Vindictive Terry could've destroyed Arsenalâ€™s season (17/12)

Post by **gooner.ed** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:01 pm

http://www.onlinegooner.com/exclusive/index.php?id=485

usual thread starterâ€¦ In the last Gooner podcast, David Oudot mentioned that Sky would choose the man of the match based upon who they wanted to interview rather than the performance on the pitch, and in fairness, well as Clichy played, others made a more significant contribution. Whatever happened yesterday, I suspect the man of the match was always going to be the left back of one of the two teams.

But more crucially, just beating Chelsea for the first time since the Invincibles season is absolutely key, as it will give the team that much more confidence to get through the rest of a tricky December. I could be wrong, but I have an idea that Kolo Toure was Arsenalâ€™s only surviving player yesterday from that 2-1 win at the Bridge less than four years ago. How times have changed.

proudtosaythatname · Post by **proudtosaythatname** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:27 pm

I agree with Adrian about the intentions of Mr Terry. Maybe it's my imagination, but I think defenders generally are sneakily abandoning the two-footed 'instant red card' approach in favour of a more subtle one-footed-but-studs-up-with-other-foot version which Ratface employed yesterday. This variation on the career limiter only gets a yellow or with carefully selected refs - like Howard Webb, maybe - nothing at all.

The last few games have made it clear that with Cesc, Hleb and the Flanimal in the line-up we have a great chance of winning the Premier League, maybe more, but without them the team is limited. Unless we get some defence from referees what happened yesterday with Terry will happen again with a Savage, Rochembach etc etc. There are lots of them around in English football, insufficiently controlled.

However, I thought we played well enough to have won by one or two more - and that with Cesc and Alex not looking 100% yet - so fewer worries there.

Post by **SPUDMASHER** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:58 pm

I think it was obvious to anybody watching the tv replay that Ratface deliberately tried to take Cesc out of the game. Rightly he had identified our Spanish Maestro as being a danger and knew that the only way to stop him was to cripple him. In some respects you could view it as a tribute that a very good centre half (which despite disliking him, I have to admit that he is) was petrified of Cesc. Fortunately it failed and he got his just desserts from Eboue later on.

What pissed me off was MOTD's comments that Terry had his eyes on the ball the whole time whereas Eboue was clearly intentional. How biased was that?

Post by **gooner.ed** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:59 pm

just seen that this story has been picked up by the chavski newnow page and will be in the top 10 before long.

whether or not chavski fans will register here to have a pop, i don't know, but forewarned is forearmed.

Fuzzfeast · Post by **Fuzzfeast** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:32 pm

I was at the game and saw the challenge on Fab, although being up the other end I was too far away to realise it was a deliberate attempt by Terry to put him out. Now I've seen the highlights and it was a f*****g disgrace and I'm glad Eboue got rid of that tosser before he could do anyone else. No doubt the challenge on Eboue in the second half that got him carried off was a revenge attack, but the ref let the play continue until another Chelsea foul by Lampard on Fabregas I think it was and the ball went out of play and Lampard barged into the ball boy to stop him getting the ball and returning it to us! Picking on a Gooner kid, the wanker!

Charlie! Charlie! · Post by **Charlie! Charlie!** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:34 pm

Knowing Eboue he could well be available v Blackburn, I was surprised he didn't come back on.

proudtosaythatname · Post by **proudtosaythatname** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:06 pm

so sad to see that Ratface has a selection of broken bones and will be out for maybe 6 weeks - there is a God, apart from Arsene...

corn · Post by **corn** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:15 pm

luv eboue
he's got nads.
did anybody see the arsenal ballboy throwing the ball to arsehole cole.
instead of throwing it to his hands he threw it at his legs. pretty hard as well. no love lost there.
if you think back to the manure match you will remember in the first few minutes a manure player went straight through the back of cesc.
in the villa game they came out in the second half to cripple hleb.
newcastles barton and chums wanted to cripple rosicky.
middlesboro were the same fouling all the time to upset our rhythm.
chelskie carried on the blatant sadism by trying to cripple cesc or hleb.
nice one eboue. you should have broken his f****ng leg.

what about cesc shoving it right up cashley a***h**e. hope the b gets suspended.
flamini ,cesc ,eboue and rvp won't let any team get away with any rough stuff. they give as good as they get.hing.

Post by **SPUDMASHER** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:20 am

We really are starting to see a tough side to our boys. About time we started to shove it up the arses of the premierships bully boys.
Cesc is a hard little bastard as Cashley found out on Sunday. RVP doesn't take a lot of shit either. His only problem being that he is a bit fragile himself.

Cheese warning.......

I think the futures bright, the futures red 'n white.

Ziggy Woodblume · Post by **Ziggy Woodblume** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:54 am

nice one eboue. you should have broken his f****ng leg.

Tell me, this is what you really want?? Let's try a show a little class

corn · Post by **corn** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:09 am

hey ziggy is it what you really really want. spice girls.

look what happened against newkie and middlebro when we tried to show class. they kicked us off the pitch.

what about hughsy whinging about bully boys arsenal.

yes we are winning the battles.

now it's time to win the war.

Ziggy Woodblume · Post by **Ziggy Woodblume** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:35 pm

corn wrote:hey ziggy is it what you really really want. spice girls.

look what happened against newkie and middlebro when we tried to show class. they kicked us off the pitch.

what about hughsy whinging about bully boys arsenal.

yes we are winning the battles.

now it's time to win the war.

You didn't notice eboue at Middlesboro then! Get real, he is a liability