Emeryball fever strikes – I actually enjoyed the game, so did you

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Emeryball is more than a style of football, it’s a disease that deteriorates your expectations.

I should be fuming this morning. I should be spitting BLOOD! But I’m not. In the grand scheme of 2019 Arsenal, that performance was pretty good.

We played some neat paces, the front three had some lovely combinations that focused more through the middle of the park, and Pepe looked much, much better.

Be honest with me and yourself. That wasn’t bad. Compared to some of the games we’ve won this season, it was pretty ok.

Therein lies the problem. Emeryball has us in a fever, symptoms include constantly reevaluating reality, then undervaluing what progress should look like. Fans are using whichever metric is on hand to support the dismal prosecution of ‘this is pretty ok.’

Last season we hung our hats on comebacks, early subs, the 22 game unbeaten run, DRIVE, DETERMINATION, PASSION, PLANNING, all the double sessions, Ozil dropped, Ramsey binned, a manager dancing down the touchline. We willfully ignored what the performances were telling us, because the rhetoric was like nothing we’d seen before, and we wanted to believe in the new dawn.

This season, we’re looking at the paper metrics, because looking up from the Premier League points totaller to see what’s really happening is too damn unnerving to consider.

‘The table doesn’t lie’, yells the blinkered cuck…

Oh yes she does, you’re at home with her reading Inverting the Pyramid, but as soon as you nod off, she’s fucking the next-door neighbour in the bushes… and his name is F.Shite-Performance. You’ll wake up to it eventually, but it’ll be in March when you’ve caught a nasty bout of Europa-League-itis. Third infection in three years, you might be a carrier.

Unai Emery isn’t a fraud, he’s just fallen up the stairs since Sevilla and the people hiring him haven’t paid attention to the details. The issues we’re dealing with now were absolutely obvious if you’d undertaken even the most basic of due diligence.

We hired in someone that failed at PSG because he couldn’t handle the egos of the dressing room. A manager that has no history of being able to organise a robust defence, averaging 49 goals a season at Sevilla, whilst adding 30% to a record-setting PSG defence he inherited. He couldn’t master the French or Russian languages. He has been in England well over a year and his press conferences still sound like he’s a struggling pedicab driver trying to flog you a Halloween tour of his city. He played negatively at Valencia and Sevilla. He was given the most expensively assembled side in world football and the players complained he spent too much time worrying about the opposition.

He’s now at Arsenal and we’re looking to nick a goal on the counter away at Sheffield United, and he can’t even pull that off.

The goods we are now critically inspecting are exactly what we purchased. So don’t complain. There will be no refund. This was all in the product description.

You can’t blame the players.

You can’t blame Edu.

You can’t blame the high winds of Sheffield. Mike Riley. The penalty shout.

It’s all on the manager.

Most curious fans are wondering what Edu and Raul see. They both know what good football looks like. They know what the kids are capable of, they know where the ceiling of our senior players sits… so what do they think of Emery? His vision? The atmosphere in the stadium? What do they think of our results given the context?

It’s intriguing to wonder what they’ll do should this continue. They have bet next summer’s money on making the Champions League. If Emery can’t muster more than 2 shots on target at a newly promoted team, what the hell do they think is going to happen when it comes to that nasty December crunch?

We are nearly in November. There has been no improvement in any area this season, and it ‘s hard to point to what shifted last year. The publicly available metrics we’re seeing all point south, I hear the private metrics are even more damning, there’s no organisation, we’re not doing the basics right, and we’re sitting here looking at that game last night thinking that the performance was ‘pretty ok.’

We hired a self-proclaimed protagonist that doesn’t want to provoke. He’s actually a pragmatist, but he only understands the negative football side of the equation. We don’t get the rock-solid defence, aggressive pressing, and the DIE for the cause attitude. How can you make it this far as a bad pragmatist?

I am constantly told there’s no way the club will terminate his deal during the season, but I keep asking myself how that can be the stance? Our strategy surely can’t be, ‘hope Spurs and United continue to be shit’… can it?

There are two coaches waiting in the wings that could make an impact. I don’t want to mention their names, but both can organise a defence, and both know how to make the top 4.

Bold leadership would make the decision early and try and rescue the team from the steeper challenge that’ll come if we allow the rot to continue. It should not take longer than 18 months to organise a defence. It should not take 18 months to define a style. We should not look like we’re day one of a transition, but that is where we are.

The reason we don’t have any of the basics in place is because we hired a manager out of his depth, the sooner we own up to that reality, the sooner we can attack this season and release the true talents of the most likeable/talented squad in 15 years.

Until then, get used to enjoying ‘pretty ok’ performances whilst losing to teams like Sheffield United away from home on a cold Monday night.

Emeryball fever; god bless it, at least I was too delirious to see the game for what it really was.

See you in the comments. xx

 

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WinOrDie

I can understand how the fans are feeling about losing to shefield united. but this shefield team is not a walkover even liverpool struggled at bramall lane. The notion that if we bring in a manager like alegri, then we would emediately do better well !!! How has PSG improved under tactician tuchel? Even alegri teams has many issues… watched juventus strugling against spurs,ajax,… yet as we know juventus has better players than ours. I agree with pedro on this “I should be fuming this morning. I should be spitting BLOOD! But I’m not. In the grand scheme of 2019… Read more »

Samesong
RodneyKing

Simply aiming for “Top 4”, as rewarding as it is, has been Arsenal’s biggest undoing. For many years, we’ve been aiming for the skies and hitting the trees as opposed to aiming for the stars and hitting the skies. We will never be in a position to truly compete for the league title if we’re only thinking that Champion League qualification is good enough. For some perspective, we haven’t won the league in 14 years. Man United haven’t since we handed them Van Persie on a platter. Liverpool have never won the Premier League but they’ve been on an upward… Read more »

guest man aka WW

We will make 4th…..not because we are a quality team…but because the mancs and the spuds are currently extra shite.

Champagne charlie

“So asking me to “unpack” my ideas is a bit rich because you are not really coming out with anything original“

Originality isn’t the issue whatsoever, it’s me trying to understand how you can be dismissive of the importance of leadership from a manager.

Samesong

Actually I’ll take that back their right back was keeping Pepe on side.

Samesong

2.14 captures the postioning perfectly.

Distant legrover

He keeps making decisions that have long term detrimental effect on individual players and team as a whole. Like making a bench/error prone player the captain, not playing our most creative player when the team lacks creativity, starting an inadequate and disjointed starting 11 weekly, sidelining key players, benching his best goalkeeper and playing the hipster favorite, isolating Pepe not playing anyone close to him he can combine and move with (Ozil?)etc.

He has the oppositisis disease. He keeps doing the opposite of what he should do.

Geoff

How many times from attacking positions in the oppositions half do we end up passing back to our keeper so frustrating.

Receding Hairline

“All very plausible , so if that is the case then why put him on the bench and leave a player at home who Emery himself admitted that he is perfectly happy with , is training well and is available for selection.”

bet you are a loyal husband

Distant legrover

A person who isn’t conscious of actions and the effects they can have short term or long term probably can’t make a good leader.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present you Unai ‘no ideas’ Emery.

Nelson

RH

What I mean is that you can’t rely only on one thing. You have to improve the performance of the team as a whole. If that one thing (Auba’s goal) is not available for some reasons, you are screwed.

I can’t believe you can’t see this simple logic.

Receding Hairline

Actually I’ll take that back their right back was keeping Pepe on side.

That aside look where Kola is when he delivers the cross and where Pepe was

Left testicle

Emery is one of those people who says a lot without really saying anything.

Receding Hairline

Nelson except you are yet to prove the team stepped on the pitch yesterday relying on Auba to score

Pierre

Samesong
In case you didn’t realise, a player cannot be offside if they are behind the ball , and Pepe was behind the ball when the ball was played.

Pierre

RH
“That aside look where Kola is when he delivers the cross and where Pepe was”

Learn the offside rule .

TR7

Pepe looked lively in the first half. Not a great performance by any stretch of imagination but it was his best performance till date in an Arsenal shirt.

Nelson

RH

Did we win yesterday without Auba’s goal??

Auba’s goal have been saving our season up to now!

Distant legrover

Left testicle

That’s a good summary of Emery. Of course he isn’t saying anything really because he’s out of his depth at Arsenal.

HighburyLegend

We already knew “I almost signed”, and now it’s “I almost scored”, ffs…

Tony K

Hi Guys, Pedro had this called right from months ago. My comment is not an over reaction. EMERY OUT NOW. There is no more debate about it. The guy is in over his head. Whilst I am not a stat person entirely let’s start there. The defence has gotten worst (more goals conceded, more chances conceded, more errors leading to goals) midfield has gotten worst (there is zero creativity and the forwards are starved of service). This team is without doubt at the very least the third best in the league and can possibly challenge this year with the right… Read more »

Pierre

RH..not you
I meant people should learn the offside rule in general .

HighburyLegend

Pepe the new Gervinho, god help us…

Freddie Ljungberg

“Notice marko, Freddie, Rh and Bamford were quiet tonight Pussies” Can’t be bothered trawling through all the misery since last night but I’m guessing that was from Don. Can’t speak for the others but the game ended 4 o’clock last night my time and I have a sick 3 year old that’s kind of been occupying my time. Not everyone likes to dwell in defeats either. Hardly the first time we lose away after an international break, almost been a trademark of the club for the last 15 years so nothing shocking about it although it was disappointing. We looked… Read more »

raptora

Paulinho’s referred journo: “I can’t believe how many people are *really* upset about the cautiousness over Holding, Bellerin & Tierney’s return to play. The number of Arsenal players who’ve lost months & years of their careers after being rushed back… “bUt thEy’Re FiT fOr shEfFiELd uNiTEd.” #Arsenal #AFC” Tierney’s games played this season: 9/20/19 A Arsenal FC U23 Wolverhampton Wanderers U23 63 mins 9/24/19 H Arsenal FC Nottingham Forest 77 mins 10/3/19 H Arsenal FC Standard Liège 90 mins Holding’s games played: 8/12/19 A Arsenal FC U23 Blackburn Rovers U23 63 mins 8/23/19 H Arsenal FC U23 Everton FC U23… Read more »

Ishola70

“Saka is not good enough with his back to goal” He looks a danger for sure facing goal and running at players but it is evident at this early stage of his career that he has weakness in terms of awareness when receiving the ball with his back to goal. Opposition nick the ball from him and counter from it when they shouldn’t be. Happened last night against Sheffield and he also got caught on the ball a couple of times against Man United as well. If he becomes a mainstay in the team this early it will cost with… Read more »

Distant legrover

TR7

If Pepe had someone close to him combining with him often, he would be much improved. Him and Ozil can form the sort of partnership that Ozil/Alexis used to have.

But Ozil is in his living room at home playing Fortnite so…

azed

I said before the game yesterday that if Emery lost, he’d be gone and I think the count down has started.

The annoying part of the game for me was the lethargic passes. How professional footballers and a coach don’t know that taking 3 touches before passing allows the defence to settle is beyond me.

So many times yesterday, Aubameyang and Pepe would make runs and the ball would not be released.

I also think it’s time Leno is dropped.

raptora

Holding and Tierney started 2 games in 8 days in EL and League Cup.

Yet it’s being cautiousness that they don’t play an EPL game 20 days after both completed full 90 mins vs Standard Liege.

What happens if they start in two days vs Vitoria Setubal which I’m sure they will. It would be cautiousness?

It’s plain retardation it’s what it is.

Paulinho

Raptora – The point is the intensity in those games is nowhere near the premier league. Forest rolled up with a spliff from the first minute, more concerned with their league game on the friday.

DigitalBob

Unai is simply bang average on a good day. He’s an overthinker but not in the Pep mould, more in the peak Mark Hughes mould. I expected this game to be very tough but still expected more from the first 11. Its the tactics at the moment not the personnel that’s failing right now. Xhaka is shit, David Luiz is and will always be David fucking Luiz and Sokratis has regressed alarmingly. Saka and Willock are still learning and its simply bad management to have them starting game after game while our number 10 is frozen out of the team.… Read more »

Paulinho

Ishola – I think Smith-Rowe is better suited to that role. He’s better at shielding and then spinning off and driving at the back four.

Agerham

The whole Xhaka as captain sums up the soft mentality of Arsenal. We have a captain who should be nowhere near the 1st team on merit. Put to the players to decide, they still voted to have him as captain. “If the manager likes him we like him”. They didnt even have the bottle to speak out against this appointment when given the opportunity.

Paulinho

“Players like Saka and Willock are being over-rated by the fans at this stage.”

I wasn’t even a huge fan of Diaby but he was leagues above Willock as a talent, and yet people think we have the best squad in years, presumably referring to midfield options like him when coming to such an assessment.

raptora

I cannot get to think that if you complete 90 mins in Europa League game, you are at least, at least 90% if not around 95%. Minimum.

Then add 20 days to that game and you should be flying. That’s 3 weeks time after you’ve completed a game.

Then in two days the pair will start again and the whole cautioness thing goes out the window.
When will they be deemed as up to speed to play in the EPL? In January? After completing 10 games in the other tourneys I guess.

Distant legrover

Rodney King

I thought about the same thing. But aiming for the stars takes someone confident and daring. Two things our Coach Emery aint.
He’s perfectly comfortable playing second fiddle to Guardiola and the rest.

salparadisenyc

Its been a long slide since the beginning of the year, apparent Emery has zero clue how to unlock this midfield. Its exhausting to witness, three different players in the “playmakers roll” last night. Never fielding his strongest side as its clear he doesn’t seem to know what that is. Amy Lawrence put up these stats, thus far we’ve scored 13 goals with a goal difference of +1, last season at this stage we’d scored 25 at +10 , have earned 7 points less after same number of fixtures this season. That does not paint a picture of a manager… Read more »

raptora

Holding was an unused sub in our last 3 EPL games btw. Vs Manure on 30th of September. More than 3 weeks ago.

It’s decision like this that are costing us points. We don’t lose yesterday with Holding, Tierney and Torreira.

Emery knows though.

Distant legrover

Raptora

I think it’s funny that some people are defending Emery about Holding, Tierney, Bellerin omission in the team.

Holding for example has played and completed 90 minutes at least three times since his return. Yet Emery continues to keep him out of key games.

Receding Hairline

“We don’t lose yesterday with Holding, Tierney and Torreira.”

Yea we have never lost a game where those four played

Ishola70

Paulinho ”I wasn’t even a huge fan of Diaby but he was leagues above Willock as a talent, and yet people think we have the best squad in years, presumably referring to midfield options like him when coming to such an assessment.” Yes it’s a big stretch to say that the squad is very good. How can it be very good when a key area such as midfield has such questionable options in it. As is the case many times fans go for the blame game in one aspect. It can be both. As well as replacing Emery Arsenal need… Read more »

Distant legrover

Goal difference of +1 after 9 games. We ve only played one superior team in Liverpool.

We have regressed.

DigitalBob

So could it be Unai is actually putting all his eggs in a europa league basket?

Lets see the line-up for Thursday………….

If so hes a mad man. I expect Real or another top team to drop down once the champions league group stages are done.

Ishola70

Emery though even if the squad is being over-rated by the fans is calling it wrong in his selections.

So as others have said he is making it harder for himself.

He doesn’t inspire at all.

The club should let him go in the summer.

Samesong

Samesong
In case you didn’t realise, a player cannot be offside if they are behind the ball , and Pepe was behind the ball when the ball was played

Pierre I know that! my response was based on watching it first time he looked ahead of the ball but it’s not a big deal now.

salparadisenyc

If Emery is putting all his ‘eggs in the Europa league basket’ this early with the league as weak as it is he is more remedial than any of us envisioned.

At the moment Lampard’s transfer banned Chelsea are above us, with Leicester above them.

Biggles

That was depressing.

I knew we were screwed the moment Xhaka was in the team. It’s like playing with 10 men from kick-off. And just to make matters worse, Emery is still playing our second string defence for no apparent reason.

Receding Hairline

“The club should let him go in the summer.”

Don’ t think they necessarily need to wait that long, constantly making the wrong selections cannot be excused

Graham62

Did anyone on here just listen to Matt Scott(Sports Journalist- Guardian) on TalkSport, defending Emery? It was cringeworthy. If beggars belief that someone of his intelligence and with his so called extensive knowledge of the game, cannot see what the vast majority of Arsenal fans now see. He was defending not using players like Tierney, Bellerin, Holding etc for fear of injury, which was fair enough, but at no time did he bring up the subject of Emery’s inabilities to sort out the visible problems and discrepancies in the existing set up. The fact that he is an Arsenal supporter… Read more »

Pierre

I get the feeling there would be a tremendous relief from probably as much as 90% of the first team squad if Emery was sacked and freddie was brought in as interim manager.

Players like Lacazette, Aubameyang, Ozil, Torreira, Luiz and the academy players would immediately be lifted by a change of manager .

Xhaka and Sokratis would probably be the only players wanting Emery at the club at this present time.(maybe Guendouzi) .

If I was Edu I would put the feelers out amongst the players to get an idea of how the players feel about the manager.

Distant legrover

Salparadisenyc

He knows his Cups record is his bread and butter so that’s where his focus is. Arsenal gave him a platform to become a more rounded manager but he’s hellbent on remaining second rate.

Receding Hairline

“If I was Edu I would put the feelers out amongst the players to get an idea of how the players feel about the manager.”

You assume he hasn’t done that why?

Receding Hairline

“He knows his Cups record is his bread and butter”

Not true

He has only really won the Europa league, he is no cup specialist

Didn’t win any domestic cups in Spain.

Marc

Didn’t Sanllehi come out a couple of weeks ago and essentially say Emery’s no 1 KPI this season was qualification of the CL via the league?

Graham62

Can anyone on here defend Emery?

Also, as I highlighted earlier, how do you justify a team of our status, taking 90 seconds to get the ball from our GK to the opponents half the field when you’re 1-0 down with ten minutes to go, against a newly promoted team.

This scenario was repeated several times in the final stages of the game. I mean, who promotes such a system.

Anyone?

Unai?

raptora

If Torreira was injured in the beginning of the season some people would have claimed he’d play him on Xhaka’s place the moment he becomes match fit. Little would they know it’s the same thing happening with Holding surely and to a point with Tierney.

Emery knows.

Distant legrover

Pierre

90% of the fans too.

Pierre

Paulinho
“I wasn’t even a huge fan of Diaby but he was leagues above Willock as a talent, ”

And Ramsey….Diaby had it all , except the ability to see a potential wreckless challenge, hence the injuries.

David Smith

Raul and Edu are going to have to be ready to act here, whether they like it or not. Of course they cannot indicate that at this stage. Raul is going to lose some face, but he can just blame Ivan. Emery came in with many promises, but as a famous Arsenal supporter once questioned “Ever get the feeling youve been cheated?” This manager could have us in 13th place come the New Year, easily. Can you imagine if Auba got injured? In addition, Emery is wrecking some very good, and costly players with his tactics. The management cannot keep… Read more »

Graham62

Pierre

Don’t forget 99% of the fanbase.

I knew you’d put Ozil in there somewhere.

Ishola70

Receding Hairline ”Don’ t think they necessarily need to wait that long, constantly making the wrong selections cannot be excused” I was never convinced like many on here that Arsenal would easily gallop into the top four places this season. But for all his blandness and his misguided selections he is still capable of being around the top four places due to some flat track bullying in home matches and Auba and Laca saving him in some other matches. For me though even if he does scrape into the top four I wouldn’t extend him. There would have to be… Read more »

TR7

Sacking Emery is not a problem. The only thing which might hold Raul and Edu back is finding a suitable replacement mid season.

salparadisenyc

“Didn’t Sanllehi come out a couple of weeks ago and essentially say Emery’s no 1 KPI this season was qualification of the CL via the league?”

Pretty much this, just wondering if Raul will do a preemptive striker if this continues.

Spanishdave

Our so called world class forwards have not scored in the last two games.
I watched a Kolasinac closely last night and all he did was to run up and down the by line, when he got the ball he passed it backwards most of the time, and just walked or stood still after he passed the ball.
Meanwhile our new left back who can. Run beat defenders, cross the ball accurately sits on the bench.
What a manager. Heh

Guns of Hackney

Ive never been sure what exactly is a ‘cup specialist’. I hate that term. Hate it.

I said last night if I didn’t read Emery and the sack in the same sentence this morning, Arsenal have proven again they have zero ambition. Guess what.

This club doesn’t want to be successful. I believe it’s scared of success.

Distant legrover

Receding

That’s kind of my point. He’s the guy who won the Europa cup 3 times in a row. That’s how he got the PSG job. Yes he won the league at PSG but ultimately his record in the Europa is his bread and butter.

So if he’s more focused on the Europa again then its not surprising.

Guns of Hackney

Ljungberg will do just fine for the rest of this dismal season. We do not have to look far.

Ishola70

raptora “If Torreira was injured in the beginning of the season some people would have claimed he’d play him on Xhaka’s place the moment he becomes match fit. Little would they know it’s the same thing happening with Holding surely and to a point with Tierney.” We have had this discussion before. Torreira replacing Xhaka as last man in midfield will most probably improve the team but not necessarily be the ultimate solution. I’m not convinced Torreira as last man sitting will see everything resolved. Torreira is a strange one. He was brought from Sampdoria because of his pressing capabilities… Read more »

Pierre

Graham
The clamour to bring Ozil back into the fold is growing with every poor performance…

He is repeating his mistakes of last season except Ceballos has replaced Ramsey as the bench warmer.
Ozil is still being ignored , as he was last season during our poor 7 defeats in 14 matches.

In the end he came back to help get our season back on track….

Not long now.

Ishola70

Didn’t Emery have some good attacking fullbacks in one of his stints at Sevilla? When they won those Europa League titles? Think so.

This makes his reluctance to play Tierney and show favouritism to Kolasinac even more confusing.

The same regarding his time at PSG. There he had a midfielder like Matuidi who he liked that could play both sides of the ball. Now he plays Xhaka who is so evidently sub par both sides of the ball.

Strange that what he has worked with in the past he turns a blind eye to while at Arsenal.

HighburyLegend

“Yes he won the league at PSG ”

And the L1 is a very difficult championship.
lol

Distant legrover

Even if Holding, Tierney and Bellerin returns to the starting line up and we suddenly improve, it will be despite Emery.

HighburyLegend

So Tierney was bought only to play the ELC…

Edu ?? Raul ?? Any comments ??
Bunch of jokeheads.

Distant legrover

Highburylegend

You clearly didn’t get why I wrote it in that context. Lol

Marc

Sal

I think he just might – you’ve got to remember he’s come from Barca where they do not fuck about.

What we mustn’t do is get into a repeat scenario of ManU – made a choice oops not working so bring in a name fucking hell that was worse and so on and so on.

What we have done is put in place a structure that gives continuity as we make changes. Something that was critical.

Graham62

Pierre

“the clamour to bring Ozil back into the fold” is only being heightened by a manager who is clearly not up to the task.

Ozil was out of the fold long before Emery arrived, or have you conveniently forgotten this. Secondly, no matter how hard Ozil wirks in training, he will never be strong enough, either physically or mentally, to play to a consistently high level again in the EPL.

Just an opinion.

Marc

The only place I’ve heard a clamour for Ozil to come back is on here and mostly from a single source.

Does anyone think Ozil would have travelled last night if Wenger was still in charge? Poor little love would’ve had a sick note from his mum.

vegas gooner

hate to say this, but even Wenger would be an improvement over emery.

TitsMcGee

hate to say this, but even Wenger would be an improvement over emery.”

Don’t be silly, at least we know Emery is gone if he doesn’t produce. Wenger stayed for a decade after his sell by date.

Distant legrover

Vegas

I think it’s insulting to Wenger to compare him to Emery.

HighburyLegend

I think it would be very insulting to wants the old fool back at the club.

Guns of Hackney

Anyone heard Liam Gallagher’s new ‘song’? I mean…holy shit. It’s brutal. Like having poo poured directly into your ears while being held down by a gang of dudes waiting to take turns on you.

Horrible.

Guns of Hackney

Wenger at his worst was 1000% better than Emery.

Wenger went mad but never question his ability at his peak.

Redtruth

Pierre
“Players like Lacazette, Aubameyang, Ozil, Torreira, Luiz and the academy players would immediately be lifted by a change of manager .”

This is as good as it gets whoever the manager is

raptora

GoH,
That was way too graphic.

You have issues.

Guns of Hackney

Raptora

That was the edited version.

Redtruth

GoH
“Wenger went mad but never question his ability at his peak.”

Wenger’s ‘peak’ coincided with an abysmal Champions league record.

raptora

Lol

Guns of Hackney

Red

Yes we know about the CL. Domestically he was still brilliant.

Distant legrover

No one asked for the ‘old fool’ back at the club. Just saying Emery couldn’t lace his boots.

Redtruth

Wenger was piss poor domestically after the arrival of Abramovich.

HighburyLegend

@GoH : without his brother, he’s nothing.

Both together, they’re just a sad pair of assholes.

Ishola70

These next few matches are going to be interesting.

Crystal Palace usually play better away from home and Wolves aren’t going to be any pushovers as their results are improving and they look a bit more like they did last season.

As for Leicester away considering Arsenal’s away record plenty will have Leicester as favourites to win that match.

DUIFG

Great Post.

Guns of Hackney

HL

Noel is funny. Liam is painful. Just awful. And that son of his, Gene…looks like a single cell organism crawled back into the swamp and grew an eyebrow.

Manchester. Yuck.

Redtruth

Emery with a Bergkamp in the side would be near the top of the table. FACT.

Joppa Road

Great Post Pedro.

Thanks.

DigitalBob

GoH – 100% agreed Unai is no where near peak Wenger. Those first 10 years he was a fine manager.

Statistically he’s close to “broken” Arsene and that’s the truth. £200 million spent and we are no better than Arsene at his worst. Yes we now have reason to be optimistic but that ain’t it chief

salparadisenyc

Get a grip Emery would have Bergkamp on the bench, with the Romford Pele playing up there.