Arsene mate you need to stop telling us Denilson doesn’t get enough credit and that he is one of the best midfielders in the premiership, because he isn’t, and because he was shit against Wigan, but he does have promise and I think he will do a Flamini, eventually.
Secondly you need to stop telling us we were all wrong about this team because – 1) We have won nothing yet, – 2) Many people on this blog have argued with me about two players in particular, so many, many people also believe in this team just like you do – 3) Think how good this team would have been had you signed a world class defensive midfielder a world class centre back and Andre Arshavin in the summer.
You are beginning to sound like a bird that got dumped, you need to start winning things before you can start telling us good this team is and you can start tonight, by sinking the submarine.
The other thing that bothers me is, if by saying that you didn’t sign those players because you would be killing Denilson, Diaby and Song, does that mean we’re stuck with them and you won’t be buying any better players? Because that is a worry, regardless of what we may win this season. Even the Mancs, scousers and Barca strengthen every year, in fact we seem to be the only team that doesn’t.
Still, enough on that subject, but you did bring it up boss, and I felt I had to address it, now onto tonight and the game that we have all been waiting for, the road to Jerusalem. The Champions league quarter final, the yellow submarines, the anti Christ’s, Villa Real.
If we learned anything from our time in Europe and last night, it is 1-1 away from home is rarely enough, we need to go at them from the off, don’t give them time to settle, we know what they can do and in fact have done in the past, as have Wigan and Hull, (going 1 up) we know we are better, we know we can win and this week will be the toughest in our history, we need to play tonight like there is no Saturday, win this one and Saturday will take care of itself, at least if we win tonight we will be in the semis and hopefully against Porto.
When we are in full flow we can beat anyone, play like we mean it, we know that they can hurt us if we let them come at us, we wanted Villa Real, we got them, now let’s show the world we are the Arsenal and prove to the manager he was right to have faith in the youngsters. we can win the double this year but we know that we have to do it the hard way, there are no easy games left in this tournament or in the FA Cup.
I think we have the worlds best manager, I don’t agree with his team selections always, but I do believe in the players he has at his disposal, play the right ones and the game is ours, play the wrong ones and we’re in trouble. It’s ours to win and it’s ours to lose, for all of you that are there tonight let’s raise the roof and show them that they are at fortress ‘The Grove’, stewards let us stand and sing and we will get the team over the line.
Play one of Song, Eboue and Denilson not all 3, let the wingers rip them apart, width will terrify them and stop them attacking us, the best form of defence is attack, if you need any proof of that go back to the battle of Issus in 333bc (my lucky number), when Alexander faced an army 4 times his size, his men said, let’s leave this one boss and have a lie in, he said bollocks, let’s throw the kitchen sink at them, his companion cavalry hit the flanks and Darius was so surprised he couldn’t get out of his own penalty area, it was an away victory not seen again until Nelson turned the French and the Spanish over at Trafalgar, get in there Arsenal and show us the spirit of Issus and my personal Hero Alexander the Great, Mr Song, he’s your namesake, so show them what you have, you did against Wigan!
Arsenal to trounce them, 3 nil for me if I was going to predict, but I’m not, so fear not.
We love you Arsenal, we do, we love you Arsenal, we do, we love you Arsenal, we do, oh Arsenal we love you.
Have a great Day Grovers, this week has our name written on it.
hull citeh in the cup
which goal does he do the dance/celebration on, i will watch out 4 it in the replay that is currently on?
Kevin – Hull?
and that was an OG
the second goal evo!
I tell you if win the champions league i can’t wait to see the players doing that dance around the trophy.
liverpool back in december was the last league goal i believe?
thanx squallviii – ill watch out, its currently at 43 mins at the min…
Ade’s goal
I think a there needs to be a ‘big shout out’ to Song tonight. He was feckin awesome!! Now I’m not a Song fan by any stretch of the imagine, but credit where credit is due. He was EVERYWHERE and won nearly every 50/50, he just totally dominated the midfield. Check out his piece of skill on 59 mins right before the 2nd goal. AMAZING, great, quick feet, and then a simple ball to get another move going. Also thought Eboue was class too………..long may it continue
is that true evo?
but that doesn’t change the fact that we still need reinforcement on the back
*at
Irish u can watch it here
http://arsenalist.com/
yep looked it up on arse.com.
half time in the replay….might need some bacon and eggs and then a beer!
u can see the Wenger gig 1:14 sec into the clip lol
nice one coadsi
Just back from my local … not sure why I pay for Setanta and a bigger telly than the pub has. Great performance guys; agree Song was “on song”. I reckon Manure are there for the taking over two legs. Just hope that (if he’s fit) our beach bum minds the near post against Barca!
no one told me RvP was trying to dance as well (after the 3rd goal
hahaha…thats gold Wenger!
even Silvestre is in on the goal dances these days!
Theo needs to get involved now.
yeah RVP looked a bit gay in his dance, oh well, good pen take though – as always!
only our 2nd appearence in CL semi’s ever!
lol…Wenger dance is hilarious.
At this rate, it won’t be long before we’re singing “De de-de-de de-de-da … Silvs a Gooner”
Now all we need is for Van Persie to learn how to chip the ball.
geoff will be smashing down the peronis right about now!
oh and last time we went through to the final! hopefully we’ll win it this time!!
ha ha its not even a jig not sure what it is like a train starting
secretly geoff is in love with song…
he just can’t admit it!!!!
agreed choy
good one Irish
Bring on the chavs … have a good night grovers; I have a nasty board meeting at work early tomorrow morning and our Chairman supports the chavs. I shall be smelling of beer, will probably call him a cunt and maybe out of a job … small price I say!
woo.. its wembley next!!!!
we have to beat them cunts,at least they wont get away with there usual shit with a european ref(imparcial).
for anyone interested, the rebroadcast of the game can be seen at atdhe.net. i am watching at the mo
excellent trindle, good luck with that, give the chairman one fist pump for us!
just saw the jig again, gold wenger!
20 goals in the last 7 matches….really making up for the goal-less drought
well done gunners
Song was awesome…
I’m off guys – have a great night
wooooooooohhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooo
I shall do Evo – can’t see them getting past Barca … but not sure who I’d prefer to beat in the final: revenge against Barca or just wiping the Chavs noses in it as we walk way with the cup!
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/ \ barca please!!
beating either will do for me!
ya every second fucker i know suports manure.cant be listening to that shit.Going to be the 2nd biggest match of the year,
followed by the biggest ‘ COMN ARSENAL
I can taste thiery’s tears, as he cries watching eboue doing his chicken dance around the champions league trophy.
what about hleb kevin?
Hleb will rush down the tunnel. Sobbing as he reflects on nasri scoring a 60 yard lob.
yes i can imagine kleb sitting on the bench doing that!
MU 1ST.SKY plused hillbourgh doc ,so sad.Im 32 and it just gets worse
Evening all!
Evening Pedro
So Song > Denilson
Your thoughts?
Just watched the replay with Gary Bloom. He is a much better commentator than those other biased bastards that slag off the gunners.
Morning Pedro
David, I thought Song was excellent tonight… I was thoroughly impressed.
It was the right decision after his horror show at the Wigan game.
What did you think?
trindle
long time no see
I didnt believe it was the same player to be honest.
I think the real SOng mustve been abducted by Aliens.
What a fantastic performance….I mean…we had all the possession it was such an Easy game.
Hopefully we can take it to Wembly
This is just fantastic, I really hope this flows onto the chelski game next.
But for Le Boss, be warned, do not play into the sweaty socks hands. Say nothing, coz silence will be golden leading up to the next leg.
Please Mr Wenger, do not open your mouth, coz that will shit old Sir Fur-on-Tongue off to the max.
This is el classsico,and thank god we dont have to listen to richard keys et al.Cunts.It will suit us beter too
Evening GG.
Totally agree with you David… I thought tonight was a master class in maturity.
What did the commentators have to say?
How peachy was Ronaldo’s goal?
In his interview he said “I scored a fantastic goal” The ladyboy I mean
I can tell u this Pedro, down here I get the feeling that most want to see The Arsenal win the whole thing. The style of play, the fact that they could be the youngest side since Ajax in 1995 to win the whole thing. Phuck united, lets do’em, we owe them, & its now pay back time, then all roads lead to Rome. I know its so important to keep a level head, coz there is still so much more work to do, but today I’m going to float through the air like a Charlie George Cracker. Chammmoneeeeeeeeeee
for more wenger jig (after the 2nd goal) check this out
http://gingersforlimpar.blogspot.com/2009/04/lets-all-dance-with-arsene-lets-all.html
GG, I am more pleased we’ve got ManU than I would have been over getting Porto.
It’s all to play for… we’ve got a massive point to prove!
It’s our destiny!
Night!
I’ll be posting tomorrow morning… don’t wet the bed with excitement…!
Goodnite all!! Come On Arsenal!!
Night jay. I’m off to have sweet dreams. lol
Bloody Hell im too excited to work…haha
CESC FABREGAS insists his future at Arsenal is not tied to manager Arsene Wenger.
The Gunners captain has been linked with a summer switch to his homeland Spain, with Barcelona and Real Madrid among his admirers.
But the 21-year-old is adamant he is happy at the Emirates Stadium and has no intention of quitting the club at the end of the season.
Speaking ahead of Arsenal’s crucial Champions League quarter-final second leg clash with Villarreal, he said: I hope that my future will be at Arsenal, but it does not depend on Arsene Wenger’s future at all.
“Of course we are talking about a very important person to me.
“I respect him a lot, but in football you try to achieve things as an individual.”
Fabregas’ contract with Arsenal runs until 2014 but it is understood the club have offered him a new deal worth around £100,000 a week to ward of Europe’s big guns.
And the Spaniard added: “I hope that I will play football for another 10 or 12 years. I have no idea where that will be.”
I feel like im working the midnight shift on Le-grove sometimes haha..
It’s the late morning shift here, Jay!
What a game!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring on the mancs!!!!!!!
Did you guys see red cunt face at the post match interview go when asked “you face Arsenal now”…”oh we do”….”yes 3-0″….”oh 3-0″….f**kin cunt!!
What was he expecting Villa Real?
CUNT!!!
This is karma. Let’s give it to them…Can’t wait!!!
Chamoneeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iceman
We must play manure 3 more times minimum this season, & on current form there is a fair, no sorry, a very good chance we will beat them once. So will it be the game that hands Liverwurst the Premiership, or will it be the game that dumps them out of the Champions League. How sweet it is
My advice to Old Red Nose. Buy yourself the best single malt whiskey available old boy, coz you will need it to drown the flood of sorrow that is about to engulf you. Arsenal & all those associated are about to dump 4 years of frustration on you & your debt ridden club.
You are right GG9.And also we will have our clichy and sagna back then.And maybe even djourou.Also we have a much fresher squad then theirs.We shouldn’t just beat them we should fucking thrash those cunts.
nishanth
I just love days like this.
gnarely
We can dump them. I know we can. I feel this incredible hate towards them. If I do I can’t being to imagine how the players feel.
We’ll just have to see. But I believe we can get a result in all of the 3 games….no reason not to…We’ve done them in their backyard many a time….You know how these boys love a bug clash…
Very very sweet indeed mate
uhm that would be big* clash
lol
cant wait for each of the games!
i will be in Melbourne at the Celtic Club for the league game in May! Arsenal supporters club will be there that night and it will be huge!
I am already getting nervous and excited thinking about that match.Since its united they will pull out every single dirty trick to win the tie.Fergie has predicted an open attacking game but knowing that cunt i bet he will be to scared to death and they will probably play against us like how they did against barca last year
with the right results in the league by the time we get to may, the pressure will be off in the league in terms of us trying to win it, as it is nigh impossible, so that should allow us a nerve-free game and put the pressure on the mancs not to slip up, all we need is to finish 4th or 3rd!
The CL and FA cups is our target!
Getting past chelsea in the FA CUP will be slightly difficult though.I am worried about their set piece threat.They have alex terry ivanovic ballack and drogba.We should not give to many corners away.We should just defend carefully and let arshavin do the rest
theo had a great game, but he needs to learn how to use his pace better
Wonder what wenge will bring ooutof his locker when we beat united.Expect a really really special dance against united
Please – if anything our season has been an alignment of the plants…finally things are comming together..
if we were to dump these mnccunts out..and beat them in the league…
it would be worth it…
Perhaps if we won, and had more money in prizes..we could be given the right budget to strengthen this ‘almost there’ squad…
Tonights performance was masterful – Ebou/Theo connection something to look into..??? i honestly thought Toure and Ebou snuffed out everything that was thrown at them (albiet wasnt that much..haha)
Oooh Happy Days~
Glad that sagna finally got some rest? Silvestre looked a little shaky. With eboue looking so good at RB does any1 think we should play sagna and toure in the centre
The chavs are conceding soft goals at the moment….
We need to start with the same tempo as last night and we should be fine….
Their recent form is crap and we should take advantage.
Alright ladz!!…on cloud fukn 9 today!!!
i just know we gona dominate every1!
our fixture list is phenomenal from here on in, but for the first time in yrs we have a squad to pull it off!!…once jd, sagna & clichy come back its full steam ahead!!
just think this w.e we could rotate and bring in the likes of dudu, diaby, arsh, denilson, nikiB…and they’ll be fresh!!!
CMON U GUNNERS!!!
sagna at RB for me, Silver in the CB, he made only 2 mistakes tonight, he isnt super fresh, so you can forgive!
how longs JD out for?
Song & the pass master were really good IMO, & Gibbs is getting more confidence with every start.
wch 1 for chelsea? ashravin or theo
Silvestre was quite solid. He knows where to be when defending, but was a bit clumsy once or twice due to rustiness maybe. But hey, The Club has options now in most positions.
both!…arsh so he’ll wind up guus & roman, theo so he’ll make cashley hole look like a right twunt!!
I just hope that Le Prof doesn’t get sucked in with pre game talk by the sweaty sock, coz mind games is 75% of fergies game plan.
haha so
ashravin nasri fabregas walcott?
arsewaxin will be spewing he cant play for us in the CL i bet!
evo he wants a winners medal
But I reckon he has no regrets about the January move though. The place must be jumping behind the scenes, etc
1000
The Celtic Club
You want to make sure that by May The Gers haven’t rained on their parade 
IF we had arshavin, we’d be favourites for the CL i tells ya.
nah will have to go: arsh cesc song walcott
give nasri a rest…or impact sub…
Nice non-prediction Geoff.
I think Alexandre is spelt with ‘re’ at the end, haha.
for what its worth i picked the score
for what its worth i picked the score
2 decisions have turned the season around IMO. The appointment of a Tony Adams style captaincy in Cesc, that is young with plenty of years of service ahead; & the signing of Arswaxin.
Now there will be those on other sites, who reckon they told us so that Arsene Knows, but really we are the ones that knew, made no bones about what had to happen, until we got what we wanted, instead of sitting back kissing arse coz its a feel good thing as an Arsenal fan.
So to those apparent high browed followers from other sites, I have a message for you to consider, coz you have slagged Geoff & Pedro, etc off for daring to be state the bleeding obvious.
There are people who read about history, & then there are people who make history. Tonights/this mornings victory is for those who dared to buck the system, & question. We have got what we wanted.
here here GG.
I ask you this..who else could dare be Arsenals Captain – toure’ perhaps but i’ve always loved midfield Captains…
This is payback for all the difficult days we went through in the winter! CL Semis today and on Saturday, we will stuff the chavs!
GG9 – I will add a third – getting the injuries out of the way in the first half of the season (unlike last year).
Not that we aren’t getting more than our fiar share of injuries now…
*fair
Was worth waking up for!
I switched to the mancs game and saw they were 1 up after 7 minutes. Three more minutes and we were one up too! Brilliant goal from Theo. Reminded me of Vela’s chip…
1013
Can’t wait for Theo to stuff Ashley the way he stuffed Capdevila yesterday!
It will be great to have Theo substituted by Eboue when we are 3-0 up and then have EBoue run rings around Ashley also!!
If Ashley ws at the Arsenal today, he’d be #5 after Clichy, Gibbs, Silvestre, and Gallas!!
Typical Bentley driver!
Theo will tear him a new ‘un!
I hate Cashley more than Hleb and Flamingi put together!
May he end his career with Phil Brown in the middle east!
Arsene sent in a good team yesterday. Can’t say anything negative about his selections or substitutions.
Please stay this way, boss!
Mostly everybody played well ( and I am inclined to forgive the ones who didn’t).
Theo was outstanding, as were Cesc and Toure.
RvP faded at some times, but was more than effective through other parts of the game.
Ade was Ade, Song was Song. He did do an Eboue at one time when he fell down theatrically.
Fabianski was quite solid through the game. No hesitation at all. I like this guy!
I fully expect to see Gibbs replace Clichy soon. This boy is class. If Coquelin can go through the same accelerated development, some of our defensive worries will be solved.
Diaby was also quite effective for the few minutes he did play.
The Chav game will be tighter.
The only one I am worried about is Anelka. He always seems wound up for the games against us.
But we will still knock enough past them to make Cech contemplate giving up football.
C’mon, Grovers, say something. I know there are lurkers out there!
OPERATION CL-
1)Arsene – has wanted the CL..
2)Team plays bad in EPL – it was about luring those other english clubs into a false sense of security as 3)Arsene knew they would dominate the CL -
Our two wins come over ManU & Chelsea – we have the upper hand..
4)We finish the season strong on all fronts.. League, FA Cup and importantly… the CL!
OK, I’ll come back in an hour..
Martin Keown is the most underrated god we had!
PDT – Cesc Theo Toure Song played great.
I do really think these big games bring out the best for us..
You bet, Jay! This was Milan all over again!
The difference with last year is that the guys are fresh this year. We can play like this every game for the next two months!
PDT – this was the dress rehersal – MILAN will be the MANU Games..
the BARCA game will be what shouldve been!
Look at the list of players who have come back from injury and are relatively fresh (for this part of the season) :
Cesc
Ade
RvP
Eduardo
Theo
Nasri
Arshavin (had the winter off)
Diaby
Silvestre
Fabianski
MOst of our team are “new signings”!
A trophy this season will validate the players efforts and they will know what it’s like to win something. (Most of the current team haven’t won anything of note.) Once that happens a winning mentality will be instilled. Which means it is vital we win one of the 2 cups we are in at least.
I’m anxious as much as I am excited.
I just wanna stuff the chavs and the mancs. Is that really too much to ask?
First we got to stuff the chavs! We can’[t afford to lose momentum.
Iceman, the next two games will define our season. We have to beat the chavs and the ‘dippers!
In the best case, we get to thrash the mancs four time – twice in the CL, once in the league and once in the FA Cup!
I’ve been running on adrenaline the whole day!
I dont think so ICE lol they will do it – i dont cringe when i watch them play nemore…because they dont play that cringeworthy footy anymore!! i feel like they have all turned a page and now this streak has made them feel – invincible
.. so many games undefeated, and playing well, and importantly comming back..and recently… finishing off teams!
PDT never underestimate freshnes… look wat a week did for manu they played much better…
No coffee too…
‘swattIsaid, Jay!
Theo vs. Cashley! Can’t wait!
i know hehe – just reiterating PDT.
Biggest worry – Essien. Can shut Cesc, scores outrageous goals against us, and can man mark every player on the park at the same time…:|