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Wojciech Szczesny's out of Arsenal's opening CL game against Montpellier.
After that clanger on the weekend, I bet he is!
 
The Goons made a good signing with Giroud, so good he was dropped for the team on Saturday,and is rvp's replacement,although they will deny it.
 
I can't see any other way than down for the Goons now.

Let's face it, Harry is going to be appointed Saints new manager at Xmas. They are pretty bad, at the moment. They made Wenger look good, which is good for us because it will mean their octogenarian board gifting him much needed millions (for players) on his needless wages.
 
That referee in the Newcastle game was the worst I've seen since Foy v Chelsea/Spurs. Clueless and a homer doesn't even begin to describe him
 
Do Newcastle have more than their fair share of luck? Seems so to me but I may be unfair as I've now tuned myself to look out for it. Don't mean just the two "goals" ruled out against them yesterday, but also they seem to have a strategy which relies on scoring spectacular goals. Since they keep scoring spectacular goals it seems to be accepted that their strikers can do it all the time. But is it skill or luck? They do seem to have a high proportion of goals that go in spectacularly or at least in about the only place that the goalie can't save it. Of course an element of skill but I'm not so sure. There's always headlines along the lines of 'how come team X aren't as good as they were', when in fact the team in question were never as good as the media made them out to be. I wonder if the Toon's luck will dry up and similar headlines arise?
 
Toon are similar to us, as soon as one or two of their players start making headlines, one of the elite will come along and poach. If Cisse, Ben Arfa, and Cabaye continue in the same vein, one of them will be tapped up by January.
 
Newcastle weren't lucky.

It's not down to luck goal line technology isn't in place.

The only things you can account for are refereeing decisions that went against Newcastle. The free kick that led to the 2nd disallowed goal was never a free kick in a million years. The decision to not play advantage for Ben Arfa when through on goal in a 3v1 attack was borderline criminal.

As bad as the linesman was for Everton the referee was every bit as bad for Newcastle. Newcastle were the better team in the 2nd half and Everton paid for missed chances, a draw was fair.
 
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