Match Day Thread Arsenal v Saints Friday 21st April 8pm

Hmm. With a lack of technically gifted players it’s going to be a struggle going up against such a well drilled team.
I reckon the arsenal will just have to hope they can keep us at bay and maybe nick a late one through one of their young prospects.
Hopefully we score one early and kill the dream for them.

 

He's first name on the combined 'utter w@nk' team.

 

Mo El, Lyanco etc?...

 

In the pre match press conference Selles has said ‘I will not play four strikers’.

It would be nice if you played one though mate.

He’s not Jones by any means, but the more he talks, the more I go off of him. He just sounds like the personification of the empty, blunt, fluffy style of play that the ‘playbook’ seems to promote.

 

But the performances have been good, we just haven't picked up points...

 

I read him described as "Jones in a turtle neck" I don't think they're far wrong you know.

At least its another game gloser to the end

 

It’s unfathomable to me that anyone involved with the club could be happy with any of our recent performances. We’ve been nothing short of pathetic. Hopefully he’s just trying to protect the squad and is unhappy in private.

 

Sutton says 2 - 0 Arsenal, his Oppo says 3 - 1 Arsenal.

 

What do they know. Top club bias. Obviously they havent seen that we have Walcott & Mara up front.

 

All we need to do is concede 2 early goals, (which shouldn't be hard for us).

Then the fightback begins.

Make a couple of subs, show some grit and put a string of passes together and we do it, we get over the halfway line.

COYR

 

Should we perhaps go down to 10-men as well? Might give us a fighting chance.

 

Any player who’s played for both sides to score the 90th min winner.

 

We have players up front!?

 

Where is Cuco Martina when you need him.

 

Fish and chip day ……oh yeah, matchday to.

 

3 points day

 

I think it's more a less a given that this game on our current form is a formality win for us but I do harbour a soft spot for Arsenal and, as I would prefer them to win the league than City and also bearing in mind that may depend on goal difference, I do urge our rampant forwards, just on this one occasion, to limit the number of goals they score. Tall Theo hat trick coming in!

 

Match day. We’ll ****ing smash ‘em.

 

I’m going today. Feels end of era esque for me - The Emirates was the first Premier League away trip I did (who could forget that glorious 6-1 and thinking we’re going straight back down!) and is going to end up being my last until who knows when.

Will try and enjoy it for what it is and remind myself it’s been a pretty decent last 11 years for the most part.

 

Snooker at the crucible sounds good.

My first sports event I ever went to was the 1988 crucible. Terry Griffiths, Tony Meo, Jimmy White. I saw some legends in the flesh at 10 years of age. Loved it great memories.

As for the gunners games this evening think Dennis Taylor v Steve Davis and who won that 1985 final. The underdog .