Barca Home Tuesday 19.45

[rodders999]

It never ceases to amaze me how Wenger supporters just blatently make up lies and shit to defend him
Anything, anything at all. Just throw it out there, create a distraction.

The ministry for disinformation

[markyp]

we are lucky to be on the same pitch as Barca,their players are mega stars,lets just enjoy the game we wont win but it doesn't matter in this era of the modern Arsenal,its the taking part,paying the highest ticket prices in our shiny stadium,buying the merchandise,filming it on your phone and saying that you were there that really counts.winning tophies and competing is so 'highbury' ,IN WENGER WE TRUST

[markyp]

we are lucky to be on the same pitch as Barca,their players are mega stars,lets just enjoy the game we wont win but it doesn't matter in this era of the modern Arsenal,its the taking part,paying the highest ticket prices in our shiny stadium,buying the merchandise,filming it on your phone and saying that you were there that really counts.winning tophies and competing is so 'highbury' ,IN WENGER WE TRUST

FFS some Arsenal supporters make me cry treating this like a night out and just to enjoy the buttholing,arent we in this to win it regardless of how superior Barca are, we were promised we were leaving highbury to compete with the worlds best,sadly we are even further away than back then,WENKER OUT ,WIGGY OUT ,AKB'S OUT, get the fuck out of Arsenal you perennial losers

[BFG4]

Did anyone see Wenger's pre match press conference? When asked why Barcelona have moved so far ahead of us in the last decade, his answer, "They had money to spend". Isn't it funny how Pre Leicester, Wenger was sprouting nonsense about Leicester proving you don't have to spend to be successful, yet going into this game, he uses lack of spending as an excuse. Rather than adjusting his tactics to suit the opposition, he adjusts his bullshit excuses depending on who we are playing.

[Offside]

I'm here for the narrow, "heroic" defeat, caused by "special circumstances" (perhaps a Suarez dive) before we go to the Nou Camp and get absolutely trashed.

We need to make this game as tight and ugly as possible but you just know Wenger doesn't have it in him to spring any tactical surprises.

[casgooner]

I heard a presenter on the radio say that Arsenal fans don't know whether they should take with them to the stadium, a blindfold or an abacus. He didn't mean it maliciously.

[mcdowell42]

#Arsenal XI to face Barcelona: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Ramsey, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlin, Ozil, Sanchez, Giroud.
6:41pm - 23 Feb 16

[GoonerMuzz]

#Arsenal XI to face Barcelona: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Ramsey, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlin, Ozil, Sanchez, Giroud.
6:41pm - 23 Feb 16

Ox playing means no help for Hector, no matter what you think of him i personally would have preferred Joel at least he puts in a defensive shift.

Oh well we can all hope and pray to whatever deity that they feel sorry for us tonight or that everyone plays a blinder COYG

[Tonyb]

Ox being picked, he must believe he's at that level to play, personally I think he's well below that and recent games/years show that. I hope he proves me very wrong. You never know, prove me wrong Ox,

[xisstential]

#Arsenal XI to face Barcelona: Cech, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Ramsey, Coquelin, Oxlade-Chamberlin, Ozil, Sanchez, Giroud.
6:41pm - 23 Feb 16

Ox playing means no help for Hector, no matter what you think of him i personally would have preferred Joel at least he puts in a defensive shift.

Oh well we can all hope and pray to whatever deity that they feel sorry for us tonight or that everyone plays a blinder COYG

You're right, Campbell tracks back. Lol, those backs of ours are gonna be running like they've never run before. Mertersacker is going to have a torrid, torrid night.Nyemar,& Suarez leaving him for dead, Messi running at him, around him, through him and under him. Probably outjump him for good measure as well.

[OneBardGooner]

The official website gushing over Suarez Neymar and Messi like a bunch of fucking prepubescent girls in the front row of a Justin Bieber concert. Oh here they come walking off the team bus, this is them training at the space bowl. Acting like a non league club that's got a bumper draw in the FA Cup. Have we all had our selfies taken with them yet? How fucking small time, at least try and give the impression we're not just here to make up the numbers

Bet there's a queue for Messi's jersey at full time tomorrow.

No that'll be Half-time mate.

[northbank123]

Ox starting is insane. The bloke has by far the least understanding of the defensive aspect of his role I have ever seen - added to which Bellerin is still pretty green and will be put under the microscope. Anybody remember how ruthless Bayern were exploiting our left flank in the home game in 2013? Don't be surprised if Barca do the same down our right.

Campbell would have run his bollocks off for 65-70 minutes and should have started. We are not going to get near them for that period anyway so why you would pick the biggest defensive liability who is also going through a horrendously-long woeful run of form?

The only hope of getting a result is working hard, being as organised as possible and hoping we ride our luck to still be in the game after 65-70 minutes, at which point Barcelona traditionally tire from their incessantly high-tempo attacking and defensive style.

[OneBardGooner]

Step forward Gabriel - we have a secret formula to stop Barcelona

http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/23/arsenal-h ... a-5711982/

Splashed all over the back of today's red tops too

The secret is out and it has three steps to it:

1. Lock them in the dressing room
2. If they escape break their legs
3. If that doesn't work and they continue scoring on cracked and smashed stumps of legs bring out the Garlic.

[OneBardGooner]

Where's Itchy baba?????

[Ikechukwu1]

It never ceases to amaze me how Wenger supporters just blatently make up lies and shit to defend him
Anything, anything at all. Just throw it out there, create a distraction.

The ministry for disinformation

Honest to God Bendtner's Drinking Buddy played an absolute blinder tonight in the creative bull manure stakes!

You need to understand just how outrageous, invented and plain lies his statement was about Barca. It's so laughable I showed it to a Spanish colleague who couldn't stop laughing.
The notion of the Spanish central government going out of their way to hell Barca - a club that represent a region trying to break away from the central government - is so farcical that it takes a really special kind of mind to actually say that in public! It's well known that Real Madrid get all government help. Barca get sod all from them!!!!

BDB completed AKB bingo like a good Wenger fanboy by confirming he was "there to enjoy the occasion"

Just like every other good tourist and occasional day tripper, there to selfie stick the whole occasion
Most expensive tickets in Europe


Anyway. I'd love to see an Arsenal win but what purpose would that serve except to annoy Barca for the return leg?