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.
brazilianGOONER wrote:i have a great admiration for rosicky, actually think he's one of the truly gifted footballers and nice person to play for us in the last decade
Same here actually
And I think Arshavin could have a good season next season.
brazilianGOONER wrote:i have a great admiration for rosicky, actually think he's one of the truly gifted footballers and nice person to play for us in the last decade
Same here actually
And I think Arshavin could have a good season next season.
i knew someone would push it too far
It'll be a toss-up between Arshavin and Ramsey for the golden boot next season
I actually think Walcott is a good player, when he is on form there is simply no way to deal with him, and think if we put him up top he could be absolute class.
Flamini was one of my favourite Arsenal players of the past 5-6 years, and I would have loved us to sign him this summer when he was out of contract.
I don't have any dislike for Ivan Gazidis, I actually think he's done quite well; he's stuck between an owner who clearly couldn't really give a flying one, and won't give him any help, and an extremely stubborn, iconoclastic, borderline megalomaniac in Wenger. I think that what he is employed to do, ie. give soundbites and sort out commercial deals, he has done well at - he is not employed as a football man and it is pointless to judge him as such. The jury is still to an extent out with regards to his negotiating nous (not contracts etc, that is Richard Law's area of expertise) and we will see with our commercial deals but his work in negotiating contracts and international partnerships is so far encouraging.
We've been crying out for someone to try and take advantage of our woefully under-utilised international fanbase for the past decade or so and it is good to see Gazidis doing so. To expect him to come in and change our footballing system is mad - he was chosen by Wenger who is clearly not going to employ someone who will put pressure on him to modify his 'project'.
I also feel no anger towards Wenger - simply pity. (controversial for this place) I emphatically maintain that he has made huge mistakes and should have been sacked a long time ago and I am very confident he will never turn things around, but I don't hate him. I just feel pity for what has happened to him, even though it's nobody's fault but his own.
Interestingly, I absolutely despise West Ham, SWL. Hate them almost as much as the Scum tbh. It started when they stabbed one of our fans to death in 1982, then progressed to epic levels of hatred when I realised I had never met a Shammer that wasn't a total c***bag.
Indeed a quick perusal of some of their "celebrity" fans will confirm the epic levels of c***dom amongst their fanbase;
augie wrote:At the risk of getting absolutely lambasted here DB10, but dont the absolute top players turn up and put in top drawer performances in the big games like cup finals etc ? (cough cough henry
Surely, that implies that Theo is an absolute top player. Carling cup final 2007, FA cup semi 2008, Barca at home 2010, came on and turned the game. That's why he should be signed up for 5 more years.
I like talksport. And i like it even more when we get slated as i tend to agree with every word. In fact i only get angry when mugs call in in praise of anything wenger
DB10GOONER wrote:Interestingly, I absolutely despise West Ham, SWL. Hate them almost as much as the Scum tbh. It started when they stabbed one of our fans to death in 1982, then progressed to epic levels of hatred when I realised I had never met a Shammer that wasn't a total c***bag.
Indeed a quick perusal of some of their "celebrity" fans will confirm the epic levels of c***dom amongst their fanbase;
I think Paul Davis would walk into our first team today, and should have throughout GG's reign, hugely under-rated
Graham always dropped my favourite players: as well as Davis he underused then got rid of Limpar and Rocky
yet I still loved him because (like Wenger) he's Arsenal and had delivered trophies as well as mistakes
I liked Hleb, couldn't get the ball off him in a phone box
I think our fans are to blame for losing Kevin Campbell who could have been a great squad player for years
Wenger should have refused to let Wrighty go - if he had been sub striker in '99 instead of Diawara we would have won either the FA cup or the league
Cygan was not totally crap (I remember an amazing big game performance away at 'Boro in particular)
