Arteta blazing over... via the 'Le Grove' Instagram
The weather clouded over as the morning wore on, for some reason, it felt like a sign, like this was going to be a troubled day of football.
The defence lined up with Jenkinson and Gibbs as opposing full backs, Mertesacker and Koscielny lined up in the middle. The only other surprise was that Rambo had a slight hamstring strain (young player with a fatigue injury shouldn’t be a surprise).
The first opening of the game started from a duffed Jenko pass, Rosicky picked up the ball and chipped to Gervinho, Robin readjusted his run, picked up the Ivorian’s simple pass and placed his shot clinically under the body of the Sunderland keeper. All within a minute!
Robin was on fire, his next bit of outrageous skill came when he dragged a pass wide of his full back, looked up and chipped the keeper only to be denied by inside of the far post. That little beaut drew a standing ovation!
The first bit of worrying defending came when the ball bounced loose in front of the back 4 and no one made a challenge on the midfielder who let off the type of shot that more often than not finds its way into the top corner.
Koscielny took creative matters into his own hands hoofing the ball outwide to Gervinho, his first touch cut inside the fall back, he followed in but lacked the composure to hit the target. The Adebayor of the wing…
Sessegnon took advantage of a wandering Jenko down the right, Chezzer came out from his box to challenge, the player and ball passed him, luckily the cut back found a red shirt!
Sunderland found their way back into the game when a high loose ball found Arteta’s arm just outside the box. A Stupid handball when you know who is taking the deadball. Larsson easily looped it over the wall to level things up… quite superb.
Arsenal lost all shape after that. Panic stations as always. Jenko summed this up when he was easily bullied off the ball out wide, Sessegnon powered into our box, chipped to Cattermole whose 4 yard header was parried away by the cat like reflexes of Chezzer. Lucky us but torrid defending by Jenkinson.
We had a problem, no attacking penetration from midfield and no real threat from anyone outside Robin. Our efficiency in the final third has been like this all season.
A miserable first half was capped for Jenkinson when he was beaten to a header by all 3ft2 of Larsson, the cut back was nearly turned in.
The 2nd half started with a sub, Santos was brought on as Gibbs was injured, again, obviously. He announced himself on the scene by spooning the worst freekick of the afternoon over the bar.
Bookings for Vaughan, Song and Larsson in short succession intimated the game was dirty… It wasn’t, Howard Webb was losing control though.
As we chased the game frustration grew with Theo Walcott and his poor decision-making, our inability to beat the front post from corners also began to grate.
Sunderland were fighting for their lives… niggly fouls all over the park were breaking up our play.
Robin went close with a near post strike, Alex Songs unmasterful attacking display was summed up when he played a through ball to no one. The very fact he had to take responsibility as the creative hub showed how desperately short of creative spark we are.
Yossi and Andrey came on to save the day, they both added some excitement, especially Andrey, but you do have to ask the point of having a striker on the bench you can’t all upon to chase a game. I mean, they are the supposed to be the goal scorers, right?
We won a freekick from a Wes Brown edge of the box foul, Robin elected to take the strike and he was duly rewarded as we all watched it sail into the top corner! The first in a millennium!
The match restarted, we started to panic, but Robin calmed the side down, we played out the win and took a vital 3 points.
What’s that? Top half of the table? You better believe it!
Conclusion…
I love winning, I do. I eventually enjoyed the result yesterday, but don’t kid yourself, that team is not going anywhere fast if it continues to play like that. The first few games it seemed like the lack of creativity was down to confidence, but the longer flat performances like that continue, the more reality sets in that actually, the days of creating 26 chances a game are long behind us. We don’t appear to have the speed of thought or the know how to carve out quick through balls. Up top, we’re dying on our arse if Robin Van Persie picks up and inevitable 2 monther.
I thought Jenkinson looked very weak in the first half, his game brightened up in the 2nd, mainly due to the fact he didn’t need to defend too much. His crossing was pretty good and he looked far more comfortable. I like him, as does everyone else in the ground, he’s a tryer… I just can’t help but think he needs a months loan somewhere to sharpen up and get the mistakes out of his system. Apprenticeships shouldn’t be served in our first team.
Song was pretty solid in the holding role, however, he shouldn’t be bounding forward as our most advanced midfielder. That type of nonsense works for Barcelona because they’re all exceptional players, it doesn’t work for an Arsenal side that needs players to play their roles.
Arteta slipped into the background again, his weak handball didn’t do himself any favours, but generally speaking, his play was very average. I can’t see what he brings to the side at the moment. He’s ok at defending, he’s ok at passing, but where is the exceptional in his game? I can’t see any hint of Cesc replacement in his football? At the moment we need our experienced players to stand up and be counted, I don’t feel we’ve had that from the Spaniard yet.
Theo Walcott reverted back to infuriating yesterday, the lack of natural instinct for the game was on show for all to see yesterday, poor crossing, badly timed runs and just shoddy all round play really gave us final third efficiency problems. The same has to be said of Gervinho, he’s as good at going round players as he is at running into them and falling over. Though he bagged an assist early on, his contribution greatly faded as the game wore on. I shouldn’t be calling for Oxlade Chamberlain, but he seems like our most efficient forward player outside Robin at the moment.
I’m obviously overjoyed that we took the win, but I’m not willing to ignore the fact we made one of the worst teams in the league look pretty good at times. We needed to deliver a trouncing yesterday because Stoke, sadly will be far more clinical and far more nasty than the Mackems.
A win is a win though, we’re 10th in the league and for me, the only way is up, unless it’s down, but we don’t want to consider that!
P.S. I just wanted to say that the general moaning and griping is far, far worse in cattle class than it is in club level. I’ve never sat near someone who comes in 23 minutes late, bitches and moans, then leaves 12 minutes early. I mean honestly, what is the point in having a ticket if that’s your attitude? Still… at least he turned up. A terrible amount of empty seats considering a Sunday 1330 kick off is one of the easiest to turn up for.
Ratings -
Chezzer – Solid performance from the keeper. Not much he can do from class like that. My Gooner pal suggested he’s no good from long-range. He has the ‘David Seaman’ problem… debatable. 7.5
Jenko – A very weak first half where his mistakes could have cost us 2 goals against decent oppo. Grew with the second half from a defensive point of view. 6
Mertesacker – Assured performance from the big man. Confidence has grown, he was chasing down loose balls in front of the defence and he dominated in the air. 7.5
Koscielny – I really like him as a player but he is gaff prone. A good game today, covered right back well at times. 7
Gibbs/Santos – Didn’t really see too much from Gibbs bar a few sloppy passes. 6 Santos looked a yard faster than he did last time, he was very busy and he looked pretty solid to me. 7
Song – Stick to sitting in front of that back four. I liked the fact he was trying to force the game, I didn’t like the fact he needed to. 6.5
Arteta – Has to bring more to the game than he is at the moment. That handball was dim… 5
Rosicky – Played solidly, he was sparky and he worked hard without ever delivering anything devastating going forward. 6.5
Robin – His genius keeps us away from completed averageness at the moment. I hope he’s sleeping in a cotton wool chamber being fed some sort of £2000 a litre life elixer to keep his body from disintegrating. 8.5
Walcott – A very poor game from the man who wants to be central. Everything was off for him today, the crowd are over the age thing with this contract dispute brewing and he has to start delivering consistently. 5
Gervinho – As I said earlier, the Adebayor of the wing. Must sharpen up in the final 3rd. 6
sug-
yeah. yeah. yeah. you were right…
my issue with eboue was the insistence of playing anywhere but at right back. he is not a cf, but arsene knows…
People why are you so negative?
Trust Arsene, we’re going to “surprise” everyone and snap the title!
Selling Eboue was a cost saving measure in my view.
Frenchie, I agree with you there. Chamberlain should have been on the bench. However, with the way S’land set up with 4-5-1/4-6-0, we needed to have that extra midfielder which is why he probably did like-for-like substitutions. Adding another striker might have cost us in midfield. Yossi did okay when he came on, holding on to the ball and all that.
when is verm back anyway? Park should get a run on wednesday.
bade,
the Championship?
I thought that wenger would have had le coq on the bench.
raheem-
agreed. yossi did well holding the ball.
my argument was not against the results or against the substitutions (i am pleased with them), i was merely questioning the logic of chu on the bench if he was unfit to play…had the results been different, would he actually touch the pitch?
Sagnas wife
http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1586517890/IMG-20110621-00347.jpg
Sug,
You’r probably the only one to really understand Arsene eh!
Fucking shame…..
Just a thought Willie G would never have left if it wasn’t for the tosser Nasri.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11670_7247651,00.html?
poor lad easily pleased.
A record low comments today? We must have won…
“the only way is up, unless it’s down…” Too funny Pedro!
Re RB situation,
I don’t want Eboue back. People tend to have short memory sometimes, he was awful. He was great at 2006, but since then it was a constant decline.
Had the nutty brought CB – bar Mertesacker that was the cover for Vermaelen – we could’ve played Kozzer as RB
Mind you Mancs battered the league with Smalling, who is a CB by definition, playing as RB……
JJ,
People need to work from time to time
Don’t worry as the LG night section will balance the books…. right Kwik fit?
bade,
yep, I’ve had him all figured out
JJ,
a win is a win, a rare freekick goal to win it had the nice surprise wow factor, there were a few good signs, but we still played pretty shit and that was only Sunderland without a striker on the pitch…
bade,
Eboue is a player who got completely ruined by Wenger by putting him out wide…
we was hailed as one of the best RBs in the world, remember?
SUGA – I hear you. I will take the win but am under no pretenses that we have turned any corners.
Bade – If we had lost I doubt people would let a little thing like work get in the way of a good blog rant…
gambon says:
October 17, 2011 at 12:26
Fucking joker…..”It depends what you call a trophy”……..”it depends what you call commitment”
He actually thinks he can change the meaning of words.
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We don’t call him spin doctor for nothing.
Shows how deluded he is concerning our competitiveness in the league and other competitions.
Yes but to be honest, I think he failed as RB before we bought Sagna, that’s why Sagna was bought in the first place
Don’t get me wrong I though Eboue was going to be the next big thing in RB position, but he didn’t meet the expectations, though i don’t undermine Arsene’s role of ruining to dust what left good there
bade,
well, actually, buying Sagna left me scratching my head and when it transpired that Ebowie was to play in more advanced role I thought for the first time that Wenger was a bit cuckoo
“left-back Andre Santos will continue in defence ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League group stage clash away to Marseille, with Kieran Gibbs unlikely to be risked due to an inflammation of his stomach muscles.”
perhaps a good shit might help…
as much as I don’t rate him, I think Aryan Pele would run riot in the central role yesterday if he was permitted to play and the result miht have been slightly different…
The reality is that since those commercial deals will expire soon we need a winning team and we need one fast.
Otherwise we just might end up with the same ones we have now.
bade too right we will
Big Dave says:
October 17, 2011 at 10:21
Santos wearing tights yesterday?
Don’t worry Big Dave he only wears white stocking hold ups!
David,
if any fucker on the board had an ounce of brains, he would read DooM Raider Massive sites and had about 40% of the ideas implemented…
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”
Bill Gates
Song was wearing gloves, what a fairy
Very interesting article on the arsenal.com player (free) regarding the new medical facility just opened at Colney. I remember talk about how we should be looking to america for the way they do things in the NFL, NBA etc with regards our training and injury management. Seems the club have been doing just that.
Well Said Sugar
People want to be angry with the board.
Im not sure what for?
All theyve done is not know what the feck to do except let Wenger do everything.
I think whats unforgivable is given the season we had last season is Gazidis and co. giving themselves huge bonuses.
Suga3 The board and the players always look at le grove for feedback.
You would see song with gloves anymore.
won’t*
David,
your namesake, Mr Dein was about the only proper football man up top who actually could be arsed to watch Reserve League games…
owner’s eye fattening the horse (a proverb) and all that…
with him gone, too much power was vested in Wenger who may be a coach but he is no businessman…
kwik,
it’s warmish October, not fucking Xmas with games cancelled and all that shit, no?
Attendance 60,078.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdug6yHJB40
Speaking of Reserves.
That Chuks Aneke dude is one big boy isnt he? Looks incredibly comfortable on the ball.
The fact is that during the years Wenger has a penchant for benching players who are on form and constantly playing the shyte ones.
The Oxo and Coq thing doesnt surprise me at all. By all accounts people have been saying that Park looks the business in training. I bet we see Benik Afobe before him though.
There are so many boarded-up houses in Liverpool, that the window cleaner goes round with a fucking sander.
badum tshhh
Someone at the .com must have taken a PR course recently, cuz this is the best the site has done in recent times.
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/medical-centre-opens-at-training-ground
We’re really struggling today aren’t we, Marseille should be tough so fingers crossed eh.
keyser-
i know ig will not agree, but if the first half of saturday’s match against toulouse was an indication of how good om are…i am not worried. the scoreless draw was unlucky. om defense was a shambles much worse than arsenal of late.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90uJ1ZWU804
zeus,
yeah, it’s a well made video, the quesion is, why so late?
and the Diaby bit at the end made me lol, I really wish he stays fit for once and is played as far upfront as possible…
David, did you know Barca tried to poach Aneke from our academy, certainly one to watch!!
That shouldn’t really be an indication though, Marseille must be better than that, our main problem from last year is that the only continuity we’ve got left is Van Persie, Chesney and Theo.
Marseille didn’t lose all their best players did they ?!
Theo was pretty pap yesterday, I thought Song played well…
Theo needs someone to pull his strings.
Forgot about Song, he did play well.
Goon in 60 seconds I think it was Afobe they tried to poach.
I see Rosicky has been getting rave reviews about his performance .
I bet he will be dropped now while theo continues to keep his place.
Rosicky’s probably knackered, he can’t run as fast as Theo either.
keyser-
what i noticed is that om had difficulty dealing with speedy forwards. on a number of occassions tabanou (i think) beat them badly. his finishing was as shocking as theo’s. however, if theo or gervinho can get behind om back 4, i think we can cause them real problems.
Sug
The TV5 bit was also laugh worthy. He is considered a ‘success strory’ and he hasn’t even recovered yet.
Hopefully this is the start of ptoper diagnosis and return dates from now on.
The anti-gravity machine looks interesting too.
I haven’t really watched them much, I remember last year they seemed very defensive against Manchester United home and away and just strangled the life out of them, they didn’t create much but either team could’ve gone through.
With us against even Sunderland, we scored early and we should’ve torn them apart, once we let teams back into it any confidence we have evaporates really quickly I dunno if they’ve kept the same players from last year, but considering how fragile we are right now, I think it’ll be tough to play the waiting game against them and we’re most likely to crack.
They’ve lost 3 but got like 6 draws right ? In the second half did they tighten up ?!
zeus,
once they are done with the weather machine, Usmanov’s researchers will step in and then watch us go
Sorry that was for Frenchie.
AW has been speaking on french radio
“We’re coming back slowly. We’re not too far from 4th place but the first place is out of reach at the moment.”
AW “I dont think I will lose RVP.If the players leave it’s not linked with titles, players don’t go to Man City for titles, they go for money.”
keyser-
i did not watch the second half. 1-6-3.
i was surprised by their play; i always felt they were a better defensive side than what i saw that first half. that is why i stated that if the first half was any indication…i think they can be opened up.
loic remy is a forward i rate. when he was shopping for sides last year, he mentioned arsenal (as many used to) and i had hoped arsene would have jumped. andre ayew looks strong on the left. they do have potential threats. so you are right: waiting will be the wrong tactic. arsenal need to attack consistently throughout the match.
ig predicts om win. i disagree.
AW “A player who has a choice with 2 clubs with same ambition, they’ll go for the Club who pay more”
AW ” People forget we had to build a new midfield after losing Nasri, Cesc & Wilshere who was very important and who will come back on january.”
“never knew Park was going to sign for Lille, I dnt read newspapers or websites, & I was talking to Monaco & they never told me abt Lille”
AW “I’m used to work a lot, I must have been lazy in a previous life, and Ive been punished”
“I had half of the dressing room who wanted to leave this summer, there was an Asian Tour, etc … what saved us is this Club is very solid”
keyser-
another thing that may have contributed to their play is the fact that their midget was missing. valbuena did not start, nor was he on the bench.
Wenger : “f Barcelona or Madrid pay tomorrow 3 times less than Malaga, then the players will go to Malaga. It makes sense”
lot of info in there Lille, Na$ri, jack coming on jan
half the dressing room? oh no.
lille? what did arsene say about lille?
amazing in it frenchie
that he didnt steal park as reported all over the news, said he didnt know he was going to sing for them
of course he did not steal Park, zut alors, St Arsene?
similar to never tapping up a player, though he had to wait an entire summer to sign the ox for doing exactly that?
So the Lille manager is a liar then?
i think he is trying to rebuild the friendship with lille, n hopefully some chance of us getting Hazard
abnet-
amazing? first, to nearly lose half the dressing room and then, next, to admit to the fact!!! amazing? it must be more of his hyperbolic propaganda, intended to garner support from the board. “not only did i save half the dressing room, i gave you chu!!!”
arsenal’s chances of bringing in hazard are next to zero.
kwik fit – he said monaco didnt tell arsenal that he is in negotiations with lille
Lose the dressing room ? You don’t think he mean’t Clichy, Nasri, Cesc, Ebway, Bendtner, Denilson all left and others wanted to leave ?!
frenchie – I remember they had a decent side with players like Niang a few years ago, but they seemed pretty average then, like a good unit but not special, us last year I think we’d have a good chance, this year every game we play’s up for grabs and the Velodrome is a hostile place to go.
Sunderland could basically sit someone like Sessagnon on Mertesacker and wait for the chances to come, Remy could do the same, Marseille have 6 points ? Put that up against poor league form and your guess is as good as mine.
Frenchie
amzing – a football club manager adimits with 8 games in to the season half of his former team wanted to leave the club
amazing – we know arsene’s secrecy and protecting any news from the club but today he let it all out
amazing – he directly insulted greedy na$ri , that never happen before he never talks bad thing abt his former players
amazing – he say all this to french media coz he dont trust z english media , and arsene never gives a radio interview in England
keyser-
is it not amazing how we forget certain players sooner than others. it completely went beyond my comprehension that he may have been talking about b52, denilson, eboue and clichy, as well as nasri and cesc.
Maybe it’s your memory, heh, against Sunderland I sat there with my brothers and when Arteta blazed over, Santos and then Theo, we were trying to remember players who instead of just powering free-kicks around walls tried to get it over the wall and dip in.
Baptista managed not only to get it over the wall but the ball bounced a couple of times before it went in, Denilson did it against Hull, and then finally Van Persie stepped up.
They showed the replay of his technique and it’s a wonder he doesn’t try it alot more, though he did say later that was his favourite position to take a free-kick, he scored one just like it at Highbury against Wigan in the Carling Cup.
abnet says:
October 17, 2011 at 21:07
Frenchie
amzing – a football club manager adimits with 8 games in to the season half of his former team wanted to leave the club
Did he not explain why half of the team wanted to go?
‘Watching Arsenal now is like seeing a once beautiful girl, years later: fat, pushing a pram and eating cheesy wotsits.” Nasri
frenchie: IG predict a draw or a win for OM. a bit different, but I do hope we can win that one and profit of the current frailties of OM. OM is no Sunderland, and Velodrome is no Stadium of Shite…
hi frenchie!
do you rate Gameiro in PSG? the boy is totally on fire atm (a hat trick over the weekend). the french to rate him a lot. is he a kind of fox in the bx type of player?
Deschamps played a weakened formation away at Toulouse with the amount of injuries to top players, and looking at Arsenal game. imagine us without 5 of our first 11… ended up around 60min with a man down and OM was still the most threatening. besides, Gignac only played last 10m and I’d bet he’s been kept for the CL game.
I wonder what’s the fitness status of the squad, but it’s usually a hard line until the next international break.
i saw Lille play at the weekend. 1-0 down at half time. enters Hazard (who was on the bench) and he turned things around: 3-1 for Lille.
Joe Cole is doing well in Lille. Didn’t do a thing at Pool…
Ivory
do you remember OM back in the 70s? after the 1974 WC in germany, they signed Jairzinho and Paulo Cesar! what a team they had. and their supporters are really wild, oh dear…
Craig Eastmond and Gavin Hoyte have both rejoined arsenal reserve team again
Josip: I was there, even got a ball signed by Cantona, Papin, Waddle, and others …
http://www.om4ever.com/GrandesFinales/93OMMilan.htm
well, I dont remember the 70s, was hardly born late 70s… but I know about it.
josip-
what it do? i think gameiro is a midget (no offence, dale), but he can score. he plays best when running off the defense and is tricky on his runs. i would not describe him as a fox in the box. he really would have done well with a cesc providing him through balls.
Heh, what’s your take on the scandal ?!
Keyser: what scandal?
you talk about OM-VA?
ig-
that is right, you did say draw or win. but i knew if i attributed only the win to you, it would provoke a response.
i noticed that gignac grew a second chin. he looks well fit.
should ask Josip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Skoblar
Yeah people go on about Wenger and Monaco most don’t have a clue.
Also on Gignac supposedly they sent him away to a spa or something and he’s lost a lot of weight, Phillippe Auclair was talking about it on the guardian podcast.
Keyser: and about that scandal, I feel exactly like all French supporters. Glassmann is a treator, Primorac a corrupted man, loyal only to Wenger, and that they are a big bunch of hypochrites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Glassmann
gosh, they didnt even ask to win the game, just to avoid injuries to be fit for a European game. hardly cheating.
Wenger is a hypocrit ? Heh, why ? I know how you feel, was just wondering for your take on it all.
new med facility open
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/medical-centre-opens-at-training-ground
I don’t know why but that ginger kid makes think of South Park.
why? to me, what happens on the pitch, stays on the pitch.
you don’t blabla the team talks to your girlfriend, and Glassmann acted like a total treator to the French cause.
They are the Stoke of France, they break legs for pleasure, and when they were asked to go easy on them, as the result doesnt have any consequence on the league, it’s understandable you agree coach to coach. Then Primorac couldnt control Glassmann and it went the way we know.
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/justice/va-om-les-secrets-du-match-a-scandale_596105.html
Glassmann should have just shut up, Primorac should have told him to shut up too, and that’s it. a man who couldnt find anymore jobs in France. because no one could rely on him. but one man, offered him a job, because of the “Alsace Connection”.
see Domenech, Wenger, Glassmann
that wedgie treadmill looks fun
Keyser: either you play it ethical all the way, either you dont pretend to be a white dove… and Wenger is no angel to me. hiring Primorac after that? seriously?
I just thought if you lived through the scandal as a Marseille fan at the time you’d have a first hand account of it all ?!
The worst thing you can do in any Sport is cheat, that’s it really, once you cross that line, not blur it by diving or feigning injury, but cross it, it’s no longer Sport anymore.
Ironically it makes me think of the game before the Carling Cup final, you’d have thought Primorac might have learn’t, though Stoke are backed by bet365 so they have the money anyway.
What did Primorac do ? and why is Wenger no angel ?!
Primorac was their coach, he had agreed with Bernes to play it easy. Even if Bernes, OM’s coach, should never have asked for it, Primorac should never have accepted.
Glassmann couldnt keep it for himself, so he decided to tell it to his girlfriend, and that came out.
Then Primorac came back on his words, denied being responsible and arranging it, and put all on Tapie. Tapie was also involved politically, and they used it to make an example.
an angel doesnt need to lie.
When will we rid ourselves of Gavin Hoyte. He’s rubbish.
Wenger talks lot of rubbish to protect his players but mostly his decisions. he’s lost the advantage he had when he came, now all coaches have adopted the methods he used, and found new ones.
And selling a sustainable model / profitable machine / when you pocket £7m a year is disgusting. Raising tickets to make up for the recession and vat, pricing out middle-class, buying players who can’t play in first team week in week out, constantly selling players before they are 30 to make a profit out of them rather than seeing the whole picture and if they whole club is not weakened.
Letting players go, not replacing them… so many things.
Ah Tapie was a politician, got you.
finding 250k euros cash at the parents house of a player, is kinda… not stupid… but … planted.
I still don’t get where we’ve got Wenger gets 7 million a year from, it was 6 then suddenly 7.
He hasn’t cheated though right ?!
sorry 250 000 francs.
Keyser: he got an extension to 2014 and I suspect a percent of benefit on sales like any sales manager.
cheated? hm. I’ll say as long as you dont get caught that’s not cheating. you seem to forget these footballers do that for work.
If you think OM-VA was an exception, then you dont really know professional sports…
if Song persisted to make bad fouls, despite the warnings he never got, and kept going forward, depite the warnings he never got, then I could only blame it on Song. But Im not that stupid, and Song either.
and he cheated on his wife ffs.
talking about Gladiator last time
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Fcorruption.htm
nite nite
I know this life’s unfair, rarely if ever anything comes for free, there’s loads of things that could be going on that we’ll never know about, like if Wenger’s got a Super injunction out, to not only get caught but to get punished like Marseille did, they must’ve fucked up big time.
You can’t have it both ways if you’re going to make assumptions one way, then be consistent, like if Marseille got caught fixing one game, what makes you think that was the ONLY one ?!
“Keyser: he got an extension to 2014 and I suspect a percent of benefit on sales like any sales manager.”
I think Pedro got to the bottom of that, and it was rubbish.
Don’t get the Song thing.
Nite.
bloody yanks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/17/premier-league-owners-relegation
You can’t have it both ways if you’re going to make assumptions one way, then be consistent, like if Marseille got caught fixing one game, what makes you think that was the ONLY one ?!
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I didnt say the contrary. the club went to liquidation, new owners, came back up.
alright, let’s call it 6m then if it makes you happier.
That’s still too much for killing our squad.
The board of Aston Villa, owned by the American Randy Lerner, said they were confused and surprised by Bevan’s remarks about unnamed American and Asian owners. “If he intended this group to specifically include Aston Villa, as could be inferred by his comments, then we would ask him to confirm as much. We might also add that the founding of the Football League in 1888 was led by a previous chairman of Aston Villa, William McGregor.” It is understood that Villa have not been involved in any discussions of the sort described by Bevan and have no intention of any such involvement.
RvP IS COMMITED TO ARSENAL YOU FAWKERS…..
IvoryGoonz – Don’t really have a problem with that, just you can’t isolate us, the whole league almost is about excess, what team would you hold up as efficient ?!
oh ok
still, stupid yanks…
Is Ivory still going on about Marseille? Fuck me, nothing ever changes on here.
What’s up you mugs? Been a while..
Hey Ivory,
You were ” hardly born in the late 70′s”?
Long labour?
Watched the video on .com re: Medical facility…..the doctor mentions that a reason why a player would want to leave to Spain/America etc might be due to a piece of equipment at a club in one of those leagues. What????
That piece of equipment he is referring too must be a cup!!
And Wenger seems to think money shouldn’t be a hinderence regarding the medical facility….Well, why not have the same attitude with quality players and squad depth?
Come one Wenger….spend a little in January!
Squad depth = squad rotation = less injuries = less money spent on injured players (DIABY).
Kay, thanks, bye!
NEW POST!
Phil: yes, had streptococus, staphilococus, yellow fever, they gave me penicilin, I was allergic, made it worse, they gave me aspirin, even worse…
even the doctor wanted to throw me in the bin, but hey, guess what, my survival instinct was stronger.
Phil: and for your information that was a figure of style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron
thanks