How Many Matches Have You Enjoyed Watching This Season?

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How Many Matches Have We 'Played Well In' This Season?

1-5
23
85%
6-10
3
11%
11-15
0
No votes
16-20
0
No votes
Most Of Them!!
1
4%
 
Total votes: 27

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This Is The Daybreak wrote:To be honest, the only Arsenal games I really enjoy are the ones where we trash a team convincingly. Even though I enjoy victorious North London Derbies and tight affairs where we nick a goal, they aren't really enjoyable throughout the game, more an explosion of emotions when a goal goes in or at the final whistle. Am usually a bag of nerves through (yesterday being another example of this)

So with that in mind there have been very few....Southampton at home, Reading at home, Coventry in the League Cup...can't think of any others.

Was very pleased with the performance with Spurs at home, Liverpool away, Bayern away and Man City away but I wouldn't say they were necessary enjoyable throughout due to the nature of the game.

Talking about enjoyable games, this one ranks with the very best of them...meaningless end of season game, but an absolute joy to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PboL6hSIb9M

DO NOT WATCH IF YOU VALUE YOUR HEALTH / SANITY

Henry, Bergkamp, Pires, Reyes, RVP, Vieira, Edu, Flamini and even a young Fabregas all going forward at will, taking opponenets on, shooting :shock:, movement from the forwards, tackles from the defence, midfield getting up to support the front guys and Arteta with a hair out of place :lol:

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Actually enjoyed? None of them really but I voted 1-5 as there wasnt a none option :D !

I can see why people would pick the 5-2 spurs and the 7-3 Newcastle. But the first of those games is too tense to enjoy and the other, just like the 7-5 Reading cup game, was just too farcical. Computer game football. Schoolboy defending, amateurish organisation and an embarrassment to both sides.

I don’t enjoy comedy football. I enjoy watching a serious team, that is serious about competing and has tempo, aggression and desire mixed with skill, ability, organisation and courage. We used to have that in abundance but I see very few of those things anymore.

I think we played well at Liverpool and the first half at Man City and there was something I liked in home game against Everton … but to be enjoyable I need to feel it is building towards something and I didn’t get that feeling in those games.

Thrashing rabble like West Ham or Reading or some dross in Europe used to be more enjoyable than it is now because we knew the players could also produce when it mattered in bigger games. The problem now is games like these are lapped up by the Wenger supporters and Wenger himself and used to continue this myth that we still produce quality football. Sitting in the Emirates, hearing ‘Ole’s’ as we paste relegation fodder is not my idea of fun when that same side be lauded will crumble under the merest hint of pressure.

As for the win at Bayern … for me it can be filed in Wenger’s ‘’special circumstances’’ drawer. It meant very little to me and if we got a 3rd and gone through I would have just laughed at Bayern’s suicidal game plan rather than praise our players for their bravery. I want bravery when there is something to lose, not when there is nothing to lose.

The late ‘’fightback’’ against mighty Norwich wasn’t too enjoyable either. When you’ve been so bored out of your skull for 85 mins that you’ve almost gone into a trance its hard to wake up and celebrate a flukey win that only counts towards guaranteeing more of the same in future seasons.

And this is the problem … there just isn’t the same joy in us winning as there used to be or as there still should be. That’s not the same as saying I want us to lose … but I CAN sympathise with the genuine fans who have started to feel that way because they want change. And yes they are genuine some of them – although many people are only capable of seeing things in black and white and wont agree.

Some fans can still enjoy any win and fair enough. I envy them. But we cant choose how we feel though. If we could then we’d all choose to enjoy everything wouldn’t we?!

Technical football on its own is, in my opinion, even more dull than what Watford and Wimbledon produced in the 80s because at least heir way of playing at least had some passion to it. Thanks to Wenger we now play the most passionless brand of football I have ever witnessed and its getting harder and harder to feel passionate watching it. And what are we actually playing for? Profits or pride?

I imagine some of you will have seen some of the Championship finale stuff yesterday. The mixture of nerves, tension, ecstasy, relief, deflation, etc. When was the last time we had that in any Arsenal games?

We don’t live through a proper season and experience the highs and lows anymore, we just exist. There is no tension in just finishing in the top 4 – although the run-in for this is the only time our manager shows any anxiety.

Obviously I would prefer to finish above Spurs and Chelsea and prefer not going to Europa cup games or league games on Sundays. But other than that, I couldn’t give a damn about top 4 anymore.

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3, maybe 4, this season has been a nightmare, I think it's due to the fact I have accepted its not getting any better, it could be a decade or more before we can turn round the lethargy that has engulfed the club from top to bottom, goals in the last ten mins from the vermin and the chavs are not helping either, you hope for 80 mins plus that they will fuck up and then monkey features gets shown onto his good paw and gets his one man team out of the shit, oh and a big up to Fergiescum and his half strength team today, thanks for f**k all

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Everyone we won, the spurs game was most enjoyable :D

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thought we were excellent at ManCiteh - should have won but Gervinho had a 'mare
LOVED beating Sperz ten men. The batterings of Coventry, Hammers and Southampton were good.
Winning in Munich was pleasing...
Voted 1-5 and now mentioned 6!

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The prem this year has been horrible. This weeks games just prove it. The Spurs game was just long ball. Everton Liverpool boring. Chelsea and Utd showed just how far the standard has dropped.

I don't think the prem is best in the world anymore.

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so true, our league sucks

just remembered away to West Ham, Swansea, Reading and Liverpool
didn't actually go to any of those but enjoyed watching them on telly

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spendsum4uckingmoney wrote:The prem this year has been horrible. This weeks games just prove it. The Spurs game was just long ball. Everton Liverpool boring. Chelsea and Utd showed just how far the standard has dropped.

I don't think the prem is best in the world anymore.
Agree completely and have thought this for some time. Another line of spin that Wenger trips out regularly is how the rest of the PL has improved dramatically since when he first arrived, citing examples like Wigan that have a team full of internationals (conveniently sketching over the fact that they come from Oman, Honduras and even worse Scotland)

Man United's current team is not a patch on the CL winning team that had Van der Sar, Ronaldo, Tevez. Chelsea's current batch are not a patch on Mourinho's teams of 2005 and 2006. We are a million miles away even from our 2008 side let alone the teams from 2005 and earlier.

City have improved because of the money and Spurs have improved generally too......but for each of those there are teams like Liverpool and Newcastle who have got considerably worse

The fact that this mediocre United side have cruised to the title proves what an average, overrated division the PL really is. I haven't enjoyed it at all, which is why the cups have been a welcome distraction (until Lord Wanker opted to throw them away in usual fashion of course)

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Clash wrote:Actually enjoyed? None of them really but I voted 1-5 as there wasnt a none option :D !

I can see why people would pick the 5-2 spurs and the 7-3 Newcastle. But the first of those games is too tense to enjoy and the other, just like the 7-5 Reading cup game, was just too farcical. Computer game football. Schoolboy defending, amateurish organisation and an embarrassment to both sides.

I don’t enjoy comedy football. I enjoy watching a serious team, that is serious about competing and has tempo, aggression and desire mixed with skill, ability, organisation and courage. We used to have that in abundance but I see very few of those things anymore.

I think we played well at Liverpool and the first half at Man City and there was something I liked in home game against Everton … but to be enjoyable I need to feel it is building towards something and I didn’t get that feeling in those games.

Thrashing rabble like West Ham or Reading or some dross in Europe used to be more enjoyable than it is now because we knew the players could also produce when it mattered in bigger games. The problem now is games like these are lapped up by the Wenger supporters and Wenger himself and used to continue this myth that we still produce quality football. Sitting in the Emirates, hearing ‘Ole’s’ as we paste relegation fodder is not my idea of fun when that same side be lauded will crumble under the merest hint of pressure.

As for the win at Bayern … for me it can be filed in Wenger’s ‘’special circumstances’’ drawer. It meant very little to me and if we got a 3rd and gone through I would have just laughed at Bayern’s suicidal game plan rather than praise our players for their bravery. I want bravery when there is something to lose, not when there is nothing to lose.

The late ‘’fightback’’ against mighty Norwich wasn’t too enjoyable either. When you’ve been so bored out of your skull for 85 mins that you’ve almost gone into a trance its hard to wake up and celebrate a flukey win that only counts towards guaranteeing more of the same in future seasons.

And this is the problem … there just isn’t the same joy in us winning as there used to be or as there still should be. That’s not the same as saying I want us to lose … but I CAN sympathise with the genuine fans who have started to feel that way because they want change. And yes they are genuine some of them – although many people are only capable of seeing things in black and white and wont agree.

Some fans can still enjoy any win and fair enough. I envy them. But we cant choose how we feel though. If we could then we’d all choose to enjoy everything wouldn’t we?!

Technical football on its own is, in my opinion, even more dull than what Watford and Wimbledon produced in the 80s because at least heir way of playing at least had some passion to it. Thanks to Wenger we now play the most passionless brand of football I have ever witnessed and its getting harder and harder to feel passionate watching it. And what are we actually playing for? Profits or pride?

I imagine some of you will have seen some of the Championship finale stuff yesterday. The mixture of nerves, tension, ecstasy, relief, deflation, etc. When was the last time we had that in any Arsenal games?

We don’t live through a proper season and experience the highs and lows anymore, we just exist. There is no tension in just finishing in the top 4 – although the run-in for this is the only time our manager shows any anxiety.

Obviously I would prefer to finish above Spurs and Chelsea and prefer not going to Europa cup games or league games on Sundays. But other than that, I couldn’t give a damn about top 4 anymore.
This is basically how I feel but couldn't be arsed to type out :lol:

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It's hard to enjoy anything when you don't have any empathy with the Club anymore.
In the past even when the board were *word censored* you liked some players or the manager,or you could simply enjoy going to Highbury which always made me feel at ease with the world.
For me there isn't anything left to empathise with, Hate the Board ,Dislike the manager and there isn't a single player that I'd cross the street for and that includes Jack .
Ive two great season tickets downstairs BUT this is the first time Ive considered giving them both up even though I have lived abroad before as now.

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Herd wrote:and there isn't a single player that I'd cross the street for and that includes Jack .
hear this kind of thing often,
wonder if Tuesday club type antics were revealed now how fans would feel?
players on our payroll getting lashed rather than staying in peak condition
Merse snorting his wages, him and TA endangering others by drinkdriving...?
There'd be an online hate-mob
I think the change is in society as much as anything

I wouldn't necessarily "cross the street" for players either, I want to watch them play football not be their mates
but I think Santi, Kos and Jack are great players who put everything in on the pitch

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Regularly scoring goals is still a huge problem - 21 out of our 36 league games played have produced either 0 or just 1 goal.

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not been the best season for great football, so haven't enjoyed so many games bar the odd one like the totts at home.

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hugh jardon wrote:Regularly scoring goals is still a huge problem - 21 out of our 36 league games played have produced either 0 or just 1 goal.
thats a horrific stat (which ironically shows how useless stats can be)

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Scum at home. That's it.

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