So William Gallas is out tonight with an ankle injury a great shame because he arguably has been one of our better players, but young Johan Djourou is an able deputy and I’m comfortable that he will play well with Kolo and who knows, maybe it will work out and be next years starting line up, good luck Johan.
It emerged that after the Fulham game Arsene Wenger was so angry he let his team know by saying nothing, well that could be brilliant or it could be stupid and I’m not sure which yet. It’s like when you made an arse of yourself at a dinner party and the next day the wife ignores you, out of disgust, now sometimes you feel so bad, the silence is deafening but sometimes you feel you got away with it and keep your head down.
So I’m not sure which is right for the team, but I know I prefer it when my wife doesn’t talk to me!
Still showing no emotion, shows he has emotion, I’m sure he doesn’t like to see his team booed and I’m sure he is doing his best, you couldn’t fault the team selection, it was spot on, the team owe him a performance and I hope tonight is the night.
I would be feeling far worse if I were a Villa fan today, I know, it happened to us against Villa at Villa park in injury time so Bjork had it coming and hopefully they will begin to wobble now, the perfect time for us to go to the Hawthorns and paralyse them, Hawthorns and Baggies, blimey, sounds like wedgies! At least we have a tough name, the ‘Gunners’ and tonight I back the Arsenal to blow the wedgies away.
Tony Mowbray in his spare time.
If we resist the urge to eat their black pudding, tripe and dripping sandwiches at half time we should win this one, I don’t think we’ll be seeing Homer tonight which is a relief and as a courtesy to you fine Grovers I won’t predict a score, if I was going to I would say 2 nil Arsenal, but I promised I wouldn’t, so I won’t.
I know I say this a lot, but tonight we really, really need all 3 points, a draw is no good so we should take a few chances, it’s too soon to see Theo back but I may use him as an impact sub, I also would rest the full backs and put Eboue and Gibbs in there, I think both are better crossers of the ball and I think their pace and aggression will be perfect for a night out like this, we are in the black country (it really is, so no comments please) and it won’t be easy, so hold your nerve boys and stick with the talent Arsene, they weren’t far away against Fulham, let them loose again, I think it will pay dividends.
Arsenal, you owe us a performance, go out there and repay the fans whilst I apologise to the wife without saying I’m sorry. You can do it, you have to do it, we are all behind you.
Have a great day Grovers, it could be a great day and a brilliant evening.
WBA can fuck off if they think they are getting anything from this game.
The Away Fans are Fucking Awesome
That was nearly squeaky bum time
Some very pooe defending…JD was acrually going for the Offside trap..He should be moving towards GC..Rubbish
wright7
good link, shame about the commentary
I would give Arshavin a rest now. Give him the Ovation
That was a dumb back pass by Ramsey, I know he is young …but why pass back from sofar,I would never do that.
Almunia injured too?
Very poor pass from Ramsey.
Ramsey again. He makes waay too many mistakes for my liking and he is not better than Song or Eboue yet.
Ramsey Ramsey, that was not too clever
Liverpool are Winning
GunnerShabz,
I know mate! I’m just glad I can watch the damn game now! Ha ha
wrighty
its very clear actually….
and its quick streaming
If it wasnt for Eboue and Song i would swear that Sagna is our worst player going forward.
It’s funny … when Almunia makes a good save, the comentators actually think the shot missed, cause they don’t really expect that save from him. Like that one a few minutes ago, and I remember against Roma the guy said “and Almunia was nowhere near that one” .. even after the replays he didn’t want to admit that he was wrong. lol.
It’s funny … when Almunia makes a good save, the comentators actually think the shot missed, cause they don’t really expect that save from him. Like that one a few minutes ago, and I remember against Roma the guy said “and Almunia was nowhere near that one” .. even after the replays he didn’t want to admit that he was wrong. lol.
Arsenal must fuckin spend an entire day training just taking shots on goal.
Gunnershabz,
I wish I found it 78 mins ago! Ha ha
Drogba scored
I don’t care how bad Sgna is going forward, defensively I believe he is the best in the world.
Overall, Maicon and Alves are better cause their attacking skill, but they can’t touch Sagna defensively.
Cant switch off like that at freekicks
I know it came to nothing, but come on lads…..Basics
Liverpool AND chavski have now scored!
I give up as well, every stream I try ‘locks’ – thanks for the great input – watching Gillette Sport Sky – seems to be the only place now for me (well apart from the old bed…..) oh, anyone think (like me) that once Eduardo comes back he’ll link up well with Arshavin???
Wrighty7
i think it is greek commentary
but i dont want the arsenal fans singing
“only one arsene wenger”
we cant just let him off the hook after beating wba
How was Arshavin this game? I just found a link 5 minutes ago. A goal could do well for him
Skandibird, try my earlier link, perfect.
O goody Fran Merida!
Merida! Fucking lovely!
Fran is getting a game.
You cant tell he is not fully fit Pat, but there have been some moments of pure brilliance, and his freekick on Toure’s head was class.
Fran the man coming on
fran merida is on
for samir nasri
looks like arshavin has to jelly out his legs again
merida
We’ve switched off, I think we will let at least one more in. It’s bullshit, why can’t we stay focussed for 90 minutes??
Our full backs should never bother crossing again
Good to see Merida, even if only for 10 minutes.
Clichy and Sagna should spend 4 hours every day learning how to cross a ball
Wrighty you f*cker lol. I’ve searching arounding trying to find links and yor telling me that one’s been working all along…….not cool
And they must spend a whole fucking day practicing crossing the soccer ball.
merida is looking much bigger
clichy and sagna
I read Wilshere suffered a severe loss of form. Hopefully he wasn’t just hype b/c he looked a great player in the CC and in preseason. On the other hand, I heard Merida was making big improvements.
Arshavin is almost like Bergkamp in that he could stand in one small area for the whole game and still show his class. As long as he has enough energy to kick the ball then he is fit enough for me.
Almunia showing good form
I think Wilshire will make it, but at his age he needs games not bench time, so I think it is good he has gone back to the Reserves/Youth.
meaty punch from Manuel, he is so much better on crosses nowadays
Villa lucky that they don’t have to face Bellamy and Robinho tomorrow. I don’t think they’d win with them playing.
Pressure is on them
i love it if
fran merida scores a left foot belter top corner right now
Wilsheres form dropped because of age and whenever he played for the reserves he was marked out of them by at least 2 oppo players. That would drain anyones confidence.
What happened to us in the last 20 mins. We played great for 25 and then went to sleep.
Could it have been the replacement of Eboue ?
No way Raddy. Thats defo not it.
bendtner and arshavin are knackered
bendtner is not fit enough to play up front on his own
and arshavin isnt match fit
Its normal to slow down after taking a 2 goal lead. In the Spurs game, we conceded stupid goals b/c we didn’t play smart and everyone charged forward.
Entertaining, but costly in the end
arsenal are playing shit right now
That was a pass back!!!
backpass ref!!
unlucky arshavin
Arshavin will hit minimum 17 goals next season..Guaranteed.
It’d be awesome if Arshavin chipped it right there after passing the defender.
Christ this game really has contained some crap hasn’t it, from both sides
moments of brilliance but all too fleeting
JD pays a lot better next to a cooler head. and noone comes cooler than Song. Im not even sure if he realises this is a match.
Very happy with that. We did a job, and our only lapse was a stupid mistake from EE for the goal.
Well played boys.
MOM ? Between Nik, AA and Denilson
ahh
life was bad..
but now it’s good..
forever!
3 pts. lads and the pressure is on Villa. Hope they watched this to scare them a bit.
For sure it’ll be on their minds. Come on City!
Denilson was better.
stu
hahahah
that made me laugh
cool head song, u have to give him credit to being calm under pressure
song’s best position is CB
ramsey was pretty poor today
Whats the gap now? 2 or 3points?
G’Day Big Raddy
Thank you Freduardo.
Song looks like a Rastafarian, a bit. Always looks stoned and cool. No pressure whatsoever.
songs best position is the championship
LOL redallover and thanks for the link wonderboy cought the last 20mins
Song is shit, Wenger must be doing something unhealthy, it makes me feel sick to watch him.
i know it’s been said before but i can see the beginnings of a fucking awesome squad happening here.
Hollywood,
I only found it on 72 mins mate! It was a secret! HA ha
Hollywood
Songs best position is Left back…..in the sheds
Songs best position is row 23 seat 5 on a 747 back to Cameroon.
3 points gap
just pleased we won come on city tommorow
WRIGHTY 7 thanks for the link once i started to watch it was scared to come back off so thanks very much top bloke
I’ve just managed 5 mins on the link Wrighty7, it’s a Russian TV channel; at least I got to watch something.
Good result, next game is a must win, keep the pressure on AV.
Early morning GG ?
Positives: Arshavin, Bendtner, Song as CB, scoring, 3 points.
big raddy,
for what??
sONG’s slow motion style of play suits him at CB
Arshavin was blowing out of his arse at the end but after a pre-season with us and having adapted,
FUCK ME he will be awesome next season!
GG, it is BR to you seeing as we are old mates
fuck you BBC, look at the headline
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7908454.stm
talk about getting your hopes up
Some Robinho magic can do us a favour tommorrow.
Freduardo. For your fine poem.
I advise everyone to save that link, I have. Best picture I’ve had from a stream.
Gutted I didn’t find it earlier!
BR about to go off to work. A result like this puts a spring in the old step for the rest of the day. Chamoneeeeee
NI-CLASS BENT-ITAROUNDTHEKEEPER
Great match from the Dane…exhaustion started to set in late but he still managed a dangerous run late on…
Unlucky not to have the hat trick on 3 superb goals.
robinho and that welsh git our out injured tomorrow
lets not ge carried away bout song’s performance which was still nothing spectacular. if we had reliable subs all season we would still be challenging for the title not potentially 20 points behind the leaders
Come on City Come on City Come on City Come on City Come on CityCome on City Come on City Come on City Come on City
just remebering what 3 points feels like.
mmm lovely, reeling in them villains I think.
Lucky Villains. City have their 2 best players missing
Right Come On MAN CITY
I am happy with that tonight. Thought we were pretty poor in the first half, and I still cant work out how we scored 3 goals in it, but when your luck is down, you take that with both hands.
The important thing was the result and hopefully we can take that on now and get on a bit of a winning run.
Thought Denilson was our best player tonight, Nic took his chances well, Arshavin stands out a mile for class, and I will give him some credit, following a shocking 1st half in Midfield, Song looked very reliable at CB, Well done Song, Like Eboue you get played out of position.
If Man City can do us a major favour tomorrow, I might start believing. We would never be that lucky though would we?
at this stage of the season i am only cocerned about 4th position and i believe villa are the ones we have to chase not the chavs or the bindppers. they can keep winning i dont really care
lets be honest song and eboue are decent enough defensive cover but they should not be in the team especially the positions they have but wenger picks the team so whos to blame but being a fickle fan after tonight his a great manager
imo bendtner was fantastic, man of the match for me, closely followed by arshavin and denilson.
nasri was ok, as were the full backs though their crossing still leaves alot to be desired.
kolo played very well, gotta hope the injury isn’t anything too bad
djourou absolutely appalling first half, marginally better second half but still very poor
song poor first half, very solid second when at centre back
almunia was solid, did everything that was asked of him though bottled it a bit when injured as seemed like time to boot the ball
diaby usual mix of quality and shite, more quality than shite today though.
ramsey very poor in his brief cameo, showed why shouldn’t be starting games yet
songs best position is the championship
LMAO
oh and eboue was mixture of shite and good, scared them with direct running which created couple of chances but more shite than goodness today, though unlucky not to score.
yes geoff
your right
its tougher than i thought but here follow these steps it should make sense ..
PS : – got it from a help BBS the link at the very bottom ..
Running SopCast in OS X under tiger 10.4.11 (Intel) for free without CrossOver
Very simple step by step guide (for everyone from beginner-intermediates on! Experts ignore the tedious instructions and leap ahead!!)
Things you need:
1) DarWine : http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/
2) Old Version of Windows SopCast 1.1.2 : http://www.ivytv.net/sport/index.php?id=14 (try mirror 2)
3) MPlayer for OS X : http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
4) X11 from Apple Install Discs that came with your computer or version of OS X
A) Install X11
B) Install Darwine as per the instructions.
C) Run Installer to install SopCast 1.1.2
D) Install MPLayer: Choose Preferences, under miscellaneous, click use cache
E) Double click on Sopcast.exe installed in wine folder C_Drive subfolder sopcast
F) Leave Sopcast Login as anonymous, click login
G) From X11 terminal (xterm), type command: top
H) Look for PID of winehelper
e.g. 775 WineHelper 0.0% 0:0:43.23 5 etc etc etc. Thus, 775 is the PID of winehelper
I) Ctrl C to end top function in Xterm and exit screen
J) in xterm type: kill -9 (PID of winehelper) e.g. if PID = 775 – so comand is kill -9 775
K) Enter into sopcast address bar the sopcast address you want, e.g. sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/6001 then click on big blue button with right arrow, a non-working viewer should slide out
L) Launch MPlayer: Select open location: enter mms://127.0.0.1:8902 (if 8902 doesn’t work, try 8903 or 8912) Be patient, the caching could take a minute or so.
HELP
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1272751&tstart=0
A i agree with ur assessment bendtner was the MoM for me.
Im relieved we started scoring….but we still havent addressed the missed chances infront of goal….how are we different from any championship team if we can finish our chances!
every year we seem to struggle btw the months feb-early april even in the unbeaten year i believe we had quite a few draws
wenger must try solving that problem. it has cost us quite a few titles
Didnt like fans singing there’s only one Arsene Wenger at the end though. this season has been a spectacular fuck up from the le boss
because championship teams don’t create the chances?! 3 goals out of 19 attempts is absolutely fine, though we should have scored more i agree.
Whats wrong about the BBC link Stu??
Good win, if there was some scale of us converting chances, we’re definetly improving so should score a couple more next time.
Robinho, Bellamy and Wright-Phillips out for Man Citeh, how gay is that, they’ll all probably be availble for Man Citeh when tey reach the Emirates.
Bellamy made Laursen look ordinary when Villa played West Ham earlier in the season.
it wasnt that bad today David but we should have used today as a shooting training session.
Song was poor pretty much the whole game.
Cant believe the ball went through his legs on the wall and he didnt even flinch…at least Eboue moved to try and block it.
why swp out keyser?
Want my link David but the headline said that Pompey had won when it was the Chavs who won. That was the problem.
Franchise
My point exactly…..if we dont get sharpness against West Brom…when are we ever going to get it???
How many season’s under Wenger have we seen and our strikers waste chances!
Hollywood Hotsauce – Heh, they were there, they can sing what they like. Unless you felt left out at the game ?!
Don’t mention it Gunner8.
every season david, including the invincibles year! today we were more efficient with 3 goals from 19 shots than both chelsea and liverpool.
is annoying though, if we’d won 7-1 i would’ve won 5 grand!
A. – I dunno, probably injured, only read the headline, didn’t say why he was out.
Keyser,
Bellamy is out with a Knee injury
Is SWP out because of his ban fr kicking Delap? Or is that finished?
ah ok, that’s very annoying, though they should still create chances
i really like bojinov, and elano and ireland are still quality
Isnt it just typical of the FA. SWP kicks Delap gets a 3game ban. Ronaldo has kicked out at a handful of players this season and its excused as “a bit of frustration” because he is supposedly the best player in the world.
Stu – Maybe, it seems like that was ages, I think he got a game added on for a frivolous appeal, so 4 sat out.
David – Yeah I know just disappointed, Villa are slow at the back Bellamy would’ve caused them problems.
Hollywood thats what supporters do,they get behind their team.Thats why they follow them all over the country
Did anyone see Kenwyne Jones’ chance ?!
yeah i was watching it live keyser, horrific miss, he had so so long
I saw it Keyser, it was an awful attempt at goal. Dare i say even Eboue would have scored it!
Please Please Please Man City
If they can win tomorrow, we play 24 hours earlier in the next round of fixtures, so we could get our 4th place back even if just for a day, and fuck that would put some pressure on Villa.
Monsieur keyser they can sing what they…… my point is he’s going to think everything’s fine and dandy when it it isn’t
He had too long on the ball I think, Adebayor would’ve slotted it in easy. Sunderland didn’t play too badly if they’d got that goal it would’ve been a massive boost.
In a way its a bit like our situation last season.
We could have gone 8 points clear if we beat Birmingham but we drew 2-2. Just like Villa yesterday. Hopefully we turn it around and then some.
want*
city have won their last 5 home games in the league.
they’ve not drawn a game at home this season, won 8, lost 5, so can’t imagine it’ll be a boring one!
come on please let this be an awesome week footbal wise, city to beat villa tomorrow, utd to lose too, youths to hammer spuds on thursday, then we can get into double figures against burnley
What did the fans sing thats gotten you all hot and bothered??
Hollywood Hotsauce – Wait wait wait, how do you know what he’s thinking ? I love the fact that they were singing that, just shows you how good our away support is and exactly that ‘Support’.
Maybe he’ll think, ‘look at the support, how awesome is that ? pretty shoddy season and they’re still singing their hearts out, I must do better’.
wenger is going to think things are going well depending on results and league position, not what some fans think!
or maybe he’ll think ‘poor chumps singing their hearts out, how cute. The kiddie philosophy must go on, we’ve won fuck all for 4years now but they’re still here, they don’t mind, as long as I can spin failure as potential and a few mant utd type results now and again, Its all good’
Im off for the night. Night all, sweet dreams!
I dont think there is any need to be really critical of anyone tonight,
We needed a win and we got one. Nic stood up to the plate sorted his 1st touch out and I for one am happy.
Sure the first half was not pretty, but arguably we played a lot better in the second half and could not score, yet whilst having Ebodenilsong on the field we scored 3,
I will take that and just hope that we build on it,
Arshavin looked real Class. He is already shoving it up people’s arses that said he would not be any good in the Premier League.
i think we needed this type of team we it was an open game so the strikers could get there confedence back i dont think for a second that we could done this aginst portmouth or stoke,before this but now we have got the confedence back we have some big players back i think we can go ona winning run. niiki b had an outstanding performance yes he can be wasteful i always thought he good player that puts his shift in,aa had very good from what heard but i just which could got a good stream
Finally we started scoring again, good result too, just what the doctor ordered.
Yet some people still want to moan
Well, that was an enjoyable experience!
Writing a happy match report!
Just watching the game on ss
did anyone notice the difference
the away support was?might have
had something to do with the fans
being allowed to stand without getting hassled
from our over eager stewards??
makes a change im sure pedro!!
if kolo injury was just a tight calf muscle hopefully be fine. theo back for the next game, hope he gets a start. Surprised me arshavin played all 90, he looked exhausted! guess that might be why, getting his fitness up
Sure does A… what did you think?