Morning all.
Inevitable I guess. All the players are clearly disappointed to be out of the Champions League but now they want to push on in the league and FA Cup.
Lukasz Fabianski:
Hopefully it will give us the same as it gave us last season where we went on a really good run. We are still competing for the title, we are still competing for the FA Cup so hopefully it will give us a massive boost for the rest of the season.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain:
There are definitely positives for us to take from this performance and we can take that into the league and into the rest of the FA Cup [campaign].
Football’s about picking yourself up from defeats and bouncing back. That’s what we’ve got to do now. We’ve got a really good game coming up on Sunday, one that all the fans want to win and we want to win.
It’s a massive game for not only the Club and for the city and the rivalry, it’s also a big opportunity for us to stake a claim on the league, so we’ll be looking to do that and bounce back. We’ll get over this as quick as we can.
Thomas Vermaelen:
The result wasn’t great for us to go through but you always need to take the positives out of it. We worked hard and at the end of the day that is what you need to get results.
We are still up there in the Premier League and we are in the semi-finals of the FA Cup so there is a lot to play for.
They are all right I guess, going to Bayern Munich and coming away with a draw would have been a success on any other night than one where we needed more goals but the players need to pick their chins up off of the floor and look forward.
This time last season, being knocked out of the Champions League spurred us on to a really good run in the league, in fact we didn’t lose another game.
Unlike last season though, we still have a chance of winning the league and the FA Cup so there’s a lot to fight for.
If we can replicate last seasons form from now until the end of May, we may just get that ‘9 years without a trophy’ label off of our backs….
We’ll have to do it without Mesut Ozil though, suggestion is that he’s out for up to six weeks.
Still, he’ll keep Jack, Theo and Abou company. Not Ramsey and Kallstrom though, they are set to return for the derby…..
Transfer gossip:
The Mirrror report that Arsene Wenger is keeping tabs on Valencia striker Francisco Alcacer and has had him watched four times in February. He’s 20 years old and came through the ranks at his current club before joining the big boys this season. He’s scored 9 goals in 19 appearances.
The same paper are also running the story about Nicklas Bendtner who on Tuesday night was drunk in Copenhagen and threatening violence towards a taxi driver. Not only that, he allegedly unbuttoned his trousers and rubbed up against the side of the car having whipped the taxi with his belt!
The sooner that man leaves the club the better, he’s nothing but an embarrassment….
That’s it for another day…….
Good morning again Rico and all. Watching the City/Barca game last night I was faintly amused when the dork who was commentating kept kicking off to Gary Neville about how much better City were doing than the shocking Arsenal the previous evening. You know, I never knew we hadn’t won anything for 9 years. How come no-one has mentioned that before. Still, City got a great result that was so much better than ours didn’t they?
I think Bendtner might be onto something with this cab/codger thing. I will try it when I next see Kev.
Codger=todger.
Morning again to you and all Adam..
I didn’t watch the football. At least we drew 😉
Bendtner is a disgrace, he won’t play for us again this season I bet…
Bendtner, who is he?
Morning guys.
One week from now, i am on my way over 🙂
Not getting too excited then Scott….
Rico, luckily, work is flat out so i don’t get too much time to sit around thinking about it.
Rico, i assume that you are referring to the “incident” in Copenhagen with the cabdriver?
I live in Copenhagen, and have been monitoring the situation. The accusations from the cabdriver were very detailed, but extremely untrustworthy..
Bendtner, nothing surprises me and to think of the support he’s had – what a looser
Good job Scott…
Yes Adk, so is the story rubbish?
Fighting for FA Cup
And at least 3rd Kya…
I would certainly think so rico. Apparently, he got really wasted, bothered the driver, got kicked out of the cab, and when standing outside, took off his pants, started to spank the cab with his belt and started yelling to the cabdriver “I will F*** you”
Very detailed, but doesn’t sound true to me, not even after Bendtners standards..
That’s quite common practice here in the UK.
That’s in the post Adk.. 😉
I wouldn’t put anything passed NB
haha Adam 😀
I should visit the UK more often then 😉
It is Adam….
Adam hahaha oh really
you owe me a cuppa Rico. I will be over to collect before the year is out hopefully 🙂
I haven’t read the post this time rico 😉
Nothing new to tell you then i guess 😛
You haven’t read the post either have you Oz??
🙂 Adk, I don’t think many do and I don’t blame them either… lol
aaww no i hadn’t – apology. I have now. I do hope there are 2 sugars in there 🙂
It was only a few days ago that the dickhead was complaining that his reputation as a nutter and psycho was completely unfair.
And Arsenal are giving him £52k a week. How much better could that money be spent on an animal shelter or medical research? To waste it on a plank like him is scandalous really.
Adam, you are welcome anytime, to get your old codger out in my cab…
Although calling Lee an old codger is a bit unfair tbh… 😛
🙂 Oz, no sugar….
Boring Boring Lucky Chelsea…
2 cracking games on Sunday, really looking forward to them. Fancy United to upset them for some reason and we should deal with Spuds after Benfica has given them the run around
Morning All, it’s turned into a really warm sunny day in London…
Morning Rico, luv the cuppa…. 😉
Agree Adam – I am surprised he hasn’t been hoofed out of the club by now. Surely he has breached his contract….
Adam trouble is everywhere he gone he’s messed up and not delivered. Hopeless.
Morning Kev – I thought you might 😉
Glad to read reports suggesting Arsene Wenger is not interested in a RvP return. Phew…
Rico, all that Van Persie talk has to be coming from his Agent…
He’s had his time at Arsenal, he’s won his EPL title, been left stranded by Ferguson and had realised that the grass isn’t greener…
Let him suck it up…
apparently Dzeko is available for 18 million Euro, I would have him!
Adam, you suggest spending the £52k p w on medical science would it not be better if we donated his BODY, Rodger and all for forensic experimentation….NOW!
What a loser!
Bentner that is not you Adam!
Good morning all
Dzeko at 18 million is a steal.
I am with you Kev, that prikk made his bed, let him die in it.
Oops, i meant lie, of course 🙂
52k Bendtner.
300k Rooney.
Which is more disgusting than the other?
Wenger is a know admirer-er of Dzeko, but would he find him too similar to Giroud?
Totally agree Kev, he made his bed and all that. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke!
That Scott is a good question and a tough one to answer…
Adk, can’t see City selling to us tbh….
Morning All……….. I have woken invigorated in the knowledge that we have Arsene at the helm….! Just wondering if I need to show him how to sign a cheque….!?!?!
Todger*
Bloody predictive text!
Got a few things to be doing today so catch up later….
can’t see him needing a striker now after his Campbell declaration – he’ll tell us three potential world class strikers is enough. Lets wait and see
, Shows the value of winning the group . Although had we we couldn’t have drawn them , it shows that the away leg first gives you a great advantage. 1 – 1 away to Bayern and a totally different aspect on the second leg. It seems a recurring problem we keep getting second , draw a favourite and go out. I would have fancied our chances against Olympiakos and Galatasary , we might not have gone further but at that stage who knows.
Morning Wath, buy him a pen.. 😉
Laters..
Can we please buy that really shit striker from Athletico Madrid…!
If Dzeko is gonna cost more than Remy then we know who we getting…!
🙂 WATH and you know its the truth
True Potter, when you finish 2nd in the group you leave yourself open to be drawing the favs in the competition in the first knock out stage…! Oz, your such a cynic… Hope you classing Akpom as one of those potential world class strikers….!
Potter, if we won our group, we’d have played Barca, or so i was told yesterday.
Kev, you start the day by giving your cab a damn good thrashing don’t you? John Cleese stylee……..
That’s not true Scott…
didn’t Dortmund get the Russian team? Petersberg was it
Barca won their group so we couldn’t have got them had we won ours. from that one it would have been A.C. Milan.
Lee, i believe it was probably a conspiracy theorist speaking 🙂
So how do we all want the sheenies to get on tonight..?
Get ironed out in good size, pick up six injuries and there be some salmonella epidemic amongst their mong supporters, keeping them away from Sunday’s game!
smacked by Chelsea, downed at home by Benfica and Arsenal and goodbye Sherwood?
Harsh Oz, I like Sherwood i think he needs to stay longer.
Only salmonella Lee, your far to nice….!
goodbye Sherwood?
I kind of like him being around , his old school values are upsetting their dressing room and they are worse because of it.
WATH and Potter – actually agree but think they will pull the plug on him if that were to happen as its seasons over for them well and truly
Lee, can’t there be an outbreak of Ebola virus just for the swampies…?
A Gooner managing the swampies… you couldn’t make it up could you lol 😀
not the first one either
George nearly got them relegated… Now that would of been “Job done”…..!
Lee…. 10.16….. 😆
Morning all, Very uplifting post Rico,
Bendtner, what can you say about this bloke, I honestly am at a loss with him, mind you this may not be true, but even so what the hell is he doing drunk. £55 grand a week for all this time and Wenger still honor’s this cretins contract. Bendtner will fade away when he leaves us and nobody will care certainly not the fans. City reduced to ten last night against Barca, i don’t believe it, do they ever play a full game against eleven. Good shout for a penalty by City but you just know the official is not going to wear it. That was probably the last straw for City as they had made a game of it till then, and when one of the city players yelled at the Ref that he should have give a penalty his hand was in his pocket like grease lightening. Seeing how he had booked all of the City defenders in the first half he didn’t have to think twice about a red card. Barca are a very fine side, i would say they are the best in the world from what i have seen and they do make interesting watching,But their charity sponsors probably never gives as much as EUFAS Refs. Tottenham tonight and low and behold i will be rooting for them. I am sure they will get through seeing how all the British teams are out of the Champions league , but i will egg them on. I feel that Tottenhams team are starting to gel, they had a tough game against Chelsea but didn’t get the referee’s nod, and i didn’t expect them too, but tonight if the ref plays it fair and square i think they will do it.
What I hoped they all caught if I put it on here I’d be banned for life!
Just been checking out the recovery time for Ozil’s hamstring injury, he is potentially out for 8 weeks!
Grade 1 – 1 to 3 weeks
Grade 2 – 4 to 8 weeks
Grade 3 – 3 to 6 months. These may also require surgery.
What have Manchester City and Oscar Pistorius got in common?
They lost both legs, but still managed 4 shots on target
Ramsey is edging towards full fitness, but has not managed to meet the required levels expected during training this week, despite being pushed hard by the club’s medical staff
Losing players and not getting them back. The squad is getting really stretched now.
Lee, I like that….. 1:12…..
How did I know you’d like that??? 😆
We are seriously running out of players!
Relax BobJ we got 4 back for Sunday…! Kalstoom will save the day…!
You know me 2 well Lee… 😀
I think with Santi given more of a free role we may see him shine…. We still have Ox, Rosicky Poldi and Gnabry who can play creative roles in the midfield as well so lets just pick the right team to take those sheenies apart big time.
Gibbs will make a big difference if he’s fit.
You going WATH?
Afternoon Rico Can you check your inbox please and tell me have received my e-mail.
Hmm, I could murder a buttered hot cross bun, washed down with a cuppa…
Great piece written by You Are My Arsenal…
You can access it on NewsNow…
Really puts the media bias into perspective…
Seems that Ian Broomfield, the ‘super scout’ rumoured to be leaving QPR for Arsenal, has decided to rejoin the Scum…
Once a Scummer, always a Scummer…
Uli Hoeness, Bayern chairman, has been jailed for three and a half years for tax evasion. 🙂
Spot on potter, the other nite once again showed the importance of winning our group, 2010 being the last time we progressed further than this stage, pretty crappy really, we always end up paying a high price for it.
rico, what goes in dry, comes out wet and gives warm satisfaction ? …………….a teabag of course.
Kev, Broomfield has signed for us hasn’t he??..
Afternoon all, what a busy old day but now have a lovely clean patio 🙂
3.48 Kev 😆 😆
1.12 Lee 😆
Rick, I have it, thanks heaps…
No Broomfield did a Petit in reverse and went from the light to the darkside.
What a buffoon eh….
Hey ho, we have Grimandi 😉
Cantona nicked in Camden……….
WATH what you been up to?
Afternoon Lee, Wath, Rico and all. I went to High Wycombe today. It was full of people with strange heads.
Did you see David Moyes there Adam?
Kev. Some Moyes lookalikes for sure and quite a few with ironed heads. 🙂
Afternoon Adam, careful there, I have family living in High Wycombe 😉
It certainly wasn’t them Rico. 🙂
🙂 Adam, they only moved there a few weeks ago so their heads were already perfectly formed… lol
There is nothing , quite as nightmarish, as an ironed head…
Adam, you must have nerves of steel… 😀
Just thinking about our CL knock out matchs in recent times against German teams we we would be better playing both legs in Germany.
🙂 gjoe, I can see why you say that…
All quiet so, night all
I would like everyone to know I can categorically deny any involvement in the Cantona incident in Camden today…!
It was not me………
Sunday Lee I’ll be tucked up in a pub somewhere mate 😉
Wath, nobody suspected you of involvement there.
I notice you are sporting a Bendtner like haircut, and have visited Denmark of late.
Scott, If I was ever to look like that dick or todger as Adam would call him, please shoot me…!
Totts lose 3 – 1 and apparently Walker, Adebayor and Lennon picked up limpy type knocks
Hello fArsenal fans:
a) all the scored of Champions League predict what I’ve saying before: all those teams who had finished first on their groups , knocked the opponents.
b) When AW said we had played twice with Barcelona and twice with Bayern (both at he highest level) in last four years in the quarter finals, he is true but the question why he not really try won the group…
c)Bendtner again …. and again for the bad news, Definetely, sell him to Qatar or to Gibraltar.
d)Ramsey is out again (!!!!???) and probably out for the rest of the season. Another case study of our medical department.
e) Benfica won tonight versus Totts. Hope coach not be sent off before saturday and the players be completely tired, psicollogical down and not strong enought.
When the seagulls are following the trawler, it’s because Wath has nicked all the GG again… 😉
Pea souper in Colchester this am!
Sandro and that prick walker doubts for Sunday! No for the salmonella break out amongst those fucktard supporters!
Morning all…
We gotta win on Sunday!
The spuds are a gift that keeps on giving…..come on boys put those fuckers to the sword on Sunday!
We have to win on Sunday, hope all those with knocks are out…
Morning Lee and all….
Morning Rico, me too…..
Morning Rico and Lee.
Morning Adam..
We cannot lose to that ‘shower’……
I did watch part of the game Rico. What a depressing place Shite Hart Lane looks. Full of knuckle scrapers with the remnants of fetid Jerk Chicken hanging from what remains of their teeth and soiling their filthy T shirts. And Sherwood, looking greyer with each passing moment, staring disbelievingly at what £110 million can buy these days. Then, in the stand, is it a Stoat or a surgically enhanced Weasel? No, it’s Levy, beady eyes on stalks, planning the new stadium to coincide with the resurgence of his club and working out what he is going to say to their tax exile owner when he asks for a half billion to fund it.
Have you ever been there Adam?
Were the totts rubbish or Benfica just too good?
Sherwoods last game on Sunday – loose to us and its over for him IMO
I’ve been there and it’s a shithole of Biblical proportions enhanced by the fucktard supporters that go there week in week out!
The playing surface is excellent BUT this is because of the shit that gets put on it all the time…..and that’ll be their team!!!!!
Hope not Oz, need him to stay and take them further down the table…
🙂 Lee…
Rico – when you demand a response and get an effort like that, the writing is clearly on the wall hey?
Rico. I was at the shithole on the night we clinched the double in 1971. That was quite a walk home to Highbury that night I must say. Along way but, as we left enemy territory, the Gooners were in the streets celebrating. My mate and I got in through the old turnstiles by offering the bloke a ten bob note for the two of us. Obviously he had never seen such a fortune and he let us in. It remains a fond memory indeed.
That must have been a wonderful night to be there Adam…
Happy Days….
It was Rico. It was a bit like the movie The Warriors as we had to fight our way back to the civilisation that was Islington. I lived at Highbury Corner those days and we stopped by the old tea stall that used to be open for what seemed like 24 hours a day and there were all my mates who had been listening to it on the radio. I think we all stood around until the early hours talking nonsense. But we were happy. Sadly my mate who came with me died way too early several years later. Memories eh!
Don’t know what to say to that Adam….. Memories indeed….
I see Tony Benn has died, 88 years old…
You must of been rich adam,
half a crown top wack in them days.
Thats what it cost me…What a night
We were kids Rico but Arsenal was in our hearts even then.
Fred. Were you there too?
Morning all.
I watched the Tottenham Benfica game last night, Many will be delighted with the result. Myself i felt a little disappointed, not because Tottenham was battered, but because the supposedly best league in the world is getting hammered in Europe, Champions league has shown that our teams are secondry to those in Europe, and it almost seems that we The Premier League is farcical. Germans Spanish Portugese they seem to be so much better. Now i find that strange as we are not talking about Portuges Spanish or German Players because the two have a mixture of all countries the same as us, so How is the Premier that good. In our own league i find that the referee’s decisions do tend to favour the better clubs but when those clubs are faced with opponents from Europe why are we getting Rolled over. Now watching Tottenham last night i felt that the referee was fairly fair, but the game seemed to me to be on fast forward, both teams seemed so much quicker for some reason. Benfica when breaking seemed so fast and i found that kind of play quite exciting, their first goal was a pleasure to watch and i have to say i would have liked the English side to have won, but i have to say that Benfica took it in their stride and finished the game the better side. Tottenham away, i feel that is their lot and another English club will bite the dust. This years European competitions have shown me that our Premier League is sadly not the best League in the world and its about time the FA realised that fact.
It’s in the genes Adam 😉
That’s what all the girls say to me Rico. 🙂
sp1 – agree mate, the break is also badly needed mid season but greed and money rule. UEFA must be close now to removing the four team qualification rule. Chelsea will progress alone it appears, not a good advert for our game
Morning Oz, Glad i’m not on my own with those views.
You wanted the English club to win last night Sp?? Surely not…. 😉
No comment Adam 😉
New post up now….
I’m English Rico, I always support our teams when playing teams from abroad. Sunday is a different prospect, and i want us to batter them. 🙂