FINAL DAY

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Well, well, well my dears.

The season draws to a close and the major battle is who finishes 5th or 6th (a distant chance at 4th). My money would be on United. They have an easier game, they don’t have a European final to play, our manager has a history of fielding weak players when he has the vivid taste of Europa in his mouth.

At this point, who really cares?

The objective of the season was Champions League football, so there’s no way Emery is going to do anything damaging in this game for the sake of a few million in prize money.

What I’d like to see is some of the kids given a game. I’d have hoped the manager was going field a few more younger players this season. The age-old banter years conundrum of ‘should I blood a player that’s maybe not ready, or an experienced player that’s shite.’ Today, it’s clear, give the kids a go.

Emery is being clear that his selection is about fitness and preparedness after landing at 6am after the Valencia game… WHICH, my brother, dad, brother in law and his dad went to… and were furious I didn’t mention (photo from brother, who is a DJ if you like trance). Anyway, back to Emery.

“Tomorrow we are going to prepare for Sunday’s match but I am going to decide with the players who are hungry and in good physical condition to play this match.”

The gameplan is simple.

“We are going to play with the idea of imposing our gameplan, our capacity and our team against them. We know it’s going to be a difficult match with long balls, second actions and set-pieces, so we need to defend well in these situations.”

Yep, we’re going to impose the game plan.

Key output of today is that we don’t pick up any injuries… then we can prepare with as much of our squad available as possible. Then it’s with the gods.

I’ll keep this post brief. If you want a great podcast to listen to, jump on the SECOND Arsenal Opinion of the week, this latest was done with guest star, Demian Arriaga. He grew up in Venezuela, so he has some great stories about how he got into Arsenal, and there’s a nice piece on the time he met Edu. He also played SNL last night, pretty epic.

Follow him @DemianArriaga

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TR7

London

Don’t use the old ‘lord Wenger’ trick on me. Come up with something more concrete. Everyone knows I have been Wenger out for ages.

Un na naai

DB10

Trust me mate. I come from that part of London. Every fucker i know supports Chelsea and I’ve had it losing finals to them. Sick to death of it. When we used to hear them I was gracious in victory. Never rubbed their noses in it and once drogba happened I was ruined, day in day out. Please Auba and laca give me the opportunity for some payback.

Un na naai

Used to beat them (not hear)

Freddie Ljungberg

Un na Kos on his last legs and injured half the season Monreal past it Holding and Bellerin missed half the season, luckily Mustafi has been healthy enough to fuck us over all season long. That’s our entire back four from last season. Leno improvement on Cech Sokratis decently solid. Torreira excellent first half of the season, faded a bit after new year, improvement but we still have Xhaka and Ozil dragging us down Guen was bought for the future and only got so many games because our other options are worse than ligue 2 level. Licht was free and… Read more »

TheLegendaryDB10

TR7

but I am reasonably certain we are not going to see any significant improvement under him in the next 12 months.

As much as I do hope we win the EL, I am not that positive about his output next season. As much as I am still in the fence with him, I am now genuinely curious as to what we do this TW. I know thst it hinges on whether we qualify for CL or not, but it will be telling of the club’s ambition.

Marko

Marko the great debater. Common sense isn’t an answer, also, you’ve fuck all so who you’re attempting to fool is beyond me. Asked a civil and sensible question

You’re one to talk. You don’t debate anyone really pal you insult you condescend and you run away. Also common sense is an answer. Arsene Wenger was incapable of improving us the last 10 years shows that. And common sense would suggest that with enough time and money even your more average to good manager would improve us. Emery is somewhere between that. Anyway look we’ll see how it goes next season

Champagne Charlie

Marko

Lol insult and runaway? I’ve never ran from anyone here, and I asked you basic question that got nothing but your trademark mong answer.

It’s you that doesn’t debate a thing. Too fucking stupid to, only here to goad a select few and rehash the same lines.

Redtruth

No exaggeration, Aubamegang has missed a nigh on dozen sitters….quality my ass.

Un na naai

Marko

Wrong
Most of the wenger types in the squad are gone
Remember wenger likes tippy tappy types. One touch incisive passing. They are all gone. Replaced by journey men robots.

No more Sanchez, santi, Aaron, Jack, tr7, Giroud.

Theo ox welbz cech Coquelin paulista, mertesacker, nacho, jenkison and Elneny all gone or going too.
It’s pretty much his entire squad going into his final season. Gone in 18 months.

When emery falls he will fall on his own sword next season and there will be nowhere for the likes of you or RH to hide.

rollen

So stupid to compare Wenger’s time PL to today’s. Everyone keeps improving while Arsenal regresses. Everton Wolves Palace would wipe Wengers cowards every time. Why do u think Gazidis fucked off so quickly? He anticipated way worst season 18/19. Pedro keeps talking about this mythical sauce yet no such person at the club.

Marko

The 70 million argument is laughable. We need to be spending that alone on wingers or a CB or two not a whole squads worth

rollen

Europa is a must win now!

Un na naai

Freddy

Mid table still don’t have the amount of internationals we have. We’ve got two World Cup winners in our squad who are playing worse than they have in their entire careers.

I guarantee you if you have this squad to half these mid table managers they’d have improved upon last season.

Champagne Charlie

Brilliant common sense.

‘How will Emery improve us where Wenger couldnt’

‘He’ll get better players bought for him, and time’

Sweet. So Emery is an utter irrelevance I’m the “common sense” equation, glad you cleared that up.

3rd, 3rd, 3rd at Valencia
5th, 5th, 7th at Sevilla

There’s my questioning of his capacity to improve us. But your “common sense” answer just undid all that so no worries.

rollen

Last few years of Wenger and Gazidis incompetence cost Arsenal hundreds of millions.

TheLegendaryDB10

Un

And that is one of the many reasons I hope that we beat Chelski in the EL final. It will be even better than that win in the Community Shield where we kicked off Maureen’s meltdown.

Marko

asked you basic question that got nothing but your trademark mong answer.

It was more of a preemptive response Charles I know you and I know that you can’t debate or be pleasant in the slightest. It was a bit of a dick thing to say but I really don’t care what you have to say. I was just saving ourselves some time

scotsgooner

auba’s penalty miss versus the spuds well fucked us over in the end.

Graham62

Oh deary me!,here we go again. So Emery is worse than Wenger after just one season. Arsenal fans are snobs of the highest order Ok, we faltered in recent weeks but based on the tools at his disposal, Emery did a more than adequate job. We have a European final to look forward to( our first in 13 years) and the shite that was consuming the club is slowly being flushed out. I still remain on the fence with regards Emery but at least it’s a step forward, whatever way you want to look at things. He definitely deserves another… Read more »

MidwestGun

If you look at it unemotionally … hard to do…. it’s football.. Emery seems like a “maintainer” type of manager.. so status quo… As I’ve been saying the Club picked the safest option of available managers because they were scared of the slide down the table. Not sure that will move us forward. Then again… it would be nice to win a European tourney… so there is that for now.

Freddie Ljungberg

Un na

We don’t have that many internationals anymore

we also don’t have 2 german internationals anymore either.

also it’s irrelevant, we still spent like a midtable club last summer, with the worst squad in the top 6 (yeah, I know, you believe in the easter bunny too) with key players getting too old on top of that. why would you expect us to improve relative to our rivals?
If anything the teams below us has gotten stronger than before, maybe because they spend more than us too?

Receding Hairline

Auba actually missed two sitters that would see us third now

Against Spurs missed penalty

Last week against Brighton from a few yards

He scores a lot of goals though and we should get him a winger next season.

Champagne Charlie

Marko

You’d never heard of a vo2 max, or reference to a 9.5 in football, let’s not pretend you know me. It was just your standard take on all things football alongside the tone you bring daily. Irony being you spend more time than anyone else pointing gingers of blame about the place.

Redtruth

Un na naai
“Most of the wenger types in the squad are gone
Remember wenger likes tippy tappy types.”

Bendtner lol lol

Marko

There’s my questioning of his capacity to improve us. But your “common sense” answer just undid all that so no worries. I don’t get how you’re not grasping this mate. We’re poor yeah with a poor squad of players this is not in question anymore and you improve that with signing up better players yeah. That takes time and investment. To improve the squad is also no longer dependent on one man. So whether or not you are or are not totally convinced by the manager isn’t that important (especially you) because if everyone else does their job properly that… Read more »

omar

Here’s the thing. Ask any of these critics at the beginning of the season if they would take 5th place with a Europa finals as the route to Champions League. Considering that we finished 12 points off 4th place last year. No one realistically expected us to walk back into the top 4 after Wenger’s demise but the same Emery that is being criticised took them way closer than anyone expected and is now being crucified. Another thing, to those who are trying to downplay a 7 point gain because we spent 70 million. Using those same parameters, if Arsenal… Read more »

TR7

Europa is a shit competition. We were dreadful last season and yet nearly knocked Atletico Madrid, the eventual champion, out in semis.

Guns of SF

Emery will be judged more harshly next season as it’s his own without any transition stuff to contend with
We win el and lets see him rebuild this team
Can’t wait

Un na naai

He’s done it again
He’s done it again
Oooooh marko he’s done it again
😂

Marko

You’d never heard of a vo2 max, or reference to a 9.5 in football, let’s not pretend you know me

That makes sense. I was being honest I never heard 9.5 being used before. Been watching football since I was a kid been getting into petty squabbles on here for a few years and not once ever heard of 9.5. I don’t see why I’d need to know vo2 max

Pierre

Free “A midtable spend was never going to fix this defence, anyone thinking that is deluded.” is it deluded to think that we may have achieved more defensively if the manager had made the defence a priority. He seemed a little preoccupied with the offensive side of the team , an area which didn’t need addressing in all honesty…..we had scored something like 120 goals the previous season in all competitions. I don’t think it would have been too much to ask and expect that Emery worked tirelessly on our defensive set up as we were very open to the… Read more »

PhD2020

Pedro,I think I am still in moderation.Are you able to allow clearance for me to post please. 🙂

omar

1-1 draw at home and losing 0-1 away to Atletico Madrid. How exactly is that nearly knocking someone out.

Champagne Charlie

Emery is getting the “at least he’s not Wenger” buffering treatment. If Wenger had delivered his season folk would want the super special ‘win the Europa and walk’ routine. This pining for Emery to transform us comes from a lazy understanding of how change is in fact just change, the better or worse part is to be defined and not a guarantee. Emery has a 3 year deal essentially (final year option). I’ll say again: 3rd, 3rd, 3rd Valencia 5th, 5th, 7th Sevilla 2nd, 1st, (over by mutual consent) PSG 5th………………Arsenal Not sure where the confidence comes from that we’ll… Read more »

Marko

Pedro it is a bit snobby of an Arsenal fan expecting to address the squad and a declining club inside one season. We’re probably 5 years further and significant investment away from even thinking of challenging for a league title

Radio Raheem

So under Emery we’ve halted two consecutive drops in league position. We’re also in a European cup final. Might not be a perfect season but it’s something to build on.

Wenger spent £100m on strikers yet finished worse off.

Like I’ve said before it wasn’t a given that our strikers performed better this season. The coach has take some credit for that. It’s generally accepted narrative is that an incoming manager brings his own players, no? Instead he has mostly worked with he has found and extracted more from the squad.

Samesong

TR7

Europa is a shit competition

Do you think the players share that same view as you? The fans that will attend final?

Would you rather we just lost the final because it’s a shit competition?

The euro competition is Arsenal level whether you like it or not. Some of you fans want everything to be perfect without understanding there’s a building process.

If that’s the case then The CL was too good for us.

I’ll be happy to win a European cup.

Redtruth

Aubameyang on the whole is a poor finisher whose goals tally flatter him.

Champagne Charlie

Marko

Straw man, who asked for a title challenge? The point is we’re 12 months on and not a step closer to our next title than last term.

Progression was order of the day, and it wasn’t delivered. Your title chat is an argument nobody is making. Not even close in fact.

Un na naai

Freddy Look. We have completely differing opinions on this and neither of us is going to concede as it’s not a clear right/wrong debate but one of viewpoint. The squad is of course sub par Not denying that We are spending less than most clubs in our league. Not denying that But we had two (ozil and Ramsey) big sales on this summer and chose to leave it We also could have offloaded Mustafi in the summer but chose to leave it. He was happy with what he had. He didn’t make those sales. On the whole squad front Yes.… Read more »

Champagne Charlie

Arsenal winning the EL it’s a huge shot in the arm for our ability to overhaul things this summer.

We win and it’s a massive get out of jail, we don’t, and there’s no redeeming quality from the season. It’s that precariously poised.

TR7

Samesong

‘Would you rather we just lost the final because it’s a shit competition?’

Nah, absolutely essential we win Europa for it will mean more transfer kitty and additional CL revenue next season. My comment was more about suggesting a place in Europa final should not lead any of us believe that we have improved much from where we were last season.

Un na naai

MarkoStraw man, who asked for a title challenge? The point is we’re 12 months on and not a step closer to our next title than last term. This constant moving of the goal posts exposes the lack of substance their stance presents. If you have to pretend that someone’s point is different to the actual point you’re making then you’re either too dim to get the point or your argument lacks merit and substance. Nobody expects a title from emery. Don’t be absurd We expect improvement, not determination after net £70m spend and two of the best strikers in Europe.… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

Let’s put this into perspective for a second. At the start of the season nobody would have put us in front of city or the bindippers as they were so far ahead. Squad wise, manager wise and further along in there projects. The brief from Stan would have been get us back into the champions league,That’s it. No cups, no winning or even challenging for the league, just get us back into the champions league. We got 7 more points and one place higher than last season. We missed out on third by 2 points, and don’t forget that’s as… Read more »

Un na naai

Deterioration

Emiratesstroller

I have not watched today’s game, but frankly with the team that was selected I am surprised that we got a victory. Earlier today I made the case that Arsenal needs to focus on recruiting at least two defenders and that is an imperative. Our current resources are simply not good enough. We have conceded 52 goals in each of last two seasons. I don’t know what our budget is but we need to beef up that department preferably with two players who can and will give us several years of service. If we add in Bellerin and Holding into… Read more »

Marko

If Wenger had delivered his season folk would want the super special ‘win the Europa and walk’ routine. Again if you can’t see the difference between guy in job one season and guy in job 22 years and given plenty of time and chances to improve us only to see us decline then I can’t help you out. 3rd, 3rd, 3rd Valencia 5th, 5th, 7th Sevilla 2nd, 1st, (over by mutual consent) PSG 5th………………Arsenal Not sure where the confidence comes from that we’ll make strides next season, yet to see the pattern emerge in Emery’s managerial career to date. How… Read more »

Moe

C’mon, Wenger was like a stale moldy bread. Could only have gotten worse, no way Wenger would have improved this team. Not too chuffed about Emery, but will give him one more season. Ownership needs to spend well to make us competitive again, then we can properly assess Emery.

Ozil out
Xhaka out
Monreal out
Elneny absolutely out
Mustafi absolutely out
Trade Mikhi even if part of his wages remain on our books.

Anything less than 5 good signings, we’re fucked for next season.

This is the gospel here for all you laymen.

Marko

Straw man, who asked for a title challenge? The point is we’re 12 months on and not a step closer to our next title than last term.

MidwestGun

I agree we were never going to address the needs of the squad in one season… and many season of decline and ignoring needs in the transfer market.. so a lot to overcome. But we had a lot of the same issues. Poor defensively, Poor on the road., Choking must win games. Things a manager can change. So its hard to say anything other then we were about the same. We didn’t get worse in terms of position. A few more points actually and we were better against top 6. Made a EL finals being the positives. And we do… Read more »

Radio Raheem

We could accrue the same number of points next season but finish in the top 4. Points accrued is always relative to other clubs. Your finishing position, however, is a more definitive way of setting targets.

Emery’s target shouldn’t differ from Wenger’s – deliver champions league, good cup run and be competitive in the league beyond February.

Marko

Obviously it is disappointing that we have finished 5th but nevertheless we are
a lot closer this season to top 4 than last. We finished last season 12 points behind that position.Moreover our record against Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd is a lot better than
in recent seasons. Some might argue that was not that important, but at least
we have closed the gap.

Stroller you are very close to being called an Emery fanboy or getting a ban with that type of talk around here.

Redtruth

Winning the Europa league would be Arsenal’s finest achievement since 2004.

Un na naai

How can the club have made a massive loss?

We sold ox Theo and Giroud for £85m

We brought in lacazette Aubameyang for £90m

Sold coq, paulista Gibbs and szcezney for £36m and spent £62m this sunmet

Net spend £31m

Unless arsenal is now turning a profit for £5m annually then how can this transfer activity incite losses at a time when our stadium payments are highly reduced and PL revenue/sponsorship has greatly increased?

Champagne Charlie

“How much improvement are you looking for inside a likely two year contract?“ How much is reliant on numerous factors, but the ambition should be for improvement, and the assessment based on the amount of improvement made rather than whether there was any. 5th, 3rd, 1st Atletico under Simeone. He’s a brazen example, but beyond the finishing position and number of points, the Atletico fans would’ve seen their side transforming in front of their eyes, black and white style. Arsenal this season haven’t done that, we’ve been Arsenal of the last two seasons. It’s been like painting watching us go… Read more »

Radio Raheem

*deliver champions league football, even

Un na naai

Rt

Yeah right
Reaching the 06 final pisses all over the European league cup

Emiratesstroller

Marko I am not an Emery fan boy. Personally I think that he an average but “safe” Head Coach. However, whatever others may think he has narrowed the gap between us and both Chelsea and Spurs AND finished ahead of Man Utd. We have also won 3 and drawn 2 out of 6 games against these three clubs. Also we are in the Final of Europa Cup with the possibility of reaching Champions League. When you consider how dreadful our defence is and mediocre we are in midfield frankly I would argue that he has exceeded expectation with this squad.… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

If we’ve been so bad this season, and people think we cant get better next season, how did we miss out on 3rd by 2 points! Last season we missed out on 4th by 12 points. We’ve improved this year. Yes not as much as everybody wants but it was a transition season. We got closer in the league to regain a champions league spot. And we still might get it through the europa and a trophy. If we win the europa and the bindippers get the champions league, pochettino goes trophy less again, sarri who people were clamouring for… Read more »

Un na naai

The only thing that’s reflected well on emery this year is the demise of Chelsea and untied and the fact spurs have gone all the way to the champions league final

He’s come in at a time when most arsenal managers should be capitalizing on his rivals’ terrible form. He failed to do so

Un na naai

Stroller

He didn’t narrow the gap
They did. Same way they were all shite on 2016 they were shit this season too. At least Wenger finished second that year. If not for an anomalous season from Leicester we’d have won the title.

This season emery snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with 6 games remaining against teams we should be steam rolling through.

Un na naai

Anyway

Bollocks to emery for tonight I’m off to make love to a beautiful woman….

You’ve never looked so lovely as you did tonight, never seen you shine so bright. Lady in reeeeeed

Chris

Up for grabs

Your post 18:08

Well said. I agree with near enough every word.

Let’s go to Baku and win this.

Emiratesstroller

Un na naii

The players you have listed were bought and sold in the previous accounting
period.

We will make a financial loss this season, but I doubt that it will be anything
like what is being forecast.

My guess is that the constraints imposed on the clubs potential transfer budget has more to do with Kroenke’s acquisition of shares from Usmanov. He
secured a short term repayment loan from the Dresdener Bank to buy them.

Up 4 grabs now

Cheers Chris, it’s nice to know there are a few sane people on the blog with me!

Un na naai

Stroller
But we only spent £67m Are we saying that we doesn’t make somewhere near that (profit) annually when factoring our transfers?

Un na naai

Factoring out transfers

Redtruth

Winning the Europa league will enhance Arsenal’s profile across Europe and restore some lost reputation.

Marko

5th, 3rd, 1st Atletico under Simeone. He’s a brazen example

How would 6th 5th 4th go for you?

Marko

Were we one goal against Brighton away from all of Emery’s faults being overlooked? Difference between 5th and 3rd. I doubt it

Un na naai

http://www.travelvivi.com/5-countries-you-should-avoid-visiting/

Little tips for those of you going to Baku

In short, it’s a dangerous crime riddled shit hole. UEFA should be sued for holding it here

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Maybe we should have done better in those last 6 games but we had an overstretched team playing on two fronts.
Also With suspended players meaning mustafi and xhaka had to play.

Anyone can beat anyone in this league.
City lost at home to palace, lost to Newcastle and Leicester.

The spuds lost to Watford, Southampton, bournemouth, burnley and west ham.

Chelsea lost to wolves, Everton, Leicester. And like the spuds nicked plenty of games by one goal.

And don’t get me started on utd, a draw at Huddersfield a loss at home today to relegated Cardiff. Etc etc.

Up 4 grabs now

Winning the Europa league will enhance Arsenal’s profile across Europe and restore some lost reputation.

Absolutely Red, arsenal are a bit of a joke club in Europe, do you remember bayern players laughing when they drew us.

CG

Burnley 1 Arsenal 3

RodneyKing

Pep is such a genius he won the league with absolute dog shite like Aguero, the Silvas, Sterling, Fernandinho, Sane, Laporte, Kompany, etc. These are arguably some of the best individual players in Europe. Anything other than lifting the title would have been seen as a failure.

I’d like to see him win back-to-back titles with players like Xhaka, Mustafi, Iwobi, Ozil and Mkhitaryan. Even Kos would t have survived in his team. He’s arguably one of the best, if not the best but he wins nada without the best players.

Up 4 grabs now

5th, 3rd, 1st Atletico under Simeone. He’s a brazen example, but beyond the finishing position and number of points, the Atletico fans would’ve seen their side transforming in front of their eyes, black and white style

Into defensive football, they will finish 2nd miles from Barcelona this year and have been miles away from winning it since they won it five years ago.

Shall we call for his head as he only won that poxy europa league tinpot cup last season?

Receding Hairline

Why not wait till we win the Europa league before launching a full assault on it to discredit it. We have already been told winning the FA cup is harder and more prestigious.. Doubt we can get any commentary lower than that.

Hitman

Best scenario:
Afc win EL
Lfc win CL
Spuds mess up CL qualifiers and drop into EL next season..ha.ha

2019 has been entertaining and it’s not over yet.

terraloon

Un na naai It’s all about amortisation. That £67m cost will be written off over the period of the players contracts the problem for Arsenal is the surge in transfer fees over the last few years is impacting years after the players were signed. The last accounting period saw a bottom line profit of around £70 million but if you take into account player trading generated around £120m profit that was because the players such as Oxlade, Theo,& Giroud were sold . In this trading year little or nothing was added from player sales so just to stand still £50… Read more »

Up 4 grabs now

The goal posts have moved drastically for some on here since the start of the season.

At the start.
This season is a rebuild job, let’s write it off.

Mid season.
We can’t compete with klopp and pep but should finish easily in the top four.

Top three will be easy the spuds will throw it away.

The run in.
Well third is the minimum finish, emery is crap boot him out and get Eddie Howe, or Sean dyche.
Fat Sam is available!

TheLegendaryDB10

CG

We fucking know the scoreline. Why waste your time posting this. Then again, they are probably your only sensible posts on here.

Nelson

Emery’s biggest achievement this season is coming up with a system to use the two strikers effectively. From Feb 21 where we defeated BATE 3 – 0 to April 1st where we defeated NewCastle 2 – 0, the team was playing the best football both in defense and attack. Ramsey was the heart of the team and Ozil was the link up man between midfield and attack. Then we lost Ramsey and Emery had no suitable substitute. He then experimented different formations and the team suffered. Seeing that we’ll probably continue to employ this split striker formation, our most urgent… Read more »

Graham62

Receding

What about Mourinho for manager?

Is that low enough “commentary” for you?

Alex Cutter

“http://www.travelvivi.com/5-countries-you-should-avoid-visiting/Little tips for those of you going to Baku

In short, it’s a dangerous crime riddled shit hole. UEFA should be sued for holding it here”

A seven-year-old article is the best you could find, dumb-fuck?

Graham62

Redtruth

You are 100% correct.

Winning the EL will put us on the footballing map once again.

Sorry, almost forgot, the FA Cup is far more important

DivineSherlock

This blog attracts so many negative fans its unbelievable , that its an Arsenal blog. But I guess it all comes down to Pedro and how much he likes the manager . Emery for all his faults has improved Arsenal , marginally maybe but its still too big an improvement . How many European finals have we featured in during this last decade ? 0
You wanna bash the manager on defence , sure why not. How good Klopp was with defence in his first season? Fucking stupid this blogs been since few months.

Leftsidesanch

Lol this site brings up some sure argumentative types who could argue in an empty room.

One of them is that Alex Cutter cunt. If you’ve got aggression to burn you can join our boxing gym and let it out constructively.

Graham62

Divine

Yeh, but they would be saying they want to see improvement, when improvement hasn’t existed at AFC for 13 years.

Frigging unbelievable, the lot of them.

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Improvements, are starting to beat utd,Chelsea and the spuds again.
It’s finishing one spot higher than last year.
It’s being 1 point off top four instead of 12.
And two points off of third.
It’s being in a European final for the first time since 2006.

All in a transition year with little money spent compared to those around us.
As long as we kick on again next year we are moving in the right direction.
And emery stopped the rot.

Leftsidesanch

Lets not forget Graham the same sorts were the ones cautioning before the campaign that this would be a season of transition and putting steps in motion to improve in the medium term.

Guns of SF

Midwest

I love blackjack too my friend

Marc

“Little tips for those of you going to Baku

In short, it’s a dangerous crime riddled shit hole. UEFA should be sued for holding it here”

Fucking hell and we were going to have a whip round and buy Un, CC, CG and Pierre one way tickets there.

Hang on – sorry that’s why we’re having a whip round and buying the tickets.

Marc

Fucking hell Auba scores that pen and we’re at least 4th and the Spud’s finish 5th.

HighburyLegend

Spot on, @Divine, top post.

Marc

The issue the anti Emery brigade don’t get is arresting decline is improvement.

It might not be as much as quickly as we’d like but god knows where we would have ended up if Wenger had stayed on.

Un na naai

Marc

Na mate I’m happy enough in my country farm house 😎
If I wanted to live in a dangerous shit hole I’d move back to London

Graham62

We have stopped the rot.

That’s all that matters.

Right CG?