Morning all..
What a rubbish weekend. Arsenal lost, the European ladies bottled the Solheim Cup and Lewis Hamilton didn’t finish the GP! At least England opened the Rugby World Cup with a victory!
Anyway, apparently the FA will decide today whether Costa will face retrospective punishment for his antics on Saturday or not. Every man and his dog knows he should because he committed three, if not four sending off offences but Mike Dean could yet again prevent him facing a three match suspension if he worded his match report in Chelsea’s favour.
If he says he saw the entire incident and felt a yellow card was appropriate, Costa walks free but if he’s honest, well, if he says he didn’t see the slap, body check or the hands into the face of Laurent Koscielny then he should expect a three match ban at least. personally I think he deserves more but the FA won’t want to upset the defending league champions will they?
Dean has to be careful though as if he says a yellow card was the correct action, he really will hang himself out to dry because no top referee would see things the same way. Would they?
Regardless of the outcome, what good will it do us? Very little I’d say as the three points have gone…
The only way situations like this will change is for technology to be brought into the game and nearly every other sport uses it so why is it taking football so long to catch up I wonder. I’m sure we all have our own theories as to why technology is kept away from the game but mine is that FIFA, UEFA and the FA all have their little favourites, the clubs and countries they want to see do well and fairness in the game might might just hinder those club and countries being victorious… I’m sure Mike Riley has his own little agenda too when it comes to referee selection for certain games and one has to wonder why Mark Clattenburg is used sparingly for our matches, after all, he’s considered to be one of the best if not the best in England right now…
As for Mike Dean, well there’s a petition going around inviting Gooners to keep him away from all future Arsenal matches. Follow the link HERE if you want to sign up. I have, along with 50,000 others….
Here’s an early picture of the oh so handsome Costa which comes from a Twitter account in the name of ‘Monkfish’.
Let’s hope the FA grow a pair and throw the book at him…
That’s it for Monday…
Morning again all..
Out all morning so catch up later…
Good read Rico.
Dean is a joke and Costa is shite playing for s so called winner… despicable.
Watching Bundesliga players last weekend and comparing them to the over priced and over paid EPl players…
How EPL are over charged is beyond me..
Luznic from previous page-
Klopp did not get his players going…
Don’t know if you are aware but his players complained about his tactics on numerous occasions.
It was the former physio who did the pumping up and got the players fit.
He was the same physio who got Germany national team players going for Euros win…
Signed up last night and added this rider :- Progressively the standard of refereeing has declined and the latest debacle overseen by Dean is the final straw on the proverbial camel. The whole of the PGMOL needs looking at and their findings on their employees needs public airing. Their secrecy led by Riley gives the impression that they have something to hide.
Doubt it will get read and even if so it will be ignored but for 10 seconds I felt better.
Someone put on Twitter… “Diego Costa is the type of man that would unplug someone’s life support system so he could charge his phone!” Personally I think he’s a diving, cheating cnut and is certainly at home with all those West London fucktards!
Agreed there Potter. The standard has been poor since culprit in chief Graham Poll
Good morning all, good post rico.
Lee, “Diego Costa is the type of man that would unplug someone’s life support system so he could charge his phone!”
Perfect description, what he did on Saturday was awful. Arsenal was about to get a result because they didn’t expect AFC be so organised, i honestly thought that was in CFC team talk/tactics. They look nervous and worried not expecting AFC to be so discipline.
The gegenpressing style Klopp claims to own is also played by Augsburg and Paderborn in the Bundesliga but because they do not play in Europe or UCL English media don’t know about them..
That fight style football worked when he had his sports doctor who moved to Salburg…
When the physio left and klopp tried to accommodate all his midfielders Mk’tyan, Gundogan, Kagawa, Sahin like AW attempting to play Ozil, SC19, Ramsey and Ox in the same line-up it failed and the yellow and black fans normally more understanding than us gunners made their feelings known…
heres the scenario… im going too fast to stop in a one way street.. theres a dog, maureen & costa are in close conversation… Id swerve to miss the dog.
How refreshing 🙂
Morning all.
Good morning all
I have no words for all this nonsense happening around AFC. Starting from transfer window to losing useless games and then the stupid Dean, I don’t even know which faculty is he heading…
One thing though, I see Mou wants Arsene job….judging by his comments…..he can sign every Arsenal player….??????????
Costa…..well, I have never, and will never use a certain word on here out of respect for Rico, but it’s exactly what he is.
The lowest form of human on the planet, matched by few.
In the game, he’s only equalled by two men….Dean and Mourinho.
That Portugese piece of shit is a man I’d love to meet.
How proud all Chelsea fans must be.
Actually, that’s probably not fair as plenty of their fans are embarrassed by the performances of all three men I’ve mentioned.
Just a little tidbit……we lost to West Ham, the world ends.
Citeh, who have spent hundreds and hundreds of millions get beat, and the football world is talking about us.
Arsenal know how to stay in the news 🙂
Morning all, disgraceful display by Mike dean he should never be allowed to go near a football pitch again.
Why is it even the pundits are suddenly saying what Dean is?
We’ve known for years, and when we said it, we were whinging??
morning scott,
costa,dean and that horrible gimp from portugal are vermin
i would love costa to have a career ending injury from 1 of our players
Mike Dean only gave a yellow to Costa for the tussle wit Gabriel not 4 his actions on kol.so he can’t say yellow was appropriate 4 Costa action on kol
MG, I’m still ecstatic at how Gabriel got the better of Costa.
In the long term, it was a massive mental victory.
Others will take note.
With he and Coquelin (bugger) in the side, we will not be pushed around again.
Joe Say actually believes stadiums are filled because of how Costa played that game.
It’s a famous word among Arsenal fans, but delusional truly describes that arsehole.
Morning all.
Signed the petition, 51000 when I put iPad to work!
If Costa gets off it will signify the level of corruption and bias in the game of football. However, this is all about Dean and his ego. He has to save face! How could he possibly admit he made a mistake? It’s beyond comprehension that a man of his experience and unquestionable dislike for AFC would miss an opportunity to give us a helping hand! Far from it although I don’t know quite how he ‘lost the plot’ so completely that he allowed the situation to fester and grow which encouraged Gabriel’s act of foolishness. Maybe Dean’s inertia even encouraged the misdemeanours? As a referee Dean is inept. He is the quintessential embodiment of incompetence, he should never be seen on the field of fair play ever again! The chavs and manure will have to corrupt another official to do their dirty work, or at least that’s how it would seem!
I note that manure scored from another clerical error! Mata was offside, not seen? Goal given! Same old, same old.
I mentioned the use of technology after the game on Saturday, for the life of me I cannot understand the reluctance of the powers that be will not consider it, not in the interest of fair play or the certainty of justice prevailing! Their insistence that the game would suffer and we would have nothing to debate on a Monday morning if the games were an actual reflection the goals scored or not but achieved honestly, and without the misunderstanding of one man, the man in black, the ultimate arbitrator, the human error waiting to happen! The law makers have to grow a pair and introduce technology to ensure that the outcomes of games cannot be questioned as a result of human error.
Dean was palpably wrong, on several occasions and, ultimately HE and only HE dictated the outcome of the result of this game. That cannot be right. But he will escape censure because the FA etc will brook no criticism, even when they’re wrong. Are they frightened thatiftheyadmit they can’t do their jobs properly they will be sacked, in any other walk of life they would be out of the door and on the dole after they had failed! But not in this instance as they are NEVER WRONG. And there we have the problem. You don’t see such arrogance in the games of Rugby, tennis, athletics, etc etc. but football, a good Victorian sport with technology from the same era. Time to catch up with the 21st century not wallow in the marvels of 19th century.
Right rant over, but I don’t think for one moment that any action will be taken in the case of Dean and his mismanagement of Costa the cheating thug! Dean will massage his report so no action can be taken, despite the furore his incompetence initiated over the weekend!
Sorry nearly started again!
Good Morning Lovelies and Hunkies.
I enjoyed reading your post Rico. Good points.
No MG. I would not wish that even on my worst enemy. A career ending injury??? its not ethical mate. and do not say that especially if someone has suffered from it.
Great post Rico… who knows maybe we are being punished from the higher powers of the PL for not spending money. The premier league sold the tv rights for 5 billion and shared it among the clubs I think they expect the clubs to go and buy the best players they can to make the PL the best in the world….
But one club kept that money for themselves ; )
P’s is Gabriel suspended for 1 or 3 games?
Dean….well, if he says he saw t and don’t act, he shows himself to be the corrupt or biased price we all believe,
If he says he missed it, he’s simply incompetent.
Either way, the result should be the same.
Hello ricoooooo……
I signed.
That post was meant to be in English……stupid IPad.
at the end of the day what matters is that we lost 3 points Scott. Hopefully three things will emerge from this…….that Dean will be sent to referee the lower divisions, Gabriel learns from it and keeps his calm in the future. And most of all, ALL refs will mark Costa now.
Funny I saw it that Costa got the better of Gabriel….as the latter got sent off!
Despicable human being!
Ginge, you are closer to BVB than I am so I will take your opinion about Klopp, but my question is why is all journo’s saying him and Ancelotti are the only best things free at the moment, I know many journo’s are dumb but don’t you think Klopp will be better than Wenger at this point?
There’s a plethora of managers that would get more out of this team!
Wenger and his apologists need to do one!
Great post Rico
If there is any fairness in the world, the FA must say that that clown Dean should have sent off Costa on multiple occasions. They would then have to agree Dean is either incompetent or a cheat. There is no middle ground here. Stretching things a little if they agree he should have been dismissed on multiple occasions, he wouldn’t have been on the pitch when Gabriel gently tapped his ankle… So Gabriel should get his red card rescinded …. I Jest
I have never been a fan of video technology, but after yesterday am beginning to change my mind. That said I didn’t think that the Gabriel incident was a penalty even after watching in slow motion, I know others disagree. Six of one, half a dozen of the other for me.
Costa ends up hiding behind his team mates.
Gabriel went straight after him.
We want someone to stand up, then we criticise them for doing exactly that.
Do Arsenal fans actually know what we want??
Lee, who exactly are the Wenger apologists?
I don’t see any on here.
What I see is some people blaming everything on Wenger, and others who don’t.
Who are the people who really need to learn?
luznic-any change will do for both AW and the club…
tbh Scott….I have always said that we need a tough spine. Someone who gets tough when the going deems it to be so. Right now we have Gabriel, Kos and Coquelin who stand up and show they are there.
The only thing I criticise Gabi is for brushing Costa with his foot.
I would have had his balls out of his mouth with an almighty kick in his groin.
Well I aint criticising Gabriel he was a little naive but he is a beast and about time we had one.
Short term pain for long term gain, Devil…….opposition won’t see us as soft now, hopefully.
I’m with you…Costa would’ve been carried out 🙂
scott- I think Costa managed to get under gabi’s skin and so I think Costa won there…
I suggest Gabi’ should study Rijkaard vs voller to learn how to get away with stuff…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr4YpAPbY2c
Ginge, if Dean had done his job, it doesn’t happen.
Again, why do we find fault with Arsenal when the culprits are clear??
We Arsenal fans do have a defeatist attitude, no question……Devil, that one is for you lol.
It’s always our fault.
Just a few questions. How can the assistant referee 50 meters away see the back heel on Costa but the referee can’t see Costa slap kos ten yards away or Costa nails in the back of Gabriels neck all. Then after all that fiasco his attempted kick on chamberlain.
After a lifetime appealing booking and sendings,
I got to learn how the Ref’s grapevine work’s.
So was not surprised by that arshole Dean.
He done his homework for this match,
so knew what to expect.
Not many gooner’s I know thought
dean would all of a sudden back us.
Every game we get this tosser,
He decide’s the outcome.
Gabrial has become a hero….Why
Because not only is he a Brazilian
He has a pair of Nut’s
I wish there’d been a petition to get Wenger to spend some bloody money in the summer.
I agree Ginge. But imo Costa has won just a skirmish. He will defo loose the battle and then the war.
I never said they were on here Scott, but they are all over and make excuses for their inept leader! They need to wake the fuck up, their leader has been on the wane for years!
Costa got our player sent off and we lost the game because of it, that was my point! That’s why Costa won the chavs won maureenhoe won!
I hope this is true. But I still would not risk Coq vs the spuddies.
http://football-talk.co.uk/106033/francis-coquelin-injury-update/
I would go with the following team……
Ospina
Debuchy, Per, Chambers, Gibbs
Arteta, Flamini
Ox, Aaron, Iwobi
Ollie
If Campbell does not get to play vs the spuddies then he will surely be off in January.
Petition to get Wenger out better suited….he is finished!
Lee, I still say if Dean did his job, we don’t lose a player, and he’d have done something else to cost us the game, so we will agree to disagree there.
Wenger…well, I’m not exactly sure what it will take to see him go, to be honest.
Scott- its not about blaming any Arsenal player…
Any body can lose their cool and get sent off acting hard infront of 60k+ fans.
When Joey provoked Gervinho and Abou Diaby they were slotted on here…
Its like saying Dennis wise is 5’6 whilst Vieira was 6’2+ and so Vieira is harder even though Dennis Wise was able to always get under Arsenal players skin
Costa and Gabriel are not enemies.It is rumoured they were friends …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGvGa4cNSNs
Devil, I can’t see why we kept Campbell if he wasn’t in Wengers plans.
Play him or he should have already left.
Another strange transfer decision.
I agree about Dean also imagine if Wenger did his job properly too……….
Wenger and strange decisions, I’m not having that!
Should of sold Campbell after the WC could of got way more than we will now!
in the last 10 years,wengers transfer record is shit
lol.
Onya Lee 🙂
I reckon he should give Campbell a chance.
If he fails, let him go.
Not much to lose.
i still remember that cnt Santos wanting to swop shirts with that dutch cnt Van Pussy
MG, I only count the last 3 years mate.
Ivan stated at that point there were no restrictions.
I don’t believe that’s entirely the case still, but it shows before hand, there most definitely were.
Most media and Arsenal fans did not consider AA23 as a hard man…; but rumours in some circles is that he was a highly skilled systema practitioner…
Our players need to be a bit more discrete
How the proper hard men like Baresi or even Gattuso got away with stuff on field showed more intelligence than just ‘toughest’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0sOpV3dXI
Ginge, Gabriel wasn’t trying to get away with anything, he was making a stand.
Big difference.
Afternoon all..
Hi Stv, how are you, long time and all that…
Has Costa been banned yet?
🙂 I hear you Scott- but its a football game and Arsenal should come first ahead of any personal feelings. There are rules as well to be complied with…
If they have any personal beef I am sure they can sort it out in a gym in the summer. 😉
If Gabriel wanted to make a stand as you are alluding to, he could do what Stam or Vidic said they did with TH14. One hard tackle in the first 5 minutes to make the striker know its going to be a long afternoon for them.
squillaci was another 1 of wengers famous signings
Ginge I agree. When I used to play we used to give a good whack to the danger man in the first five minutes to let him know that he was in for a whole match during which he would be whacked rotationally.
It used to work.
Lol Rico. Costa maybe banned if you are able to pull one of your strings at the FA. 😉
Dev- I think our footballers are victims of TV pundits saying we are soft. They think a bit of hand bags shows toughens.
messi gets kicked a million times but he gets up gets the ball and nut-megs the idiots… lol he always has the last laugh.
As we all know,the one screaming profanity on a Friday or Saturday night after a few beers is not the hardest man…; the one with his arms folded in the defensive stand scanning wthe situation is the one you should fear…
Afternoon Rico and all. Costa is so ridiculously obvious in his foul play I really don’t understand why we didn’t react every time he committed a foul. He and his manager are truly vile and pathetic pieces of shit that they make me sick to my stomach.
Dean is either entirely incompetent or very corrupt. Either way, he should be removed from the game completely. A complete waste of space as a referee and an oxygen thief as a person. A rodent of a man.
None of this reflects well on Arsene though. His judgement is so deeply flawed that, at his age, I don’t see a comeback from him. The club should be talking to the next manager right now, today, by whatever means open to them and they should even be discussing who will stay and who will go and which new players he would like. A new contract offer for a man who is already failing would be a terrible decision, as would Wenger even considering accepting it.
Mg- Squillaci was a hard man.. apparently based on his appearance…
toughness*
Well said Brudder. Who for you?
I’ve more chance with Pinocchio Ts….
Brudder. You know who I would offer the job to but I doubt he would accept as Stan might not back him. But, whatever the case, that is the proposition exercising the minds of those who do have the powers in this matter and it is, or should be, a cause for grave concern. Arsene has become too big to sack though so it should come from him and it should be based on what is happening today rather than over a decade ago. Arsenal have to start moving the club forward.
I hope we can nab brendan rogers after liverpool let him go…..
You have friends in high places Rico. 🙂
Schteeve McClareens for me…. his multilingualism would be a massive plus for Arsenal!
Howdy ginge I saw the replay my man brianna had a play date. Sheesh wish I took Adams advice having a kid complicates things 😀
Morning all
Stan
Signed up, too. But I would like fans to come up more signatures that demands the investigation of all EPL refereeing. The EPL referees are messing up the game. I do not trust a single English referee and those who appoint them not just against arsenal, but there is a palpable, obvious incompetent officiating alarmingly going on .Refereeing in the EPL is got be investigated as quickly as possible.
Secondly, mush as I totally agree with whatever everyone says about Chelsick”s last Saturday signing (Mike Dean) that helped them win the game, Captain Cazorla and other Arsenal players must share responsibility for the sending off of Gabriel. Cazorla was walking close to Gabriel while the assaulter was provoking Gabriel and did nothing to stop Gabriel from either retaliating or getting involved. I am sure they both spoke in a language Cazorla understood. Only Coquelin made a late effort.
I saw a captain that did nothing to talk sense into his player was losing his cool after a yellow card. I saw a bunch of Arsenal players who lacked leadership qualities. If only one, two or three players had walked to the naive Gabriel and talked sense into him, he would have avoided the red card.why didn’t Koss, who handled that Animal run to Gabriel and restrain him? This was a clear case of arsenal lacking leaders on the pitch on that day. Shows me that wearing a captain’s arm band doesn’t make you are a leader. There was only one leader in that pitch-Coquelin, but he was late. Arsenal don’t have leaders. See how costly it became without having leaders. Will anyone see it this way? will Arsenal ever learn?
When are the FA going to issue the coup de gras on Costa? What time can we expect to be summonsed to the gallows to witness his public humiliation?
I’m so excited about the probable outcome!
Adamant 😀
Hi Adam, I strongly suspect it’ll be more of the same when AW’s contract is up, unless he himself has had enough…
Can’t really see Stan being the kind of guy to ‘take a risk’, and I say that as I suspect that’s how he see’s it…
Crikey, doesn’t Windows 10 take a long time to upgrade to..
What’s up my favorite English man 😀 going to the swamp on Wednesday to watch the team take on the spuds??
Hi Rico. Hope you had a relaxing time. After Saturday’s game I imagine we could all do with a recuperation period. You are likely right about Kroenke I am sad to say but sooner or later, something will give and I hope that it takes the form of Wenger saying he will leave at the end of the season. I imagine that there would be much fawning and imploring from Gazidis and the rest of the Port-sodden board who must love their expense accounts and social bashes on the back of a faltering club. There will probably even be a salary increase in the new package. But absolutely no performance targets.
Stan. I really couldn’t take it at the moment. 🙂
I did thanks Adam, it was quite nice not having access to the football and all that goes with it..
I guess any pro-active owner/board would already have a list of candidates to take over when AW’s contract is up, however…..
Come on adam the team needs you. Go over there and give them hell for me 😀
rico i would put money on it that wenger will pick the next manager
Mg, that wouldn’t surprise me at all…
My money is on Jonker or Henry…
Reine-Adelaide out for two months……..
Lee is that a fact!!!
Goonie- you pimp. howdy?
AW won’t last forever…; enjoy the ride because we will miss him when he is gone.
I am glad I am a few decades younger than him so if the big man upstairs pardons’ me I will get to see AW’s back one day…
I ll rather bouldy than Henry and jonker. Henry is unproven and jonker has failed once as manager. He’s better off being a youth coach. I ll take allegri or Carlito. I so want an Italian at the arsenal.
I’d like to Stan but I have just about had it at the moment.
Ts 😀 I lost my pimping a while back DNA is the current pimp king 😀
Adam you are gooner through and through. You of all people can’t quit on us now. We need you.
Everyone is saying that there’s money available….. we bought Sanchez & Ozil, who’s decision was it NOT to buy a single out field player?
Yes Stan….
https://arsenalyouth.wordpress.com/
Lee that’s heart wrenching. Why do we always suffer this kind of horiffic injuries. I just can’t figure it out. Not a good age for a long term injury. Reminds me of wilshere. Hope he comes back stronger. Poor lad.
Afternoon Everybody…
Westfield, Shopping Centre, Stratford, reminds me, very much, of Dungeness B, nuclear power station, on a day like this…
Howdy kev
Interesting post Rico…
And about time too…
Wath’s done great but I’ve personally missed you. Hope you don’t get off again on a long stretch.
Today’s comments show real improvement. At last we’re facing the monsters of Saturday – Costa and Dean. However, this is HH and folks would as a rule of thumb, descend on AW at every turn. You can always count me out on that.
After this signing to shame Dean, Rico and HH should initiate another…giving Gabriel a hero’s ovation when next he files out at the Emirates. One person but only one person in the EPL has just given Costa things to worry about –
Wenger? Did absolutely no wrong last Saturday…the way we played until the red card and after shows a manager who has adapted to opposition strengths.
This Wenger out here should be served at the appropriate time. When it’s at every opportunity, it rings just one thing – pure hatred.
You’re right Stan. It goes back a long, long way in my family.
But what is happening right now is appalling really. Shocking performance from Wenger who just cannot seem to adapt to modern football and also from far too many big-name, big-earner players who are not doing it in the framework of the team that Wenger has set up. We are forever waiting for players to hit form and when they do, they get injured. I can think of only 4 or 5 who are coming anywhere close to where they should be at the moment and a lot more who I cannot see as part of a proper, modern manager’s plan.
It will all represent an enormous challenge for the right man who will need time I would think.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/sep/21/arsenal-fa-cut-gabriel-paulista-ban-diego-costa
Hello Stan, how are things with you mate?
Pity adam just a tweak and we could be smashing it. Bar a good striker and a dm I don’t think shitty or chavs first teams are better than ours. Cech over hart kozzer over kompany and definitely ozil over silva. We re not far behind adam. It’s just a pity wenger is set in his ways.
Fabulous kev fabulous.
Adam, I rang that audio shop, on the South Circular, but they didn’t wanna touch my AV, so I went to a pioneer listed workshop in Mitcham…
They seemed on-the-ball, so thanks for the advice mate…
Don’t know how part of my comment above got binned…
– Gabriel…when next Costa lines up against Arsenal he’d be looking over his shoulders for Gabriel even if the true Brazilian was on the bench. We got another Keown, this one with Brazilian flair.
Kev. Good news mate.
Our forward thinking manager predicted that we’d get more injuries so he has strengthened the squad…. I mean it’s not like we get loads of injuries is it??
Moron!
Hi Lee, how’s it going mate?
You don’t seem your usual chirpy self… 😉
Stan. I reckon we need a bit more than a tweak myself. Too many big-name players way off the boil and little in the way of tactics. Reputation and past achievements only get you so far.
I’ve just had enough of this bollocks….. I really have had it to the back teeth!
It’s so boringly repetitive every fucking season the same shit!
All you need to do is change the year,and the season will play out like so many before!
Costa charged
Why has gabriel been charged, he has already been given a red card
What a load of bollox
Evening all..
Thank you Tai re your earlier comment, I’d like to say I missed HH, however… 😉
What a bunch of idiots the FA are!!
Dean yes, let’s sign a petition but we really don’t need that. We need a petition for Wenger.. To let him and the board know that we don’t want him anymore.
That way he will know that he is not invincible.
I knew we would be to blame! Improper conduct for Gabriel as well as charging both clubs for not controlling their players.
No comment on Dean, I suppose we’ll have to wait until old mother Riley to make a decision where the rural Dean is going to haul up to next week! 4th official somewhere, I shouldn’t wonder with no reprimand!
The FA are worthless! in fact they are worth f..k all!
Justice? What justice?
Rejoice, sorry you’ve been stuck in moderation…
You make a good point about about no-one getting hold of Gabriel and telling him to wind his neck in. I can understand why he was so wound up and Costa keep bashing on the back would have only angered him more but a true leader wearing the armband might very well have calmed Gabriel down a bit. Then again, if it had been Paddy, he’d have probably nutted Costa… 😉
Simon, you start one and I’ll be the first to sign it…
We all talk about how AW is over the hill, past it and not what Arsenal need to move the club forward but the reality is, what do any of us, me included, do about it, other than to moan on blogs… And that will never reach Kroenke, mind you, would he care if it did?
Perhaps a petition is a good idea, then the true number of fans wanting a new manager would be reflected…
http://talksport.com/football/kurt-zouma-sorry-after-describing-chelsea-teammate-diego-costa-cheat-150921167362?
Rico, we can’t start such a petition in the middle of a season…that could drown the team psychologically.
Let the season finish and that has meaning. Besides, Wenger should never be so humiliated in the middle of a season! That will make Mourinho’s day and I’d take any shit than ever make Mou happy.
Lee, I know mate, it’s difficult, some times impossible, to put a positive spin on things.
The only reason I do, is because I’m fcuking fed up, feeling fed up, about a club, who is run by people who have have little or no respect for the fans, and that’s across the board, playing staff as well, and an owner who is a leech…
I’m not gonna let it upset me anymore because basically ‘they’ aren’t worth it…
So I look on them almost from a comical view now.
I mean, for Gods sake, how can anyone take Lord Harris seriously…?
How can anyone look at Kroenke in any other way than a joke?
Hill-Wood… I mean Lee, he was funny, yes he was an ignorant Cnut, but he was funny.
In an idiotic pantomime type of way…
Even Wenger, I mean how can somebody repeat the same mistakes, in regard of reinforcing the squad every transfer window, and not be considered quite comical…?
I’m just making a point really Tai..
Personally, I’d love AW to prove us all wrong and win the league but I doubt that will happen..
But, I’d like Kroenke gone too…
Well said Kev…
Diego Costa, if the FA have any backbone, they should ban him for a minimum of 4 games…
They won’t Kev….
The Diego Costa incident…….Minions version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fazWK9yOpbM
Night guys..
I think they’ll nail Costa to save some face.
Probably but be aware the Arsenal will get caught in the side swipe.
If there were real justice the FA would review the result, call it null and void on the real time outcome and subtract the chavs 3 points and award them to the Arsenal! Won’t happen I know but, in the interest of acknowledging the Respect and the integrity of the game a gesture and ‘fine’ of that sort would really rattle and shake up the cheats and fakers!
Shame they don’t have the bollocks to take the opportunity to make a real statement and clean the game up?
Wavy, FIFA need to step up and do their job, IMO.
This behaviour starts at the junior level.
It’s tolerated, unfortunately……even encouraged.
The game is what suffers, and that is unacceptable.
Potter, I dare say you’re right.
SSN say Dean the unaware has been appointed to Ref the West Ham game with his blind linos! God bless them. I wonder who his paymaster will be this weekend?
The state totters.
Now we know why Wenger didn’t spend, or probably why he was not allowed to…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/11880958/.html
You’re right Scott but, sadly the kids from U9 up merely imitate what they see on the TV week after week and even more sadly there are very few Refs who actually object to the bad mouthing of the infants and by there inertia propel the game into the spiral of misbehaviour and unacceptable language that we find in the game today!
It doesn’t happen in Rugby or Cricket, or golf, or….?? Or most other sports, so why football?
Is it the money? Not in amateur football, so why?
Anecdotally I played football, rugby and cricket, not to mention golf. I was a perfect ‘gentleman’ when playing the last three, but football, I couldn’t keep my mouth shut or misman opportunity to ‘kick’ the opposition if the chance arose, with the ball or without it? And, strangely I am mostly a,very,placid, caring human being! So it must be the nature of football?
Last remark, where are the Linekers and Charltons (Bobby not Jack) of this world?
Wavy, parents need to be teaching their kids the right way.
If Sean ever had a coach who taught these bad traits, well, he wouldn’t have that coach lol.
Parents have the ultimate control over kids, not coaches, and we need to do what’s best for them as a person, first, footballer second.
Speaking immediately after the game, Zouma was asked by BeIN Sport: “Arsenal will feel hard done by, they will claim you should have had a player sent off in Diego Costa but this is a player that’s famed for riling other players isn’t it?
“Are you surprised that they reacted in this way?”
Zouma replied: “No, we’re not surprised because we know Diego. Everyone knows Diego and this guy likes to cheat a lot and put the opponent out of his game.
“That happened in the game, but he’s a really nice guy. We’re proud to have him, like the other players, and we’re happy to win this game today.”
Lee, kind if says it all.
Even Joe Say States Costa plays the way the game needs to be paid.
What a club!!!
So glad my family hail from North London!
Lol.
And the RIGHT PART of North London Hahahahaha
My mum supported that small team in North London….. God bless her!
Morning Rico, Brudder, Scott and all.
That part of North London football culture comes with a bond that cannot be broken, no matter where you move. Passed down through time.
Lee, funny, but I respect any fan that supports through thick and thing, and god knows anyone who sticks with Spurs is no glory hunter lol.
Hiya Adam.
That’s one thing I’ll never have…..and never pretend I have…..a hatred for Tottenham that’s born into the trade.
I do laugh at overseas fans who carry on like they’re the mortal enemy when realistically we don’t have a genuine reason to detest them, though it’s fun to have a crack at them 🙂
Morning Adam, Rico and all…
Old fergie has raffled feathers with his list of 4 world class players under his tutelage.
Juan Sebastian Veron?
Bebe?
Eric Djemba-Djemba?
Kléberson?
Scott- tribalism is so 18th century imho…; No need for that at all. Its now a global game undeserving of the title the ‘beautiful game’
with all the serious stuff going on in this world how football can be made to be the end all is beyond me sometimes…
A spuddie lives a few metres from my house; There is always good bunter between us even though he is the same age as my father.
H makes agood show of getting seen we lose but when his team is on the ropes e goes missing. 🙂
Gabriel Obertan; Massimo Taibi, Dong Fangzhou and David Bellion are the true legends.
We think Almunia was bad; Taibi was shocking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esFAGx7RDL4
ruffling feathers* even.
tsk
Paul Marriner is a dickhead.
Reckons Costa did nothing wrong?
What is it with ex players??
Ginge, it’s players like Costa that make the game ugly, as well as managers like Mourinho.
Even Craig Burley…ex Chelski…reckons Costa is a bloody thug.
Scott- totally agree. Its the win at any cost mentally.All the fight talk really irks me up…
Most of those talkers won’t even last 3 days ‘glamping’ i.e glamorous camping in their back garden.
Are modern lives so void that we need diversions…? I can talk for myself; I wonder why I get on planes to go and watch Dortmond.. when anytime could happen…
Very deep, Ginge 🙂
I hear Costa has been banned.
Good news.
Our Iceman was street smart and as tough as any current thug in the EPL but he did it subtly without bringing the game into disrepute…
With most of the fat ex-players needing to talk tough to get air-time no wonder the EPl is in such state.
Instead of the media going on about us and how we allegedly have a soft under-belly; they should be questioning why English/British grass route football is in the dark ages.
They should be wondering why only teams with sugar daddies are able to finish above us in the league when we live within our wins.
They should be wondering why no English manager is managing a top 6 side or even managing abroad with their back alley tactics…
The contradiction from the media is beyond believe. On the front pages they mind control us with their neoliberalism cack on how a nation can go bankrupt whilst on the back pages it is about how clubs should send to appease the masses…
Costa being banned doesn’t fucking help us though? That’s the pisser………should of sent the cnut off on Saturday arvo and we may of beaten the blue filth!
Ginge, the class is going.
As you said, the win at all costs mentality has taken over for the most part, and that’s not a good thing.
Money.
Lee, if they drop points with him out it helps, but I know what you’re saying…..
Better than nothing, which is what we usually get.
Ginge, your 12.18 is one brilliant post.
TS. I completely agree but the money fountain falls in so many pockets these days. Our club is on it too and I guess it always will be from now on. Most sports journalists I have met hold a grudging admiration for Wenger but see him as a loser.
Brudder. That’s always been an irritant. Who gets the benefit of Costa’s ban for his disgusting behaviour? Not us, for sure.
Agreed Adam. Our club is definitely in it too…
Robbing the regular 9-5 man or woman for all they have..
Then again the evening standard said the average Arsenal fan/supporter earns £45k per annum; almost twice the average uk workers salary so… lol
TS. That counts Lee and Kev out then 🙂
lol Adam; A freedom of Info’ request on Boris’s expenses shows invoices signed by a certain Mr. Kev taking the biscuit… 😛
Scott, can’t see where – Costa being banned. Update please.
Good afternoon All…
No post today, Rico? Has the FA banned HH as well?
http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/arsenal-searching-for-hows-and-whys.html
A bit of light reading there….
Tai, a London mate reported it….I’m yet to see confirmation elsewhere.
Tai, seems he’s jumped the gun.
His latest is Costa has been fined and a ban to come so WHO KNOWS??
Sorry bud.
Not me, I’m on my uppers… 🙂
Anyway, as a protest, I’m not gonna go into Starbucks anymore.
Afternoon guys, sorry no post today, both Wath and I have been busy with other stuff…
Tai, if only, I could have a nice long rest 😉
Just about to jump on a flite, destination Shite Hart Lane.
First game of the season, I know…..I’ve got no sense.
Will report back Thursday when reality has set in.
rico, if it wasn’t for rain we wouldn’t have rainbows……..ok I’ll shut the fcuk up.
Safe journey Micko…
Safe travels Micko and i trust you bring home the right result for us.
Having grown up in Stamford Hill with a brother as a Spud, the banter is always fair and jovial when the 2 teams meet. He is objective in his opinion and fairly longsuffering. I still remember strongly the Terry Neil, Don Howe, Gus Ceasar, Pat Jennings, Steve Gatting, Willie Young, Champagne Charlie Nicholas days. Also the fondness of Brian Talbots free kicks hitting the net whilst standing in the North Bank. So as much as i want to nag, i cannot justify it as much as the spuds.
Cheers
Gabriel,s suspension for 3 days has been rescinded. Well there is a surprise, wasn’t expecting that! The FA have grown a pair! Whoopee!
New post up, bear with me with it… 😉
Wavy, is real, I’m gobsmacked….