Arsenal don't appear to be laughing at us anymore!

anything to rub the goons noses in it

 

I dunno why they are being sore losers. They weren't contending the title in the first place. Just do the guard of honour you honourless bastards! Then get on with losing to them.

 

Arsenal will do it, as even Wenger isn't that much of a bad loser. Some of their fans will be upset, but you won't be able to hear them anyway, so it doesn't matter.
I wouldn't expect them to be happy about it, but it might wake a few of them up to the repercussions of selling van Persie to their old mates.

 

If Fergie can do it to Chelsea at Old Trafford I'd expect Wenger to do it given he has more class, morals and principles than Fergie.

There will be a few jeers and it could get nasty if United go 1-0 up early but such is life.

 

"Without Ensil's righteous indignation or Holte's stats from the Victorian and Edwardian period, I should add."

Still pining for your soulmates eh, Lukey.
Spookily, someone posted on JA today some stats that would have kept Holte going for days.

 

"I dunno why they are being sore losers. They weren't contending the title in the first place. Just do the guard of honour you honourless bastards! Then get on with losing to them."

If they do it a good 5 mins before FT, they'll be out of Library anyway.
If they're all like their U21s crowd, do it a good 10 mins before.

 

If I were SAF, I'd get the United players to give RvP a guard of honour tribute, which would save the Arsenal players having to do it.

Also, I'm hoping that the Gooners boo so loudly and piss off RvP, so that when he scores his first goal he'll run to the Gooner end and perform an Ade-esque power-slide celebration on his knees.

I think a lot of us would enjoy that.

 

The fans want the team to win at Arsenal and its arguably our hardest fixture remaining out of the 4, never the less that SAF always respect that teams that are fighting for positions in the league and wants to overtake Chelsea record points tally so I don't see any complacency come sunday

 

Beat Chelsea's 95 point record...United have 84 with 4 games left, so only 4 wins will do, one draw to equal it, thats a tall order even for you lot, I still think the lure of sun, sand, beer and no injuries in the last games is more likely, I can only hope I'm wrong.

 

Errrrr?
1 draw won't allow them to equal it

 

I hope you lot are up for the goon's,we done you a favour Sunday,so it's your turn

 

Apologies . . I must have confused you with one of the other village idiots, notso and HIAG. The rubbish you all post kind of blurs into one long stream of rambling bollocks after a while . . .

 

It will stick in the throat seeing him being applauded as a league winner, but in a perverse kind of way I think it will actually be a positive thing that it's happening at Arsenal as it will fire up our players for the game and remind our board what happens when we sell our best players.

 

No offence Piskie, but I don't think that most of your board members give a crap.
As long as you finish in the money positions and the club continues to become more valuable, I don't think that they care what the fans think or whether you win anything.

Selling Fabregas and Henry to Barca might have been difficult to avoid, but Toure, Nasri, Clichy and the kitchen sink to City was a slap in the face and van Persie to Utd was unthinkable.
That Wenger seemed happy to deal with his new friend Fergie is mind boggling.

 

RVP to Utd was a massive kick in the teeth for Arsenal fans. In the end he wanted out, but the club should never have allowed that situation to arise in the first place. It will be interesting to see what happens on sunday though, it could fire up RVP and Utd and that would just make the blood boil even more, but equally it could fire up our own players to prove a point - it's a massive game for us and I think the RVP equation will serve to add more spice to the game.

 

I think RvP will be motivated to score against his old club. If nothing else, he needs to find some kind of form, which has been lacking for long periods, and prove to his new team mates that he is actually worthy of the medal. And it is a noted phenomenon that players tend to play better against their former sides. I am confident that Gooners will be reminded of why it was that their greedy, money-grabbing board should never have sold him.

As for RvP... it must be a very new experience for him to finally win something. This will have reassured him that he made the right move in leaving a ship that, if it isn't yet sinking certainly had felt no wind in its sails for many, many years.

 

As PNP says, what were Arsenal thinking of? Allowing him to go to Utd? I had thought that our club was far too money orientated, but Levy would never have allowed that transfer to take place.

I think you have to ask, why did RVP decide to leave? The answer is even more obvious, in light of his most recent comments, he wanted to win something. He clearly didn't see that happening at Arsenal, for whatever reason. That would worry me if I were a fan.

 

Quite correct, NSS.

Even our own Bale believes in our squad and that it is capable of winning something.

 

This is slightly misleading as arsenal were prepared to let him go to Juventus for 15 million(almost 10 million less than he went to utd for) but his representatives told Juv (and city) that he did not want to go there so they never took it further. He decided that he was only going to go to utd. So if bale was in the last year of his contract and would only go to utd, or keep him for a year and lose him on a free what do you think levy would have done? Now levy might not have gotten into the situation of having his best player run down his contract but that's a different argument.

Had arsenal offered RVP a new contract 18 months before he left most people would have thought we were mad considering his injury record. Also had RVP not stayed injury free for 18 months you can guarantee he would have bit your hand of when he was offered a new contract.

 

It's not a different argument at all, it's intimately related, and impossible to seperate from the main issue.

Arsenal knew how good RVP was even before last season, in his previous two (half) seasons he proved he was a natural goalscorer. In terms of injuries, there was obviously a confidence that he could last the course of a season without injury as Arsenal didn't sign any proper alternatives (Gervinho and Park )