Two good footballing teams
Here is my usual in-depth analysis of the game.
Two good footballing teams played a good game of football. The team with the best players won.
It really was as simple as that.
It almost looks like the lads are so full of self-belief that they can easily contain teams, safe in the knowledge that a shift through the gears can be found at any time. Eight Premier League away wins on the bounce. Twelve consecutive away wins.
I mean come on!
We have to be impressed by that? Don’t we? We have won five consecutive Premier League games. The only loss was to a referee. Santi, Podolski ,Tomas and Theo will be back soon.
Imagine that?
If we can get to the international break with another two wins then I think we can really start to get excited.
Oh and I don’t know if anyone noticed, but the team our reserves beat in the C.O.C. this week went to the home of the Champions, and beat them yesterday.
Anyway, that’s it from me. You all will have seen it, lets chat about it and enjoy it in the comments section.
Positively Arsenal 
Spudski drawing both mancs lose and once again our lads turn in a brilliant professional performance away from home im so excited I’ve woke up early even after getting in from a soul do at 4 in the morning im going to be so knackered later but I don’t care the sun is shining and its a great day
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I’m still struggling to think of anything to write. This was not supposed to happen.
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I think I’m still lost for words. It turns out that Arsene truly knows or whatelse can we say abt Ramsey. And nw he knows when he has shown faith in yet another youngster in Gnabry. We r really in for a treat this season and far beyond. It’s gonna b a jolly enjoyable flight to our dreamland. Hope we’ll all ride togeda in faith and believe.
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There are a couple of gloriously negative articles about Arsenal in today’s Sunday Mirror. I’d bet good money on them having been crafted in anticipation of an AFC defeat or draw yesterday with the writer getting too pissed up (drunk, Kelly) to be able to rewrite them.
A very, very good win for our injury struck side; less so for the ailing Mirror. They really should take a look at themselves.
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Lankylord – oh yes, Arsene knows, for sure.
He knows in Ramsay he has a £40 Million player returned from serious injury; in Jack, a still returning warrior with a similar price tag flying in the breeze.
Arsene also knows that in Gnabry, Eisfeld, Bellerin and Zelalem he quite possibly also has his next batch of £40 Million players about to appear off the production line.
All of those precious gems alongside the ever-improving Ches and Gibbs and others will give our squad a notional paper value the equivalent of ANY club you care to compare it to.
Add in one or two more £40 Million purchases made out of our self-generated spare change and it’ll be time to stop talk of new dawns as we’ll be far beyond that.
Oh yes, Arsene knows alright.
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AA you’re not allowed to sum everything up so concisely it stops everyone else making all those points singularly
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Our second goal yesterday had everything, literally everything
An intelligent quick ball out from Szcz, a lovely cross field ball then a deft instinctive touch from Aaorn
Jack bravely and decisively in to win the ball and quickly back on his feet, beautiful control and lay off
Arsenal players tearing into the box in numbers
Aaron makes space, moves the ball and places it inch perfect into the top corner
Just perfect
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Good summation of that goal ‘coll.
If United /City/Chelsea/Spurs had ever managed a goal like that ,we would be watching it on a loop on SSN
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My first thought George
Brazil 1970
That good
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George and anicoll5 – it’s not just the speed of movement, it’s the speed of thought and the almost instinctive passing that is so impressive.
We’ve had to put up with years of crap from the negativistas, so I think we have earned the right to enjoy our moment in the sun. We all know that there will be losses and set backs to come, but like the players I am sure we will roll with the punches and come back fighting like mature human beings do.
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Arsene is awesome. Congrats on your 17 years. Long may it continue. This team is everything right now.
Top of the league baby! Pls let it continue.
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I have really been bemused by the attitude in some of the Arsenal blogosphere, where it’s a free-for-all moan-all-you-want after a loss but if we are winning we are supposed to keep perspective and not enjoy it too much?
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What more proof do people need that Wenger is a unique manager? Just listened to the numbskulls on the Sunday Supplement. They were sure no other manager, club/board would have stuck with Ramsey. Not one of them can see the fundamentals in a player and the strength of mind to remain steadfast their your belief, like Wenger.
That arch numbskull Shaun Custis tried to wriggle out of his prediction that Wenger might have to walk by the end of September. The problem is I know the answer to all of this….they know they write bullshit…they have to, it’s their job. From quite a different source I offer you the following:
“News coverage is produced everyday. Most of it filler, packaged in the form of stories that are designed to obscure its unimportance. The classic form of media bias is called “rooting for the story”- hoping for a more dramatic outcome that might increase newspaper sales.”
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction by Nate Silver
Penguin Books 2012
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@GP
Yeah, I guess that’s true. Arsene did seem like an easy victim at the start of the season, but that’s more down to journalists not using their brains as opposed to cold hard facts.
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Evil
I love your work on the other site. It is an excellent read. Keep up the good work.
The only complaint I have with all of you, yes ALL OF YOU is that I prefer to read this blog and not the pile of ebooks I have downloaded, including the one I’ve quoted above….
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You know what would make this season perfect? Not only us winning it, but Diaby coming back and managing to play a vital role in it. I would be so delighted for him! I really hope he can finally overcome those stupid injury struggles.
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Goonerwife where have you been?
You need to spend more time here…….
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Evil
Never ceases to amaze me. We may well be more positive than other blogs but to also be Diaby’s greatest fans is amazing…..
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Right, the sun is shining and I need some exercise. Must at least achieve 10,000 paces a day…..get the PACER app onto your smartphones. It’s a good motivator, especially as age affects your knees and you need lower impact activities
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PG is dishing out on twitter….
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George, well said.
@ G-P
I’m sort of glad we conceded the goal because it proves that I am not dreaming.
@ ArsenalAndrew September 29, 2013 at 9:47 am
I’ve just read those and was utterly bemused.
@ Passenal and Evil
Too right.
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Lest we forget, last year this time and for much of the season, according to the wisdom of the fickle majority, the players currently on this 20 game run of 18-wins, 1-loss and 1-draw were not good enough. While Aaron Ramsey is the poster child for the new and improved Arsenal, the team’s success has been due in no small part to ne’er do wells like Koscielny, Mertsacker and Giroud. It is not long ago when it was fashionable to say they would never make us into a winning team and to the extremists a measure of the need to call time on Wenger as manager of the club.
Yesterday I wandered over to the Comments section of a certain blog, whose name will not be mentioned, and saw our boy Evil taking it on the chin because he dared remind them that they were proponents of these foolish ideas. Apparently some are clinging to the idea we are top of the league after six games but we have no stamina to last the season. Some can’t see the difference between 2007-08 squad and today’s bunch of seasoned veterans (winners of other leagues and members of world-cup winning squads). Are they ignorant of those top quality players returning from injury such as Cazorla, Podolski, Rosisky, Walcott, Chamberlain and even Diaby?
I don’t think I am running ahead of myself when I say it is full time we start thinking and acting like supporters who know we can win this league. Let us reinforce what Wenger has said, we have an opportunity this year. Let us go for it in every game.
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FunGunner, that goal conceded seems to be the cause of moaning from the little I’ve seen. Shows a total lack of respect of the quality of the opposition. Had we won 2 – 0 they would probably complain that we didn’t score more! If you’re determined to whinge, you will find something to whinge about I guess!
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Andrew, I saw the Andy Dunn, er, article in the Mirror, I’m guessing that was one of those you referred to. Standard fare for him really. The “Lack of ambition” narrative is little more than pathetic barrel scraping at this time. And he’s a Liverpool fan. So perhaps thinly veiled bitterness oozes from his every pore. Poor sod.
We are top of the league. I say: TOP OF THE LEAGUE.
Very early days, of course it is, and so much football to be played. but considering the players we still have to return from injury, it’s difficult not to be feeling upbeat at this time. I’m sticking with cautious optimism though, see where we are come Christmas time before making any grand claims that may come back to bit us on the arse(nal).
Watching Swansea, who play neat and aesthetically pleasing football for sure, they reminded me a little of us not so very long ago, it’s good, it tips, it taps, in a tippy tappy type of way, but sometimes it’s lacking, umm, thrust, and cutting edge. It’s almost like we bided our time, and then just stepped up a gear and finished them off. Confidence is flowing throughout the team, there will be slip-ups along the way, but after the opening day debacle we have shown we can bounce right back from them (as Arsene observed in his post match prezzer).
There is a warm fuzzy glow around all things Arsenal at the moment, and long may it continue,
Onward!
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I don’t think we actually played that bad first day of the season but sometimes things happen. We have some heavy fixture pileups already with November and march looking difficult however these games sometimes look better if your in form and have a fully fit side going into them so its true what they say take each game as it comes but for now we have to just enjoy
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Flew out on holiday as we played Sunderland, returned yesterday in time to watch the fifth game since I last worked.
Tomorrow when I get back to work and folk ask how things went I’ll be saying “Marvellous, thanks. Five games Five wins… oh, the holiday? yep, not bad thanks, beer, sun, sea etc…”
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@aob
We were perfectly fine on the first day until Taylor decided to overtake the game. Don’t let the media or the blogs tell you anything otherwise. They still try to hijack that game as some fault of ours when the referee had been a major influence. An unwarranted penalty and the resulting sending off while not leading the game in a consistent manner can have a major impact, and on the first day of the season it did.
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So you don’t want any praise for the post eh, George?
Can’t help it, a succinct analysis. I would say the better footballers also played the better football, even with only 40% of possession.
Blimy, if the LWC’s were top of the league last night, we would have had half an hour of a wank fest on MOTD. Why did I bother coming back from the pub early to watch that crap?
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I think DC has been our big signing this season.
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Ahhh now George,
It’s the team results here that counts.
However, Untold FC have heard I have a buy-out clause.
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Away at West Brom – 6th October.
Home to Norwich – 19th October (I’ll be at that one, I hope).
Away at Palace – 26th October.
Without getting carried away, (touch wood), I hope Arsenal can keep up the positive momentum before things get a bit tougher in November, mind you it’s a great time to be going to the old shatford.
Our next 2 CL games are at home, we can consolidate there too with bit of luck.
It will be the cherry on top of the icing on the cake if Diaby is back in December for the big games against City and Chelsea.
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Here’s the team that didn’t start against the swans:
Fabby
Jenks-Sanga-Vermalen-Nacho
Arteta-Diaby
Theo-Rosisky-Santi
Poldi
And still with Bentner, Gnarby, Ryo, Vivano, and more on the bench.
Paper-thin squad my arse.
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Oh my , its true. It’s the team our kids beat in COC that got the away win at old turddford . Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I thought for sire wba took a stronger team to Manchester.
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The Mark Hughes revolution at the Britannia continues and Norwich, who I have a soft spot for, head east with the 3 points
another few weeks of this and Sparky will have the Orcs just like QPR 12 months ago – totally fucked
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We all knew the spinless jellystone aminals have been spouting nonsensical crapola . Demented,misguided lies creators that they are.
We tried for years to teach them perspective and teach them understanding to no avail.
They must be looking in the mirror and saying , WTF. we were wrong about everything. This wasn’t supposed to happen. What is going on.? Maybe we are not as expert in our opinions that we thought we were. Quick, change the goalposts before anyone notices. Hech, there is a sucker born every minute.
Lol.
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I was getting worried about CHRIS at Norwich. This win will go a long way to buy him some precious time. I suppose now Sparky and jol would be the front runners for the sack in my book.
I just hope pulis does not find his way back to epl. Bad for the game and bad for the health of your limbs.
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If you are determined to whine, you will find something else to whine about.
THAT.
Is it genetics or environment? That be the question.
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Brenda’s lot look under the cosh up at The Stadium of Fright …
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On sacking Nigel Clough last night the Derby owners said they wanted a manager capable of taking the club to a new level
Apparently Pulis heads the list of preferred candidates
I wonder what level they are on about ?
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Scousers rattled
Bit like their bar
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Not sure about the Jean Paul Gaultier designed away kit for the Scousers
Needs a little hat
Lucky goal Sturridge
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Called it too soon AA.
Still we can look forward to Sparky dragging the Orcs into a relegation scrap.
Horrible news to hear Clough being sacked and Derby thinking of giving Pulic the job.
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Anicoll
It looks like a Christmas jumper!
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0-2
Well at least the Micky mousers might knock the spuds down to third place.
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I see a few elsewhere are still trying to get rid of OG, they really cannot see what he brings to the party can they? Apart from his defensive contribution, he wins practically every goal kick and is excellent at hold up and link play. AR would not be scoring as many without his unselfish play. Yesterday was a case in point, Aaron called for the ball and despite being in the box, OG passed it, when 99% of strikers would have gone for glory. Does anyone know how many assists he has got? Must be a fair few by now as he seems to have a key role in the build up if not the actual assist in a lot of our goals.
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top of the league and still nowhere near full throttle!
Building up to being a FANTASTIC SEASON FOLKS
Let the fools be hating….who cares what they think.
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@ passenal September 29, 2013 at 4:49 pm
“I see a few elsewhere are still trying to get rid of OG,”
Bonkers. Ignoramuses.
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Well Loserpool struggled to beat a very poor Sunderland team though you can only beat what is in front of you to be fair. Nice to see Spuds slip sliding away …
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“I see a few elsewhere are still trying to get rid of OG,”
– Under the guise we could do with a another striker.
So how many top, top quality strikers will be on the market in January and not way over-priced. If there is one let us know. I am sure Wenger will be interested.
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So AA – This is Loserpool’s year innit?
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