Time for a bit of fight back I think. As no news of concrete signings have arrived, the mood has grown progressively worse. We knew that the atmosphere would be poisonous at the Emirates if we lost the Villa game, and our worst fears were confirmed with the chants of “spend the f*cking money”. Twitter erupted with rage after the game. Bloggers and tweeters who had been sitting on the fence were now coming out, openly vocal with dissatisfaction. Even some self-proclaimed Wenger supporters were shifting their position. The tensions beneath the surface had unleashed a volcano and we were now witnessing the pryoclastic flow. Absolute mayhem.
Many tweeters came forward, ridiculing the AKBs. Every accusation levelled at the club, the board, and particularly Gazidis and Wenger, was vindicated by this result, in their eyes. Depending on who you read, you get a particular crime read out on a charge sheet. The major crime, according to some well known bloggers, is “mismanagement”, for failing to secure transfers so far this summer. A whole list of people will tell you why. Wenger seeks value instead of just doing the business. We have the wrong targets. There are players, but Wenger is stubborn. The board screwed up over Suarez. Or ultimately, it’s the fault of Wenger because he is in “slow decline”. I smile ruefully at a lot of these because I have heard them all before, and they are sometimes part of a narrative. However, it is actually difficult to deny that we are not in the best position, as there are genuine squad places that do need to be filled. We are a centre back light. When we miss Arteta, like against Villa, we tend to struggle. The jury is still out on Giroud.
My view with a lot of these things, is are you interested in the micro or macro picture? Yes, you may argue that it all relates to the big picture, for if we fail now, in the 1st couple of weeks, to qualify for the CL, we lose at least £20 million in revenue and it will lessen the attractiveness of the club as a future destination for new players. So this amplifies the need for a stronger squad. It would be churlish of me to deny this. The theory goes that if we had got our ducks in a row in June/July, they would have bedded in, and we would be unleashing them in August/September. It is a compelling theory but it has a giant hole. It can only be translated into practice if you have very very deep pockets. The only club that can get business done this fast is City. Granted, occasional transfers are accomplished in June, a la Gervinho or Podolski, but we are looking at 4 to 5 squad places.
The word “failure” crops up repeatedly when talking about a summer transfer business. In a 60 mile tailback on my way to Cornwall, last week, in a nightmare 8 hour journey, I wondered who was to blame. Was it the transport department? Was it the motorists? Was it the Conservative governments from 1979-1991, who I still see as massive infrastructure vandals? Or is nobody really to blame? So in the case of transfers, who is to blame? And why? I argue that it is very difficult to know who is to blame without being in full possession of the facts. Let us assume that we have compiled a shortlist of around 4 to 5 targets for each squad place. Let us assume there are 4 squad places being filled, so that gives us around 20 targets maximum. Let us also assume that there is a budget, not necessarily rigid, but it does exist. Let us try now to compute the things that could go wrong.
Player doesn’t want to come to Arsenal – This is I believe is a widely under-estimated factor, and can happen, not just because they don’t see Arsenal as being an attractive option, but because they are not guaranteed a 1st team place. I have heard of 2 cases in the last 2 years where players opted for other clubs for this reason, in Vertonghen and recently with Gustavo.
Selling club doesn’t want to sell – We don’t know if the selling club will sell.
We get into a bidding war – We may get into a bidding war with a club with bigger resources, a la Mata, which we immediately pull out of.
The price is simply not acceptable – The selling club or the player blows the budget.
I can hear the Piers Morgans of the world saying all this is nonsense and unacceptable, and that Dein would have done the deal. There are various counter arguments for all of the above, and the most common one is that the club has an ideological problem with value, or more accurately, Wenger has the problem. In order to rectify this, we should pay the premium, as that’s what clubs have to do to secure players. This is one of the most interesting arguments that I see made, genuinely. The proponents of this argument will tell you that the negotiating position of the club is such that we will haggle over a million, which will kill the deal. It is an emotional argument, as it fits the narrative that Wenger is the scrooge banker, omnipotent and infuriating. His intransigence is killing the club and these are actually simple deals that should have been done and dusted. I would have no problem in joining in the chorus of dissatisfaction if this was actually true. The problem is I don’t actually believe it is true. It is not because I am a dyed in the wall Wenger aficionado. It is not because my first instinct is to defend the club and/or Wenger. I don’t believe these arguments are true because such a philosophy would mean we wouldn’t be able to function in the market. It is a market, after all. The selling club has to be satisfied by the price. If nobody was ever satisfied, no players would have ever come to Arsenal. Selling clubs are not backward in coming forward and demanding more money, certainly not this year. The other point is that I actually believe in Wenger’s valuations, particularly of english players. An eye watering £35m for Carroll? I am not dissing Carroll, but he is a case in point.
But there is a wider point here. What exactly is the expectation level? Most people say they want to “challenge”. Others say we must win the title. I think it’s important to examine the expectation level, because it’s here that I find the biggest delusion. Which is perverse, given that delusion is the accusation levelled at the AKBs. If the expectation level is to win the title, then those who believe we can do it by 4 good sigings are hopelessly deluded. If we believe the figures from Swiss Ramble, it looks like we have at least £100 million for transfers, and can afford the commensurate wages. Yes, the frustration of the summer is that we haven’t spent any of that money, but the wider point for me, is that even if we do spend it, what are people expecting? £100 million is chicken feed for City and Chelsea. They can spend that and more, and blow us out of the water on every deal where a mercenary comes sniffing. Jovetic, Hazard, Mata, YaYa Toure. Our financial position has not changed insofar as we can expect to challenge the top 6 (mainly) oil sheik and oligarch led clubs in europe. And if people believe we should be challenging them, it’s hard to see why, given our historical profile. We have never won the champions league, never dominated the domestic scene, never won back to back titles. Yes, it is fair to say we should challenge for the title, but the difficulty now is the context of the premier league. There are two clubs who are still making a mockery of FFP and the other who have built up an ethos and momentum that is very hard to stop.
Well, I can hear you rumble, if £100 million isn’t enough, we should have done the deal with Abu Dhabi and replaced the board, when they came in for us before City. Sure, that is an argument. I can imagine some people would be very happy indeed with that, as they would find that incoming players would neatly correlate with their game of championship manager, and they would spend countless hours working out the permutations of mercenaries who would grace the bench. The problem though with the Abu Dhabi project though is two-fold. Firstly they have had to spend a colossal sum for 2 meagre trophies so far, a return on investment at a cost of £1 billion per trophy, and they still haven’t reached the 2nd stage of the champions league. Secondly, that financial fair play may catch up with them. But if £100 million isn’t enough, then what do we do? Wait, I can hear the splutter.. it is enough.. we just need 3 or 4 players, and we will challenge. Surez, Cesar, Fellaini. Job done. Well – ok, if you believe that, then are you are going to give Wenger the credit for bringing together the existing 19/20 players (on a shoestring), that will form that challenge ? No. Thought not.
The problem is, and it’s existed all summer, and there are people saying Gazidis is to blame, is that the expectation is that we can spend big now, get the 3 or 4 players we need, and things will change. But my argument is that we should only think in terms of incremental change. We have seen the crazy valuations out there on the market. We know that selling clubs have a beaming smile on their face when they see us coming, or not, in the case of Suarez and Liverpool. We see how difficult it is to acquire players. We have succeeded in holding on to our best players for the first time in 5 years, so we move forward slowly. If you say that we should win the title, then that’s fine. Put the resources in place. Don’t say we can win the title with just £100 million, because that’s not enough. To put my head on the block, 3rd would be acceptable, 2nd good, and to get to the quarters of the CL. You may scream “no ambition”, but it’s difficult to see how else anything higher can be achieved.
My final point is that I find it incredible that people are willing to hang the club out to dry on so little evidence, and that Twitter and other like forums are to blame. We have situations like the Sahin transfer, which farcically show that this era can be like no other in history. As you may know, we were looking at Sahin, and we pulled out at the last minute. On Twitter, when Sahin’s name was mentioned, a load of gooner’s jumped on the bandwagon that this was a player that we desperately needed and “would improve” the squad. In hindsight, to use the vernacular, this was a “bullet dodged”. Which confirms that the whole Twitter led witch-hunt against the club, where someone decides that a player would “improve the” squad, followed by an inquisition against Wenger for not pursuing this player who would “improve” the squad, as actually being highly damaging, ultimately, to the club. Because a poisonous atmosphere builds up and then secretes onto the pitch, as it did on Saturday.
The only way to counter this is to put some faith into the club, and the coaching staff. I am not going to listen to the opinion of some spotty red bull infused teenager who watches clips of players on YouTube
By @MuppetGooner
Positively Arsenal 
A good and sensible argument.Yes we should have bought earlier but it is not as easy as most people think.What we need most at the moment are squad players as the squad is too light now that we have injuries.
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I would like to thank Muppet for writing this piece for us.I agree 100% with every word.
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marvellous Muppet. Just popped on here to have a rant to find the post says just what I wanted to say.
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Powerful stuff Muppet. My opinion is fuck the naysayers I still think we can win the league.
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An excellent article (which rather annoyingly has made me scrap one of mine) of course buying players is easy, a post on twitter the other day read “give me one hour with our transfer budget and I will bring in 4 players” because its so easy to do on FIFA 13!!!!!
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I agree 100%. There are far too many people with itchy twitter fingers who refuse to accept that they do not know what is going on but that doesn’t prevent them spitting out their vitriol.
I think we do miss Dein: there is no one at AFC who complements/challenges AW…..and I think he misses that ……and it must place huge pressure in his shoulders as he is the only one who knows what he is doing.
If he was afraid of paying big sums then that doesn’t tie in with why we have had so many issues getting rid of deadwood because their salaries were so high.
Come on The Arsenal….. keep the faith
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Welcome back MUPPET
miss the satire from the good old days. Hope you stick around and nicely written article. We will get through this latest of false firestorms with minimal damage. The crew will be ready and up for it on Wednesday. COYG
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that was a great piece. well done muppet
“We have never won the champions league, never dominated the domestic scene, never won back to back titles.”
oh but i thought arsenal was a big club before wenger … 🙂
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dadgooner August 19, 2013 at 10:18 am
ha….they all admit the ref fucked up the game but regardless of that FACT they CHOOSE to attack wenger for other things…like the summer…
psychopaths..
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I wish that word de••wo•• was never used to describe some of our players. Really dislike that word.
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dadgooner – “itchy twitter fingers”. Brilliant. hehe
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hey goonerkam so proud of you..how did it feel getting surrounded by barking dogs telling you how naive you are to trust a professional keeping arsenal in the elite of world football the last 17 years? haha…bunch of twats…. i tried stepping in but the enlightened lawyer/zoro “ill save arsenal from board and wenger’s mismanagement” crusader was busy banning true fans in favour of psychopaths spitting venom on the CLUB….
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“Itchy twitter fingers”
Top post and top comments.
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You are a star Muppet, a shining star. This is as gently objective as you can get it. No ranting, no raving.
You will be accused of being a deluded AKB nonetheless simply because of the ignorance spread by Payton, Arseblog and company that £100m makes you immediately competitive with the sheiks and oligarchs who have already blown £1Billion. That was not helped by Gazidis’ “we can do some big things” speech which drove expectations through the roof.
Truth is even I think Gazidis and us AW sympathizers have underestimated how difficult it would be to sign quality players using Suarez and Gustavo as examples. Even if we do sign them we are just putting some distance between us and Spurs and realistically aiming for 3rd as you alluded.
Of course the big bloggers will have the easy answers; the club is shambolic at doing xfers. This is the same turkeys who advocated selling the deadwood. Now that has been achieved they change their tune; selling the deadwood was premature. They are the enemy within that makes the challenge even more difficult.
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We have written this before the weekend game but it is worth repeating: It is sad is the number of people who have written that if you support the manager you are not willing or incapable of critique.
A smear designed to attempt to invalidate any notion of support that is an important part of this narrative.
You can make up stuff to attack the club, that’s fine. Such as “Venga pocketing all the money”. To have it highlighted and questioned: that is impolite: another lame narrative.
Worth copying this comment from NotOvertheHill made on Untold:
Notoverthehill
August 18, 2013 at 9:31 pm
Walter, it is nice to see someone who has read the Herbert Chapman’s periscope on football!
Certain “rent a ranter” seem to be drawn to Untold Arsenal, to display their contempt for The Arsenal. They make-up comments that have never been said, by the individuals concerned. They distort the facts, such as Mr Wenger has too much control!
The London Metropolitan University had a report entitled “Arsenal Business Cases”. Paul Kitchen with some others, was embedded in Highbury House in the early days of the engagement of Ivan Gazidis in 2009.
We are told that all eight Divisions are answerable to the Board of Directors. This includes the playing operations at Arsenal, including Arséne Wenger, the players, coaching staff.
We are further told that the playing side is deemed to be a separate entity to the other departments as it is solely involved in playing and does not concern itself with the other seven departments.
The Playing Operations have 6 sections, including Players, Coaches, Scouts.
The main reason for the distinction is to keep the playing side, at “arm’s length” and separate from the Bond Holders’ Agreement.
The seven other departments are (or were), stadium management, finance, IT, box office, press office, commercial and community.
The Departmental Managers of the seven divisions, are responsible to the Board of Directors, and NOT repeat NOT to Mr Arséne Wenger.
That is your lot!
Like me, most of you will wonder, what do the press office do?
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I cane see NOTH agrees with me, the PR is awful! Oh. I thought we weren’t ever critical. Bugger, I’ve ruined the yarn. Sorry everyone. It’s all my fault.
I can also see why the AST will avoid the simple and available references used above. Doesn’t quite fit the narrative. Such a shame!
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Brilliant and we thought out, balanced and reasoned! I’d like to see this out towards the more foul mouthed (well supported) of the Wenger haters and see how many times the C word comes up in their response!
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If the other clubs have caught up with AFC’s scouting system (they have improved a lot, some may even be on a par no one denys that) why do they still gazump on players like Mata, if AW has lost his eye then why are agents still paying their contacts to link their clients with AFC:
At the last count plus two hundred and fifty players this Summer. Only slightly ridiculous. A phenomenon that tells us more then any mere opinions.
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Thanks, Muppet, for a sensible, level-headed analysis of the current situation. It contrasts starkly with the dross that is being produced on some other blogs.
It’s always wretched to lose, and Saturday’s mauling by the referee is being used as a vindication of some of the bizarre nonsense which has scarred this summer. (Just how a couple of new signings would have protected us from the ravages of Mr Taylor is nowhere made clear.)
After two summers in which we have lamented the inevitable loss of two outstanding players, we have been invited this summer to go into mourning for players who have never be with us (and of whom many of us had never previously heard.) The notion that we should buy someone’s contract (more or less anyone’s contract) just to ‘lift the mood’ is plainly absurd.
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Very good Muppet
I cannot avoid the thought that since May far, far too many people in our football club at all levels, from spotty Twitterati to the boardroom, have been transfixed by the transfer market and the entry to Paradise that it would grant – if and only if we could land The Big Un – El Gordo etc
I have heard players on about transfers, Ivan, Arsene and no blog or TL anywhere – other than PA obviously – has moved off the same non informed claptrap week after week since the final whistle at SJP
Whatever happened to concentrating on the matter in hand ie winning football matches ?
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The current ‘feel’ around the internet etc is but transient. We are witnessing a wave of fickleness. Nothing more.
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Thanks for comments all, regarding post. Hope we have a good result against Fenerbache on Wed.
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Excellent post although far to logical most fans don’t understand simple logic and will refuse to believe it
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Excellent Moopay. Top draw.
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Exactly. Well said Muppet!
The irony of it all. The question of why Arsenal should beat the odds and beat the teams with limitless funds has not been answered to date. Do I think we can challenge with the money we have if Arsenal finds the right players? yep. Do I think this current squad barring great injuries could do some real damage? yep, not far fetched at all for me inspite of the big money cluns. The reason is, which many seem to not want to say is our great manager Himself. People can talk about the great managers of the times but I don’t think any of them could have done what Arsene has done in the past 8 years, not one. Put it like this, if he can keep up is the top 4 with an ever changing team then imagine what he can do with a settled squad.
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Thanks for that Muppet. That was calming.
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Self-Appointed Spokes-wanker > Tim Payton
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Turning to the game itself, I really was pretty pleased on several counts, never mind the score-line for a minute. Tomas had a very fine game, and the way the team sliced through a packed box, twice, was exceptional football. People thought Theo had poor game, personally I didn’t, just a little subdued. Ditto Giroud, after the early goal, but that was rather their tight marking, not allowing more than an inch of space. I was surprised to see Ox coming off, but fair enough to attempt the breakthrough. Santi so obviously off the pace, tired. The midfield looked fine going forward, almost easy, but lacked positional cohesion on the back foot, and allowed way too much space between the back and midfield, an elementary mistake. Roles seemed confused, and too often Jack didn’t know quite where to be; his natural game is a little ahead playing off the pivot, and that was where the problem lay, he became frustrated too and it affected his game. On the whole I saw little wrong at the back aside from gaps when we looked desperately for a way back in, understandable. In other words, on 9 of 10 days like this, we would have edged a slightly 2-1 or 3-2 affair, and said “not good enough”. Shit happens. There is not a structural problem here, except to sort out some confusion between Aaron and Jack.
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Nice one Muppet – could do with more from you, these dark days of supporter unrest.
The following was particularly striking: ” I find it incredible that people are willing to hang the club out to dry on so little evidence”.
Incredibly disappointing, for sure.
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Muppet
Top, top, quality piece. It also takes great strength of character to stand by such sensible principles in the face of the current onslaught of doom……
Many thanks…..
Hey, Steve_I and Hunter lets try a little harder to meet up next time. Andrew and I were in the Coronet to the right and just down the steps as you enter from the main entrance. Next time I’ll wear a T-shirt emblazoned with ‘Positively Arsenal’!
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“Former Arsenal captain Stewart Robson believes Arsene Wenger’s reluctance to spend money is to avoid being put under additional pressure to win things.
Robson tells BBC Radio 5 live: “One of the reasons Wenger doesn’t want to spend money when he does have it I think is because when they finish fourth he can say they are only losing out to the big guns.
“If he goes and spends money, everyone will expect them to win things. If they don’t win when they have bought players, he will be under more pressure.” ”
Ok, now I am pissed. Stewart Robson, you maggot, you do not get to insult the club and the manager like that. You cannot even manage one player for one match you waste of space! You have an opinion? Shove it!
Is this maggot on twitter? I am thinking of joining twitter just to tell him how much I value his opinion.
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Guys, how about we try the virtual mini stadium idea for this Wednesday’s match?
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I agree with that ZP. A little work in practice should see the gap bewteen the mid and the back 4 dealth with. Ramsey seems to be the best player to fill in for Arteta since he does quite well at the back.
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Georgaki-pyrovolitis August 19, 2013 at 6:51 pm
i woke up at 13:18 …13.30 was a bit unrealistic for me..truly sorry..besides i went to one for a quick beer before the game it was so packed i hated it. couldnt smoke nor take your drink out with you..whats that all about? are we supposed to squeeze in like sardines? these are the actual reasons for revolt..not transfers.
SA. stewart robson and every other ex player talking bad about wenger are people who werent looked at for employement from the club once their playing years were over and have naturally turned against the man who showed them the fucking door.
i have a lot to say about the local arsenal fan too….but i will immediately be dismissed as a foreigner who only supports wenger and not arsenal.
part of me is sick to death with what has been happening…arsenal fans abusing wenger in the HOME he built for them .(???) .it is so wrong that i can only tackle this subject by being extremely offensive to the english football culture or lack of it….and i also cant comprehend older generations who have seen the club in a much SHITTIER position than weve been the last 17 years talking so harshly about arsene wenger. so wrong.
there are two ways to go about this….either i shut up and justsit there and keep my mouth shut as a foreigner in the ground or the next time i hear some nenaderthal screaming obscenities i turn back and scream “THERES ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER” loud and proud and see how he reacts..naturally since he has expressed his opinion he shouldnt bother about mine…right? or are we dealing with extremists who only want it their way ? i dont know since when or how it has come to the point where whoever supports the manager is called deluded and not a real fan….. but i blame all these experts and their blogs and how they fester such ideas……
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SA, I don’t even read the nonesne to be honest. People have taken one match in which the ref was atrocious (a ref who think had an agenda) and harped on something that is irrelevant (signings) to said match. Pure bulls.
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Vintage Muppet, clearly argued and backed up. Top top top quality.
And on another note, I see that it’s not only us who can see how shite Taylor was on Saturday. What is it with people called Taylor? What do they have against Arsenal?
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@ double canister August 19, 2013 at 5:40 pm
“Self-Appointed Spokes-wanker > Tim Payton”
I entirely concur, sir.
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noone is bigger than the club they say…. but some fans think that their opinions are…..
and yes i find it insulting that the sons cousins and nephews of gasgoignes and terrys want to preach arsenes anything about football.
. who are these “fans” to treat wenger like that? ill take it further …what do the english knwo about football to think of themselves as capable enough to pass judgement on wenger?
move the club to asia ! the ones here dont appreciate anything….give them their old arsenal back…… that giant of a football club that went 35 years with one league title to show for it. with players that the whole world tuned in to watch especially for their amazing football…..
lets beat fenerbahce now and take it from there…. two things are important right now…champions league and a 5 year deal to arsene! fuck them all up….
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What do they have against Arsenal?
a frenchman came and owned them all in their national sport …thats what happened.. 26.12.00 and boy does it hurt!!!!!! and ever since they have been trying to screw him over. refs…broken legs….punishments …standing in the crowds..paedophile chants….incompetent….and now even the arsenal fans have joined in …fantastic football culture ..fantastic!!!! then they wonder why they cant win a major tournament….
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HUNTER 13
its true. Smoking anywhere is becoming crime against humanity now. There are laws now prohibiting smoking on sidewalks and even on your apartment balcony. Yesterdays debate started with the referees performance and then quickly became an ARSENAL and AW bashing session. Sad really. I had support from a couple of corners but for the most part the vision I have for the future of this club is as different as night and day with their vision. Angry bunch they have become, even the ones I was not conversing with were hurelling abuse my direction. I suppose it was JUST their OPINIONS.
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Funs, from all the post match reviews I have seen, the media consensus seems to ignore Taylor completely, in fact two papers – guardian and telegraph didn’t even mention his name, at least in the syndicated versions I read in Ireland.
Isn’t it amazingly cynical that an allegedly ‘socialist’ paper like the guardian is on the pro sugar daddy, spend till your bust Bandwagon?
Oh dear, I suppose spend till your bust is a bit socialist, ha ha.
Muppet, top frog!
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Thanks goodness for PG & PA.
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Well, I suppose the AST won’t be invited for a Christmas drink with Ivan and Chips in the directors’ box this year.
Fucking amature wannabes……
( the AST of course!!)
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DC
there is a clear and evident agenda with the media & the fa and the referees. Anyone can see it if they really wanted to. It is just easier turning against your own than attacking the exterior enemies.
Bit like domestic violence really. Turning frustrations inward.
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Hunter:
Rice, Kennedy, Quinn
McClintock, Graham, Nicolas
Ramsey, Hartson,
Gilberto, Edu, Silviniho (?) hehe,
Henry, Viera, Pires,
Overmars, Berkamp, Helder,
Freddy, Larsonn, Limpar
Santi, Nacho, Fabregas,
I could go on and on and on. Arsenal owe so much to foreign influence from players, coaches and managers.
A fucker dissing another Gooner for not being from N5 born & bred is a Gobshite.
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goonerkam August 19, 2013 at 7:50 pm
ha you wait and see when wenger turns it around ( like he has always done) …will those hypocrites admit they were wrong? dont think so…their ego is bigger than the club..
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A spud in my workplace pointed out that Alan Shearer said on MOTD that Kos was carded and conceeded the peno because his trailing foot, the one that didn’t clearly get the ball was tripping up the Villa player.
Wellin all my years of pretending to be Lee Dixon down the park I’ve never been able to pull off a trick like that. I could sometimes get the ball, mostly got the man but if I got the ball AND the man? job done.
Anyone else see this? Taylor’s line of site and distance would have made it very difficult for him, unless he had made up his mind well beforehand.
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dc it goes deeper than that..and i dont consider the irish welsh or scottish as THAT much different to the englihs to be called foreigners in the sence that a russian vs a brasilian would for instance but ok for reasons of pc we shall refer to the brittish football style/culture in contrast to the european one wenger has instilled in the club.
in my personal opinion…the dutch , the germans the italians the spannish and the french ..in my lifetime..have produced generations that have changed world and european football.. britain has had fuck all to do with european football development… they are in the stoneage still. yet these guys here discovered the game and the chip on their shoulder is gigantic..they call maradona a cheat ffs…after that what kind of a football discussion can you have with them? anyway… a frenchman who looks like a geek professor obsessed with stats and formulas and highly intelligent when it comes to money issues..came here and owned them ..he took their game pissed on it and then showed them how its done. that is a very bitter pill to swallow.
ever since the epl became one of englands biggest exports it obviously meant that the ones who play the sky/chelski/manure game would get a lot more favoured than the geek professor who tries to do it sensibly and on a budget.
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DC, his mind was made up prior to the game. Did you notice how he totally ignored the Arsenal players who were protesting. He did not even consult with his linesman for the second pen, when he was in a much better positsion. It is a shame, how the team was treated on Saturday. Shearer is a clown, that was no pen and he knows it.
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my friend to realise the enormity of the absurdity we are experiencing here, consider this….
shouldnt the mother of football at least know how to build proper football grounds ? they cant even do that! their national stadium…WEMBLEY….ffs…they had to relay the grass/pitch cause they had done it wrong the first time…
wenger built one of the best in europe in no time and these clowns here who cant even lay the grass properly in their national ground want to preach him anything about football?
i dont get that at all….
if he were a cunt like mourinho going around acting like the special one and asking everyone to bow to him and kiss his feet then ok maybe id get the hostility but he is so humble and respectful that…….. no man….im adamant..the nasty traits of the english football culture are exposed BIG TIME and we might end up losing our greatest ever manager because of such savagery.
unthinkable! contract now to arsene for 5 years and let the muppets in the stands go hang themselves…the less of them the better.
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Great article. Truth is, we just don’t know what has and is happening behind the scenes.
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