Ha, ha think about that, Barca Wednesday, followed by Leyton Orient, Stoke City and the Carling Cup final, wow, this is what it’s all about, playing our best team got us to the final, playing our best team beat Barcelona, playing our best team available should see off Orient.
We were outplayed in periods on Wednesday, but we outplayed Chelsea at the bridge and lost 2 nil, we outplay almost everyone we come up against but don’t always win, that’s football, but if you weighed up our scoring chances against them, I think we had more.
I read a stat yesterday that they had 700 odd passes against our 300, well when you see Pique do a 6 yard pass to Pedro, who passes it to Busquets, who passes it back to Pique and they have moved 3 inches, it’s no surprise they pass the ball a lot.
Me, I prefer this sort of passing, Clichy to Van Persie, Van Persie to back of net, oops, goal! Or Cesc to Nasri, Nasri to Arshavin, Arshavin to back of the net, oops sorry another goal!
Imagine how long they take to get out the shower? Oi Xavi, pass the soap on a rope you dope, Si-si senor, Xavi to Pedro, Pedro to Iniesta, Iniesta to Messi, see where I’m going! What was Pedro doing in the Barcelona shower you may ask, ha, ha good question that!
As you all know I didn’t go to the game as I was driving to Spain, the plan was to watch the game on TV, then drive to Folkestone, sleep on the channel train then drive south until I was tired, stop the night somewhere and carry on the next day, well after beating Barca Pedro called me and we talked the game through, then Pedro got stuck outside of Arsenal station for 40 minutes queueing, then I got on the train, trouble was, I was so wired I couldn’t sleep, I got Talk shite coverage right up to the Pyrenees, how funny was that.
I’m listening to a fat Jocko drunk who seemed devastated that Arsenal beat Barca, like it wasn’t fair, same with his bitch sidekick Nasser Irani, both of them were gutted, that kept me going for another few hours then Pedro woke up and called me on his way to work, well I got to my destination 2,000 kilometres away in one go, so I got on it large last night 21 hours after we beat Barca! I went to a bar opening and Gordon Strachan was there, I was thinking, I bet you’re gutted as well, but I kept my smugness to myself and drank instead!
Yes I know his name isn’t Nasser, I’m being detrimental.
So next up the Orient on Sunday, I guess he’ll have to use Denilson and Diaby again, shame he can’t bring Ramsey back, he got booed by the Cardiff fans last time out, so he can’t be happy there.
Finally I would like to talk about Alex Song, you all know I have warmed to him of late but against barca he was out of his depth, he was slow, late in the tackle and that I could have forgiven, but he should have been sent off at least twice and that is something we can’t afford if we want to be the best in the world. Busquets made 105 passes to Song’s 21 and 6 tackles to Song’s 1 and that my friends is a gulf to far.
We need a quick big player if we are to face the big teams and win, yes we beat Barca and that’s awesome, but we do have to go back and it is only half time, what to do, we can’t buy?
Here are the options, Denilson, no. Diaby? Maybe. Push Jack deeper, bring Arshavin in and push Nasri forward maybe. Get Ramsey back in the team, now you’re talking, but in three weeks? The only other option would be when Vermaelen comes back, put him there, or push Koscielny forward and Vermaelen back.
And before any of you tell me those two can’t play DM, remember how many of you shouted me down and beat me with a big stick (with nails in) when I suggested Jack Wilshere as a DM? No? I do!
Either way we need to do something, they will target him and I don’t blame them, this is where tactics come in and I for one hope the boss shoves aside sentiment, we are so close now I can taste it!
Have a great day today grovers, next up the Super O’s! The rightful heirs to the Olympic Stadium.
P.S. UEFA took down Pedro’s video yesterday, what value have they got out of that? Going after the PAYING fan… almost as classy as charging £150-300 for a Champions League final ticket.
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McLeish is apparently resting resting his regulars in anticipation of the CC Final. Considering we play a game more than them anyway we could be in for a very tough nigh against a very well rested and motivated Brum.
Losing the CC in the final could knock our whole season out of balance.
Increased it if anything. The price of a movie ticket has shot up considerably. Always makes me laugh when anti-piracy people report losses based on the amount of people that downloaded movies. Assuming that a considerable percentage would’ve gone to the theatre to watch it if they couldn’t download it.
Pedro, I’m not so sure. Blockbusters has announced bankruptcy and that has to be down to movie piracy and downloads, because I’m fairly sure people are still watching movies. In my home city, 2 of the 3 cinemas have closed down. That must surely affect movie star salaries down the line.
Perhaps copying movies and filming games is a different ball-game, excuse the pun. The value of “live” is perhaps the winner here, but future technology will allow quality streams from a phone from the stands. In theory you could organise 5 mates to stream from corners of the ground and have one guy at a laptop doing a switching job and streaming live? You could even throw in fan-style commentary.
Surely that’s a possibility? And if that happens, there’s no way that the guys doing it will pay proceeds to the club or the players.
I agree. The final will not be an easy game especially given the pitch at Wembley.
Then again, given the size of the pitch, we may very well treat it as a home game. We’ll be full strength though. I fancy a 2-0 victory with both the goals in teh second half.
Savage that’s taking it too far, if that starts happening the stewards will simply take away your camera like at the movies. And it’s not like actual telecasts are not available on streams.
Why is it that the English press people are such cunts.
I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone in England, would even consider writing a piece essentially encouraging Barca to go in for Wilshere.
Asinine.
You can bet your bottom dollar that no one in their press are saying to themselves, sell Busquets and let bring player X. They wouldn’t even entertain that to fill column space.
A real shame that the press is saturated with ex-players that have no sense of pride about homegrown players.
Because they still think Jack’s a Frenchman with an abnormally English name.
Savage, Blockbuster is going down the shitter becuase they didn’t adapt their business model.
People are steaming movies online or they’re renting DVD’s from postal services.
People still love the cinema, but it’s very expensive to go to… so I’m not surprised they’re shutting down! I don’t think we’re suffering the same problems over here…
afternoon lads!
anyone wants to talk about how well chamakh fits in our system?
we’ll piss all over burms, the lads look hungry for a trophy, i can’t see them screwing this up. Not cesc, RvP, nasri wilshere
Sure Mayank, as things stand … I’m just imagining what the consequences would be if we simply left the whole thing to market forces and didn’t enforce anything.
It does sound fun though, doesn’t it? Organising with mates to do your own live show of the game and streaming out to the world…
Evening Grovers!
Fabregas has hinted he might as well be staying at Arsenal now! Hopefully a win at Camp Nou will finish the talk forever then .
Great topic that
, streaming and piracy. Let’s forget about film piracy for a second even though as Pedro was saying that is ALL down to business model. The internet is an open sharing protocol to begin with and the model of burn a cd for 2c and sell it for 10$ at thousands % profit doesn’t fly anymore. But as I said let’s forget about that for a sec.
A gunner friend of mine working in Japan was saying a few days ago how ppl there were very interested at seeing Myiachi play but there was absolutely no way to view the game, in any TV channel at any price, and thus they turned to streams. A lot of ppl are starting to like Feyenoord (Arsenal soon) because of that and a lot of others are starting to actually get interested in footy which they didn’t care much before. That surely will translate into money for UEFA and others at some point.
It’s not an enemy it’s how u build your business model.
Miyaichi’s progress is going to be a financial bonanza for us. Japan go absolutely bonkers over their celebrities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/9402141.stm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Rohan, it’s a bit of a 2 edged sword that one tho. He seems like he has great potential, so to fulfill his potential he’ll have to be careful with his celeb status back-home.
evening
IMO, the club should do the games in the pay per view system in good quality with a fan commentator, not Clive fucking Tyldesley!
even pay 50% to the likes of Sky/ITV/insert as appropriate, depending on the country if the game was on TV in the respective country, simples…
I know I would pay and enjoy in the surround sound on a projector
*puffs smoke*
*from a projector
by the way, did anyone congratulate on the title of today’s post? I thought it was genius.
AC Gooner
agree the title is top class
http://www.arsenal.com/newfridaynight
Evening all, just a quick visit ti say hi, I’m a busy little bee today!
Oioi, Mr Bear…
good post, driving to Spain with Talkshite on must have been a pleasure – I drove from Essex to London when Manure lost to Wolves and just listening to these shell shocked Fergie arselickers brought my blood pressure a notch or two, never again
who needs speed, when you are buzzing with adrenaline willing to knock the seven bells out of whatever inbred is on there!
*up
JD fit for weekend.
Goon blog saying TV5 due back April ?
dunno Lurch, I’d rather rest him, although there is no one to play there, as Squillaci is just the same player as Koscielny & Verm, hence playing two out of the three at once seems to upset the balance…
still, if SS can’t keep out Orient, then we have serious problem
Ha, ha Suga, nice one son! Night all.
JD better fuckin play!
bench?
Big Dave,
I’ve just read it, not fucking good at all…
IMO, he’s been run into the ground – never exceeded 40 games @ Ajax, 45 games at higher pace fucked him, simple as that…
don’t see the point of benching him – he’s had 2 years rest ffs!
Vertonghen in the summer, anyone?
guess not…
besides, we need another Djourou, not another TV/Kos
does it make sense with Bartley SUGA?
he is 6’2″1/2
how is he doing at Gers then?
didn’t play last night but gers fans were pretty stoked with him at the weekend.
Old firm clash this weekend should be interesting… there was talk of fielding him as a DM because of his ball control…
dunno, I guess it’s a bit of a risk, but if he does well against Celtic, then I guess we could give him a go against the bottom 10 sides, no?
can be no worse than Squilacci IMO.
There’s always the chance that the pressure is too high if we end up relying on him for a 20 game season due to injuries, but the same could be said of vertonghen TBH.
Besides what’s the point of keeping him if he’s not going to feature in the local cups next year…
without the slightest intention of sounding arrogant, I would love us to do the domestic cup double this year, so that we could resume playing more mixed side in the following seasons
http://www.euractiv.com/en/sports/fifa-loses-fight-block-free-tv-sports-coverage-news-502265
well played, I guess the European Union is good for something afterall
Anyone got link for Arsenal TV Online?
and one for hattrick, there are still some videos about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLY5svbeHE
Vertonghen Suga will be great.
He and Sissoko from Touluse.
And Lukaku when we sell Chamakh.
Add to this Myachi, Frimpomg, JET and Afobe and we look great.
And, sell Almunia.
I can appreciate that SUGA, tho we’ve definitely benefited from the winning mentality fostered by playing our big guns in the cups this year. SO im not sure i’d like to go back to the system of wholesale changes every fortnight just yet, even if we do the quadruple!
song was facing a best attacking side in the world and he was merely doing his job. Yes he did some fouls and therefore he get the stick? Compare to walcott who did almost nothing at all but he is still label as “doing well”. Why? Because he is English? Wil did well but I think Kos is the MOTM.
Maciek,
come to think of it, he would be just another TV/Kos, so we don’t really need JV, IMO…
getting a Djourou clone without the clumsy first few years is vital
Lurch,
by ‘mixed’ I don’t mean wholesale changes, I am talking stuff like bleeding the odd Bartley, Lansbury, Frimpong or JET…
and yep, I would like to see Ramsey back too!
sooo, what do you guys think about the TV situation then?
what did I tell you? do these red letters all over it read ‘Rosicky’ yet?
Is Ramsey back after the CC final. We really need him in order to rotate.
Bringing in the likes of denilson really scares the shite out of me.
I would be skeptical of bringing in even diaby. The further away those two are away from the first team the better in my humble opinion.
and looking at the fixture list, you gotta say that a draw is not an option on Sunday…
I think Rambo’s back at the end of the month Zeus.
re: draw….precisely why we need to play JD SUGA
fair enough, but with Stoke three days later and Brum in a week it’s only logical to rest him
best not to bring logic into this, we’re on a lucky streak – need to ride it.
if that fake brazilian has another mare on sunday he needs to be demoted to reserves till the window re opens
i really dont know why arsene sticks with him
there is not 1 gooner out there that has any good things to say about the boy
i know from a first teamer that there are certain players that feel the same
Great performance from the boys in red.
I particularly loved the way we played in the 2nd half. Repeat that with a little tweeking and a very purposeful attack and we see off Barca.
2nd leg, we should prevent them scoring early, so we can settle. Flood the mid, then 2nd half, tear them a new one.
we could really do without that Sunderland game three days before playing Barca…
where is the snow when you need it?
So buzzing
we beat barce, then i find a pub in london that does £2 pints and free sausage rolls on a friday night!
Am i about to have sex with serina williams?
anything is possible…
Btw
we win the next 5 games and quadruple is on!
haha
watching the arshavin goal
that man is basically a russian midget god
check this out incesc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnw3653f1_g&feature=player_embedded
haha
great vid mate, you rock
thanks
its nothing…
you’re the man!
no, you’re the man! :lol;
argh…
*puffs smoke*
haha
guys, im doing an incredibly hard job right now, so celebrated tonight for wednesday!
sorry for the pissness!
oooh to be a goonah!
Incesc are you pissed and we have a match on Sunday?
I thought that you spanish boys did’nt take a drink!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8&feature=player_embedded#at=11
wenger gave me the night off kwikfit!
i had a couple of sangrias
incesc
that was a top video of the togo twat in action
first miss was the best gooby!
do we miss him???
real madrid spend 200 million and end up with ade on the end of everything.
so funny
and moronholes face when he realises that you cant polish a turd
oh bless…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1358327/Cesc-Fabregas-teases-Jack-Wilshere-I-believe-scared-ask-Lionel-Messis-shirt.html
lets hope he doesnt turn out like a loser a la lampard and ends up like ray parlour on acid
incesc
all of those misses we brilliant, brings back some memories though
hilarious thing is maureenhole probably realised he bought a CF with less finishing abilities than a goat. Good thing for them is they have benzema who’s miles better
hahahaha Adebayor what a legend!
Then you guys slate Bendtner. Just joking..Ade at his best was one was the best strikers in the world. Pity he’s a consistently inconsistent cnut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM
Hope Chamakh starts tommorow.
Sunday i mean
ROHAN… cool vid. Here’s one from an Arsenal fan…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0PtmfZ5p4I&feature=related
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/sunsport_columnists/3420741/Terry-Venables-says-Tottenham-can-land-the-Champions-League.html
someome should tell Venables that drugs are bad, m’kay…
morning
interesting:
Class of 2001… where are they now?
CRAIG HOLLOWAY – GOALKEEPER
CRASHED into non-league with Farnborough and currently playing for Blue Square South club Bromley.
ALEX BAILEY – DEFENDER
SPENT three years at Chesterfield before dropping into non-league with FC Halifax.
BEN CHORLEY – DEFENDER
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MOVED to Wimbledon, then had spells with MK Dons, Gillingham and Tranmere. Now at Orient.
SEBASTIAN SVARD – DEFENDER
HAD a loan spell at Stoke but went to Borussia Monchengladbach. Back in his native Denmark now with Roda JC.
RYAN GARRY – DEFENDER
MADE Prem debut in 6-1 win v Southampton in 2003, which began 49-game unbeaten run. Now at Bournemouth.
MORITZ VOLZ – DEFENDER
DID not make grade at Arsenal. Five years with Fulham and loan spell with Ipswich. Now at Bundesliga St Pauli.
STEVE SIDWELL – MIDFIELDER
WENT on to have a successful spell with Reading, before moving on to Chelsea, Aston Villa and Fulham.
ROHAN RICKETTS – MIDFIELD
PLAYING in Germany now with SV Wilhelmshaven after spells with Spurs, Wolves, Barnsley and Toronto.
CARLIN ITONGA – STRIKER
THROWN on the scrapheap of non-league. Journeyed around at clubs like Enfield, Kettering and Fisher.
JEREMIE ALIADIERE – STRIKER
MOVED to Middlesbrough in 2007. He is a free agent who has been linked to a move to Newcastle.
JEROME THOMAS – STRIKER
WENT to Charlton before a brief spell with Portsmouth. Joined West Brom in 2007 and is a regular.
let’s hope for better return with the current lot then
how sweet would it be to beat barca, get spuds in the quarter and wipe the floor with them
Even better will be to beat them at wembley but this will give them a chance to reach the final
i don’t want them to reach final, we wouldn’t hear the end of it. the better scenario is milan trashing them at the shite lane in 2 weeks
http://arsenalarsenal.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/proof-that-arsenal-are-the-greatest-club-the-world-has-ever-seen/
Gooby,
you know all too well this is not going to happen – Spuds score one goal and it’s game over…
Sorry for the delay, new post!
SUGA3
all i know is that meelan are capable to win the game by 2 goals difference
Arsene Wenger needs to have the boyz razer sharpe in mind & spiwit for the return leg or all this good work will go down the kasi
Gooby,
no, they’re not, they made Spuds look better than they are at home, ffs…