1st goal.  here we go again: Download :: Watch HQ :: Longer replay

2nd goal, what a finish by Robinho. Our defense couldn’t stop an 8th grader: Download :: Watch HQ :: Longer replay

3rd goal - foul + penalty: Watch HQ

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That Robinho flick was beautiful.  Reminded me of Carlos Vela’s work in the Champions League.  Realistically speaking we’d have to run the table from here on in to win the league and I don’t see it happening.  In fact, I don’t even think this team is capable of winning two games in a row on the road.  The defense always seems to be caught trailing the ball and the midfield is more concerned with not losing the ball than trying to attack.  It’s a sad situation, the swagger that Arsenal plays with is missing and has been missing for some time.  It saddens me.

Gallas is no longer captain and that’s a move that came about a year too late.  Whining twats shouldn’t be captains, that’s the golden rule of captaince.  Don’t make twats captains. Look it up.  Here’s the list of Arsenal players that are not “Arsenal quality”: Bendtner, Denilson, Hoyte and Silvestre.  I’m on the fence about Abou Diaby because I think if he develops his other foot he might amount to something good.  He’s got Adebayor written all over him.

These are sad times to be an Arsenal fan.  I think the goals should be a top four finish and to qualify for next year’s Champions League, forget about winning the league and maybe start getting this club back to respectability by grabbing the Carling and FA Cups.  At least they won’t keep talking about the lack of silverware in the last three years anymore.

To talk about the game a little, Citeh was running circles around us.  Their first goal was lucky but the second was pure class, they deserved to win because they were better in all areas.  Our most aggressive threats came from Gael Clichy brining the ball up from the back with some speed but he was cut down just past midfield in most cases.  The midfield is toothless and Fabregas needs help, maybe the injection of Rosicky in 7 weeks time might help and maybe Eduardo can provide the inspiration up front because one thing is for certain: Bendtner is on the outs.  Vela didn’t start because of his long Mexican flight, not too sure if he could’ve helped since our midfield didn’t provide enough ammunition for the strikers to fire.

Bad, bad run we’ve got into.

Now instead of looking to Eboue again to fill this role, why not bring in Jack Wilshere or maybe even Ramsey and see how they fare. They’ve shown spectacular skill and composure in the Carling Cup games (while beating Prem clubs) and deserve a shot here. I don’t know about you, but for me the most entertaining Arsenal play has come in the CC, not in the CL or Prem. More of that please.

That’s really all I wanted to say but here’s some more. The club’s been going through a real shitty stage, tying the scum, losing to Villa at home, the Stoke shit, the Hull hell etc. IMHO, the root of these problems is the midfield and defense, Fabregas looks lost out there playing without an enforcer like Flamini. Nasri’s effectively replaced Hleb rather admirably (on the wrong side) but that holding midfielder we’re so used to having in Gilberto and Flamini is missing. Rosicky will be back to train in 7 weeks so maybe he can provide that but that’s waiting too long. I think our Prem fate will be decided by then. It all comes down to AW spending some cash and acknowledging that his young Guns need help and can’t do it on their own - at least not yet.

Another disappointment of late has been Bendtner who hasn’t looked like Arsenal quality at all. Even when he’s one-on-one, he managed to fuck things up rather nicely. That play late against Man Utd when he had a chance to make it 3-0. Eww. He’s been forced into the starting XI because Van Persie’s stupid foul against Stoke. That was the dumbest Arsenal play I’ve seen over the last couple years, even worse than Lehmann’s fuck-ups. Going three games without your top striker will hurt any team, much less one that is so dependent on a finishing touch.

That’s it for this little piece on this primarily video blog. Expect some more.

Arse.

Liverpool won, we got to keep pace.

During the game

Almunia saves Young’s penalty. Foul included: Download :: Watch

First Half Highlights: Download :: Watch

A real cunt of a human being 1-0: Download :: Watch - Good ‘ol Clichy, fucking up in big games

A big whore villa 2-0: Download :: Watch I can’t believe a cunt with a name like that can score against Arsenal. Wenger, please fix this horsehit ASAP.

After the game:

Match Report

Lowest point of the season? I think so. Is William Gallas a fucknut? For sure. Are we wining the league? No. Does Sidwell sodomize Brad Friedel? Yes. Did anyone hear Nasri’s name? No. Is black a color or a fruit? Color. Who is Denilson? Is Bendtner Arsenal quality? No. But given Arsenal’s quality of late, yes. FUUUCCKKKK THIS SUCKS>

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Here’s an email I got from a loyal reader:

You should really do an open letter on the site to the Arsenal Football Club, or to Arsene Wenger

Tell him/them to get off his ass and;

- admit Gallas is a faliure and should be publicly stoned
- buy the hardman midfielder and bison sized centre back we’ve been missing since the days of Vieira/Campbell and
- stop trying to plug the DM holes with ppl like denilson and song
- if he wants to have faith in his young players, at least give Diaby a chance in a pure DM role, he at least has the body for it
- accept that sometimes we need to stop playing ‘beautiful’ football - honestly its not like the days of the invincibles anymore when it was fun to watch and they were always counterattacking and raising hell in the defense. Now we watch them pass and pass, give the defence time to recover, and end up with a scuffed shot at the top of the box with 5 men in front of it, or squeeze out a cross from our overworked fullbacks.

The commentary period during an Arsenal match goes like this:

- The commentary raves on Arsenal’s flowing ball
- As they predictably struggle to break down the team, or misplace some passes, the commentator calles it an ‘Un-Arsenal-like’ performance when in reality it happens in 1 of every 2 matches

I mean what is Wenger doing? THe invincibles played at an extremely fast tempo and counterattacked at will, almost never crossed and got physical with teams sometimes (we had that red card record at 1 point)

Now we play at Serie A pace, trying to pass teams into submission/walk the ball into the net. We do cross a lot more, which is sometimes a good thing because we have a true target man in Ade and sometimes Bendtner. But in general we are too slow and look for the extra pass to often. For every 1 clear cut chance our passing movement makes, theres about 3-4 that we f**ked up.

It not like our weaknesses are new - they have been obvious for years now - our lack of height/spine in midfield and defence and our tendency to overpass and walk ball into net. I mean, even the invincibles had some of these complaints but not nearly as severe as now. Wenger has refused to address them. He’s not a good tactician - he’s only used 2 different formations in his Arsenal carrer(42 451), never makes formational adjustments outside of the 442/451 and doesnt make special substitutions - i mean Ade at West Ham was a no-brainer, or throwing on Walcott for energy. He’s only excellent at discovering and rearing youngsters.

F**k man, sorry to rant a lot but I am just fed up of this, going on 4 seasons now, and you seem to be one of the few Arsenal suooprters out there not on Wenger’s dick and blindly swallowing everything Arsenal do. (Although the # of discontented Gooners grow daily) Even my friends today tried to defend Arsenal’s performance somehow. I shud start to watch the games alone. THe commentator said the AV game was a shocker. it isnt to me anymore

It’s Wigan’s first team versus some guys who skipped school.

During the game

Simpson 1-0: Download :: Watch

1st Half Highlights: Download :: Watch

Simpson 2-0: Download :: Watch (a finish Adebayor can learn a lot from)

Vela 3-0: Download :: Watch (check the look on Kirkland’s face)

Mexican Wave as Vela get subbed off: Download :: Watch

Fabianski Great Save: Download :: Watch

After the game

Full Match Highlights (DailyMotion - those cunts usually remove these videos)

Arsene Wenger Interview

Steve Bruce Interview

Match Report

I can see a Carlos Vela yellow shirt coming my way very soon. The man is cooler than the other side of the pillow. I’ll be the first to say it, I think this team can beat our first team. At the very least they’ll score a couple goals on them. No doubt. A nice night at the Emirates, Arsenal lowered their prices for this game when they should’ve raised them.

Who would’ve thunk that the Carling Cup would be the most enjoyable tournament this year? Watching these teenagers dismantle a full-strength premiership team brings joy to the cockles of my heart’s heart. The look on that fuck Titus Bramble’s face when he gets schooled by a kid old enough to be his son is just priceless. Let’s not have a letdown this weekend otherwise this feeling of happiness and joy is going to disappear real fast.

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Nasri 1-0

Nasri 2-0

da Silva 2-1

Highlights

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Arsene Wenger Interview

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Game Analysis

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Match Report

Adebayor is out for three weeks because his Achilles is messed up. Honestly, I think Arsenal would have to win 7-0 today for me to even feel a little excited about this. Our passage to the group stages is all but wrapped up really. Our problems lie on the domestic stage and the Man Utd fixture coming up is 12568 times more important than this game. Hey, at least we have RVP for this one. Remember, we lose him for three Premiership games (I think) leaving us with Vela and Bendtner up front (Oh, joy). Fuck me, why am I talking about the premiership again? It’s Champions League tonight.

Even a big win here means nothing because we’ve made it a nice little habit of laying a domestic egg after a great European performance. It’s apples and orange, crack whores and call girls, Obama and McCain, fucked and getting fucked. You know what I mean, its not the same. Either way, let’s go you Gunners.

Oh yeah, I’ll try posting highlights if they don’t block the streams. Those cunts.

During the game

Don’t be mad at Van Persie. God just hates him to the point that he’s got to be the unluckiest striker in all of football. When he’s not breaking the goalie’s nose he’s putting a dent in the crossbar. 0-0 at the half against Fenerbahce.

1st half highlights: Download :: Watch

After the game

Nil. Fucking. Nil. How lovely of a scoreline is that? And here I am saying 7 goals wouldn’t be enough. We looked like shit and we played like shit and sorry to say this but even Fabregas played like shit. I’ve never seen him make so many ill-conceived passes. I’m scared to see Bendtner and Vela head up our frontline against Man Utd. This game was the old Boring, Boring Arsenal and Wenger looked like he wanted to snap somebody’s neck and Pat Rice was very fearful of that. Didn’t even shake that cunt Argones’ hand. Our best chances came in the first half with RVP hitting the crossbar and then coming inches from scoring.

In the second half we never looked like we were going to score and even when Vela was brought on he couldn’t create much. The defense didn’t have much to do and Fabianski got the nod ahead of Almunia who had a headache or some shit. I don’t know. Give me credit for sitting through this fucking affair and not wanting to yell at the monitor which would’ve pissed off a lot of my co-workers. Fact it, without Theo or Adebayor out there our wing-attack sucks. Samir Nasri is a nice little player but he can’t do it alone (the mofo bobbled a perfect chance to score in the first half) and he’s no Flamini that could win you some tough headers in midfield. Silvestre got his nose busted.

Anyway, here’s some analysis of the game which you might hate but its true. So fucking true.

Highlights and Analysis: Watch :: Download

After the Scum game I had to take a mental break from the blog. It was too devastating to even respond to comments in the post. Our defense is very pathetic and I always felt that Almunia is NOT an Arsenal-quality keeper. Whereas Lehmann used to let in “crazy” goals, Almunia just lets in bad goals. I’ll give up two crazy goals a year for 10 bad goals a year any day. In the end it was nothing short of a stroke of luck that they managed to steal a point, yes our defense was bad enough but Clichy falling like his ankles were clipped by ghost? How often does that happen? After the Stoke game (which if we don’t win I will burn down my neighbor’s house), we got Man Utd, Villa, Citeh and Chelsea. That’ll tell us if we’re title contenders or not.

It’s Stoke City in about fifteen minutes, I’ll do what I can to post highlights…as they happen….

‘Watch’ vids may be ‘processing’:

Fuck 1-0: Download :: Watch

First Half Highlights: Fucking painful. Download :: Watch

Double fuck, cunt horse shit 2-0: Download : Watch

Consolation goal that gave you false hope 2-1: Download :: Watch

MOTD Highlights

After the game:

I’m off to burn some houses. We have to recover against Man Utd and in the CL next week. This team looked fragile, unimaginative and lacking any leadership. Abou Diaby at 22 is our most experienced midfielder, that itself says a lot. Toure, God bless his soul, is starting to look more and more like Senderos and our discipline in defending is worse than ever. Have at it.

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Bentley 1-0: Download :: Watch

Silvestre 1-1: Download :: Watch

First Half Highlights: Download :: Watch

Gallas 2-1: Download :: Watch

Adebayor 3-1: Download :: Watch

Bent: 3-2: Download :: Watch

Van Persie 4-2: Download :: Watch

Jenas 4-3: Download

Lennon 4-4: Download

MOTD Highlights

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So far this has been a typical Arsenal game. Lots of possession, a few good chances and most importantly some unbelievable saves from the other goalie. No Arsenal stretch of play is complete without a few scares coming right down the heart of our central defense and this one’s no different: Bellamy should have scored when he split our central defense only to be denied by Alumunia’s left leg. Arsenal hit the crossbar via Walcott. Adebayor is on the bench but you would think should come on given Nicklas Bendtner’s subpar performance so far.

First Half Highlights and Analysis: Download :: Watch

A very deserved own Goal after Adebayor’s work. This came a few minutes after RVP smashed a freekick against the post: Download :: Watch

Great composure shown by Adebayor but give 50% of that goal to Bendtner’s pass: Download :: Watch

Good victory for the Gunners. West Ham’s attacks were very sporadic and few and far in between. Arsenal on the other hand were applying constant pressure and were very unlucky not to score. The Walcott substitution took me by surprise, he was creating a lot of problems with his pace on the right side and fully expected Bendtner to come off instead. Wenger knows best though and he introduced the combo of Adebayor and Diaby who worked well in tandem and replicated their success from Istanbul.

I thought RVP should’ve scored two goals in this game, I uploaded the two chances, one a brilliant quick-footed strike and the other a laser free kick that almost took the post off (Download :: Watch).

There’s the Emmanuel Adebayor post-match interview too.

MOTD Highlights

Chelsea and Man Utd drop points this weekend so all is well.

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Emmanuel Adebayor 1-0

Theo Walcott 2-0

Mikael Silvestre (OG) 2-1

About Diaby 3-1

Alex Song 4-1

Daniel Guiza 4-2

Aaron Ramsey 5-2

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