Monday, February 1, 2010
Same old Arsenal, always croaking
Lost at home to Manchester and United, away to Chelsea this year. Last year United done us in the Champions League. Chelsea love to stick it up us when it matters. Forget Liverpool, they are no longer major players and until we win something, anything, neither are we.
Wenger doesn't give a shit about the FA Cup; witness the team he put out away to Stoke last week when 5,000 travelling Gooners witnessed another poor, gutless display seeing us slink out of the world's greatest cup trophy without even the bookies getting excited about our chances.
We HAVE to win something and it don't matter if it's the Carling Cup or the FA Cup. 'Cos this current team are a bunch of losers until they do pick up a pot. Forget all this nonsense about the Champions League or the Premier League are the only ones that matter...after a drought dating back to 2005, when Manchester United outplayed up in the FA Cup final only for us to win on penalties, these players have to show they have the guts and desire to do it in the big games.
The evidence is they haven't and quite franky if selling Cesc Fabregas would guarantee us a trophy next season I would accept it.
All those promises about moving from Highbury to the new stadim would allows us to compete, all that extra money, 3 million quid a game, and for what? What have we got to show for it? Cast off defenders from Chelsea, Manchester United and Notts County, an injury list that gets longer and longer with every bloody season.
We need a quality keeper. Every top team needs one, we have Manuel Almunia who looks like he should be selling the Big Issue outside tube stations in London. We need fighters, grafters and we don't have them. What we have is a team packed with bottlers and naiveity.
I can accept not winning trophies. I can accept mediocrity. It's what I grew up with after all. But what I can't accept is bullshit. Be it bullshit from the board, the manager or the players.
Wenger doesn't give a shit about the FA Cup; witness the team he put out away to Stoke last week when 5,000 travelling Gooners witnessed another poor, gutless display seeing us slink out of the world's greatest cup trophy without even the bookies getting excited about our chances.
We HAVE to win something and it don't matter if it's the Carling Cup or the FA Cup. 'Cos this current team are a bunch of losers until they do pick up a pot. Forget all this nonsense about the Champions League or the Premier League are the only ones that matter...after a drought dating back to 2005, when Manchester United outplayed up in the FA Cup final only for us to win on penalties, these players have to show they have the guts and desire to do it in the big games.
The evidence is they haven't and quite franky if selling Cesc Fabregas would guarantee us a trophy next season I would accept it.
All those promises about moving from Highbury to the new stadim would allows us to compete, all that extra money, 3 million quid a game, and for what? What have we got to show for it? Cast off defenders from Chelsea, Manchester United and Notts County, an injury list that gets longer and longer with every bloody season.
We need a quality keeper. Every top team needs one, we have Manuel Almunia who looks like he should be selling the Big Issue outside tube stations in London. We need fighters, grafters and we don't have them. What we have is a team packed with bottlers and naiveity.
I can accept not winning trophies. I can accept mediocrity. It's what I grew up with after all. But what I can't accept is bullshit. Be it bullshit from the board, the manager or the players.
# posted by Me @ 10:44 AM 
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How many times do we have to see Arsenal come up short in the title race before people realise he's not up to the task? You can't simply keep "building for the future" - eventually you have to deliver the promised results. But he's not.
Too many French and Africans, not that I have anything against French and Africans per se, but a team needs a backbone of the best English players to win the Premier League - and that's the difference between Man Utd and Chelsea, and the Arse. They both have a solid backbone of English players, and we do not. Remember when we used to have the strongest youth development system in England - Adams, Merson, Rocastle, Thomas, Davis, Cole, Cambell, etc. you all know the names - we just haven't been the same club since Wenger lost touch with our proud history.
Too many French and Africans, not that I have anything against French and Africans per se, but a team needs a backbone of the best English players to win the Premier League - and that's the difference between Man Utd and Chelsea, and the Arse. They both have a solid backbone of English players, and we do not. Remember when we used to have the strongest youth development system in England - Adams, Merson, Rocastle, Thomas, Davis, Cole, Cambell, etc. you all know the names - we just haven't been the same club since Wenger lost touch with our proud history.
he has yet to completely build a team...even the cup final against united in 05 we had bergkamp.
time and time again he has ignored the defence and keeper. our strikers could appear in a snow white movie...but none of this matters if we could mix it with the big boys...and we can t. in fact we did better when the players were kids!
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time and time again he has ignored the defence and keeper. our strikers could appear in a snow white movie...but none of this matters if we could mix it with the big boys...and we can t. in fact we did better when the players were kids!
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