As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Had a fairly heated discussion with one AKB in the stand at Norwich yesterday, they really are the most brainwashed fuckers ever. Everything that's wrong at Arsenal is of course the board's fault apparently, with a different board in place apparently we'd stroll every competition and be champions of Europe every season
And of course we can't compete with the oil teams. He went strangely silent when I pointed out that in fact we were very much competing for two thirds of the season, until the Nutty Professor predictably decided to sabotage our title bid in January.
And the icing on the cake, apparently this guy would rather we won nothing ever again than "win trophies playing like Chelsea". Unbelievable. That's probably Wenger's greatest achievement - to convince so many that the style of play is more important than winning things. Never mind the fact that our style of play has been turgid & painful to watch for at least the last 3 seasons...
Dan_85 wrote:Had a fairly heated discussion with one AKB in the stand at Norwich yesterday, they really are the most brainwashed fuckers ever. Everything that's wrong at Arsenal is of course the board's fault apparently, with a different board in place apparently we'd stroll every competition and be champions of Europe every season
northbank123 wrote:It's been obvious he's staying for a while, keeps slipping in comments about how he's said he will stay and how he always honours his word.
Why hasn't the deal been signed then? I'm genuinely a bit puzzled. The club would give him a 1-year or 10-year contract depending on what he wanted, and he can't exactly ask for much more influence on the team. Could it be that he is haggling for more money?
Gutted. Can't wait for the FA Cup final but basically writing off the next 2 or 3 years makes me feel empty.
He is waiting for the outcome of the FA Cup. Despite all this talk to the press that he will stay on, I'm clinging to the hope that if he doesn't win it he will know he has lost support of most of the fans and fuck off.
Seriously you lot - if you're after spending loads of money and winning by any means necessary, even if it results in lousy, negative football and every team you oppose hating you, why not switch allegiance to Chelsea? I'm sure they'd be happy to have you, and Jose needs some friends right now.
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turricaned wrote:Seriously you lot - if spending loads of money and winning by any means necessary, even if it results in lousy, negative football and every team you oppose hating you, why not switch allegiance to Chelsea? I'm sure they'd be happy to have you, and Jose needs some friends right now.
You need to get a get a history lesson before you come on here winding the genuine Gooners up - we were boring boring Arsenal for decades and the wider footballing community hated us but we didn't give a fcuk cos we are The Arsenal Nowadays there are too many dickheads who prioritise (supposed) style over substance
augie wrote:You need to get a get a history lesson before you come on here winding the genuine Gooners up - we were boring boring Arsenal for decades and the wider footballing community hated us but we didn't give a fcuk cos we are The Arsenal Nowadays there are too many dickheads who prioritise (supposed) style over substance
Augie, I *grew up* during the "boring, boring" Graham days - that was the team of my youth, and even that wasn't as arse-achingly dull as watching a Mourinho side on a bad day. In fact it wasn't even always dull (thinking of the 1987 Littlewoods Cup Semi Final against the Spuds in particular)! I think there's a happy medium between style and substance to be had there, and I also think that the haters been hatin' so long that they've forgotten how to do anything else.
turricaned wrote:Seriously you lot - if spending loads of money and winning by any means necessary, even if it results in lousy, negative football and every team you oppose hating you, why not switch allegiance to Chelsea? I'm sure they'd be happy to have you, and Jose needs some friends right now.
I thought that professional sports is only about winning. Please, don't give me that lame excuse again how Jose is ending up empty handed during THIS season. During all those 9 seasons when Wenger has failed every year, Mou has won nearly everything. I hate that egoist prick but seriously!
turricaned wrote:Seriously you lot - if you're after spending loads of money and winning by any means necessary, even if it results in lousy, negative football and every team you oppose hating you, why not switch allegiance to Chelsea? I'm sure they'd be happy to have you, and Jose needs some friends right now.
Not having a pop at you here McD (as the messenger) but that is one of the worst, piss poor uses of stats I've ever read. Not defending Wenger here as injuries is not a good enough excuse for failure (because if you plan correctly you can at least mitigate the worst of it by signing players in summer/Jan).
But that "article" doesn't take into account the quality of player injured at any given time. The qualifyer would be the quality of the player injured and at what time in the season he was injured and who we played during his absence. You just can't honestly use stats in relation to football as they are only quantitative and not qualitative. Fucking ludicrous generalisation of stats (as usual) by that rag.
I would say injuries did impact our season (as usual) but only in conjunction with poor tactics, poor leadership, lack of signings and failure to prepare properly for certain key games (again, as usual). Wenger using injuries as an excuse is a stupid as this rag saying it didn't have an impact.
turricaned wrote:Seriously you lot - if you're after spending loads of money and winning by any means necessary, even if it results in lousy, negative football and every team you oppose hating you, why not switch allegiance to Chelsea? I'm sure they'd be happy to have you, and Jose needs some friends right now.
Just have to bump this.
Puts the rest of turricanes ridiculous excuses for Wenger into some kind of perspective. Its right up there with "we didnt beat Chelsea at home this season because the weather was rotten"
Nowadays there are too many dickheads who prioritise (supposed) style over substance 
