“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” Mark Twain.
In my more optimistic moments I like to think this is the crux of the matter with regard to the Arsene doubters, and there’s more than a little ageism around when it comes to some of the Twitter comments. Indeed, many of the Tweets and the Tweeters remind me of the child who is forever telling his parents how much better and cooler all of his friends’ parents are. All week I have been promised “Twitter meltdown” should The Arsenal come up short against Wigan, and have even seen pictures of nuclear explosions posted as a warning of the least that AW can expect should he fail to deliver on the Wembley stage. In fairness, that’s not such a bad metaphor: it’s clear that the nucleus of Arsenal support was split some time ago, and I can only hope that a top performance today, and then a string of good results in the League, will allow that energy to be harnessed in a positive manner.
There was a time in the Everton game last weekend when such positive hope seemed futile. As we moved the ball laboriously back and sideways we looked a far cry from the side that carried all before it through much of 2013, our defensive frailties and toothless attacks making me wonder if I would ever get my Arsenal back. It hardly seemed possible that this was the same team that had swept Napoli so imperiously aside back in October, but of course, the point is that it wasn’t the same team at all. It was a team that had been decimated by cruel fortune, and for a moment it seemed to have no answer when Sagna was cynically dispossessed deep in the Everton half before our defence conceded its second comedy own goal in little more than a week. It all seemed too much, it simply wasn’t fair, and no wonder than more than a few shoulders slumped.
But then something rather special happened as Ramsey and Oxlade entered the fray. Although both were on the injury comeback trail, and hence were never going to be risked for the full 90 minutes, they made a significant difference: the game had already gone, but they brought more than fresh legs to the side. Suddenly there was forward momentum, vision and pace. Even more importantly there was belief. Belief that this side was good enough, belief that individuals could make a difference, belief that the season wasn’t going to implode. More players are returning too: Gibbs is back, and Kos, Mesut and Jack are on the horizon. Their return could well see us back to something near our best, and remind us why this squad is on the verge of something special. Today is a big day for us all. For the manager, for the players, and for the fans. We all have a stake in it, and we have been looking forward to it ever since Santi scored that wonderful goal against Spurs at the very start of this cup run. Aaron Ramsey reminded us all last weekend that we do indeed have a reason to believe, and I for one can’t wait to see The Arsenal back at Wembley again.
So put away your doubts, and remember that we are by far the greatest team the world has ever seen.
Today’s post was brought to us by The Gnabster @foreverheady
Positively Arsenal 
Everybody hates us but we don’t care!!!
WE HAVE A BIG FUCKEN GERMAN!!!!
I don’t care about the result, fighting spirit dammit!!!
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Fuck I want to Punch Something!
Preferably Michael Oliver’s head, repeadedly..till it bleads…and breaks…into pieces..what a piece of shit…
But lets be FANS and blame the manager, eh???
Or lets be SUPPORTERS and say FUCK THE WORLD ITS US AGAINST THEM, BRING IT!!!
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Hanging in there into extra time.
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Good grief. This is not good for a supporter.
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Come one fabianski… glad it is him rather than WS1 for the ppen… this is your trophy to win for us!
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Shotta, how do you like having Piers Morgan on your feed? Is that guy even a supporter?
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Fuck you Piers Morgan, you doomer bastard.
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Yesss! We are in. Thanks boys. You overcame all the pressure.
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Fabianski the hero!!!!!!!!!!
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Gains – I do not listen to assholes.
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How’s that for a showing!!? Fabianski the man!! Santi’s balls are fucken steel coated!!
Go fuck yourself Mike Oliver!!
Go fuck up your Mike Riley!!!
Go fuucccccck yourself English media!!!!
ARSEEEENNAAAALLLLL!!!!!
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Hooray for Fabianski!
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Never in doubt.
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We’re going to Wembley!!!! Again!!
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Hahaha. HELL YAH.
I needed that. Let the basterds talk now asking for heads to roll. Piss the f••• off.
LUKAS MY HERO. not one but two saves. Take that jonnnyyyy come latelys. Take your ” support ” and stick it.
Bring on the blades….. I think.
CONGRATULATIONS TEAM ARSENAL, AW & ALL TRUE SUPPORTERS.
TRUE CHARACTER AND YES GRIT….
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By the way, the next two fixtures are an example of the lack of rest. After a match which goes on to extra time and penalties, we have to play on Tuesday. Why not Wednesday? Then we play on Sunday. Why couldn’t we play on Wednesday and have four days’ rest between both games?
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What a fucking relief…now with Özil and Kos coming back we should finish in a flurry….successful and stylish flurry…..
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Piers Morgan said he didn’t back any of our players, right before the penalty kicks. After we win with room to spare, he starts celebrating like a jack ass.
Oh, and that wasn’t the worst part. The worst part was watching him shout directions at Wenger, as if he had years of experience managing at the top level.
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Are some people for real?
So the players cannot celebrate getting into the final of the fa cup regardless of who they beat to get there? Oh i get it… only of you beat man city or Chelsea to get to the final then you can celebrate? I certainly don’t get it cos it should be obvious that they are celebrating getting to the finals and not necessary celebrating beating Wigan… no one’s fault that they two go together… you can only beat what is in from of you.
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Who gives a f*ck what they say TS? These were the same assholes who said Fabianski and Ramsey had no future at the club.
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Initially used to describe Colin Montgomery, but definitely worth dusting off and applying to Adrian Chiles, whose face after the match was like a bulldog licking piss off a stinging nettle.
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so some people really believe that is is possible to finish a match winning on pens and just walk off the field really? Then the media would still have a field day claiming the players are not happy to p;lay for arsenal… O well!
The media definitely have an agenda
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Ok relax, watch a movie and get some sleep…tomorrow is another day….
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Wait a minute guys.
Did we not just beat the defending champions? Does that not always count for something?
Did this same ‘weak’ team not beat the ALMIGHTY Man City at the same neutral venue last year and on their home turf in the quarter final?
I fucking hate the British media and everyday they give me more reasons to loathe them more.
The fucking ITV pundtwits were pining for a Wigan win in the shoot out with them saying how confident the they were. After we won they changed their tune and talked about how it was Arsenal that were confident pre-shout out. The two-faced assholes!
Bloody hell, can Arsenal ever get a break from this bastards?
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TS: These very critics of our celebration would have been ecstatic if we lost on penalties. Their hypocrisy and mean spiritness can’t change the fact that despite going one goal down from a penalty, which was preceded by a blatant unpunished foul on Monreal, the team picked itself from the floor to equalize and held its nerve to win on penalties. The unmitigated joy of the players and AW tells you how significant was that victory.
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“Bulldog licking piss off a stinging nettle” —- This has to be a classic. I love the humour here. Keep them coming guys!
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PG, a certain Swede has scored for The Arsenal!
Why waste any time on Piers Morgan? Even the Americans have had enough of him.
I do not waste time on the football scribblers, that the Daily Telegraph now employs.
Desigunner writes a better review than any of the tabloid scribblers.
On this site, we have better writers than Jason Burt, for example.
The Arsenal have matched an FA Cup Semi-final and now an FA Cup final appearances. That is the real story, that is the REAL GLORY!
It is April that brings the showers that brings the flowers in May! Are we not Positive, are we not certain, in our undying support for The Arsenal?
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Cracks me up to see all the naysayers and know-nothings hurting so much they have to come up with all this bullshevick even after a win like this. Laughing all the way to the bank you a•••ols. hurt like there is no tomorrow. There are so idiots out there saying AW will leave even if the cup is won and ECL spot secured. Dream on you dumb•••.
Feels go to see these boozooz falling flat on their faces.
Specialy the c••• that was so happy and gleefull when FABIANSKI was hurt and injured on the pitch against olympia••• a few years back . These sobs have no right to celebrate or even call themselves supporters.
IM ARSENAL , WHAT THE FU•• ARE YOU.
now go and hurt to the bottom of your core. Go and Lick your freaking wounds. How’s it feel to fall flat on your face mr. Come lately.
LUKAS MY HERO!!!!! NOT ONE BUT TWO SAVES…
count them you dum••••…………….
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!!!!!
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you damn right we will celebrate!!!!! were in the final. WE ARE GOING TO WEM BER LY!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
like there is no tomorrow, you plunkdits
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n ice writeup FOREVERHEADY
you get the one before the final toooo. hahahaha
Oh, we’re back in the saddle again…!!!!
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BOOOM SHAKA SHAKA BOOOOM BOOM!!!!!!
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Thought Sanogo had a pretty awesome game. Well done him and the goals will come. Things seem to happen when he is around. And obviously well done to everyone else too.
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Goonerkam,
In my country we say:
BOOOM SHAKA SHAKALAKA, BOOM, BOOM!
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Just imagine Fox Soccer Channel has the phone hacker, loser journalist Piers Morgan a pulpit to slag and slate Wenger.
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Congrats Arsenal! Congrats PA! We’re in the final! Against all odds and negativity.
I watched the game with a doomer. I swear it was fever pitch all over again! This dude felt we were rubbish because we hadn’t scored after 15 mins of play! Every Wigan attack was going to be a goal and every save Scott Carson made was because our players were rubbish and couldn’t score in a brothel! I nearly punched the poor sod at a point.
After the game I asked him if he would consider the season a “failure” were we to win the FA cup and finish in the top 4. This guy duly went on to hang himself by saying that it would be a failed campaign conveniently forgetting that he was among many a prophet prophesying that the tiny torts would pip us to top 4 and that we’d finish 5th or 6th. Oh the irony! It’s simply exhausting!
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SHOTTA
that works too.
Is it true that RAMEY, OX have pick up knocks??
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Just back from the game and can I just say TTFFT! I was terrified after the totally undeserved penalty for the norverners that we were down and out and the doomers were going to have a field day. Thank goodness that we found a way through that game. We were not at our best, but considering the number of walking wounded on that pitch by the end we really pulled it out. I thought Ramsey did well for his first full game back and the Ox was barely able to put one foot in front of the other by the end. I am so thrilled that Fab is our hero. He is definitely leaving at the end of the season but he so deserves to leave with a medal and he was like a man possessed today. Hopefully this result will restore some confidence and swagger to the team. I just hope we don’t pay for that extra time against the ‘appy ‘ammers on Tuesday.
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SANTI CLAWS
sorry about the the company you had watching that game. I was surrounded by about sixty diehards . Long libe LA GOONERS BABY!!!
I used to get irritated by what these bums said before. Now it just cracks me up and I laugh. You should see their faces when I do. They get red faced. Don’t know if it’s shame or anger. Combo of both I suppose. Works for me. Shame them and laugh at them. They don’t deserve much more..
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Oh, we had a few pool fans hoping wigan would pull it of and promptly changed their tune at the end saying they hoped we won the cup. I smiled and laughed. Then thanked the two faced pr••••.
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Doesn’t matter what the online doomers say, the fans leaving Wembley seemed pretty pleased that we won – there was plenty of singing and very little dooming going on around me. I thought the crowd was really good during the penalty shoot out – whistling and booing to put the wiganers off despite the shootout taking place in front of their half a dozen fans and cheering on our boys. Those were some excellent penalties on our part I thought.
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“I am ARSENAL, what the f**k are you!”
Congrats & well done to all that care.
Can’t say enough about the effort.
RASERS!
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I am Arsenal. I support the players. I support the coaches. I support the Manager
Anything less is non-support.
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we won today and i am super delighted.
but did we play well?
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Does it matter now?
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George, it only seems to matter for us. Other teams are allowed to play like champions i.e. winning when playing badly. Somehow AFC is held to a different standard.
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Who gives a shit how we played, we are in the final. Stick that up ur arse you moaning twats
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So Wigan deserved something!
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The penalties taken, all excellent, not the ones saved, said a lot about clear minded determination. Sanogo is close. The commentary I followed was absolutely scathing about YS all night. I won’t repeat. He scuffed and clawed and shot wildly at times, but he also went for the unlikely and impossible, and came close, he has an instinctive and lethal way about him. He will be a monster that boy. What he needs is games like this.
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Some good perspective there Dupsffokcuf – tell that to George’s mate JC who showed his true doomer troll colours on Twitter yesterday! He can’t blame his headline writers for that one, or do they write his Twitter comments as well?
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Giroud and Gibbs came on and made a huge difference….Gibbs is top, top, top, top, quality….No target man wins and holds the ball up as well as Giroud….if he kept his dipper behind his zipper he wouldn’t have dipped in form recently….naughty boy, let the side down and most importantly, Arsene and the fans….
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