I thought it quite amusing that when Bobby Zamora threw a wobbly after he scored at the weekend, he blamed the blogs for digging him out, well whilst I have no idea what they said, he has to understand that if us fans, who ultimately pay his wages, have a dig, it’s because we are fed up watching highly paid footballers not doing the business and it’s the only way we get a chance to have a say. It’s our voice.
I’m glad it came up because it shows we are read by them, he wouldn’t complain if they wrote great things though would he? And it does prove my point that the players and the management do read the blogs.
Well done for letting us know, we appreciate you acknowledge our hard work. Perhaps you should question your own performances from time to time.
Check out Wrighty7′s view on diving England players if you get the chance.
Onto Arsenal, we are fielding a young team tomorrow in a match that doesn’t matter, save seeing our beloved team in action, they get a second chance to show how good they are and I hope they play well. I really hope they win as I would like to think Standard Leige still feel they have a chance.
We are being linked with many players in the window and Dzeko, Chamakh and Bojin are on the list, as long as we buy someone I will be happy, I would be happier if we went for a keeper, a defender and a defensive midfielder, but I can’t see that happening somehow.
Bojin is an interesting one as many of you see him as too small, I see him as a Barca player and it would be nice to nick one of theirs for once, my first choice though would be Dzeko as he is a proven goal scorer and we have needed one of them since Henry went. Though Cesc would be delighted if we signed Bojin.
Talking of Cesc, he says we need a different type of striker, he says a Drogba would make all the difference, the only one like Drogba out there, apart from Drogba of course, is Dzeko, maybe we’ll all get a nice Christmas present from the boss, who knows eh?
I watched QPR last night and I’m not sure we’ll be recalling Simpson, I like him a lot, but he is the same sort of size as what we have and I think we need some height in there, the good thing is we will always need striker because we always get injuries, so whoever we get, we’ll use.
I’m not at all fussed about them being cup tied, because they would only be affected by one competition, we are still in three and the chances of winning the ECL is remote, I’m not saying we won’t, I’m just saying our priorities should be domestic, if we went all the way, they would get plenty of games and teams like Bordeaux and Wolfsburg stand no chance of winning it, so I couldn’t see that as an obstacle for them joining us.
Interesting times, I just hope we don’t sign another kid that has potential, if Wenger has learned anything with Arshavin and Vermaelen, it’s signing a grown up helps the team, screw the future, as Arshavin says, we have enough youngsters for that already.
Enjoy today Grovers, tomorrow we get to see the future…again!
We are not title contenders in my eyes!!
chelsea they’re very much a special case, they’ve got a far stronger defence than anyone else in the league, and have conceded far less goals! all games against the big teams are special cases though, anyone can always beat anyone, if a team wins it doesn’t mean they’re gonna finish higher, if they lose it doesn’t mean they’ll finish lower.
yeah all the major teams do have most of their squads away, and yeah they all do struggle, throughout europe, not just in the prem!
Reggie bollocks aint it sitting here before xmas and no one other then A and wenger think we have a chance
I still think we will struggle to finish 4th!!!
A,
you need to win a few of these ‘six pointers’ to win the league, taking into the account that there is no way for us to collect maximum points against shit teams – we will either not turn up or walk out too complacent…
A,
again: who is at fault for having such poor defensive record?
yep, you’ve guessed it – Our Glorious Leader for neglecting this side of the game…
yeah you need to win one or two suga, you can’t lose them all. utd won the league last season coming last in the top 4 minileague as it were, so you don’t need to get the best of the others, but you can’t lose EVERY game. I don’t expect us to lose them all when we play teams at home, if we lose to utd, liverpool, and city at home then we’ll struggle
Iv already written this season off as well Nick to be honest mate, i cant see no way forward until the men in white coats take AW away imo…
reggie
dont say that.
) i dont feel that confident 
shitty spuds assvilla everton even sunderland if they can get the away games in check are all looking capable in that order of pulling someone out of the top four a thought it would be the bindippers but (until we beat em on sunday
SUGA3 it’s the entire team, the lack of maturity or composure in the big games, the big signing of the summer was a defender, so i’m not sure you could say that side is neglected, that’s also a reason why we changed formation, so it’s obviously something that’s being worked on.
It’s individual mistakes that have cost us, against city and utd anyways, we don’t seem to have the belief in the big games
again: no, they are not ‘special’ – this is just a bullshit excuse…
team to beat, yes, and this is supposed to be the manager’s job to assemble the team capable of beating anybody, not a bunch of weak players played out of position with idiotic tactics (cross towards the midget)…
nick none of those apart from maybe city have any chance of a top 4 finish. there’s absolutely no chance of us dropping out of the top four though, not a chance in hell!
A,
yes, defensive side is being neglected – yeah, he signed one defender, so what?
do you seriously believe that we have enough depth in the defensive department?
suga3 they’re a special case, because there’s no other team in the premiership who is as solid as them, as is shown by how many goals they’ve conceded compared to the rest of the prem….
not being able to break down chelsea doesn’t mean you won’t be able to break down the smaller teams, obviously
Nick you just know what is gonna happen when we play the bindippers,all there injurys will clear up and we will kick start there season for them
mark my words!!
central defenders no suga3, though currently that hasn’t cost us at all has it?
Ah right Reggie – but we’d win the “stingy gits” league if ever there was one.
well actually if you include senderos then i think we do have enough depth there, but it seems he can’t be included unfortunately. it’ll be interesting who comes in for him in january
A,
you’re clutching at straws
Senderos got frozen out ever since he came back from AC and made a few stupid comments – he certainly offers more than Silvestre and leaving him out like that is mis-management of assets and a waste of money paid to him week in week out…
and yes, you have to break down these organised sides as well, otherwise you can just fuck off to SPL and obliterate fucking Motherwell 4 times a season
Twice i mentioned him yesterday PAVLYUCHENKO,AND NOW RUMBLINGS OF HIS ARRIVAL,I must be a medium.
suga3 you do realise we only have to play chelsea twice a season?! currently against the smaller teams certainly at home we’re smashing everyone as if we are in the spl playing the likes of motherwell and falkirk!
we should sign this lot
wayne hennasey watford
rob green whu
g cahill boltan
m.sakho psg
zapata udinase??
Hazard ??
jack collins whu
matudu etien
c.cole whu
numbnuts bored hoe
one of those for each area and we would be sorted
green collins and cole from a skint whu and numbnuts on a free wenger wouldn’t even have to spend all the interest his transfer budget has earned him
A,
do you realise that we have lost each and every game against any side of quality so far this season?
I thought not…
really nick?!
cahill, hennessey, collins are nowhere near good enough for us imo!
A your opinion is far from mine when it comes to players, you dont rate canna or cattermole yet pull your self about over song/denilson
yeah suga3, we’ve played 3 games, 1 at home against the toughest of the 4 teams, and after this weekend we will have played each of the four good teams in the league, 1 at home. We’ve gotta beat city, and then get 5 or 6 points when we play utd, chelsea, and liverpool consecutively, if we lose at the weekend.
nope nick, song and denilson aren’t amazing, but are better than the likes of cana and cattermole, who aren’t and will never be good enough for a big team!
nick too vivid an image mate
but your spot on
A as you said your opinion not mine, yours may be wrong but your entitled to it
lol mine, which is shared by every manager of a big team in europe when it comes to cattermole and cana! but yeah it’s all about opinions, everyone’s entitled to one, regardless of whether it’s based upon any logical rationale!
adriano will be great signing, he became top scorer in brazil this year, 19 goals in 30 games,
Bola de Prata: 2009 Brazilian Série A Top Scorer
Bola de Prata: 2009 Brazilian Série A Best Striker
Bola de Ouro: 2009 Brazilian Série A Best Player
A thats an impossible statement to make with accuracy and you know it !
look at all the players at arsenal who went on to be great , with the exception of anelka most of our players were average when not playing for wenger !
so just imagine how shit song and eboue would be if they left to another club ..
they might as well sign up for black hole united !
cause youll never see the cunts again
georgian there’s not a chance of us signing adriano, he’s not going to return to europe anytime soon
A when i said “yours” i meant the beholder, guilty conscience there buddy
why then other then joe kinner has no fucker come in for denilson or his mate song then??
ethan thats because any players who really made it with us stayed with us until they were pretty old…. i wouldn’t say it’s because they weren’t very good! reyes is now becoming good again too, cygan was much better once he left!
all the other top teams have spare dcm that would get a game for us so why would they sign more cattermole will have a move to one of the big boys sooner rather then later you watch
denilson and song are at arsenal, and aren’t available! if they were available then clubs would come in for them….
cana and cattermole were well publicised as being available, not for massive fees, and in a position where many clubs were on the market, yet noone at all came in for them – it’s pretty telling imo
A Says:
December 8, 2009 at 17:01
yeah suga3, we’ve played 3 games, 1 at home against the toughest of the 4 teams
———————–
and sunderland
are they top 4 ?
fuck me … there is a reason the chev’s and manc’s win titles A its because they have class and depth in every position ! , you either get with the program or sign up to be another everton !
its wengers choice !
and thankfully not yours !
A not avalible ok like that matters you are funny
sometimes
im sure wenger looked at cattermole, other teams knew the player would go with bruce so didn’t bother imo
no ethan, sunderland and west ham we lost 5 points against smaller teams, that we shouldn’t have lost
chelsea have lost 6 points against smaller teams that they shouldn’t have lost, and utd 5 points, same as us.
imo the only current difference between the teams is chelsea winning against us
nick that does matter, it’s how things work – a player goes onto the market, some players aren’t available. Obviously if a team REALLY wants someone then they can get them, everyone has a price, but both cattermole and cana were very publically put on the market, and noone half decent wanted them, even when they were offered about!
its more that that A . its the way some players play off each other .. an example of that would be cesc hleb and flamini , none are really top top top draw but when they worked together to become a force to be reckoned with in the midfield ,cesc shined and the other 2 lifted also !.
or the reverse , the shevchecko flop of chevski …
sometimes its hard to predict if players fit !, like saha at everton currently .. you just dont know what some players will turn into if they did change camps . ( or once there older)
so saying cana or cattermole are better cannot be judged either wrong or right ..
because it didnt happen
its more than that ,
sorry 7 burbons in less than an hour makes you have double vision
yep, other clubs would literally murder to secure Denilson’s services…
keep’em coming
yeah ethan, though if anyone thought that they had the required quality to make it at a big team, and play off better players, then with their being offered around and for a cut price fee someone would’ve taken a punt on them. Obviously it’s impossible to say any player is better or worse than any other player, it’s all down to opinions!
A,
it’s not just opinions, it’s what meets the eye – they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but some players are just not good enough, period.
i agree suga3, and cattermole and cana fall into that category….
though it is just opinions, obviously! there’s very little factual in football
no ethan, sunderland and west ham we lost 5 points against smaller teams, that we shouldn’t have lost
chelsea have lost 6 points against smaller teams that they shouldn’t have lost, and utd 5 points, same as us.
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thats my point we are so inconstant you cannot palm off the stats only applying to the top 4 and ignore the fact we have been rolled by some pretty average teams over the past 2 years !
its not a recent occurrence !
you cant go around also saying oh we can throw those 2 chelsea games and still win also !
to be the best you have to be consistent ..
no point to try and jag a EPL victory by avoiding a better side !
because that is NOT high percentage stakes if you want to roll that way ….
we’re a very different team now to even last year ethan. This year we’ve dropped 5 points, one straight after international duty, one because we went 2-0 up and had a rookie keeper.
This time last year we’d dropped 19 points against lesser teams!!
And we struggled to create chances and score in games for the first 2/3 of the season!
i think cana would be worth more of a punt than song / denilson , he brings experience and he will do his job because he has class about him ..
it is factual that wenger can bring out the best football in any player !
who’s to say they wouldnt step up .. cattermole has EPL experience , i dont think there is too much difference however .. i dont really think too much of cattermole , but thats not to say he couldnt do the job ..
but cana has leadership ! he is the sunderland captain after all ..
and VC for albania ..
i think leadership centrally wouldnt be a bad thing .. cana imo is far better than anything we currently have by a LONG shout !
A,
thing is, our side is too unbalanced and has not enough power and presence to cut it in the Prem – our ‘physical’ (taller) players are Diaby and Bendtner and that is fucking laughable…
this team needs spine:
—————–Fabianski/Szczesny——————
Bac/Eboue—Willy/Monster—TV/Monster—Clichy/Gibbs
———————-Song/Monster——————-
——–Cesc/Ramsey————–Nasri/Denilson——
–Theo/Rosicky——-RvP/B52———-Arsh/Vela——
and perhaps a monster upfront for a good measure…
OK, catch you lot in some 40 minutes – finished working for today…
yabba-fucking-dabba-doo
A
we are not so different , we are hovering around 4th spot , with others breathing down our necks . threatening us …
we still cant pull off the important games .
there still too many injuries .
wenger is still tarting around with project youth
we continually lose experienced players and dont replace them ..
yes we are so different !
NOT ……
however your half right ..
the situation has changed since last year ,
now more teams have more over all quality , because they actually spend a transfer kitty ,
or have one too spend to begin with !
Rich from the North Bank…it’s not soooooo bad
Through 14 games, relative to the comparable fixtures from last year, we have scored 15 more goals conceded 1 more and have 7 more points.
If the remaining fixtures turn out no worse than last year, we are on track to score 110 goals, concede 40 and gather 92 points.
Doesn’t mean we don’t need to add some monsters down the spine of the team, but we will recover from the Chelsea disappointment and go on to thrive
Is it snowing in Le grove?
back home…
Just read the article .. Arshavin and Vermaleaen are not the same .. Arshavin has proved he is worth the money..
Vermalean has scored goals but is yet to prove he can improve the arsenal defence .. He can change that perception at anfield on sunday.
Its awful snow. Its only at the top and disappears when you refresh. Snow tease.
SFO, imo Vermaelen has inproved our defenc. Although we have conceded more goals than this time last season its not all down to the defence. We concede a very large percentage of shots on our goal.
Its down to shit goalkeeping that we have conceed so many.
It’s snowing here in ‘Sunny’ Southern California.
Agree with Steven 10:10 about team work ethic when we don’t have possession (it didn’t seem to be that much of a problem earlier in the season)
Who doesn’t need a Drogba? As he’s not available, we need someone to lift the piano we have plenty to play it. A good journeyman to add Plan B is all we need — cup-tied or not.
And Almunia is more likely to develop into the goalie we all want if we defend better as a team and provide a couple of monsters in front of him to help with the set pieces.
Stu,
Defence is the reason we concede lot of shots on goal .. Even Vermy would agree that he was poor in the chelsea game(could have been a penalty for bear-hugging Terry). The outcome against chelsea was no different than with senderos in the team ..
Anyway let us see how he copes with torres ..
Stu compared to the same fixture last year we have only conceded one more goal
same fixtures
I know that Ray, i mean time wise.
SFO, Vermaelen has been doing well but all teams have shots against them. I dont know the actual stats but we concede a higher percentage of goals to shots than a lot of other teams. That has to be down to the keeper more than the defence. No team has a complete shut out in terms of shots.
I think after the olympiakus game Wenger should have a vigorous hope-Gerrard-stays-on-his-feet campaign.
OOPS, sorry forgot the appropriate attribution to Wrighty7
Stu, we’re not going to get a slew of talent in this Jan so do you think a monster CB or a new goalie will improve the team more?
Also, looking at the potential market, is a monster CB or a goalie more available?
Ray,
I laughed when I saw SG’s dive – cunt has some fucking cheek, cheasting Scouse bastard…
and the quote about ‘stealing a point’ earlier – priceless…
*cheating
as for buying monsters, why not put in some SERIOUS bids for players like Cetin or Subotic?
should also play Senderos in DM instead of Denilson while Song is gone IMO
Arsenal Football Club has today announced the following 18-man squad for the Champions League Group H clash with Olympiacos.
Carlos Vela
Theo Walcott
Aaron Ramsey
Alex Song
Mikael Silvestre
Jack Wilshere
Lukasz Fabianski (GK)
Vito Mannone (GK)
Fran Merida
Kyle Bartley
Francis Coquelin
Thomas Cruise
Craig Eastmond
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas
Kerrea Gilbert
Luke Ayling
Mark Randall
Gilles Sunu
I’m mystified about Senderos, apart from the pre-season display as DM he has been an invisible wall off the pitch.
Pity. I like him both as player and person from what I’ve seen and read about him.
He’s also getting to a ‘good age’ for his position.
I hope things pan out for him. He’s not a squeaky wheel, maybe that’s hurt him. Ironically, he and Cesc were room-mates when they began at Arsenal…how different the journeys since then.
Woooops it already been posted….
Anyways Adriano will be a free in January!
Go on Wenger.
Him a DM and CM.
CB not CM**
Sendy is one of Our Glorious Leader’s victims – he is more than decent for Swiss national side and even ‘scored’ for Milan (goal was claimed by Ronaldinho, would go in without him)…
he was eaten alive by Drogba & Torres, but he should have played alongside a man mountain like Sulzeer
Gents Adriano is not the answer. I believe he is left footed as well?
We cant have two left footed strikers especially when RVP gets back.
Adriano was homesick and went back to brazil. last thing we need after Reyes is somebody homesick and moaning about the weather all the time .. Might I add party and miss the return flight after every international break.
On the subject of Sendy, might I add ..
Drogba has since eaten alive Djorou, Silvestre and Vermnalean ..
he most certainly is not – we could do with a monster like Kenwyne Jones:
Height: 6’2, Weight: 12st 4lbs, great in the air too…
just imagine the smaller player’s buzzing in the space created by THAT…
I think our last proper CB was Sol Campbell – absolute fucking beast until he went bonkers
Saying that Chelsea “didnt do much” and “didnt create many chances” means fuck all in football.
They defended very well and cancelled out anything that we put up and made it pathetic. If you dont think that isnt “doing much” then thats sipping on some delusionic cool-aid imo.
Sunderland “didnt do much” and “didnt create many chances”
And yet we lost.
I fail to see what all this has to do with getting embarrassed at home to what i think a Rival?
What hurts is that we do all the passing all the running and the other team does all the scoring. That has to stop.
I say we buy Dzeko. And for those Idiotic AKB muppets that say we cant buy Dzeko because his preferred club is AC Milan.
I wonder how United got Ronaldo for 12m
Well put david.. if we offer the cash, he will come..
Everyone has a price!
chavs 1 down
ESSIEN!
Essien’s off injured, he’s pulled his hamstring.
drogba
Dzeko looks good in the early stages here tonight
Now I know how people hated TH14. Drogba really getting on my last nerve with all these goals.
Lol bayern munich’s goalkeeper has scored a penalty!
drogba’s a brilliant striker, but he doesn’t have henry’s class.. handball excluded!
Drogba’s a cunt and a ugly one at that!!
Michael Owen WTF! Even with that shit defence. Dzeko out then……….
Just remembered about the football tonight. Anything good happening in any of the matches?
Just watching Juve-Bayern…isnt Van Bommel on a free this summer (or was that last season and he signed a contract). I know he is a huge cunting fucker but we need a big of fight back in our team and he would certainly do that.
United Park the bus so well and they resort back to their bread and butter for the last 3 decades the “Cross and Head goal”
To be fair Zeus.
Owen was completely unmarked.
What’s with wordpress and the snow animation every blog that i’ve visited seems to have it or is my computer infected with ze virus
lol.. no its a wordpress thing
not been particularly impressed with dzeko in the first half, his touch and passing isn’t the best. Absolutely ridiculous wolfburg didn’t get the pen, carrick should’ve been off too!
reserves game not been great. Been impressed with freeman though.
I think chamack is better, even though he’s not playing today.. he is like tevez, a hardworking striker.
Funny you should say that.
Because ive been particularly impressed with his first touch and his link up has been decent.
Obviously hasnt had that many chances but he’s created a few shots on goal for himself!
I agree Chamakh’s Work Rate is his best attribute.
If only Arsene wasnt so cheap.
I think he’s probably headed on a free to arsenal
really david?! we must look for different things then in first touch and link up play! for me he takes a bit long on the ball, and controlled the ball off the pitch a couple of times. no worse touch than your average centre forward, but to play for us gotta have a better touch than that. also a bit slow for my liking in everything he does, and pace wise, don’t think he’d fit in with us.
GGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
AND DZEKO SCORES AGAIN!
dzeko!
nice header there, wonder cross too.
our announcer should name the team and announce goals like the wolfsberg one
chamack?
that boy is quick!
See who gives a shit about link up play etc when you can score headers like that. Fuckin bullet header into top corner.
Dzeko scores
stu it was a good forwards header, nothing special! almost identical to eduardo’s header when he’s just come back from injury last season!
A, couldnt agree more. I’ve always hated the announcer at the emirates. I wish we had one like the one Bayern had when they beat us 3-1 in the CL in 04-05.
Yeah A,
Eduardo was unmarked. Dzeko was marked.
yeah stu, our one speaks to us as if he’s addressing a children’s birthday party, it really bugs me
marked how compared to eduardo david?! ffs people really do see what they want to see sometimes don’t they
Its particularly annoying when he says the players first name so the crowd can say the last. At least if we are going to do that get an announcer with a manly voice.
See what they what?
Eduardo was unmarked.
Dzeko was marked.
What are you disputing about that? That i see what i want to see?
lol David, Dzeko was unmarked there. The cross went completely over the defenders head.
ha i agree stu, though that’s similar to what the wolfsberg one was doing, he just did it much much better!
though to be fair german crowds are much better too
pity the reserves lost, watt acted like a bit of a nob all game, and was pretty crap, freeman was quality though, as was miquel at the back, and impressed with hajirovic and boateng too, though the latter is a bit clumsy at times
The defender was there. That means he was marked Dzeko did well to evade his man.
Eduardo scored on a freaking Counter attack with nobody in 10 miles of him.
German crowds are better but you have to give to get. You cant blame our fans for not being motivated when they hear that fool coming on over the speaker thing.
We’ll never get dzeko, he would cost upwards of 20mill.. we’re never going to pay that much
I dont remember the Eduardo goal so cant comment but Dzeko, when he scored that header, was definately unmarked.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2445678/arsenal_v_cardiff_eduardo_1st_goal_round_4_replay/
eduardo “not marked”
shizen the link i had for the dzeko goal has just been taken down, how anyone could say one is marked and the other not marked is really beyond me though
to be fair.. evra is the only defender!
terrible goalkeeping for the ronaldo fk, what is it with keepers fucking up on ronaldo free kicks, are they just shitting themselves so much because of his reputation that they bottle it?!
Evening all,
I see our new striker has scored a double tonight?
Oh dear..
superb from obertan
Ignore my last comment, my Dad told me that a certain someone scored AGAIN!
Fucking bastards united. Never do anything but always win!
Maybe we should change our name to Arsenal United?
9 shots. 3 on target. 2 goals.
Thats a quality team.
wolsburg need only a draw to qualify as the other match is 1-1
Offside?
Lol wrighty
Hatrick more lolllll
wolfs will get through because of cska drugs anyways, what a miss before the owen goal though
wolfsburg are useless!
what’s with juve getting thumped like that from bayern?
What drug thing A?
was great to see that dzeko is wastly over rated…if one should buy someone from germany it would have to be gomez…and he isnt up for grabs…dzeko might now that wolfsburg is out of it..
Its our turn tmr to silent em tmr game is a must win
two of their players been done for doping stu, they’ll most likely be thrown out of the competition as they’ve played throughout