Arsenal vs Norwich City: Match Thread.

A key today will be Vermaelen - how does he play coming back into the side, and being paired with Kos?

 

Think we are owed a win against you at home , just a bit if water has gone under the bridge since the last one!

 

You are going to have to explain that one a little more precisely for me. I'm not sure that I can follow your logic.

 

Last time we beat you on your patch was on the first day of the PL back in the 90's a Norwich win is long overdue

 

First day EVER of The Premier League to be precise jarrold. 2-0 down then coming back to win 4-2 with a brace from new boy Mark Robins

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By the looks of things, there were lots of pigeons flying about that day.

 

Bloody awful strip COYG but arguably our best ever side as we finished 3rd behind Manure and Villa. It would be be a minor, no wait major, miracle if a club our size finished in the top three ever again

 

Back OT, don't expect a spectacle this afternoon you Gooners. Hughton has persisted with negative 'try not to lose' tactics for most of the season and has started to divide fans opinions of him. If you get an early goal the floodgates may well open, if not it could be a frustrating durge of an afternoon for you. Hughton's remit has always been to keep us up whatever it takes this year and most of us would agree to a point but it hasn't been pretty to watch. Norwich teams in the past have always played expansive passing football whatever division the've been in so it's been pretty hard to take. Our hope is that if we retain our EPL status for next year, Hughton will then bring in a better quality of player. We've taken a big gamble signing Ricky Van Wolfswinkel from Sporting Lisbon, getting in quick and paying up front before bigger clubs came in for him. Even then the Spudz tried to scupper the deal last minute.com. £8.5M rising to possibly nearer £12M is a fecking lot of money for us, I just hope that he won't be making his debut in the CCC next year

 

We´ll be out to stun you again
But our last win was goodness knows when,
So 3-3 will do
Or maybe 2-2
As drawing we do quite often

With Hughton we are hard to beat
For whoever it be we meet,
But now to find holes
For scoring some goals
Has become something of a feat

But Rome wasn´t built in a day
And we´re managing to stay away,
From the bottom three
Quite successfully
Despite our ´one pointer´ array

Though this one you should clearly win
But so too at Carrow Road Inn,
Such is this game
Of fortune and fame
You never know just who will grin.

 

Thats beautiful man

 

Ah, I see.

Well, I don't think you are the only team that thinks they are due a win against us at Emirates. Not sure that is any real indication of what the result will be though.

 

I'm sure it won't ! we will look for points next week

 

I was at the game.The match ball was delivered by the Red Devils and one of them missed the stadium completely
It was also the first day of the horrendous North Bank mural
It was also the first day of the back pass rule.

 

Arsenal team to face Norwich:

ARSENAL XI. Fabianski, Sagna, Vermaelen, Koscielny, Gibbs, Arteta, Wilshere, Ramsey, Cazorla, Gervinho, Giroud.

Subs: Mannone, Jenkinson, Monreal, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Walcott, Podolski

 

For the 2nd game running Szczesny does not even make the branch.. This is a bit strange.

 

Probably injured then. I see no other logical reason Mannone would be on the bench.

 

I hope Pod gets some game time today or he might start to get the jitters.

 

Pleased with that line up. strong bench too.

 

No, he played in the reserves the other day when he wasn't included then, so i'm guessing he's fallen out with Arsene.

 

Rumours swirling that Poldi will have knee surgery in June. He hasn't been at his best for us recently tbf.