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Gervinho to miss two open goals
Ramsey to give the ball away more than 10 times in the match
Vermaelen to look as shit as ever
Wenger to berate the 4th official more than 4 times in the match
Two subs made in between the 69th and 74th minutes
1 Arsenal goal - Rosicky....before going off injured
2 goals conceded, one in the last 5 mins to lose the game
There is not a fear in the world of this being anything other than an away win and if we score early then it could be a landslide. Yes I know that we are shite at the mo but they are dire and mentally, if a club like reading that expect to get relegated, go one behind early then they fold like a deck of cards. Confidence is important at the top level of the game although I also feel that a loss of confidence shouldnt hit a club as big as our's in the same way it would hit a small club fighting relegation
Does it really matter this season is dire, we have lost our club to a guy who I have no idea why he wants to be in control. Kronke could have made more money investing his cash else where.
Bloody weird
DB10GOONER wrote:We'll fuck them over good-oh. 4-1 or 5-1 (we will of course concede at least one during Zonal Chaos ).
We are poor at the moment but Reading are having a mare. Forehead will miss at least 2 sitters, but he will also score. THAT'S how bad Reading are.
This ^
We will batter them tonight scoring at least 4 and "one Arsene Wenger" will sing out at the Madjeski tonight
Well I am probably in the minority on here now in that I HOPE we do absolutely thrash them
Couldn't give a flying one what the away support will sing as while they are there having paid their money, travelled etc they're entitled to sing what they want imo.
goonersid wrote:For the long term good of the club, a defeat is the best result tonight. Wenger is under pressure and he mustn't slip the noose this time. Massive 3 games coming up, we could be rid of the old fool for the new year, now wouldn't that be fucking fantastic?
I wish that were true, Sid, But the ONLY way Wenker will go - is if he decides to...even if we end up mid-table at the end of the season, the board still will NOT sack him...we are stuck with the *word censored* till he decides otherwise....so I would prefer we win, rather than lose any games because I'm depressed enough as it is knowing for certain Wenker's going NOWHERE (Yet!).
Reading may welcome back Jason Roberts and Pavel Pogrebnyak from injury.
The game will come too soon for Jimmy Kebe and Jem Karacan, although both are back in training, while Sean Morrison remains sidelined.
Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud should be back in contention after missing the defeat at Bradford with a back problem.
Laurent Koscielny has returned to training after a thigh injury, while Theo Walcott's calf complaint will be assessed.
Reading may welcome back Jason Roberts and Pavel Pogrebnyak from injury.
The game will come too soon for Jimmy Kebe and Jem Karacan, although both are back in training, while Sean Morrison remains sidelined.
Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud should be back in contention after missing the defeat at Bradford with a back problem.
Laurent Koscielny has returned to training after a thigh injury, while Theo Walcott's calf complaint will be assessed.
if roberts plays tonight no doubt he will cause trouble for the defence surely even wenger knows gervinho cannot be starting tonight hopefully theo is fit and have pretty much our full strength team out
Augie, Flash, DB10, your confidence surrounding this game astounds me. Firstly Reading despite being shite, have shown that they can score goals, and even given their position in the league table, I still think we are under more pressure going into this game than they are.
Our shower of bottlers and halfwit senile manager have shown time and time again that pressure is something they don't handle well.
I will stick my neck out here and say categorically that we won't win this game, Wigan will then be even tougher and we will lose that one.
I think we are under more pressure than any other team in the league at the moment Sid, Reading included, because everybody knows they're shite and there's little expectation whereas finally we're getting crucified for continued underachievement.
But they are devoid of quality, they're the worst team in the league, they can't defend and crucially they have shown a propensity for shipping in goals for fun to throw points away. I would never say this current team is a banker to beat anybody, but I do still think we're huge favourites against a team who share pretty much all of our weaknesses but in turn don't have players like Wilshere, Cazorla and co.
you cant have much confidence with us atm but i am fairly confident that we're going to win today however this could be a norwich situation all over again.
