with a ton of loud Germans looking to take over the place - been there, seen it, dealt with it before. The Emirates Expects!
Even the violent Cologne fans were only smacking each other about, and even then probably for a laugh.
I'd rather some of them had behaved a bit better. Or at least a German shepherd had sunk it's teeth into those who were a bit naughty.
But yeah I have to agree....seems like a mountain being made out of a mole hill. Five or six arrests from 20,000?. Not a lot really.
But then I suppose it's alien for us to come across supporters who are actually passionate and haven't been priced out
They love their football in Cologne, even though Helmut Kohl was chancellor last time they were in Europe.
I hope the actual dick heads got a good hiding but as for the rest.....fair play to them.
That would have been ironic
Ospina played his 50th game for Arsenal last night. If I was so minded, I could pick out a plethora of occasions during those 50 games where he fucked up.
But the option is clear for you, if you don't think it's worth debating. Feel free not to.
Far too much atmosphere for the Emirates faithful. All they wanted was to eat their caviar and browse on their iPads in peace.
Uefa charging Arsenal for blocking stairways in the away section? Wtf?
Knock yourself out. Pull up the last time he's played more than handful of games and had a real run in the team? Say 10 games or so back to back and see what you find. It's hard to judge form off a handful of performances or one off cup games.
Times like this where I think you are being argumentative for the sake of it.
From February to May 2015 he was essentially our no1 and made a multitude of fuck ups. Was responsible for both goals when Harry Kane scored twice and Spurs won 2-1. Constant terrible distribution gave Spurs posession and put us back under pressure without a respite.
Managed to get lobbed by Gareth McAuley West Broms goal in the final game of that season
Let the ball squirm in from Bafetembi Gomis when we were beaten by Swansea
Was incredibly lucky not to give away a penalty or get sent off when he cleaned out Oscar in the 0-0 draw against Chelsea
Over committed himself and was beaten too easily for Monacos third goal at the Emirates
And that's just off the top of my head.
But of course it's just lack of games that makes the guy a complete clown
I wouldn't mind if it was just the odd mishap here and there, but every game when he plays he manages to fuck up, that can't be all be put down to ring rustiness. I love how people go on about how well he played in Paris last season.
Really???
He produced a lot of saves but a great number of those goal scoring situations had been presented to PSG by him. There was one time he manages to throw the ball out directly to Cavani.
Like NQ said he's a good shot stopper (and even that is questionable some time) but is shit at everything else.
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They scored a quality goal which I think was a bit of a fluke after watching the striker attempt other things like crossing etc later in the game.
We scored 2 good goals. Walcott enjoyed being offside and fumbling around but least he seemed to make effort. Anyway its our first win on the way to Europa league glory. This is our best chance of the Champions League return we all crave.
Just challenging you to do some research and think about it.
From January 2015 to May 2015 Ospina had a run in the team.
He played 18 league games.
Lost 2 games (Spurs 2-1) and (Swansea 0-1),
Drew 3 games (Utd 1-1, Chelsea 0-0, Sunderland 0-0)
Won the rest and picked up 8 clean sheets in the process. Clean sheets against difficult teams like Stoke, City, Everton, West Ham and Chelsea.
With our record and the sort of horror shows we've seen, that's not bad for a 2nd string keeper. It's not as if Cech hasn't conceded a shit load of goals and been caught out on many occasions.
As said, when he was given a long run of games, he was ok for a 2nd stringer. It's rare to see a 2nd string keeper play a blinder after long periods on the bench. Unless he's playing us of course.
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