I'd just like to warn any Spurs fans considering going over to the Arsenal board to avoid doing so tonight, in the interests of health and safety. You could easily get hurt or killed. Drowning in tears is a real possibility, as is the chance of being caught in the crossfire as they all take potshots at each other, the team, the manager and the board. Thank you for your time and tread carefully. The Mods.
A point gained on the Goons gets us one step closer to getting CL football. Losing points to United and Chelsea would all pale into insignificance if City lose tomorrow.
Wenger still can't say that they were just beaten by a better team on the day.Laughable and quite sad really. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on his side's defeat by Swansea: "I still don't understand where the referee found the penalty [for Swansea's equaliser], then we defensively made some mistakes that we should not have done. When it was back at 2-2 we knew we could score a third but it was important not to make a mistake. But in the last games we have made mistakes that are difficult to explain. It is unbelievable, it happened at Fulham the same and again today.
[/QUOTE]Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on his side's defeat by Swansea: "I still don't understand where the referee found the penalty [for Swansea's equaliser], then we defensively made some mistakes that we should not have done. When it was back at 2-2 we knew we could score a third but it was important not to make a mistake. But in the last games we have made mistakes that are difficult to explain. It is unbelievable, it happened at Fulham the same and again today."[/QUOTE] He's probably the only man alive still seeking an explanation...
From SamirNasriIsA.. We have the worst defensive arrangement in the league. Not strickly true....worst away for goals conceded though...only a tad worse than Blackburn or Wigan
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on his side's defeat by Swansea: "I still don't understand where the referee found the penalty [for Swansea's equaliser], then we defensively made some mistakes that we should not have done. When it was back at 2-2 we knew we could score a third but it was important not to make a mistake. But in the last games we have made mistakes that are difficult to explain. It is unbelievable, it happened at Fulham the same and again today."[/QUOTE] He's probably the only man alive still seeking an explanation...[/QUOTE] Very true. There's none so blind, etc.....
Just popped my head over the "library" wall- its ugly and messy. Consensus is that the board the players and Whinger should go! Well that just leaves us the pride of north London-COYS May the blood letting continue.
If good old Bill McLaren, the rugby commentator, was still alive it would go something like, "they'll be turning in their graves on Plumstead Common tonight!"
Arsenal's problem is quite simple only a stubborn and clearly doolally Frenchman could miss it: As with Barca, Arsenal's style of play is based on retaining the ball from the opposition as a means of offence being the best defence - but Barca have Busquets in midfield should the ball be recovered by the opposition, whilst Arsenal don't have anyone who performs in this role. Their other problem is that Fabregas was integral to their system, but he was allowed to leave without being adequately replaced (mainly as the replacement, Nasri, buggered off to Man City several weeks in advance of Fabregas' departure), and they're trying to compensate with Arteta as a short-term fix, because Wenger didn't push the boat out and bring in Eden Hazard as a long-term solution for that area. Yet somehow it's Ramsey that's the target for the blame, even though he's doing a better job than he's given credit for given the circumstances and, unlike Walcott or Arshavin, pulling his weight.
It has to be said that, if most other managers in the top half had a keeper that made as many game-costing errors as Almunia, they would've sorted it before the start of the following season. Instead, Almunia remained first-choice for three seasons, and it's no coincidence that's where they started to fall away from Man Utd and Chelsea. When it was obvious Gomes' form went off a cliff, we brought in Friedel - and it's obvious De Gea's days are numbered for the same reason. Something else that's gone wrong is the fact Wenger preaches his vision of developing a team from academy onward, but in reality is buying players hoping to fit them into his system - Arshavin is the obvious example, as are bringing in Silvestre or re-signing Henry or Campbell, or tempting Lehmann out of retirement. Some players can slot into the system straight away, like Nasri or Vermaelen, but others - most notably every striker who has failed to ease the reliance on Van Persie, or Squilacci (who even Wenger has accepted isn't the solution to anything but the opposition not scoring) - don't. A system works as the players operate to their roles within it, and that isn't happening across the pitch at Arsenal - just as it didn't for us in the latter days of Ramos.
I think it's more than that with Barca. If they somehow lose possession, they hunt the other team down as a pack until they regain the ball. They work even harder without the ball, than with it. The goons, on the other hand, are just a shambles once the opposition has the ball.
Yet they send a decent, if a little impetuous ball winner in Frimpong out on loan! He was a pain on saturday with some of his tackles, (that was to be expected against us), but on the whole did well enough...better than what they had Sunday anyway. Point being, odd managerial decision...hope he stays for years!
Especially confusing when you remember that Song's capable of playing at the back and they're having a defensive injury crisis, Notso. Bizarre timing.
Yeah. I remember watching him play for the Goons. He seems to have a bit of a self discipline problem. I will be be kind and call some of his tackling over exuberant!
