WTF is Kos doing??!!??Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico
A clearer image of the above:
lol at Kos' briefs. Looks like his mum knitted them for him for Christmas.
WTF is Kos doing??!!??A clearer image of the above:
lol at Kos' briefs. Looks like his mum knitted them for him for Christmas.
Gilberto is training with the first team
BFG now giving lifts to kids.
Can't imagine ho we get so many ankle injuries...
BFG now giving lifts to kids.
Society is now one polished horde
Formed by two mighty tribes, the bores and the bored.
"After all, it was the Gunners’ goalkeeper who started the move that culminated in Thomas’ crowning glory. It was Lukic who, in injury time, decided to throw the ball out to Lee Dixon rather than lump it long..."
Somebody really should have given Walcott an Oxygen mask....the altitude.
BFG now giving lifts to kids.
Just as an aside. Who else believes that Clattenburg is a louse. Twice now he has been accused of loose talk to players. the first time it was Mikel of Chelsea now Lallana of Southampton. Why always him?
Last edited by Globalgunner; 04-01-2014 at 07:42 AM.
Personally I quite like Clattenburg. He's had some shit moments in the past, like most refs, but on the whole he's been quite fair and resonable to us especially compared to some of his colleagues. I have him down as one of the better refs in the league. I don't get the same horrible worrying feeling in my stomach whenever he's reffing one of our matches that I do whenever an oaf like Mike Dean, Lee Mason, Anthony Taylor i.e. the real terrible refs in the league.
As for this incident, what a completely ridicolous thing for Southampton and Lallana to get upset by let alone going as far as to take the drastic action of actually making a formal complaint to the FA. Is he really that petty and sensitive? It's like Jack's finger against City, footballers have no problem abusing the ref, intimadating him for 90 mins but god forbid the ref decides to cheekily respond back ....... that's heresy!
Edit - Just incase anyone is unawares, what's he's alleged to have said to Lallana according to the BBC is:
""you’re very different now you have played for England, you never used to be like this."
Last edited by The Emirates Gallactico; 04-01-2014 at 10:38 AM.
Lallana
Still crying after 17 years
NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.
Here's a good piece on the winger / wideman debate. I think it's quite concise in making a case for us having one more traditional winger and one unorthodox wide midfielder.
From the tactics column
Wide players
The unfortunate injury to Theo Walcott – arguably the one player that gives “depth” to Arsenal’s team – means Arsenal might revert back to a “wingerless” system, although the returns of Lukas Podolski and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain can soften the blow of the loss. It’s an interesting system Arsenal used without Walcott earlier this season. Normally, you think of selecting players by their positions on the pitch – one striker, two wingers, an attacking midfield etc. With Arsenal, it’s about how they can manipulate space better. Usually that means playing a creative midfield on one flank, to allow Arsenal to keep the ball better, and one winger on the other side who stretches play.
Arsenal know as well, that they’ll often face teams that defend with two holding midfielders so what they’ll do is ask one of the wide players, or both as it has been at various points this season, to come off the flanks and create an overload in the middle. That creates space, of course, for the full-backs to push forward, but it also gives space to that wide player – who initially might have been suffocated on the flanks – in the hole in between the opposing full-back and just to the side of one of the two holders in a 4-2-3-1. That’s what Arsenal frequently try to do; get into that space (sometimes called the half-space or the quarter-space) because they know it is hard to cover. Why? Because the opposing winger will never track that far, while the full-back knows that if he tucks in too narrow, it distorts the shape of the team. The onus then, is on one of the holders to squeeze the space but of course, by trying to engage one of those creative wingers of Arsenal’s, say Santi Cazorla, he runs the risk of leaving the middle open.
It’s hard to explain but it’s an opportunity area for Arsenal to exploit, a gap where good players often take advantage of (think about it as the hole in the Death Star; imperceptible at first but a weakness nevertheless). One team who frequently expose this space is Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich who instead of asking the creative wingers to narrow, they move wider and open that space for the full-backs or another midfield to run into and occupy. With Arsenal’s attacking game all about dragging opponents about, watch closely and see how many goals they create this way. Lukas Podolski is particularly adept at this, drifting inside and playing one-twos before bursting behind the marker to play a cut-back or get onto one himself.
Ox finally back in first team training!!!
Probably another couple of weeks before he's ready though. Just remember to go easy on him once he returns. We've seen from Ramsey how difficult it can be to return to the same level from a long term injury.
arseblog thinks he may be on bench for Villa mate
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