Congratulations, you deserved the cup. You showed resolve this season by not selling your best players and invested net in your team. A lesson my foolhardy chairman could learn from. You have been fairly rewarded but I still think you will be miles behind the Viagra clubs and most probably always be, even with dodgy Fair Play Rules. We will never be at the races under our insipid frugal regime. Off course I wanted Hull but I never believed it could happen even after the second goal. Once again well done, A envious but not bitter Sid
Thanks for the congrats and Fair play mate. Takes some doing for a Spurs supporter to come on here and say that
Actually it was the 'Big Match'. They bemoaned the fact that Arsenal didn't have a club song and ran a competition to write one to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory. The trouble was that the tune was in copyright and they got told not to use it. So they wrote their own words to the tune of Rule Britannia. Amazing that such crap caught on really.......
By the way, I was at the match (with an Arsenal supporting relative) and it was a good watch. The ref was pretty poor. Gave too many things that didn't happen (eg the free kick and corner you scored from) but also missed a lot of stuff. On the football played Arsenal deserved it (at least after the first 20 mins) but it was quite a lottery given the refs performance. I rarely criticise refs for missing things but they shouldn't make things up that didn't happen.
You forgot to mention FOUR clear cut penalties - two fouls on Cazorla, one on Giroud and the handball by a Hull player.
We were down that end: Even the Arsenal supporter that was with me only thought two of them were penalties: the handball was clearly unintentional and the foul on Giroud followed Giroud fouling Huddlestone. The other could have been given but neither were clear cut: the Hull player got a touch on the ball before the players collided on the first one and both players were going for the ball on the second one. Ramsey's goal was excellent and desired to win it. I'd have given Giroud the Man of the Match award though. He worked very hard.
Watching on TV you get the benefit of replays: handball may not have been intentional, but it wasn't shot at from right next to him and he had his hands out in front of him. That should be a clear penalty. The Cazorla one he touched the ball, without actually moving it, and then completely took out Cazorla. It would have been a free kick if it was outside of the box, so it should have been a penalty. Giroud worked hard, but half the time he failed to control the ball and his flicks rarely came off. Plus he had a one on one with a defender and just shot it straight at him, despite the fact he had time to work himself into a better position.
I certainly remember it was a competition,I agree with you it is a crap song I've just looked on Wiki and that mentions the Big Match but I could have sworn it was a newspaper. My memory must be playing tricks on me
Definitely 'The Big Match': I remember Brian Moore reading the words out on air - he looked pretty embarrassed as he said them.
**** me, I think am just starting to recover from yesterday. Went to watch the game with my mate in a pub just outside Wembley, and what a day it was. Worst possible start, but Santi found the perfect time to score his first free-kick for us and from then on, I was confident, because Hull gave everything they had in that first 20 or so minutes. I can't even describe the feelings but seeing us finally winning a trophy was just amazing. Nine years was way too long for a club of our size to go trophy-less, but we now ended that run and it's a massive hurdle cleared in terms of our progression.
This used to be quite normal. Arsenal won nothing between 1953 and 1970. All the 'big' clubs have had similar droughts. It is only recently that fans have felt entitled to trophies.
How good was Santi's free kick? If ever a moment of genius was needed, it was right at that moment, and he delivered in spectacular fashion.
absolutely correct. ref was shocking. no one has mentioned the fact that he didn't yellow card any Hull players in the first half. Huddlestone should have had 2 yellows for from behind tackles and for fouls in penalty area. if ref wasn't a total **** he would have dished out the yellow cards, made the right decisions on the goals, and we would have had 3 defo penalties. so correct scoreline would have been 5 1 to us, as he wouldn't have given their goal as kick not taken from correct place and Sagna was fouled in build up, and our goal would have been given as goal kick. as he bottled it over the penalties it appears we struggled to get the result, yet if he had given them we would have had a much better looking result
He used to bang them in fairly regularly in La Liga. But here, his free-kicks were pretty ****e, but like I said, he found the perfect time to break that duck.
Just saw this. You blind or what? That free-kick on Cazorla was as clear as it gets. Bruce takes him out. Our corner was not a corner, but the free-kick from where they scored their second goal was taken NINE yards from where the foul took place, so that evens that
