Most shambolic performance

[rodders999]

Got to be the 4-4 for me. That was the game where I went from merely disliking the manager to absolutely detesting him with every fibre of my being. He just sat on his hands for the entire second half as it all went to shit around him. Honorary mention must go to baked bean head for getting sent off that day too

[casgooner]

Losing 4 nil at United in the cup a few years back when they didn't even have a striker on the pitch is up there for me as well.

[Perryashburtongroves]

Oh, there are just so many to choose from. Honestly ask yourself, would any other manager have been allowed to win fuck all for 9 years, make no progress whatsoever, make the same mistakes again and again, fail to win big games when they matter and still be allowed even half of those results listed here? No fucking way. The *word censored* should have been sacked with immediate effect after that 8-2.

[augie]

This list makes real painful reading

Obviously no team should let in 8 goals in a game, and the shame of it should have forced his sacking/resignation that night or the next day.
However it was always going to produce a response along the lines of it being a freak result, but what is indefensible for me is to suffer 3 hidings in quick succession to the chavs, victims and citeeh - again these were not isolated results and cannot be batted away with feeble excuses and they were a real low for me

[casgooner]

we also lost 6-1 to United way back when Henry was in the team. Let's face it, our manager is psyched out when playing United. The players keep changing, but we still keep losing, even when United are poor and losing to everyone else.

[Blade]

it's only in this AW era we have had these embarrassing capitulations.Prior to 1996 there a few collapses but not at this regularity against the same teams.

[VoiceOfReason]

Has to be the 8-2.

As bad as the 4-4 was, they did at least perform will enough to get themselves 4-0 up, so it wasn't a total shambles from start to finish like the 8-2 was.

[Gunner Rob]

Has to be the 8-2.

As bad as the 4-4 was, they did at least perform will enough to get themselves 4-0 up, so it wasn't a total shambles from start to finish like the 8-2 was.

yesterday was worse than the 8-2.
come on be honest you looked at the Arsenal line up before that game and you knew we would lose. Ok the scoreline was disgraceful but the actual result was not surprising.

yesterday you looked at the line ups and EVERYONE thought we should win.
the result was embarrassing.

[augie]

it's only in this AW era we have had these embarrassing capitulations.Prior to 1996 there a few collapses but not at this regularity against the same teams.

I remember the league cup hammering manure gave us at highbury many moons ago (c*ntbag sharpe scored a hat-trick ), and there was uproar - nowadays thrashings are becoming more common but yet we just accept it and don't even voice our anger

[Herd]

Theres been many only they dont seem to hurt any more ,I have become comfortably numb !

[VoiceOfReason]

Has to be the 8-2.

As bad as the 4-4 was, they did at least perform will enough to get themselves 4-0 up, so it wasn't a total shambles from start to finish like the 8-2 was.

yesterday was worse than the 8-2.
come on be honest you looked at the Arsenal line up before that game and you knew we would lose..

It was Walcott starting that sealed it. When was the last time he made an impact in a truly big game? Even over the course of his career, I can think of the League Cup final goal in 2007 and the assist at Anfield in 2008, and that's about it. Much like the rest of the team, he's fine against Burnley and West Brom at home, when he's allowed to sit on the ball without being challenged and the quality of opposition is poor, but put him up against some decent defenders and he hasn't got a chance.

[casgooner]

Has to be the 8-2.

As bad as the 4-4 was, they did at least perform will enough to get themselves 4-0 up, so it wasn't a total shambles from start to finish like the 8-2 was.

yesterday was worse than the 8-2.
come on be honest you looked at the Arsenal line up before that game and you knew we would lose..

It was Walcott starting that sealed it. When was the last time he made an impact in a truly big game? Even over the course of his career, I can think of the League Cup final goal in 2007 and the assist at Anfield in 2008, and that's about it. Much like the rest of the team, he's fine against Burnley and West Brom at home, when he's allowed to sit on the ball without being challenged and the quality of opposition is poor, but put him up against some decent defenders and he hasn't got a chance.

Were they even decent defenders yesterday? Most of their first team was out injured. Walcott had 17 touches according to one paper, in the whole time he was on the pitch. He didn't look interested, he just jogged around. Pah

[Blade]

[quoteI remember the league cup hammering manure gave us at highbury many moons ago (c*ntbag sharpe scored a hat-trick ), and there was uproar - nowadays thrashings are becoming more common but yet we just accept it and don't even voice our anger ][/quote]

yes i remember that -Sharpe built half his career on that one performance.

That aberration never happened again until the era of Le Fraud.

Before that there were 0:5 defeats versus Derby Co and Stoke way back in the 70s.

[Tommy_Goon]

8-2 is probs clear winner.

I would also consider adding the 3-1 loss to Monaco at home, a completely unacceptable performance when we finally got a tie we wanted.

[northbank123]

Has to be the 8-2.

As bad as the 4-4 was, they did at least perform will enough to get themselves 4-0 up, so it wasn't a total shambles from start to finish like the 8-2 was.

yesterday was worse than the 8-2.
come on be honest you looked at the Arsenal line up before that game and you knew we would lose..

It was Walcott starting that sealed it. When was the last time he made an impact in a truly big game? Even over the course of his career, I can think of the League Cup final goal in 2007 and the assist at Anfield in 2008, and that's about it. Much like the rest of the team, he's fine against Burnley and West Brom at home, when he's allowed to sit on the ball without being challenged and the quality of opposition is poor, but put him up against some decent defenders and he hasn't got a chance.

To be fair - and I am loathe to defend Walcott - big games are the only thing that he has managed to dine out on. Barcelona home 2010 and setting up our goal to go 1-0 up away, Chelsea at home when we hammered them 2011 (I think), played a part at Stamford Bridge in the 5-3, both 5-2 games against Spurs, the 6-3 at City, scored at United last year and had a good game against them at home this year.

The reason why he manages to sometimes grab a goal in big games is because he is so selfish not looking to get involved other than running in behind - and against those sorts of teams they commit more men forward so it comes off a bit more. The issue in these games is that if it doesn't then he offers the square root of fuck all, like yesterday - and there is just no way to tell whether he will do anything at all.