So Arsene Wenger wants to extend his contract beyond it’s date of 2011, he doesn’t want to retire and he doesn’t want to manage another club. All good news indeed.
Arsene says he likes the freedom he has to run the footballing side of Arsenal and that was indeed a factor of him not wanting to go to Real Madrid, the club he supported as a boy, the other factor was he made a promise to this current crop that he would see it through.
He also said judge him in two years, that I think is 2011, so if he extends his contract now, he will be here way past 2011 and that must mean he knows he’ll win some silverware otherwise he wouldn’t be extending his contract, so if all that happens, good times are ahead!
Fragile Theo is now concerned about the world cup, Theo, I have always said you will be the saviour of England, I still believe you will be, but if you are going to be concerned about anyone, it really should be the club that pays your wages, I don’t just want to see you making cameo appearances for us this season as a warm up for the world cup. I know you got clattered, but I think you need to toughen up.
Alkmaar are a team managed by Ronald Koeman and remember he cost us when Taylor was manager once, he knows how to hurt, but frankly if we can’t beat a team that lost to FC Twente at the weekend, then we should be playing in the Europa cup with all the other shit English sides, no offence Villa but it is a shit competition.
I hope we go out and attack, I hope if he puts Eboue in, it’s at right back, we have plenty of players that can play wide left and wide right, we don’t need to play a right back out of position, we can play Wilshere, Vela or Ramsey out wide, even Traore but please don’t start how you almost finished against Birmingham.
Here’s the team you should pick,
Mannone
Eboue/Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen, Clichy/Gibbs
Wilshere, Cesc, Song/Diaby, Ramsey/Vela/Traore
Arshavin, Robin
Play a 4-4-2, we’re away and 4-4-2 can be our old 4-5-1, I even included Song and Diaby in there for some of you that think they ought to play week in, week out so you can’t complain I don’t listen.
They will try and hit us early, well they ought to if they’ve done their homework on us.
So Arsenal, you need to stay strong and hold on for the first 15 minutes, probe them for weaknesses and then rip out their necks, just like those Raptors did in Jurassic Park, the first one, not the follow up, the follow up was a bit silly because they all started breeding, and if that were true, the flying ones would have got off the island and started nesting in Madison square Gardens like Godzilla did. And we all knew that was bollocks, don’t we!
Mind you, if Godzilla had bred with a Pterodactyl, imagine what that beast could do, if we had an army of them, we could rule the world and that means we could win the ECL, because we could eat the competition. No doubt Platini would find something wrong with that though, as he is the biggest dinosaur in the world.
Anyway, wherever you are watching it, have fun, drink your cheaper than Arsenal beer and lets see if we can close this team out tonight so we can rest easy in the next ECL game.
Have a great night tonight Grovers, after this we have West Ham then Liverpool, then the Spuds, and then Alkmaar again, wow what a run!
Didn’t Clichy talk about this shit in a recent article?
Geoff, Song was not at fault for any of this. Cesc was worse than him today, open your damn eyes.
Watch all the fucking moaning commence. Who cares, we’re going to go through. Shit happens.
First draw of the season
Bloody Koeman brings on 2 6ft poles just for set-plays and he calls himself dutch.
always like to make it hard for ourselves. Shit performance from us, couldn’t finish them. In fact didnt really trouble their keeper too much at all. Must do much better 2/10
Cant we put in a professional fuckin display. Results against fulham shouyld be more common placed. They do NOTHING for ninety, 1 long ball over the top, no one attacks it and now after suffering through this shit game I can’t even say at least we got the 3 points
FFS!
Truly pathetic performance. But Pool and Barca lose inter drawing its not all bad….
What a shit performance and result that was. All down to a lack of…anything really. Couldnt hold onto the ball, no urgency, no drive and everyone seemed to be there just for a nice afternoon stroll….fucking bastard!
Geoff, it was more to do with our shit defence.
Shit stuff
Poor second half….AZ were worth their point I’m sorry to say…
geoff, how the fuck was that to do with song?
FFS
Have no words.
so much for fixing the defence.
oh comeon guys!! we got a point…does it all really matter??? no….so chill the fuk out
You’ll never hold onto leads in big games with spastics like Diaby seen as the one of the ‘big men’ who can clear the lines.
Eboue, Diaby, Song, Clichy. All dopey prats.
We are so fusking un professional..we stooped to their level…..and with Olympiacos scoring ..we will not any chance to rest players….
What a bunch of unprofessional idiots……
They really got lulled to sleep by the opponent…they should go the opponents level they should just crush them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are so complacent…
Might as well have given Wilshere or Merida a run out…
dennisdamenace Says:
October 20, 2009 at 21:38
And that is what you get when you play in second gear for 60 minutes, fucking lazy, fucking unprofessional, fucking shit opposition, and another clean sheet down the shitter, well done you fucking mugs…..
We should fucking stop at that and go to sleep, well said mate, well fucking said, no less what we fucking deserved, also glad I didn’t make the trip to Holland.
jeeeeeeeeeeesus
that was some lazy shit.
1 – 1 doesnt really bother me though as long as they use all the energy they save to beat west ham.
boring game
Wenger you Mug.
Chin up boys you could be a Barca fan losing at home.
Or scouse, much much worse.
Play like it doesn’t matter and that’s what you’ll get!
Personally I think Wenger should have stopped Arsenal going stale at about the 55 minute mark. Bringing on Wilshere would have been a good move as ball retention would have given us the advantage back!
That was Diabys fault. That fucker he lost out to was huge too but isnt Diaby supposed to be there for his height and strength. He didnt even fucking jump the fucker!
Like I said, it ended 1:1. Shame, really. We must win at the Emirates and sign a proper cd and a cdm. And a keeper of course. Why Wenger doesn’t learn. What have Diaby ever brought to this team?
Olympiakos away is a must win game if we want 1st.
I think we’re a point above them
What a lethargic performance
it seem we are already over believing our hype
these guys should wake up
what the fuck was that?
I meant to say we always stoop to the oppositions level………………why do we do that?
We were fuckiong lazy all because AZ played like crap..but that was the tactic…”lull us to sleep”
We should crush teams like this…..We were complacent and now we are 7 points……..and Olympiacos 6….and we play Olympiacos last so we cant afford to rest anybody if we want to win the group comfortably…..
1-1 is not the end of the World
We were missing a lot of attacking players tonight (Theo, Eduardo, Nasri, Bendtner, Rosicky, Nasri) and still did ok.
Remember it is all about winning your home games in the CL, and we will still comfortably get through that group.
I am annoyed that we have switched off in the last minute…..again, but like I say not the end of the World.
Again though, Diaby was completely anonymous, WTF do we persist with starting him when he brings nothing to the table. Its ok though, cause he gets chance number 459 on Sunday against West Ham.
Cant complain about being Tired before West Ham though, we played well within ourselves there.
Pat,
Not really, if we beat AZ and Liege at home we will win the group.
That was a clear pen on Vela but only ourselves to blame. should have killed the game off before then. RVP shoulda scored in the 1st half
Could be worse, could have just lost 2-1 at home to Lyon and lost Gerrard to an Injury again.
if liverpool never lost tonight i would be pissed
lol..here come all the “experts”
why was it only Diaby going for the ball is the question.
It was a long ball from fucking midfield ffs.
Will Diaby be dropped?No fucking way!
We always do better when we finish second in the group.
We’re all doomed.That should keep the whingers going for a while.
Cue Jimbo and BBK for a moan
I missed most of the match due to work.
Can someone tell me if rvp went of injured?
Thanks
we will get through dont worry guys
2 home games to go against standard and AZ thats 13 points.
Its disappointing but we had a lot of players out and song played well
watching the relp, the marking for their goal was shocking. We just went to sleep…
Emperor, you must be delighted. You wanted us to lose and get a kick up the arse. You almost got your wish.
No paul, I think they just rested him incase none of the other Strikers are back by the Weekend.
Was it Diaby who lost the header?? FFs just cuz he’s tall don’t mean he can defend set pieces
Thought both Song and Eboue played well again.
Infact apart from Diaby, it seemed that everyone did ok.
Cheers Pat
That’s good to hear.
win ur first 4 games and qualify thats how to do it in the champions league
u can then test ur fringe players in the final two fixtures
1-1 is not the end of the world i know but we should use such games to learn how to put games to be
comon arsenal. arshavin and co didnt look like they wanted to play tonight what is going on?
do we think we are already the best in the world????
hope they learn from this
Well, it was a bit of a poor match but Song played well as did Arshavin… and we didn’t lose away from home.
I’ll take that.
It’s the shakyness at the back that’s worrying… we panic.
Patthegooner, dont blame Diaby mate, he’s quality, he just needs a chance etc…
How he’s rated higher than Song on here is a joke.
**** put games to bed
At least we didn’t lost at home to Rubin Kazan
stu if you think i was being serious there , you’re obviously a dumbfuck
Pat,
The result isnt the end of the world, but once again we fail to keep a cleansheet, and once again we drop points late on.
Is there any team in the country that throws results away late as often as us?
ManUtd & Chelsea both get a 1-0 win in the same scenario.
A team that cant defend cant win trophies, and we cant defend.
The irony is we played our strongest team available to ‘make sure’.
Problem is when you play the same eleven game after game they start sub-consciously start to coast and pace themselves.
Wenger does it every year. Never ever learns.
Vela, Wilshere should be starting these games otherwise there’s no point of them being in the first team squad.
what on earth i wrong with arsenal fans here???
it was away.we drew.big shit.any team can…we cant win every game 5-0
Maybe if we had a quality defender to come in in the dying minutes of the game to add some concentration and height to the team.
BUY A FUCKIN DEFENDER FOR GODS SAKE!
Well you said it Emperor so you’re definately a dumbfuck.
I’m not concerned about tonight or indeed qualifying. But unless we can cut this out in the knock out phase we don’t stand a chance.
Don’t really think we could have prevented that one tbh. You can’t defend every set piece. Delivery was perfect, guy was huge. Oh well.
Is this the same Mendez that scored against us 2 years ago(playing for PSV)?
So, Wenger vs. Koeman:
-Wenger=0 wins
-Koeman= 1 win
-4 draws
This whole day would be a fucking write-off if Inter didn’t lose and bottom the table. Well on their way to being laughing stocks selling Ibra to get Sneijder and Eto’o so they could do better in Europe. Now its likely they wont even make it to the knockout stages.
Unprofessional as fuck performance from us. To those who think AZ tried you couldn’t be more wrong. B4 their goal theyclosest they got was Diaby’s fucking effort.
1 Long ball over the top = Arsenal conceding a goal.
I know we will go through comfortably but why do we make life hard for ourselves, we could have played like we care and won 4 or 5 nil. I don’t think many of our players broke out into sweats. Arsene for once should cut this calm, relax, fatherly approach crap and give them a good bollocking for having a sunday stroll with misplaced passes on a champions league night! Complacency at its worst. It’s 4:50am here and to think i missed my beauty sleep for this. Only arshavin were trying to finish the game of towards the end.
David do you think we’d have won if Bendtner was playing?
We would have won if bendtner was playing because then Eboue wouldnt have started.
Paul,
Why should Wilshere be starting vital away CL games? Last time he started a game at this level he looked well out of his depth.
Hes 17 FFS, let him ease his way into the team & stop trying to make him our saviour.
Feel sorry for the guys who went. Sounded like a lazy performance, but all will be well. We will cruise this group.
Gambon
I just feel that if we had a few more attacking options available to us there, we would have closed that game out quite comfortably. I think it is a credit to the depth of the squad that we put out the team that we did and control the game so well.
AA23.
Dont piss me off please. Im on the edge as is.
A wake up call for the team, we can still top the group.
Just hope we put a better performance at the weekend!
We cant win every game convincingly but when its 1-0 and in stoppage time we shouldnt concede a shit goal and delay our qualification into the knock out stage.
Eboue played well Stu.
Since this was just a stroll, they better fucking hit West ham for fucking 6 come Sunday.
emperor a combination of performances like that plus other things has ensured we have won fuck all in four years
we need to remain switched on
think about the key games we have lost in the past in which we took the lead
we need to develop a ruthless streak…. have no mercy
its a mind set
Bendy does absolutely fuck all.
Pat,
Scoring isnt the answer, learning to defend is.
Even the best attacking tems often have to win 1-0, unfortunately we are utterly incapable of winning 1-0 on a regular basis.
Ironic really!
gambon
When did Wilshere started a game and looked out of his depth? You’re being economical with the truth.
Know what you mean, Zeus, but I’ll take a 1-0 Sunday.
i don’t mind the draw and the way we conceded the goal too cuz it might as well haunt us in such a game rather than in the league…atleast now there’d be more effort to do away with these kind of errors and complacency
I cant help it David.
I have to take it out on someone and Ethan isnt here.
My question is…if we are an attacking team.
Whatever happnd to going for the Jugular?
Emperor you must be new on here.There are some that are not happy unless they have something to moan about even when we play well they will focus on a negative.Hopefully they never get to a game they would not know how to get behind them.
Only Fabregas,
Porto last year, looked well out of his depth.
Stop thinking an unproven 17 year old is god.
Fair One Gambon
Unfortunately it was Diaby who is played for his height yet was playing like a fucking tortoise and did not jump that cost us.
Gambon.
I would class playing Wilshere in a semi-important champions league game – his first start of the season – as ‘easing’ him into the season. Especially when mr no end product Eboue is the only other option.
It’s a football match, not a UFC event.
Point is, this same team has to play at West Ham now, when they could have had a break tonight. Song in particular is playing 90 minutes twice every single week.
Top of the league within 2 weeks. Can’t be all bad. My principal moan about tonight, is Eboue plays right back, that’s it.
We’re also hit with complacency in the league last season…this season it happen again….same old same old…
Alot of things cost us.
Cesc passing was horrible. We had a 3 on 2 situation and he passed it to the keeeper.
CACK GAME!!
Unbalanced squad. Team of midgets. Not enough big/tall players.
Result = Out fought in midfield. Beaten by a setpiece. Buy some Wenger. Your supposed to be a manager.
I don’t think i have ever been so disappointed and frustrated watching a match.Our perfromance wasn’t great but it wasn’t that which bothered me.Wenger has made it fucking clear now that he has his favourites and he will keep them happy no matter what happens.I don’t think this draw will hurt us that match but if he continues this trend it will hurt us soon.Why did eboue and diaby get a start?Diaby had a good game today.But thats not the point i am making.Even if he had a really bad game he would just walk into the team ahead of ramsey,wilshere and vela.Same applies to eboue.It is indeed really depressing to see the talented ones left out
AA23 Diaby is rated more highly than Song, only one person on LG makes that statement, and its just to slate Song.
Over the 90 Song looked our hungriest player, and played very well, albeit with one or two loose passes.
We’re always gonna suffer a bit as a team when Fabregas plays as poorly as he did tonight.
Exactly Franchise; it’s the not a big deal in isolation, but we see this same trend and weakness every single year.
David,
Its called playing tactically.
yep paul..i can definitely see that..well each to his own i guess!!m off..night every1 !!
Diabolical.What a fucking waste of space.Why the eff did he play the full 90 minutes.
@ Micky Did It 89
That will never happen. If we are incapable of holding a 1-0 lead to a Dutch side, hoe the hell do we expect to hold such a lead to an English side that constantly throws ball over the top into the box. I hope your right, but the Fulham result is a rarity with this Arsenal team. Really missed Rosicky today, his guile craft and classs would have made passing a bit easier, oh well…….
knockout phase is a completely different mindset. Damn, some people here are clueless.
we’re pretty much through. Thats the goal. Its actually better that we drop points in a semi-meaningless game so that it puts us back down to earth.
Some people just never stop fucking complaining. Honestly, they must lead depressing lives. Cheer the fuck up
We’ve always had problems against the dutch teams in holland..
now someone needs to wake the team up, we can’t be complacent!
Eboue’s vbest position IS at RB, but he’s won MoM playing in other positions.
This draw tonight is not a good reason to go back to slating the three scapegoats, and talking bollox about Arsene’s favourites.
Those self same ‘favourites’ have done OK for us so far…no matter how much some of you seem to want them to fail.
Out of 10
Mannone 6
Sagna 6
Vermaelen 7
Gallas 7
Clichy 6
Song 8
Cesc 7
Diaby 4
Eboue 7
Arshavin 7
RVP 7
c’mon guys cheer up were gonna win the treble
The annoying thing is that the same team will start against west ham if no one comes back from injury.Vela and ramsey will miss out again
poor performance. disjointed and panicky against a team we should be beating comfortably.
Well Said Sharkey.
Given the injuries, I think that was pretty good result tonight. Jesus Liverpool are missing only 2 players and are now complete cack.
It is always gutting to lose a goal in the last minute, but I am ok with the result and the performance.
Here he is.
Go on B.B.K wake these deluded fuckers up.
It was such a shite game. I almost have a headache.
We scored off an error nothing that we created per say.
To be fair we shouldve had a nailed on penalty.
The day we win with Shite refereeing then we will be champs.
Jaguar…”Diabolical”….y..a..w..n..!!!!
How do you think our skipper played tonight then….or is that not on your radar, cos you’re so obsessed with Diaby.
Give us a few rational thoughts on where Diaby went wrong or cost us tonight…??
Don’t deafen me with silence….
Pat,
So i suppose every year you think everythings all rosy. Then when we get knocked out by liverpool you think “oh, i guess theres next year”, then we get knocked out by man Utd, and you think “oh, maybe next year”, and youll do the same when we go out this year.
The clues are there again that we arent strong enough defensively, if you wanna ignore it & convince youself all is well then great.
I am happy with a point.But the real point is why that fucking waste of space called Diabolical play the full 90 minutes.FFS,Drop that idiot.Luckily,we didnt concede a goal.The only time that headless chicken heads a football is to direct it into his own net.
gambon, Wilshere came on against porto when we were already getting well beaten. Nice try though.
Sorry David but this is just too funny not to be posted twice….
AA23 Says:
October 20, 2009 at 21:53
David do you think we’d have won if Bendtner was playing?
PTG..Its not a case of result today.Why does wenger stick with the failed formula again and again.Hasn’t he realised or noticed yet that eboue can’t play in midfield?Diaby had a good game today.But the thing is that even if he had a bad game he would have still completed 90 minutes and also would have started the next game.This will hurt us big time at some stage in the season
I’m not sure if people realise it when they have a go at him but Jaguar is an actual Jaguar, give him a break, its hard to type with paws let alone make any sense.
Diaby is shit though, even a big cat can see that.
Sharkey, whatever you think about Eboue… he shouldn’t be playing right midfield. He was anonymous tonight…
The thing is… if we’d won tonight, it would have been a professional champions league performance.
I’m not losing my head over it… Song and Arshavin were very good tonight.
Pat;
What injuries?
We were only Rosicky away from having our first choice side out – bar the obviously injured Nasri.
Olympiakos have won 2 games in stoppage time now
We will have rosicky instead of eboue.
i dont see anything wrong with this draw.i think the teams main aim was to get maximum points without getting any injury so that could be why were bit lethargic.though defending could have been better.
if barcelona can lose at home why on earth we cant draw away
Comparing Cesc with Diaby?I would rather be silent,Sharkey.I would give a fitting reply to your question,once that waste of space,scores a goal,and give assists for three goals in a match.
Wearing a big smile on my face after hearing about Pool last minute loss
Choy what is he isn’t for west ham?You think wenger will play vela or eboue in midfield
Fact of the matter is that Diaby & Song were far better than Cesc tonight…
But….Cesc did his job and scored a goal, Diaby didnt do his in stoppage time.
Diaby embodies whats wrong with the club, easy on the eye, some great moments, but not a winner.
Not sure why that is funny.
Yeah Franchise and Paulinho….we really lack the killer instinct dont we…..it is going to cost us if we dont cut
out this fucking complacency….
I just hope Wenger starts…..a front three of
Arshavin……..RVP………Vela
against West Ham……
Eboue is great running at the opposition but is finishing is horrible..
Please Arsene start Vela and let us score some goals….
And also Song needs a rest soon…
Maybe thats why he didnt look all that good today
I dont appreciate being Taunted.
I dont hate the bastard but its shite like that that make me hate the fucking shite twit.
its too minor an incident to get me tripping
im judging this team in May (hopefully)
I think we would be in with a shout come crucnch time but would we have what it takes to end our mini-trophy drought especially the league
i do hope so
arshavin, vp and song look like they could do with a rest
song is probably the denilson of this year he would be played until he burns the fuck out
nishanth,
then i think it is eboue
Paulinho, Diaby and Eboue aren’t 1st choice
Gambon, if you know me on here, I will say what I think.
I don’t think everything is rosy, but I certainly think it is heading in the right direction.
Sure I would love another CB and DM, but we didn’t sign one, so I am going to see how it goes.
I am not ignoring anything. We would probably have lost that game this time last year, but this year we have drawn it and should have won it.
Nishanth, I agree with you on that. Although I thought Diaby was pants today, infact he was more pants than normal, he just wandered around like he was on a sunday afternoon walk with the dog. The game just happened around him, it was like having a fan on the field, and I think you can see that the likes of Cesc dont have belief in him, as on a number of occaisions a simple pass was on to Diaby, yet they held on until someone else more capable was free. You are right he will play on Sunday though, he is un-droppable.
Clearly Wengers fualt if we had a Defender to sub in to shore up the line to keep the clean sheet we’d be celebrating 3 points.
Pedro,
Youre right, a 1-0 win away at any team in the CL is a very good result.
However we didnt get a 1-0 win.
next game ahead lads.. 3 points at upton park is vital.
we all know that is not an easy place to go to!
Nish “Its not a case of result today.Why does wenger stick with the failed formula again and again.” 0- are tiu serious….
It won us 7 on the bounce – that might be why
http://paddytheflea.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/a-draw-for-the-reserves-against-mighty-arsenal/
Patthegooner,
Wasnt directing that at you.
Pedro,
Good Point,
I was going to post “Professional job well done” until Forest “Diaby” Gump fucked up.
Exactly choy.Its fucking pathetic if you ask me.Forget todays result.We will qualify as champions out of this group.Its the team selection that really worries me.I am sure wenger knows vela will be more effective than eboue.But he just has to play eboue
No Worries Gambon.
its funny that some ppl just come on here to complain about ppl that moan about arsenal
where is the fun in blogging?
i would rather listen to an opinionated blogger who wants to talk positive or negative about a game, player or club than listen to one just moaning about other bloggers
shalom (o)
chozzer,
looks like it was a draw day for arsenal!
looking at the other results, 1 point is not too bad!
nichanth,
Wenger sees Vela as a striker, not a wide player.
If Liverpool lose on Sunday, I reckon the Fat Spanish Waiter might get the boot.
SS-Eboue wide right in midfield had nothing to do with u winning 7 games in a row.Diaby also contributed very little towards that 7 match winning streak.
In other news, Nasri got a neat assist today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4yjSLBZpmI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2a-A39TtHw
nisanth it’s a tough away game, where he knew we wouldn’t dominate the possession, especially as the players are pretty tired, so eboue played as he’s makes us much more solid defensively. I really don’t get people not understanding why eboue plays in a game of this nature rather than vela.
We should have put the game beyond doubt, blatant penalty not given, and we were very complacent in front of goal, pretty cocky in fact, arshavin especially, and diaby was retarded for their goal. If it had happened with ten minutes to go then I’d have expected us to up it and score, just a frustrating result but no big deal. Could even be a good thing, we’ve looked pretty complacent last few games, hopefully that last minute equaliser will knock us out of it and we’ll be a bit more professional finishing off west ham
Gambon-If wenger thinks eboue can do a job in midfield surely vela can do a job there.He played out wide for osasuna too.In this 4-3-3 system vela can do well playing wide
pat
i hope pool win though
PTG,
A friend of mine is well connected at liverpool, apparantly they cant afford to sack him cos of the payoff
If they lose the next 2 (UTD, us) then they will have to rethink that.
I see Jay Simpson scored for QPR again thats five so far since his loan.
I am not a whining merchant,mates.I would stick up for any player in an Arsenal shirt except Diabolical and Shitvestre.Diabolical,despite his umpteen chances,havent improved by a bit,and is taking his place for granted.I hope he gets shipped off to a club,where the boss would tell him
‘Perform or fuck off’.
A-How does playing someone who keeps giving the ball away make us more solid?And don’t we already have 2 defensive players in song and diaby protecting the back 4