You're slow. Theo Walcott tracks back to help the RB too, I suppose you think he's a defensive midfielder too
Not listening to you and your Chelsea girlfriend I won't. He thinks Ray Parlour and Theo Walcott are defensive midfielders and you think Bruce Rioch signed Thierry Henry. But it will be entertaining watching you both make fools of yourselves
There is no discussion, it's just you and your Chelsea lover making Tits of yourselves. More Popcorn me thinks ....
He has little interest in discussing football, and will go into hiding as usual rather than answer these questions. He thought Parlour was some sort of flying winger until we educated him
This is boring. You two chumps play with each other. I'm off to talk football with people who know what they are talking about.
CFC, it looks as though we've frightened PISKIE away with our big-boy discussion on football. Looks like he's off to play with the small lads, where his deficient grasp of football won't hinder him so much.
Maybe PISKIE can man up and answer this question: why did Arsenal only manage 62, 68, 59, 73, 63 goals in Wenger's first five seasons? He'll probably obfuscate as usual
Because they were enough to win the League title, League & Cup Doubles, and go Unbeaten in a League season. Remind everyone where exactly were Chelsea and Spurs in that period ? No where is the answer. Mid table Chelsea are now a top 4 club after a massive cash injection has bought them some trophies and are a rival to Arsenal in the hunt for trophies. Spurs have won a League Cup in last decade, and pretty much **** all before that as last League title was 1962. They aspire to be as good as us but fail miserably every year. Spurs say we are failures - well what the **** are they !
Chelsea won two FA Cups, a League Cup and a European trophy, something Wenger's never managed, in those seasons. They finished in the top 6 in all five campaigns, too. Really poor example.
But after Harding. No idea why everyone seems to think that the money came in with the Russian. Bates chucked the big wad of cash that Harding invested into the club and plenty more too, sending them close to the wall. That's when Chelsea started to do well. Before that? West Ham without the claret, frankly! Harding always struck me as a fan who wanted the best for his club. Starkly in contrast with Bates horrific comment about him after he'd died: "I don't believe evil should triumph and he was an evil man...This is a much happier ship at Chelsea now he's no longer around" What a ****.
We got in debt twice trying to expand our ground whilst other clubs like City and West Ham are pretty much given big stadiums paid for by the tax payers. So whilst we were in debt pre Roman, it wasn't all on frivolous spending on players like say Leeds and Portsmouth.
Try to stay on topic. No one is disputing what was won, just that Arsenal aren't quite the entertainers you'd have everyone believe. But if dismissing Chelsea as 'boring' or a rich man's play thing helps you get through the fact we're the ones now winning the trophies regularly not you, then go ahead.
I think the bitterness of the average Gooner stems from the knowledge that Arsenal will never be the best club in London (let alone in England). Firstly, there's Chelsea, so far ahead of them; and, secondly, there's Spurs gaining all the time and looking to take over from them.
Soon Arsenal will have the fifth biggest ground in London behind Spurs and Chelsea. They are falling behind... do I sense a power shift?
