Vermin Home Game

[Henry Norris 1913]

so they're planning on smashing up a pub once all the gooners have finished and gone home in a couple of hours I assume?

[donaldo]

An Arsenal midfielder who didnt take no prisoners.Its been 5 years since we had one

Welcome back the Flamster

[1989]

No one can accuse us of a lack of leadership now with Per and Flamini both born leaders.

[T.S]

[T.S]

Shame they couldn't find a goal somewhere in those two teams!

[donaldo]

An Arsenal midfielder who didnt take no prisoners.Its been 5 years since we had one

Welcome back the Flamster

[SteveO 35]

Shame they couldn't find a goal somewhere in those two teams!

Good fucking job for them they got 2 penalties otherwise they'd be fucked !

[the jaybo]

Can someone tell me how they supposedly "bossed the game"? If we had put in a performance in like that everyone on here would be going spare. Large chunk of possession while creating virtually nothing for the entirety.

Thought we were the better team throughout. Threatening on the break whilst looking comfortable at the back. Nervy at the end but with a narrow lead that's expected. Nice to see us battle for the result in the end. Shame so many are reluctant to praise us for it. Doubt they would had said the same had a Mourinho side shown something similar

[clockender1]

Very Pleased with the result, chuffed for flamini and Giroud. I hope they both keep it up.

There really is nothing like deflating the scums championship dreams three weeks into the season...

Bbc says Jack has the trots and will be fine for England. Shame.

Liverpool looking dangerous. Going to fInish above us.

WANGER OUT. !

[SteveO 35]

Glory Glory forum is back up lads. Some hero called Solano has infiltrated and has already called Soldado a cart horse

http://www.glory-glory.co.uk/showthread ... ***/page41

He's on a wind up and looks like he's close to being barred

[Herd]

Augie sid hang your dirty scum loving heads in shame ,seriously go and find something better to do u negative tossers.

We have just beaten 100 million pounds of shit .so celebrate u sulking shitcantz !

there is no reason not to be happy tonight

[spendsum4uckingmoney]

Is there something wrong with Wilshere? Why did he come off before half time?

[g88ner]

There was a pretty decent assessment by someone on Glory Glory of Tottnumb's superior possession..

DubaiSpur:

Now, I'd like to politely disagree. We did not 'set the tempo'. Far, far from it. We tried desperately to avoid Arsenal getting the ball, is what we did. In the main, we succeeded. We had very few ideas on what to do with the ball, and were content to pass it around on the half-way line. Any further and Arsenal's central midfielders pounced, repeatedly nicking the ball from our surprisingly brittle midfielders and bursting forward with pace and purpose. Lloris had to save us time and time again as Arsenal found gaps across our team at will, while anything we attempted to do in their half was quickly and effortlessly snuffed out by their central defenders and midfielders acting as a cohesive unit. They let us have the ball because they knew we would do absolutely nothing with it. That is not a triumph, not matter how much possession we rack up that way. If 'control' means terrified midfielders passing back and forth on the half-way line while the opposition team wait to pounce tigerishly when the ball moves forward ten yards into their half, then give me playing to attack any day.

You know, on second thought, I withdraw my first statement. we did set the tempo. The tempo being slow, laborious passing and penetration followed by quick, incisive counter-attacks and desperate defensive flailing, followed by regained possession, followed by slow, laborious passing and penetration, etcetera, etcetera, ad infinitum. It wasn't just Daws and Verts losing concentration, it was our midfield failing to hold on to the ball in the attacking third and failing to provide cover for our defenders, it was our full-backs giving away possession time and time again by putting in atrocious crosses, and it was Soldado, Chadli and Townsend struggling up front with no support or movement around them.

We played badly as a team, with Daws and Rose just being the most prominent examples of our bad performance. That much is attested to by my post in the ratings thread, where I gave nearly everyone a sub-par (below six) rating.

Look, I don't doubt we'll improve. And I have faith that AVB will eventually make us the team you envision: able to control possession and fashion chances when they choose to while remaining rock solid at the back. But please don't assert that it's already happened. Today's performance shows we have a long, long way to go.

[GranadaJoe]

That plan to bigger us by not selling MonkeyBoy until after the game worked really well!!!

[GranadaJoe]

I'm pleased with Ramsey's improvement but he's got to stop giving the ball away so often. The media need to tone down their praise, he's still a long way from good enough to hold down a first team place.