Arsenal 2013- 2014

[Gingerman]

Eh? The pressure is only off if you don't mind losing and leaving the Champions League?

I would hope they would fight like f**k if it was my team (which they never actually do and aren't even in the CL) theres always an outside chance, go for it.

We're not really expected to win away against the best team in Europe right now are we? I do hope we go all out for it though,better to try and fail than not give a toss at all Im sure some famous ancient Chinese philosopher once said.....;

 

[Supine]

We're on the ropes. Time to get our passing game together.

 

[Gingerman]

Nothing is really happening here for us atm.....

 

[Supine]

Only ozil and ox can keep the ball. Everyone else just gets scared and tries to loose the ball ASAP.

Time for a serious team talk I reckon

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Maybe that was the gameplan for the first half.
The Ox has been outstanding. Podolski needs to be taken off. I don't know who is on the bench but if Rosicky is then then put him on. Need to see more effort from Giroud, i'm a bit irritated seeing him flapping his arms in complaint and doing little else but at least he put a header on target.
Mertesacker has been massive if a little dodgy at the back, Koscielny understandably looks a bit rusty.

All to play for.

 

[Gingerman]

Lacking pace when we break into their final third,thats where we miss Theo.......

 

[Gingerman]

Interesting.......

 

[Gingerman]

Robben really is a cheating cunt at times

 

[paulhackett]

Robben really is a cheating cunt at times

If by 'at times' you mean 'at all times' then, yes, he's a flapping, diving, cheating cunt

 

[Gingerman]

Nice save Flappy......

 

[Gingerman]

We look spent in the end, decent effort but was always a bridge too far, the damage was done 3 weeks,if only Ozil had'nt missed that penalty at the Emerites

 

[peterkro]

Fair play to the Arse,gave the best club side a game,not a side to be ashamed of losing against.

 

[Gingerman]

BM are a bloody good team but cynical as fuck....

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

I'm proud of my team tonight, we just came up a bit short against arguably the best team in the world. We are out of the competition but we weren't beaten tonight. We responded well when we went a goal down, we got back in the game when we could have let our heads drop.
I love Rosicky, he made a difference when he came on.
Arjen Robben is a professional cheat, what he does, his mindset, is everything that's wrong with football and our society.
Credit to the Bayern Munich fans for creating a great atmosphere in a fantastic footballing arena. I would not want to sit anywhere near the guy/girl with the big drum but it came across well in my living room along with the singing.

We can walk on with our head up.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

That Ian Wright thing on ITV4 in a few minutes i want to watch. My mum died a week ago today and you take your comforts where you can.
Play up! play up! and play the game!
http://www.itv.com/itv4/

 

[TitanSound]

Best team won it. Simple as that

 

[Gingerman]

That Ian Wright thing on ITV4 in a few minutes i want to watch. My mum died a week ago today and you take your comforts where you can.
Play up! play up! and play the game!
http://www.itv.com/itv4/

Ah man sorry to hear about your mum

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Ah man sorry to hear about your mum

Thank you. The first part of that Ian Wright thing has already reduced me to tears and that's good. He's talking frankly about his own life and it's giving some strength.

 

[Gingerman]

Ozil out for a few weeks with a hamstring apparently

 

[Voley]

Sorry to hear about your Mum, Dexter.

 

[DexterTCN]

Me too, Dex

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Sorry to hear about your Mum, Dexter.

Thank you. That Ian Wright thing just set me off a bit but it came at the right time, it was perfect timing. It was good to see him cry and talk about a funeral and grief. I don't idolise anyone but he was a working class boy that got lucky, similar age to me, similar hurt growing up, i love the way we expressed himself so freely just as he did on the football pitch. That's a proper man.

My mum was a semi secret Gooner and when we beat Everton on saturday it gave me some comfort. I don't mind losing as long as we have played well and haven't been cheated. I don't want us to cheat either.

I draw a lot of analogies from The Arsenal to my personal life and i love Wenger because of the psychology & philosophy he elucidates which i extrapolate into a wider meaning of life. I love Chomsky as well but i think he is wrong about the purpose of competitive sport being just a distraction, maybe he never watched The Arsenal, maybe i haven't read enough Chomsky.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Documentary : Ian Wright Nothing to Something.

 

[Voley]

I'll watch that later, Dexter. I used to like Wright a lot, too. Was lucky enough to stand on the North Bank at Highbury on its last day before they put seats in. He got a hat trick and just pipped Gary Lineker to become top scorer in the league that season. Arsenal scored five that day and were incredible. I'm glad you're finding a bit of comfort in stuff like this. Whenever I see footage of Liverpool in the glory days I always imagine my old man in the crowd there somewhere (he invariably was) having the time of his life and it makes me smile.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

I think Bendtner ought to stop blaming Arsenal for his problems, it would be one of the first important steps he could make to addressing the personal issues that seem to plague him.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...ner-accused-dropped-pants-taxi-driver-arsenal

 

[Pickman's model]

I think Bendtner ought to stop blaming Arsenal for his problems, it would be one of the first important steps he could make to addressing the personal issues that seem to plague him.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...ner-accused-dropped-pants-taxi-driver-arsenal

sorry, where's he blaming arsenal for his problems there? seems to me he's blaming what people have read in papers. and this sort of sorry incident's unlikely to improve matters in that regard.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

sorry, where's he blaming arsenal for his problems there? seems to me he's blaming what people have read in papers. and this sort of sorry incident's unlikely to improve matters in that regard.

He thinks Arsenal have treated him badly, the transfer to Palace that fell through at the start of this season. He thinks the fans have turned on him unfairly when we all wanted him to do well, more so than himself. He is a high profile figure whose public behaviour gets reported, only he can do something about that. Sure, he is not blaming Arsenal in that report but that's the underlying issue with him.

Sometimes an inflated ego can be an attractive thing, be it in a rock 'n roll star or a footballer, but that ego then needs to deliver to the back of the hall. Bendtner has never really delivered, most of us end up as failures in life and it hurts us, we hurt ourselves and others. I think that's what he has been doing for sometime and he won't get much sympathy because he has been more fortunate than most.

 

[Pickman's model]

He thinks Arsenal have treated him badly, the transfer to Palace that fell through at the start of this season. He thinks the fans have turned on him unfairly when we all wanted him to do well, more so than himself. He is a high profile figure whose public behaviour gets reported, only he can do something about that. Sure, he is not blaming Arsenal in that report but that's the underlying issue with him.

Sometimes an inflated ego can be an attractive thing, be it in a rock 'n roll star or a footballer, but that ego then needs to deliver to the back of the hall. Bendtner has never really delivered, most of us end up as failures in life and it hurts us, we hurt ourselves and others. I think that's what he has been doing for sometime and he won't get much sympathy because he has been more fortunate than most.

he started for arsenal 83 times and come on as a sub 88 times, scoring 45 goals in total (http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=42482). not entirely unrespectable.

 

[TitanSound]

45 goals over 9 years isn't that great. So not unrespectable, just falling short of what he thinks he can do.

 

[Pickman's model]

45 goals over 9 years isn't that great. So not unrespectable, just falling short of what he thinks he can do.

i'm sure he's made one or two goals over the same period.