Worst Arsenal game

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This Is The Daybreak
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Worst Arsenal game

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Different to the lowest you've felt as an Arsenal fan but what is the worst game you have been to, in terms of it just being a complete non performance, non event and questioning to yourself why you bother.

Heres mine that I went to

Arsenal 0 Aston Villa 0-December, 1994

Literally the most boring game I have ever been to, on Boxing day, freezing cold and when I say nothing happened I mean literally nothing happened.

Arsenal 1 Wimbledon 3-December 1995

Bruce Rioch era....poured with hailstones throughout and a totally lacklustre uninspired performance led us being beaten by f**king Wimbledon at home

Arsenal 0 Wimbledon 1-April 1997

Wimbledon again...I just remember this game putting pay to any lingering hopes of the title that season, Vinny Jones scored for them and the decided to kick the shit out of us for the remainder of the game whilst barely getting a shot on goal...there is something also more depressing about losing on a Sunday.

Manchester City 3 Arsenal 0-November 2008

I think if I was to pick the single worst performance I have ever seen under Wenger this is it. Our away fans were singing We Love You Arsenal continuously for the final 15 minutes of the game but what was going on the pitch was a joke...I think every player who played that day put on their worst display in an Arsenal shirt, Gallas had been stripped of captaincy and there were 11 players out there who looked like they couldn't care less, I think that was the first time I questioned why I bother....we beat Chelsea the following week and that answered my question

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Arsenal 0 - 0 Blackburn... FA Cup, 2007 (or was it 2008?). Anyway, shit game, Blackburn "parked the bus" seeing as they'd just been whalloped a few weeks before.

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I remember a terrible match against Sheffield Wednesday in 1994/95 when we beat them one-nil with an Ian Wright goal right at the end. It was a Sunday in about November or December time, it rained all the way through, Wednesday came for a point and did fuck all, we were shit and did fuck all and if I remember rightly, the North Bank was full of empty seats, the away section half-full and the sky dark all the way throughout. Sort of summed up the last days of GG, really.

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digger wrote:Arsenal 0 - 0 Blackburn... FA Cup, 2007 (or was it 2008?). Anyway, shit game, Blackburn "parked the bus" seeing as they'd just been whalloped a few weeks before.
Feb 2007. We'd beaten Bolton after extra time on a replay the Wednesday night (was valentines day, I cooked a meal that finished just as we kicked off, boy was I in the sh*t for that!) and this was scheduled for 12:30 on the Saturday. They weren't interested in attacking at all, we were crap, no atmosphere due to the early kickoff/crap opposition and they literally had about 11 supporters.

Seem to remember losing away at Bradford 2-1 in their final season in the Prem (forget the year), that was pretty dire. That and losing away to Coventry 1-0 with Nelson Vivas missing a penalty. You knew the moment he stepped up to take it we weren't getting anything that day.

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Ipswich 1 Arsenal 0 1978 Cup Final.

THE worst performance by an Arsenal side I have ever seen. Not helped by the night before I saw 3 of our starting 11 that day in a club at 2 in the morning.

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Arsenal 2 - Middlesbrough 0 last season... I woke up at noon and the game was at 13.30, fuckin' hangover and I expected the Arsenal to cheer me up a bit... my arse :D
The atmosphere was DIRE!!!!

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Chelsea at home this year, hammered down with rain while our runts were mashed into the floor by dog breath and co. Didn't help that I had just got back that afternoon from a weekend piss up in glasgow and was sporting the mother of all hang overs!

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Arsenal 1-0 Portsmouth, December 2008.

Absolutely nothing game, won by a flukey, scrappy goal in the 82nd minute, and fucking freezing to boot.

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Compared to the home games that followed against West Ham and Fulham the Pompey game was pretty good!

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Post by WHL-71-04 »

Perryashburtongroves wrote:I remember a terrible match against Sheffield Wednesday in 1994/95 when we beat them one-nil with an Ian Wright goal right at the end. It was a Sunday in about November or December time, it rained all the way through, Wednesday came for a point and did fuck all, we were shit and did fuck all and if I remember rightly, the North Bank was full of empty seats, the away section half-full and the sky dark all the way throughout. Sort of summed up the last days of GG, really.
That was defo my worst game, absolute shocker in a half empty Highbury.

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rigsby wrote:Ipswich 1 Arsenal 0 1978 Cup Final.

THE worst performance by an Arsenal side I have ever seen. Not helped by the night before I saw 3 of our starting 11 that day in a club at 2 in the morning.

That was the day i started following arsenal

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mcdowell42 wrote:
rigsby wrote:Ipswich 1 Arsenal 0 1978 Cup Final.

THE worst performance by an Arsenal side I have ever seen. Not helped by the night before I saw 3 of our starting 11 that day in a club at 2 in the morning.

That was the day i started following arsenal
talk about wallowing in misery. :lol: You've found your natural home here Mc :wink:

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Post by norfbankN16 »

Recently it would be the 4-4 against the spuds. It was a great game for the nuetral but at 4-2 on 90 mins ever gooner was giving it the large one to the spuddy fans and then look what happened :cry:

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marcengels wrote:
mcdowell42 wrote:
rigsby wrote:Ipswich 1 Arsenal 0 1978 Cup Final.

THE worst performance by an Arsenal side I have ever seen. Not helped by the night before I saw 3 of our starting 11 that day in a club at 2 in the morning.

That was the day i started following arsenal
talk about wallowing in misery. :lol: You've found your natural home here Mc :wink:
Was originally shouting for ipswich the same as my mother i was only 9/10 she gave out to me over something and i switched to shouting for arsenal happy days. :barscarf: :barscarf: :barscarf:

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NBM wrote:Compared to the home games that followed against West Ham and Fulham the Pompey game was pretty good!
That West ham game when Eduardo scored within the first 5 mins. :tumbleweed: :tumbleweed: :tumbleweed:

The final group game against Porto two seasons ago :sleep_keyboard:

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