The talking about Arsenal FC thread (1 Viewer)

[Janer]

great photos, what lenses are you using? i love holloway on a saturday afternoon, my girl's from barnsbury road

Canon 70-200L IS f/4
I had a great seat, 5 rows from pitch next to where the tunnel was.

 

[Wheels]

It's only the Carling Cup, right? Commiserations, but oh dear oh dear...

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Chokers

 

[Unicron]

It's only the Carling Cup, right? Commiserations, but oh dear oh dear...

It is and it isn't. I had a real sense that if they'd won that one it could have been the first domino that led to a number of trophies being won in the coming seasons. Lot of work needed to get their heads right now, could potentially follow that defeat with exit from the CL and FA Cup in the coming fortnight.

Fucking gutting, but so typically Arsenal. The Djourou/Kos partnership has actually been really strong in the last few months, any huge fuckups have happened when Squillachi is in the side. but yesterday they both made an error that led to a goal.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

so typically Arsenal.

Yup

 

[Galway Steve]

I had a real sense that if they'd won that one it could have been the first domino that led to a number of trophies being won in the coming seasons.

Yep.

but so typically Arsenal.

And unfortunately, Yep.


Decent run out tonight, Henderson was a bit shakey but done ok. Diaby done a fair bit in the first half. And Chamakh just seemed to die on his legs throughout the second.

 

[Hector Grey]

someone was telling me that an eminent sports psychologist from usa town, america, did test on the arse lads and nicklas bentdner scored the highest of anyone he's ever tested for self confidence.

do you think he's finally found his level?

 

[Unicron]

someone was telling me that an eminent sports psychologist from usa town, america, did test on the arse lads and nicklas bentdner scored the highest of anyone he's ever tested for self confidence.

do you think he's finally found his level?

13 prem goals last season from basically playing 1/2 of it out of position. The dude isn't as good as he thinks he is (or to be strictly accurate, thinks that he can be) but he's useful to have around.

 

[Hector Grey]

i don't think anyone is as good as niklas thinks he is. he's a conundrum. excellent one minute, loping goof the next. better than chamakh though *cough*

 

[Unicron]

Van Persie was just named in the travelling party for tomorrow.

 

[Cormcolash]

Tomorrow should be good, Arsenal must surely be looking to secure their reputation as 'Worst Bottlers in all of football"

 

[Hector Grey]

surely terrible bottlers win. you must mean best bottlers in football. right?

 

[Cormcolash]

Hmmm, good point

 

[Unicron]

I'd hardly think losing away tonight to the best side in the world would constitute bottling. I'd say a better example of bottling would be making a fucking fortress of your home ground in the CL and yet repeatedly failing to get out of the group phase.

 

[Hector Grey]

i think bottling it is going anywhere with a goal advantage and expecting to lose. you've written them off already. even liverpool beat barca before. it's 11 v 11. fair enough, they're mostly all midgets, but still.

 

[Unicron]

you've written them off already.

I'm not, I'm saying that in the event of us going out tonight it in all likelihood won't be further evidence that we're chokers. Bottling it would be failing to deliver against a vastly inferior team. Like Birmingham for example.

 

[Janer]

Barca vs Arsenal 2nd leg...

Besides the RVP sending off which was incredibly harsh we just didn't show up, Barca massacared us, our only players who come out with any credit are the keeper, Nasri and our man of the match Jack Wilshire, our centrebacks were half decent too but had no cover, Diaby was shit, hilarious the way we could've stolen it at the end but everyone knows how bad Niks 1st touch is...

re:RVP/Ref
https://twitter.com/rioferdy5/status/45226489414828032

 

[Cormcolash]

 

[Unicron]

 

[Cormcolash]

Haha! Here's a worse sending off than Van Persie's to cheer you up:

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