you only have to read posts on here to see who are happier when we have lost or in dire straits ,like you have said before f..you, all clubs have them
Why is it a 5pm KO? Same time as the Barca-Atletico title showdown! Well sorry, Steve, I won't be watching wa get wor backsides kicked this time. Come on you Gunners!!
A bit of build up Arsenal ready for Hull test in FA Cup 17 May 2014 Updated 09:26 Arsenal hope to end a nine-year wait for a trophy when they take on Hull in Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley. The Gunners last lifted silverware when they beat Manchester United in the 2005 FA Cup final in Cardiff, while Hull are appearing in their first major final. "We're rank outsiders," said Hull manager Steve Bruce. "Arsenal are clear favourites but for a club like ours to take on the mighty Arsenal has a ring to it which is what the FA Cup is all about." The match kicks-off at Wembley at 17:00 BST in front of almost 90,000 fans, including Football Association president HRH The Duke of Cambridge. (external) Former X-Factor winner Leona Lewis will sing the traditional Cup final hymn 'Abide with me' as well as the national anthem before kick-off. Fans of both teams were allocated 25,000 tickets each, with approximately 20,000 tickets distributed by the FA to volunteers from the counties, leagues, local clubs and charities. Tickets were also awarded to the 92 Premier League and Football League clubs, plus another 134 clubs and all clubs that reached the third round of this season's competition. Arsenal are in their 18th FA Cup final this weekend, matching the record of Manchester United. They will also match United's record of 11 wins if they lift the trophy. The winners will receive £1.8m in prize money, with the runners-up receiving £900,000. They will also be handed a brand new trophy, the third edition of the iconic cup, designed more than a century ago in 1911. The FA is retiring the current cup because of wear and tear after 22 years. Under manager Arsene Wenger the Gunners won the trophy in 1998, 2002,2003 and 2005 - and were beaten finalists in 2001. But since winning the 2005 final the club's fans have had to wait for success, with defeats in the final of the 2006 Champions League and League Cup finals of 2007 and 2011. Wenger said: "The drought may make it a little more difficult but at the end of the day once you walk over the line you just focus on your football. "You don't play with the history, you play with your quality and your desire to play well. "We need to just turn up and play well." Both sides have already secured European football for next season. Arsenal will be in the Champions League after finishing fourth in the Premier League, while Hull will compete in the Europa League for the first time in their history. If Hull win the Cup, they will enter the Europa League group stage, while if Arsenal win the Cup, Hull will enter in the third qualifying round. Last year's final saw an upset as relegated Wigan beat Manchester City, and Bruce hopes for a repeat this year. "It's the mighty Arsenal with all their history, tradition, huge support and a huge club against the smaller club and the attraction is the ability of the smaller club to turn them over," he said. "We have to hope that we can do that and we have every belief that we can. That brings a little bit of the glamour back to the competition along with what Wigan did last year. "Wigan's win said to me that we had a chance. We were never going to win the Premier League, but I asked if we could win six games in the FA Cup. We've won five so far. Can we add the sixth? It would be terrific if we could." Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski says there is increased pressure because they have gone so long without a trophy, but is confident the Gunners will prevail. "It's a big game not only for the manager, for the club, for the fans as well," he said. "When you win nothing for nine years and and you are in the final, the pressure is big. "We are playing against a strong team. They will fight and run and give their all. Of course we are the favourites because we are the better team but it's a final - one game - and it's not easy. "If we play as we did in the last weeks, home and away, we will win this cup." Saturday also sees the Scottish Cup final take place at Celtic Park, where St Johnstone face Dundee United. The football season concludes with the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid on Saturday, 24 May, before the World Cup finals begin in Brazil on 12 June.
He can`t help himself can he? `Bruce will also go down in Humberside folklore if Hull win and he has restored his reputation after a bruising experience as the boss at Sunderland. But he is not sure that he would ever like to have a statue erected outside the KC Stadium. “So the pigeons can s**t on it, yeah,” quipped Bruce. “The Sunderland fans would like that, wouldn’t they
Hull will go out and run themselves into the ground, the heat will destroy them and Arsenal will finish them off. Bruce won't be able to cope with the way Wenger seamlessly changes tactics as the game develops and the game will be over before Hull know what happened. Unless Hull score from a set piece it's hard to see how they'll score and, with 100 cameras on them, they won't be likely to cheat so much. I can see them having a man sent off though, hopefully Meyler. I think Hull will make the mistake of trying to 'play football' instead of playing their normal game. I'd quite like to see Elmohamady having Oxlade-Chamberlain running at him. Hull have conceded nigh on 3 goals a game in their last half dozen, I can see them doubling that against Arsenal.
Even today the fat idiot can't stop obsessing about Sunderland ...... and the Hull posters reckon he isn't What he doesn't 'quip' is that the Newcastle fans would love it after he reckoned he'd never actually supported their club.
Giroud hatrick 20/1 Giroud 1st scorer 4-0 50/1 Ramsey 1st scorer 4-0 80/1 Hull h/t arse f/t 22/1 £4 placed
Fingers crossed for you mate Arsenal have so many potential scorers and Hull so many poor defenders. "Dad please can I play today, PLEASE?"
The reputation of the Hull posters is spreading around the boards Han Shot First "I would say best of luck to Hull, but given that most of their fans have been slinging **** at us for weeks......" http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/261970-Arsenal-vs-Hull-City-FA-Cup-Final-Match-Thread/page6 So much for those who reckon it was Sunderland who started the bad feeling on here ..........
I've read similar opinions on the Mag, Leicester and Southampton boards fella. But watch it, everyone might cry like a bitch.
Not rally bothered, hope for a good sporting effort all round. Might bee a bit hard with the like of Meyler, Elmo et al.
I wouldn't know mate, I was banned off both of them for giving their mods a taste of their own medicine. I can't tell you how upset I am
BTW, Heard Covent garden was crammed last night with Hull fans. http://www.not606.com/showthread.ph...uot-Friday-night-in-Covent-Garden-quot-thread
