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Ramsey to quit Arsenal? PGMOL to end our FA Cup challenge?

Posted on by rico

Morning all.

Happy Pancake Day – or should I say Shrove Tuesday…

Nom Nom....
Don’t mind if I do and I will…..

So, Manchester United came out of the pot for us last night in the FA Cup quarter final match and we can bet our last pound that Mike Riley will be rubbing his hands together this morning whilst deciding on which hopeless referee he’ll assign to the match and he’s got plenty to choose from. And I wouldn’t bet against the match being a lunchtime kick off either – that’s the way things work for us…

We are doomed before we even start but I sure hope we can go and beat Utd on their own turf and there’s no better time to stop the run of defeats against that diving cheating lot!

Aaron Ramsey might be back for that game which is scheduled for either the 7th or 8th March but his old assistant coach for Wales, Raymond Verheijen, has told the world that Ramsey needs to turn his back on his current club if he wants to reach the dizzy heights in the football. He reckons the injuries Aaron suffers is all down to the clubs training methods:

There are two solutions. Either Arsenal sort themselves out or Aaron has to go to a club where training is more balanced.

It’s one or the other. The medical staff can only cure the problem but football coaches cause the problem because they are responsible for football training sessions.

Well I don’t know much, make that anything about the training sessions or what goes on during them and it’s not the first time something like this has been said or written but it’s usually the same players who suffer regular injury and subsequent setbacks so perhaps there’s more to it than just training methods.

Are the players strong enough, do they eat the right foods, will they be having pancakes today? I doubt it. Do they warm up properly before playing, training etc? After all, I didn’t see a lot of warming up by Ramsey prior to coming on from the bench against Leicester City….

And what about warming down after a game, as far as I can see, the final whistle goes, the players meander off the pitch and head to the showers. Either that or off to face the cameras still in their kit when surely they should have a couple more layers on to look after their body… Same question could be asked when players are substituted, ok they put a tracksuit top on but when do they ever put their bottoms on to keep their legs warm? Never I’d say..

Anyway, what do I know eh…..

Bit of transfer gossip to end on:

According to beIN Sports correspondent Tancredi Palmeri, Arsenal are set to hold talks with Palermo’s president in London today in attempt to secure a deal to sign Argentine striker Paulo Dybala.. The 21 year old is valued at £29.5 million and is already being labelled the ‘next Aguero’….

I bet that’s got as much truth to it as the stories suggesting Santi Cazorla is departing for Spain in the summer…..

On that note, have a good day all….

rico

62 thoughts on “Ramsey to quit Arsenal? PGMOL to end our FA Cup challenge?”

  1. tsgh says:

    Is Raymond Verheijen another way Scott is spelt in Welsh.. 😉
    Talk of riley always gets Potter going… I wonder where he is this morning.
    The PGMOB LLC is a joke and a frontier… I wonder how much tax they pay? 🙂
    Good read btw…

  2. scottfromoz says:

    Morning all.
    Some people should shut up.
    What would this guy know about the Arsenal training methods?
    RMsey proved last season he can reach dizzy heights whilst at the club so this mans point is redundant.
    Aaron just needs to get back to that level.
    Santi is one happy lad….he’s going nowhere 🙂

  4. potter says:

    , Fat Tuesday , Mardi Gras , one and the same , Party time – eat it all today before Lent. Funny old country this , everywhere in the world there are Carnivals , street parties , celebrations but in this hallowed country we have Rooney flat as a pancake. As was said last night :- one offside , one push and a dive and United stroll through. Dowd got his brownie points from Mavis no doubt. Who will we get ? I reckon Atkinson or Mason , both allow the push , shove, over the top type contact and seem to have the ability to take the sting out of our play should we get a head of steam going . They will of course even up the bookings by the end of the 90 minutes using the totting up process giving United cards from the 75th minute onwards. If Gabriel plays he will be open game for them because they haven’t got him on their wallboards yet.We will need a strong bench because if anyone gets an early booking and look like a second , Wenger will need to be proactive and get him off the pitch before he is sent off.. We are better than them , we can and should at least get a replay and this time get them back to our place and give them the hiding they have deserved for a long , long time.

  5. Wavy says:

    Morning all. Good post again Rico. I don’t know how you do it!

    I want to talk about manure. It’s usually round and large, high from the ground and generally stinks, especially as it rots. But on a positive note it’s good for the garden!
    As the draw was revealed and we have to tread the manured fields of old toilet, I was reminded of the last time they won the EPL, or rather RVP won them the trophy. That team was, at the time, the worst 11 that I had seen wearing their red shirts. We lost to them at o.t. But we were infinitely better, on the day a la this year at home! We should have won then and, we should win in March. But? Despite the fact that they are one of the poorest teams in our league at present, they find themselves in third place, how? And in the quarter finals of the FA Cup, how? There is no doubt that they get more than their fair share of dodgy decisions, there is no doubt that they get more than their fair share of ‘contraversial’ goals! They keep on just getting a result, how?
    There may be a case for systemic bias or bending of the rules, in their favour, but why? Is it that the EPL cannot function properly without them being at the top of the pile or is it something more sinister?
    For sure there is something rotten in the state f the manure heap!
    Looking forwars a few weeks, when we play the me at the compost heap, I’ll wager that we will out perform them in every department of the game but they will have one shot on target, a penalty? And win 1-0 we, on the other hand wil have the ball in the net several times but the ‘goals’ will be chalked off for some specious reason or another! The headlines will read, manure were shitty but win a contraversial encounter at the old toilet.
    But we will lose!
    Two years ago they were shite and won the league. This year they are shiter and what will the powers that be allow them to win? FA cup as the bent ones cannot bend the rules far enough to contrive another EPL success!
    I started with manure, my definition. I shall end with the notion that, “something stinks in the state of the FA and its satellite states!

    Rant over, for Ow!

  6. Hell Raising Devil says:

    I would prefer us winning 1-0 at Old Trafford than drawing there and giving them a hiding at the Emirates. With a long range goal of about 40 metres from one of our defenders.

    A 1-0 win at their ground is more sweet for me than giving them a hiding at ours.

    Then again….if we take our chances and play professionally, bent ref or no bent ref would make no difference. And if we do take our chances we will give them a hiding.

    Good morning Lovelies and Hunkies

    Bonjour Lady.

  7. Joe says:

    Ospina
    Bellerin
    Kos
    Santi
    Özil
    Walcott
    Giroud
    Coq
    Are all players that missed our game with man utd earlier this season after seeing that list I am feeling a lot better about our chances at old toilet.

  9. Wavy says:

    Ow! Might be appropriate for how I feel but it should have been, “how”, obviously!
    There are a few other ipad errors but I can’t be bothered to waste any more time on ‘corrections’

  10. rico says:

    Thanks Wavy…

    I think we’ll beat them in the FA Cup and the league this time, as Joe says, look at who was missing in the home match and to be honest, if we had been able to shoot that day, we’d have battered them..

    They have Di Maria and a diving lump in Rooney, we have much better players and if AW gets his tictacs right, both games should be enjoyable.

  13. Wavy says:

    Agreed, agreed, we should beat them, and on current form, by more than two clear goals but, what I’m suggesting here is close to systemic failures of fair play, resulting in a defeat for us! We can look forward to the usual comments like, ‘it’s a funny old game’ or ‘there’s nowt so strange as football’ or ‘that’s football for you’ etc etc.
    Just can’t see any game being reffed in our favour!
    2006, I wish!

  15. allezkev says:

    Hey Rico, all around to yours for pancakes then?!!! 😉

    I’ll have loads of lemon n sugar on mine please… 😀

  16. allezkev says:

    It’s gonna be Andrew Taylor…

    ManUre will kick the shit out of our players.
    Gabriel will be sent off for fcuk all.
    Rooney will dive for a penalty.
    Mancs will win 2-1…..

    I might even put a bet on it…

  28. rogerbij says:

    Thanks for the post but I dont understand the comment “We are doomed before we even start” – Im excited, Im up for it, especially since the recent performance vs City, and the fact that we absolutely dominated Utd at home this season, only for them to strike lightning with that deflected goal off Gibbs. I think we have every chance – 50-50 at least. My utd mate at work thinks the same. They dont want Arsenal either.

    On Ramsey and training methods, this doesnt sound right to me. Its the conditioning, not the skills and practice training that is important for muscle strength and flexibility. I give you 2 examples: Ryan Giggs prolonged his amazing career by getting seriously into yoga and lengthening his muscles, especially hamstrings which go ping at speed. Another is Arjen Robben, who used to suffer serious hamstring injuries – whatever they have done at Bayern they have sorted this through conditioning. It wasnt always like this at Bayern, and interesting story from 2010 here (in Dutch) http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1049/Oranje/article/detail/1909557/2010/12/29/Van-Toorn-voelt-zich-in-eer-aangetast-door-Robben.dhtml . Im pretty interested in this stuff as I suffered a lot from hamstring injuries in my own career… its a horrible, sickening feeling when they go ping 🙁

  33. rogerbij says:

    Ah PGMOL… I see what you mean. Just curious, how much do we all buy into the PGMOL conspiracy? I mean, Jose thinks the world is against him too… Absolutely we have been on the raw end of decisions… I dont know how far to read into this stuff…

  34. potter says:

    I am getting more and more convinced that their is corruption in the premier league. Whether this is by design or whether it is sheer incompetence I really don’t know. What I am convinced of is that certain clubs are seen by the money makers as necessary to win things because either they help sell the brand abroad or because the global popularity of the league and the money poured into it depends on the following of these clubs. I further believe that betting syndicates are capable of influencing certain outcomes . You don’t actually have to prevent a team from winning a match but let us take the example of our next cup match. Our last game prior to it is away to QPR , should we say Cazorla or Ozil or Koscielny picks up two yellows and gets a one match ban for the cup match ,although the ref hasn’t caused us to lose directly he would have seriously weakened our chances and that’s where I see a possible conspiracy with the pgmol.

  35. rogerbij says:

    Too many bad referring decisions – that I can agree with all day! There are a lot of stats out there for games and players these days. I wonder if there is something similar for referees, or different referring levels per the big leagues… eg minutes to mistake etc.

  36. joe says:

    Roger I am someone who has beaten the drum for corruption of officials in pl matches I will just say look at the fa cup final.
    I know someone will say the ref was just bad our just had a bad day but bad refs would not miss 4 stonewall penalties.

  37. Wavy says:

    Potter, I agree, I agree. I have thought what you have just written for a while now. It’s not necessarily what happens during a game that has influence on its outcome but what occured anything up to three games earlier or in the event of a serious injury caused by lenient refereeing. Longer than that. A card here, a card there, targeting a particular player can really make a difference. Eg Giroud’s yellow the other day, utterly bizarre and no recourse to an appeal to have retracted. The card becomes part of the tooting up process. Get to ten this end of the season two or is it three game ban? Serious stuff! Teams win and lose games maybe because of historical incompetence!

    Need for a review or appeals committee to be reformed. Not that it would make much difference. If it’s bent you rarely get it straight again!!

  40. Hell Raising Devil says:

    Good Afternoon Lovelies and Hunkies.

    Rogerbij ……. I have never suffered from hamstrings and groin in my life. And I have been very active since the age of 8. Why you may ask??? For the simple reason that I stretch any time of the day on a daily basis. yes even when sitting down I do stretching. And it does help. It keeps your muscles supple and flexible.

    Last time Aaron came on everyone noticed that he did not do proper stretching. So I blame him on his issue.

  42. rogerbij says:

    Hey Devil, you lucky bugger never stuffing your hammys. Ok, not all luck, good on you being a daily stretcher. I sure agree it helps a lot – daily sun salutations are freakin incredible for this – results felt in a week!

    But anyway, a lot of players are different genetically too, partly because of alignment issues in bones, muscles tendons etc. For example, when I was young I had Achilles issues because my bones were growing faster than my muscles and tendons could keep up with.

    Another is explosion/acceleration factor – I was blessed/cursed with speed (always a sprint representative etc outside football), but basically the faster you go the bigger the mess – there is far more stress on a speedy players hamstrings than a slower player. I bet Giroud has never busted a hamstring. And once you do it once you get scar tissue and the pulls get higher and higher up the leg as the scar tissue is tougher than the non injured muscle.

    But anyway, your point stands that you need conditioning – you do it doing your thing everyday, and I think that a really serious programme of conditioning is needed for people like aaron or this is going to keep coming back. I would be surprised if this wasnt happening already, but clearly some players need this a lot more intensively.

    We cant much help bad tackle injuries but muscular stuff really should be happening much less frequently. I guess our lightish squad and high number of games/competitions takes more of a toll than it does on some teams.

  50. potter says:

    Devil, In my playing days we had a club lady physio , She said that your average moggie is the most agile and fleet footed , balanced animal alive , She then told us to watch one wake up and see the way that it stretches before it moves. Good advice I kept playing until I was 50 never had muscular problems , however 17 years on I am waiting for a hip replacement as I appear to have worn the Cartilage away and now have bone on bone. and it hurts !!

  54. potter says:

    Throughout the 60’s and 70’s the Shed at Stamford Bridge was the centre of National front activity. It’s always been there. Luckily at The Arsenal although we had our fighting Firm ” The Herd ” we were untouched by those right wing politics . As time went by one of the leaders Denton ( The Bear ) spent a lot of time between minding the Pet Shop Boys and resisting the NF and BNP. He died some time ago , but this article on him gives a brief summary of his life . The roundabout outside the Armoury is known locally as the Bear roundabout in his honour.
    Connell was born in 1961 in Brighton, England. He left school at 16 and became a scaffolder. In 1977, he gained public attention after appearing in a television documentary presented by Janet Street-Porter about skinheads.[2] During the 1980s, Connell was highly active in an Arsenal FC’s hooligan “firm” and was a “main face” amongst the ranks. At the same time, he was influential in ensuring that the BNP -then trying to infiltrate football firms – failed to gain any foothold at Arsenal.[3][4]

  58. Joe says:

    Just saw the video what a bunch of idiots is that the reason for Chelsea to exist to keep all the idiots in one place.

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