Just a bit of fun to try and brighten a few Gooners Day – You know the old saying, If Mohammed won’t go to the mountains, then the mountains must go to Mohammed….
It’s simple really – get rid of the Elvis Presley and bring on Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé. 🙂
In all honesty, The Wonder of You is hardly the most heart pumping song is it?? It needs changing, as do a few other things at the club but hopefully the summer will rectify the latter!
Talking of which,
Wojciech Szczesny is already looking to next season having been left very unhappy after this one ends the way it’s going to:
This is one of the biggest clubs in the world and we should be winning trophies every year. So I totally understand the frustration of the fans, and we apologise for our lack of trophies this season.
Personally, I am not really happy with our season because we didn’t win anything.
But I think we will have much more desire next season as we know how close we were to winning the Carling Cup and Premier League.
That gives us more motivation and desire to go for it next year, and obviously we will be one year more experienced.
Robin van Persie, one of our best players this season and there weren’t many has spoken out too:
There were lots of things which went wrong – we were not consistent enough. It is difficult to talk about it now. It is going to be difficult to finish third, but we still have one game and have to win that to at least give us a chance.
Next season we have to try to come back stronger. Everyone starts from scratch and we have a chance, it is up to us to prove it.
So the players are also pretty cheesed off with the way things have gone. RvP is well-respected by Arsene Wenger, if Cesc leaves he is likely to be our captain next season too. Arsene Wenger needs to listen to him and take on board what he says.
Our Captain has also had something to say, he has made a special mention to the fans:
I want to thank the fans, whether they follow us at home, away or both.
Away from home, we often feel as if we are playing in our own stadium; so many people travel all over Europe with us despite having families, jobs and other commitments, and their dedication is remarkable. What they do is wonderful and we appreciate it a lot.
Our home fans have constantly amazed me too – I think of the sensational atmosphere they created against Chelsea, and then against Barcelona. The match against Everton also stays in my mind – we were 1-0 down but they pushed us so hard to help us turn it into a win.
We understand how much the fans have suffered through our not winning trophies for a few years, but we will make sure this changes!
Thomas Vermalen has also had his say ‘ Our Mentality has to change’
Spot on, but will it?
That’s it for today, have a good one….
Morning all
There is meant to be a youtube clip in the post, but it’s failing me this morning 🙁
Morning Rico, good post, again. Totally agree re: the anthem the team come out to. Rather than stirring the crowd i find it cringeworthy and embarrising. I’d rather see the Metropolitan Police Band and P.C. Morgan belting out a song than that dreary Elvis tune.
what vid?
this one
http://youtu.be/qwRBBJBYr7w
Morning kev,
i’d rather a les dawson on the piano than elvis 😆
Hi rsd, i couldn’t get the embedded code to work, thanks for the link, i’ll try it ….
What amazes me, is that there is nobody at the club whose had the sense to realise what a poor song it is, to bring the team out to. Anyone with half a brain would know you need a tune that lifts the crowd and gets the stadium rocking. Another example of the lack of talent we have running the club…
Not the one rsd…. 🙁
Yeah Les Dawson would suit some of the commedians in our team, haha.
True kev, they need something a bit uplifting, for the players and the fans..
Morning peeps, roll on the window!!
Hi Lee, yeah a summer of bullsh** and wind-ups, i can’t wait…
I see that Kyle Bartley wants to return to Rangers for another loan next season. He’ll certainly have a better chance of being a winner up ther in Glasgow than down here.
Also he’ll get a regular game. At AFC he’ll be behind 4 and possibly 5 players, if you inlude Miquel, who Wenger seems to prefer, plus any new centre-half signing AW may make…
All I hope for Kev, is prompt, quality transfers…show some intent and purpose!! Also the non-performers sold quickly….
Morning Lee, ditto, the sooner we start to see how things will shape up the better…
kev – that Bartley situation pisses me off – he english, bigger and stronger than miquel, he’s now a SPL winner and the spaniard seems to be ahead of him…
Why?
Rangers played him at CH and DM and he got rave reviews, he should be staying and ahead of both miquel and squilli….
Rico, btw wanted to congratulate you Oliver, Steve etc for finding enthusiasm to right about this shower…I’ve been struggling for some weeks now… now faced with the is he or isn’t he season!! Can’t wait…
Agree 100% Rico, i really like the Kid. Yeah he’s raw, he may not be as technical as Miquel/Squillaci/Koscielny, but i bet he knows how to defend high balls into the box, unlike our Latin cousins…
HOORAH, the video is now in the post, hopefully it will now make more sense 🙂
Well get it off your chest Lee….. Write a post for Rico mate.
Thanks Lee 🙂
I’m lucky to get so much help, one of kevs is going up in the next day or two 🙂
It’s because he’s English surely??
I know the SPL is always about two teams winning it but it doesn’t mean the league is any ‘softer’ – personally i think wenger is missing a trick with him…
He be great for the FA Cup, CC and some of the sides like Stoke, Bolton etc where we always lose out in the air – he’s a big strong lad….
Walter Smith didn’t hesitate to play him….
your eloquent prose will piss all over my drivel….i’ll give some thought, though…can it be a one word post? 🙂
Go on Lee, you know you want to really 😉
No 🙂
Ditto Rico, Bartley is made for the muck and bullets games vs those teams that play the 80’s style aerial game, that our technical guys struggle to cope with…
And, we do not want or need Owen Hargreaves…..
We need a big Stoke win tonight…..
Well, any Stoke win really 😉
Who will/can we face if he we have to qualify…?
Rico, do you think our mob can win at Fulham, that’s the problem???
Not at all Kev….
Lee, i did read that Arsenal would be seeded, so we’d avoid Bayern & Villarreal.
We’d meet some easy little club, you know like Dinamo Kiev, now they’re just a pushover, right?
We shouldn’t be asking stoke to help us out or concerned about beating Fulham away….we just shouldn’t be in this predicament, full-stop!
Nor do i Lee, Fulham have looked good on TV, and Mark Hughes would just delight in stuffing us.
we’d struggle with chicken kiev….
I think we will beat Fulham, Wenger will get them all motivated and at their best…
Then he will use it as an excuse not to buy anyone 😉
Lee, I would, I don’t eat meat ….. 😉
quorn kiev then… 😉
You know, what annoys me about Owen Hargreaves, is that Wenger could have snapped him up about 4 or 5 years ago, when his contract at Bayern was running down.
I think he is [or was] a great player, but United don’t let anyone go if they’ve got anything left in the tank, hench that useless pile of crap Silvestre.
Hey guys appreciate your support, the boss has already told me i wont be at the club next season? I dont know why, ive won more torphies than the whole arsenal team put together over the last half decade, maybe its because im not french or spanish?
Curried Quorn?
quorn on the cob?
shouldnt we go back to 4-4-2 or 4-1-2-1-2
bartley at no 4 behind verm,jd,kos or a new cb if he ever buys one hopefully better than sqid
Now I like those Lee 🙂
kev – i’m glad we didn’t get him, i think he’s played about two games in three years or somthing silly like that – he’d have been able to keep rosicky company though 😉
Quorn beef?
Morning arsenal fan – shame he got an injury in march, he’d have been part of the side that won at the weekend, would have been great for him…
and morning ‘Kyle Bartley’……. mme!!
But wasn’t he ok when United signed him, didn’t pick up his injury playing for United???
As it goes Rico, it’s standing room only in the Physio’s room…
kev/Lee
bloomin funny, love it 😆
he did get injured with the mancs, but no doubt it would have been worse with us, we’d have faffed up his treatment 😆
Diaby has shares in our Physio room….
Quorn flakes
Bartley will be a great player but not for Arsenal.
Our manager knows all there is to know about football, except how to spot a central defender.
Steve, i really hope you are wrong about Bartley, but past experience points to the opposite.
kev, that is so Quorny 😉
Morning Steve,
You have depressed me now, he is exactly the kind of player we need, Tony Adams wasn’t the most skillfull but he’s one of the best defenders ever, KB could be set to follow in his footsteps…
🙂
Ha ha Rico…
Busy busy rico, in the kitchen making PopQuorn 😆
Kyle Bartley will only be 20 later this month, so he has plenty of time to make the breakthrough at Arsenal. He signed pro-forms for us in the summer of 2008, so hopefully the club will have extended his contract and a year in Scotland could see him ready to come into the 1st team squad.
Personally i’d get rid of Squillaci and have him in the squad now, playing him as often as possible.
Right’ i’m just off to the Quorner shop to get some milk…..
Yes I thought of Tony the first time I saw KB but I would bet my house that Tony Adams would not have had the opportunity to become the player he was, under Wenger.
Tofu english players breaking through…. 🙂
So what your saying is that there’s tofu English players breaking through…? 🙂
Let’s just pray Wenger doesn’t let him go, the lad is itching for his first team chance with us, hope it stays that way and Rangers don’t try and buy him…
kev 😆
Good point there Steve, he’d have probably binned him after his little driving muckup…
Lee 🙂
Not so keen on Tofu, it’s something of nothing…
Mind you, with that name he could be our next signing…
Morning guys. Thgis is the tune I want the team to come out to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpFfM_dili4
Morning all,
rico you should have meat just don’t swallow.
Good write up very arousing livened me right up.
Curried Tofu?
Hi Will 😮
Morning SP (another steve here today)
Glad you liked it, you being smutty already this morning 😉
Will, one of those guys is a big Gooner
I’ve never heard of them….
Who me rico, never.
who’s leaving this morning.
I love the build up and the ” no where you can hide” lyrics. Tell me this would not get the fans and players pumped up.
I know it will be a while before we come out to We are the Champions
Sigh: http://football-talk.co.uk/22928/video-goal-thierry-henry-scores-trademark-goal-for-red-bulls/?
Nikki B i hope Steve 🙂
Sadly Will, i would nothing for me if i was sat in the crowd, however, i’m an oldie so a bit of Barry Manilow would suit me better 😉
I am thinking of the tempo Rico.
We should sign that player up Will, great finish on him….
Ha ha, true, great first touch as well.
Status, he’s the Gooner, why don’t those old duffers in the Boardroom get them to do an anthem for the team and really get The Grove rocking…. Too radical for those tossers!
Kev, I think that track is a real heart pumper and would get everyone up.
I can imagine almost 60k of people singing
There’s nowhere to run,
No place you can go,
Nowhere you can hide,
Where you won’t be found,
At the opposition.
I know Will and I see where you are coming from, we certainly need something with a bit of go in in….
First touch, second touch – he has them all, if only he and his wife hadn’t split up…..
Agree Will, it really pisses me off. Look at the Sunderland Anthem, sends shivers down the spine, a bit of imagination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-cEM1l7Ks
Just for our defence 🙂
Or, for jj and WATH 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
Will, The Grove has a terrible atmosphere, so the club have to be more inventive in ways of creating more of a vibe at the stadium.
Maybe some video’s before the game of players scoring goals, etc , with some decent music backing it.
Has anyone emailed the club about Elvis being in the stadium??
Nice one Rico.
We need a pumping anthem, something that gets the fans going and into a frenzy so when the players come out, they feel like supermen.
Guys, we should mail them with these ideas.
Rico, he’s in the chip shop in Gillespie Road…
That’s it Will, a real up-tempo beat, it’ll get the players rocking as well.
I’m gonna write Will, sick of that Elvis dirge.
Too true Will and then ban the players from wearing ipods or what ever those things are called…..
(walkmans 🙂 )
Ha ha kev, that was an awful record wasn’t it 😉
I have emailed them, kept it nice and polite and asked if they have ever considered changing it… 🙂
They have to remember, the players are young so we need a heart pumping track to get them pumped up.
The Dilay Mail say we going to make a move for Scott Parker, I’ll believe that when i see it, yesterday they said he would be ‘Arrys first signing…
Will, good point, they need something they can relate too, guess that means the Nolans have no chance 😉
I might be old fashioned but I like to see the players in suits, gives a man a feeling of pride before they step out, the way they turn up now gives me the impression they are waiting for their next drug drop or looking for an old lady to mug.
Well done Rico, i’m gonna write to Ken Friar, he actually reads his correspondence and replies to it. I’ll e-mail you a copy of my letter and his reply.
Steelers wheel, stuck in the middle with you.
TRYING TO MAKE SOME SENSE OF IT ALL
Another good point Steve, the CC was a classic example of that!
ke, could you email his email address please??
I thought you meant ‘ we are stuck in the middle with them’
Maybe Hotel California, we may sometimes check out of Arsenal, but we can’t ever leave…..
Showing your age though Steve with Steelers Wheel 😉
Pullis was a good example turned up in a suit then pulled his working clothes on, he lost but walked out proud
Gerry Rafferty passed away not long ago didn’t he??
Got it on top of my Ipod (walkman)
I didn’t see Stoke arrive and when i saw him in his shells, i thought he was as bad as us, glad to hear he wasn’t….
Baker street, good tune
Wasn’t he behind Steelers Wheel in the beginning?
Off to walk Fido, back in a while folks…
You know, the post worked – we havent been moaning for at least an hour 😉
As it happens i think your right ricolicious
Frankie goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes…..!!!!!
Hi everbody, i have being really angry about the whole Arsenal and Wenger issue.
Our story is a sad one , people now talk about Arsenal without respect, peole make fun of us and tell us that our manager is going crazy.
This team is risking erasing the wonderful moments we have showed in the premiership, the way Wenger has changed every premiership coach’s mentality (including Fergie)
But what can we do we are fans and we are stuck.
RVP,Cesc , Vermelen and Chesney have expressed their frustrations and it makes me wonder that maybe this are only the players that really care .
But that will be unfair to conclude because we are limited by whether they give an interview or post something on Twitter to know what they are thinking.
Then it is down to Wenger to know what is going one and this morning Ian Wright said he his hearing rumours of unrest in the dressing room . If that is the case then i am happy because it means some set of players are responsible for our show of commitment and spirit.
So Wenger is responsible for indentifying those without passion for winning with us and get rid of then.SIMPLES.
Good comment SD……….!
morning all…
steve, you suggested “stuck in the middle with you” as our anthem? that song provokes images of only one thing for me – mr. blonde and the ear in reservoir dogs…
Afternoon fine folk ….
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is facing boardroom pressure to change his transfer policy.
The Daily Star says Wenger is coming under increasing pressure from his board to sign established Premier League stars.
The Arsenal board – who had previously allowed Wenger to control all transfers – plan a more hands-on role during the transfer window.
Board members do not want to see the Frenchman sign stars from abroad, who need time to adapt to the rigours and demands of the Premier League.
For the first time in his 15-year reign at the club, questions about his transfer policy are being asked at board level, following a sixth season without a trophy.
WATH, i like your suggestion, two tribes….
90mins of war is what it should be………..
Blood thumping bang bang bang music to get the players and the fans rocking and right up for it…!
Rico , wouldn’t believe a news from Daily Star.
Oh yeah, well I……..
Let’s go
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score…………………
I agree, except when we play the Mncs, its 96 mins of war 😆
SD, I believe the Daily Star more than most paps, it’s PHW’s ‘mouthpiece’….
Well if the news is true then it is good news , i think it might be Kroenke working in the background , after all his nick name is silent Stan.
Then maybe Wenger will look into Samba’s direction for a start.
I saw Shay given the other day lifting the Cup (strange) , i feel sorry for him but i am sure he will kick a fuss in Man City if reports just come out from say Daily Star 🙂 that we are interested. He is surely better than our lot and better than deputising Joe Hart for MAn City.
rico, i would normally dismiss the 2:08 article you posted as nonsense, but isn’t the paper who ran the story close to phw? and understood to be his preferred vehicle for leaking things?
if that did come from phw, perhaps its more pandering to the current supporter frustration than anything else.
SD, good point on Given, surely he wants/needs to be playing for the sake of his international career
oliver, that’s my thought too – i think, hope there is some truth in this one….
Pl players: Samba, Parker, Cahill….?
Cahill, Johnson, Samba, Ashley Young, Fellaini, Drogba…! 😉 Yes pls………!
Back in half an hour….
lets hope so. rightly or wrongly, the impression arsene answers to nobody – including supporters – has existed the past few seasons. oversight and accountability are a good thing – this is not a one-man operation.
the current transfer policy has not gotten us over the hump. we have promoted some very good youth players – and some not so good ones – through our system. but supplementing the first team squad has not been as successful. the purchase pattern of the past few seasons implies arsene is locked into only buying players with certain qualities and characteristics. a change of tack will be welcome…
Oliver, we have been saying that for ages and ages, who is Wenger actually accountable too…? who calls him in and says Arsene ole chap we are not amused….!!
Noone…………….
WATH – Samba yes , CAhill too expensive Wenger wouldn’t buy.
Ashley Young yes but that is if we sell Arshavin to Chelsea (They are clueless they will pay big money 😉 )
Fellaini – That one i dont understand why you included him.
Drogba – No way , unless he wants to fulfil a childhood dream of playing for Wenger , the prospect which doesn’t look attractive any more.
What don’t you understand about Fellaini SD…?
Drogba out and out goalscorer would do a job for us for 2 seasons…!
Unless we show the spirit the 2008 set showed , when we had Falmini, Hleb and Gilberto at the centre of it all, we will be the joke next season
good morning all!
Stoke must win today 😉
I’m concentrate in tomorrow final.
I’m going to read the headlines
Hi JM….
Just two months ago I was so excited that we were in the run in 4 competitions but all of a sudden it all disappeared.
We were comfortable in the Premier League- But I didn’t honestly think we could win it.
We were drawn against Barcelona – All I wanted was a win against them and we did.
We had FA cup and was drawn with the Manures Utd – I didn’t put any hope on that .
We qualified for the Carling cup final – This was all I wanted, just the Carling Cup , Just the CC you Bloody Arsenal players.
I know you are reading this , you are now Internet-literate , you can now use Blackberry’s and Iphones and HTC Desires successfully , so you can read this.
All we wanted was the Carling Cup you boneless marshmallows of a player, you only played Birmingham (fighting against relegation by the way).How could you play 1 -1 with Birmingham for 90minutes how could you?
We just wanted the Carling Cup and you messed it up. Please BB, Twit and Facebook this to your mates , YOU DROIDS!
All of those would do nicely WATH
Hi JM
I didn’t just want the CC SD, I wanted the PL aswell..
Where we mucked up is having to play replays, and that was because the likes of Denilson, Diaby, Nik etc all proved they were not good enough when needed….
Afternoon Rico, back in a bit I need a cuppa seeing as your not making 😛
I have just finished washing up your mess from making lunch WATH….
Make your own cuppa… ! 😆
now now….no domestics!! 🙂
you know, brum now have a pretty good chance of getting relegated – they are squarely in the zone and travel to the lane on sunday, boasting joint-worst (with relegated west ham) away record in the prem this season. if they go down, we will have the ignominious distinction of losing one of the three pieces of domestic silverware to a side which was subsequently relegated…yet another thing to be not-so-proud of…
Oliver, the 4-0 up at Newcastle was a cracker too…
Actually, there’s a fairly long list of em….
lee, yep…that one is certainly high up…fair enough, the referee made a couple of horrible calls on the penalties that afternoon, but he also disallowed a completely legitimate newcastle goal, and we totally panicked and collapsed once they pulled a goal back. what was it, 20 minutes for us to go from 4-0 and complete control to 4-4 and holding on for dear life?
there have been some others, of course…
all-in-all, i will take away positive memories of our three signature wins, but for me this will be a season to overall forget…too much disappointment in the end.
curse of the carling cup? west ham loses the semi-final to brum, their season goes into the tank, ending in relegation. we lose the final to brum, we go into a tailspin of only three (possibly four) the remainder of the season, (likely) finishing closer to fifth than first. brum actually wins the cup, and the proceeds to tank to the tune of two (possibly three) wins over the remainder of the season and (potential) relegation from the prem…
Lee 🙂
who’s going to win tonight then…
Citeh will get 6 tonight………..!
WATH, I meant Reading or Cardiff 😆
Citeh and Cardiff…. That’ll be a nice ol time at wembley with 2 welsh teams!!
🙂 Lee, would be nicer to see Citeh in the Championship….
Will loved your song sugestion “Lett you go”, that should be it!
There’s nowhere to run,
No place you can go,
Nowhere you can hide,
Where you won’t be found,
60 000 peeps singing this would no doubt be better then “Wonder of you”
Hi Pacman,
Anything would be better than the Wonder of You….
I’m off for dinner…..
Where are you miserable lot 😆 😆
great, we are – at this moment – in fourth…
still here rico? tevez just scored for city – i imagine you are watching reading in the second leg at the moment…
that is not what we needed oliver 🙁 just about to swith the reading game on, been watering the garden….
But, maybe that is what the club need oliver – blew 1st, then 2nd, then 3rd – and now…..
True that Rico.
But you have to give him credit for that sugestion imo.
if that is where we will finish up, we will have deserved it. in those circumstances, we cannot reasonably say this has been a great season. rather a dismal second half, interspersed with three signature wins…
in fact, if the spuddies did not go into a slump of their own, we might well already be on the outside looking in…
stoke look like zombies out there – city should already have more than just one…
Evening Boss
Rico, do you think that really was Kyle Bartley?????
I really hope it wasn’t a wind-up, and that he takes some good vibes from what we were saying…
pacman, i loved Will’s idea 🙂
agree oliver, we will end up exactly where we deserve to this season…
evening kev, nah, no way was that him 😉
Do you get a lot of that type of thing?
And how can you tell, is it just a hunch is there another way, that you may want to keep to yourself?
lescott just doubled city’s lead…
What is Bolton’s record against Man City like?
credit to man city, they are taking care of business right now…
barring a miraculous turnaround from stoke, we will stay in fourth until kickoff sunday, and a win for us at fulham may not even be enough to regain third…i am sad it has come to this, but we have nobody to blame but ourselves. even if man united were that much better than us this season, we should have been at least good enough to hang on to second place…we are not, that it painfully clear.
We are pathetic.
bolton’s form – both home and away – has been just as bad as ours, since their fa cup semi-final tonking by stoke. their only win came against – guess who? even with bolton being at home, city would surely be considered favorites to beat them on sunday…
kev, i don’t know what their overall head-to-head record versus city is like, but their form since stoke undressed them at wembley has been dire. like us and brum, they have gone into free-fall…
yes, 2-0
Every clubs won Stoke, Birmimighan… except us !
It will be necessary to amend the schedule and all the Champions League we can get good teams, some in advanced stages of the season, type D. Kiev.
The early start, will bring consequences later …
One more fixture, and we will be doing accounts not to end in 5th …
Tevez and Toure for Arsenal! 🙂
3-0, tevez with his second…
cheers, stoke…appreciate the help tonight…
Oliver, sometimes, despite form, certain teams can have a hoodoo over another [see me grasping at straws] so i’m just hopefull that Bolton are a bok team for City. As Will said, pathetic, because our mob will almost certainly fail to beat Fulham anyway… It’s all very depressing buddy.
we’ll see, kev…i am not confident, and will summed it up…
city are going for third here because we have given them the opportunity to lap us. they should never have had a sniff…
AW article in http://www.eurosport.com
Racial quotas ‘reprehensible’
In the football community, we are against ‘racial quotas’ because it opens the door to mediocrity and injustice.
And French football should be identified by the quality of its culture and upbringing and not by its people.
The idea of quotas is absolutely reprehensible as an educational solution.
Essentially, I don’t think that France is a racist country, contrary to how the media like to portray us. They should apologise and move on to something else.
It does not reflect our way of thinking. We must combat the problem at its roots: how to improve education of all young people at clubs. At a club level there is no problem of racism. If you are good enough, you’re taken on.
France has always been at the forefront of developing youngsters. We mustn’t become obsessed by the question of dual nationality. Don’t forget that for a long time we blocked youngsters by selecting them so that they would stay in France.
Educating youngsters and accepting that a portion of them will turn to Algeria and Morocco is what makes France great. It’s amazing and it is one of the best ways to help these countries in their footballing development.
It is coaches who train players. We must therefore ensure the quality of coaching. It’s up to the Direction Technique Nationale to train their coaches through the principles they want to instil in young people.
If we have trained players to be more physical than technical, then it’s a matter of having to train the coaches.
Football is primarily a technical sport. Today’s game is moving towards this, largely because Barcelona are winning. Barca win, but because they have Messi. We simply want to emulate a team that wins.
My opinion: We still 4th, because we have AW !
dzeko just did an rvp-off-the-post special. looks like they are trying to erase the goal difference with us as well…
jm, was that written by arsene?
honestly, i can care less about the fff and their racial quota issue/non-issue. that is for larry white to deal with – arsene has far more urgent concerns at arsenal…
Oliver [or should i just call you ref, hehe] if Arsenal draw at Fulham and City lose at Bolton, we could pip them on goal difference [can you sense my desperation?].
virtual target practice for city now…stoke have been beyond feeble…
We are the laughing stock of football.
Man City would need to win 9-0 to erase the diff’ in goals.
i am pretty sure that we still have a goal difference advantage, but city just whittled away at that tonight and still have time to score more.
at this point, i don’t think it is going to matter. city have got their noses ahead of us, and will go into sunday knowing if they win, there is nothing we can do about it.
mark hughes likely still harbors bitterness at city over his sacking, but i don’t think any of us should be under any illusions that he will not want to beat us, and beat us thoroughly. i imagine the fulham players remember the final day at the ems last season, the match they had to go into the europa cup final on the back of. they will be up for it, too.
i am also concerned that tonight’s result will discourage some of our players from giving everything to win – that some may already look on third place as irretrievably gone…
Reading are 2-0 up though 🙂
Will, i share your pain, but with the players at their disposal, i reckon West Ham hold that honour mate…
Come on Berkshire……..
kev, they are already a third of the way there. i doubt they can score six more tonight, but stoke are offering such little resistance that a couple more is not outside the realm of possibility…
will, we are what we are…we are in this situation because we allowed everything to fall apart like this. we should be glad there is not enough time remaining for us to drop out of the top four this season…
kev, i am soft on them – i used to go watch them at elm park as a kid 🙂
3-0
😆 😆
mancini has not yet called the dogs off – looks like they are trying to score more…
3-0 to reading now, rico…
think dave jones will get sacked in the tunnel?
sorry, that was probably mean-spirited to a decent guy in jones…but after cardiff’s massive investment the past two seasons, losing the final to blackpool last season, and failing at home here, that will surely be the price of failure…
Rico, so you certainly have a double reason to dislike Swindon Town???
Go get Shane Long Arsene……
ok, this is what happens when teams fall apart. city are 90 minutes from third place – all they need to do is win on sunday, and we will have slumped to fourth, and will have the added burden of an unnecessary cl qualifier in august…we did this to ourselves…
yes, oliver was.
Delap throw in are only dangerous versus Arsenal.
i am chuffed to bits, the club need to get promoted so JM can sell up and take themn further…
tough for jones oliver, biut i really don’t care about him 😉
swindon and oxford kev – don’t like either
🙂 🙂
seriously, we should be looking at players like Shane Long, and the R’s old boy Kevin Doyle… they’d be good for us….
nice comment:
WTF Chicarito? Carrick? Nooo,apsolutely d best MU signing is defender Howard Webb…but they have also very very goood 10-years signing midfielder martin Atkinson…nd apsolutely brilliant striker-Phill Dowd. 🙂
‘WTF Chicarito? Carrick?
Nooo,apsolutely d best MU signing is defender Howard Webb…
but they have also very very goood 10-years signing midfielder martin Atkinson…nd apsolutely brilliant striker-Phill Dowd’
JM – that comment is so so funny 🙂 🙂
Right guys, i’m off for the day…
enjoy the rest of your day…
nighty night…
Good night Rico. Quorn for breakfast tomorrow morning i wonder?
See you tomorrow, rico.
I will be concentrate in Dublin 🙂
The best way is changing in the players and method to play in the pitch,some players who be scared in tackle and be tackled should be out of the club . AW should concern to buy the lion heart players to the team to be the lion not mighty mouse .
Morning all…
Morning Rico.
Looks like we will have to qualify for the CL.
new post up
Morning Will –
certainly seems that way unless something strange happens on sunday….