Arsenal vs Middlesbrough

[Henry Norris 1913]

wally still shite i see. but i'm confused - thought he was different now

[Midz]

FFS the furthest man they have up the pitch is halfway in his own half.

[wilko49er]

Have they just put up a wall. Must be after the point cant blame them.

[Redarmy]

No way Arsenal deserve this one...not done enough.....not sure what Wenger does tactically to prepare against these Boro tactics......

think the answer if fUCK ALL

[Redarmy]

chance to go top ....and yes its the bottle job.....

[Gunner Rob]

I'm only pleased that I haven't been watching any of this shit.

Despite the best efforts of the PR team NOTHING has changed.

[REB]

as bad as ive seen us ffs.

[Gunner Rob]

chance to go top ....and yes its the bottle job.....

Ironically we will still go top...
That says a lot about the standard of the PL

[Goonuz71]

When the fixtures are stuck up , why the fcuk do the squad not practice Attack v Defence with the Defending players having 13 players , we just CANNOT break tems down who come to the bowl and park the bus !......2 points lost because we DONT prepare for games like this

[Midz]

So lame in attack

[Midz]

Fuck off lino

[Sean]

Fucking hell. What a load of shit that was

We started brightly for a change. Nice to see Elneny still dare to have a shot, even if it went wide. Any player with a brain should be ignoring whatever TOF says. Fuck sideways passes. It is nice that we may finally have some men in the team who are finally starting to take responsibility on the pitch going forward. Any success we may have this season (in the domestic cups, natch) will be in spite of The Old Fraud, not because of him. It's very telling that the recent signings are more likely to play forward balls. Same with Sanchez and Ozil.

Then, when I try to be positive about the side, we see this goal-shy performance. Our defence once again almost cost us dearly. Koscielny in headless-chicken mode yet again (though he saved the point for us at the end). Typical Arsenal; all possession and still gifting chances to the opposition. Our nerves once again got the better of us. Back to our typical no penetration and sideways shite.

Boro looked much more dangerous with their chances; Cech saving our arses a few times. I was very worried when Mustafi went down hurt. Boro got into the game as the first half wore on - and unlike us, were tremendously disciplined at the back. Very worrying. Another traditional arrogant display leading to a banana-skin. Typical of our being the form team in the league that we looked like tripping over our own boot-laces. The depressing predictability of these games and our lack of changes, especially our subs-by-numbers on 70 minutes and lack of team-talks and tactical changes, is well known. It's almost impossible for us to turn these types of games around thanks to that fucking ball-and-chain in our dugout.

More of the same in the second half. We just couldn't break them down. A few chances missed. Valdes having the traditional Cashburton Showreel for an opposition keeper. Back to our standard sideways passing in front of a packed defence, as Boro settled for the point. Surely there must be a crowd chant for 'Forward! Forward!' to counter-act this cowardly sideways shit? Nice to see Perez come on. Did I see the Syrup at an Arsenal game? His rug has gone grey. Even HE must think seeing us huff and puff against Boro is shite. 0-0 against relegation fodder. Our offside goal at the end summed it all up.

Happy birthday, TOF. Please fuck off and take the England/France job

[Perryashburtongroves]

Same as always. Bottle any chance.

[Midz]

Back to the Arsenal we got so used to.

[Dan_85]

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