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
I listened on 5-live so really want to see the stamp on van Persie and how the team lined up.
It looks like we had a good few chances but what the hell was the thinking behind the substitutions? I assume we played diaby, RvP and Bendtner as the front three. At 77 minutes we take off our only holding midfielder and then city score 2 quick goals. I’m usually one to stick up for Wenger but that just didn’t make sense.
With all due respect, you forgot to mention about that piece of shit and cunt person.
I hail all my well wish to the gunners at the match, what an act of class not to stomp onto the field and bear him til he bleeds and cry…..the article was right, they can’t buy class..
Sorry for my aggressive words, I can take the lost but I can’t take what that bitch did to US..
I declare myself number1 hater of that little pile of crab of a person…
PS: the way we gave up 3rd and 4th goals showed why Wenger didn’t like taking risks..poor Rosicky too, love to have him back..
Tough. I watched it on PPV. I feel we lost it on the mind. We lacked spirit. I think we lost to Adebayor.
aDE WAS on aperosnal mission to put us to the sword – cant believe we
crumbled like that though0-
seems like the same old story again-whhich i dnt think will change until the management changes
F** international break
Seriously… ffs!
That stamp on rVp was disgusting! I am fuming right now so im not gonna let loose on here. But diceman, I am right with u on the whole hating of that scumbayor!
We can only pick up and start again :-\ and hope ManIOU crush them next week.
diaby and bendtner in the starting line up and eduardo on bench???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
it’s amazing how we have 2 back to back games where we were denied the penalty. watching manure vs totts right now. amazing how evra can get away with that headbutt.
Its as simple as dat, if u like whimp,scream,cry or even die,yes i mean it die!!!, yes this is arsenal, for you we aint gonna win noving,live’s giv and take,buy the right players and with right attitude and the league is yours. But not to worry this is the cross we patrotic fans plans to carry.Dont give up we might end up 4th.
FUCK!!!!!
I watched the match well once again i wonder if we have a strong/big enough team to stay in the top 4 let alone winning anything. When sh*ty scored to make it 2-1 i felt it was already game over. How adebayor got past our defenders like that was a joke. He had the nerve to do that celebration which is funny that he ran that far and that quick something he never did when playing at the emirates funny how money has changed him.. adebayor adebayooor give him a give him a bigger cheque and he’ll score more
Please get real. We were well beaten by a far stronger side. This defeat was preventable-what do we expect if we sell our best players to our rivals? Sadly this defeat is the shape of things to come.
If we had any fantasies about being able to be competitive without major new investment in the team that is now surely dispelled. Start with the goalkeeper.
I do not like the thug Hughes or Manchester City as a club but we have only ourselves to blame.
Oh Boy! i think the daggers will be drawn once again. The result is really sad but there is still a lot of time to go. I really hope that eight months on we do not have to look back at these results and wonder…
sorry city you can celebrate the fact arsenal let you have the game but you can not claim you won fair as any one can buy a win you are not a team you should have done a lot more if you are worth every single penny. you were poor as a team the poorest i have ever seen in all my years.
rich man poor team.
i hate that football has come to this to buy a team that should win without putting any hard graft into the team. no you do not deserve the result. arsenal were all over you but due to the money sack in the goal we could not score. you were very very poor as a team and will always be as you are bought not brought up to be the best like arsenal youngsters were. if the money was not there neither would you be. you would have been demoted this season and you know it is true. so there is no football ever again in manchester no respect no courage, just expencive robots.
time to have a 30 game unbeaten run i’m really dissapointed by the result and performance but with theo nasri and arshavin back i still stick to the point that our team are class and quality enouugh to win the title and it is funny that adebayor scores when he should have been sent off twice also wenger ‘s subs lost us the game how on earth can a team play with no midfielders and win really hope the title isn’t far now man utd will lose today so us liverpool and man’utd are still level on points hope chelsea slip another lucky escape for them but well done rosicky he’s back and mark my words we will be back
very true….say bye bye to champions league fellow gooners..
absolute cunt!
he made me so angry stamping on persies face i was watching it, completely delibarate i just wanted to two foot him into row z!
Back to the statements ‘arsenal wìl struggle to make d top 4′ i am very disappointed. I was jux comin back 4rm an exam with high hopes.luks lyk i av to hide myself 4 lyk two weeks after this.
man arabs were far better side than us n there’s no denying it….manu’s are used to grind results, chelshits are stronger as ever,n neck to neck liverpool have far more better spirits than us..plus there are always aston villa..plus i think we will never have full squad…and yes adebayor is a bag full of shit..he should be banned for at least 5 matches if they banned eduardo for two..cheer up gooners…coz we r sticking to our principles to play beautiful game n once the debt is payed off we will b challenging for title…but whether wenger holds the players back at arsenal nxt season or not that will be his real acid test…n don’t ever think there’s another manager who can drive us forward other than wenger…
Im really angry at wenger. We deserved to lose because the cunt sold two good players to our rival and still decided not to buy any new players. What was he thinking. Its humiliating.
oh yes no need to apologise we all never thought this wud happen n plus we are all blinded by the love n passion for arsenal..
I think coming out of this the issue is whether you think positively or negatively. I am of course very disappointed and upset – not to be would mean not being a true supporter.
But… then I turn and say, ok, where are the positives?
Rosicky is obviously one. Theo’s return, possibly in the Euro game is another. Arshavin after the Wigan game hopefully.
At the moment Eduardo clearly can’t play two games a week, and anyway is banned from wednesday’s game, so he’ll be rested and stronger come the league match next Saturday. Vela is supposedly only a few weeks away. After that Nasri…
And the fact is that the biggest worry of all is when a team does not defend well and when a team does not put together chances. Have both of those problems and it really gets tough – but we had chance after chance, and as I said in the previous piece, we were prior to today’s game at the top of the list of conversions.
It hurts desperately but as supporters we have the task of picking ourselves up to give the team a lift next week, and in my case (although I know I am a bit odd in this way) by shouting at the TV on Wednesday.
Tony
anup,gooner sems, robby and mihir saudagar you all need a mental check up or you are being payed by the board to cheer up the fans i mean how could take any positives out of such a convincing defeat.
reality check
you forgot to add tony in your list. hes talking about the injured players coming back and having a full team to choose from.. in your dreams tony i think you are payed by the board its disgracefull that you cant agree with what is so obviously right and unable to point out the weakness in the team.. shame on you stop blogging
The question is, What is our objective this season ? What are the priorities of the coaching staff and the board of Arsenal FC for this season ? What would they consider unacceptable ? And where do the fans, the emotional investors, fit in this?
HEY! GUYS I AM FANATIC ARSENAL FAN FROM INDIA,IT HURT ME REALLY BAD WHEN THAT CUNT ADEBAYOR SAID THAT ARSENAL FANS FROM JAMAICA AND AMERICA (FANS OUTSIDE UK) R NOT TRUE FANS THEY CHANGE THEIR FAVOURITE CLUBS,MY HEART ONLY KNOWS HOW I LOVE ARSENAL AND WILL ALWAYS DO.I WISH I WAS SO TALENTED TO B A ARSENAL PLAYER THEN I WOULD HAVE PLAYED EVERY GAME LIKE IT WAS MY LAST DAY ON EARTH AND NOT MINDING LITERALLY TO BREAK OPPOSITION PLAYERS LEGS AND RIBS BUT I KNOW I CAN ONLY WISH NEITHER I CAN DO TO CHANGE THINGS AS A FAN BCOZ I AM SO FAR AWAY BUT U LOYAL FANS IN LONDON U CAN AND U SHOULD SHOW YOUR ANGER TO THE MANAGEMENT BCOZ ARSENAL SHOULD B THE BIGGEST CLUB IN WORLD EVERY SINGLE YEAR ANY EXPECTATION BELOW IT MEANS WE R JUST ANOTHER CLUB AND I WAS SEEING THIS MATCH ON TV AND WISHED SOME OF ARSENAL LADS TO TAKE RISK AND RUN ON PITCH AND BREAK ADEBAYOR’S MOUTH WHEN HE CAME TOWARD US AFTER THE GOAL,IF I WAS THERE I WOULD HAVE RAN WITHOUT ANY DOUBT.
very un4giving results against d Arabs,let alone Adebayor.but wait a minute,who said ADE….mumu isn’t good? u must be d first 2 mek it 2 hell fire cos d African dancer is just too good.watch his work rate and contribution.i bet u,no body in Arsenal outside Fabregas and Van Persie laboured d way dis Fans-chased negro did. Arsene has got 2 know dat he needed 2 buy 2 complement exhaustion.same so call in-depth most especially after an international week full of tiredness and fatigue.no love lost still. Boys wake up cos its daybreak already 4 Standard Liege.
After all my hate statements, I honestly don’t think we deserved this lost.
I’m not blind, I can see where our weaknesses are…but if more than 40 percent of possesion is being played at the city’s defense, it tells me that the biggest problem for us is not being clinical enough.
The fact is that we lost two of the toughest games we’d play this year..as long as the players keep performing (I believe against celtic away was the worst performance) and believe, Im sure we ll be alright.
I’ve changed my hate list by the way it’s now: 1.cuntness 25 2.(tied) Rooney & cashley
What a pathetic showing, same old crap we have all the game and lose again.
Why pick Diaby after the crap he dished up at UTD. Why pick Almunia after all the ricketts he makes ?
Why didnt we sign some decent players in the summer,?
Why do we keep playing players out of position ?
Why cant we hold our own anymore ?
Answers please Frenchie !
It is difficult to remain positive and optomistic!!!!
Reality check we were beaten by a stronger and more powerful team today.
A positive thing would be if everyone started to realise this at Arsene Football Club. Our players are lightweight and this will tell even more in november and december months. Cant wait for Gallas or vermaelen to get injured I’m so looking forward to seeing Senderos in an Arsenal shirt again..NOT!!!
Rosicky is not a positive until he plays week in week out!!!!
Had we not had such a good start in the first couple of games then Wenger may have actually bought someone. Its too late now. His stubborness will cost us big time this season. Time for change… We still need to buy a centre half, striker and defensive midfielder. Phil Thompson summed it up well ..Bendtner and 1 or 2 others just aren’t good enough for Arsenal to challenge for the title.. I too fear 4th spot and am sick of following a manager who plays for 4th spot every season.
We were disgraced, The Truth is that we are Good but not strong.
OI,
Where is my message gone ?
Ben.
Good but not strong. How true! And for 5 years! Is the Lord Wenger too close to the action to notice this.
It’s just sad to see fellow gunners so obsessed with van persie. we got our a**es handed to us and we are going on about a stump. Yea, let’s replay 67 times and figure if there was any intent. ONce we figure that out, Diaby will finally learn to be mentally dialed in for 90 minutes and Almunia will stop being a clown and Clichy will stop being a clutz and Wenger will realize that we need to buy experience and this team in its present form is not going anywhere. so please break out the vhs…
Gerald, Wenger is the Only Problem , we are Facing Till Date. We have Good Players that Plays Good Football but Not Ugly, if we must win any season, then we will have to play Ugly, but believe me we dont have that player.
Wenger sold two of our key players and he is playing their Sub as Starters.
I think Wenger is a Confused Man, or Maybe there`s something the Board are not telling us. i dont know why they sell player and dont get their Replacement.
I meant adebayor not van p. above.!
Oh here we go the sack Wenger brigade are out in force again. After the first two games of the season we were world beaters now we are no hopers. He shouldn’t have sold Adebayor? Do me a favour the guy wanted out cos he’s a bread head. Good riddance.
And who would you like as new manager exactly? You? Please! The league is a marathon not a sprint so lets see after 10 games where we are for a more realistic picture.
I know it hurts to lose especially to a bunch of mercenaries but would you rather be a Chelsea or a Man City, I know I wouldn’t.
I would rather be a Gooner in the Vauxhall Conference than have the misfortune to support any other team.
Keep the faith there is still a long way to go.
Wenger needs to stop putting both Song and Denilson in the game. Neither of them is a shut down CDM and both of em together just stifle our offensive flow. We put in an unfit Rosicky for Denilson and look how our attack changed. We could of had 4 goals in 4 minutes at the end there. If we gotta win games 6-3 so be it, for an offensive coach, Wenger sure is obsessed with putting out defenders on the pitch.
Oh here cones the Keep the faith brigade! To them its a cardinal sin to criticize look! A 5-yr old gooner will tell you exactly which areas the team is lacking. So why are we not reinforcing those areas. All will be right if the club came out and told us we were financially ill. Then we could understand. You can be feeding us snake oil about the state of our finances and then putting this pub team out. It’s pathetic. Diaby, EBoue will not start in ANY other big four team. Look up a game we played in 2002 and you will get a sense of how far we have fallen. Its not that these guys lose, it is how they lose. They are just not committed. That’s why the fans booed adebayor and eboue becos these guys are the most non-challant group of ppl you ever seen (along with many more players). That’s what you get when you make it routine to hand 18 yr olds starting places without them having to displace anyone. Nothing against youngstars. just dont flood the team with them. Geez
Ben,
After this game anti-Wenger used all the same excuse—selling 2 stars to city.
I’m not saying you to be anything, I agree with you that we still lack proper players in a few positions.
But losing to them and having that CUNT did what he did to us, you guys are still saying we shouldn’t sell those two is so so so confusing to me.
You want that bitch in our squad? Even after what he did (I should say after he confirmed what kind of being he is)? In losing Toure we gained Verminator which I think 99% of us will say a good deal. And losing that, again sorry for my bad language towards this ‘person’, cunt left us better off….I would kick ‘him’ out anytime to rid the cuntiness out of the at-least-100% giver squad.
Just like Tony said, we as supporters of this club have a right to bitch and moan and curse at our demise but we, as fans, have to pick ourselves up and fight again.
I wish Keown would still be here playing for us though, he’d beat the crap out of those bitches anyday just like he’s shown time and time again…..
Mr Tone, no body wants him out(Wenger)Its Really Frustrating to Continiously Watch your Team For Five Years Without Trophy.
While Other Clubs Were busy buying, We were watching. Guy i want to be Proud of My team again.
Am a Gooner for life,I cant Support any other Club For ever ,only My Arsenal, i just want the Best for em. I dont even Brag again. season in season out we plan to fail . and its not Good. have u seen the spurs team.Bring out the cash and buy good and strong players. WHAT ARE WE DOING??????????????
We did not take our chances in front of goal. Simple. I don’t think Diaby can play as a wing forward if RVP is the striker up front as neither of the two deals with scoring as much as getting involved in the game.
having read you since last season never seen a post so sad in tone.dont worry we will be up and running again
i feel demoralized. but really, who wasn’t scared of the prospect of facing an on-fire and motivated Adebayor away from home? Especially in the wake of that demoralizing loss to that other evil team from Manchester. Adebayor has got all the talent in the world, but he has the maturity level of a 5-yr-old.
Adebayor wanted out, and sure, you could argue that Arsene shouldn’t have sold him to Man City, but would you have wanted something long and drawn-out like at Everton with Lescott?
And you could also argue that Arsene should have spent money on improving the squad, but how do you know that “better” players could have been bought?
It’s all speculation after the fact, fueled mostly by anti-Arsenal papers looking for cheap and quick storylines.
The transfer window is closed until January, so the only thing we can do is stay positive and trust Arsene.
Adebayor is a complete sh$t of a human being, and he deserves a long and lengthy ban for his actions today. But, on the other hand, aren’t his extreme actions also proof that he truly felt wronged (in his pea-brained, deluded, egotistical head of his) by Arsenal and its fans?
We don’t want our players possibly turning into new Adebayors. Though i don’t think they will, I know that all this negative criticism certainly affects their performance. They are human beings after all.
So let’s get behind them!! Go Arsenal! Have faith in Wenger; he’s the best manager in the world.
To say that I’m disappointed at some of the comments on the site this evening is an understatement. Yes we lost. Yes we are all upset. Perhaps The Lord Wenger got his tactics a little wrong but let’s be very clear about this: even in this day with a little luck – i.e. Adebayor clearing off the line, RvP hitting the woodwork and Given making a smart save – all when we were 2-4 behind, and we could easily have been celebrating an exciting draw or more. So far this season we have had no luck and that must change.
Good to see The Little Mozart back though!
Ben,
What did Spurs win??? Liverpool??? Milan??? When does buying guarantee any title? Not to say that it’d help though…..
And BE PROUD of YOUR TEAM…….
As a fan, you can ONLY BE PROUD of a team in this situation……why?
We’re DOING BETTER THAN the other 17 teams in the league without big spending, better than all teams financially (but we often don’t care about money right?)…..
And another reason is that Wenger did us ALL A FAVOR buy selling that bitch…..Damn I really really really hate him more, a very hard thing to do……
I’m not accusing anyone of anything….
But I’m not a trophies addict…..I love Arsenal at the first place ’cause we’re the best club, maybe not by trophies stats but by BEING A CLUB WHO WINS IN ITS OWN WAY, LOSE GRACIOUSLY, DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY, and NOT TOLERATING CUNTS IN ANY FORM (Wenger kept this tradition by selling many of them away)…..
We can only win and lose TOGETHER!
C’mon people, accept the lost on the day, get up again and go forward….it’s only getting better from now on (can’t get worse than today)…..
diceman1984 : Thats it. keep praising Wenger for bulding and selling without Wining Trophies.Season in season out.
C’mon lets Face it, we are a selling Club.
The Board chooses to make Money than Winning Trophy.
I dont blame Wenger. i remember during the Transfer window that he priced Benzema and Ribery WHY ? Because he was promised a 100 mils for Transfers. so i just beleive that the Problem is the Board and not Wenger.
We lack swagger and we will never have it while a few of the starters are still in “developmental” stage. The second Rosicky and his mentality entered for Denilson the entire game changed. We used to have a team of talented and fearless players. We now have a team mostly of talented fearless players, but also including some players trying to “feel out” the game. There is too many of them and they are scattered too far all over the pitch for there to be any continuity. Almunia and Diaby may have to go. They have had more then enough time to impress and havent. Denilson and Bendtner need to be second choice for now… Im worried we are squandering the immense talent of this squad for a few up and coming players…
I am not saying Wenger is perfect, his decision not to start Arshavin against Chelsea in last years FA cup final was baffling and to my mind a mistake. However I imagine most of us have no idea what it takes to be a manager at the highest level and I don’t think you can advertise the job in Football Weekly and get loads of better candidates.
Since David Dein left, Arsenal have not won a trophy. This is ironic since Wenger and Dein were close and it was Dein’s desire to get some big foreign money on board that forced him out.
Now Gazidis is Chief Exec, Wenger hopefully will again have someone who he can work with and still run a good ship from an economic point of view.
That is unless you would rather have a gangster like Usmanov (who is actually a Man U supporter) owning the club.
Robin van Persie has issued the following statement following an incident with Emmanuel Adebayor at Saturday’s game:
“I am sad and disappointed by my former team-mate Emmanuel Adebayor’s mindless and malicious stamp on me during today’s match.
“We are both professional footballers and I know that the game is physical, I too have made hard and sometimes mis-timed challenges but never with the intention of hurting an opponent. He set out to hurt me today.
“I knew he was aiming for a collision because he changed the angle of his body to allow contact to be made. He moved backwards when his natural momentum would have taken him forward. I find that deeply disrespectful. He has shown a real lack of class today, to me and the fans.
“I do feel lucky that I have not suffered a greater injury. The contact was only centimetres from my eye. I have not received an apology from him, there were no words exchanged afterwards. He had his own agenda today and that is bad for football. It’s bad for the game we all love.
“I want to make it clear that this has nothing to do with the result of today’s match. We do not hide from that disappointment but I need to speak out about his behaviour.”