Humble words of apology
So what do I know? Absolutely nothing obviously, given my last post. Letting in four was not what I had in mind – at least not for the Arabs.
Do we take anything from this? There were chances and chances, especially near the end, and quite a few misses for us. But we did have a Rosicky appearance and a Rosicky goal, and…
I think I am going to have to think quite a bit – although last year when this happened we did go on our unbeaten run. I also think back to that dreadful time when we lost terribly to Manchester IOU and then came back. The Lord Wenger tends not to take this sort of thing easily and usually gets this right thereafter.
There’s no hiding from a result like this, we just have to pick things up and start going again: the game this week in Europe is the ideal place to start.
Sorry; I really thought we would sail through.
(c) Tony Attwood 2009
The thing is that v were the better team today and we lost. The same was the case against ManUnited. I don’t know what Almunia is doing, he conceded a penalty against manu and 2day scored an own goal. The refereeing was poor he didn’t see adebayor stamping Rvp and barry’s handball. One thing is for sure Arsenal will never win any title unless they make any signing in the january window coz when one of our players come backs from injury the other gets injured.
Oh,just play dirty football against arsenal then get your points.Arsenal should learn how to play dirty game when needed and wenger should train his squad physically.Arsenal lose the two manchester derbys because they were not physically fit.Arsenal should expect physical match against the likes of chelsea,tottenham and many of this middle tabled clubs this season.Wenger should buy not only making profit for him self and the so called Arsenal board.Imagine bendtner,diaby and denilson in our first team Wenger should not only depend on his injuried plays and Arsenal academy.But let me ask are we course with injuries God forbid.For Adebayor’s behaviour today is he the only play to have score against he’s former team fuck him.Wenger shouldn’t be blame but blame the Arsenal board as of recent.
Ben,
This is not a thing between me and you….we both want this club to win….
You said yourself that Wenger isn’t a problem…..
I just think Wenger only sold players who a)wanted out b)he didn’t think he needs c)a cunt who he can make a big profit from, and some left on their own wish ie.Flamini, Pires to a certain extent…
We all want Wenger to buy buy and buy, you have to believe we do….
But we know he won’t…..and the difference between me and maybe some people is that I have giving up hope on Wenger buying many players because I never see he does anyway….Almost every stars came to replace…..and I know your arguments about players not being replaced which I agree to a certain degree(that being, We didn’t need to replace a cunt, we’re better off without IT)…
What I’ve asked for is only to remember this great club’s horrific times…we’ve been in far worse situation….
With that said, I’m not praising Wenger for this past 4 years, I always praised Wenger for what he DID – he transformed our club and push it to be in the same league with those at the top in Europe…..and he won us many many titles too……
I’m just hopeful that’s all……I’m a type of person who remembers……for what he did before these past 4 years I’m grateful enough to give him any benefit of a doubt (for now)…but there’s always a time for change – I just don’t think it is right now….
Ade is certainly not happy the way he left Arsenal. The malice is there for all to see throughout the duration of the match. The manner he celebrated his goal was rather too arrogant and maliciously irritating. Honestly, I never liked his style of play while in Arsenal, notwithstanding, he and Kolo should not have been sold to Mancity. You dont arm your enemy in a battle of winner takes all.
And RVP was spot on; he got hit, almost blinded…..but we, as a club, are not hiding from the result……
What did we get from it??? Nothing at all……That seat should’ve hit his head….
I think Wenger is a Cunt.What was he thinking with those substitutions? Thought we agreed a long time ago that it should be one of Denilson,Song and Diaby playing at a time? Now we got all three as regular starters.Shame Wenger.What do we do with Wilshere taking bench space every week and certainly not playing,INSANE!!! I honestly think Wenger is a joke,the team is argueably good enough,but his selection is simply disgusting.Drop the fucking sentiments and be a proffessional mate.The team can sure do better.
diceman1984 ”
Nice One. i Agree with you. Lets Just keep praying something Good Happens the season.
I think wenger tinkering wit youth over the years is getting the better off the fans. He is the cause of the current rage the fans are pouring on that Togolese.Arsenal are a title winning club until 2005 and the fans are now impatient wit every experiment-i.e Adebayor. Its no suprise wen fans turn their frustration on a player who they feel is not helping the cause of the team.i.e Adebayor again. Now he’s left and hurts the team from the opposing side. And wenger’s experiment continues.
I cant understand why Ade was not replaced. The current squad has no forward good at attacking aerial balls in the box. Bendtner is growing up, he’ll get there 2 seasons from now. Persie is not cut out for those balls, eduardo is recovering. And of course you cant expect vermalen in the box all the time. We need an aerial ball attacker. We should get Chamakh for free by Jan but will not play in Champions league. We need a deadly finisher. a.k.a Thiery. Otherwise, we might struggle worse than last season and Fabregas walks away to Madrid. Painful
Its 5 am in Malaysia and still I cant sleep thinking how we lost a game that in any day we should have won big. To be honest this hurt more than ManU game 2 weeks ago esp with that ego maniac stamping and scoring.
What hurting most today is I started to feel the same angry and sad feeling I felt last season…not to team but from the things I read in most blogs. Fans take swipe at players and most importantly Arsene… again when we are down..
I been watching and supporting Arsenal for more than 15 years from faraway in Asia. I am honored to have the privilege to watch and support such a great club. When we won I would be wearing a smiley face the whole week but when we lost its hurt yet I take it with pride and can’t wait for the next game to start.. praying for a thrashing or better still a long unbeatan run. To me as a fan I will never question Arsene for whatever he did because I believed the decision he takes are in the best interest of the club and he wants to win it all. That is in him, proved that with his credentials and will never change…
To me it is Arsenal v the world. every corner of the earth is against our club, let it be media, UEFA, FIFA etc so to have the fan attacking the club as well is just … I am out of words… LOVE is to support whatever the circumstances are…but that it is only me with my silly opinion…
Hope one day I’ll be flying over there sitting in the Emirates will all the fans watching and cheering Arsenal playing…
GO arsenal..we gonna have a great season..
God bless Tony with his positive words…
oh god, looking at adebayor stamp van persie on youtube shows how spiteful that man is.
he deserves a long ban for this (though i suspect he only gets 1 game to conveniently put him out of action against man u…)
And if defeat hurts us
on a rare and seldom day
WE WILL NOT DESERT YOU
OUR GUNNERS IN ARMS!!!!!!
Yes very dissapointed by the result and also very dissapointed with the reaction of some fans.
We knew this game would be a difficult one and yet we could have won it.
Adebayor played the game of his life. He tried to hurt Cesc in the beginning (didn’t get booked) with a tackle that could have broken his leg.
He kicked RVP in the face: should have been red.
Then he scored and got a yellow card for his disgracefull behaviour. This should have been his second at least.
Then he saved a shot from the line.
He cost us 3 points today but that is all it is today: 3 points.
So lets pick ourselves up and support our team, won or lose.
Lets see the good things: the return of Rosicky who was brilliant at times. If he stays fit he will be a major player.
Lets also not forget: we had to play Diaby in a role where he is noet really comfortable because of the injuries to Arshavin and Nasri. When they come back we have players who can play the left wing position some 10X better. Diaby always tries to go inside and this limites space for the rest of the team.
We also have Walcott back in a few days or weeks to give us more pace. This is what we lack a bit in our attack for the moment.
Dont forget Eduardo is still working on his fitness overall.
We have plenty players as a backup so lets be calm and maybe the team will be so frustrated with themselves and prove the doubters wrong very soon.
And I hope they start with this on wednesday in Liège where I will be singen for my Gunners in Arms.
And please do not forget we always are have a difficult game after an internationals break and playing away.
I’m dissapointed and disgusted. But not so much at Arsenals performance. Not even a free kick for stamping on a guys face?
Gotta say the whole team looked shocked after that.
That stamp just left me feeling gutted. How is it that we are treated so differently?If FIFA or the FA don’t act then this is it for us.
Bring on that European Super League!
We’ve lost two games thus far and both games have ben lost when our opponents have had a flurry of goals: United got 2 in 5mins, City got 3 in 10.
Personally, I feel we were the better team for much of the game against City. We had more shots (23) but only 7 on target. Plus we had 60% of posession. Compare to City who had 10 shots, 5 of which were on target. I don’t think we were outplayed at all.
I think the weakness we have is the goalkeeper position (not saying Almunia needs to be replaced, but I do think a bit of competition or a break could be good for him) and players who don’t get back to defend (Diaby in particular). In fact, if Diaby had tracked back, I’m not sure if Bellamy would have even scored.
Other than that the team played ok, but we need improved accuracy from the strikers and nicer goal posts.
As for Adebayor, if he played like that for Arsenal he would have got the love. He’s a fool, and now the most hated former-Arsenal player by far. Well done you muppet.
I am perplexed why Wenger did not buy another defender and a winger over the summer.
I guess when Wenger comes knocking for a player, its like George Soros sniffing out an investment; the stock automatically soars.
But I guess he either got priced out of the market, or he plans to run this team till the January transfer window, and then see how it’s shaping up, and what the injury situation is.
Anyway, I think the perennial Old Trafford game rigging carry on does our players’ heads in a bit.
Also a lot of people reckon Almunia is not strong enough…….
I would liked to have seen Wenger buy a decent back-up defender, say, the young French guy. With Djourou out we look a bit short at the back.
Hopefully we can put this behind us and string some good results together.
I honestly think we’d have got a result if it weren’t for Clichy’s antics. As a defender you cannot give the ball up that many times and not expect to be punished, especially against a good team like City.
You can understand the below par performance at times because games (especially away games) after international breaks are tough. I think pretty much every time we come back from international duty we lose points.
So playing against a good team away from home right after international break, you can forgive the players for “lacking sharpness” as Arsene put it.
But you can’t forgive the silly mistakes that our defenders made. How Adebayor made that run boggles the mind. Were we afraid of him?
And then Clichy loses the ball 3 times in 10 minutes and the game is over.
Adebayor is a huge cunt. I never said a word against him until I saw his attack on RvP. But having said that he was immense today. Seemed like he wanted to win more than anyone. And he got his wish.
Well i’ve not watched the game yet, but will do so with great intrest,normally i never watch a game after we’ve lost but there is lot of comments regarding formation and mentality of players, substitutions and of course Adebayor.
One thing to keep in mind before the mass suicide begins is that the league is won in May not September, and how keeping two players who wanted to leave would have helped us this season is plain stupid and so crass, the lanky boy was always going to play like he’s never played for Arsenal and so was Toure, it’s just a pity that we no longer have a player like Giles Grimandi who would have put Adebayor over the advertising hordings in the first few seconds of the game, bitch would have have seconds thoughts about playing the way he did and sticking the boot into RVP’s face.
My last comment is about Arsene Wenger, will someone please slap the man not hard mind you just a tap and whisper in his ear that Bentner is not a winger / wide player and never will be, we have Wilshire or Bazerite who can play that roll in the absense of Wallcot, they are first team squad players so use them.
Just to round this off, I can’t believe anyone hasn’t really got the hang of this site, but just in case…
1. I am not paid by Arsenal nor do I have any relationship with Arsenal other than having been a regular at the ground for many years. I am a member of Arsenal Independent Supporters Assn, nothing more.
2. I started this blog because I know there are some people who have a positive view of Wenger, and I felt that this view was not being widely expressed on blogs.
Sorry if that has not been clear. But as always, thanks to everyone for writing in. If you posted between about 7pm and 9am BST and you have not posted to this site before, your post will have been delayed for me to moderate (essential since we are bombared daily with posts from spammers), and I went out to a jive club for a dance. All posts that were not adverts were then put up – I was not censoring any points of view.
Tony
THIS HAS GOT TO BE OUR LAST DEFEAT. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE AGAIN. AND WE MUST SWEEP ASIDE ALL MID TABLE AND TAIL TEAMS. SWEEP ASIDE!
We really seemed to struggle yesterday. The performance was reflective of some of those last season, sluggish and lacking penetration.
We really missed Rasputin, and there were some howlers of performances. Almunia is having a stinker this season, and Clichy seems to have forgotten the art of defending.
Positives? Erm…
i don’t understand why our fans are so impatient????success don’t come to those who crave for it..ever wonder how much pressure our players will be….i have never saw any home fans booing their own team…arsenal were first..liverfool have also not won any trophies after 2005..i don’t see their fans booing…..let me ask u guys if spend 100 millions n still don’t win anything..what then..idon’t think we played badly..1st goal was a lucky 1 for them…then we created loads of chances in 2nd half..but lacked that cutting edge..but our defending was really poor going forward…which i think is a persistent problem since 2007…
nothing is permanent…neithe success nor failures..
longer the wait, sweeter the taste…believe me…now get behind ur team londoners..make the emirates the fortress..most intimidating arena of this season..
I do think that the system we play is so different to the system played in “countrysides” that it takes a half to get started again.
Clichy has every year a few games in which he is very bad in defending (all players have this in fact) but yesterday he made 3 mistakes in one game and this cost us the game.
Does this mean that Clichy has lost it ? No I just hope that he made all the mistakes in one game and thus it would only cost us 3 points. It would be far worse if he did this in 3 games and cost us 9 points
Walter, the mark of a defender in my opinion is his consistency. Clichy is an amazing defender but recently he seems to be making too many mistakes. I don’t think it’s a huge problem though because they are all the same type of mistakes involving him losing the ball in dangerous positions. If he can just make simple passes or clear the ball instead of trying to dribble we wouldn’t see this happen again.
A tiny point of detail just to keep the record straight. “Old Gooner” sent in something like 10 short emails all saying much the same thing. I let through the first two, but then deleted the rest as they were all so similar.
Tony