I keep hearing this “nine years of failure” .
Now, lets for a moment forget that for many of us the last nine years has been a tremendous success. Perhaps Arsene’s greatest achievement. And run with the nine years shit.
Why nine years?
Why “nine years and only one real trophy”?
Why not one year and one trophy?
Or two years and only one trophy?
Well its simply because that particular snapshot suits the malcontent in their attempts to discredit Arsene.
It wouldn’t be as good if they said “2 trophies in 10 years“.
Or 3 in 11
Or 5 in 13 !
No, they want to pick a start date that suits their stupid notions , while ignoring the stadium move that coincidentally matches their chosen parameters.
For their 9 years , these halfwits demanded world class signings, despite it being obvious to all but the specially stupid, that Arsenal did not have the money to get them. However, now we have some money and world class talent is being bought they still refuse to accept that the wheel has turned.
The very first year Arsene was able to keep his players and add world class, we won a trophy. But no. they cling to the period of austerity while simultaneously refusing to accept its existence. Irony gone mad?
They point to an article in one newspaper that claimed Arsenals wages MIGHT exceed that of Chelsea’s as evidence that we should be on a par with them. Yet when you look at it, just about every player in every position at Chelsea is on far higher wages than his counterpart at Arsenal.(including the manager) so how the hell can our wages be greater than theirs? Its beyond stupidity to think that. Sadly though, these people are all beyond stupid, and accept it gladly.
Another thing that they are happy to ignore is that the squads of Chelsea, City and United cost around twice that of Arsenals. Twice. Did you hear me? I said twice. Yet were are supposed to be on a par because for 2 years we have been able to buy one world class player . They are also happy to ignore that in these last two years they have been buying more than one world class player per year.
In short these “realists”, as they like to call themselves, not only do they completely ignore reality, but they move the goalposts every single time their stupidity is exposed. The goalposts are moving with such pace at the moment that Theo couldn’t keep up with them.
Now the parameters have narrowed to “he hasn’t beaten Jose“. How narrow will they become before these tools shut up and get on with supporting?
NINE YEAR OF FAILURE ??? DO ME A FAVOUR.
Positively Arsenal 
Happy new year my virtual friends.
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Happy New Year everyone – Let’s hope 2015 is another good year to be a gunner!
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Its always a good year to be a gunner Pass.
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Happy New Year to all Positivistas….
Now I must get my beauty sleep…..leave the revelling to the young ones….
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happy new year to the positively arsenal family!
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Happy New Year to all positive Gunners.
Happy New Year Positively Arsenal.
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George, firstly Happy New Year. it seems your mate has mucked up here. John cross has reported Poldolski has stormed out of training when Poldolski himself says he was inside all day with the medical team. I know you like him however I think he has crossed a line here.
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Merry New Year!
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Santi nearly starting off the evening New Year’s Day party there. Close!
Gritty tackles from our Gooners and my goodness a yellow in the first half for the saints player! I must be drunk.
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Tbf Rozza, Kozza and Cozza make great tackles in every game they play in
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Good game of football I think
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what a shitty goal to let in, poor defending by kos, then by Szczesny and woeful by Mertesacker
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Tbf it’s a great finish
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Mane might have twanged a hammy with the effort that went into getting that right.
Schezzer making up with the save!
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Not really the ideal game to be missing Welbeck, he’d do well in this game I’d imagine. There’ll be more chances at the Southampton end too.
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Missing from the squad today
Ospina, Arteta, Diaby, Flamini, Wilshere, Ramsey, Ozil, Welbeck, Sanogo and Giroud
yet its the defense that let us down most so far.
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should’ve could’ve scored and now they’ve got the second. Ugh
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the first goal was awful defending but the second was pathetic defending,
it would be laughable if it did not happen so often.
overall the team is not playing well today, too many players not up for the game, and that is inexcusable
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Theo Walcott on for Chambers, about 30 minutes left
come on Arsenal
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liverpool have gone from 2-0 to 2-2 at home to Leicester
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that was awful by Gibbs, neither a shot nor a cross
we need to bring on Campbell and Akpom to really go for this, no point just accepting defeat lamely like we are so far
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disgraceful bit of play by Koscielny there, Debuchy clears off the line,
too many of our players not taking responsibility to make things happen, kos pass there a prime example, instead of being proactive he tried to take an easy option and even then fecked it up
Burnley have made it 2-2 at Newcastle
Sunderland pull one back at Man city, 2-1
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that should have been southampton down to 10, typical bias reffing in the FAPL
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Hard to come back from two down against the best defence in the league (goals against, not sure but I think that’s right).
I just think in these games, with a completely green CM due to injury, Away, against a good opponent, that you have to finish one of the two chances that Cazorla or Alexis had.
Always the hardest game in the crunch both for being the third and last PL game in the crazy run and also because of the fixture. But with the squad injuries I’d have taken six from nine over five from nine before the run of games began
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city have let a 2 goal lead slip for the second game in a row at home, its now city 2-2 sunderland
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fins we should despite our injuries be able to keep a clean sheet, we shot ourselves in the foot today by letting in two goals you’d be ashamed to let in at schoolboy level, never mind FAPL.
Arsenal need to bring on our other two subs, what are we waiting for, its not like what is out there are causing southampton problems, take off Rosicky and maybe even Coquelin or the ox
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lampard makes it 3-2 to city
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Akpom on for Debuchy about 10 minutes left
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Eds
Not great defending. But as we all saw when the club had to blood teenagers in CM if you have an inexperienced pair or teenagers with like six games in CM in the PL between them then it does appear to be harder to defend!
I was a little nervous before KO! Given that CM available in such a big game, the last in the taxing run when the defenders have not rotated save for LB, six out nine seems a fair haul from the Xmas run.
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Six from Nine
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Akpom!
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Ratings
Szczesny 3 – probably his worst game for Arsenal
Debuchy 4 – poor game, highlight was header off the line
Mertesacker 3 – awful on the first goal, poor all game
Koscielny 3 – poor on first goal, poor on second goal and poor all game long
Gibbs 5 – not at his best
Coquelin 6 – ok
chambers 5 – little impact
Oxlade-Chamberlain 4 – poor game
Rosicky 4 – floated about without ever affecting the game
Cazorla 4 – no impact on the game
alexis 6 – ok
subs
Walcott 3 – never got into the game
Akpom n/a – not on long
overall probably the flattest performance of the season, never looked like we would get back into the game, the defense was a disgrace today, and in truth we handed southampton the game, not only with our awful defending but also with the lack of real effort right through the team
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fins its no excuse for the defense that our cm are young, neither goal came from anything the cm did or did not do, it was just inept defending, Szczesny, Debuchy and Koscielny all made awful mistakes today, not only on the goals, but many times, and none of the mistakes had anything to do with our CM’s, there just is no excusing the lack of urgency our defense showed today.
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Was just about to post a very negative comment.
Let’s just leave it with praise for Coquelin for another good game in midfield.
Plus Theo got a bit of a run out.
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eduardo’s ratings very much how I saw it – I’d probably give Le Coq 8.
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With respect Eddy I disagree on that being the flattest game.
Thought it was ok myself:
Good opponent Away. They took the lead, and unlike the Arsenal they took their chances to get another – these games are always close games.
Now Dortmund away, that was a flat performance! Even though it was the same score as today one game was a lot closer then the other.
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Fuuuuck!!!!!
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Eddy, you need the midfield to protect the back line too! It’s why Arteta has been a valuable player although some haven’t worked that out, why Viera described Rambo as the best CM in the league last year (& and why his gaffer told him to stop thinking of nothing but goals heh!).
It’s why Gilly and others like him were under appreciated when playing. Carrick is yet another more modern example. Under-capped too. Yawnited fans saying their defence has improved since Carrick’s return…
But it’s also fair to say the defenders could’ve done better IBSF
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I also agree with gains
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Well, happy new year positivistas for what its worth. Sadly not the best way to start the year but it looks like the referees poor form continued into 2015. Started well with the booking of Wanyama that few others wouldve given but failing to send the Saints-player off brought the wind out of our sails.
Overall decision-making let us down, particularly in defense. Pumping long balls from the back without any one of Welbeck, Giroud or Sanogo on the pitch was baffling. Coquelin was good, no one went off injured and some important players are returning very soon so its not all doom and gloom.
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There you go Eds:
“Self-inflicted defeat”.
Definitely no excuses! Just trying to explain above I felt that not being clinical had been a or the genuine genuine concern which eased with the return of OG which allowed rotation as well as adding goals…
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fins none of the chances southampton had today was down to our midfield not protecting the defense, it was all self inflicted by the keeper and 3 of the defenders, the application was not what it should have been. Look at the contrast between the attitude and efforts of their defenders compared to ours, when we got in and around their goal their defenders bust a gut to get back, to get on the goal line, to get in a block, our seemed to be expecting that everything would be ok, and that someone else would get it off the line, or make the tackle or make the block, it was all very lackadaisical. Our players, not just the defenders all seem to have this attitude that “everything will be all right”, and when it comes to defense you have to have the complete opposite attitude, you have to expect the ball to fall for the attacker, for the ball to make its way to our goal, and be ready to do something about it, not think aw someone else will stop it.
I’m sorry to say too many of our players like to take the easy option, and are not prepared to take a game by the scruf of the neck and make it happen for us, too many of the players are only great when everything is going our way, otherwise they lack the courage to stand up, demand the ball and make things happen. Ox, Caz and Ros are prime examples, they look grand when we are in full flow, but where are they when they were needed today, they were as so often in games like this, float about, flicks, tricks, fancy passes, but no actual impact on the opposition.
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fins I’m not sure what point you are making with
“self inflicted defeat”
I doubt anyone could or would claim otherwise, we handed them the two goals, we handed them any scoring chance they had, that has been the point I’ve been making all along. It would be acceptable if it was unusual or rare, but the sad truth is that this happens far too often. And for me its all down to the attitude of the players, as already stated, they have “it will be alright” attitude,
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That’s cool eds, I agree completely. Hopefully what I wrote at 5.42 explains what I was trying to say – after looking at the line up before ko i thought Southampton might get a goal, so I just felt arsenal needed to make sure they took their chances, which is probably harsh on Santi and Alexis as they were not the easiest of chances!
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Quote from AWs presser of the gaffer simply repeating what you wrote above!
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I see Szczesny is getting a whole lot of stick cos he took a drink of water after we let in the second goal, how dare he, does he not know he is meant to don sack cloth and ashes, not take a drink of water, the cheek of the guy.
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On top of those out you had Chamberlain and Koscielny probably playing when the coaches and physios would’ve preferred to have given them a breather?
I’d assume there will be lots and lots of rotation for Sunday but so many are out! Possible opportunities for Akpom Bellerin and others too
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Not a very good day for The Arsenal. Especially with sperz now wining 3-1
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Eds
Heh, I don’t agree with the tiny bit about the squads attitude. It’s the same squad that came back from two down in a cup final and won the game. And baptised the new arsenal stadium. Where others did not.
And the CM pair were very important in that game, I re-watched the whole match when down with the flu just to watch Arteta guiding the good ship back safely to sure after they’d hit some rocks (&Probert!). Not forgetting the joys of a fresh (a weeks rest!) Cazrola taking what has been described as the most important or the best FK in the history of AFC.
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so if that tottnum result stays the same then unbeatable Chelsea with the greatest manager and greatest squad the FAPL has ever seen will be second in the table, can’t see how that can be when chelsea have already won the title
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If Gazprom let Danny Rose score they deserve to lose.
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sure < shore
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