How Many Matches Have You Enjoyed Watching This Season?

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I'm a bit confused, thread title is "enjoyed watching" but the poll is "played well in"...i know I've enjoyed more matches than we've played well in this season

*Alcohol-assisted enjoyment

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I can see where some might be confused. There are 2 questions: a general one posed in the thread title and a second which is in the opening post and has a related poll.

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

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

That's two of us!